Mid-Morning Open Thread

Racecourse, Nice
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Too fuzzy

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 14, 2017 09:26 AM (mpXpK)

2 Howdy, beloved Horde!

Posted by: Emmie -- please, no public display of insanity at December 14, 2017 09:26 AM (/A+Cl)

3 Racecourse? It looks like a shallow, stony creek under a bridge. Or am I missing something?

Posted by: Annalucia at December 14, 2017 09:26 AM (S6ArX)

4 Churchill is correct, it does look NICE, nyuk nyuk nyuk

Posted by: HKBill at December 14, 2017 09:26 AM (J86xe)

5 *skips rocks across water*

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 09:26 AM (MINbv)

6 It's missing the Islamic trucks of peace

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 14, 2017 09:26 AM (mynhJ)

7 Innaresting.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 09:27 AM (fA1SL)

8
Churchill wasn't bad for an amatoor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2017 09:27 AM (IFkOX)

9 Must be for paper boats?

Posted by: HKBill at December 14, 2017 09:27 AM (J86xe)

10 Nice.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 09:27 AM (/tuJf)

11 i see the hobos on the bridge support. huffing sterno.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2017 09:28 AM (KP5rU)

12 ....Under the bridge at dawn....

Posted by: redenzo at December 14, 2017 09:28 AM (5wSNN)

13 Top Twenty!

Posted by: Rockysan99 at December 14, 2017 09:28 AM (m7LQK)

14 Little-known art history fact : Churchill broke with plein-aire and landscape traditions by painting dump-sites for his many, many kills.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 09:28 AM (fA1SL)

15 If it's a racecourse for boats, they'd better be good at sailing on rocks. If it's a racecourse for runners, they'd better be good at running in wet shoes. If it's a racecourse for cars, I don't think they'll get very far.

Maybe it's a racecourse for fish? That would work.

Posted by: bluebell ~ now we're cookin'! at December 14, 2017 09:28 AM (kNasr)

16 I like the water-shadow-rocks under the bridge.

Posted by: The Crusty Paw at December 14, 2017 09:28 AM (eakac)

17
Just outside the frame: German panzer division, French POWs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2017 09:29 AM (IFkOX)

18 It's only a model.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 09:30 AM (V2Yro)

19 18 It's only a model.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 09:30 AM (V2Yro)

Shhh!

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 09:30 AM (NWiLs)

20 The best actor in the world is portraying Winston Churchill in a movie . You wouldn't recognize Gary Oldman unless someone told you it was him.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 14, 2017 09:30 AM (2DOZq)

21 This painting was something of a letdown after his earlier work, Bell Tower, Awesome.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 14, 2017 09:31 AM (zmvwV)

22 Looks like a federal prison.

Speaking of which, is today the day the stinky shoe of the DOJ is going to drop on some seditious heads or is that next week?

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 09:31 AM (r9UYA)

23

Send It Back - a limerick

View amateur art if you must
Winston's not a great artist, I trust
This particular sample
Is a perfect example
As a painter Churchill's a bust!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 09:31 AM (wPiJc)

24 race (def): a watercourse, a channel of flowing water.

Posted by: redenzo at December 14, 2017 09:31 AM (5wSNN)

25 You know who else was a painter and a leader during WWII?

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2017 09:31 AM (nwqNw)

26 IMO, Churchill was better at kicking Nazi ass then painting architectural detail.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 14, 2017 09:32 AM (zmvwV)

27 'race' and probably 'race course' has another meaning when applied to a swiftly flowing stream of water, as in 'mill race', the outlet or overflow from an impoundment that feeds a water wheel.

And now my version of spell check knows how to spell impoundment.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 09:32 AM (KdDCu)

28 It's no Hitler.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 14, 2017 09:32 AM (2DOZq)

29 You know who else was a painter and a leader during WWII?
Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2017 09:31 AM (nwqNw)
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This is what comes of having a Moronette Art Historian in residence. Brava.

Posted by: bluebell ~ now we're cookin'! at December 14, 2017 09:32 AM (kNasr)

30 hey, this phony dust-up about Trump and Gillibrand... isn't that the story of Bill Clinton and Kathleen Willey?

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at December 14, 2017 09:33 AM (ILitO)

31 25 You know who else was a painter and a leader during WWII?
Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2017 09:31 AM (nwqNw)

And he could dance better than Churchill.

Posted by: George LeS at December 14, 2017 09:33 AM (+TcCF)

32 ya, a minute late trying to be informative and precise.

Good job redenzo. Nice and pithy and to the point.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 09:33 AM (KdDCu)

33 impoundment.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 09:32 AM (KdDCu)

I'll take "Words that sound dirty, but aren't" for 100, Alex.

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2017 09:33 AM (nwqNw)

34 That's no moon...

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 14, 2017 09:34 AM (0ogQG)

35 Looks like a good place to dump the bodies.

Posted by: dananjcon at December 14, 2017 09:34 AM (xqfqx)

36 You know who else was a painter and a leader during WWII?
Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2017 09:31 AM (nwqNw)

That was after his career in wallpaper hanging fell through.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 14, 2017 09:34 AM (zmvwV)

37 Huh. Now I have to keep from calling WW2 "The Painters' War".

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon Cassandra at December 14, 2017 09:34 AM (AM1GF)

38 This is what comes of having a Moronette Art Historian in residence. Brava.

Posted by: bluebell ~ now we're cookin'! at December 14, 2017 09:32 AM (kNasr)

Cool. A new title for my CV.

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2017 09:34 AM (nwqNw)

39 Isnt a "race" a stretch of narrow water, often leading to a water wheel? Or a narrow course of water such as the Race between Montauk Pt. and Westerly?
C'mon, JackStraw, back me up here.

Posted by: RI Red - No step on snek. at December 14, 2017 09:34 AM (1YChx)

40 Well...it ain't Talledega.

Posted by: BignJames at December 14, 2017 09:34 AM (1Oy/Q)

41 Neville Chamber gives this painting one thumb up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 14, 2017 09:35 AM (zmvwV)

42 Where the freakity frak is my gurgle burgle VAN!?!?!

I parked it right here!

...Zombie Chris Farley...

Posted by: Bruce at December 14, 2017 09:35 AM (8ikIW)

43 Damn, redenzo, beat me to it!

Posted by: RI Red - No step on snek. at December 14, 2017 09:36 AM (1YChx)

44 can't believe nobody picked up on the stukas in the upper left corner.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2017 09:36 AM (KP5rU)

45 33. Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/T70-HTlKRXo

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 09:36 AM (fA1SL)

46 Meh. It's no Rothko.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 09:36 AM (NWiLs)

47
Cool. A new title for my CV.

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2017 09:34 AM (nwqNw)

"Art Historian to the Morons". A good marketing tag.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2017 09:36 AM (4x1ei)

48 I would like to mention again that Dr Helen posted a link to the cookbook over at Insty's place.

Apparently one of us mailed her a copy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 14, 2017 09:37 AM (EyPfd)

49 35. Heh....see 14.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 09:37 AM (fA1SL)

50 Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon Cassandra at December 14, 2017 09:34 AM (AM1GF)

Pfft. "Painters' War" sounds like two pajama-boys having a slap-fest. At least "World War" has oomph.

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2017 09:37 AM (nwqNw)

51

impoundment

In the Houston flood article of the previous thread they use the modern urban planning word 'detention pond'.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 09:37 AM (KdDCu)

52 We are going to the national churchill museum in Missouri soon. Anybody been?

Posted by: NCKate at December 14, 2017 09:37 AM (TUKNi)

53 I like the perspective in the immediate foreground on the left, the way the rows of rocks come together in the current.

Other than that it doesn't look good for fishing. There's no cover and it's the middle of the day anyway, and no streamside vegetation to provide buglets for fish to eat.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 09:38 AM (fuK7c)

54 That is because that you were taken in by that verdammte Allied propaganda! Such filthy lies! They told lies!

But nobody ever said a bad word about Winston Churchill, did they? No! 'Win with Winnie!' Churchill! With his cigars. With his brandy. And his rotten painting, rotten! Hitler - there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two Coats!

Churchill. He couldn't even say 'Nazi'. He would say 'Noooo-zeeehz, Nooooooooooooo-zeeehz!' It wasn't Noses! It was Nazis!

Churchill!...Let me tell you this! And you're hearing this straight from the horse. Hitler was better looking than Churchill. He was a better dresser than Churchill. He had more hair! He told funnier jokes! And he could dance the pants off of Churchill!...Churchill!

Posted by: Franz Liebkind at December 14, 2017 09:38 AM (oVJmc)

55 Could be wrong but I think a *race course* is where the water races in (or out) and bunches up during tidal shifts.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 14, 2017 09:38 AM (+Dllb)

56 It can't be an accurate depiction of the underside of a bridge without a bunch of discarded heroin needles sticking out of the shore.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 09:38 AM (CMbMd)

57 'Isnt a "race" a stretch of narrow water, often leading to a water wheel? '

In our Style Guide, it's reference to Muslims.

Posted by: The MSM at December 14, 2017 09:38 AM (EyPfd)

58 I would like to mention again that Dr Helen posted a link to the cookbook over at Insty's place.

Apparently one of us mailed her a copy.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 14, 2017 09:37 AM (EyPfd)
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And thank you very much to the Moron(s) who did that. I hope Dr. Helen likes the book. Maybe she'll be our first survivor!

Posted by: bluebell ~ now we're cookin'! at December 14, 2017 09:38 AM (kNasr)

59 Not bad when you recall that Churchill was at least half soused all the time...

Posted by: steevy at December 14, 2017 09:38 AM (LiyEm)

60 Racecourse, Nice

Talk about blowing yer own horn. Jeesh.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 14, 2017 09:39 AM (ul9CR)

61 Eh. Self-willowed:

84 >>>>RE: Alabama Senate election...

Someone posted on Twitter that the Democrats had 80% turnout and the
GOP had 50% turnout of their voters. Is that true? Did 50% of voters
choose to stay home and allow a radical lefty win the Senate seat
instead of vote for Roy Moore? That is downright idiotic on the part of
Alabama GOP-voters, if true.
.
.
.Yes it's true.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 14, 2017 07:25 AM (+Dllb)

Well, it's tough to motivate people to vote win they know that the result makes no difference with McConnell and Ryan in charge.

Vote Moore - still No Obamacare repeal
Vote Jones - still no Obamacare repeal

Vote Moore - No border security, No immigration reform, instead we get DACA
Vote Jones - No border security, No immigration reform, instead we get DACA

Etc, etc, etc.

This will be the biggest issue in 2018 and the main reason that the Dims stand a good chance of winning the House and possibly the Senate.

No matter who Republicans vote for they still get the Democrats' Agenda.

Why vote Republican?

Take a bow McConnell, Ryan, and assorted GOPe-assholes!

Good job all around!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2017 09:39 AM (9q7Dl)

62 >>snt a "race" a stretch of narrow water, often leading to a water wheel? Or a narrow course of water such as the Race between Montauk Pt. and Westerly?
C'mon, JackStraw, back me up here.

Yep. The Race is a channel of water that serves as the unofficial entrance to Long Island Sound. It's off Fisher's Island which is probably one of the wealthiest little chunks of land in the US and the the features on the bottom cause a large rip of water that can really affect boat travel, particularly when sailing.

There's also a very cool lighthouse off Fisher's that borders The Race called Race Rock. That's for you bluebell.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 09:39 AM (/tuJf)

63 We shall paint on the beaches, we shall paint on the landing grounds, we shall paint in the fields and in the streets, we shall paint in the hills; but still, it will be no Rothko.

Posted by: Winston Churchill at December 14, 2017 09:39 AM (zmvwV)

64 'they use the modern urban planning word 'detention pond'.

Maybe we could get one here.

Posted by: B'more at December 14, 2017 09:40 AM (EyPfd)

65 The sniper is on the bridge, hoping to stop the Muslim truck driver in time.

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 14, 2017 09:40 AM (mynhJ)

66 48 I would like to mention again that Dr Helen posted a link to the cookbook over at Insty's place.

Apparently one of us mailed her a copy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 14, 2017 09:37 AM (EyPfd)

Dr. Helen... from way back when PJ Media was still decent.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 09:41 AM (CMbMd)

67 61: they all suck. just levers in the leviathan. assholes.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2017 09:41 AM (KP5rU)

68 Alternate title: Nice Racecourse.

Posted by: rickl at December 14, 2017 09:41 AM (xjiRE)

69 impoundment

In the Houston flood article of the previous thread they use the modern urban planning word 'detention pond'.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse

Way better than "retention pond".

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 09:41 AM (ftdxp)

70 There's also a very cool lighthouse off Fisher's that borders The Race called Race Rock. That's for you bluebell.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 09:39 AM (/tuJf)
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They built a lighthouse just for me? Wow, that was awfully nice of them. Please tell them thank you for me.

Posted by: bluebell ~ now we're cookin'! at December 14, 2017 09:41 AM (kNasr)

71 Viva La Raza

Posted by: A Mexican Art Critic at December 14, 2017 09:42 AM (zmvwV)

72 51. Sounds nicer than 'drowning pool,' for which, here's a Pinochet themed tribute video:

https://youtu.be/yy9VvAuCCEg

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 09:42 AM (fA1SL)

73 "57 'Isnt a "race" a stretch of narrow water, often leading to a water wheel? '

In our Style Guide, it's reference to Muslims.
Posted by: The MSM at December 14, 2017 09:38 AM (EyPfd)"

Hmmph. And here I thought the Guide said they were "Asian yutes."

Posted by: RI Red - No step on snek. at December 14, 2017 09:42 AM (1YChx)

74 It's no Marla Olmstead.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 09:42 AM (Bdeb0)

75 >>>>Yep. The Race is a channel of water that serves as the unofficial
entrance to Long Island Sound. It's off Fisher's Island which is
probably one of the wealthiest little chunks of land in the US and the
the features on the bottom cause a large rip of water that can really
affect boat travel, particularly when sailing.

There's also a very cool lighthouse off Fisher's that borders The Race called Race Rock. That's for you bluebell.
.
.
.Striper fishing at the Race is extremely good when the tides are shifting. Got to work through the schools of blues to get to the bottom for the big ones though. Limit two per person per day.

I won the biggest fish of the day pool once on the Hell Cat once. over $100.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 14, 2017 09:42 AM (+Dllb)

76 We're declaring this area an endangered wetland and siezing it immediately.

Posted by: EPA at December 14, 2017 09:42 AM (NWiLs)

77 for republicans, any tax or government program is an aphrodisiac. their viagra for screwing everyday americans.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2017 09:42 AM (KP5rU)

78 >>They built a lighthouse just for me? Wow, that was awfully nice of them. Please tell them thank you for me.

Well I don't know the they built if just for you but I know you like lighthouses and Race Rock is a particularly cool one.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 09:43 AM (/tuJf)

79 I've seen a number of Sir Winston's paintings and like them. The scenes are pleasant to view, his color choices always seem appropriate, and the perspective is good, not distracting. (Perhaps his hobby of building with bricks honed his sense of proper placement.)

On the book thread I have praised Churchill's book "Painting as a Pastime". It recounts how he started painting in his middle years and why he considered it a valuable activity generally and specifically. It is a delightful little book with humor and practical advice.

