Mid-Morning Open Thread

Alnwick Castle
Joseph Mallord William Turner

I appreciate that there is just a bit more structure in this work compared to many of Turner's other paintings, and the deer in the lower left are sort of amusing. But this continues my Love-Hate relationship with the artist (not that he cares). Sometimes I love looking at his paintings...getting lost in the haze and the fog. And sometimes I snarl under my breath, "Just finish one, you pommy arse!"

Posted by: CBD at 09:40 AM

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1 Pretty!

Posted by: makatta at May 22, 2017 09:31 AM (Y7Qzg)

2 Ha! First and I just clicked over here.

Posted by: makatta at May 22, 2017 09:31 AM (Y7Qzg)

3 All of those castles? Sniper hell.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at May 22, 2017 09:31 AM (X52ZZ)

4 Top 3?

Posted by: makatta at May 22, 2017 09:31 AM (Y7Qzg)

5 Winter is coming?

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2017 09:32 AM (QCc6B)

6 Almost.....

Posted by: JT at May 22, 2017 09:32 AM (zPCWd)

7 Look at all that tasty venison.

Posted by: makatta at May 22, 2017 09:32 AM (Y7Qzg)

8 Nice rack in the lower left!

Made you look!

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 09:35 AM (ul9CR)

9
Look at all that tasty venison.

Posted by: makatta at May 22, 2017 09:32 AM (Y7Qzg)

Are you eyeballin my Deer?

Posted by: The King at May 22, 2017 09:35 AM (r5KeJ)

10 I can see Black Adder!

Posted by: Strobe at May 22, 2017 09:35 AM (gbWkA)

11 So, my best friend at work just got a job at another company.

I'm sad...

Of course, one year ago our current company laid her off for about a week before forcing her to go through a rehire process to get another job here. She was treated like shit, so it's understandable. Still...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 09:35 AM (viSzi)

12 Yeah, but did it sell for $110M?

Posted by: Texas Dan at May 22, 2017 09:36 AM (yL25O)

13 It's always good to snarl at dead artists, I find. You have a lesser chance of them crashing the canvas on your head than if they were alive.

I like this. This is what it looks like here at my house today. Except for the castle. And the bridge. And the deer. And the water. But otherwise, just like it.

Posted by: bluebell at May 22, 2017 09:36 AM (sBOL1)

14 Hey King! Those deer are not in your Royal Enclosure. Sorry, but a decree is a decree.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 09:36 AM (ul9CR)

15 Don't care too much for this one.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2017 09:36 AM (mpXpK)

16 Crepuscular rays...I see crepuscular rays!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 09:37 AM (OdK9v)

17 Deer? Looks like a Stag party to me.

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 09:37 AM (UmSfZ)

18 ''Tis but a flesh wound.

Posted by: Black Knight at May 22, 2017 09:38 AM (gbWkA)

19 This one is a bit gloomy isn't it?
Monday appropriate.

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 09:38 AM (UmSfZ)

20 Bad moon rising.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 09:38 AM (OdK9v)

21 Well, and except for the sun. I can't see that here.

But otherwise.

Posted by: bluebell at May 22, 2017 09:38 AM (sBOL1)

22 Pommy arse explains barky perfectly. I bow to your wisdom.

Posted by: colfax mingo at May 22, 2017 09:38 AM (FLjWH)

23 I saw Crepuscular Rays open for Guided By Voices, Dayton Civic Center, 1999.

Posted by: Hope Solo's Starfish at May 22, 2017 09:38 AM (ul9CR)

24 Doe!!

Posted by: Homer Simpson at May 22, 2017 09:38 AM (Vnlws)

25 I like.

Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 09:39 AM (7HtZB)

26 Welcome to Sherwood Forest!

Posted by: Robin at May 22, 2017 09:40 AM (gbWkA)

27 Looks kinda like my vacation house...only smaller.

Posted by: BignJames at May 22, 2017 09:40 AM (x9c8r)

28 When first viewed on a little phone screen it looks like some conceptual artists version of a Christie suspension tank.

Posted by: JEM at May 22, 2017 09:40 AM (TppKb)

29 I see the Loch Ness Monster lower right.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 09:41 AM (Vnlws)

30 Mother in law castle in the background?

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 09:41 AM (UmSfZ)

31 there are some Bing images from the exact same spot. It's impressive.

Not as many deer.

Speaking of which, that lead buck is pretty scrawny.

Posted by: Texas Dan at May 22, 2017 09:41 AM (yL25O)

32 That's the third castle. The first two sank into the swamp.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 22, 2017 09:41 AM (TRzoP)

33 And I am impressed as hell that Google Voice managed to change Christy with a Y into the proper spelling after it got tank

Posted by: JEM at May 22, 2017 09:41 AM (TppKb)

34 You father smelled of elderberries

Posted by: French Soldier at May 22, 2017 09:41 AM (gbWkA)

35 Stay off the moors.

Posted by: Lord Baskerville at May 22, 2017 09:42 AM (OdK9v)

36 Pommy arse? Sounds delish.

Posted by: LASue at May 22, 2017 09:42 AM (CLKfs)

37 "That's funny - I didn't used to like Turner!"
"Well, I don't know much about art, but I know what I like."

Posted by: Women munching on painting, Monty Python skit at May 22, 2017 09:42 AM (eXSOZ)

38 Free ghost in the north tower for every visitor.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet presents Ace and the Scream Machine at the County Fairgrounds at May 22, 2017 09:42 AM (hLRSq)

39
Those aren't deer.

Snipers in disguise.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2017 09:42 AM (XWkhW)

40 That deer is about to commit sewer side.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:42 AM (wPiJc)

41 The antelopes appear to be lost.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 22, 2017 09:43 AM (TRzoP)

42 The whole painting seems a little off plumb. It's distracting.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at May 22, 2017 09:43 AM (Yi9Gb)

43 Fog isn't interesting unless a pirate ship is materializing out of it.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2017 09:43 AM (QQ+il)

44 I considered a career giving public talks about ways to storm medieval castles. Sort of a moativational speaker, if you will.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:43 AM (wPiJc)

45
The whole painting seems a little off plumb. It's distracting.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at May 22, 2017 09:43 AM (Yi9Gb)

Turner was hitting the pipe pretty hard during this period.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2017 09:44 AM (XWkhW)

46 Speaking of which, that lead buck is pretty scrawny.
Posted by: Texas Dan
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Aw, c'mon, don't be so critical. Have a hart.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 22, 2017 09:44 AM (OdK9v)

47 28 - You're right!

Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 09:44 AM (7HtZB)

48 M-O-O-N.

That spells art.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 09:44 AM (C52a9)

49 Turner paints shadows where none should exist. I think he just likes to paint shadows.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 09:45 AM (Vnlws)

50
Werewolf?

There, wolf.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2017 09:45 AM (XWkhW)

51 Flynn declines Senate subpoena to testify, invokes the 5th.

Screaming and rending of garments to ensue shortly.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 09:45 AM (/tuJf)

52 It looks a little off kilter. I'd be constantly trying to straighten this painting.

Posted by: Strobe at May 22, 2017 09:45 AM (gbWkA)

53 Flynn taking the Fifth. This should be fun.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at May 22, 2017 09:45 AM (Yi9Gb)

54 Is that one of them free castles that Italy is giving away?

Posted by: Mainah at May 22, 2017 09:45 AM (B+qrE)

55 Shadows seem to be in several directions. Is this on a planet with two suns?

Posted by: t-bird at May 22, 2017 09:46 AM (2z74n)

56 I asked them what that thing was. They said "draw bridge". So I did.

/Joseph Mallord William Turner

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:46 AM (wPiJc)

57 Those antlers look more like Elk than Deer.

Posted by: An Observation at May 22, 2017 09:46 AM (RvFYZ)

58 35 Stay off the moors.

Posted by: Lord Baskerville at May 22, 2017 09:42 AM (OdK9v)

I'm pretty sure you meant to say, "Stay off the moops."

Posted by: G. Costanza at May 22, 2017 09:47 AM (u9OP6)

59
Turner paints shadows where none should exist. I think he just likes to paint shadows.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 09:45 AM (Vnlws)

More importantly, they're going in different directions. Shadows of the bridge appear correct. The deer shadows are 90 degrees off.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2017 09:47 AM (XWkhW)

60 If this were any more atmospheric it would be...uh...composed of numerous gasses. Not sure where I was going with that one.

Posted by: joncelli, A Really Weird Guy at May 22, 2017 09:47 AM (RD7QR)

61 The whole painting seems a little off plumb. It's distracting.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller

The straight edge had yet to be invented. I guess. I always
used one.

But, you're correct. The bridge looks lower on the right side.

I don't like.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 09:47 AM (HTdUD)

62 So what is the deal with people from under the orange sun?

Posted by: Florp at May 22, 2017 09:48 AM (QQ+il)

63 I wonder when that was painted....

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 09:48 AM (c6/9Q)

64 But wait, the NeverTrumpers told me that Flynn had made a deal to testify and he was going to send Trump to prison so President Hatch could take office any day now.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 09:48 AM (ul9CR)

65 Turner paints shadows where none should exist. I think he just likes to paint shadows.
Posted by: Jack Sock
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Turner - Painter of Shadows.

Posted by: Thomas Kinkaid at May 22, 2017 09:48 AM (OdK9v)

66 I would have titled this "Castles of Mars". That's bitchin' huh?

Posted by: Strobe at May 22, 2017 09:48 AM (gbWkA)

67 I recommend you watch the movie Mr. Turner. Not your normal biopic and some may find it tedious, but I found it an engrossing snapshot of life in that time.

Posted by: HammerDog at May 22, 2017 09:48 AM (9M063)

68 Castle Anthrax?

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2017 09:49 AM (JO9+V)

69 Cocaine is a helluva drug.

Posted by: Rick James at May 22, 2017 09:49 AM (C52a9)

70 Naughty, bad, horrible Zoot!

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 09:49 AM (0mRoj)

71 Aw, whatsa matter, deer?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 09:49 AM (NOIQH)

72 Aw, c'mon, don't be so critical. Have a hart.

Posted by: Mike Hammer

******

I just don't know any more. My whole sense of humor seems stagnant.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:49 AM (wPiJc)

73 53: hillary know about flynn taking her fifth?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 22, 2017 09:49 AM (KP5rU)

74 Doe! A Deer!

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2017 09:50 AM (QQ+il)

75 29 I see the Loch Ness Monster lower right.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 09:41 AM (Vnlws)

He wants about three fiddy.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 09:50 AM (0mRoj)

76 Deer in Lyme-light?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 09:50 AM (NOIQH)

77 hillary know about flynn taking her fifth?

It was missing from the Scooby Van.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2017 09:50 AM (QQ+il)

78 I considered a career giving public talks about ways to storm medieval castles. Sort of a moativational speaker, if you will.
Posted by: Muldoon

Pillage, rape, THEN burn.

Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2017 09:50 AM (utT6Q)

79 Stay off the moors.

Posted by: Lord Baskerville at May 22, 2017 09:42 AM (OdK9v)

I'm pretty sure you meant to say, "Stay off the moops."
Posted by: G. Costanza
------------

Stop hounding me about this.

Posted by: Lord Baskerville at May 22, 2017 09:50 AM (OdK9v)

80 Flynn declines Senate subpoena to testify, invokes the 5th.

Screaming and rending of garments to ensue shortly.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2017 09:45 AM (/tuJf)
**
Lois Lerner still unavailable for comment.

Posted by: dananjcon at May 22, 2017 09:51 AM (WLK0w)

81 More importantly, they're going in different directions. Shadows of the bridge appear correct. The deer shadows are 90 degrees off.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2017 09:47 AM (XWkhW)

That's hilarious.

It's not quite 90 degrees but yeah, he did not nail the direction of the shadows for the deer. Or harts. or antelopi.

Posted by: Texas Dan at May 22, 2017 09:51 AM (yL25O)

82 >>I just don't know any more. My whole sense of humor seems stagnant.

We''ll whitetail you recover...

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 09:51 AM (NOIQH)

83 If the guy on the bridge is hunting deer, his aim is off.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 22, 2017 09:51 AM (TRzoP)

84 Now that there is a "special council" Flynn and anyone with 1/2 a brain would a fool to testify without blanket immunity from everyone. And nobody is giving that

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 22, 2017 09:51 AM (KlI/a)

85
I considered a career giving public talks about ways to storm medieval castles. Sort of a moativational speaker, if you will.
Posted by: Muldoon

Pillage, rape, THEN burn.

Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2017 09:50 AM (utT6Q)

But if you burn before you rape, it's more romantic in the firelight.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2017 09:51 AM (XWkhW)

86 I can see Black Adder!

Posted by: Strobe at May 22, 2017 09:35 AM (gbWkA)

What's Baldrick doing...forget I asked..

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 22, 2017 09:51 AM (493sH)

87 Your children. How much for the little girl? Sell me your children. Ha ha ha!

Posted by: Strobe at May 22, 2017 09:52 AM (gbWkA)

88 I don't get it. Is it supposed to be morning? Is that the moon?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 22, 2017 09:52 AM (TRzoP)

89 Trump probably wishes the foreign trip would last a while longer, now that he has the first trip under his belt. Returning to the swamp, has to be painful. Getting off AirForce One, instead of bands and flags it will be snarling alligators, viper snakes, and other assorted swamp dwellers.

Posted by: Colin at May 22, 2017 09:52 AM (yccFX)

90 Surreal isn't the word I want.
Emblematic isn't either

and Merriam-Webster thesaurus really sucks..

mystical representation is as close as I'm going to get to how this image makes me feel. I like it.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 09:52 AM (WvEqp)

91 The deer shadows are 90 degrees off.

******

Pick-up truck full of rednecks just off screen on the right are spotlighting 'em.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:52 AM (wPiJc)

92 Wait. That's no moon.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 22, 2017 09:52 AM (TRzoP)

93 Why shouldn't a person use their Constitutional rights?It's not a admission of guilt we have been told over and over.

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (rmVvL)

94
There deer. There castle

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (493sH)

95 If this were any more atmospheric it would be...uh...composed of numerous gasses. Not sure where I was going with that one.
Posted by: joncelli

Numerous gasses?
Obligatory: Uranus?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (utT6Q)

96 Deer ghosts.

Great.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (C52a9)

97 This is headed straight for longbows vs. crossbows. And trebuchets.

Posted by: Texas Dan at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (yL25O)

98 I'm just racking my brain trying to come up with an antler joke.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (wPiJc)

99 Rainbow Bridge for those deer, of course.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (v5iqM)

100 King of Swamp Castle: Some day lad, all this will be yours!

Prince: What, the curtains?

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (JO9+V)

101 82 >>I just don't know any more. My whole sense of humor seems stagnant.

We''ll whitetail you recover...
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 09:51 AM (NOIQH)

****

Is he bucking the trend?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (0tfLf)

102 88 I don't get it. Is it supposed to be morning? Is that the moon?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 22, 2017 09:52 AM (TRzoP)

this is why the Americans all left England.

Posted by: Texas Dan at May 22, 2017 09:54 AM (yL25O)

103 I've been there and was given a tour by the archivist. The exteriors were used in the first Harry Potter movie.

Posted by: ChupaMe at May 22, 2017 09:54 AM (vE2qF)

104 I'm just racking my brain trying to come up with an antler joke.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (wPiJc)

Don't spike the ball just yet...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2017 09:54 AM (rF0hx)

105 I considered a career giving public talks about ways to storm medieval castles. Sort of a moativational speaker, if you will.
Posted by: Muldoon

You would probably be good at that. Seems as if nothing dampens your enthusiasm.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 09:54 AM (HTdUD)

106 98 I'm just racking my brain trying to come up with an antler joke.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (wPiJc)

Horns of a dilemma.

Posted by: Texas Dan at May 22, 2017 09:54 AM (yL25O)

107 >>Is he bucking the trend?

I don't know what elk it could be...

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 09:54 AM (NOIQH)

108 There's a nutjob in the bell tower with a longbow screaming about impeachment.

Posted by: Fritz at May 22, 2017 09:55 AM (2Mnv1)

109
Fox Business is showing the little turds walking out on Pence's commencement speech at ND. One is wearing the fag flag draped over his back in fact it looks like a few all rainbowy. What a surprise.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 22, 2017 09:55 AM (493sH)

110 You stay classy,Democrats.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/265466/

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2017 09:55 AM (rmVvL)

111 How much for the little girl?

****

Couple of bucks?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:55 AM (wPiJc)

112 "Moon over Alwick Castle"

I feel a book coming on.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 09:55 AM (WvEqp)

113 Is that a king-side castle or a queen-side castle?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2017 09:55 AM (AURKQ)

114 this is not well publicized, and you will not find it in any of Turner bios, but he was drinking heavily the day when he made initial renderings of the castle; he was mixing ale, scotch and cheap cider, the bridge seemed to sway when he looked at it...so he really painted that ...feeling

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 09:56 AM (c6/9Q)

115 98 I'm just racking my brain trying to come up with an antler joke.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (wPiJc)

****

Better hurry or someone will just horn in.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 09:56 AM (0tfLf)

116 I'm just racking my brain trying to come up with an antler joke.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (wPiJc)
Don't spike the ball just yet...
===

Mule just have to velvet alone for a while.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 09:56 AM (C52a9)

117 98 I'm just racking my brain trying to come up with an antler joke.

Points for trying!

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 09:57 AM (ul9CR)

118 Couple of bucks?
Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:55 AM (wPiJc)

Nobody's going to fawn all over you for that pun.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2017 09:57 AM (AURKQ)

119 So I made her the Queen of my double-wide castle . . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2017 09:57 AM (JO9+V)

120
There's a nutjob in the bell tower with a longbow screaming about impeachment.

Posted by: Fritz at May 22, 2017 09:55 AM (2Mnv1)

Queen mother of the castle, Maxine, old, decrepit, and everyone runs the other way when they see her coming.

Posted by: Colin at May 22, 2017 09:57 AM (yccFX)

121 Doh! A deer!

Posted by: Homer Simpson at May 22, 2017 09:57 AM (0mRoj)

122 Here's a question, is that a rising or a setting sun?

Posted by: makatta at May 22, 2017 09:57 AM (Y7Qzg)

123 If there is a Turner, there should be a TurnHim. And face it, guys, I could turn any of you if I wanted.

Posted by: Barry Manilow at May 22, 2017 09:57 AM (vRcUp)

124 Queen mother of the castle, Maxine, old, decrepit, and everyone runs the other way when they see her coming.
Posted by: Colin at May 22, 2017 09:57 AM (yccFX)

That's not a shrubbery, just her hairpiece.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2017 09:58 AM (AURKQ)

125 Many have already mentioned the multi-directional shadows.

And the building walls which should be in shadow, but are not.

I suspect that Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer are sunbathing out of sight on the right hand side.

Very large reflective surface.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 09:58 AM (J+eG2)

126 With all these puns I'm going to have to make a venison diagram.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 09:58 AM (Vnlws)

127 Even a man who is pure of heart,
and says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf,
When the wolf bane blooms and the autumn moon shines bright ...

Posted by: UDM at May 22, 2017 09:58 AM (cuC7S)

128 Ah, I see I'm not the only one with that question.

Posted by: makatta at May 22, 2017 09:59 AM (Y7Qzg)

129 If you turn it upside down it looks sort of like an M.C. Escher print.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:59 AM (wPiJc)

130 ...or sideways

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 09:59 AM (wPiJc)

131 I see we're in a rut.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 09:59 AM (0mRoj)

132 122 Here's a question, is that a rising or a setting sun?

Setting. I'm thinking setting. But wait. Then again, could be rising. Yes, rising. The sun rises too, doesn't it? At any rate, it's pretty to think so.

Posted by: Zombie Hemingway at May 22, 2017 10:00 AM (ul9CR)

133 More importantly, they're going in different directions. Shadows of the bridge appear correct. The deer shadows are 90 degrees off.

I think you just made your saving throw vs. illusion magic.