Thanks for this one, CBD.

Posted by: JTB at December 14, 2017 09:43 AM (V+03K)

80 The Race is a channel of water that serves as the unofficial entrance to Long Island Sound.

Yeah? Well, Race Point is the tip top of Cape Cod in Provincetown, marking the narrow channel between Massachusetts and Portugal.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 09:43 AM (fuK7c)

81 ...called Race Rock.

******

I thought that was at Rick Perry's place.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 09:44 AM (wPiJc)

82 This painting is racist.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 14, 2017 09:44 AM (oVJmc)

83 >>Yeah? Well, Race Point is the tip top of Cape Cod in Provincetown, marking the narrow channel between Massachusetts and Portugal.

Also one of the best fishing and whale watching locations on the east coast.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 09:45 AM (/tuJf)

84 have to think about putting pants on. have to remove 6" plus of global warming this morning.

thanks, al.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2017 09:45 AM (KP5rU)

85 Alternate title: Nice Racecourse.

Posted by: rickl

It would be a shame if something were to happen to it...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 09:45 AM (AM1GF)

86 have to think about putting pants on. have to remove 6" plus of global warming this morning.

If you put pants on, the climate changers have won.

Posted by: t-bird at December 14, 2017 09:46 AM (2z74n)

87 On the book thread I have praised Churchill's book "Painting as a Pastime".

Posted by: JTB at December 14, 2017 09:43 AM (V+03K)

We could package it with Bob Ross' "Joy of Painting" and call it "Happy Trees and Sad Nazis".

Hmmm. Might need Muldoon's help with the title.

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2017 09:46 AM (nwqNw)

88 >>Yeah? Well, Race Point is the tip top of Cape Cod in Provincetown, marking the narrow channel between Massachusetts and Portugal.

Also one of the best fishing and whale watching locations on the east coast.

That it is, and if Trump wants to win me over he'll open up the whole National Seashore to seal hunting and restore balance to the environment.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 09:48 AM (fuK7c)

89 82 This painting is racist.
__________

And sexist and Islamophobic.

There are no womyns or muzzies in it.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 14, 2017 09:49 AM (fqUgw)

90 The threat to our freedom has morphed from Churhill's Iron Curtain to Obama's Islammunist Prayer Rug.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 14, 2017 09:49 AM (m6qV1)

91 "
Yeah? Well, Race Point is the tip top of Cape Cod in Provincetown, marking the narrow channel between Massachusetts and Portugal.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 09:43 AM (fuK7c"

Well, bander, I guess we could call the Gulf Stream a race ...

Posted by: RI Red - No step on snek. at December 14, 2017 09:49 AM (1YChx)

92 John McCain Blames Trump For Media Arrests Over Fake News

Many of those arrests were driven by crackdowns in China, Turkey, and Egypt, but the report faulted Trump for coz[ying] up to strongmen in those countries

Weasel Zippers

McShit can't die fast enough for me

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 14, 2017 09:49 AM (5y11N)

93

I'll have what Churchill was drinking...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 14, 2017 09:49 AM (mPeei)

94 71. 'Viva la Raza'
***
Pfft! The ONLY acceptable video ever made for ANYTHING by that whiny Limey U2 rip-off. Naturally, it features Mi General:

https://youtu.be/_H2wPOCKjlI

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 09:50 AM (fA1SL)

95 The threat to our freedom has morphed from Churhill's Iron Curtain to Obama's Islammunist Prayer Rug.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives

More like an "Iron Yoga Mat".

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 09:50 AM (AM1GF)

96 86; never thought of that. tally ho, and all that.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2017 09:50 AM (KP5rU)

97
We could package it with Bob Ross' "Joy of Painting" and call it "Happy Trees and Sad Nazis".

Hmmm. Might need Muldoon's help with the title.

******

"Blood, Sweat and Pastels"

"Happy Little Hedgerows"

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 09:50 AM (wPiJc)

98 The more I learn about Churchill, the more I admire him. Quite a contrast with the pygmies that now infest governmental offices.

From time-to-time, I post this link to some video of his funeral, and I do so again now.

http://tinyurl.com/mrdctm9

We won't see his like again.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 09:50 AM (5OO3x)

99 I think we can all be grateful we don't live under THE SPOILS SYSTEM. what a horror show that must have been with government employees getting shitcanned every 4-8 years.

Posted by: x at December 14, 2017 09:50 AM (nFwvY)

100 Seal hunting off Cape Cod? I think the great whites have beaten you to it.

Posted by: RI Red - No step on snek. at December 14, 2017 09:51 AM (1YChx)

101 Can any one give me the Cliff Notes version of what/who this Omarosa person is? FOX reporting she had to be dragged off the grounds of White House after (not?) being fired by Trump Co.?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 14, 2017 09:51 AM (5SRxm)

102 Churchill was a very good painter, especially considering that he was self-taught. Look around for some more examples, you won't be disappointed.

Posted by: josephistan at December 14, 2017 09:51 AM (7HtZB)

103 97. Little Fluffy Clouds:

https://youtu.be/FHixChYgGRI

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 09:51 AM (fA1SL)

104 Mexico will pay for the wall

Posted by: Yeah at December 14, 2017 09:52 AM (EBk1+)

105 Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 09:45 AM (/tuJf)

I don't think Roy Moore would like to visit.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 14, 2017 09:52 AM (2DOZq)

106 More like Racecourse, Okay.

Don't tell me what to think of your painting, amirite?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2017 09:52 AM (KUaJL)

107 I saw a full show of Churchill's paintings at Washington Uni. in StL. Apparently he entered a professional art competition w/one of his works under a pseudonym.
And he won.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 14, 2017 09:53 AM (5SRxm)

108 We won't see his like again.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 09:50 AM (5OO3x)

Rex quondam, rexque futuris, if Britain is lucky...

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 09:53 AM (Bdeb0)

109 99 I think we can all be grateful we don't live under THE SPOILS SYSTEM. what a horror show that must have been with government employees getting shitcanned every 4-8 years.
________________

Yes, thank goodness we now have an independent, totally professional and completely non-partisan civil service.

Think of the mischief that some hyper-partisan bureaucrats could cause if a president not of their liking were to be elected!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 14, 2017 09:53 AM (fqUgw)

110 101 Can any one give me the Cliff Notes version of what/who this Omarosa person is? FOX reporting she had to be dragged off the grounds of White House after (not?) being fired by Trump Co.?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 14, 2017 09:51 AM (5SRxm)

Former Apprentice winner and Diversity outreach person on the WH team. Perhaps even a leaker.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 09:54 AM (r9UYA)

111 I'm a huge Churchill fan but he did screw up with Stalin that caused subsequent problems. Of course he wasn't the only one to screw up.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 14, 2017 09:54 AM (2DOZq)

112
We could package it with Bob Ross' "Joy of Painting" and call it "Happy Trees and Sad Nazis".
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Which reminds me. For that 'Hard to buy for' person, it's not too late to order a Bob Ross Chia Pet:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9w6k8df

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 09:54 AM (5OO3x)

113 what a horror show that must have been with government employees getting shitcanned every 4-8 years.

Man. Think of all the value and experience we would have lost!

Posted by: t-bird at December 14, 2017 09:54 AM (2z74n)

114 Can any one give me the Cliff Notes version of what/who this Omarosa person is? FOX reporting she had to be dragged off the grounds of White House after (not?) being fired by Trump Co.?
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 14, 2017 09:51 AM (5SRxm)

A) She worked for Trump for years after I think being on one of his reality shows

B) She was not dragged out of the White House

She and the story are non factors

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 14, 2017 09:55 AM (5y11N)

115 101 Can any one give me the Cliff Notes version of what/who this Omarosa person is? FOX reporting she had to be dragged off the grounds of White House after (not?) being fired by Trump Co.?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 14, 2017 09:51 AM (5SRxm)

She was on an early season of The Apprentice.

Recently, she was a communications adviser responsible for letting PDT know what his base was thinking.

Gen. Kelly decided he had enough of her, and fired her.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 09:55 AM (CMbMd)

116 97... Dammit Kris and Muldoon, I should know better than to slurp coffee while reading the comments. Almost painted the screen black coffee brown!

Posted by: JTB at December 14, 2017 09:56 AM (V+03K)

117 Seal hunting off Cape Cod? I think the great whites have beaten you to it.

There aren't enough of them. We need great whites, orcas, and Eskimos.

I'm all about restoring the balance. 25 years ago it was oh cute, a seal. 20 years ago it was look there are two small seal colonies, that's cool let's start a seal watching business.

Now they're an infestation. There are tens of thousands of the smelly things and they're ruining surf fishing.

I want Paul Prudhomme to write a blackened seal recipe and wipe them out.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 09:56 AM (fuK7c)

118 Omarosa is mentally unstable in my laymans opinions. She has a narcissistic personality disorder off the scale.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 14, 2017 09:56 AM (2DOZq)

119 Greetings fappers and fappees.

Sir Winston Churchill - Renaissance Man.

Nice historical pic, CBD.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 14, 2017 09:57 AM (tRaq7)

120 Seal hunting off Cape Cod? I think the great whites have beaten you to it.

There aren't enough of them. We need great whites, orcas, and Eskimos.

******

I must say, I'm not a sealing fan.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 09:58 AM (wPiJc)

121 Chruchill evidently spent time in Morocco. His paintings from that period are very evocative, really capture the blasting sunlight and backwardness of life there.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 14, 2017 09:58 AM (5SRxm)

122 Bandersnatch, this might be bad form on my part, but I want to respond to your #444 in the previous thread.

Omarosa's job, vaguely defined, was selling Trump to the black community, and she had trouble doing that because the 'black community' discounted anything she said because she was selling a White Man's (White Supremacists) public policy that wasn't beneficial to the black community.

The Washington Post is admittedly all too often a biased source but that article confirmed my personal bias so I believe it to be true, or at least true enough.

I don't like the authoritarian nature of General Officers very much myself.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 09:59 AM (KdDCu)

123 churchill gave paintings to relatives, friends and employees, but never sold any.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 14, 2017 09:59 AM (Pg+x7)

124 Almost painted the screen black coffee brown!
Posted by: JTB at December 14, 2017 09:56 AM (V+03K)

Probably better than mummy brown.

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2017 09:59 AM (nwqNw)

125 I must say, I'm not a sealing fan.

Posted by: Muldoon

I bet that reverses in the winter, though.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 09:59 AM (AM1GF)

126 ... on occasion his paintings come on the market.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 14, 2017 09:59 AM (Pg+x7)

127 Man. Think of all the value and experience we would have lost!
Posted by: t-bird at December 14, 2017 09:54 AM

Value? Right ...

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 14, 2017 10:00 AM (ctuyM)

128 Almost painted the screen black coffee brown!

*****

Let us spray!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 10:00 AM (wPiJc)

129 101
Can any one give me the Cliff Notes version of what/who this Omarosa
person is? FOX reporting she had to be dragged off the grounds of White
House after (not?) being fired by Trump Co.?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 14, 2017 09:51 AM (5SRxm)

I have a link in the previous thread. BTW, the SS is saying that report about dragging her off is BS.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 14, 2017 10:00 AM (mpXpK)

130 Omarosa is mentally unstable in my laymans opinions. She has a narcissistic personality disorder off the scale.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 14, 2017 09:56 AM (2DOZq)

From what I remember watching snippets of Apprentice way back then, she did not play well with others.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 14, 2017 10:00 AM (QLvwG)

131 I'm a huge Churchill fan but he did screw up with Stalin that caused subsequent problems. Of course he wasn't the only one to screw up.
Posted by: Alabaster Jones
--------------

Churhill full realized the threat that Stalin and the Rooskies represented, and wrote about it at the time. The simple fact though was that the Germans were overrunning Europe, and Britain, standing alone, was not going to be able to stop them.

That it was a deal with the devil was nearly certain, but the alternative was to be crushed beneath the Nazi heel.

I am far more inclined to blame Roosevelt, who was rather enamored with Stalin, and who provided the most support to him. Roosevelt should have cut all aid and support after the Battle of Moscow, when it became apparent that the Russians were going to be able to deal the German invasion.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:01 AM (9tO1t)

132 Omarosa's job, vaguely defined, was selling Trump to the black community, and she had trouble doing that because the 'black community' discounted anything she said because she was selling a White Man's (White Supremacists) public policy that wasn't ~~beneficial to the black community~~ all free shit and impunity, all the time.

I'm done giving any credit to that "community".

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 10:01 AM (AM1GF)

133 Still trying to figure out why there is a Travis Smiley. Anyone know?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2017 10:01 AM (YV+SU)

134 *'Churchill', dammit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:01 AM (9tO1t)

135 Greetings fappers and fappees.

******

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those one and the same?

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 10:01 AM (wPiJc)

136 ... and for a nobel prize winner in literature they bring a good price. i would venture his paintings sell for more than any other writer's.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 14, 2017 10:01 AM (Pg+x7)

137 >>Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those one and the same?

A fappee is a small house plant.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 10:03 AM (/tuJf)

138 131. Not to mention his admin was rotten with commie scum.
Yeah, cut off the aid, then appoint General Patton to lead a combined taskforce of Allies & captured Wehrmacht (if any were left) and crush the Reds would have been an interesting development.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 10:03 AM (fA1SL)

139 I'm a huge Churchill fan but he did screw up with Stalin

???

How so?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 14, 2017 10:04 AM (5y11N)

140 In his war memoirs Churchill makes it clear that he thinks Stalin is a whiny, petulant, ingrateful little bitch.

England is near death but still sending vital supplies around to Archangel and Stalin blames him if they get U-boated and wants the replacements right away and blames him if the harbor is iced in and the supplies can't make it.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 10:04 AM (fuK7c)

141 Painted while waiting in his hobo-hunting blind under the bridge?

Posted by: Stu-22 at December 14, 2017 10:05 AM (be0vm)

142 Hey Horde!

Beautiful painting. Churchill was quite the Renaissance man, as he was a Master Mason and member of the Mason's guild. Thank you for all of the prayers sent our way. I'm doing okay, just can't walk for two weeks. Husband is doing Really well after his procedure, and daughter's foot is finally healing after six months, and she is also responding with to her Lyme disease medication. A happy Christmas for us indeed!!! Thank you for praying us through this. Now go buy a cookbook or three.

Posted by: moki at December 14, 2017 10:05 AM (V+V48)

143 >>>>In his war memoirs Churchill makes it clear that he thinks Stalin is a whiny, petulant, ingrateful little bitch.

England is near death but still sending vital supplies around to
Archangel and Stalin blames him if they get U-boated and wants the
replacements right away and blames him if the harbor is iced in and the
supplies can't make it.
.
.
.
.The United States sent Russia 150,000 MILLION Pounds of Spam during the war.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 14, 2017 10:07 AM (+Dllb)

144 Yay moki! Glad you're here.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2017 10:07 AM (6FqZa)

145 I won't like his sea again.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2017 10:07 AM (IqV8l)

146 143. And tushonka. Those two items - spam & tushonka - shaped post-war diet and cuisine in the USSR.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 10:08 AM (fA1SL)

147 Pffft. AYFKM? Let me give you some advice, Winny. Don't quit your day job.

Posted by: George W. Bush at December 14, 2017 10:08 AM (/qEW2)

148 O\T: When you check the Deplorable Gourmet on Amazon, look at the section 'custonets who bought this item also bought'. It is an interesting selection of books and oddly appropriate. Wonder how they came up with those choices.