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2017 10:00 AM (ml2c/)

134 I have had dreams like this.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:00 AM (WvEqp)

135 132 122 Here's a question, is that a rising or a setting sun?

We can actually figure this out if we can find the place on a map.

Posted by: Texas Dan at May 22, 2017 10:00 AM (yL25O)

136
Even a man who is pure of heart,
and says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf,
When the wolf bane blooms and the autumn moon shines bright ...
Posted by: UDM at May 22, 2017 09:58 AM

Burma Shave

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2017 10:01 AM (IqV8l)

137 Fylnnnnn takes a 5th, big deal. I drink 5 5ths a day.

Hic

Posted by: Shrillay at May 22, 2017 10:01 AM (FLjWH)

138 Has nothing on a Kinkade.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:01 AM (J+eG2)

139 I wonder what Milton had to say about this?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:01 AM (WvEqp)

140 >>The Calif. Rep. stood by, laughing, as the state's Democrat Chairman
John Burton raised two middle fingers as he encouraged the crowd at the
state convention in Sacramento to chant "F**k Donald Trump."

Oh, do go on!

The Lfet/MSM keep complaining how crude and unfit Trump is, yet do stuff like this, like to Colbert 'cockholster' comment, and like Anderson Pooper crude question.

Trump makes me cringe sometimes with his tweets and his, uh, relaxed, rambling speeches sometimes, but these guys are bound and determined to make even that look presidential by comparison!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 10:02 AM (NOIQH)

141 Just to tell you, your "artist" stinks, IMHO.

Posted by: White Magic Woman at May 22, 2017 10:02 AM (SJ184)

142 Hic I miss spellled my owe name.

Posted by: Shrillary at May 22, 2017 10:03 AM (FLjWH)

143 Chaos reigns.

Posted by: A talking fox at May 22, 2017 10:03 AM (0mRoj)

144 Even a man who is pure of heart,
and says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf,
When the wolf bane blooms and the autumn moon shines bright ...
Posted by: UDM at May 22, 2017 09:58 AM

Larry Talbot - When the moon is full. I become a wolf

Wilbur Gray (Lou Costello) - You and 30 million other guys

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 22, 2017 10:03 AM (493sH)

145 At least Kincaid would have set a nice campfire to stave off the coldness of the moors.

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 10:03 AM (UmSfZ)

146 Trump makes me cringe sometimes with his tweets and his, uh, relaxed, rambling speeches sometimes, but these guys are bound and determined to make even that look presidential by comparison!

Posted by: Lizzy

Are you saying Trump should 'stay the coarse'?

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 10:04 AM (HTdUD)

147 I have a new release fantasy novel on my blog today.
The blurb is funny

link in nic

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at May 22, 2017 10:04 AM (hMwEB)

148 Here's a question, is that a rising or a setting sun?

Posted by: makatta at May 22, 2017 09:57 AM (Y7Qzg)

Is it down in New Orleans?

Posted by: Eric Burdon, The Animals at May 22, 2017 10:04 AM (JO9+V)

149 picture is looking south southeast, so that's a rising sun.

Posted by: Texas Dan at May 22, 2017 10:05 AM (yL25O)

150 FYI: It's humid and everyone in that castle thinks bathing is unhealthy.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 10:05 AM (C52a9)

151 shoot, I can't think of any puns, but the horde should continue to hop along

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 10:05 AM (c6/9Q)

152 I have a new release fantasy novel on my blog today.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at May 22, 2017 10:04 AM

See? I knew this would inspire a book.
It just looks like a book cover. Just needs a title.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:06 AM (WvEqp)

153 Pastel sketch book stuff isn't worthy of the AoSHQ front page.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2017 10:06 AM (udajc)

154
101 82 >>I just don't know any more. My whole sense of humor seems stagnant.

We''ll whitetail you recover...
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 09:51 AM (NOIQH)

****

Is he bucking the trend?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (0tfLf)

Doe'nt go there.....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2017 10:06 AM (XWkhW)

155 Color palette's a little better but it still has discernible objects. Verdict: it's shit.

Posted by: Mark Rothko at May 22, 2017 10:06 AM (0mRoj)

156 Here's a question, is that a rising or a setting sun?
Posted by: makatta

Is it down in New Orleans?
Posted by: Eric Burdon, The Animals

*****

Definitely Rising Sun.

Posted by: Hirohito at May 22, 2017 10:06 AM (wPiJc)

157 Pics of PDT and the FLOTUS at the Western Wall over at Zip's Place:

http://www.weaselzippers.us/

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 10:07 AM (ul9CR)

158 what is the image in the third arch supposed to represent?

Posted by: DanMan at May 22, 2017 10:07 AM (XTiHL)

159 135 132 122 Here's a question, is that a rising or a setting sun?

We can actually figure this out if we can find the place on a map.
Posted by: Texas Dan at May 22, 2017 10:00 AM (yL25O)

---

we're on it

Posted by: 4chan at May 22, 2017 10:07 AM (oGRue)

160 Why wouldn't Flynn take the 5th?

Seems pretty dang obvious the Left is out for a head, and at minimum will try to Scooter Libby him. They have transcripts from November and December - could easily do a perjury trap.

As Warden so eloquently said of the Left:

...I no longer have any investment in any particular political values, save
one: The rules created by the left will be applied to the left as
equally and punitively as they have applied them to the right. And when
they beg for mercy, I'll begin to reconsider. Or maybe not. Because fuck
these people.
...
They created this Frankenstein. They own it. I am free of all
obligation. I will never play defense again. I will attack, attack,
attack, attack using their own tactics against them until they learn
their lesson.

What I will not do is let them play my values against me ever again. I
don't need to prove that I'm better than them. I already know it.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 10:07 AM (NOIQH)

161
I wonder what Milton had to say about this?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse

I'm Milton, your brand new son.

Posted by: Milton the monster at May 22, 2017 10:07 AM (IqV8l)

162 "You and 30 million other guys..."

Heh. True.

Posted by: UDM at May 22, 2017 10:08 AM (cuC7S)

163 Is that a rising sun or a setting sun?

*****

Neither. It's a veni-son.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 10:08 AM (wPiJc)

164 With all these puns I'm going to have to make a venison diagram.
Posted by: Jack Sock

Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2017 10:08 AM (utT6Q)

165 Not really liking this painting too much. Very confusing.

Is that a reflection of the castle in the sky above the sun? ---Between 11:30 and 1:00.

And I can't figure out the water situation beneath the bridge.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 22, 2017 10:08 AM (HiDrR)

166 "The Calif. Rep. stood by, laughing, as the state's Democrat Chairman

John Burton raised two middle fingers as he encouraged the crowd at the

state convention in Sacramento to chant "F**k Donald Trump."

--

Yes, please. I want this. These folks are 10-12% of the population tops. Most regular people can't even tell you who the VP is, but even the ones who vote (D) because they're convinced the (R)s will lay off teachers and firemen immediately because no other money exists to cut anywhere ever don't want that type of BS.

Let this become the face of the (D) party.

Let this be how they get more Trump.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 10:09 AM (fD1ST)

167 What do you call a painter with four names? Pretentious.

Posted by: Norman Rockwell at May 22, 2017 10:09 AM (bc2Lc)

168 >>Here's a question, is that a rising or a setting sun?

It's smoke on the water....and fire in the sky.

Posted by: Deep Purple at May 22, 2017 10:09 AM (NOIQH)

169 Zip has photos of the Trumps at the wall.

A part of me thinks that there are many historical firsts occurring which the media does not desire to announce.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:09 AM (J+eG2)

170 122 Here's a question, is that a rising or a setting sun?

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are we sure it is the sun and not the full moon? Any lycanthropes care to comment?

Posted by: 4chan at May 22, 2017 10:10 AM (oGRue)

171 Moose out front.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 10:10 AM (fD1ST)

172 121 Doh! A deer!

---

which one is Jane?

Posted by: 4chan at May 22, 2017 10:10 AM (oGRue)

173 Those stupid lemmings at Notre Dame just following the herd."Pence is double plus ungood,can't even listen to what he says".Sad,really.

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2017 10:10 AM (rmVvL)

174 Pillage, rape, THEN burn.

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Pillage, rape, burn, then rape.

Posted by: Javems at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (yOqwj)

175
@161

Well I was thinking of Pete Milton, fry cook at IHOP. His second job is art critic for the local thrifty nickel.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (WvEqp)

176 what is the image in the third arch supposed to represent?
Posted by: DanMan at May 22, 2017 10:07 AM
~~~~~

Looks like Jesus, walking on water. If there is any water (see my #165.)

Posted by: IrishEi at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (HiDrR)

177 174 Pillage, rape, THEN burn.

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Pillage, rape, burn, then rape.
Posted by: Javems at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (yOqwj)

You said rape twice.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (0mRoj)

178 Pillage, rape, burn, then rape.

Posted by: Javems at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (yOqwj)

how would that work ?

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 10:12 AM (c6/9Q)

179 FWIW, this was a watercolor painted to be produced as an engraving, not really to be displayed in and of itself. Compare with the engraving after the painting.

http://tinyurl.com/ll7nuvq

Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 10:12 AM (7HtZB)

180 "Pillage, rape, burn, then rape."

Rum, pillage, rape, sodomy, burn, the lash.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:12 AM (J+eG2)

181 101 82 >>I just don't know any more. My whole sense of humor seems stagnant.

We''ll whitetail you recover...
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 09:51 AM (NOIQH)

****

Is he bucking the trend?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (0tfLf)

Doe'nt go there.....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2017 10:06 AM (XWkhW)

****

So you're saying don't fawn over it?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 10:12 AM (0tfLf)

182 Here's a question, is that a rising or a setting sun?
Posted by: makatta

Is it down in New Orleans?
Posted by: Eric Burdon, The Animals

I gotta get out of this place if it's the last thing I ever do.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 10:12 AM (Nwg0u)

183 "Here's a question, is that a rising or a setting sun?

We can actually figure this out if we can find the place on a map.

Posted by: Texas Dan"
*consults the maps*
Looks like the artist was north of the castle facing south, maybe a little southeast, so the sun (or moon) is east of the castle.

Posted by: Ripley at May 22, 2017 10:13 AM (1BQGO)

184 A part of me thinks that there are many historical firsts occurring which the media does not desire to announce.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

First sitting President to visit Israel during term
First President to address the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation)
First flight from Saudi Arabia to Israel

there's probably more... by later today

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 10:13 AM (HTdUD)

185 Those antlers look more like Elk than Deer.

Posted by: An Observation at May 22, 2017 09:46 AM (RvFYZ)

In case it hasn't been mentioned, English Red Deer are similar to (and can interbreed with) the American Wapiti (elk). They were making a big deal out of it in Colorado a few years ago because the interbreeding has been so successful that it is uncertain how many pure Wapiti are left.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 22, 2017 10:13 AM (sEDyY)

186 It's the moon - check out the engraving produced after the painting.

Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 10:14 AM (7HtZB)

187 Is it down in New Orleans?
Posted by: Eric Burdon, The Animals

*****

Oddly enough, Joseph Mallord Turner's mother was a Taylor.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 10:14 AM (wPiJc)

188 His name was Seth Rich.

Posted by: Krakenboner at May 22, 2017 10:14 AM (QTOyx)

189 I gotta get out of this place if it's the last thing I ever do.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 10:12 AM (Nwg0u)

Train, train, take me on out of this town.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 10:14 AM (0mRoj)

190 >>FWIW, this was a watercolor painted to be produced as an engraving, not
really to be displayed in and of itself. Compare with the engraving
after the painting.

Cool! I prefer the engraving. Thanks for finding that.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 10:14 AM (NOIQH)

191 FWIW, this was a watercolor painted to be produced as an engraving, not really to be displayed in and of itself. Compare with the engraving after the painting.
http://tinyurl.com/ll7nuvq
Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 10:12 AM

~~~~~

Thanks for that link! Makes things much clearer.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 22, 2017 10:14 AM (HiDrR)

192 C'mon muldoon. They ( okay, I ) need jokes.
Get to hoofin' would ya?

Posted by: old, tired and beaten down by life at May 22, 2017 10:15 AM (wedOa)

193 Rum, pillage, rape, sodomy, burn, the lash.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:12 AM (J+eG2)

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Posted by: Fried Baloney Sandwich at May 22, 2017 10:15 AM (I7I0v)

194 So this is a real castle?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:15 AM (WvEqp)

195
oh, I get it - it's "rape, rape" , as opposed to "not rape, rape"

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 10:15 AM (c6/9Q)

196 C'mon muldoon. They ( okay, I ) need jokes.
Get to hoofin' would ya?

****

I don't caribout what you need or don't need.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 10:16 AM (wPiJc)

197 194 So this is a real castle?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:15 AM (WvEqp)

It's only a model.

Posted by: Texas Dan at May 22, 2017 10:16 AM (yL25O)

198 178 Pillage, rape, burn, then rape.

Posted by: Javems at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (yOqwj)

how would that work ?
Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 10:12 AM (c6/9Q)

It would be well done

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 10:16 AM (0mRoj)

199 ... and it has a web site

https://www.alnwickcastle.com/

Man, the things you can learn here.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:16 AM (WvEqp)

200 181 101 82 >>I just don't know any more. My whole sense of humor seems stagnant.

We''ll whitetail you recover...
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 09:51 AM (NOIQH)

****

Is he bucking the trend?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 09:53 AM (0tfLf)

Doe'nt go there.....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2017 10:06 AM (XWkhW)

****

So you're saying don't fawn over it?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 10:12 AM (0tfLf)

---

I've herd about enough of this, my deers

Posted by: 4chan at May 22, 2017 10:16 AM (oGRue)

201 197 194 So this is a real castle?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:15 AM (WvEqp)

It's only a model.
Posted by: Texas Dan at May 22, 2017 10:16 AM (yL25O)

Shhh!!

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 10:16 AM (0mRoj)

202 If you look very closely you can see a velociraptor crossing the bridge right to left.

Posted by: Javems at May 22, 2017 10:17 AM (yOqwj)

203 >>C'mon muldoon. They ( okay, I ) need jokes.

Get to hoofin' would ya?

Tick...tick...tick...

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 10:17 AM (NOIQH)

204 174 Pillage, rape, THEN burn.

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

Pillage, rape, burn, then rape.
Posted by: Javems at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (yOqwj)

Ow.

Posted by: joncelli, A Really Weird Guy at May 22, 2017 10:17 AM (RD7QR)

205 If you like your castle you can keep your castle.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 10:17 AM (wPiJc)

206 Pillage, rape, burn, then rape.

Posted by: Javems at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (yOqwj)

how would that work ?

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 10:12 AM (c6/9Q)

It would be well done

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 10:16 AM (0mRoj)
Smoking !

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 10:18 AM (c6/9Q)

207 That's no moon.

Posted by: Obi-Wan Mallord Kenobi at May 22, 2017 10:18 AM (7HtZB)

208 Deer ghosts watch you fap.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 10:18 AM (C52a9)

209 burn, then rape.

So, sort of like Hot Pockets then.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 10:18 AM (ul9CR)

210 First flight from Saudi Arabia to Israel

there's probably more... by later today

---

I think Mohammad claims that record

Posted by: 4chan at May 22, 2017 10:18 AM (oGRue)

211 You said rape twice.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (0mRoj)

-------------------------
I would finish the joke but I don't want that on my written record.

Posted by: Javems at May 22, 2017 10:18 AM (yOqwj)

212 Pillage, rape, burn, then rape.

****

Heh heh heh. You said 'pillage'.

In my experience it makes the rape easier.

Posted by: Bill Cosby at May 22, 2017 10:19 AM (wPiJc)

213 Skirt chasin', free basin' - killin' every village
We drink and rob and rhyme and PILLAGE!

Posted by: The Beastie Boys at May 22, 2017 10:20 AM (ul9CR)

214 The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Posted by: Fried Baloney Sandwich at May 22, 2017 10:15 AM (I7I0v)

----

thoughts of every lonely man ever

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 22, 2017 10:20 AM (oGRue)

215 Home. home on the range...

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 10:20 AM (C52a9)

216 Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, White Castle.

Posted by: Homer Simpson at May 22, 2017 10:21 AM (IqV8l)

217 Roofie sock off.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 10:21 AM (wPiJc)

218 The engraving certainly looks more moony.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2017 10:21 AM (QQ+il)

219 What knockers!

Posted by: Dr. Fronkenschteen at May 22, 2017 10:21 AM (JO9+V)

220 Did Turner make a living painting?

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 10:21 AM (Vnlws)

221 Pillage. It's the amount of meds you take when you turn 65.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 22, 2017 10:21 AM (4AVeu)

222 Ha, he beat your ticks.
And I hope those aren't deer ticks.
Carry limey disease you know.

Posted by: old, tired and beaten down by life at May 22, 2017 10:21 AM (wedOa)

223 If loving White Castle is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 10:22 AM (ul9CR)

224 196 C'mon muldoon. They ( okay, I ) need jokes.
Get to hoofin' would ya?

****

I don't caribout what you need or don't need.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 10:16 AM

He'd care if we passed him Elke Sommers address.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 10:22 AM (0tfLf)

225 So, OPEC (including Russia, of course) experienced a 15% year over year decline in oil export revenues, eh?

Seems like big news.

I'm sure that Trump will try to strangle the American shale oil market as soon as he gets back to America in an effort to help his buddy Putin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 10:22 AM (viSzi)

226 The Democrats continue their incessant Impeachment screed and we wonder why there were right wing death squads in South and Central America.

Posted by: An Observation at May 22, 2017 10:23 AM (RvFYZ)

227 210 First flight from Saudi Arabia to Israel

there's probably more... by later today

---

I think Mohammad claims that record
Posted by: 4chan at May 22, 2017 10:18 AM (oGRue)

Look, you think I WANTED to fly this clown to Jerusalem?

Posted by: The Roc at May 22, 2017 10:23 AM (RD7QR)

228 Pillage. It's the amount of meds you take when you turn 65.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 22, 2017 10:21 AM (4AVeu)

I thought it meant "beach" in French. No, that's "plage", isn't it.

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 10:23 AM (c6/9Q)

229 I don't caribout

That pun is funnier in Canadian.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 10:23 AM (ul9CR)

230 If you drove across that bridge with a flat tire it would probably go "Wapiti, wapiti, wapiti"

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 10:24 AM (wPiJc)

231 226 The Democrats continue their incessant Impeachment screed and we wonder why there were right wing death squads in South and Central America.
Posted by: An Observation at May 22, 2017 10:23 AM (RvFYZ)

==============

"Those Democrats really seem reasonable and ready to lead the country! I can't wait to vote for a Democrat in 2018!"
-No voters who went Obama - Trump

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 10:24 AM (viSzi)

232 I thought it meant "beach" in French. No, that's "plage", isn't it.
Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 10:23 AM (c6/9Q)

I thought rat-borne fleas spread plage.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 10:24 AM (0mRoj)

233 Mike Flynn will not cooperate with Congressional committee
Lawyered up and will protect his Don

Posted by: Him at May 22, 2017 10:24 AM (OAqrW)

234 That pun is funnier in Canadian.

*****

Indeed. I read it to myself in my best hockey play-by-play announcer voice.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 22, 2017 10:24 AM (wPiJc)

235 If you drove across that bridge with a flat tire it would probably go "Wapiti, wapiti, wapiti"
Posted by: Muldoon

Unless you are in Brooklyn, then it'd go wop wop wop.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2017 10:25 AM (utT6Q)

236 Mike Flynn will not cooperate with Congressional committee

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Neither would I.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:25 AM (WvEqp)

237 Ooh look, Concerny Concernyton is back.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 10:25 AM (ul9CR)

238 >>Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, White Castle.

Posted by: Homer Simpson

Hey, we were craving some burgers just now...

Posted by: Harold & Kumar at May 22, 2017 10:25 AM (NOIQH)

239 fun story, I have a friend who has cerebral palsy and lots of mobility issues. Last year I asked him why he wasn't wearing his leg braces and it turns out it was because he didn't have the right shoes and his insurance stopped covering them. I started a gofundme campaign and we raised $3k in a week which set him up for shoes for life really. A few months ago he told me about these new "walk aides" that he could get, electrical devices on each leg, no need for braces (painful to wear), and greater mobility, but very expensive. He thought I could easily raise $10k for him (he thinks I can do anything) and it scared the crap out of me. I tried, I wasn't getting very far but raised a couple thousand. Yesterday a local bar threw a benefit for him, silent auction, chinese raffle, etc - his mom deposited $14,919 into his medical needs account this morning. Didn't need a mandate from Congress, his health insurance was not covering it, a group of people who like beer and music all threw some money in the tin for him and he will have his new walk aides this Tuesday.

Posted by: chelsea danger at May 22, 2017 10:26 AM (jpmvb)

240 CBD wrote, "I appreciate that there is just a bit more structure in this work compared to many of Turner's other paintings, and the deer in the lower left are sort of amusing."

All of Turner's paintings are highly structured, but the structure is effected by means of color, not line. Turner is arguably one of the greatest colorists of all time. Some of his techniques were revolutionary in concept, a hundred or more years ahead of his own time, and had a hugely influential impact on the Impressionists and beyond.

Turner's emphasis on color rather than line may set him apart from that Colossus of Gargantuan Artistic Genius that is Norman Rockwell, but Turner's no less for it.

Posted by: troyriser at May 22, 2017 10:26 AM (Fw5cQ)

241
Mike Flynn will not cooperate with Congressional committee>>>

He can't do that!!11!!

Posted by: Lois Lerner at May 22, 2017 10:26 AM (r5KeJ)

242 I was thinking White Castle for lunch anyway. Now it's a done deal.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 10:27 AM (ul9CR)

243 I forgot the sarcasm tag on my post. Anyway what I found funny when I first read about Turner is that his mother was a nut. That's not the funny part of course. What's funny is the name of the place they put her. It's funny thinking something would be named that today. St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 10:27 AM (Vnlws)

244 If you drove across that bridge with a flat tire it would probably go "Wapiti, wapiti, wapiti"

-
How to change a tire.

http://tinyurl.com/k7swvqf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 10:27 AM (Nwg0u)

245 All I see is a bunch of random splotches and streaks.

Posted by: Jackson Pollock at May 22, 2017 10:28 AM (0mRoj)

246
@239

respectful thumbs up

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:28 AM (WvEqp)

247 >>I don't caribout

>>That pun is funnier in Canadian.

Heh, reminds of the time we went to Quebec City Winterfest. Signs everywhere announcing "We have Caribou!!!"
We thought they were really into wild game...and then discovered that Caribous is a drink that is cheap red wine + whiskey + maple syrup or sugar.
Ah, made so much more sense after seeing the crowds..

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 10:28 AM (NOIQH)

248 226 The Democrats continue their incessant Impeachment screed. . .
_______________________________

I know. But it is only hurting them. Americans know they're unhinged and irrational whenever they do it.

I WELCOME the Dems to try to impeach Trump. They'll get crushed.

I WELCOME Elizabeth Warren as the next Dem candidate for president. She'll walk out of the Dem Convention with negative numbers right off the bat.

I WELCOME the likes of moonbats like Andrew Cuomo, Maxine Waters, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton to formulate the Democrat platform over the next three years. It would guarantee a Republican landslide in 2020.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 22, 2017 10:29 AM (4AVeu)

249 Turner should have stuck with his Dutch boat painting style in my opinion.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 10:29 AM (Vnlws)

250 239; commendable. great job!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 22, 2017 10:29 AM (KP5rU)

251 Those stupid lemmings at Notre Dame just following the herd."Pence is double plus ungood,can't even listen to what he says".Sad,really.

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2017 10:10 AM (rmVvL)

There were about 75 of them. Not much of a herd. The middle school media concentrates on the freaks to make you think they are of greater number than they actually are.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet presents Ace and the Scream Machine at the County Fairgrounds at May 22, 2017 10:29 AM (hLRSq)

252 First flight from Saudi Arabia to Israel

there's probably more... by later today "

did the King of Saudi Arabia shake hands with Ivanka yesterday?

That might be a "first" for the king of an Islamic nation shaking hands with a female Jew.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:30 AM (J+eG2)

253 Neither The Newark Star Ledger nor The Bergen Record, NJ's biggest papers has Trump's Saudi speech above the fold on the front page today. The Bergen Record--acquired by USA Today last year--has been a daily compendium of slanted coverage and anti-Trump screeds--right down to the letters to the editor, so it figures they wouldn't feature anything that goes against their narrative.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2017 10:30 AM (7uYFy)

254 247 >>I don't caribout

>>That pun is funnier in Canadian.

In Austrian, it gets translated "reindeer" so the whole thing falls apart.

Posted by: Texas Dan at May 22, 2017 10:30 AM (yL25O)

255
I'd like to see the full-size photograph of this painting. The abridged version is kind of lame.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 10:31 AM (HTdUD)

256 That might be a "first" for the king of an Islamic nation shaking hands with a female Jew.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:30 AM (J+eG2)

In PUBLIC, sure,

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2017 10:31 AM (7uYFy)

257 In Austrian, it gets translated "reindeer" so the whole thing falls apart.
I was told it absolutely sleighs.

Posted by: Sporkatus at May 22, 2017 10:32 AM (eXSOZ)

258 >>>Lawyered up and will protect his ~~Don~~ass

FTFY

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 22, 2017 10:32 AM (JTTMp)

259 Wow - if Muldoon is having trouble with this riff - all the rest of us can only say: "Deer me."

Posted by: An Observation at May 22, 2017 10:32 AM (RvFYZ)

260 Or at least, so I've herd.

Posted by: An Observation at May 22, 2017 10:32 AM (RvFYZ)

261 Ooh look, Concerny Concernyton is back.
It's the total impotence that is most amusing.

Posted by: Sporkatus at May 22, 2017 10:33 AM (eXSOZ)

262 Little early for 'beer me'.
Don't we have to wait for lunch?

ah hell, it's lunch somewhere.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:33 AM (WvEqp)

263 discovered that Caribous is a drink that is cheap red wine + whiskey + maple syrup or sugar.

-
Is there nothing Canadians won't do?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 10:33 AM (Nwg0u)

264 178 Pillage, rape, burn, then rape.

Posted by: Javems at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (yOqwj)

how would that work ?

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 10:12 AM (c6/9Q)

If you don't already know, then I won't tell you.

Posted by: Oderus Urungus at May 22, 2017 10:33 AM (u9OP6)

265 Mike Flynn will defy and resist and wind up with his own nationally syndicated talk radio show.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 22, 2017 10:33 AM (4AVeu)

266 263 discovered that Caribous is a drink that is cheap red wine + whiskey + maple syrup or sugar.

-
Is there nothing Canadians won't do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 10:33 AM (Nwg0u)

===============

Admit that waiting in line for healthcare, and dying in that line, is a bad thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 10:34 AM (viSzi)

267 cheap red wine + whiskey + maple syrup or sugar.

That sounds like a hangover and a half. Maple-flavored Southern Comfort plus wine. Yikes.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 10:34 AM (ul9CR)

268 They demanded that he answer their questions.

Yet, Mike Flynn persisted.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:34 AM (J+eG2)

269 255
I'd like to see the full-size photograph of this painting. The abridged version is kind of lame.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 10:31 AM (HTdUD)

The blown up version is about the right size. It only measures about 11 x 20 inches.

Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 10:35 AM (7HtZB)

270 Is there nothing Canadians won't do?

Play 4 downs of football.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 10:35 AM (ul9CR)

271 Have to admit I laughed at the ND walkouts. Whiter than white, rich as all getout, and proud they made boom-boom on everyone else's day.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 22, 2017 10:35 AM (MIKMs)

272 Still nobody offering the "I stand with him" tee shirts and ball caps yet?

Good opportunity for some bucks.

I need a large.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:36 AM (J+eG2)

273

Pillage, rape, burn, then rape.

Posted by: Javems at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (yOqwj)

Ow.

Posted by: joncelli, A Really Weird Guy at May 22, 2017 10:17 AM (RD7QR)

Hedley Lamarr:
Qualifications?
Applicant:
Rape, murder, arson, and rape.

Hedley Lamarr:
You said rape twice.

Applicant:
I like rape.

Posted by: Colin at May 22, 2017 10:36 AM (yccFX)

274 That sounds like a hangover and a half. Maple-flavored Southern Comfort plus wine. Yikes.

No different than a sangria swirl from On The Border.
Frozen margarita & red wine.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2017 10:37 AM (utT6Q)

275 271 Have to admit I laughed at the ND walkouts. Whiter than white, rich as all getout, and proud they made boom-boom on everyone else's day.
Posted by: mustbequantum at May 22, 2017 10:35 AM (MIKMs)

==============

Probably off to plan the fight to end the "Fighting Irish" mascot.

It's demeaning to the Irish, you know. So it must be stamped out like the Redskins.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 10:37 AM (viSzi)

276 That's a pretty cool bridge. Them people must be rich.

Posted by: Eromero at May 22, 2017 10:37 AM (zLDYs)

277 "Those Democrats really seem reasonable and ready to lead the country! I can't wait to vote for a Democrat in 2018!"

-No voters who went Obama - Trump
=========
"I lost my job under Obama but, I've learned that if I just hate Trump and vote for a Democrat in 2018, everything will be all right."
--Blue collar workers in PA, OH, MI and WI

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 22, 2017 10:37 AM (ZQpd0)

278 Is there nothing Canadians won't do?

Play 4 downs of football.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 10:35 AM (ul9CR)

Win a Stanley ?

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 10:37 AM (c6/9Q)

279 Is there nothing Canadians won't do?

-----

Build their own fighter jet

Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 10:38 AM (7HtZB)

280 @239-
There's this trio I know of that focuses on singer/songwriter stuff but can throw some old, no, older than that, r&r at ya that given enough notice would not only play for something like that but probably throw a few coins in the kitty. NE Ks and NW Mo area.

Posted by: teej at May 22, 2017 10:38 AM (wedOa)

281 Stampeding cattle isn't much of a crime.

Through the Vatican?

Kinky!

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 10:39 AM (0mRoj)

282 251
Those stupid lemmings at Notre Dame just following the herd."Pence is
double plus ungood,can't even listen to what he says".Sad,really.

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2017 10:10 AM (rmVvL)

There were about 75 of them. Not much of a herd. The middle school
media concentrates on the freaks to make you think they are of greater
number than they actually are.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet presents Ace and the Scream
Machine at the County Fairgrounds at May 22, 2017 10:29 AM (hLRSq)

And these lemmings, once they've been kicked in the balls by adulthood, will most likely end up at Walmart as a greeter, McDonalds asking if you want fries with your order or at Starbucks selling overpriced unicorn coffee -- crying for $15/hr while saddled with $100k+ in college debt.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2017 10:39 AM (jxbfJ)

283 Mike Flynn will not cooperate with Congressional committee>>>

He can't do that!!11!!

Posted by: Lois Lerner
=====
That's unprecedented and unacceptable!!!
/s/
Eric Holder

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 22, 2017 10:39 AM (ZQpd0)

284 Those stupid lemmings at Notre Dame just following the herd.

In fairness, they were probably drunk.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2017 10:40 AM (QQ+il)

285 283 Mike Flynn will not cooperate with Congressional committee>>>

He can't do that!!11!!

Posted by: Lois Lerner
=====
That's unprecedented and unacceptable!!!
/s/
Eric Holder
Posted by: RoyalOil at May 22, 2017 10:39 AM (ZQpd0)

Lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 10:41 AM (0mRoj)

286 Those principled graduates at Notra Dame will have a great future in politics.

No need to risk the family inheritance in a start up business venture.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:41 AM (WvEqp)

287 251 Those stupid lemmings at Notre Dame just following the herd."Pence is double plus ungood,can't even listen to what he says".Sad,really.
___________________________________

Notre Dame is the new Mizzou. Hope they suffer with enrollments.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 22, 2017 10:41 AM (4AVeu)

288 284 Those stupid lemmings at Notre Dame just following the herd.

In fairness, they were probably drunk.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2017 10:40 AM (QQ+il)

Juvenile twats, drunk or no.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 10:42 AM (0mRoj)

289 284
Those stupid lemmings at Notre Dame just following the herd.

In fairness, they were probably drunk.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2017 10:40 AM (QQ+il)

and life is about to be a brutal hangover for them.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2017 10:42 AM (jxbfJ)

290 love the picture of Trump at the wall.

"Beautiful. And you made the Canaanites pay for it?"

Posted by: Lord Sir x at May 22, 2017 10:44 AM (nFwvY)

291 Those stupid lemmings at Notre Dame just following the herd.

In fairness, they were probably drunk.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2017 10:40 AM (QQ+il)

...or went to Saint Mary's College...

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 10:44 AM (c6/9Q)

292 I wonder if Ace is going to do a Twin Peaks thread today.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 22, 2017 10:44 AM (gIRsn)

293 I'd like to see the full-size photograph of this painting. The abridged version is kind of lame.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 10:31 AM (HTdUD)

Indeed. I'd say it was.... abridged too far.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2017 10:45 AM (AURKQ)

294 Is Alnwick related to John Wick?

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 10:45 AM (Fb9aZ)

295 >>That sounds like a hangover and a half. Maple-flavored Southern Comfort plus wine. Yikes.

Keeps ya warm (not really, of course)! But we were served it after a dogsled ride by the fire.
They carried it around in these long plastic canes. We had wondered why so many adults were holding these childish looking things - but they were the equivalent of a red solo cup: full of Caribou.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 10:45 AM (NOIQH)

296 I was thinking White Castle for lunch anyway. Now it's a done deal.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 10:27 AM
~~~~~

Damn. Now I want White Castle too.

BTW, I have a great slider recipe that White Castle lovers universally enjoy. Of course, the sliders are more substantial than a White Castle, but there is something about the taste that is reminiscent and very satisfying if you have the Crave. They really are good.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 22, 2017 10:45 AM (HiDrR)

297 >>Those stupid lemmings at Notre Dame just following the herd."Pence is
double plus ungood,can't even listen to what he says".Sad,really.

Just wait until they get a job (I know, "if").
No one will give a sh#t what they're courageously protesting this week.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 10:47 AM (NOIQH)

298 Memo

From :Notre Dame Office of Inclusiveness and Diversity

To: Graduating students

Our office has determined that while walking out on an invited Commencement Speaker is indeed Free Speech, it is not in keeping with our policy of banning free speech which may incite negative feelings in some attendees.

As such, effective immediately, we are banning the activity known as Walking Out on the Speaker.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:47 AM (J+eG2)

299 BTW, I have a great slider recipe that White Castle lovers universally enjoy. Of course, the sliders are more substantial than a White Castle, but there is something about the taste that is reminiscent and very satisfying if you have the Crave. They really are good.
========

Share, please?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 22, 2017 10:47 AM (vg8iE)

300 Hedley Lamarr:

Qualifications?
Applicant:

Rape, murder, arson, and rape.

Hedley Lamarr:

You said rape twice.

Applicant:

I like rape.

Posted by: Colin

That joke in a movie nowadays would send the the snowflakes to therapy and the director to camp.

Posted by: Ripley at May 22, 2017 10:47 AM (1BQGO)

301 White Castle is steamed hamburger.

That is an abomination before G.D. It needs to die in a fire.

Then it will be tasty.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2017 10:48 AM (udajc)

302 I've never had a White Castle burger.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 10:49 AM (0mRoj)

303 White Castle... sadly none are within a several hour drive from here.
I'll have to settle for a Hate Shake and a Chikun Sammich.

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 10:50 AM (UmSfZ)

304 Posted by: troyriser at May 22, 2017 10:26 AM (Fw5cQ)

Hey!

Are you talking shit about me?

What I meant was literal "structure."

I appreciate Turner's color use...he is wonderful. But it can be repetitive.

I saw the Turner wing at The Tate Britain, and after what seemed like 5,000 paintings, I just got tired of it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2017 10:50 AM (rF0hx)

305 "That joke in a movie nowadays would send the the snowflakes to therapy and the director to camp."

Little VIA was watching Blazing Saddles over the weekend.

As an 18 year old, his comments almost paralleled yours.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:51 AM (J+eG2)

306 Here is a fantastic slider recipe, modeled after "White Manna" in Hackensack NJ.

http://beefaficionado.blogspot.com/2008/03/home-cooking-sliders.html

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2017 10:51 AM (rF0hx)

307 So...who goes through the forest saying, "Ah one and ah two...?"

Lawrence Elk.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 10:51 AM (0tfLf)

308 You know the difference between Beernuts and Deer nuts?

Beer Nuts are $2.49 and Deer Nuts are under a buck!

Posted by: Zacha at May 22, 2017 10:52 AM (hUjHz)

309 251 "Those stupid lemmings at Notre Dame just following the herd."Pence is
double plus ungood,can't even listen to what he says".Sad,really.

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2017 10:10 AM (rmVvL)

There were about 75 of them. Not much of a herd. The middle school
media concentrates on the freaks to make you think they are of greater
number than they actually are."
----
100% of the MSM agree with the 5% of Notre Dame students who walked out.

Posted by: zmdavid at May 22, 2017 10:53 AM (xqRaG)

310 The puns......

THEY BURN!!!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:53 AM (J+eG2)

311 Lawrence Elk.

Posted by: Diogenes
==

Ha!

You deserve a trophy.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 10:53 AM (C52a9)

312 This painting is evocative.

Posted by: Hope Solo at May 22, 2017 10:53 AM (vRcUp)

313 As an ND alum this pisses me off! That's my final answer.

Posted by: Regis Philbin at May 22, 2017 10:53 AM (bc2Lc)

314 Ooooh, the Seth Rich plot thickens.

Assange has now sent out a Tweet that would appear to confirm what Kim Dotcom is saying about being involved with Seth Rich.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 10:55 AM (BPeNq)

315 314 Ooooh, the Seth Rich plot thickens.

Assange has now sent out a Tweet that would appear to confirm what Kim Dotcom is saying about being involved with Seth Rich.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 10:55 AM (BPeNq)

==========

Soooo....Assange raped Rich?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 10:55 AM (viSzi)

316 And these lemmings, once they've been kicked in the balls by adulthood,
will most likely end up at Walmart as a greeter, McDonalds asking if you
want fries with your order or at Starbucks selling overpriced unicorn
coffee -- crying for $15/hr while saddled with $100k+ in college debt.
========

We like to tell ourselves that.

But, the truth is, they'll end up in an HR department.
Or as a diversity hire somewhere.

And they'll resent the shit out of ordinary people like you and me.
And they'll stock the corporation with their fellow unthinking cows.

Because, as much as we hate them, they still get to tap into the elite connections their credentials buy--because too many like us who fought tooth and nail to claw out a living STILL buy into the myth and notion that a college degree from a big name school is worth more over guy who's been doing that job for 10 years.

I don't know how many job announcements looking for 5+ years experienced attorney's I've read over the last 6 months that include the requirement that they be a grad from a top law school and in the top 1/3 or 1/4 of their class.
Hell, I saw one that wanted a 10+ year attorney with those.

SMH

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 22, 2017 10:55 AM (ZQpd0)

317 311 Lawrence Elk.

Posted by: Diogenes
==

Ha!

You deserve a trophy.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 10:53 AM

Last time I won something on Ace it was a very used game of Life and a Tinfoil level membership.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 10:56 AM (0tfLf)

318 So what, there was a ND grad walkout on Pence. Big deal, can any of you say you were at all surprised?
They walked out, and yet, he persisted.

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 10:56 AM (UmSfZ)

319 Posted by: RoyalOil at May 22, 2017 10:55 AM (ZQpd0)

You're not wrong.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 10:57 AM (0mRoj)

320 "Last time I won something on Ace it was a very used game of Life and a Tinfoil level membership. "

Lucky you.

I got a hairball, and a wad of chewing gum.

Used.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:57 AM (J+eG2)

321 I don't think I've ever heard the term Pommy before, I must be deficient on my insults!

*tucks away for future reference*
*ponders differentiation between pommy and limey*

Posted by: LizLem at May 22, 2017 10:58 AM (hvf9s)

322 White Castle is steamed hamburger.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2017 10:48 AM
~~~~~

Noooo! The burger is grilled and the bun is steamed if you request it.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 22, 2017 10:58 AM (HiDrR)

323 Fox Business is showing the little turds walking out on Pence's commencement speech at ND. One is wearing the fag flag draped over his back in fact it looks like a few all rainbowy. What a surprise.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 22, 2017 09:55 AM (493sH)

The total number of student's graduating at ND Sat. was 2100. About 100 students did the planned walk out, which incited boos from the audience and other grads.