Posted by: JTB at December 14, 2017 10:08 AM (V+03K)

149 Used to be able to navigate boats under the bridge, until Obama lowered the seas.

Posted by: Roy at December 14, 2017 10:08 AM (7n4KQ)

150 Sometimes I feel
Like I don't have a partner
Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend
Is the city I live in
The city of angel
Lonely as I am
Together we cry

Posted by: Rick in SK at December 14, 2017 10:09 AM (FZYNt)

151 That's what I wanted someday, a rape castle.

Posted by: Tavis Smiley at December 14, 2017 10:09 AM (r9UYA)

152 "The more I learn about Churchill, the more I admire him. Quite a contrast with the pygmies that now infest governmental offices."

Those "pygmies" were the norm back then as well as now.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Holiday Magic! Get a Face-Plant Hillary doll from the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2017 10:09 AM (hLRSq)

153 I thought Omarosa was one of those people who are fine during the campaign but aren't so useful in the White House.

Kind of like Obama.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2017 10:09 AM (6FqZa)

154 Churchill could paint and he could write. He was a regular Barack Obama!

Posted by: Chris Matthews at December 14, 2017 10:09 AM (vBGc/)

155 Stalin was the enemy of the world,he was suspicious of his allies because he considered them his enemies of the future and figured they felt the same.

Posted by: steevy at December 14, 2017 10:10 AM (LiyEm)

156 143. And, one of my old friends - Leningrader, GPW vet - let me know that spam & tushonka were the top two reasons for his high opinion of the U.S. 'a nation rich enough to produce such good meat and ship it across the planet for free must be paradise. '

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 10:10 AM (fA1SL)

157 A bridge not far enough.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2017 10:10 AM (IqV8l)

158 moki at December 14, 2017 10:05 AM (V+V4

Wonderful news, moki!

Merry Christmas.

Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at December 14, 2017 10:11 AM (AoK0a)

159 139 I'm a huge Churchill fan but he did screw up with Stalin

???

How so?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 14, 2017 10:04 AM (5y11N)

The percentages agreement.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 14, 2017 10:11 AM (2DOZq)

160 142..."member of the mason guild..."

that's right. i forgot he also built a few walls on his estate. probably the best mason among nobel laureates as well.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 14, 2017 10:11 AM (Pg+x7)

161 Churchill?

never heard of him

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at December 14, 2017 10:11 AM (FZYNt)

162 Stalin was the enemy of the world,he was suspicious of his allies because he considered them his enemies of the future and figured they felt the same.
Posted by: steevy

Like projectionist Democrats.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:11 AM (lmYrx)

163 Oh fabulous. One of Drudge's links is "Andrew Sullivan sounds off - about everything"

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2017 10:12 AM (6FqZa)

164 I love Churchill.

For anyone looking for a fairly brief (200 p?) but vivid biography of the man, I suggest Paul Johnson's "Churchill" (2009).

Also, a "race" can refer to a shallow or fast-moving waterway or channel, hence I believe his use of "racecourse" in the title of that painting.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 14, 2017 10:12 AM (wtvvX)

165 142 ... Great news, moki! Good thoughts and prayers for you and the family will continue. Thanks for letting us know. Now to let Mrs. JTB know.

Posted by: JTB at December 14, 2017 10:12 AM (V+03K)

166 In his war memoirs Churchill makes it clear that he thinks Stalin is a whiny, petulant, ingrateful little bitch.
-------
Churchill repeatedly warned Stalin that Hitler was going to attack their ostensible 'ally' Russia, but Stalin looked down his nose at the 'Capitalist'. It should be noted that Stalin was shipping Germany considerable aid.

Curiously, only a short time later, he was pleading with those capitalists for help.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:13 AM (5OO3x)

167 The percentages agreement.
Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 14, 2017 10:11 AM (2DOZq)

That has less to do with Stalin than Churchill trying to retain influence for England in a post WW2 World.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 14, 2017 10:14 AM (5y11N)

168 OT because willowed from last thread:

Spud guns also. Classified as 'destructive devices' bring down the same heat as illegal firearm possession.
Posted by: a lurker at December 14, 2017 09:26 AM
~~~~~

Good God, my home is a virtual armory. I do hope the Spud Guns you're talking about are the ones that shoot a whole potato (which my kids were shooting into the ocean just last year, and now sits broken in the garage,) and not the little ones where you stick the end into a potato and break off a little plug then shoot that. Because I bought one of those babies for every kid in the neighborhood a couple of years ago, and I still see them using them! They were a big hit with the kiddies, but their parents will kill me if I've made them felons too.

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

169 Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those one and the same?

By definition they should be two different thingys.

Fun either way.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 14, 2017 10:14 AM (tRaq7)

170 My inner eeyore is scared re tax cuts. Mccain in the hospital may not vote. Collins is leaning no. Pressure to hold off the vote until Jones is sworn in.

Stupid party might still fuck this up.

Posted by: #neverskankles at December 14, 2017 10:15 AM (XjpzV)

171 Aaaaaaand, NOW I see that redenzo beat me to it by, oh, 140 comments?

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 14, 2017 10:15 AM (wtvvX)

172 "
Also, a "race" can refer to a shallow or fast-moving waterway or channel, hence I believe his use of "racecourse" in the title of that painting.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 14, 2017 10:12 AM (wtvvX)"

Yo, Tex! We've run that race dry up thread. Or maybe up course.

Posted by: RI Red - No step on snek. at December 14, 2017 10:16 AM (1YChx)

173 #131. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:01 AM (9tO1t)

Yup, Churchill knew he was making a deal with the devil to beat Germany but it was his only option at the time. FDR was a commie love shit and his whole administration was a bunch of commies.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 10:16 AM (493sH)

174 .The United States sent Russia 150,000 MILLION Pounds of Spam during the war.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 14, 2017 10:07 AM (+Dllb)

No wonder there was a cold (cut) war. Or whatever that slimy pink stuff in a tin can is.

Posted by: auscolpyr at December 14, 2017 10:16 AM (suO/a)

175 I always get nostalgic for old-fashioned education. Most 'educated' people also had extensive arts training -- not solely as effete and useless snobbery -- but as discipline of the mind. Always told my kids when they were whining about my insistence on music education that it was like learning another language.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 14, 2017 10:16 AM (MIKMs)

176 143 >>
.
.The United States sent Russia 150,000 MILLION Pounds of Spam during the war.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 14, 2017 10:07 AM (+Dllb)

Millions of cases of Carnation Evaporated Milk too. After the war the American GI's loved it so much sales increased a thousand fold. We live near the town of Carnation, WA.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 10:16 AM (r9UYA)

177 >>110 101 Can any one give me the Cliff Notes version of what/who this Omarosa person is? FOX reporting she had to be dragged off the grounds of White House after (not?) being fired by Trump Co.? Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 14, 2017 09:51 AM (5SRxm)

Originally from Barbados. "Omarosa" is her pseudo; her real name is Tituba. Responsible for implicating Sandra Good in the 1692 Salem witch trials. Later changed her name to 'Bertha Mason' and moved into the White House attic after marrying a whiny, indecisive British beta-male. Subsequently fired.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 10:17 AM (Bdeb0)

178 just received a Christmas card.....from a relative....whom i love....that starts out nicely....and devolves into attempts to control ..... smh....parents....don't do this shit to your kids.....and....as i have done....teach your kids not to accept this shit.....(it wasn't from my parents...)

Posted by: phoenixgirl...baseball can't get here soon enough at December 14, 2017 10:17 AM (0O7c5)

179 I can hardly wait for the teabaggers to run Joe Arpaio for the Senate!

Posted by: Alabama Bill Wynn at December 14, 2017 10:17 AM (qqLGp)

180 I do hope the Spud Guns you're talking about are the ones that shoot a whole potato (which my kids were shooting into the ocean just last year, and now sits broken in the garage,) ...
Posted by: IrishEi

This comment might even be too Irish.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2017 10:17 AM (6FqZa)

181 You know who else was an amateur painter.

Posted by: DR.WTF - Duke of Righteous WTF? at December 14, 2017 10:17 AM (T71PA)

182 Just in passing, there was(?) a Churchill bust at the WH. The only available bust of Obama is, like Bob Ross, a Chia Pet. https://preview.tinyurl.com/h3kd222

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:17 AM (5OO3x)

183 >>Stupid party might still fuck this up.

Oh, they will. Bank on it.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 10:17 AM (r9UYA)

184 174. You're kidding, of course. They LOVED that stuff. The older folks still do. The aforementioned Leningrader would get hammered and eat it right outta the can with a spoon.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 10:18 AM (fA1SL)

185 Humidity must be increasing hear in OKC. Cats aren't sparking nearly as much as they were yesterday when I petted them.

Posted by: Soona at December 14, 2017 10:18 AM (ZijL5)

186 Aw, thanks you guys! (blushes)

I love the horde prayer list- could that be a weekly thing? That helps me keep track of everyone I want/need to pray for.

Also Stalin was a beast, and I concur that Roosevelt was enamored of him. His beastly wife as well. Churchill was fighting uphill battles with the commission in his govt and civil service, including Kim Philby who was passing every bit of classified that came his way to Stalin. It is a wonder we won the war considering the massive amount of treason taking place.

Posted by: moki at December 14, 2017 10:19 AM (V+V48)

187
The United States sent Russia 150,000 MILLION Pounds of Spam during the war.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 14, 2017 10:07 AM (+Dllb)

I don't like spam!!!!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 10:19 AM (493sH)

188 170 My inner eeyore is scared re tax cuts. Mccain in the hospital may not vote. Collins is leaning no. Pressure to hold off the vote until Jones is sworn in.

Stupid party might still fuck this up.
---------------------------------
The best possible outcome is McCain becomes a complete potato that breaths. Then his conservative voting score will soar!!! Tough vote? Roll out Spuds McCain. Winning.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2017 10:19 AM (YV+SU)

189 176. Evaporated milk is still a treat for the Russians. Evaporated milk and bread is a common dessert.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 10:19 AM (fA1SL)

190 Most 'educated' people also had extensive arts training
-------------------

I believe there is something more than training involved. I've seen too many people who can draw. They just do it. The training they might get refines an existing talent.

You can't teach a monkey to sing, you can't teach me to draw. No talent.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 10:19 AM (KdDCu)

191 My inner eeyore is scared re tax cuts.
===================

That's the way to bet, certainly.

Posted by: Barack Obama is a bad, bad man at December 14, 2017 10:19 AM (ylUqT)

192 This comment might even be too Irish.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2017 10:17 AM
~~~~~

Is there ANYTHING a potato can't do?!

Posted by: IrishEi at December 14, 2017 10:20 AM (HiDrR)

193 >>Why vote Republican?

>>Take a bow McConnell, Ryan, and assorted GOPe-assholes!

>>Good job all around!
>>Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2017 09:39 AM (9q7Dl)

At least Democrats don't lie about what they'll do in office once elected. So they have that going for them. With the Republicans, it's nothing but lies.

This might explain Alabama.

How many times do we put up with being lied to?

Posted by: G. Gnome, with the red pointy hat at December 14, 2017 10:20 AM (al6UK)

194 Churchill? The fake Indian guy? Is this what he's up to now?

Posted by: tu3031 at December 14, 2017 10:20 AM (O5Q3r)

195 Yay, Moki!!

Posted by: bluebell at December 14, 2017 10:20 AM (kNasr)

196 It is a wonder we won the war considering the massive amount of treason taking place.
Posted by: moki at December 14, 2017 10:19 AM (V+V4

Sort of like now

Posted by: MAC SOG at December 14, 2017 10:20 AM (czkHE)

197 >>The aforementioned Leningrader would get hammered and eat it right outta the can with a spoon. Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 10:18 AM (fA1SL)

Spam is a dish best served...cold.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 10:21 AM (Bdeb0)

198 >>Responsible for implicating Sandra Good in the 1692 Salem witch trials.
Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 10:17 AM (Bdeb0)

The bitch! Rebecca Nurse was a distant relative of mine.

Posted by: Caliban at December 14, 2017 10:22 AM (vBGc/)

199 her real name is Tituba.

I think the Tit Tuba would be an awesome musical instrument!

One of you engineering inclined morons get right on that.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2017 10:22 AM (9q7Dl)

200 I don't like spam!!!!
-------------------------
My Dad hated Spam cuz that was all he had to eat for three and half years hopping islands in the Pacific. Finally a Jap shot him and he was evacuated and never ate Spam again. Its a good story for Christmas. (Oh yeah, the Jap that shot him got dead real fast). Merry Christmas.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2017 10:22 AM (YV+SU)

201 I must say, I'm not a sealing fan.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 09:58 AM

Come on, Muldoon...let's go clubbing!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2017 10:22 AM (p+Wdc)

202 2 pounds on Escapee in the 4 o'clock @ San Quentin.

Posted by: saf at December 14, 2017 10:22 AM (cS/ge)

203 Spam is a dish best served...cold.
Posted by: Zod

Spam is a dish best served...to your enemies.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:22 AM (lmYrx)

204 Just ordered my copy of the cookbook.

True to moron form, I figured that since I had a comment, I might as go back and read the content...

Posted by: Toddler at December 14, 2017 10:23 AM (75SMd)

205 Unless you're the ficus, that is.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 14, 2017 10:23 AM (tRaq7)

206 Also Stalin was a beast, and I concur that Roosevelt was enamored of him. His beastly wife as well. Churchill was fighting uphill battles with the commission in his govt and civil service, including Kim Philby who was passing every bit of classified that came his way to Stalin. It is a wonder we won the war considering the massive amount of treason taking place.

Posted by: moki at December 14, 2017 10:19 AM (V+V4

Yes, there needed to be a lot of commies lined up against the nearest wall and shot for treason. Maybe that would have sent the message to future generations of would be commie traitors.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 10:23 AM (493sH)

207 I must say, I'm not a sealing fan.

Posted by: Muldoon

I much prefer floors.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:23 AM (lmYrx)

208 .The United States sent Russia 150,000 MILLION Pounds of Spam during the war.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman
------------

In the aftermath, Stalin claimed that aid from the U.S. had no impact on the war.

Somewhere around here, I have some commentary from a Brit flyer who was working with the Russians during the war. Observing a number of Catalinas at a particular location, he voiced his admiration for the Consolidated aircraft. The Russians insistently and proudly pointed out that they were produced by Russia at some plant in Siberia.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:23 AM (w1zJX)

209 No. 2 Son used to go to a summer camp in New Hampshire where one of the cherished traditions was diving for cans of expired Spam that were thrown into the pond.

I don't know quite what that was about but it's one of his favorite memories.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 10:23 AM (fuK7c)

210 Omarosa Manigault Newman says reports about her resignation are nonsense and are totally due to April Ryan's "vendetta" against her.

https://tinyurl.com/y8rt8zxd

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 14, 2017 10:24 AM (398bZ)

211 Long-time lurker de-lurking to say I got my copy of the cookbook last night. I can't wait to try out some of the recipes on my "friends".