A ND grad who did not walk out told Fox yesterday that this was ginned up a couple of weeks ago by an outside group of LGBTQ activists. That there was little to no discussion on campus of any problems with Pence as the commencement speaker.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 22, 2017 10:58 AM (62eBc)

324 I got a hairball, and a wad of chewing gum.

Used.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:57

Dang...I hate used hairballs.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 10:58 AM (0tfLf)

325 "Last time I won something on Ace it was a very used game of Life and a Tinfoil level membership. "

Lucky you.

I got a hairball, and a wad of chewing gum.

Used. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 10:57 AM
--

I got a rock.

Posted by: charlie brown at May 22, 2017 10:59 AM (BPeNq)

326 Share, please?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 22, 2017 10:47 AM

~~~

Coming up....

Posted by: IrishEi at May 22, 2017 10:59 AM (HiDrR)

327 LizLem,

Don't forget Toffs.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 10:59 AM (0tfLf)

328 Re: White Castle

I've been making these for a while. Don't know where the recipe came from, but they're pretty good and the kids like the novelty of cooking them inside.

1 lb ground beef
1/2 teaspoon each of - onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper
Squish, cook, and serve on little dinner rolls with carrots or whatever

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 10:59 AM (fD1ST)

329 This is where five of the world's greatest literary detectives assembled at the invitation of Lionel Twain for dinner and a murder.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2017 10:59 AM (JO9+V)

330 "and serve on little dinner rolls with carrots or whatever"

Sounds like somebody's chili recipe.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:01 AM (J+eG2)

331 291
Those stupid lemmings at Notre Dame just following the herd.

In fairness, they were probably drunk.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2017 10:40 AM (QQ+il)

...or went to Saint Mary's College...

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 10:44 AM (c6/9Q)

This story annoys the heck out of me. 75 jackhole SJWs, out of a graduating class of over 2,000 get up and act like crying winy strutting asses and get wall to wall, coast to coast positive coverage. And not only positive coverage but a narrative coverage of "see? The entire country hates Trump and his evil lackeys" variety. 75 out of 2,000. For all those playing at home, that is .0375% of the graduating class, so small as to not even represent a rounding error. For which the rest of the 99.9625% roundly booed the stupid jackasses. Understandably, as it was both rude to the Vice President (for no reason whatsoever) and also selfish and disruptive of the special day of all the grads who were more than happy to have a sitting VP at their graduation.
Some numbnuts at my graduation from law school tried the same thing - two or three ( out of 500) stood up with signs over the presence of a minor Bush ( the Elder) administration official. The 99 percent solid majority ( i.e. everyone) roundly booed the jerks and told them to "sit the hell"down and stop disrupting our graduation - if they wanted to protest they could have done it outside on the sidewalk.
Anyway - there is an alternate headline for the ND graduation story and it reads like this: "Overwhelming Majority of Notre Dame Students Boo Embarrassingly Small Number of "Anti Pence" Protesters." With a sub headline being: "support for Trump and his administration remains strong in most of the country despite nonsense, made-up "news" stories and ginned-up, astro-turf `protests' organized by LA and NYC internationalist communists"

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 11:02 AM (Fb9aZ)

332 White Castle is steamed hamburger.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2017 10:48 AM
~~~~~

Noooo! The burger is grilled and the bun is steamed if you request it.
Posted by: IrishEi

Burger is grilled. Or used to be. Had a little window in the counter where you could watch them cook them. Along with the onions.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2017 11:02 AM (utT6Q)

333 There were about 75 of them. Not much of a herd.

-
What I learned from watching NatGeo this weekend: a group of vultures is a wake of vultures.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 11:02 AM (Nwg0u)

334 And I've never had a White Castle. We've got Krystals down here, which is tasty, but I've heard good things about WC. I saw one once in Nashville but it was on the other side of a four or five lane and I was towing the camper. So nope.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 11:02 AM (fD1ST)

335 1 lb ground beef
1/2 teaspoon each of - onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper
Squish, cook, and serve on little dinner rolls with carrots or whatever

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 10:59AM

And whatever you do, keep the carrots OUT of the chili.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 11:02 AM (0tfLf)

336 It's annoying how NRO is concern trolling Trump. "Sure, all these Russian conspiracy theories are bogus, but we're concerned that the President isn't helping " and so on.

It's painful to watch. I hope Breitbart and DC and Examiner puts them out of business. I watched Morning Joe for the first time in months and it was all Very Serious Talk about Kushner meeting with Russians. That's his job, what else is he going to do, wait for his first day in the WH? It's so painfully stupid.

Posted by: bjmuggs at May 22, 2017 11:03 AM (NUlzw)

337 Sounds like somebody's chili recipe.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:01 AM (J+eG2)

It's morons all the way down.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 11:03 AM (fD1ST)

338 Er, Publius Redux, that's 3.75%. Still small, but not immeasurable.

Posted by: Sporkatus at May 22, 2017 11:04 AM (eXSOZ)

339 Not impressed with Five Guys Saturday. Good fries, though. You know, pomme-de-terre. That's Frawnsay.

Posted by: Eromero at May 22, 2017 11:05 AM (zLDYs)

340 Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 11:02 AM (Fb9aZ)

75 out of 2, 000. Might want to check your math on that. Seems you have an extra zero in there.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 11:05 AM (HTdUD)

341 I like this painting. There's something ethereal and mystical about it. And I sure as hell couldn't paint anything like it so I admire the talent of others.

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 22, 2017 11:05 AM (yTnCT)

342 Venison burger sliders. Mmm.

Posted by: Fritz at May 22, 2017 11:05 AM (2Mnv1)

343 Uh oh. The weekly burger wars are beginning again.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 11:06 AM (fD1ST)

344 And I've never had a White Castle. We've got Krystals down here, which is tasty, but I've heard good things about WC. I saw one once in Nashville but it was on the other side of a four or five lane and I was towing the camper. So nope.
--

You can get frozen ones at the grocery store that are OK.

Fresh are better.

/try the onion chips!

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 11:06 AM (BPeNq)

345 This is where five of the world's greatest literary detectives assembled at the invitation of Lionel Twain for dinner and a murder.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2017 10:59 AM (JO9+V)
--------

Murder by Death! I love that movie.

Posted by: bluebell at May 22, 2017 11:06 AM (sBOL1)

346 White Castle > Krystal

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 11:06 AM (UmSfZ)

347 >>> Don't forget Toffs.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 10:59 AM (0tfLf)

*Adds to file*

Posted by: LizLem at May 22, 2017 11:07 AM (hvf9s)

348 Awwww... I had a Lionel Twain when I was but a wee lad....

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 11:07 AM (UmSfZ)

349 BB has a photo and a story of Melania Trump holding the hand of Nechama Rivlin, Israel's First Lady, and helping her walk along their tour together as Mrs. Rivlin is frail and wears an oxygen portal.

The kindness is exemplary.

She also deferred to the Jewish tradition of men and women going to separate sections of the Western Wall to pray and visited it with the women. She did not cover her hair, as Jewish married women are required, but Ivanka did.
( I wondered why Ivanka had this little blue flat hat with netting on)

Posted by: Jen the original at May 22, 2017 11:07 AM (62eBc)

350 342
Venison burger sliders. Mmm.

Posted by: Fritz at May 22, 2017 11:05 AM (2Mnv1)

This. And moose.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2017 11:07 AM (jxbfJ)

351 "Er, Publius Redux, that's 3.75%. Still small, but not immeasurable."

Look at what percent of voting Americans voted for PDT in the election.

Yet, I am told that he is rejected and illegitimate by the press.

So 3.75% ain't shit for indicating the mood of the nation.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:07 AM (J+eG2)

352 Since we are already OT, I am going to take this moment to gush over Melania Trump and how well she has conducted herself on this trip - just lovely, classy and a total 180 from Michelle.

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2017 11:07 AM (a0IVu)

353 It's annoying how NRO is concern trolling Trump. "Sure, all these Russian conspiracy theories are bogus, but we're concerned that the President isn't helping " and so on.

Just read an article link to from Fb to a "news" site, regarding walking back the Trump/Russia talk. High level Dems are now worried because all of their Trump/Russia collusion talk has grown legs and the base has ran with it.

They are worried because they KNOW/KNEW it was bs.
Someone forgot to tell their base that. NOW the leadership is worried.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2017 11:07 AM (utT6Q)

354 "Last time I won something on Ace it was a very used game of Life and a Tinfoil level membership. "
I got a hairball, and a wad of chewing gum.
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We used to dream of having a used hairball.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 11:07 AM (C52a9)

355 Uh oh. The weekly burger wars are beginning again.

-
I relish a good war.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 11:08 AM (Nwg0u)

356 You can get frozen ones at the grocery store that are OK.

Fresh are better.

/try the onion chips!

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 11:06 AM (BPeNq)

Yeah, we're going up to Pennsylvania this summer and I'm going to keep my eyes out. Onion chips sound interesting.

Speaking of frozen, I saw frozen deep-fried Twinkies at Sam's the other day. I understood all of the words on the label, but it still didn't make any sense to me.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 11:08 AM (fD1ST)

357
I had a Lionel Twain when I was a little boy. It went round and round my twain platform.

Posted by: Barney Fwank at May 22, 2017 11:08 AM (HTdUD)

358 347 >>> Don't forget Toffs.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 10:59 AM (0tfLf)

*Adds to file*
Posted by: LizLem at May 22, 2017 11:07 AM (hvf9s)

Ponce is another good one.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 11:08 AM (0mRoj)

359 Melania's wearing white again.

Cue the fauxtrage.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:09 AM (ul9CR)

360 But, the truth is, they'll end up in an HR department.
Or as a diversity hire somewhere.

And they'll resent the shit out of ordinary people like you and me.
And they'll stock the corporation with their fellow unthinking cows.

Because, as much as we hate them, they still get to tap into the elite connections their credentials buy--because too many like us who fought tooth and nail to claw out a living STILL buy into the myth and notion that a college degree from a big name school is worth more over guy who's been doing that job for 10 years.

Why movies about the zombie apocalypse strike a nerve.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 22, 2017 11:09 AM (VdICR)

361 I have smoldering resentment re: the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Angela's Ashes at May 22, 2017 11:09 AM (bc2Lc)

362 Sliders:

2 lb. ground beef
l envelope onion soup mix
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons water
1/3 cup plain, dry bread crumbs
3/4 lb. Velveeta, cut into 1/4 inch slices
2 pkgs. slider rolls (I use Maier's potato dinner rolls)

Heat oven too 400'F. Mix meat, soup, egg, pepper, water, and bread crumbs together. Press mixture evenly onto bottom of 15 X 10 X 1 inch baking pan (jelly roll sheet). Prick meat mixture all over with fork.

Bake 10-15 minutes or to desired doneness. Drain off grease (carefully!).

Place Velveeta slices over cooked meat. Bake 1 minute longer or until cheese begins to melt. Place the tops of slider rolls onto meat and cheese, covering it entirely. Then cut out the burgers to the size of the roll tops. Lift off each burger with a spatula and place on the bottom half of the roll.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 22, 2017 11:09 AM (HiDrR)

363 "Not impressed with Five Guys Saturday. Good fries,"
Their drys are always outstanding.

Try the hot dogs too.

They are usually really good.

Even with catsup.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:09 AM (J+eG2)

364 355
Uh oh. The weekly burger wars are beginning again.

-

I relish a good war.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 11:08 AM (Nwg0u)

Trying to ketchup on the thread, what did I miss?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2017 11:09 AM (jxbfJ)

365 Uh oh. The weekly burger wars are beginning again.

-
I relish a good war.

===

I wish they could just meat in the middle.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 11:10 AM (C52a9)

366 Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 11:02 AM (Fb9aZ)

I have some excellent news for you. This is stupid story is going to be gone in 24 hours. I guarantee it. No need to waste time on it...

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 11:10 AM (c6/9Q)

367 Ponce and Juan, Onion CHiPs.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 11:10 AM (fD1ST)

368 359 Melania's wearing white again.

Cue the fauxtrage.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:09 AM (ul9CR)

She can wear whatever the hell she wants and she'll look good no matter what. The mean girls media can't stand it.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 11:10 AM (0mRoj)

369 Uh oh. The weekly burger wars are beginning again.

-
I relish a good war.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Most of us don't read every comment. We usually ketchup later.
*squirt*

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2017 11:10 AM (udajc)

370 364 355
Uh oh. The weekly burger wars are beginning again.
-
I relish a good war.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 11:08 AM (Nwg0u)

Trying to ketchup on the thread, what did I miss?

These jokes are cheesy.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:10 AM (ul9CR)

371 I've a slider recipe I think is darned good:

2lbs 80/20 ground beef*
Lowery's season salt
Black pepper
Dehydrated onion flakes
Red pepper flakes (optional)
American cheese
Potato rolls
Pickle slices

Sprinkle salt, black pepper and the onion flakes in the 9X13 pan.
Spread out the beef evenly in the pan.
Sprinkle more salt, black pepper and onion flakes on top. And red pepper if you want.
Cover with foil.
Place in pre-heated 400 degree oven 45-60 minutes (I use the meat thermometer to get to at least 170).
Remove from oven and cover with the cheese slices.
Cut into squares.
Place squares into potato rolls with 2-3 pickle slices.
Eat.

*Yes, 80/20. You want the meat sitting there floating and cooking in the fat.

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 22, 2017 11:10 AM (ZQpd0)

372 Posted by: IrishEi at May 22, 2017 11:09 AM (HiDrR)
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Thank you!

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 22, 2017 11:10 AM (vg8iE)

373 365
Uh oh. The weekly burger wars are beginning again.

-
I relish a good war.

===

Trying to ketchup on the thread, what did I miss?

I wish they could just meat in the middle.

---

The Horde is on a roll.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 11:11 AM (fD1ST)

374 "Melania's wearing white again.
Cue the fauxtrage. "

I think that's for the wedding.

And it's after Easter anyway.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:11 AM (J+eG2)

375 >>Ponce is another good one.

And popinjay!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 11:11 AM (NOIQH)

376 Posted by: IrishEi at May 22, 2017 11:09 AM (HiDrR)
Posted by: RoyalOil at May 22, 2017 11:10 AM (ZQpd0)

Thanks, and same to CBD if I didn't say so already.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 11:11 AM (fD1ST)

377 Posted by: RoyalOil at May 22, 2017 11:10 AM (ZQpd0)
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and thank you!

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 22, 2017 11:12 AM (vg8iE)

378 Trumps And Netanyahus Share: Press Hates Us, But People Love Us

Weasel Zippers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 22, 2017 11:12 AM (KlI/a)

379 I wish they could just meat in the middle.

Posted by: Mortimer

*****

Our local butcher got caught stuffing his sausages half full of sawdust but still charging full price. He claimed it had gotten too hard to make both ends meet.

Posted by: Muldoon, looking on the sunny side at May 22, 2017 11:12 AM (lHb9q)

380 The war of the ketchup aggression.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 11:12 AM (Nwg0u)

381 When Dem women wear white it means something something suffragettes.

When Repub women wear white it means WHITE POWER RACISTS!!!!!1!!eleventy!!!!1!

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:13 AM (ul9CR)

382 380 The war of the ketchup aggression.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 11:12 AM (Nwg0u)

Our chief interrogator grilled the prisoners.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 11:13 AM (0mRoj)

383 Sorry - ahem - 3.75% "protesters" and 96.25% support - a million lashes with wet noodle.

Rest of my rant remains unchanged !!!!

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 11:14 AM (Fb9aZ)

384 381 When Dem women wear white it means something something suffragettes.

When Repub women wear white it means WHITE POWER RACISTS!!!!!1!!eleventy!!!!1!

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:13 AM (ul9CR)

When Democrats wear white it usually comes with a hood.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 11:14 AM (0mRoj)

385 Bless you , Muldoon.

Mayo never run out of puns.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 11:15 AM (C52a9)

386 This whole burger thing has really mustard the punsters.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 11:16 AM (0mRoj)

387 378 Trumps And Netanyahus Share: Press Hates Us, But People Love Us

Weasel Zippers
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 22, 2017 11:12 AM (KlI/a)

NGU, is Weasel Zippers still acting up or is the site back to normal?

Posted by: Jackal at May 22, 2017 11:16 AM (wher6)

388 Our local butcher got caught stuffing his sausages
half full of sawdust but still charging full price. He claimed it had
gotten too hard to make both ends meet.

Posted by: Muldoon, looking on the sunny side at May 22, 2017 11:12 AM (lHb9q)

Oh cheese.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 11:16 AM (fD1ST)

389 Burger King's Whopper cured my female hysteria.

Posted by: Dairy Queen at May 22, 2017 11:16 AM (bc2Lc)

390 "NGU, is Weasel Zippers still acting up or is the site back to normal?"

Seems normal for the last several days now.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:17 AM (J+eG2)

391

Whoa.

Gateway pundit has a story up that Kim Dot Com was working with Seth Rich on supplying Wiki-leaks.

Ya'all need to head over there and take a look.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 11:17 AM (8XRCm)

392 Rest of my rant remains unchanged !!!!
In your school's situation, the 3/500 *is* less than a percent. Therefore, Notre Dame is approximately four times as full of fail. The science is settled.

Posted by: Sporkatus at May 22, 2017 11:17 AM (eXSOZ)

393 The war of the ketchup aggression.

Got any hot dogs?

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 11:17 AM (O2RFr)

394 I relish a good war.
==

What's the ground for their beef?

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 11:17 AM (C52a9)

395 "When Democrats wear white it usually comes with a hood."

* Clap...Clap...Clap*

well done!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:17 AM (J+eG2)

396 Gateway pundit has a story up that Kim Dot Com was working with Seth Rich on supplying Wiki-leaks.

Wish I could "trust" Gateway pundit...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 11:18 AM (O2RFr)

397 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at May 22, 2017 11:18 AM (GwIKd)

398 #384 When Democrats wear white it usually comes with a hood.

Nuh-uh, 'cause the two parties magically switched sides overnight one night in 19 something and something and the RethugliKKKans became the racist party. Wait, then I guess all the members of the parties had to have also switched...or the...no that doesn't make sense...WTF...well, the RethugliKKKans are the racists now, that's all I know. I hearded it on TV.

Posted by: The LIV's at May 22, 2017 11:18 AM (ul9CR)

399 394 I relish a good war.
==

What's the ground for their beef?
Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 11:17 AM (C52a9)

They didn't their kind round here.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 11:18 AM (0mRoj)

400 391

Whoa.

Gateway pundit has a story up that Kim Dot Com was working with Seth Rich on supplying Wiki-leaks.

Ya'all need to head over there and take a look.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 11:17 AM (8XRCm)

==================

Gateway Pundit. I'll wait to get excited.

Posted by: Jackal at May 22, 2017 11:19 AM (wher6)

401
one can flip with all these burger puns !

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 11:19 AM (c6/9Q)

402 I don't see a sniper or a kitten in the pic above

Posted by: Yo! at May 22, 2017 11:19 AM (GwIKd)

403 >>Gateway Pundit. I'll wait to get excited.

FWIW, Kim Dotcom was tweet-announcing this stuff himself over the weekend.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 11:20 AM (NOIQH)

404 373 365
Uh oh. The weekly burger wars are beginning again.

-
I relish a good war.

===

Trying to ketchup on the thread, what did I miss?

I wish they could just meat in the middle.

---

The Horde is on a roll.

But can they cut the mustard?.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 11:20 AM (0tfLf)

405 How many experience points would I get for those Jack-A-Lopes?

Posted by: Agent Cooper at May 22, 2017 11:20 AM (INRVS)

406 I saw the Turner wing at The Tate Britain, and after what seemed like 5,000 paintings, I just got tired of it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2017 10:50 AM (rF0hx)

The Indianapolis Art Museum has a large collection of Turner's drawings and a few of his etchings (all landscapes). Beautiful, beautiful work.

Posted by: troyriser at May 22, 2017 11:20 AM (Fw5cQ)

407

it is rare I see so many, so well done

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 11:21 AM (c6/9Q)

408 the two parties magically switched sides overnight one night in 19 something and something

-
And now the Donk's spirit animal is Joe McCarthy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 11:21 AM (Nwg0u)

409 "I don't see a sniper or a kitten in the pic above"

Heh..

Now smile, and wait for the flash.

Posted by: The sniper at May 22, 2017 11:21 AM (J+eG2)

410 If you want to blame Trump for the phony "controversy" surrounding him,
ask yourself - what actions could he take that would stop the liberal
feeding frenzy? Be nicer and gentler and act like "the bigger man?"
Worked great for W.
==========
From Kurt Schlicter.

Ugh.

Thanks for the reminder of just how weak W was--and how much of the current Dem feeding frenzy can be laid at his feet for being such a weakling that refused to respond when attacked.

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 22, 2017 11:21 AM (ZQpd0)

411 FWIW, Kim Dotcom was tweet-announcing this stuff himself over the weekend.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 11:20 AM (NOIQH)

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Set the Seth Rich "burglary" aside, just the fact that a DNC was the source of the Wikileaks stuff instead of Russia Russia Russia is huge.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 11:21 AM (8XRCm)

412
Gateway Pundit has the same stuff everyone else has.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 11:21 AM (HTdUD)

413 408 the two parties magically switched sides overnight one night in 19 something and something

-
And now the Donk's spirit animal is Joe McCarthy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 11:21 AM (Nwg0u)

With a dash of George Wallace.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 11:22 AM (0mRoj)

414 What's a slider?

Posted by: Yo! at May 22, 2017 11:22 AM (GwIKd)

415 403 >>Gateway Pundit. I'll wait to get excited.

FWIW, Kim Dotcom was tweet-announcing this stuff himself over the weekend.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 11:20 AM (NOIQH)

=====================

Then I'll wait till Dotcom produces something more concrete.

Posted by: Jackal at May 22, 2017 11:22 AM (wher6)

416 Yeah, we're going up to Pennsylvania this summer and I'm going to keep my eyes out. Onion chips sound interesting.

Speaking of frozen, I saw frozen deep-fried Twinkies at Sam's the other day. I understood all of the words on the label, but it still didn't make any sense to me.
Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 11:08 AM
--

So...a word of caution. If you're traveling and want to try White Castles, I'd do so when you're settled somewhere, not when you're on the road.

I absolutely adore them and have had no problems; however, they might upset your stomach, and you don't want to deal with that while driving.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 11:22 AM (BPeNq)

417 414 What's a slider?
Posted by: Yo! at May 22, 2017 11:22 AM (GwIKd)

A breaking ball pitch.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 11:23 AM (0mRoj)

418 What's a slider?
Posted by: Yo! at May 22, 2017 11:22 AM (GwIKd)

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A pitch that looks like a fastball but breaks down and in to right handed batters.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 11:23 AM (8XRCm)

419
Then I'll wait till Dotcom produces something more concrete.

Although Drudge does also have it up... I'll wait and see...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 11:23 AM (O2RFr)

420

**High fives Insomniac**

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 11:23 AM (8XRCm)

421 NGU, is Weasel Zippers still acting up or is the site back to normal?
Posted by: Jackal at May 22, 2017 11:16 AM (wher6)

It acts differently when I am on my MAC or my Windows computer...I know that pop up pops up sometimes hyjacking the site but i just click WZs again and it's fine

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 22, 2017 11:24 AM (KlI/a)

422 ...If you're traveling and want
to try White Castles, I'd do so when you're settled somewhere, not when
you're on the road.
Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 11:22 AM (BPeNq)

They're made from free range Jack-A-Lope.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at May 22, 2017 11:24 AM (INRVS)

423 420

**High fives Insomniac**
Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 11:23 AM (8XRCm)

Right on!

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 11:24 AM (0mRoj)

424 >>Then I'll wait till Dotcom produces something more concrete.

You're saying you don't trust a hacker?!
He is planning to provide something in the next few days, so we'll see soon enough...

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 11:24 AM (NOIQH)

425 410 If you want to blame Trump for the phony "controversy" surrounding him,
ask yourself - what actions could he take that would stop the liberal
feeding frenzy? Be nicer and gentler and act like "the bigger man?"
Worked great for W.
==========
From Kurt Schlicter.

Ugh.

Thanks for the reminder of just how weak W was--and how much of the current Dem feeding frenzy can be laid at his feet for being such a weakling that refused to respond when attacked.
Posted by: RoyalOil at May 22, 2017 11:21 AM (ZQpd0)

=======================

I get into this argument with may dad from time to time regarding Trump's tweets. Really, its the only way he can cut through the bs. It's imperfect, but its what he has.

Posted by: Jackal at May 22, 2017 11:24 AM (wher6)

426 414 What's a slider?

*****

It is a breaking ball pitch that trails laterally and down through the strike zone.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 11:24 AM (0tfLf)

427 "I absolutely adore them and have had no problems; however, they might upset your stomach, and you don't want to deal with that while driving. "

Don't forget to take the Poopourri

https://youtu.be/fkJy0Z2P_1k

Posted by: The sniper at May 22, 2017 11:25 AM (J+eG2)

428 what's a slider ?

Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 22, 2017 11:25 AM (c6/9Q)

429 417 414 What's a slider?
Posted by: Yo! at May 22, 2017 11:22 AM (GwIKd)

A breaking ball pitch.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 11:23 AM (0mRoj)

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never heard of it

Posted by: Phillies bullpen at May 22, 2017 11:25 AM (oGRue)

430 My guess on the Democrat "walk back" on impeachment is that they know they've given the green light to the crazies to assassinate Trump, but don't want to be held responsible.

Posted by: MAGA at May 22, 2017 11:26 AM (LQ1Q3)

431 never heard of it
Posted by: Phillies bullpen at May 22, 2017 11:25 AM (oGRue)

Heh. I should stand up for my team here but....

heh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2017 11:26 AM (AURKQ)

432 Wish I could "trust" Gateway pundit...
--

The story just shows the tweets from Kim Dotcom and Assange. And a DNC guy who is busy calling everyone a sociopath.

So it's not much of a story, just tweets.

Also... a question is why did Kim Dotcom come out now?

One answer might be that Comey was the gatekeeper, but now he is gone.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 11:26 AM (BPeNq)

433 what's a slider ?
Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 22, 2017 11:25 AM (c6/9Q)

-----

A guy that leaves you stranded on a first date by gooing to the bathroom and never comes back.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 11:26 AM (8XRCm)

434 What's a baseball?

Posted by: SEC School Alumnus at May 22, 2017 11:27 AM (fD1ST)

435 421 NGU, is Weasel Zippers still acting up or is the site back to normal?
Posted by: Jackal at May 22, 2017 11:16 AM (wher6)

It acts differently when I am on my MAC or my Windows computer...I know that pop up pops up sometimes hyjacking the site but i just click WZs again and it's fine
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 22, 2017 11:24 AM (KlI/a)

Huh, I guess I'll try it on my tablet then. I've got adblock installed, so maybe that'll work. I'll try it on my laptop at home. I have noscript installed there.

Posted by: Jackal at May 22, 2017 11:27 AM (wher6)

436
Talking about baseball. I bought my grandsons a pitching machine this past Christmas and one of them is going to his leagues all-star game this season. I'd tell you what his batting average was this season but you would not believe it. I sure didn't.

Four times higher than last year. Last year was borderline respectable. I'll let you do the math. Practice may not make perfect, but it's damn near close.

Posted by: Proud Grandfather at May 22, 2017 11:28 AM (HTdUD)

437 >>>But can they cut the mustard?<<<

Mostly, they just cut the cheese.

Posted by: Fritz at May 22, 2017 11:28 AM (2Mnv1)

438 Gateway Pundit has the same stuff everyone else has.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 11:21 AM (HTdUD)
________

Oh yea? Well, he doesn't have the horde.

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 11:28 AM (UmSfZ)

439 If you want to blame Trump for the phony "controversy" surrounding him

-
And I do. I do.

- El Jebe Bush

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 11:29 AM (Nwg0u)

440 Also... lovely story on Melania Trump at Breitbart.

She's an amazing woman, not only beautiful but compassionate.

Over at the UK express, they have a story on Melanias clothes in Saudi Arabia, and a poll RE: her purple gown.

100% of the voters loved it!

Never saw that before on a poll.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 11:29 AM (BPeNq)

441 Be off me, you sharpshooting sock

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:30 AM (J+eG2)

442 Never saw that before on a poll.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 11:29 AM (BPeNq)

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pfffft.......

Posted by: Philly voting machines turned 100% for Obama at May 22, 2017 11:31 AM (8XRCm)

443 Would love to see the California Dem Party F*ck Trump chant morphed into a Seig Heil chant.
Just for fun.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 11:31 AM (0tfLf)

444 Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 10:07 AM (NOIQH)

Again please. Who said this? Thanks.

Posted by: gracepc at May 22, 2017 11:32 AM (OU4q6)

445 My only 'concern' about FLOTUS is that her ESL (or sixth) would get her into inadvertent traps by our current MSM.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 22, 2017 11:33 AM (MIKMs)

446 Oh yea? Well, he doesn't have the horde.

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 11:28 AM (UmSfZ)

And you speak for everyone? Interesting.

I'll file that information appropriately.

*tosses note into waste-can*

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 11:33 AM (HTdUD)

447 Over at the UK express, they have a story on Melanias clothes in Saudi Arabia, and a poll RE: her purple gown.

100% of the voters loved it!

Never saw that before on a poll.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 11:29 AM (BPeNq)

Michelle Obama once wore an outfit someone on here called 'a Klingon battle suit'. It was a hideous thing yet what I most recall is the barely concealed grimaces on the faces of the fashion reporters as they tried to describe her as beautiful.

Posted by: troyriser at May 22, 2017 11:34 AM (Fw5cQ)

448 What's a slider?
Posted by: Yo! at May 22, 2017 11:22 AM (GwIKd)

A breaking ball pitch.
Posted by: Insomniac

Ahhhh. Something your ex-wife throws.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2017 11:34 AM (utT6Q)

449 443
Would love to see the California Dem Party F*ck Trump chant morphed into a Seig Heil chant.

Just for fun.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2017 11:31 AM (0tfLf)

Can we get some 4Chan "muscle" to do that for us?

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 11:34 AM (Fb9aZ)

450 >>Again please. Who said this? Thanks.

Warden here at AoSHQ: http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=368084

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 11:35 AM (NOIQH)

451 "Gateway Pundit has the same stuff everyone else has.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 11:21 AM (H"

We have the freshest of Hell

Most sites simply have fresh Hell

Gateway Pundit has day old Hell.

Of course their Hell is 55% off, so they have that going for them.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:35 AM (J+eG2)

452 Oh good, we're finally talking about dresses.

Shibumi, what purple gown? I can't find it.

Posted by: bluebell at May 22, 2017 11:35 AM (sBOL1)

453 I bought this fan at Home Depot called a Vornado. Because who *doesn't* want a fan called a Vornado? It's a vortex *and* a tornado!

Anyway, this thing kicks some serious air ass. I don't think I'll be using the high setting much. I tried it out and the next county called and asked me to turn it down.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:35 AM (ul9CR)

454 Posted by: gracepc at May 22, 2017 11:32 AM (OU4q6)

A Cob called Warden. The post was several months ago and I don't have a link, although Lizzy might if she sees this.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 22, 2017 11:35 AM (sEDyY)

455 Freddy's isn't bad, but not $20 good for two people. $15 yes.
I feel the same way about 5 Guys and Smash Burger.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 22, 2017 11:36 AM (m3iiU)

456 445 My only 'concern' about FLOTUS is that her ESL (or sixth) would get her into inadvertent traps by our current MSM.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 22, 2017 11:33 AM (MIKMs)

I love how angry that has to make them. How many other first ladies were even bilingual?

Posted by: SEC School Alumnus at May 22, 2017 11:36 AM (fD1ST)

457 Darned sock.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 11:36 AM (fD1ST)

458 Well gee Liz, this could get interesting.

http://www.weaselzippers.us/?p=339996

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:37 AM (J+eG2)

459 >>>175
@161

Well I was thinking of Pete Milton, fry cook at IHOP. His second job is art critic for the local thrifty nickel.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 22, 2017 10:11 AM (WvEqp)

heh

Posted by: m at May 22, 2017 11:37 AM (VgThI)

460 >>...yet what I most recall is the barely concealed grimaces on the faces of
the fashion reporters as they tried to describe her as beautiful.

They constantly referred to her as a "fashion icon" yet no one followed her style; she created no trends, no trademark look.

Icon status: Failed!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 11:37 AM (NOIQH)

461 Red Power!

Posted by: Fauxcahontas at May 22, 2017 11:37 AM (ul9CR)

462 I love how angry that has to make them. How many other first ladies were even bilingual?

Posted by: SEC School Alumnus

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis perhaps.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 11:38 AM (HTdUD)

463 What's a slider?
Posted by: Yo!

3 oz of ground beef and 1lbs of bread.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2017 11:38 AM (udajc)

464 "How many other first ladies were even bilingual? "

Barky does Greek.

Does that count?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:39 AM (J+eG2)

465 Hillary spoke Drunkenese.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:39 AM (ul9CR)

466 I love how angry that has to make them. How many other first ladies were even bilingual?
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Moochie's tongue was forked. Does that count?

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 11:39 AM (C52a9)

467 I love how angry that has to make them. How many other first ladies were even bilingual?

Posted by: SEC School Alumnus at May 22, 2017 11:36 AM (fD1ST)

Too lazy to look it up but think Eleanor Roosevelt spoke three foreign languages--she had a flair for languages. Laura Bush speaks Spanish. Jackie Kennedy spoke French.

Posted by: troyriser at May 22, 2017 11:39 AM (Fw5cQ)

468 462 I love how angry that has to make them. How many other first ladies were even bilingual?

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Michelle spoke with forked tongue, does that count?

Posted by: Phillies bullpen at May 22, 2017 11:40 AM (oGRue)

469 Obama is ...

oh wait you said bilingual.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 22, 2017 11:40 AM (VdICR)

470 "How many other first ladies were even bilingual? "

Barky does Greek.

Does that count?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:39 AM (J+eG2)

Probably, and for the same reasons they somehow got southern accents living in Hawaii and Chicago.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 11:40 AM (fD1ST)

471 danggit

Posted by: Phillies bullpen at May 22, 2017 11:40 AM (oGRue)

472 ... or, rather, another grip-grabbing method to squeeze a few cents of profit in a horrid legal-economic situation.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2017 11:41 AM (udajc)

473 Barbara Bush speaks jive

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 22, 2017 11:41 AM (oGRue)

474
How many other first ladies were even bilingual?

Posted by: SEC School Alumnus at May 22, 2017 11:36 AM (fD1ST)

Oh, you'd be surprised to hear.

Posted by: HRC at May 22, 2017 11:41 AM (O4CF7)

475 i just noticed lon chaney jr. walking on that bridge. probably off to meet the queen.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 22, 2017 11:41 AM (KP5rU)

476 456 445 My only 'concern' about FLOTUS is that her ESL (or sixth) would get her into inadvertent traps by our current MSM.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 22, 2017 11:33 AM (MIKMs)

I love how angry that has to make them. How many other first ladies were even bilingual?
Posted by: SEC School Alumnus at May 22, 2017 11:36 AM (fD1ST)

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In the first hundred years? Probably a few.

In the last hundred years? Probably not many (I'd expect Laura Bush to have some level of proficiency in Spanish, but that's a guess.)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 11:42 AM (viSzi)

477 Wonderfully moody image, but yeah, it has an unfinished feel to it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2017 11:42 AM (39g3+)

478 470 "How many other first ladies were even bilingual? "

Barky does Greek.

Does that count?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:39 AM (J+eG2)

Probably, and for the same reasons they somehow got southern accents living in Hawaii and Chicago.
Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 11:40 AM (fD1ST)

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I thought Barky spoke Austrian.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 11:42 AM (viSzi)

479 Can we cut it out with the half-baked burger buns?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 22, 2017 11:43 AM (oGRue)

480 Hopefully the castle has a ghost. Be a right shame to have a spooky-looking castle, and it be ghostless.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2017 11:43 AM (0deF2)

481 mooch spoke klingon. went with her toned arms and huge penis.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 22, 2017 11:43 AM (KP5rU)

482 414 What's a slider?

Posted by: Yo! at May 22, 2017 11:22 AM (GwIKd)

A traveler who uses a wormhole to "slide" between different parallel universes.

Posted by: Big McLargehuge Mk I at May 22, 2017 11:43 AM (u9OP6)

483 Abigail Adams spoke Fronch.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:43 AM (ul9CR)

484 There's something on the bridge! There's ... some ... THING... on the bridge.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 11:44 AM (C52a9)

485 Does Klingon count?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 11:44 AM (J+eG2)

486 People magazine cover with the Obama's "Their Lives Now".

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2017 11:45 AM (rmVvL)

487 "Moochie's tongue was forked. Does that count?"

"Hell I never lied to yo cracka ass, I tole you I hate you right up front!"
-Michelle Obama

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2017 11:46 AM (39g3+)

488 I like the painting choice, CBD. For many reasons but mainly I guess there is no where on earth today you'd find such a scene.

Also, the former MOTUS spoke Angrese. Always had an angry accent.

Posted by: fly gal at May 22, 2017 11:47 AM (8TdcF)

489
Are we counting ebonics as a foreign language?

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 11:47 AM (HTdUD)

490 >>>What's a slider?

Ask Al Roker.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 22, 2017 11:48 AM (JTTMp)

491 483 Abigail Adams spoke Fronch.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:43 AM (ul9CR)

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I'd expect Quincy Adams' wife to speak a couple. She was living in the diplomatic circles of England when they met.

It was common for well off people to at least learn French, so I'd expect most of the first ladies to have some working knowledge of it.

Rachel Jackson would be an exception.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 11:48 AM (viSzi)

492 wonder how bo is doing? where's peta in this bullshit freakshow? assholes should be in jail for what they did to those dogs. vile pieces of shit!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 22, 2017 11:49 AM (KP5rU)

493 I speak the language of my people. The prairie people. The proud people of the Plains. As a young squaw, I fondly remember the singsong lilt of the Cherokee as we gathered 'round the teepee for some pow-wow chow. Afterwards we'd chant for the Great Spirit to bring us more prairie crabs.

How did we build teepees on the Plains with no trees? And where did we get crabs hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean? Stop asking questions, racist.

Posted by: Fauxcahontas at May 22, 2017 11:49 AM (ul9CR)

494 Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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And Dolly?

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 11:49 AM (C52a9)

495 493 I speak the language of my people. The prairie people. The proud people of the Plains. As a young squaw, I fondly remember the singsong lilt of the Cherokee as we gathered 'round the teepee for some pow-wow chow. Afterwards we'd chant for the Great Spirit to bring us more prairie crabs.

How did we build teepees on the Plains with no trees? And where did we get crabs hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean? Stop asking questions, racist.
Posted by: Fauxcahontas at May 22, 2017 11:49 AM (ul9CR)

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There's a Russian under your bed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 11:49 AM (viSzi)

496 494 Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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And Dolly?
Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 11:49 AM (C52a9)

================

She was a rich broad, so I'd expect so.