This is a hecking handsome and hefty tome. Makes me feel like a proud 'ette, though I move about unseen. Well done to everybody involved.

*re-lurk*

Posted by: InsufferableCephalopod at December 14, 2017 10:24 AM (T6lZU)

212 Great news Moki! Thank you for letting us know.

Posted by: Jewells45 canhandleyourjewels at December 14, 2017 10:24 AM (zRZaJ)

213 I remember camping trips where mom and dad would slice up some spam and try to grill it. It actually tastes a little bit better if you burn it, because the burnt charcoal flavor mostly drowns out the spam flavor.

yeah we ate like kings in those days. 7th century kings.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 10:24 AM (k1TUh)

214 CHURCHILL's mother was an AMERICAN so we can claim him

AMERICA F YEAH

Posted by: lancewing plover at December 14, 2017 10:24 AM (hXeKX)

215 Spam is a dish best served...to fat Hawaiians.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 10:25 AM (r9UYA)

216 When I was a kid we had a Christmas Spam for dinner.
Little one got to lick out the can.

Posted by: Roland THTG at December 14, 2017 10:25 AM (xBSm0)

217 Originally from Barbados. "Omarosa" is her pseudo; her real name is Tituba. Responsible for implicating Sandra Good in the 1692 Salem witch trials. Later changed her name to 'Bertha Mason' and moved into the White House attic after marrying a whiny, indecisive British beta-male. Subsequently fired.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 10:17 AM (Bdeb0)

Tituba? Is that an orchestral instrument?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 14, 2017 10:25 AM (aMlLZ)

218 >>Spam is a dish best served...to fat Hawaiians. Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 10:25 AM (r9UYA)

Hey!! We rednecks love it too.

Posted by: G. Gnome, with the red pointy hat at December 14, 2017 10:26 AM (al6UK)

219 Hey moki, that's great news.

Merry Christmas to you and your family.

And to the Horde. God Bless us, each and every one.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 14, 2017 10:26 AM (tRaq7)

220 *re-lurk*
Posted by: InsufferableCephalopod

Stop that!

Stay and comment!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:26 AM (lmYrx)

221 All right, I'll cut this impressionist some slack.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 14, 2017 10:26 AM (xJa6I)

222 Sometimes it's a mohawk, sometimes it's just "shave the right side off, don't worry about crooked." Sometimes it's "just a shaved strip right down the middle."
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Sounds about right to me.

Posted by: Michelle Obama's Landing Strip at December 14, 2017 10:27 AM (vg8iE)

223 Churchill? The fake Indian guy? Is this what he's up to now?
Posted by: tu3031
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Probably applying for a job at Evergreen, as Provost.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:27 AM (w1zJX)

224 "Yes, there needed to be a lot of commies lined up against the nearest wall and shot for treason. Maybe that would have sent the message to future generations of would be commie traitors."

Oliver Cromwell knew how to send a message.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 10:27 AM (k1TUh)

225 When I was a kid we had a Christmas Spam for dinner.
Little one got to lick out the can.
Posted by: Roland THTG

Anyone remember the Spam can key?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:27 AM (lmYrx)

226 I'm all about restoring the balance. 25 years ago it was oh cute, a seal. 20 years ago it was look there are two small seal colonies, that's cool let's start a seal watching business.

Now they're an infestation. There are tens of thousands of the smelly things and they're ruining surf fishing.

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There's nothing you can do about this. Cape Cod is a sanctuary cape. Your attitude shows why we need even more seals, in order to help people overcome their subconscious anti-seal bigotry. We must stop our shameful history of committing social injustice against seals.

Posted by: ¡Jeb! at December 14, 2017 10:27 AM (/qEW2)

227
I don't like spam!!!!
Posted by: TheQuietMan

Yeah, England must have received some Spam as well.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2017 10:27 AM (IqV8l)

228 Omarosa sounds like a skin disorder.

Worse than psoriasis but no where near as bad as shingles.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 14, 2017 10:27 AM (UubSE)

229 Glad things are improving, Moki!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 14, 2017 10:27 AM (xJa6I)

230 216 When I was a kid we had a Christmas Spam for dinner.
Little one got to lick out the can.
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I have cooked a Christmas Spam. You need cloves, brown sugar, orange marmalade, Coca Cola and a 350 degree oven. My Christmas Spam is much better than my Ketchup Sandwich.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2017 10:28 AM (YV+SU)

231 Anyone remember the Spam can key?

We saved those to decorate the tree!

Posted by: Roland THTG at December 14, 2017 10:28 AM (xBSm0)

232 Went to the "Newseum" yesterday on a field trip. It's a giant memorial to RECENT (comparatively) media elite and the most self-indulgent, self-agrandizing load you can possibly imagine. They credit themselves for "civil rights" gains, "Camelot" and "understanding 9-11" (although radical islam never mentioned). Their display on "Fake News" ONLY includes a reference to Cosmic Pizza and nothing else. I'd say 75% is dedicated to 60s civil rights protests and 20% to John Kennedy (failing to mention any negative with one picture of him and Eisenhower talking at Camp David during Cuban Missile Crisis. 5% congratulates themselves on covering 9-11 and the Berlin wall.

The teacher carefully gave me only conservative kids, I suppose so i wouldn't poison them. Funny though, the newseum "educator" had each table of kids come up with what they'd "protest' if they could. Every table except one went off on "objectifying women" or lgbtq treatment, etc., except one. The kids I got told her they wanted to overturn Roe v wade. The old broad almost shit herself. Had to bite my tongue to keep from braying.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 10:29 AM (eO5CB)

233 At least Democrats don't lie about what they'll do in office once elected. So they have that going for them. With the Republicans, it's nothing but lies.

This might explain Alabama.

How many times do we put up with being lied to?
Posted by: G. Gnome, with the red pointy hat at December 14, 2017 10:20 AM (al6UK)

Levin pointed out last night that the failures of the GOPe Congress to honor any of the major campaign promises has the base completely demoralized and unengaged.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 14, 2017 10:29 AM (y7DUB)

234 This is a hecking handsome and hefty tome. Makes me feel like a proud 'ette, though I move about unseen. Well done to everybody involved.

*re-lurk*
Posted by: InsufferableCephalopod at December 14, 2017 10:24 AM (T6lZU)
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Hey, come back here! Thank you for buying the book, and I hope you like the recipes when you try them. Let us know if there are any survivors.

Posted by: bluebell at December 14, 2017 10:29 AM (kNasr)

235 OK, whoever keeps the Elite Emu Commandos needs to keep better tabs on them.

https://is.gd/EUcl0B

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 10:29 AM (AM1GF)

236 I always forget Churchill was a Spencer.

I quite like that, very soothing.

Which is good because today has been an utter shit show.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 14, 2017 10:29 AM (mf5HN)

237
There's a joke in here about sealing wax, but I'm loathe to pursue it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:29 AM (cp1if)

238 Cape Cod is a sanctuary cape. Your attitude shows why we need even more seals,

*******

I approve of this.

Posted by: Good Housekeeping Seal at December 14, 2017 10:30 AM (wPiJc)

239 Ah, I'm never so clever as you fine regulars here. But, the horde has entertained me for lo these many years, and I had to cheer on the cookbook.

Posted by: InsufferableCephalopod at December 14, 2017 10:30 AM (T6lZU)

240 Tituba? Is that an orchestral instrument?
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Its a tenor tuba.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2017 10:30 AM (YV+SU)

241 I would really like to play out an alternate history in which the plot to kill Hitler succeeded, Germany came to terms with the Allies, and then Patton and Rommel join forces to tag-team some commies.

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 14, 2017 10:30 AM (mynhJ)

242 Anyone remember the Spam can key?

Yep.

Those and pull ring openers on soda and beer cans. We used to make chains out of them and hang them on the dorm walls.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 14, 2017 10:30 AM (tRaq7)

243 Anyone remember the Spam can key?

We saved those to decorate the tree!

Posted by: Roland THTG at December 14, 2017 10:28 AM (xBSm0)

You had a tree? Luxury

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 10:30 AM (493sH)

244 190 You can't teach a monkey to sing, you can't teach me to draw. No talent.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 10:19 AM (KdDCu)

I agree with this sentiment.

The one time I actually got to take a drawing class, the teacher flat out told me that she couldn't teach me, because I had no existing talent. She apologized profusely, of course.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 10:30 AM (CMbMd)

245
Anytime I receive spam,, I just wipe it, with like a cloth...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 14, 2017 10:30 AM (mPeei)

246 "There's a joke in here about sealing wax, but I'm loathe to pursue it."

The Time has Come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 10:31 AM (k1TUh)

247 My dad had a liking for some bizarre food from the depression and WWII. We actually had spam, scrapple, and various sketchy foods occassionally. I actually like SOS.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 10:31 AM (eO5CB)

248 I have cooked a Christmas Spam. You need cloves, brown sugar, orange marmalade, Coca Cola and a 350 degree oven. My Christmas Spam is much better than my Ketchup Sandwich.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2017 10:28 AM (YV+SU)

When Mom was dressing up Spam to make it a fancier dinner,

she used cloves, brown sugar, and mustard.

I liked it quite a bit.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2017 10:31 AM (9q7Dl)

249 Levin pointed out last night that the failures of the GOPe Congress to honor any of the major campaign promises has the base completely demoralized and unengaged.
Posted by: Captain Hate

Oh, we're engaged and moralized. I am stocking pitchforks and making torches like you wouldn't believe!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:31 AM (lmYrx)

250 Insufferable, I lurked for years before I started commenting. The hard part is done - you've commented! I hope you stick around.

Posted by: bluebell at December 14, 2017 10:31 AM (kNasr)

251 There's a joke in here about sealing wax, but I'm loathe to pursue it.

*******

That's what they use for Bra-seal-ians, right?

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 10:31 AM (wPiJc)

252 201 I must say, I'm not a sealing fan.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 09:58 AM

So you're a floor vent?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2017 10:32 AM (Xx7dP)

253 Hey, come back here! Thank you for buying the book, and I hope you like the recipes when you try them. Let us know if there are any survivors.

And save a sample for the forensic folk, too.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 14, 2017 10:32 AM (tRaq7)

254 The kids I got told her they wanted to overturn Roe v wade. The old broad almost shit herself. Had to bite my tongue to keep from braying.
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Priceless. Way to go Dagny.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2017 10:32 AM (YV+SU)

255 The kids I got told her they wanted to overturn Roe v wade. The old broad almost shit herself. Had to bite my tongue to keep from braying.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 10:29 AM (eO5CB)

Love it. Is it true the Newseum is at risk of being foreclosed out of existence?

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 14, 2017 10:32 AM (y7DUB)

256 Rowhouses built with Spam-and-oystershell mortar in colonial America were referred to derisively as "pig-brickers;" children raised in these homes were mocked as "pig-lets."

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 10:33 AM (Bdeb0)

257 I actually like SOS.
Posted by: dagny

Mom used to make something similar with cream of chicken soup & toast.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:33 AM (lmYrx)

258
He was crawling forward as instructed, then he
suddenly reaches behind his back. Watch the video. There was no reason
for him to do that, and the cop explicitly said not to or he WILL be
shot. This is not a case of cop saying "put your hands on your head, not
behind your back" and dude puts them behind his back. He's supposed to
crawl forward, nothing else.

Posted by: pete at December 13, 2017 12:28 PM (meg+g)
Pete - I hope you are online. Sadly I was at the gun range yesterday when you posted this.
Martial Arts is not just the study of how to fight - it is also the study of human conflict and why people fight.
I have been teaching people Martial Arts for over 30 years and you have some misunderstandings of people and how they function. About .1% of people lack the pathways in their brains to easily interpret verbal commands into physical actions. I have encountered such people while trying to instruct them. If you tell them to "step forward with their left foot" they go into a freeze or step backward with their right foot - or randomly move their hands. Interestingly if you ask them questions like "Can you step forward with your left foot?" They are often able to do that.
You have assumed that everyone has your ability to interpret and obey verbal commands, and that is not true. Nobody's brain is perfect in all respects - we all have areas where we lack the neurons necessary for success in every situation. In watching that video I immediately saw that this is a person who has problems interpreting and obeying verbal commands. The officer might as well be shouting instructions in Klingon for all this person understands what he is being told.
Why does he put his arms behind his back the first time? He didn't have a weapon he was reaching for - why would he do that? He probably wanted to appear as non threatening as possible and thought something like "When they hand cuff you they put your hands behind your back - so I'll do that for them."The person who died was desperately trying to do what he was told - listen to his terrified voice.
By the way, the sergeant playing "Simon Sez" with him asks early if anyone has been drinking. That is because he KNOWS that drunks can't obey verbal commands. Also note that the Sergeant KNOWS that the person is making erroneous movements. He says "If you make another mistake we will shoot you." He KNOWS they are mistakes and not threatening moves - but he is looking for an excuse to use deadly force.
Why did the person reach in back of him a second time? He probably remembers thinking that would be a good thing to do - so he does it again. Poor bastard.

Posted by: An Observation at December 14, 2017 10:34 AM (ga0UL)

259 Oh, and I did enjoy explaining LOUDLY the events leading to the picture of the federal agents seizing Elain Gonzales. You should have seen these 14 year old faces. They also had never seen film of the buildings falling and people jumping on 9-11 although they NEVER once mention why or how it happened.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 10:34 AM (eO5CB)

260 I have cooked a Christmas Spam. You need cloves, brown sugar, orange marmalade, Coca Cola and a 350 degree oven. My Christmas Spam is much better than my Ketchup Sandwich.
Posted by: Puddin Head
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Then, there is the mushroom soup casserole. Doesn't much matter what the other stuff is, as long as it is baked with...mushroom soup.

BTW, I don't object to this. An entire generation was raised on such, and was thankful.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:34 AM (cp1if)

261 I have a strange liking for pre-cooked and frozen hashed potato wedges
I have no idea why since they're crap but I like them.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2017 10:34 AM (Xx7dP)

262 O\T: When you check the Deplorable Gourmet on Amazon, look at the section 'custonets who bought this item also bought'. It is an interesting selection of books and oddly appropriate. Wonder how they came up with those choices.
Posted by: JTB at December 14, 2017 10:08 AM (V+03K)

I want know who's buying combat first aid, and sidle up to them when face colanders are uniform of the day.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 14, 2017 10:34 AM (Dp6qK)

263 My Christmas Spam is much better than my Ketchup Sandwich.

I was rolling around in the cookbook yesterday and one of my favorites was the raisin salami sandwich. Careful instructions on how to put miracle whip on two slices of raisin bread and place the salami between them.

The Horde...

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 10:35 AM (fuK7c)

264 Little one got to lick out the can.

Yours came in a can? Lucky, we had to dumpster dive for ours.

Posted by: Jewells45 canhandleyourjewels at December 14, 2017 10:35 AM (zRZaJ)

265 247 I actually like SOS.

If we're confessing our most closely held culinary secrets here, I do too. They served us chipped beef on toast every morning in boot camp. I could never get enough food in boot camp. I loved the stuff.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 10:36 AM (r9UYA)

266
Love it. Is it true the Newseum is at risk of being foreclosed out of existence?
Posted by: Captain Hate

I'd rather go to the Boozeum.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2017 10:36 AM (IqV8l)

267 Mom used to make something similar with cream of chicken soup & toast.

Mumsey Dearest would make something like that called "Chicken a la King."

She lived through the Depression and apparently thought it never ended.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 14, 2017 10:36 AM (tRaq7)

268
Ah, I'm never so clever as you fine regulars here. But, the horde has entertained me for lo these many years, and I had to cheer on the cookbook.

Posted by: InsufferableCephalopod at December 14, 2017 10:30 AM (T6lZU)

Welcome.

Don't worry about the initiation ceremony for admittance to Teh Horde, it doesn't hurt.

Much.

Cleaning the creamed corn and antifreeze out of your nether regions is a bitch though.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 14, 2017 10:36 AM (veoSD)

269 They also had never seen film of the buildings falling and people jumping on 9-11 although they NEVER once mention why or how it happened.
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Russian Collusion? or NAZI white supremacists? Gotta be one or the other.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2017 10:36 AM (YV+SU)

270 It's hard to believe that there's nobody out there
It's hard to believe that I'm all alone.
At least I have her love, the racecourse she loves me.
Lonely as I am, together we cryyyyy...

Lie don' evah wanna feeeeeeel. Like I did that day.

Take me toodah place I looooove. Take me alda way.

Posted by: Red Hot Churchili Peppers at December 14, 2017 10:36 AM (/qEW2)

271 Oh and as in last thread, big fan of Churchill, here. Of course he has some faults, Galipoli being a prime example. But he fought and won, like someone else we know.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 14, 2017 10:36 AM (Dp6qK)

272 261. Turnips, parsnips, onions, cabbage and kraut. In sour cream, with paprika and dill. I hated that dish as a kid - we ate so damned much of it - but I still cook a mess of it now and then.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 10:37 AM (fA1SL)

273 Bander, did you find the description of what a cross-section would look like to be helpful? Because I did.

Posted by: bluebell at December 14, 2017 10:37 AM (kNasr)

274 >>Yours came in a can? Lucky, we had to dumpster dive for ours.Posted by: Jewells45 canhandleyourjewels at December 14, 2017 10:35 AM (zRZaJ)

Dumpsters? We (chirp) had to wait for (chirp chirp) Mom to return and (chirp) puke it down our (chirp) gullets (chirpchirp)

Posted by: Zodwing Plover at December 14, 2017 10:38 AM (Bdeb0)

275 Those and pull ring openers on soda and beer cans. We used to make chains out of them and hang them on the dorm walls.

******

Missus Muldoon in her younger hippie days made an entire vest out of those things. We still have it hanging in a closet somewhere. I think.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 10:38 AM (wPiJc)

276 Oh and as in last thread, big fan of Churchill, here. Of course he has some faults, Galipoli being a prime example. But he fought and won, like someone else we know.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 14, 2017 10:36 AM (Dp6qK)

The rumor is Churchill had two scoops of spotted dick

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 10:38 AM (493sH)

277 Hey Dagny, is there any exhibit focusing on the press handling of the You Tube Video That Caused a Spontaneous Riot of Crewed Served Weapons that Consumed and American Ambassador? I would think that event should be highlighted at a News Mausoleum.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2017 10:39 AM (YV+SU)

278 "Why did the person reach in back of him a second time? He probably remembers thinking that would be a good thing to do - so he does it again. Poor bastard.
Posted by: An Observation at December 14, 2017 10:34 AM (ga0UL)"

All very good points! We can think about a roadside sobriety test; the entire point is that, if someone is impaired by alcohol, they are not going to be able to coherently follow the verbal instructions they are being given. Every cop should know that instinctively.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 10:39 AM (k1TUh)

279 Oh, and I did enjoy explaining LOUDLY the events leading to the picture of the federal agents seizing Elain Gonzales. You should have seen these 14 year old faces. They also had never seen film of the buildings falling and people jumping on 9-11 although they NEVER once mention why or how it happened.
Posted by: dagny
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A Jeopardy 'Answer' the other night, category 'Cities', was something like 'Site of U.S. Invasion of Italy, which required 3 months occupation before a breakout could occur'

Three adults...stood there like deer in the headlights. Silence.

It occurred to me that an entire generation (or two, or three) is completely ignorant of the most world-shaping events of the twentieth century. Things within living memory.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:39 AM (9tO1t)

280 Those and pull ring openers on soda and beer cans. We used to make chains out of them and hang them on the dorm walls.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 14, 2017 10:30 AM (tRaq7)

A few months ago I rebuilt a Harley panhead motor for this dude that's in his early 20's. We were having a beer at the shop, and a few of us were talking about beer cans, and someone mentioned the old pull tabs, and making chains with them. The kid gets big eyed, points to his beer, and he says "these used to come off??"" Funny shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 14, 2017 10:39 AM (aMlLZ)

281 CHURCHILL's mother was an AMERICAN so we can claim him

AMERICA F YEAH

Posted by: lancewing plover at December 14, 2017 10:24 AM (hXeKX)

He was made an American citizen by act of Congress.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Holiday Magic! Get a Face-Plant Hillary doll from the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2017 10:39 AM (hLRSq)

282 Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 10:38 AM (493sH)

Is that a currant rumor?

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 14, 2017 10:39 AM (2DOZq)

283 So when the Secret Service stepped in to correct April Ryan's Fake News re: Omarosa, April Ryan, that paragon of journalistic virtue, actually Tweeted back: OK it wasn't you who removed her who removed her."

That's right, a "journalist" just demanded that the Secret Service correct her Fake News.

That's a thing that actually happened. Even given that it's Ryan, I'm gobsmacked.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 14, 2017 10:39 AM (ul9CR)

284 My dad had a liking for some bizarre food from the
depression and WWII. We actually had spam, scrapple, and various sketchy
foods occassionally. I actually like SOS. Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 10:31 AM (eO5CB)
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Gaaah. That stuff is hella expensive. We used to save the little glasses for juice, but that is not practical now. King Oscar herring is what I remember from Christmas and New Year and it also had the key.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 14, 2017 10:39 AM (MIKMs)

285 Missus Muldoon in her younger hippie days made an entire vest out of those things. We still have it hanging in a closet somewhere. I think.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 10:38 AM (wPiJc)

Mithril for poor folks.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2017 10:39 AM (Xx7dP)

286 272 261. Turnips, parsnips, onions, cabbage and kraut. In sour cream, with paprika and dill. I hated that dish as a kid - we ate so damned much of it - but I still cook a mess of it now and then.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 10:37 AM

You german peasant, you!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 10:40 AM (k1TUh)

287 I have a strange liking for pre-cooked and frozen hashed potato wedges
I have no idea why since they're crap but I like them.
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I will only eat instant mashed potatoes. I think it's the texture. I wasn't raised on food out of a box and it's not how I cook, but I won't eat real mashed potatoes.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 14, 2017 10:40 AM (vg8iE)

288 Little one got to lick out the can.

Yours came in a can? Lucky, we had to dumpster dive for ours.
Posted by: Jewells45

That's kind of a can.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:40 AM (lmYrx)

289 Just heard that the driver of the Dodge Challenger of Political Dialogue will be in court today. This should be an interesting case.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 10:41 AM (fA1SL)

290
274 >>Yours came in a can? Lucky, we had to dumpster dive for ours.Posted by: Jewells45 canhandleyourjewels at December 14, 2017 10:35 AM (zRZaJ)

Dumpsters? We (chirp) had to wait for (chirp chirp) Mom to return and (chirp) puke it down our (chirp) gullets (chirpchirp)

Posted by: Zodwing Plover at December 14, 2017 10:38 AM (Bdeb0)

You had a nest???!!??!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 14, 2017 10:41 AM (veoSD)

291 >>Anyone remember the Spam can key?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:27 AM (lmYrx)

I once used it to steal a Thunderbird.

Posted by: Morgan Freeman at December 14, 2017 10:42 AM (vBGc/)

292 Mumsey Dearest would make something like that called "Chicken a la King."

She lived through the Depression and apparently thought it never ended.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy
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Yeah...served on toast? It was a staple at our house.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:42 AM (9tO1t)

293 Love it. Is it true the Newseum is at risk of being foreclosed out of existence?Posted by: Captain Hate at December 14, 2017 10:32 AM (y7DUB)

Imagine a monster, huge, elaborate, mostly SOARING space, all glass and chrome and self-love sitting on some of the world's most expensive real-estate and then imagine it being surrounded by FREE museums, many of them and then the "newseum" charging $25 to get in. Then imagine that all the exhibits are easily found on-line. (I didn't pay squat, as they let school children be indoctrinated no-charge).
The lib teacher and various old boomers kept saying that it would take DAYS to see everything while I couldn't find much to entertain me---I'd seen it all before and knew more background than the exhibit plaques.
I guess if you're OBSESSED with watching and rewatching "Selma" (did you see it!! Did you see it!?! said the newseum staffer) you could stay all day, but it's hard to have existed the last 40 years and have not already seen it all.
Yeah, not only is it failing badly, it almost took down the original endowment from the USA today mogul.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 10:42 AM (eO5CB)

294 Bander, did you find the description of what a cross-section would look like to be helpful? Because I did.

Yes, quite.

Now, we have before us a Cephalopod what seems to be an 'ette-in-waiting.

Come on in, girl. You only have to show us your tits once and then your visa is stamped for life.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 10:42 AM (fuK7c)

295 >>286 272 261. Turnips, parsnips, onions, cabbage and kraut. In sour cream, with paprika and dill. I hated that dish as a kid - we ate so damned much of it - but I still cook a mess of it now and then. Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 10:37 AM

You will telepathically inform Zod next time this delicacy is created, and you will host.

Posted by: Zodwing Plover at December 14, 2017 10:43 AM (Bdeb0)

296 286. Heh.....my family were German Jews down one side, and filthy, disreputable Poles and Balkans down the other. Our cuisine proved that.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 10:43 AM (fA1SL)

297 Anyone remember the Spam can key?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:27 AM (lmYrx)

I believe that was the key of F.

Posted by: Gordon Ramsey at December 14, 2017 10:43 AM (vBGc/)

298 damn plover sock.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 10:43 AM (Bdeb0)

299 A few months ago I rebuilt a Harley panhead motor for this dude that's in his early 20's. We were having a beer at the shop, and a few of us were talking about beer cans, and someone mentioned the old pull tabs, and making chains with them. The kid gets big eyed, points to his beer, and he says "these used to come off??"" Funny shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

Come off? Son, used to, you had to punch two triangular holes in the can to get it out.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:43 AM (lmYrx)

300 Then, there is the mushroom soup casserole. Doesn't much matter what the other stuff is, as long as it is baked with...mushroom soup.

BTW, I don't object to this. An entire generation was raised on such, and was thankful.
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My Mom served Tuna Casserole. Once. I don't know what the woman was thinking. Crazy Times.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2017 10:43 AM (YV+SU)

301 Oh and as in last thread, big fan of Churchill, here. Of course he has some faults, Galipoli being a prime example

There's some belief that if the attack had been pressed at the onset, or if the mnesweepers had been quickly re-crewed with RN sailors, they might have forced the straits.

Instead, they hunkered and down, not unlike Anzio in WWII.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 14, 2017 10:43 AM (326rv)

302 One of my fond memories of vacations in the 60's was big ice chest full of Shasta sodas of all different colors in the back of the station wagon. Still needed a church key to drink them.

Dad's Falstaff needed a church key, too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 10:44 AM (k1TUh)

303 Yeah, know what I like? Vienna sausages and "potted meat." Had it in the pantry as a kid (depression era parents) and I like it. Treat myself to a potted meat sandwich once a year and never ever ever read the ingredients.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 10:44 AM (eO5CB)

304 I can't remember the comment number re canned foods, but you are absolutely correct. Generations grew up with those, and I wager they had fewer health problems than we are seeing today. Heck, living overseas, there were some posts where we had to bring our own food because it was unsafe to eat locally, and guess what we brought? Canned get, canned meats (canned chicken makes some interesting and actually tasty food) and canned fruit. We were fairly well fed, and didn't get sick.

The Nutritionists today pooh pooh such comestibles, because you should only eat fresh. Well, if you can't afford it, you have to do the next best thing, and canned goods have a longer shelf life than frozen items, especially if you don't have the money/space for an extra freezer.

Sorry, canned food rant off. I blame the pain meds!

Posted by: moki at December 14, 2017 10:44 AM (V+V48)

305 Roe v wade.

******

That's what Churchill was pondering as he painted this scene.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 10:44 AM (wPiJc)

306 Cleaning the creamed corn and antifreeze out of your nether regions is a bitch though.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 14, 2017 10:36 AM (veoSD)

I feel like that's super uncomfortable. And awkward. And itchy.

Thanks for the welcome, all. I'll see about commenting more frequently (or at all). Again, great work, bluebell.

A fine Thursday to you all.

Posted by: InsufferableCephalopod at December 14, 2017 10:44 AM (T6lZU)

307 Anyone remember the Spam can key?

I have to key to the batter's box where you find the rope to pull in the shore line

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 14, 2017 10:44 AM (5y11N)

308
I have a strange liking for pre-cooked and frozen hashed potato wedges
I have no idea why since they're crap but I like them.
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I will only eat instant mashed potatoes. I think it's the texture. I wasn't raised on food out of a box and it's not how I cook, but I won't eat real mashed potatoes.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 14, 2017 10:40 AM (vg8iE)

Ugh. I can't stand instant mashed potatoes.

On the other hand, those heavily processed frozen hash browns that come in the milk carton packaging? Mmmmmm.

Weird, huh?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 14, 2017 10:44 AM (veoSD)

309 I have a strange liking for pre-cooked and frozen hashed potato wedges

Arby's?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:45 AM (lmYrx)

310
That's right, a "journalist" just demanded that the Secret Service correct her Fake News.

That's a thing that actually happened. Even given that it's Ryan, I'm gobsmacked.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat?
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If you can't disprove my loony hypothesis, then it must be true.

See: Russian collusion

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:45 AM (cp1if)

311 Mobile has a Maritime Museum that was built next to the cruise ship dock for no apparent reason.

http://www.gulfquest.org/

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 10:45 AM (QQ+il)

312 OK Hordelings, I gotta go get ready for G-Daughter Numero Dos to come over and help us decorate the tree.

Y'all try to behave. And no, the Spam key doesn't open the liquor cabinet.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 14, 2017 10:45 AM (tRaq7)

313 299 A few months ago I rebuilt a Harley panhead motor for this dude that's in his early 20's. We were having a beer at the shop, and a few of us were talking about beer cans, and someone mentioned the old pull tabs, and making chains with them. The kid gets big eyed, points to his beer, and he says "these used to come off??"" Funny shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

Come off? Son, used to, you had to punch two triangular holes in the can to get it out.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:43 AM (lmYrx)

Beer cans used to be used as Chinese throwing stars in my neighborhood after they were flattened in the local Bowling Alley / Bar parking lot.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 14, 2017 10:45 AM (2DOZq)

314 On the other hand, those heavily processed frozen hash browns that come in the milk carton packaging? Mmmmmm.

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Oh, yes. Love those too. And they are surprisingly versatile.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 14, 2017 10:45 AM (vg8iE)

315
Tater tots

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 10:46 AM (KdDCu)

316 The threat to our freedom has morphed from Churhill's Iron Curtain to Obama's Islammunist Prayer Rug.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 14, 2017 09:49 AM (m6qV1)

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Yeah. I'd much prefer the cold war. I think after the wall fell, leftists needed to search out some other source to destroy/overrun the west. And through the combination of a number of factors, they were the new form of the destructor.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 14, 2017 10:46 AM (/qEW2)

317 305 Roe v wade.