Now, TheDolleyMadison has no ability with languages. She's dyslexic and can barely get by with English.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 11:50 AM (viSzi)

497 Moochie's tongue was forked. Does that count?

-
Ah, parseltongue.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 11:50 AM (Nwg0u)

498 do dead tongues count ?

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 11:53 AM (c6/9Q)

499 Ah, parseltongue.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Hillary's native language.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2017 11:53 AM (utT6Q)

500 Dark. Moody. Lots of places to hide.

This ticks a lot of boxes for me.

Posted by: The Cockroach at May 22, 2017 11:54 AM (s8v1a)

501 Past 500? This is one pickle of a thread.

Posted by: Fritz at May 22, 2017 11:55 AM (2Mnv1)

502 @414 "Whats a slider"- my college roomie would toast weed in a frying pan, grind it to a powder using a motar and pestle, coat it with honey and chow down on it.

He called that thing a "slider".

Posted by: The Walking Dude at May 22, 2017 11:55 AM (ARzf8)

503 So i did some math yesterday and figured out my 401K has earned an average return of about 7.8% annually and was a bit disappointed.

Then i figured the Dow over that last 27 years had only gone up by 5% annually (ignoring dividends)

5/1990 5,445
5/2017 21,000

didn't realize it was that bad, then again the market took 14 years off (1999-2013)

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 22, 2017 11:55 AM (oGRue)

504 Can someone pass me the IQ pills? I just perused Chelsea's Twitter and I seem to have lost a few points.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:55 AM (ul9CR)

505 493
I speak the language of my people. The prairie people. The proud
people of the Plains. As a young squaw, I fondly remember the singsong
lilt of the Cherokee as we gathered 'round the teepee for some pow-wow
chow. Afterwards we'd chant for the Great Spirit to bring us more
prairie crabs.

How did we build teepees on the Plains with no trees? And where did
we get crabs hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean? Stop asking
questions, racist.

Posted by: Fauxcahontas at May 22, 2017 11:49 AM (ul9CR)
***
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
by the shining Bright-Sea-Water, stood the wigwam of Lizzie-aDaughter of a loon

Posted by: Publius "I'd Like to Show You My Longfellow" Redux at May 22, 2017 11:56 AM (Fb9aZ)

506 Okay, shibumi, I finally found the purple gown. It's very pretty.

Sadly, I had to wander past Cher's Billboard Music Awards outfit to get there. Aye aye aye.

Posted by: bluebell at May 22, 2017 11:57 AM (sBOL1)

507 Can someone pass me the IQ pills? I just perused Chelsea's Twitter and I seem to have lost a few points.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:55 AM (ul9CR)

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You deserve your reduction by going there in the first place.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 11:57 AM (8XRCm)

508 Pics of PDT and the FLOTUS at the Western Wall over at Zip's Place:

http://www.weaselzippers.us/

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 10:07 AM (ul9CR)

Respectful. Nice. The Wall is so fortunate to have never been defiled by Obama.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2017 11:57 AM (0deF2)

509 507 Can someone pass me the IQ pills? I just perused Chelsea's Twitter and I seem to have lost a few points.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:55 AM (ul9CR)

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You deserve your reduction by going there in the first place.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 11:57 AM (8XRCm)

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Tough, but fair.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 11:57 AM (viSzi)

510 Can someone pass me the IQ pills? I just perused Chelsea's Twitter and I seem to have lost a few points.
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What award did she win today?

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 11:57 AM (C52a9)

511
People magazine cover with the Obama's "Their Lives Now".

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eyes rolling

I'm sure there's plenty of "Michelle is so beautiful," "Barack is so intelligent and wonderful," "they're just like us, but perfect," and of course, "this is all for you Barack" as the staff of People collectively jumps out the window and kills themselves.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 11:58 AM (BPeNq)

512 510 Can someone pass me the IQ pills? I just perused Chelsea's Twitter and I seem to have lost a few points.
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What award did she win today?
Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 11:57 AM (C52a9)

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Leading light of the 22nd century.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 11:58 AM (viSzi)

513 Respectful. Nice. The Wall is so fortunate to have never been defiled by Obama.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Not really. He went there as candidate 0bama in 08.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 11:58 AM (HTdUD)

514 I'm hungry, and need a snack. Who will step up?

Posted by: The Barrel at May 22, 2017 11:59 AM (DMUuz)

515 Past 500? This is one pickle of a thread.
Posted by: Fritz at May 22, 2017 11:55 AM (2Mnv1)

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So.... you want it dill-eted??

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 11:59 AM (8XRCm)

516 If Fauxchohauntus wants to prove she's Injun all she has to do is take one of those DNA tests. My Daughter did that and found out that the story My husband said about being Cherokee was 100% wrong. No Injun at all...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 11:59 AM (O2RFr)

517 Can someone pass me the IQ pills? I just perused Chelsea's Twitter and I seem to have lost a few points.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 11:55 AM (ul9CR)

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You may feel strange urges for social justice and central control.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 22, 2017 11:59 AM (oGRue)

518 Respectful. Nice. The Wall is so fortunate to have never been defiled by Obama.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2017 11:57 AM (0deF2)

Well.... Holy Ground and all.... would have been hard to hide him dancing around like his feet were on fire....

Posted by: Don Q. at May 22, 2017 12:00 PM (NgKpN)

519 Governing well is the best revenge.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 22, 2017 12:00 PM (+7/1f)

520 510 Can someone pass me the IQ pills? I just perused Chelsea's Twitter and I seem to have lost a few points.
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What award did she win today?
Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 11:57 AM (C52a9)

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2017 no adult left ahead
2018 Commonism Core

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 22, 2017 12:01 PM (oGRue)

521 People magazine cover with the Obama's "Their Lives Now".

Saw an article in British paper with them in Italy Vacaying....Mooch had a ghastly outfit on which they raved about... Nothing has changed at all...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 12:01 PM (O2RFr)

522 bluebell:

More pretty Melania fashion pics here: http://tinyurl.com/k3w7lue

Melania has an exotic Christie Brinkely vibe to me.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 12:01 PM (BPeNq)

523 You may feel strange urges for social justice and central control.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 22, 2017 11:59 AM (oGRue)

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Those two are.... I like to point out to my liberal friends.....are totally incompatible.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 12:01 PM (8XRCm)

524 Re:bonics

One of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV was on adult swim years ago. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Shake (the smart one) tells meatwad (the dumb one) : "Meatwad, tell him no. "

Meatwad :" Sheeee "

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:02 PM (fD1ST)

525 So.... you want it dill-eted??
Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 11:59 AM (8XRCm)

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look, we have a Gerk in the comments.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 22, 2017 12:02 PM (oGRue)

526 So are we to believe that Trump calling someone a nut job in a private conversation in the WH is totally unprecedented?

It's surprising that Trump's conversations can be leaked out after days but not even one of hundreds of conversations Obama had with Lois Lerner ever made the light of day.

Posted by: MAGA at May 22, 2017 12:03 PM (LQ1Q3)

527 One of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV was on adult swim years ago. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Shake (the smart one) tells meatwad (the dumb one) : "Meatwad, tell him no. "

Meatwad :" Sheeee "

I always loved the Mooninite episodes the best. The little smart-assed one with the high voice just killed me.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 12:04 PM (ul9CR)

528 I guess this might be considered art

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/jeff-koons-tom-powel-imaging-2.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:04 PM (CDxfo)

529 So Flynn is pleading the fifth.

Tick...tick...tick...

Posted by: Bill Wynn at May 22, 2017 12:04 PM (gWJfP)

530 529 So Flynn is pleading the fifth.

Tick...tick...tick...

So Lois Lerner plead the fifth.

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 12:05 PM (O2RFr)

531 More pretty Melania fashion pics here: http://tinyurl.com/k3w7lue

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Purple reign, purple reign.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 12:06 PM (Nwg0u)

532

Posted by: Susan Rice at May 22, 2017 12:06 PM (C52a9)

533 I love when professional trolls make their daily talking points so obvious.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 22, 2017 12:06 PM (ul9CR)

534 Trump & Co must have a plan for dealing with leakers.

MSM now acts like leaking classified information is a Constitutional right and even duty, because the First Amendment makes them special.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 22, 2017 12:07 PM (+7/1f)

535 If Fauxchohauntus wants to prove she's Injun all she
has to do is take one of those DNA tests. My Daughter did that and
found out that the story My husband said about being Cherokee was 100%
wrong. No Injun at all...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 11:59 AM (O2RFr)

Do you have a little Injun in you? Would you like some?

Posted by: John Redcorn at May 22, 2017 12:07 PM (JO9+V)

536 >>>>529 So Flynn is pleading the fifth.

Tick...tick...tick...

So Lois Lerner plead the fifth.
.
.
.He needs to do what she did. Appear at the hearing read a political statement and then invoke his 5th right.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 22, 2017 12:07 PM (le7jz)

537 529 So Flynn is pleading the fifth.

Tick...tick...tick...

Posted by: Bill Wynn at May 22, 2017 12:04 PM (gWJfP

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Just like Lois Lerner?

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:07 PM (fD1ST)

538 Posted by: Bill Wynn

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Early night.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 22, 2017 12:07 PM (C52a9)

539 >>So Flynn is pleading the fifth.

Tick...tick...tick...

Hey, your side set the rules. Flynn's just following 'em!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 12:07 PM (NOIQH)

540 So Flynn is pleading the fifth.

Tick...tick...tick...
Posted by: Bill Wynn at May 22, 2017 12:04 PM (gWJfP)

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sssssso wudddd........ I bleed a fifth every mornig......

*Hic* slip...shart...flies....shart again...lands thud....shoe flies....passes out.

Posted by: HILLARY!! at May 22, 2017 12:08 PM (8XRCm)

541 537 529 So Flynn is pleading the fifth.

Tick...tick...tick...

Posted by: Bill Wynn at May 22, 2017 12:04 PM (gWJfP

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Just like Lois Lerner?

Maybe Flynn will get a promotion too...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 12:08 PM (O2RFr)

542 To highlight how beautiful and classy the First Lady's wardrobe is...

Apparently being a fashion disaster was a requirement this year at the Billboard Music Awards. *thud*

http://preview.tinyurl.com/m4memud

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:08 PM (CDxfo)

543 Maybe Flynn will testify after Susan Rice agrees to?

Oh, wait...she's refused.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 12:09 PM (NOIQH)

544 Don't you know it's against the law to hunt on reservation land?
Well the deer didn't know where he was, and I wasn't sure either.

Posted by: Roscoe at May 22, 2017 12:09 PM (QxMUy)

545 Didn't the guy that maintained non-President Hillarys server plead the 5th 100+ times?

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:09 PM (fD1ST)

546 Dang, I was hoping this morning's art would be this excellent rendering:

(remove the spaces)

https://twitter.com/neontaster /status/ 865652013912039424

Posted by: Country Singer at May 22, 2017 12:09 PM (uiwCw)

547 Apparently being a fashion disaster was a requirement this year at the Billboard Music Awards. *thud*

You should have seen the get up Mooch was wearing at her Vacay in Italy...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 12:09 PM (O2RFr)

548 Build their own fighter jet

Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 10:38 AM (7HtZB)

It's not like we didn't try.

Posted by: zombie Avro Arrow at May 22, 2017 12:10 PM (0deF2)

549 233 Mike Flynn will not cooperate with Congressional committee
Lawyered up and will protect his Don
Posted by: Him

Hi, Hecturd~!

Maybe you should break out your Super Conan Mega-Ultra Detective Kit and expose the crime, Tuffskin Kin.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2017 12:10 PM (udajc)

550 Good morning, or afternoon as it may be east of me.

Later than usual to the games today. Have I missed anything important?

*Feels the gravity-attraction of the Morning Report not yet read...*

Posted by: mindful webworker - sexagenerian privilege! at May 22, 2017 12:11 PM (rj3Mq)

551 Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 11:35 AM (NOIQH) thx.

Posted by: gracepc at May 22, 2017 12:11 PM (OU4q6)

552 There are some things I refuse to find or look at, one of them being Michelle in her latest Venetian shower curtain

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:12 PM (CDxfo)

553 >>Apparently being a fashion disaster was a requirement this year at the Billboard Music Awards. *thud*

Wow, Miley Cyrus got all the good looks genes in that family, and that's bad...

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 12:12 PM (NOIQH)

554 100% wrong. No Injun at all...
Well, maybe. The trouble with the test is that it gives you your recognizable genetic makeup, which is *not* the same thing as your ancestry. To show trace ancestry, the gene markers have to have passed through multiple cycles of meiosis in which the genes were pared down. If an ancestor started off with three markers, two copies each (perfect 100% injun), each time their descendants reproduced with whitey, there was a 50% chance of a marker being passed on - much less if the markers were on the same chromosome. Their kids had one copy of each, their grandkids would be down to 87.5% chance max of *at least one* marker but as little as 12.5% to have all three, and the odds go down every generation.

It's entirely possible 5-6 generations out to have no markers at all, even likely. Plus which, some markers get tagged as *asian* markers in preference to red man.

Posted by: Sporkatus at May 22, 2017 12:13 PM (eXSOZ)

555 Trump & Co must have a plan for dealing with leakers.

MSM now acts like leaking classified information is a Constitutional right and even duty, because the First Amendment makes them special.
Posted by: Ignoramus

Would love to see some members of the MSM go to prison for 5 years for leaking classified material. No intent necessary.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2017 12:13 PM (utT6Q)

556 233 Mike Flynn will not cooperate with Congressional committee

Lawyered up and will protect his Don

Posted by: Him

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How many billions in urban poor representation do taxpayers fund every year?

Are they not cooperating with the courts when they use the lawyers we pay for?

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:14 PM (fD1ST)

557 If Fauxchohauntus wants to prove she's Injun all she has to do is take one of those DNA tests. My Daughter did that and found out that the story My husband said about being Cherokee was 100% wrong. No Injun at all...
Posted by: It's Me donna

Being a Native American is like in Avatar. It is above all a state of mind. I am Navii. I am Iriquois.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at May 22, 2017 12:14 PM (vRcUp)

558 Yeah Miley's sister... being Chelsea Clinton plain is charitable.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:14 PM (CDxfo)

559 Posted by: Bill Wynn
I remember when fucktard here was pretending to be conservative in a vague way. Those were the days.

Posted by: Sporkatus at May 22, 2017 12:14 PM (eXSOZ)

560 The Dems must be panicking.. They've dragged out the big guns... Billy Bush of pussy grabbing fame...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 12:15 PM (O2RFr)

561 Flynn pleading the Fifth? Thank God there is at least one person that understands the special counsel is not there exonerate or get at the truth but to put people in jail.

Posted by: MAGA at May 22, 2017 12:15 PM (LQ1Q3)

562 Flynn pleading the 5th is good news.

It's when everyone cooperates that people go down for nonsense like "not fully disclosing" and it has nothing to do with the "crime" at all.

It's funny watching Dershowitz destroy these talking heads basically saying even if Trump did everything that's alleged, there is no law against any of it.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:15 PM (zu/Gn)

563 557 If Fauxchohauntus wants to prove she's Injun all she has to do is take one of those DNA tests. My Daughter did that and found out that the story My husband said about being Cherokee was 100% wrong. No Injun at all...
Posted by: It's Me donna

Being a Native American is like in Avatar. It is above all a state of mind. I am Navii. I am Iriquois.
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at May 22, 2017 12:14 PM (vRcUp)

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It's been a long time since I've seen Avatar, but I think that my biggest problem with it from a structural/narrative space was the literal connection the Navii had with the planet. It killed any ambiguity and made the humans 100% wrong in every way. It's a storytelling device designed for children.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:16 PM (viSzi)

564 Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 22, 2017 11:35 AM (sEDyY)

Lizzy provided link. Thanks for info.

Posted by: gracepc at May 22, 2017 12:17 PM (OU4q6)

565 To highlight how beautiful and classy the First Lady's wardrobe is...

Apparently being a fashion disaster was a requirement this year at the Billboard Music Awards. *thud*
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So even young women with smoking hot bodies can make themselves look horrifically ugly in expensive clothes.

/yeah, I probably knew this.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 12:18 PM (BPeNq)

566 Posted by: Bill Wynn at May 22, 2017 12:04 PM (gWJfP)

Posted by: @votermom's phone at December 06, 2016 03:36 PM (gWJfP)

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2017 12:18 PM (udajc)

567 530
529 So Flynn is pleading the fifth.

Tick...tick...tick...

So Lois Lerner plead the fifth.

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 12:05 PM (O2RFr)

****
So? Hillary drank the fifth!

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 12:18 PM (Fb9aZ)

568 Nah, Hillary drank a Firth of Whiskey every day.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:19 PM (CDxfo)

569 560
The Dems must be panicking.. They've dragged out the big guns... Billy Bush of pussy grabbing fame...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 12:15 PM (O2RFr)

When the Bush's go away, then I'll clap.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2017 12:19 PM (jxbfJ)

570 I'd take the bet that Trump has told Flynn that if he's convicted on a trumped-up charge, that he'll pardon him.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 22, 2017 12:20 PM (+7/1f)

571 When the Bush's go away, then I'll clap.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2017 12:19 PM (jxbfJ)

If the clap goes away, then I'll bush.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 22, 2017 12:20 PM (7HtZB)

572 Shibumi, yeah. And it seems they all got the same message from their fashion designers. Talk about Group Think.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:20 PM (CDxfo)

573 573!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:20 PM (c6/9Q)

574 Chelsea Clinton is plain? What a charitable thing to say.

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 22, 2017 12:20 PM (394Mh)

575 >>Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 11:35 AM (NOIQH) thx.

Posted by: gracepc

It's a keeper, eh?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 12:21 PM (NOIQH)

576
nevermind me.... just changing socks now before I forget.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 12:22 PM (8XRCm)

577 It's been a long time since I've seen Avatar, but I
think that my biggest problem with it from a structural/narrative space
was the literal connection the Navii had with the planet. It killed any
ambiguity and made the humans 100% wrong in every way. It's a
storytelling device designed for children.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

More noble savage BS. Who was sleeping in the trees fighting off insects and who was building inter-planetary space ships and space colonies? Which group would you rather be part of, besides for more than a few days of adventure vacation?

Posted by: Ripley at May 22, 2017 12:22 PM (1BQGO)

578 Bill Wynn is a disorder

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:22 PM (c6/9Q)

579 I just watched the full 25 minute or so video of Trump arriving in Israel. I like when you can hear them all talking to each other.

Netanyahu (on where to stand): "I don't know what the protocol is. They tell us what to do, but we always mess it up. "

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 22, 2017 12:23 PM (vg8iE)

580 example : " you stutter like you have a Bill Wynn"

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:23 PM (c6/9Q)

581 Disabled people get lawyered up to get SSDI, right?

How about workers comp injured?

Could you imagine going before Congress without an attorney?

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:23 PM (fD1ST)

582 Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:16 PM (viSzi)

From a scientific viewpoint, should they have been blue? Must not had theory of evolution on that planet.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 12:23 PM (Vnlws)

583 It's been a long time since I've seen Avatar, but I think that my biggest problem with it from a structural/narrative space was the literal connection the Navii had with the planet. It killed any ambiguity and made the humans 100% wrong in every way. It's a storytelling device designed for children.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

When I plug my hair into a horse, it's like SEX only better!

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at May 22, 2017 12:23 PM (vRcUp)

584 574
Chelsea Clinton is plain? What a charitable thing to say.

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 22, 2017 12:20 PM (394Mh)

Well I'm sure our mothers always told us "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all".

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2017 12:24 PM (jxbfJ)

585 I actually heard some Democrat congressman say on CNN this morning that , on this trip, Trump is proving that he is way over his head when it comes to foreign policy.
I'm not kidding.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2017 12:24 PM (7uYFy)

586 Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2017 12:18 PM (udajc)
Hash repeats do occur, and cell IP addresses change constantly. I think this may mean that BILL is in votermom's general area, though. She may be able to hunt him down and put him out of his misery.

Posted by: Sporkatus at May 22, 2017 12:25 PM (eXSOZ)

587 563
557 If Fauxchohauntus wants to prove she's Injun all she has to do is
take one of those DNA tests. My Daughter did that and found out that the
story My husband said about being Cherokee was 100% wrong. No Injun at
all...