******

That's what Churchill was pondering as he painted this scene.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 10:44 AM (wPiJc)

ISWYDT!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 14, 2017 10:47 AM (TdMsT)

318 On the other hand, those heavily processed frozen hash browns that come in the milk carton packaging? Mmmmmm.

Weird, huh?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Hungry Jack makes a great hash browns product that you reconstitute with hot water for ten minutes, then cook. Not frozen. It's great for camping.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 14, 2017 10:47 AM (326rv)

319 Except for beans and rice, my family lived on canned foods when I was growing up.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 10:47 AM (QQ+il)

320 >>303 Yeah, know what I like? Vienna sausages and "potted meat." Had it in the pantry as a kid (depression era parents) and I like it. Treat myself to a potted meat sandwich once a year and never ever ever read the ingredients. Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 10:44 AM (eO5CB)

the ingredients = "viscera."

Yours...is the stronger...constitution.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 10:47 AM (Bdeb0)

321 It is better than I could do. I can barely paint a wall a solid color.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2017 10:47 AM (BoMuO)

322 Heh.....my family were German Jews down one side, and filthy, disreputable Poles and Balkans down the other. Our cuisine proved that.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 10:43 AM (fA1SL)

We have bohemia down one side and Irish and deep south down the other. Wife has Scottish and likely scandic or some such.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 14, 2017 10:48 AM (Dp6qK)

323 Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 10:47 AM (QQ+il)

Red beans and rice never gets old.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 14, 2017 10:49 AM (2DOZq)

324 Posted by: An Observation

save your breath. pete would give that cop a commendation if he could.

Posted by: x at December 14, 2017 10:49 AM (nFwvY)

325 My wife uses cream of mushroom soup in a wild rice casserole. The casserole is delicious.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2017 10:49 AM (Xx7dP)

326 >>>>>Tater tots
.
.
.Crappy fish sticks and tater tots, now that's some mighty fine cuisine right there.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 14, 2017 10:49 AM (+Dllb)

327 >>If we're confessing our most closely held culinary secrets here, I do too. They served us chipped beef on toast every morning in boot camp. I could never get enough food in boot camp. I loved the stuff.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 10:36 AM (r9UYA)

Cook used to give us chipped beef on Saturdays before the football game. Made getting up after a tackle quite the challenge.

Posted by: Caliban at December 14, 2017 10:49 AM (vBGc/)

328 Decidedly less Lovecraftian than yesterday's.

Posted by: Axeman at December 14, 2017 10:49 AM (vDqXW)

329 Test

Posted by: Ladyl at December 14, 2017 10:50 AM (TdMsT)

330 Now that I'm all sugar-free, grain-free, and starch free I cooked some "tater tots" made from cauliflower. They were oddly good although processed. Kid even liked them. Tasted more like eggrolls though.

The one "healthy" thing, I can't get into though is spaghetti squash as spaghetti. Too squashy.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 10:50 AM (eO5CB)

331 Come off? Son, used to, you had to punch two triangular holes in the can to get it out.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 10:43 AM (lmYrx)

Oh yeah, I remember. That also came up in the conversation.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 14, 2017 10:50 AM (aMlLZ)

332 Treat myself to a potted meat sandwich once a year and never ever ever read the ingredients. Posted by: dagny

In my bachelor days, I tried that, to be cheap. Store brand to be precise. it was so bad that I tried giving it to the cat. He refused it. I gave it the the black lab, which was a hairy eating machine. HE refused it. Into the trash it went.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 14, 2017 10:50 AM (326rv)

333 99 I think we can all be grateful we don't live under THE SPOILS SYSTEM. what a horror show that must have been with government employees getting shitcanned every 4-8 years.
Posted by: x at December 14, 2017 09:50 AM (nFwvY)

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Who'd a thunk that putting a person in a near impossible position to remove would lead to a power base independent of the political process.

Posted by: MAGA at December 14, 2017 10:50 AM (iEMWw)

334 GOP Rep Scott Taylor Debates Laura Ingraham on DREAMers -- Says DACA Is Not Amnesty -BB

Another POS for the list.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 10:50 AM (r9UYA)

335 Suppose that the man who died had answered "Yes" to the question "have you been drinking?" Then the police would have handled things differently.

Which means those assholes could have handled things differently they just didn't feel like it. They enjoyed terrifying that person.

Posted by: An Observation at December 14, 2017 10:51 AM (ga0UL)

336 I love mashed potatoes that I make myself, leave it kind of chunky, add milk, lots of butter, salt, and pepper, sometimes chives.

I absolutely despise any form of instant potatoes - the consistency and texture is all wrong.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 10:51 AM (k1TUh)

337 Smoked oysters.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 10:51 AM (Bdeb0)

338 I actually like SOS.
Posted by: dagny

That was one of dad's favorites, oddly enough.

Good man, but some of his culinary preferences were passing odd.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 10:52 AM (AM1GF)

339 Ya Got any Potted Meat?

Posted by: Sling Blade at December 14, 2017 10:52 AM (k1TUh)

340 The one "healthy" thing, I can't get into though is spaghetti squash as spaghetti. Too squashy.

Mrs928 makes Zucchini Lasagna which is really nothing like lasagna. I smile and choke it down but, to me, it's really bad.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 10:52 AM (QQ+il)

341 332
Treat myself to a potted meat sandwich once a year and never ever ever read the ingredients. Posted by: dagny

In my bachelor days, I tried that, to be cheap. Store brand to be
precise. it was so bad that I tried giving it to the cat. He refused it.
I gave it the the black lab, which was a hairy eating machine. HE
refused it. Into the trash it went.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 14, 2017 10:50 AM (326rv)

Potted meat, isn't that the grey gelatinous meat in a can? Isn't that what is left over after they first make hot dogs, then scrapple?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 14, 2017 10:52 AM (jxbfJ)

342
Tater tots
Posted by: Skandia Recluse

The flat ones

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2017 10:53 AM (IqV8l)

343 The Nutritionists today pooh pooh such comestibles, because you should only eat fresh.
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They've never been hungry. I mean *really* hungry, with few options.

I recall a young yuppie acquaintance rambling on about some trendy eatery in Atlanta in the 80's. He nattered on with rapture about the 'presentation'.

I told him that meatloaf and potatoes, served in quantity on a plate, were far more important to me than appearance and 'drizzled' sauces.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:53 AM (cp1if)

344 The refrigerated mash potatoes you can buy in the grocery store taste as good as any homemade.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at December 14, 2017 10:53 AM (2DOZq)

345 Potted meat, isn't that the grey gelatinous meat in a can? Isn't that what is left over after they first make hot dogs, then scrapple?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Sorta like Vienna sausage....Except from New Jersey, not Vienna.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 14, 2017 10:54 AM (326rv)

346 lead to a power base wishing to control the political process"

FIFY

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 10:55 AM (MINbv)

347 Other than occasionally satisfying my craving for processed hash browns I rarely eat potatoes. I do, however, like mashed potatoes as a base for soft eggs. I love yolk mixed with the potato

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2017 10:55 AM (Xx7dP)

348 For some odd reason, people hate the food here.

Posted by: Gelatinous, Mass at December 14, 2017 10:55 AM (326rv)

349 They jes' let me loose of a Nervous Hospital.

Posted by: Sling Blade at December 14, 2017 10:55 AM (k1TUh)

350 it was so bad that I tried giving it to the cat. He refused it. I gave
it the the black lab, which was a hairy eating machine. HE refused it.
Into the trash it went.
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One of the few times my mom lost her temper with us kids (she ranted and raved about a lot of things, but we weren't the target very often) is when she spent all day trying to make soup. We wouldn't eat it. Sat there at the table crying until 9pm. She finally relented when the dogs and cat wouldn't touch it either.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 14, 2017 10:55 AM (MIKMs)

351
Yours...is the stronger...constitution.Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 10:47 AM (Bdeb0)

Mmm. I've found that any sugar even "natural," any grain and potatoes/corn make me feel like crap and make me fat and my bad numbers go up. Meat, even fatty, not so much. Like I said, once a year, when I can't resist anymore. Hell, I limit dairy and fruit because of the "-ose." I'd be entirely paleo if it weren't for the friggin plain greek yogurt which I'm also making from scratch. I've gotten so "healthy" that I'm worried about becoming a California hipster. Waiting to see if it makes me stupider.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 10:55 AM (eO5CB)

352 Last night, I decided to go to a local eatery chain known for its roast beef sandwiches. I hadn't been there in a loooong time, but I remember their sandwiches being piled high with meat and dripping with thick gravy on a thick kaiser roll. Was looking forward to it.

Meh. What a disappointment. A few strips of overcooked maybe-beef on a thin, flimsy roll. Even the curly-Q fries were half-cooked. I was still hungry after, too. Pffft. The gravy was decent though.

Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2017 10:56 AM (nwqNw)

353 I like all of these food reminiscences. We should gather them up into a Horde cookbook of some sort.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 10:56 AM (fuK7c)

354 Isn't that what is left over after they first make hot dogs, then scrapple?
Posted by: Our Country
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Not exactly 'left over'. It's from mopping up the floor at the end of the day.

Having said that, hell, I've enjoyed potted meat sandwiches. Just depends on how hungry you are, and what is available.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 10:56 AM (cp1if)

355 You don't have to fire civil servants - you just reassign them to Benghazi to interview insurgents to make sure that they don't feel threatened by racist Islamophobes here in the states. Assure them they will be given US Ambassador level protection while they are requiring the insurgents to fill out federal forms in triplicate.

Posted by: An Observation at December 14, 2017 10:57 AM (ga0UL)

356 90 The threat to our freedom has morphed from Churhill's Iron Curtain to Obama's Islammunist Prayer Rug.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 14, 2017 09:49 AM (m6qV1)

Obama's endgame seemed to be Iranian Nukes stationed in Venezuela.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 10:58 AM (CMbMd)

357 This scene is missing frogs. Frogs with sniper rifles.

Posted by: Fritz at December 14, 2017 11:00 AM (2Mnv1)

358 Re : Food.

I think the strangest thing my grandfather tried to get me to eat was Hog Maw.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 11:00 AM (CMbMd)

359 Just saw that Blake Farenthold (R, Texas) is going to retire now, after more stories came out. A shame, since they're mainly riffs on the theme that he is a socially inept clown, rather than an actual perv.

One line from the story really cracked me up, made me think he might even fit in here: "He does admit, however, calling his aides "F**ktards," but says it was in jest. That admission along strongly suggests that Farenthold has profound boundary issues, as well as human relations problems."

Damn f**ktards can't take a joke, I guess.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 11:00 AM (k1TUh)

360 I love sausage.

Posted by: Shep Smith at December 14, 2017 11:01 AM (r9UYA)

361 Heh. First time I cooked 'winter food' for the angel-clan, I brought a pot full of bigos, and some black bread.

Her father looked it over - 'It looks like very heavy food.' That's okay, you just have to eat it with bread.
He could barely eat two pieces of bread.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 11:02 AM (fA1SL)

362 Any frog leg recipes in that cookbook?

Posted by: Fritz at December 14, 2017 11:02 AM (2Mnv1)

363 330 Now that I'm all sugar-free, grain-free, and starch free I cooked some "tater tots" made from cauliflower. They were oddly good although processed. Kid even liked them. Tasted more like eggrolls though.

The one "healthy" thing, I can't get into though is spaghetti squash as spaghetti. Too squashy.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 10:50 AM (eO5CB)

I absolutely hate when some "healthy" food pretends to be other food. Tofu is fine on it's own. If it's in an asian dish, prepared as tofu, it's perfectly edible. But don't give me a tofu burger and say that it's just as good as real meat. It's not. I don't want my food pulling a Caitlin Jenner.

Same thing for using cauliflower to make "mashed potatoes" or "spaghetti" out of spiraled squash or whatever.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2017 11:02 AM (KUaJL)

364 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.

Posted by: MAC SOG at December 14, 2017 11:03 AM (czkHE)

365 Just saw that Blake Farenthold (R, Texas) is going to retire now, after
more stories came out. A shame, since they're mainly riffs on the theme
that he is a socially inept clown, rather than an actual perv.

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For some reason, I think there is another Farenhold (R, KY?), another one of the very bright social misfits with very good technical degree(s). One of you smart ones can tell me.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 14, 2017 11:03 AM (MIKMs)

366 My husband's Sardinian butcher grandfather made blood pudding. Nothing was wasted.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 11:04 AM (eO5CB)

367 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.
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Do we have another (lying?) turncoat in our midst?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 14, 2017 11:04 AM (vg8iE)

368 >>The refrigerated mash potatoes you can buy in the grocery store taste as good as any homemade.

No.

Not that I have ever tried them, but...no.

Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2017 11:04 AM (IVBVQ)

369 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.

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I'd be upset by Bill Clinton's presidential portrait too, if I were here.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2017 11:05 AM (KUaJL)

370 >>I absolutely hate when some "healthy" food pretends to be other food. Tofu is fine on it's own. If it's in an asian dish, prepared as tofu, it's perfectly edible. But don't give me a tofu burger and say that it's just as good as real meat. It's not. I don't want my food pulling a Caitlin Jenner.

Anyone refusing to eat a vegetarian hot dog spends a night in the ClintonCamp box.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 11:05 AM (Bdeb0)

371 364 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.

Posted by: MAC SOG at December 14, 2017 11:03 AM (czkHE)

Like Jimmy Drama jacking off behind the curtains?

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 11:05 AM (CMbMd)

372 366. Yep.....when I go shopping with my angel, we always stop for at least a pint of pig's blood for her family.
Sounds nasty, looks nasty, but cooks up quite nicely.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 11:05 AM (fA1SL)

373 Latest celebrity accused of sexual harassment: Darth Vader:

While this may have happened a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, it deserves to be called out now. By allowing a predator in the workplace, and not doing enough to fight sexual harassment, the Jedi Council ultimately engineers its own demise.

Members of the Jedi Council should've removed [Anakin] Skywalker from the Jedi Order after his many missteps while protecting Sen. Padme Amidala. If they had, Chancellor Palpatine would have been unable to leverage Skywalker into destroying the Jedi Order, dismantling democracy and creating the first Galactic Empire.

http://bit.ly/2zc7p84

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 14, 2017 11:06 AM (+y/Ru)

374 >>Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.

Place is like a Museum to Slavery!

Posted by: Michele Obama's Landing Strip at December 14, 2017 11:06 AM (IVBVQ)

375 Good man, but some of his culinary preferences were passing odd.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 10:52 AM (AM1GF)

Sounds like my dad! He was a food connoisseur and taught us to buy the best of the best, but he loved to chow down on hot dogs and if we ever burnt any baked goods in the oven, he'd be first in line to eat them, happily. He also insisted that the only way to enjoy fresh figs were when they were covered in mold. He was fond of saying, " You kids don't know what's good for 'ya!" I think he was that way because when he was a kid, food was hard to come by and you were grateful for any sustenance.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at December 14, 2017 11:06 AM (oQQwD)

376 >>The one "healthy" thing, I can't get into though is spaghetti squash as spaghetti. Too squashy.

Try zoodling a zucchini and letting it drain for a few hours in a colander.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 11:06 AM (r9UYA)

377 Do we have another (lying?) turncoat in our midst?

She's a reality show villain who has worked for a reality show host for decades. I doubt that she's disloyal.

My guess is that whatever is going on in scripted and designed for an effect.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 11:06 AM (fuK7c)

378 338 I actually like SOS.
Posted by: dagny

That was one of dad's favorites, oddly enough.

Good man, but some of his culinary preferences were passing odd.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 10:52 AM (AM1GF)

My Dad discovered SOS in the Korean War era Air Force and fell in love with it. He used to eat the frozen SOS from Stouffers right up to the day of his double bypass operation. I tried it once myself and nearly gagged on the amount of salt -- and I LIKE salty foods.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 14, 2017 11:06 AM (RD7QR)

379 They've never been hungry. I mean *really* hungry, with few options.

I recall a young yuppie acquaintance rambling on about some trendy eatery in Atlanta in the 80's. He nattered on with rapture about the 'presentation'.

I told him that meatloaf and potatoes, served in quantity on a plate, were far more important to me than appearance and 'drizzled' sauces.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

I could give a crap about "appearance". Pile the good food on. Appearance is for the cook to show off. Piled high and deep is for the hungry eater.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 11:06 AM (lmYrx)

380
Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.
Posted by: MAC SOG

Attack ships on fire.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2017 11:06 AM (IqV8l)

381 247
My dad had a liking for some bizarre food from the depression and WWII.
We actually had spam, scrapple, and various sketchy foods occassionally.
I actually like SOS.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 10:31 AM (eO5CB)

I love SOS. Stouffers has some great creamed chipped beef all you have to do is throw it a pot of boiling water for a few minutes and pour it over toast. I get a bunch of it every time the store gets it in.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 14, 2017 11:07 AM (mpXpK)

382 373 Latest celebrity accused of sexual harassment: Darth Vader:

While this may have happened a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, it deserves to be called out now. By allowing a predator in the workplace, and not doing enough to fight sexual harassment, the Jedi Council ultimately engineers its own demise.

Members of the Jedi Council should've removed [Anakin] Skywalker from the Jedi Order after his many missteps while protecting Sen. Padme Amidala. If they had, Chancellor Palpatine would have been unable to leverage Skywalker into destroying the Jedi Order, dismantling democracy and creating the first Galactic Empire.

http://bit.ly/2zc7p84

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 14, 2017 11:06 AM (+y/Ru)

You know, Emperor Palpatine never had any sexual assault allegations, just saying. #TheEmpreDidNothingWrong

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2017 11:07 AM (KUaJL)

383 >>>>>>The refrigerated mash potatoes you can buy in the grocery store taste as good as any homemade.

No.

Not that I have ever tried them, but...no.
.
.
.The Bob Evans ones are very good. It's just me, the wife and dogs and that's what I use now. I don't think I have made actual home made mashed potatoes more than a few times in the last ten years.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 14, 2017 11:07 AM (+Dllb)

384 I'd be upset by Bill Clinton's presidential portrait too, if I were here.
Posted by: joe
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How about creepy Comey, hiding behind the curtains?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 11:07 AM (cp1if)

385 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.

I call bullshit on any non-specifics without back-up. Who knows what 'upsets' some people.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 11:07 AM (eO5CB)

386 362: no, carlo. no froggy legs.

j.j. sefton would get this.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2017 11:07 AM (KP5rU)

387 376 >>The one "healthy" thing, I can't get into though is spaghetti squash as spaghetti. Too squashy.

Try zoodling a zucchini and letting it drain for a few hours in a colander.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 11:06 AM (r9UYA)

Why does "zoodling" sound like a term for a perverse sex act that you would find in the Urban Dictionary?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 14, 2017 11:08 AM (RD7QR)

388 Canned corned beef, such as Libby's is positively gross compared to brisket, such as might be used to make a reuben. Still at least it has no carbs.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 14, 2017 11:08 AM (/qEW2)

389 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.

She got creeped out walking the halls of white privilege.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 14, 2017 11:08 AM (aMlLZ)

390 What I don't understand is why Bob Evans sausage has so much f-ing sugar in it. I picked up some to buy a couple of days ago and was shocked at the grams of sugar. Put it back down.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 11:08 AM (eO5CB)

391 My husband's Sardinian butcher grandfather made blood pudding. Nothing was wasted.
======

True story -

Growing up, we raised and butchered our own hogs and beef.

We had relatives in from Romania who were here for an extended period - I don't know the details, I was very young. At that particular time, my parents had a few hogs they were going to butcher and sausage out. The Romanian decided to buy one of the hogs from us and butcher it themselves.

One day while my father was at work, they showed up to kill the hog and take it away. My mom was like, "OK. Have at it." She said about a half hour later they came to the house asking if they could have a couple glasses. She asked them why they needed glasses. It was so they could capture and drink the still warm blood.

My mother never forgets that and she still blanches to this day when she tells the story.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 14, 2017 11:08 AM (vg8iE)

392 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.

As if I give a shit

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 14, 2017 11:08 AM (5y11N)

393 >>364 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.

Like actual work being done?

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 11:09 AM (r9UYA)

394 388. And that's when the fight started.

Resumed, the reuben wars have.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 11:09 AM (fA1SL)

395 359
Just saw that Blake Farenthold (R, Texas) is going to retire now, after
more stories came out. A shame, since they're mainly riffs on the theme
that he is a socially inept clown, rather than an actual perv.

One line from the story really cracked me up, made me think he might
even fit in here: "He does admit, however, calling his aides
"F**ktards," but says it was in jest. That admission along strongly
suggests that Farenthold has profound boundary issues, as well as human
relations problems."

Damn f**ktards can't take a joke, I guess.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 11:00 AM (k1TUh)

Thing is, people who are truly innocent don't just resign over false allegations. That's been the eye-opener for me during all this. If you really, truly didn't do anything, why resign? Why apologize? Why let your career be ruined and your character be impeached forever after over nothing? If you do that, your helping to create a world where all anybody has to do is point at you and say you are a rapist. Or a child molester. Or a racist. And that's that, you are guilty. Because I said so. ??? I thought we lived in a nation of laws and due process. Or we used to anyway. Now I guess we live on a big college campus.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at December 14, 2017 11:09 AM (oyCqX)

396
I call bullshit on any non-specifics without back-up. Who knows what 'upsets' some people.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 11:07 AM (eO5CB)

I agree, what would upset you in the White House.
Unless they were performing partial birth abortions

Posted by: MAC SOG at December 14, 2017 11:10 AM (czkHE)

397 I love SOS. Stouffers has some great creamed chipped beef all you have to do is throw it a pot of boiling water for a few minutes and pour it over toast. I get a bunch of it every time the store gets it in.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party

LOL! We still had a package of that in the freezer when he passed! Even when he couldn't eat the whole thing, he'd light right up when I made that for him.

I miss the old man.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 11:10 AM (AM1GF)

398 Yeah, I don't mind zoodles. Spaghetti squash comparatively, sucks.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 11:10 AM (eO5CB)

399 My husband's Sardinian butcher grandfather made blood pudding. Nothing was wasted.
Posted by: dagny

It's interesting that several nations have a variation on this; Polish, German, Irish and even a Spanish version.

Same principle at work I suppose.

Posted by: Gelatinous, Mass at December 14, 2017 11:10 AM (326rv)

400 who the f@#$ is omarosa? should i care?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2017 11:10 AM (KP5rU)

401 391 We had relatives in from Romania who were here for an extended period - I don't know the details, I was very young. At that particular time, my parents had a few hogs they were going to butcher and sausage out. The Romanian decided to buy one of the hogs from us and butcher it themselves.

One day while my father was at work, they showed up to kill the hog and take it away. My mom was like, "OK. Have at it." She said about a half hour later they came to the house asking if they could have a couple glasses. She asked them why they needed glasses. It was so they could capture and drink the still warm blood.

My mother never forgets that and she still blanches to this day when she tells the story.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 14, 2017 11:08 AM (vg8iE)

Romanians drinking blood? Did they have a reflection when they looked in the mirror?

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 11:11 AM (CMbMd)

402 It seems that just like Mars, Republicans need women. Women candidates, since all men are evil.

As for the tax bill, let's get it done. I don't care what it does or doesn't do for my bottom line on my tax return, that's peanuts. The lowering of the corporate tax will boost the economy. Give me a growing economy and I'll take care of the rest.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 14, 2017 11:11 AM (3myMJ)

403 Good evenink!

Posted by: Count Pigula at December 14, 2017 11:12 AM (IqV8l)

404 Resumed, the reuben wars have.

There's no war, a Reuben is pastrami, sauerkraut, swiss, and thousand island dressing on grilled rye.

A corned beef and cole slaw sandwich is also tasty, but may not be called a Reuben.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 11:12 AM (fuK7c)

405 Romanians drinking blood? Did they have a reflection when they looked in the mirror?
======

My great-grandmother was from Transylvania.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 14, 2017 11:12 AM (vg8iE)

406 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.

Like FLOTUS sitting to pee?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 11:13 AM (lmYrx)

407 404 Resumed, the reuben wars have.

There's no war, a Reuben is pastrami, sauerkraut, swiss, and thousand island dressing on grilled rye.

A corned beef and cole slaw sandwich is also tasty, but may not be called a Reuben.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 11:12 AM (fuK7c)

It's not a real Reuben unless New York Jews are involved in making it.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 14, 2017 11:13 AM (RD7QR)

408 >>There's no war, a Reuben is pastrami, sauerkraut, swiss, and thousand island dressing on grilled rye. Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 11:12 AM (fuK7c)

This is incorrect.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 11:13 AM (Bdeb0)

409 401. Heh....Russian flick 'Nightwatch' features vampires drinking pig's blood instead of human as it is a close-enough analogue for their purposes. They do, however, feed on humans, but they have to get a permit for that.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 11:14 AM (fA1SL)

410 Says DACA Is Not Amnesty

Unless we are going to deport the Dreamers illegal parents as the price for letting them stay, it is amnesty.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 11:14 AM (QQ+il)

411 I agree, what would upset you in the White House.
Unless they were performing partial birth abortions

Mass murderer Mao on the Christmas tree, Ben Rhodes, Hillary's voice, Valerie Jarrett asking a Marine general for more wine because she thinks he's a waiter, a missing bust of Churchill, Reggie bent over the oval office couch, feet on the Resolute Desk, Black Lives Matter, teenage girls smoking dope in the residence, a fake vegetable garden,

I could go on...

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 11:14 AM (eO5CB)

412 Thing is, people who are truly innocent don't just resign over false allegations. That's been the eye-opener for me during all this.

if you made a pile while in office, and now qualify for the pension and benefits that they get, why stay? he leaves now, and the inquiry likely stops. And he now has to be a fund raising machine. The longer he stays, the more likely he gets branded with "alleged ______". Screw that noise.

And people in the House don't have that 'I will die here' mentality like the Senate, unless they are in a really safe seat.

Posted by: Gelatinous, Mass at December 14, 2017 11:14 AM (326rv)

413
My great-grandmother was from Transylvania.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 14, 2017 11:12 AM (vg8iE)

You're related to Tim Curry?!?

Can we get autographs?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 14, 2017 11:14 AM (veoSD)

414 My great-grandmother was from Transylvania.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 14, 2017 11:12 AM (vg8iE)

My great great grandfather was from Russia and they did the same thing.

Posted by: MAC SOG at December 14, 2017 11:14 AM (czkHE)

415 404. Good man. No trumpcamp time needed.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 11:14 AM (fA1SL)

416
As for the tax bill, let's get it done. I don't care what it does or doesn't do for my bottom line on my tax return, that's peanuts. The lowering of the corporate tax will boost the economy. Give me a growing economy and I'll take care of the rest.
Posted by: Meremortal

________

I feel the same way, but I do think it was a mistake politically to give Fortune 500 companies a giant tax cut and giving peanuts to upper middle class taxpayers, especially since every major corporation was uniformly against Trump and takes every social marxist position possible against conservatives.

I would have crafted something that was more targeted to small businesses, instead most of the tax cut is going to go to companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Target etc

Republicans though only care about their donor class.

Posted by: Maritime at December 14, 2017 11:15 AM (lKmt3)

417 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.

She saw the cigar storage system that Bubba used?

Posted by: Gelatinous, Mass at December 14, 2017 11:15 AM (326rv)

418 I picked up some to buy a couple of days ago and was shocked at the grams of sugar."

Didn't you get the memo? Fat is BAAAAAD. So, to make things taste good, add sugar. Which, as I'm reminded on packages of candy, is a FAT FREE FOOD!

Yay.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 11:16 AM (MINbv)

419 >>411 I agree, what would upset you in the White House.

First Lady Clinton in dom-gear. With bare feet. Laughing.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 11:16 AM (Bdeb0)

420 287 I will only eat instant mashed potatoes.

Mrs. Chronda worked one summer as a teen in an Idahoans plant. Although she prefers real mashed potatoes, we eat a lot of Idahoans. And she can tell if you give her instant mashed potatoes that aren't Idahoans.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 14, 2017 11:17 AM (v3pYe)

421 334
GOP Rep Scott Taylor Debates Laura Ingraham on DREAMers -- Says DACA Is Not Amnesty -BB

Another POS for the list.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 10:50 AM (r9UYA)

Big time RINO; CCR rating 67.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 14, 2017 11:17 AM (mpXpK)

422 One line from the story really cracked me up, made me think he might even fit in here: "He does admit, however, calling his aides "F**ktards," but says it was in jest. That admission along strongly suggests that Farenthold has profound boundary issues, as well as human relations problems."

-
He's not the only one. Politico bust another foul mouth:

Virginia Heffernan@page88
My friend Anna taught Don [Trump] Jr preschool in Manhattan. She asked him to move his mat one day and he said, "Fuck you, bitch." He was three. Today's for you, Anna.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 14, 2017 11:17 AM (+y/Ru)

423 So, Target is pulling all it's Mario Batali products. Does being righteous ever get exhausting?

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 11:18 AM (Bdeb0)

424 They've never been hungry. I mean *really* hungry, with few options.

I recall a young yuppie acquaintance rambling on about some trendy eatery in Atlanta in the 80's. He nattered on with rapture about the 'presentation'.

I told him that meatloaf and potatoes, served in quantity on a plate, were far more important to me than appearance and 'drizzled' sauces.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

I could give a crap about "appearance". Pile the good food on. Appearance is for the cook to show off. Piled high and deep is for the hungry eater.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 11:06 AM (lmYrx)

Pretentious food is a major piss off of mine. I was on a cruise where most of the food was that way, that gourmet type shit. Half way through the cruise I wanted to keelhaul the chef. So screwball me handled it in a way I do best. One night finally there was filet mignon on the menu. By that time I was up to my eye brows with this stuffy bullshit of wearing a god damn suit on vacation just so I could eat this crappy pretentious food. The waiter gets to me and I lean to the wife, put on my best "southern gentleman" voice and blurt out "well shoot my dog and call me sally, I'm gonna have me some of that fill-it Mig-none".