Posted by: It's Me donna

Being a Native American is like in Avatar. It is above all a state of mind. I am Navii. I am Iriquois.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at May 22, 2017 12:14 PM (vRcUp)

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It's been a long time since I've seen Avatar, but I think that my
biggest problem with it from a structural/narrative space was the
literal connection the Navii had with the planet. It killed any
ambiguity and made the humans 100% wrong in every way. It's a
storytelling device designed for children.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:16 PM (viSzi)

****
Hated, hated HATED that f*cking movie and the stupid Navii. thank god I only saw it for free on TV at a hotel I was staying at. I cheered like hell when the military guys took down that stupid fucking tree. What absolutely retarded piece of crap. Here is the "honest trailer":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUTtt14G31c

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 12:25 PM (Fb9aZ)

588 "better take Rocephin before that Bill Wynn spreads"

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:25 PM (c6/9Q)

589 My Bill Wynn was a double flusher.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 22, 2017 12:25 PM (BC5E+)

590 Bibi's wife is so pretty. She reminds me of someone, but I can't think who at the moment. She seems like a very down-to-earth, nice person - and a good hostess.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 22, 2017 12:25 PM (vg8iE)

591 577 More noble savage BS. Who was sleeping in the trees fighting off insects and who was building inter-planetary space ships and space colonies? Which group would you rather be part of, besides for more than a few days of adventure vacation?
Posted by: Ripley at May 22, 2017 12:22 PM (1BQGO)

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I'd fully expect a highly idealized view of native culture, but that connection just threw any semblance of trade offs out the window. It's too easy, especially for something that seems to think that it's telling hard truths.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:25 PM (viSzi)

592 Or Bill Wynn is stalking Voter Mom.

Then who is phone?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:26 PM (CDxfo)

593 I just took a Bill Wynn

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 12:26 PM (O2RFr)

594 583
When I plug my hair into a horse, it's like SEX only better!

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at May 22, 2017 12:23 PM (vRcUp)

Call me.

Posted by: Anthony Weiner's Weiner at May 22, 2017 12:26 PM (jxbfJ)

595 "don't step into that Bill Wynn"

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:26 PM (c6/9Q)

596 587 Hated, hated HATED that f*cking movie and the stupid Navii. thank god I only saw it for free on TV at a hotel I was staying at. I cheered like hell when the military guys took down that stupid fucking tree. What absolutely retarded piece of crap. Here is the "honest trailer":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUTtt14G31c
Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 12:25 PM (Fb9aZ)

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I bought it because the Blu ray looks and sounds fucking fantastic.

Haven't watched it since I bought it (about five years ago), though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:27 PM (viSzi)

597 585
I actually heard some Democrat congressman say on CNN this morning that
, on this trip, Trump is proving that he is way over his head when it
comes to foreign policy.

I'm not kidding.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2017 12:24 PM (7uYFy)

What, did Melania bro-hug the Queen or something?

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:27 PM (fD1ST)

598 I have never seen Avatard and I plan on never seeing it. Nor the upcoming sequels that have besotted James Cameron.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:27 PM (CDxfo)

599
" you should get tested for Bill Wynn"

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:27 PM (c6/9Q)

600 People magazine cover with the Obama's "Their Lives Now".

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2017 11:45 AM (rmVvL)

Many LIVs source of "news" and magazines like that are pure propaganda for them

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 22, 2017 12:28 PM (493sH)

601 Chelsea Clinton is plain? What a charitable thing to say.

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 22, 2017 12:20 PM (394Mh)

Don't forget:

This is AFTER tens of thousands of dollars of plastic surgery.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:28 PM (fD1ST)

602 598 I have never seen Avatard and I plan on never seeing it. Nor the upcoming sequels that have besotted James Cameron.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:27 PM (CDxfo)

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For all the narrative problems with the movie (which are legion), James Cameron can still put together an awesome action sequence. The last 45 minutes of that movie, taken independently of the rest, is a sight to behold.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:28 PM (viSzi)

603
600 People magazine cover with the Obama's "Their Lives Now".

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2017 11:45 AM (rmVvL)
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I hope it mirrors that of Erin Moran.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 22, 2017 12:29 PM (vg8iE)

604 Anyone hear anything about a new name for FBI job? I've been thinking for a while it would be a sitting federal Judge.

Posted by: Czar Peter at May 22, 2017 12:29 PM (bjy0I)

605 "that dog has a Bill Wynn, need to put him down"

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:29 PM (c6/9Q)

606 600 People magazine cover with the Obama's "Their Lives Now".

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2017 11:45 AM (rmVvL)

One vacay after another... What ever happened to their Daughters?

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 12:29 PM (O2RFr)

607 I definitely believe the "fake Indian" scandal with Elizabeth Warren gaming affirmative action is one of those little moments that voters will never forgive.

I REALLY REALLY hope she is the Dem nominee, Trump could start speaking with a Russian accent and he would be reelected.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:29 PM (zu/Gn)

608 604 Anyone hear anything about a new name for FBI job? I've been thinking for a while it would be a sitting federal Judge.
Posted by: Czar Peter at May 22, 2017 12:29 PM (bjy0I)

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We're going to get another Rex Tillerson.

A name out of nowhere that no one expected.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:29 PM (viSzi)

609 607 I definitely believe the "fake Indian" scandal with Elizabeth Warren gaming affirmative action is one of those little moments that voters will never forgive.

I REALLY REALLY hope she is the Dem nominee, Trump could start speaking with a Russian accent and he would be reelected.
Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:29 PM (zu/Gn)

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Never forget: She ran 5 points behind Obama, while on the same ballot, in freaking Massachusetts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:30 PM (viSzi)

610 Aliens will always be James Cameron's best movie.

T2 is a very close second.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:30 PM (zu/Gn)

611 They've dragged out the big guns... Billy Bush of pussy grabbing fame...

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can we also render that as Billy Pussy of bush grabbing fame?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 22, 2017 12:30 PM (oGRue)

612 I have never seen Avatard and I plan on never seeing it. Nor the upcoming sequels that have besotted James Cameron.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:27 PM (CDxfo)

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If you've seen Fern Gully..... you've seen Avatar.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 12:31 PM (8XRCm)

613 Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:28 PM (fD1ST)

And a professional stylist.

I would have happily never commented about her again, if she weren't such a busy-body scold.

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 22, 2017 12:31 PM (394Mh)

614 610 Aliens will always be James Cameron's best movie.

T2 is a very close second.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:30 PM (zu/Gn)
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Yep.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 22, 2017 12:31 PM (vg8iE)

615 TheJamesMadison, if I want visual effects that are mind blowing I have 2001: A Space Odyssey to fall back on.

I had friends try to get me to see the movie just because the 'effects are stupendous.' Did not work.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:31 PM (CDxfo)

616 Aliens will always be James Cameron's best movie.

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Speaking of which..... "Covenant" looks interesting.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 12:31 PM (8XRCm)

617 610 Aliens will always be James Cameron's best movie.

T2 is a very close second.
Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:30 PM (zu/Gn)

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True Lies?!?!?!?!

No, Aliens is better.

Some people hold up The Abyss, but I've just never really been able to get into it. Serious James Cameron isn't nearly as good as fun James Cameron. I think fun James Cameron is dead, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:31 PM (viSzi)

618 603-

We're not that lucky.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 22, 2017 12:32 PM (BC5E+)

619 Speaking of which..... "Covenant" looks interesting.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 12:31 PM (8XRCm)
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Haven't seen it but the reviews on IMDB are scathing.

Doesn't surprise me though.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 22, 2017 12:32 PM (vg8iE)

620 Disabled people get lawyered up to get SSDI, right?

How about workers comp injured?

Could you imagine going before Congress without an attorney?
--

This is how it goes now:

1. Get laid off
2. Collect Unemployment
3. When unemployment runs out, apply for SSDI for "bipolar" or "back injury"
4. SSDI is refused
5. Lawyer up
6. Get SSDI for life

/yep, it's your tax dollars at work!

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 12:32 PM (BPeNq)

621 True Lies?!?!?!?!

------

Jamie Lee Curtis strip tease.

jajajajaja

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 12:32 PM (8XRCm)

622 612 I have never seen Avatard and I plan on never seeing it. Nor the upcoming sequels that have besotted James Cameron.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:27 PM (CDxfo)

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If you've seen Fern Gully..... you've seen Avatar.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 12:31 PM (8XRCm)

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People make that joke, and it's so true.

I saw Ferngully for the first time a couple of months ago, and it has very literally the same plot.

Giant tree killer going after important tree right after the hero converts to the new side and everything.

It's ridiculous.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:33 PM (viSzi)

623 My big problem with James Cameron is his constant crowing about saving the world while simultaneously not caring about the distribution of his films, the power required to show his films, the AC in the theaters showing his films, the cars driven to his films, the CO2 in the drinks at the theaters, the wastewater produced at the showing of his films, the energy to produce the DVDs/blu-rays, the boats that burn fuel getting them across the ocean, the trucks delivering the discs to Walmarts across the nation, the AC in the walmarts, the fuel consumed by families going to buy/rent the discs, etc.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:33 PM (fD1ST)

624 Precedent setting Presidential Foreign Trip.

All I hear from the news is ... Russians! The Russians are under every bed!

Posted by: rd at May 22, 2017 12:33 PM (XSEwK)

625 Shouldn't have eaten that 3rd burrito.

Now i'm tired Wynning.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 22, 2017 12:33 PM (oGRue)

626 This is how it goes now:

1. Get laid off
2. Collect Unemployment
3. When unemployment runs out, apply for SSDI for "bipolar" or "back injury"
4. SSDI is refused
5. Lawyer up
6. Get SSDI for life

/yep, it's your tax dollars at work!

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 12:32 PM (BPeNq)
=========

7. Collect years of back disability pay.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 22, 2017 12:33 PM (vg8iE)

627 TheJamesMadison, if I want visual effects that are mind blowing I have 2001: A Space Odyssey to fall back on.
--

THIS.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 12:34 PM (BPeNq)

628 Ha! Love how I can come here and get knowledgable perspective on the news.

The Horde is the best!

Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2017 12:34 PM (ZapPq)

629 One vacay after another... What ever happened to their Daughters?

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 22, 2017 12:29 PM (O2RFr)

They don't need them as props any more

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 22, 2017 12:34 PM (493sH)

630 "Jamie Lee Curtis strip tease. "

That was faptastik

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 12:34 PM (J+eG2)

631 I actually heard some Democrat congressman say on CNN this morning that, on this trip, Trump is proving that he is way over his head when it comes to foreign policy.

Well it is certainly a departure from prior administrations, which did little other than set the middle east on fire. Trump seems to be putting fires out.

You don't need a whole lot of training to point a hose at a fire.

Can I find fault? Yes. It is less than perfect, for all concerned. But all concerned have major concerns with just letting the status quo stand as is.

Everyone seems to realize that this is the moment in time that a common enemy exists, and if they do not deal with that common enemy, *they* may not exist.

Insert quote about 'nothing so focuses the mind as knowing you'll be hanged in the morning'.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 22, 2017 12:34 PM (HTdUD)

632 I saw "Covenant" over the weekend. I liked it, but I wouldn't say it's worth going to the theaters to see it.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:34 PM (zu/Gn)

633 White man like alien parasite, kill Mother Gaia.

Posted by: Chief Cameron at May 22, 2017 12:34 PM (2Mnv1)

634 >>>>604 Anyone hear anything about a new name for FBI job? I've been thinking for a while it would be a sitting federal Judge.

Posted by: Czar Peter at May 22, 2017 12:29 PM (bjy0I)

===============

We're going to get another Rex Tillerson.

A name out of nowhere that no one expected.
.
.
.Yep and will not be Joe Liberman, everyone hates him. Trump is just trolling with his name.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 22, 2017 12:35 PM (le7jz)

635 615 TheJamesMadison, if I want visual effects that are mind blowing I have 2001: A Space Odyssey to fall back on.

I had friends try to get me to see the movie just because the 'effects are stupendous.' Did not work.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:31 PM (CDxfo)

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It's cool.

Just saying that if you ever find yourself alone in a room with an Avatar blu ray, a blu ray player, and a TV, you could watch the final battle, and no one would judge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:35 PM (viSzi)

636 I am probably the only person on the planet who has not seen Titanic (saw bits and parts, here and there...never ever the whole thing. thankfully i think)

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:35 PM (c6/9Q)

637 This is Bill Wynn,

This is shinola.

any questions?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 22, 2017 12:35 PM (oGRue)

638 1. Get laid off
2. Collect Unemployment
3. When unemployment runs out, apply for SSDI for "bipolar" or "back injury"
4. SSDI is refused
5. Lawyer up
6. Get SSDI for life

/yep, it's your tax dollars at work!

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 12:32 PM (BPeNq)

Yeah, if I'm going before the SCOTUS' co-equal branch's equivalent, you better believe I'm getting a lawyer and not strolling in there with a FUBU baseball hat on backwards because I ain't done nothing wrong, yo.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:35 PM (fD1ST)

639 i heard someone say watching Avatar is like dating a beautiful retard.

Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 12:36 PM (7HtZB)

640 632 I saw "Covenant" over the weekend. I liked it, but I wouldn't say it's worth going to the theaters to see it.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:34 PM (zu/Gn)

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I'm actually going to get a date night with Dolley next weekend, and I've already gotten her to agree to see Covenant.

I'll probably end up agreeing with Mike in the Half in the Bag review RLM just put up (borderline), but I love Ridley Scott, and my wife refuses to see Guardians 2.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:36 PM (viSzi)

641 If I test positive for Bill Wynn, what is my prognosis?

Should I start the bucket list?

Is there a cure?

*buries head in hands, sobbing*

Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at May 22, 2017 12:36 PM (G9MZN)

642 Shibumi, from what I've seen, collecting SSDI is impossible without involving a lawyer. A friend of mine with ALS was turned down. Then he hired a lawyer.

It's almost as if the system was set up to provide income for lawyers.

Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2017 12:36 PM (ZapPq)

643 i heard someone say watching Avatar is like dating a beautiful retard.

Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 12:36 PM (7HtZB)

Avatar is a cartoon, right ?

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:37 PM (c6/9Q)

644 This is how it goes now:

1. Get laid off
2. Collect Unemployment
3. When unemployment runs out, apply for SSDI for "bipolar" or "back injury"
4. SSDI is refused
5. Lawyer up
6. Get SSDI for life

/yep, it's your tax dollars at work!

Posted by: shibumi

_________

I'd like to see Trump take one 2 entitlement problems as President.

Reform food stamps/EBT and SSDI.

I actually think there's widespread support for it, just like there was for welfare reform in the 90's when Republicans were brave enough to take it on. Then you had Democrats bragging about "ending welfare as we know it".

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:37 PM (zu/Gn)

645 It's a storytelling device designed for children.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:16 PM (viSzi)

So is every big budget blockbuster movie out there. But yeah, I hated Avatar.

I dislike all 'Humanity Sucks' movies, mainly because I'm human.

Posted by: troyriser at May 22, 2017 12:37 PM (Fw5cQ)

646 636 I am probably the only person on the planet who has not seen Titanic (saw bits and parts, here and there...never ever the whole thing. thankfully i think)
Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:35 PM (c6/9Q)

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People shit on that movie, but it's almost perfectly put together structurally.

If you don't buy into the romance (which, obviously, many people do not), just wait until the second half when James Cameron shows you how to build tension and sink a ship like a boss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:37 PM (viSzi)

647 If I test positive for Bill Wynn, what is my prognosis?

Should I start the bucket list?

Is there a cure?

*buries head in hands, sobbing*

Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at May 22, 2017 12:36 PM (G9MZN)

you will need a crapton of penicillin, my friend, but you will live !

Posted by: Dr. runner, PhD at May 22, 2017 12:38 PM (c6/9Q)

648 641 If I test positive for Bill Wynn, what is my prognosis?

Should I start the bucket list?

Is there a cure?

*buries head in hands, sobbing*
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at May 22, 2017 12:36 PM (G9MZN)

Sorry man. It's gonna be an early night.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 12:38 PM (0mRoj)

649 "Jamie Lee Curtis strip tease. "

That was faptastik
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 12:34 PM (J+eG2)

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She went from awkward and vulnerable to super smoking hot sexpot at the speed of light.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 12:38 PM (8XRCm)

650 Reform food stamps/EBT and SSDI.

I actually think there's widespread support for it, just like there
was for welfare reform in the 90's when Republicans were brave enough to
take it on. Then you had Democrats bragging about "ending welfare as
we know it".

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:37 PM (zu/Gn)

Make food stamps only eligible for staples and not any prepared food. Want to bake cookies? Fine. Want to buy cookies? Get a job.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:38 PM (fD1ST)

651 ThmeJamesMadison, so Avatard is like that second bowl of chocolate ice cream eaten in private.

To call Avatard a cartoon is too insult such movies as Rock and Rule.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:39 PM (CDxfo)

652 People shit on that movie, but it's almost perfectly put together structurally.

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** points at Rose cutting a chain with an axe**

**laughs at "perfect structure"**

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 12:39 PM (8XRCm)

653 Because I missed it this weekend, and this is an open thread:

movie I love that no one has seen:

The World of Henry Orient.

Perfectly nails that moment on the edge of adolescence via two girls in New York City whose active fantasy life centers around a pianist (Peter Sellers). I just love everything about this movie.

There, I got that out. Back to lurking.

Posted by: Useta Lurk, but now who knows? at May 22, 2017 12:39 PM (jVlNS)

654 It's almost as if the system was set up to provide income for lawyers.
--

I wouldn't disagree with that statement.

However... it seems to me that if you have enough money to finance a lawyer, you will get SSDI, even though your "issue" is a scam. I know someone right now that has been collecting for at least ten years who is completely gaming the system-- he's too lazy to hold a job, (supposedly "bipolar") and mom and dad don't want to finance him anymore.

So we the taxpayer have stepped up.

Posted by: shibumi at May 22, 2017 12:39 PM (BPeNq)

655 People shit on that movie, but it's almost perfectly put together structurally.

If you don't buy into the romance (which, obviously, many people do
not), just wait until the second half when James Cameron shows you how
to build tension and sink a ship like a boss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:37 PM (viSzi)

No. not doing it. neither for romance, nor for sinking ships.

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:39 PM (c6/9Q)

656 651 ThmeJamesMadison, so Avatard is like that second bowl of chocolate ice cream eaten in private.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:39 PM (CDxfo)

==============

HA!

Yes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:39 PM (viSzi)

657 Fauchahontas theme song.

https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=7Cm6hTglo0Y

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 12:40 PM (Nwg0u)

658 639 i heard someone say watching Avatar is like dating a beautiful retard.
Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 12:36 PM (7HtZB)

Is that a bad joke?
My old favorite -

Arguing on the Internet is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if you win...

Posted by: Fried Baloney Sandwich at May 22, 2017 12:40 PM (I7I0v)

659 643 i heard someone say watching Avatar is like dating a beautiful retard.

---

My husband used to say the same thing

Posted by: Chelsea Clinton at May 22, 2017 12:40 PM (oGRue)

660 622, 612, Oh my, I adore Ferngully, probably because I saw it with my son when he was just a little goober. The end when the screen goes to black and the words "for our children and our children's children" appeared on the screen. I teared up. I'm a sap. Just like why I love the President's speech in Independence Day. Same ole' sap.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 22, 2017 12:40 PM (9U1OG)

661 I was hoping when Obama left office I could bask in his golden silence and like a bad cold he would eventually go away but the 'fake news machine" had other plans.

Everyday they go on and on about something Obama or Mooch do. I don't know exactly what it is , i REFUSE TO CLICK ON IT.

The other presidents had some class and knew how to lay low and STFU when they left office.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at May 22, 2017 12:40 PM (ARzf8)

662 646 636 I am probably the only person on the planet who has not seen Titanic (saw bits and parts, here and there...never ever the whole thing. thankfully i think)
Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:35 PM (c6/9Q)

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People shit on that movie, but it's almost perfectly put together structurally.

If you don't buy into the romance (which, obviously, many people do not), just wait until the second half when James Cameron shows you how to build tension and sink a ship like a boss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:37 PM (viSzi)

"I'll never let you go, Jack!"

*shoves his frozen corpse into the icy depths*

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 12:40 PM (0mRoj)

663 Sorry man. It's gonna be an early night.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 12:38 PM (0mRoj)

Nurse, who asked you ?

Posted by: Dr. runner, PhD at May 22, 2017 12:41 PM (c6/9Q)

664 601
Chelsea Clinton is plain? What a charitable thing to say.

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 22, 2017 12:20 PM (394Mh)

Don't forget:

This is AFTER tens of thousands of dollars of plastic surgery.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:28 PM (fD1ST)

She should demand her money back.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2017 12:41 PM (jxbfJ)

665 "She went from awkward and vulnerable to super smoking hot sexpot at the speed of light. "
And at her current age, I think she is still attractive.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 22, 2017 12:41 PM (J+eG2)

666 660 Oh my, I adore Ferngully, probably because I saw it with my son when he was just a little goober. The end when the screen goes to black and the words "for our children and our children's children" appeared on the screen. I teared up. I'm a sap. Just like why I love the President's speech in Independence Day. Same ole' sap.
Posted by: Jaimo at May 22, 2017 12:40 PM (9U1OG)

============

I loved the early animation of the bad guy when it was a movie oil puddle. That was really well done.

Outside of that, though, the movie was just kind of middle of the road.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:41 PM (viSzi)

667 Perfectly nails that moment on the edge of adolescence via two girls in New York City whose active fantasy life centers around a pianist (Peter Sellers). I just love everything about this movie.

He was only a foot tall

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 12:41 PM (0mRoj)

668 Kate Winslet puts the "tit" in "Titanic."

Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 12:42 PM (7HtZB)

669 It's almost as if the system was set up to provide income for lawyers.
Posted by: Emmie

______

If you really want to get angry, watch one of the shorts documentaries about Patent Trolls.

And Harry Reid killed the legislation that would have stopped it because the Trial Lawyers wanted to keep it.

Small businesses were getting sued for "using WiFi". Literally. And they would have to settle because judges weren't tossing them. Cost millions to fight.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:42 PM (zu/Gn)

670 NOt watching blue cartoons either.

Posted by: Dr. runner, PhD at May 22, 2017 12:42 PM (c6/9Q)

671 Don't forget:

This is AFTER tens of thousands of dollars of plastic surgery.

-----

And she *still* looks like Web Hubbell.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 22, 2017 12:42 PM (8XRCm)

672 668 Kate Winslet puts the "tit" in "Titanic."
Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 12:42 PM (7HtZB)

She was a selfish cvnt right to the very end. I despised her character.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 12:43 PM (0mRoj)

673 I actually think there's widespread support for it, just like there

was for welfare reform in the 90's when Republicans were brave enough to

take it on. Then you had Democrats bragging about "ending welfare as

we know it".

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:37 PM (zu/Gn)

BTW, the school lunch program is a perfect example. If X number of families in a community is at Y% of the poverty level (or some similar formula), ALL the kids in school are eligible for free lunch, breakfast, etc.

The kids are getting piles of stuff, eating one thing, and throwing the rest away. I wouldn't be surprised if we throw away a few million gallons of unopened milk every day. Milk that has been out of refrigeration for twenty minutes.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 22, 2017 12:43 PM (fD1ST)

674 If I test positive for Bill Wynn, what is my prognosis?

Should I start the bucket list?

Is there a cure?

-
Brain and soul transplant.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 12:43 PM (Nwg0u)

675 Some people hold up The Abyss, but I've just never
really been able to get into it. Serious James Cameron isn't nearly as
good as fun James Cameron. I think fun James Cameron is dead, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:31 PM (viSzi)

I am a big fan of the Abyss - even with the hokey "The Aliens Save the Day weren't we all silly for being hesitant to leave our nukes on the bottom of the ocean where they (whoever they were) could easily retrieve them" ending. The scene where the floating rig loses its stabilizing thrusters and the crane breaks off and falls into the ocean endangering the rig on the floor below is absolute genius. That being said - Aliens reigns supreme.
Yes fun "faceless, weaselly, corporate bureaucrats = bad; gritty individuals/soldiers = good" Cameron is long dead. He has been replaced by "military and humans = bad; trees = good" Cameron. Such a shame.

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 12:43 PM (Fb9aZ)

676 Finally watched the entire Suicide Squad movie. If not for the ass on Robbie it would have been unwatchable for me. I guess Anti super heroes aren't my thing.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 12:43 PM (Vnlws)

677 Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 12:43 PM (Fb9aZ)

The liquid-filled deep dive suit was intense.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 12:44 PM (0mRoj)

678 >>What, did Melania bro-hug the Queen or something?

Maybe he gave a blind Saudi prince a set of Region 1 movie dvds?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 12:44 PM (NOIQH)

679 President Trumps suite at the King David Hotel for his stay in Israel is impervious to bullets, bombs and poison gas and can even withstand the collapse of the entire building, said its operations manager.

The Kind David is my favorite Hotel...a tad pricey, but nice.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 22, 2017 12:44 PM (KlI/a)

680 675 Yes fun "faceless, weaselly, corporate bureaucrats = bad; gritty individuals/soldiers = good" Cameron is long dead. He has been replaced by "military and humans = bad; trees = good" Cameron. Such a shame.
Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 12:43 PM (Fb9aZ)

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At least when he was the former, his main priority seemed to be to entertain.

That Oscar really went to his head. Avatar making more money than Titanic meant that he'd never come back.

If the next 4 (or is it 17? I can't keep track) Avatar movies end up losing Fox money, he still won't come back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:45 PM (viSzi)

681 Terminator, Terminator 2

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:45 PM (c6/9Q)

682 When I was stationed at Pendleton, a couple of buddies came back from Tijuana with a nasty case of Bill Wynn.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 22, 2017 12:45 PM (kTF2Z)

683 676 Finally watched the entire Suicide Squad movie. If not for the ass on Robbie it would have been unwatchable for me. I guess Anti super heroes aren't my thing.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 12:43 PM (Vnlws)

I can deal with anti-heroes, but my problem with Suicide Squad was that it's an incoherent mess.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 12:45 PM (0mRoj)

684 Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 12:45 PM (0mRoj

That too.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 12:46 PM (Vnlws)

685 683 Finally watched the entire Suicide Squad movie. If not for the ass on Robbie it would have been unwatchable for me. I guess Anti super heroes aren't my thing.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 12:43 PM (Vnlws)

I can deal with anti-heroes, but my problem with Suicide Squad was that it's an incoherent mess.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 12:45 PM (0mRoj)

================

Have you heard the rumors about the original cut?

It was closer in line with Friedkin's Sorcerer than anything else. The first half of the movie spent time building up each individual character. The second half put them on an adventure.

But apparently, it didn't match up with the marketing, so WB changed everything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (viSzi)

686 Runner
I haven't seen Titanic. Never seen Avatar either.

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (yTnCT)

687 "I'll never let you go, Jack!"

*shoves his frozen corpse into the icy depths*

-
Oh yeah, like you wouldn't.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (Nwg0u)

688 >>The kids are getting piles of stuff, eating one thing, and throwing the
rest away. I wouldn't be surprised if we throw away a few million
gallons of unopened milk every day. Milk that has been out of
refrigeration for twenty minutes.

There's also federal funds tied to school lunch program participation - the more kids you get on the reduced/free lunch plan, the more $$$ you get. Also, there was federal $$$ tied to compliance with the Michelle Obama menus. Schools that didn't comply lost out. Nudge, nudge, nudge!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (NOIQH)

689 When I was stationed at Pendleton, a couple of buddies came back from Tijuana with a nasty case of Bill Wynn.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 22, 2017 12:45 PM (kTF2Z)

So sorry to hear that

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (c6/9Q)

690 Trump and Netanyahu to make remarks shortly. This could be good.

Posted by: Soona at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (Fmupd)

691 For serious trivia, remember James Cameron's humble beginnings.

Working on a Roger Corman movie called Battle Beyond the Stars, a Star Wars rip-off.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (CDxfo)

692 700 or Busts!

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (UmSfZ)

693 Finally watched the entire Suicide Squad movie. If not for the ass on Robbie it would have been unwatchable for me. I guess Anti super heroes aren't my thing.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 12:43 PM (Vnlws)

'Suicide Squad' was the nearly most poorly edited movie in the history of movies--especially for a big budget production--and among the most poorly written. Given the sheer talent and star power of the cast, watching it makes you feel bad for what could've been.

Posted by: troyriser at May 22, 2017 12:48 PM (Fw5cQ)

694 691 For serious trivia, remember James Cameron's humble beginnings.

Working on a Roger Corman movie called Battle Beyond the Stars, a Star Wars rip-off.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (CDxfo)

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Battle Beyond the Stars is so much better than I expected it to be.

It's fun!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:48 PM (viSzi)

695 I know someone involved in the SSDI system and he said they started taking more in that would have previously been rejected. They had to hide the unemployed somewhere.

Posted by: MAGA at May 22, 2017 12:48 PM (LQ1Q3)

696 Runner

I haven't seen Titanic. Never seen Avatar either.

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (yTnCT)

stay strong !

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:48 PM (c6/9Q)

697 Lets see them do the Titanic as an insurance fraud gone wrong (at least in terms of lost life). The biggest evidence for it is the Titanic breaking in half. The twin was said to have structural damage from a collision with a warship but served 24 years.

Posted by: Ok at May 22, 2017 12:48 PM (OE5e7)

698 "I'll never let you go, Jack!"

*shoves his frozen corpse into the icy depths*

---

3 hours of movie and never a mention of the Californian which could see the rockets lit off by Titanic.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 22, 2017 12:48 PM (oGRue)

699 And .. nood

So this is how willow feels?

Posted by: IP at May 22, 2017 12:48 PM (UmSfZ)

700 691 For serious trivia, remember James Cameron's humble beginnings.

Working on a Roger Corman movie called Battle Beyond the Stars, a Star Wars rip-off.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (CDxfo)

Oh really! What'd he do?

Posted by: Jackal at May 22, 2017 12:48 PM (wher6)

701 Mother Earth is on our side. Do you palefaces really think you can prevail?

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at May 22, 2017 12:48 PM (vRcUp)

702 I haven't seen Titanic. Never seen Avatar either.
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (yTnCT)

Ship sinks, No visible Avatar sex

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 22, 2017 12:48 PM (KlI/a)

703 687 "I'll never let you go, Jack!"

*shoves his frozen corpse into the icy depths*

-
Oh yeah, like you wouldn't.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (Nwg0u)

First, I don't swing that way. Second, there was plenty of room on that floating door or whatever for both of them.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 22, 2017 12:49 PM (0mRoj)

704 A Nood Live!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2017 12:49 PM (udajc)

705 694 Magnificent 7 in space

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2017 12:49 PM (rmVvL)

706 Corgis! Nood. Silly academics being punked.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 22, 2017 12:49 PM (p+Wdc)

707 655
People shit on that movie, but it's almost perfectly put together structurally.

If you don't buy into the romance (which, obviously, many people do

not), just wait until the second half when James Cameron shows you how

to build tension and sink a ship like a boss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:37 PM (viSzi)

No. not doing it. neither for romance, nor for sinking ships.

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2017 12:39 PM (c6/9Q)

"A Night to Remember" did it better. Sorry - Titanic, although visually stunning in parts, was utter crap from a plot standpoint. "Poor little (OK Kate Winslet - but you know what I mean) rich girl falls in love with fun and cultured, but poor, IRISH immigrant? On doomed ocean liner?" And do NOT even get me started on her throwing that stupid, "Mcguffin" diamond into the ocean at the end. I wanted to "slap a bitch" at that point

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 22, 2017 12:49 PM (Fb9aZ)

708 NOt watching blue cartoons either.

Posted by: Dr. runner, PhD at May 22, 2017 12:42 PM (c6/9Q)

Well you can kiss my Smurfy ass!

Posted by: Grumpy Smurf at May 22, 2017 12:49 PM (uiwCw)

709 Working on a Roger Corman movie called Battle Beyond the Stars, a Star Wars rip-off.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (CDxfo)

'Battle Beyond The Stars' wasn't half-bad. It was also fairly big budget, at least by Corman standards.

Posted by: troyriser at May 22, 2017 12:50 PM (Fw5cQ)

710 It has been awhile since I last saw "Avatar", but as I recall, the "hero" of the story is supposed to get to know the locals and then start a dialog between the 2 races about what would it take to let the humans do some mining. He gets to know the natives but doesn't get around to seeing about the mining.

And no one seemed to be watching his progress until the end of whatever timeframe they gave him.

Agree with theJamesMadison, the last 40 minutes of war is a spectacle to behold.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 22, 2017 12:50 PM (6n332)

711 Battle Beyond the Stars is so much better than I expected it to be.

It's fun!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 22, 2017 12:48 PM (viSzi)

Robert Vaughn even plays the same character he did in The Magnificent Seven

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 22, 2017 12:50 PM (394Mh)

712 700 Art direction or something

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2017 12:50 PM (rmVvL)

713 Via Instapundit-

This is pretty great.

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/05/21/opecs-coffers-are-drying-up/

The Saudis are gonna wish they spent their money on infrastructure and education.

Instead, of global jihad and blowing up the World Trade Center.

I hope part of Trump's deal with them is that they stop building radical, jihad-happy mosques in the US,

Posted by: naturalfake at May 22, 2017 12:50 PM (NyJwR)

714 BTW, the school lunch program is a perfect example. If X number of families in a community is at Y% of the poverty level (or some similar formula), ALL the kids in school are eligible for free lunch, breakfast, etc.

The kids are getting piles of stuff, eating one thing, and throwing the rest away. I wouldn't be surprised if we throw away a few million gallons of unopened milk every day. Milk that has been out of refrigeration for twenty minutes.
Posted by: Chigger Fleas

______

What makes me sick is a big reason why there hasn't been reform despite Republicans being in charge of Congress for a while now is that "Big Business" LOVES EBT.

Just so many industries get "fat" off of this program.

Once again, the Chamber of Commerce wing is anything but conservative. But the last 20 years or so, the definition of conservative has been "things big business wants"

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:51 PM (zu/Gn)

715 Finally watched the entire Suicide Squad movie. If not for the ass on Robbie it would have been unwatchable for me. I guess Anti super heroes aren't my thing.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 22, 2017 12:43 PM (Vnlws)

I can deal with anti-heroes, but my problem with Suicide Squad was that it's an incoherent mess.

-
People, it's a shooting people and blowing shit up movie. They shoot people and blow shit up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 22, 2017 12:51 PM (Nwg0u)

716 >>>>I'd like to see Trump take one 2 entitlement problems as President.

Reform food stamps/EBT and SSDI.

I actually think there's widespread support for it, just like there
was for welfare reform in the 90's when Republicans were brave enough to
take it on. Then you had Democrats bragging about "ending welfare as
we know it".

.
.
.Food Stamp fraud needs to be cleaned up. When we lived in Kentucky at the first of the month when the EBT cards got loaded up Walmart would pull pallet loads of soda into the aisles.

People would come in and buy as much as they could carry and take it to a place that would buy it from them for 50 cents on the dollar and give them cash. The two places would then resell the discounted soda and make a tidy profit off of tax payer $$$.

Everyone knew about it including the State AG (a Democrat) but really never did anything about it other than bust a few people who just went to a different place the next month. There was talk about changing the law but nothing ever came out of that. Heck the local news channel in Lexington KY ran a big expo on it.

All they need to do is remove soda from authorized EBT purchases and it would stop. At least until they found some other scam.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 22, 2017 12:51 PM (le7jz)

717 Massive waste in the school lunches, on school visit day I see kid after kid just throwing food away. Don't blame them that much as the food was generally horrible.

Posted by: MAGA at May 22, 2017 12:51 PM (LQ1Q3)

718 For serious trivia, remember James Cameron's humble beginnings.

Working on a Roger Corman movie called Battle Beyond the Stars, a Star Wars rip-off.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (CDxfo)

Visual Effects supervisor for Avatar is one of my fraternity brothers from Mississippi State. He dropped out of college, moved to LA and started as an intern doing Bud Bowl commercials. He's got a string of VE credits now. Plus that whole "living in New Zealand" thing.

Posted by: Country Singer at May 22, 2017 12:52 PM (uiwCw)

719 For serious trivia, remember James Cameron's humble beginnings.

Working on a Roger Corman movie called Battle Beyond the Stars, a Star Wars rip-off.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:47 PM (CDxfo)

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And "Galaxy of Terror".

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 22, 2017 12:52 PM (6n332)

720 "Battle Beyond the Stars"

Shows veteran actors can make "The Seven Samurai" work no matter what the budget.

Posted by: Ok at May 22, 2017 12:52 PM (OE5e7)

721 Everyone knows that ice doesn't break steel.

Posted by: Rosie O Donnel at May 22, 2017 12:53 PM (VdICR)

722 I go to comic book cons & the like, and I've never seen anyone wear an Avatar t-shirt. I've never heard anyone quote Avatar. Compare that to Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. It may have made oodles of money, but it was a flop.

Posted by: josephistan at May 22, 2017 12:53 PM (7HtZB)

723 Seven out of eight American's struggles with hunger.

Posted by: The Ad Council at May 22, 2017 12:53 PM (vtcmf)

724 And "Galaxy of Terror".

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 22, 2017 12:52 PM (6n332)

Galaxy of Terror: beautiful blonde gets sexually assaulted by a giant space slug. Who could forget that?

Posted by: troyriser at May 22, 2017 12:54 PM (Fw5cQ)

725 Lets see them do the Titanic as an insurance fraud gone wrong (at least in terms of lost life). The biggest evidence for it is the Titanic breaking in half. The twin was said to have structural damage from a collision with a warship but served 24 years.

Posted by: Ok at May 22, 2017 12:48 PM (OE5e7)

Ships that sink one end first often break in half. The end sticking up out of the water is unsupported, and the structure snaps from its own weight.

Posted by: zombie Avro Arrow at May 22, 2017 12:54 PM (0deF2)

726 All they need to do is remove soda from authorized EBT purchases and it would stop. At least until they found some other scam.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman

____

I just don't want "window dressing" type reforms.

Let states have more leeway, add tough work requirements, have time limits like unemployment does, etc.

If I had my way, it would just be soup kitchens and that's it.

Posted by: Maritime at May 22, 2017 12:55 PM (zu/Gn)

727 willowed again

Posted by: The Ad Council at May 22, 2017 12:56 PM (vtcmf)

728 Trivia on the movie A Night to Remember.

One story goes, that the captain of SS California after viewing that movie hired a lawyer.

Another thing, this movie used footage from the World War II Nazi Titanic movie and never credited the source.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2017 12:58 PM (CDxfo)

729 292 I wonder if Ace is going to do a Twin Peaks thread today.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 22, 2017 10:44 AM (gIRsn)

As I watched the new Showtime version last night, I could not help but think of his recent post about how 'prestige TV' = boring. They really jammed about 55 minutes worth of content into their 120 minute 'two episode' premiere. Also - was it even possible to tell where the break between episode 1 and episode 2 were? Just going purely by time it would be approximately before a team of cops serve a search warrant on a murder suspects house, but I really didn't sense any part of the story arc that was making a natural break around then. Then again, I didn't for the two hours as a whole, either.

I have high hopes for this because I did love the original (and watching its recent replays reminds me why) and in addition to getting a large amount of the original cast back, they got some good names for new talent. But those first two hours... urrm. I'll give it another couple of episodes to see if they sort it out. But really - pick up the damn pace.

I will say that while slow as hell and excessively Lynch-weird, what story content their actually was, I found interesting. And there was some effectively creepy suspense/horror content, even if it was pretty inexplicable.

Posted by: moronhorde minion at May 22, 2017 01:50 PM (88jeI)

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