Fuck them people.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 14, 2017 11:18 AM (aMlLZ)

425 I think he was that way because when he was a kid, food was hard to come by and you were grateful for any sustenance.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma

Probably the same for dad. He'd tell me about how things were when he was growing up and I can't help but compare that to how kids grow up now--or even how I grew up--and realize, kids now don't have any appreciation of things because they've done so little to have them.

I'm still not having his green jello salad. That recipe he took with him.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 11:18 AM (AM1GF)

426 Obama's endgame seemed to be Iranian Nukes stationed in Venezuela.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 10:58 AM (CMbMd)

Endgame:

Iranian 1: "Time to nuke the Great Satan!"
*presses button, nothing happens*
Iranian 1: "What happened?"
Iranian 2: *looks outside* "Hey! Where's our missile?"
Iranian 1: "Darn it! The infidels sold it for food again!"

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Holiday Magic! Get a Face-Plant Hillary doll from the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2017 11:18 AM (hLRSq)

427 If you're from an area of the world where having meat was a luxury for much of the population (almost everywhere outside of the new world until the last century or so) eating and/or drinking every bit of a butchered animal was smart.

It's only very recently that anyone could be "picky."

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 11:18 AM (eO5CB)

428 414 My great-grandmother was from Transylvania.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 14, 2017 11:12 AM (vg8iE)

My great great grandfather was from Russia and they did the same thing.
Posted by: MAC SOG
_______

My grandfather was from Russia, and he could mix up a mean Bloody Mary. Does that count?

Posted by: Furious George at December 14, 2017 11:19 AM (j+dfT)

429 its

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 11:19 AM (Bdeb0)

430 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her.

Posted by: MAC SOG

Two scoops of ice cream and 12 cans of Diet Coke can test the nerves of even the bravest of souls. It's a wonder that anyone can survive in those conditions. *faints at the thought of it*

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 11:20 AM (493sH)

431 >>>what would upset you in the White House.<<<

Blundering into a restroom Michelle O had just evacuated after a night of Wagu and lobster.

Posted by: Fritz at December 14, 2017 11:20 AM (2Mnv1)

432
So, Target is pulling all it's Mario Batali products. Does being righteous ever get exhausting?
=====

The smell of sanctimony permeates everything. I would rather they say, 'so what' and if it sells, carry it. Can't get the stink off.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 14, 2017 11:20 AM (MIKMs)

433 424 Pretentious food is a major piss off of mine. I was on a cruise where most of the food was that way, that gourmet type shit. Half way through the cruise I wanted to keelhaul the chef. So screwball me handled it in a way I do best. One night finally there was filet mignon on the menu. By that time I was up to my eye brows with this stuffy bullshit of wearing a god damn suit on vacation just so I could eat this crappy pretentious food. The waiter gets to me and I lean to the wife, put on my best "southern gentleman" voice and blurt out "well shoot my dog and call me sally, I'm gonna have me some of that fill-it Mig-none".

Fuck them people.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 14, 2017 11:18 AM (aMlLZ)

I think the single most pretentious food item I've ever seen in my life is Gargouillou.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 11:20 AM (CMbMd)

434 Pardon me, boy. Is this the Transylvania station?

Ya, ya...track 29.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 14, 2017 11:21 AM (cAXIk)

435 My grandfather was from Russia, and he could mix up a mean Bloody Mary. Does that count?
Posted by: Furious George at December 14, 2017 11:19 AM (j+dfT)

I love a good Bloody Mary or a Bloody Bull

Posted by: MAC SOG at December 14, 2017 11:21 AM (czkHE)

436 Thing is, people who are truly innocent don't just resign over false allegations. That's been the eye-opener for me during all this.

-
Take Franken. Please!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 14, 2017 11:22 AM (+y/Ru)

437 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her"

Really? 'Cause the report on the interwebz says that "reports are" that "she told others" ...

so fourth hand is now "newz", I guess.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 11:22 AM (MINbv)

438
My grandfather was from Russia, and he could mix up a mean Bloody Mary. Does that count?

Posted by: Furious George
__________________

Yeah,, I remember that guy....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 14, 2017 11:22 AM (mPeei)

439 Romanians drinking blood? Did they have a reflection when they looked in the mirror?
======

My great-grandmother was from Transylvania.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 14, 2017 11:12 AM (vg8iE)

Years ago I dated a girl from Romania. She saw my DVD of Bela Lugosi's Dracula. She said, In your country he's a monster. In mine he's a national hero

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 11:23 AM (493sH)

440 There is a restaurant called "Vermillion" in Olde Towne Alexandria (yeah, I know, if you add "e" it makes it "older") that is supposed to have "great" food. Gormet.

I pulled up the menu in there while having an overpriced drink and discovered that all they did was rename every menu item with a less well-known name for a run-of-the-mill food. Flounder was 'fluke', green beans were "haricots" etc. It was laughable.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 11:23 AM (eO5CB)

441 Gargouillou."

Spiced fillet of Godzilla?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 11:24 AM (MINbv)

442 427. Mentioned here before - doktorskaya kolbasa was a very successful Soviet era food product that had some meat in it. A triumph of agriculture & their economy - a dream that everyone could have some sort of meat every day.
It was their version of bologna, and there were times it couldn't be had at any price.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 11:24 AM (fA1SL)

443 Thing is, people who are truly innocent don't just resign over false
allegations. That's been the eye-opener for me during all this.

=====

There is no way to disprove a negative. The innocent and the guilty are just as smeared.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 14, 2017 11:24 AM (MIKMs)

444 If you blindfolded a bunch of pretentious "foodies" and gave them a plate of Olive Garden food while telling them it was from one of the finest chefs in Italy, I bet they wouldn't know the difference

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 14, 2017 11:24 AM (mynhJ)

445 439 Years ago I dated a girl from Romania. She saw my DVD of Bela Lugosi's Dracula. She said, In your country he's a monster. In mine he's a national hero

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 11:23 AM (493sH)

Hey, Dracula freaking understood just how nasty the threat of Islam was.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 11:24 AM (CMbMd)

446 >>437 Omarosa says she saw things in the White House that really upset her"

Omarosa should've been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 11:25 AM (Bdeb0)

447 I hacked my Bloody Mary recipe from DistHillary's server.

Only I changed her recipe to add tomato juice and Worcestershire sauce.

Posted by: Furious George's Grandfather at December 14, 2017 11:25 AM (j+dfT)

448 Didn't you get the memo? Fat is BAAAAAD. So, to make things taste good, add sugar. Which, as I'm reminded on packages of candy, is a FAT FREE FOOD!

Yay.Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 11:16 AM (MINbv)
Because it's 1975.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 11:26 AM (eO5CB)

449 The waiter gets to me and I lean to the wife, put on my best "southern gentleman" voice and blurt out "well shoot my dog and call me sally, I'm gonna have me some of that fill-it Mig-none".

Fuck them people.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison

One of my clients is in Tennessee, and she used a phrase, "I'm as lost as last year's Easter egg."

Strangely, it was one of the cutest things I've heard.

Posted by: Gelatinous, Mass at December 14, 2017 11:26 AM (326rv)

450 I don't mind pretentious food, so long as it is very good. If the technique or ingredients don't add up to something awesome, then what's the point? If the help wants to put on airs about the vittles, that's silly, but I don't care; I'm there for the eats.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 14, 2017 11:27 AM (UubSE)

451 >>440 There is a restaurant called "Vermillion" in Olde Towne Alexandria (yeah, I know, if you add "e" it makes it "older") that is supposed to have "great" food. Gormet. I pulled up the menu in there while having an overpriced drink and discovered that all they did was rename every menu item with a less well-known name for a run-of-the-mill food. Flounder was 'fluke', green beans were "haricots" etc. It was laughable.
Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 11:23 AM (eO5CB)

This is correct.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 11:27 AM (Bdeb0)

452 440 There is a restaurant called "Vermillion" in Olde Towne Alexandria (yeah, I know, if you add "e" it makes it "older") that is supposed to have "great" food. Gormet.
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They all do it. Its the zip code that makes them do it. That being said, Vermillion is pretty good. As a kid I used to wander around Old Town when it was just starting to gentrify. It was a wonderful place for boys looking for adventure. The Potomac would always float something surprising your way.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2017 11:27 AM (YV+SU)

453 445. Imagine the force of will the man had. He actually managed to appall and terrify the Turks. That's no mean feat.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 11:27 AM (fA1SL)

454 The trees are a lot nicer than the racecourse.

It would be even nicer if he put in a cabin, maybe on the left there. Cabins are always nice.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 14, 2017 11:27 AM (CPk08)

455 441 Gargouillou."

Spiced fillet of Godzilla?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 11:24 AM (MINbv)

It's a plate of slightly-cooked vegetables with a few lines of various sauces smeared around the edge of the plate.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 11:27 AM (CMbMd)

456 444 If you blindfolded a bunch of pretentious "foodies" and gave them a plate of Olive Garden food while telling them it was from one of the finest chefs in Italy, I bet they wouldn't know the difference
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 14, 2017 11:24 AM (mynhJ)

If you did that to me, I would be mightily disappointed.

Posted by: Emmie -- please, no public display of insanity at December 14, 2017 11:28 AM (/A+Cl)

457 I pulled up the menu in there while having an overpriced drink and discovered that all they did was rename every menu item with a less well-known name for a run-of-the-mill food. Flounder was 'fluke', green beans were "haricots" etc. It was laughable.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2017 11:23 AM (eO5CB)

The last time I ever set foot in a place like that the fuckers put egg white in my long island ice tea. I was ready to burn the place down to the foundation.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 14, 2017 11:28 AM (aMlLZ)

458 There is a restaurant called "Vermillion" in Olde Towne Alexandria (yeah, I know, if you add "e" it makes it "older") that is supposed to have "great" food. Gormet.

I pulled up the menu in there while having an overpriced drink and discovered that all they did was rename every menu item with a less well-known name for a run-of-the-mill food. Flounder was 'fluke', green beans were "haricots" etc. It was laughable.

Posted by: dagny

Hey! You missed one!

Posted by: Olde Towne AlenxandriaE at December 14, 2017 11:28 AM (326rv)

459 There is a restaurant called "Vermillion" in Olde Towne Alexandria"

Snort.

Chuckled at the "local sourced" line - still wondering where they found the vast fields of Citrus in Northern Virginia, and the other was "Old Town" - when did that border move east of Washington Street - much less east of Patrick...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 11:29 AM (MINbv)

460 Youre related to Tim Curry?!?
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No shit.....Im distantly related to George Soros.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at December 14, 2017 11:29 AM (q3Vs8)

461 Cucumber-juice in bloody mary mix. Unbelievable. Just puree a cucumber, squeeze the "water" into the mix. Very, very good, and worth the trouble (and the cuke goes into tzaziki).

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 11:29 AM (Bdeb0)

462 'Chop two or three large onions. Shred cabbage and wash the sauerkraut while you slice potatoes, turnips, and parsnips' - first two sentences of every recipe my grandmother knew.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 11:29 AM (fA1SL)

463 So anyone going to see Star Wars?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 14, 2017 11:30 AM (vp7+1)

464 Pretentious food is a major piss off of mine. I was on a cruise where most of the food was that way, that gourmet type shit. Half way through the cruise I wanted to keelhaul the chef.

If the food is to die for, you don't have to "present" it. People will beat a path to your door to get it.

If you are having to make it look "fancy", there's a reason...

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 11:30 AM (lmYrx)

465 Flounder was 'fluke'

Fluke is colloquially known as summer flounder, a different species from winter flounder which is basic flounder.

The fluke has a larger mouth, extending beyond the eyes, and sharp teeth, because it is piscivorous. The flounder has a smaller softer mouth for grubbing on the ocean floor.

Sole is in the same family but it doesn't live here. If you get actual Dover sole it means you have last week's fish flown in from some pestulant estaminet in England.

This will be on the mid-term.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 14, 2017 11:31 AM (fuK7c)

466 Reubens do NOT have "thousand island" dressing on them, they have Russian Dressing.

Big Macs have thousand island dressing on them. (the so called "secret sauce)

Also, a Reuben is made with Corned Beef. The pastrami variant is more properly called a Rachel.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 11:31 AM (k1TUh)

467 463 So anyone going to see Star Wars?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 14, 2017 11:30 AM (vp7+1)

Social Justice Wars?

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 11:31 AM (CMbMd)

468 The last time I ever set foot in a place like that the fuckers put egg white in my long island ice tea"

That's a thing now - supposed to make the "tea" thicker.

Yeah, I don't get it either.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 11:31 AM (MINbv)

469 So anyone going to see Star Wars?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 14, 2017 11:30 AM (vp7+1)

Hell yeah. My star wars language dialects are legendary.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 14, 2017 11:31 AM (aMlLZ)

470 >>If the food is to die for,

...it's worth eating with your hands. If you need utensils, you've strayed too far from the yurt.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2017 11:32 AM (Bdeb0)

471 The fluke has a larger mouth
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All the better to pleasure you with.

Posted by: Sandra at December 14, 2017 11:32 AM (q3Vs8)

472 Honestly, I have little interest in Star Wars anymore. (Some part of me dies when I say that)

I will see it, but not opening weekend.

The new stuff is better than the prequels but...they've fucked up some key elements and killed my enthusiasm for the characters and story.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 14, 2017 11:32 AM (xJa6I)

473 Posted by: Maritime at December 14, 2017 11:15 AM (lKmt3)

After 40+ years as a small business I'm used to the drill. I've done fine and I'll do fine with this administration. It's not a zero sum game and what others get has no effect on me. Hell, I did fine under Obama and hated everything he did.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 14, 2017 11:33 AM (3myMJ)

474 Why would anyone want the weak old soul of someone from Dover?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 14, 2017 11:34 AM (vp7+1)

475
Breakfast at the nearby greasy spoon: corned beef hash, eggs, hash browns, toast, coffee, coconut cream pie. The fanciest thing was the toast was cut diagonally. It was great.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2017 11:34 AM (WUASw)

476 So anyone going to see Star Wars?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 14, 2017 11:30 AM (vp7+1)

I saw the Farce Awakens on cable and thought it was boring and the super duper Jedi girl was too over the top. And Justin Trudeau as Darth Vader Jr was silly

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 11:35 AM (493sH)

477 It's a plate of slightly-cooked vegetables with a few lines of various sauces smeared around the edge of the plate."

The version I was forced to view (heh) had some ground up ('shroom? truffle?) as the "dirt" these "local" (hah) veggies were from...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 11:35 AM (MINbv)

478 >>After 40+ years as a small business I'm used to the drill.

Once you figure out how to get them out of Reverse, they are handy little tools.

Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2017 11:35 AM (IVBVQ)

479 Each adjective on a menu is going to cost you.

Tomatoes - $1.00

Vine Ripened Tomatoes - $2.00

Locally Sourced Organic Vine Ripened Tomatoes - $5.00

Posted by: Dang at December 14, 2017 11:35 AM (8b+oT)

480 I just checked my recipe program for Stouffer's cream chipped beef. It only has 55o grams of sodium per serving. That's not a lot. And I never noted any overly salty taste and I do not put salt on anything but FF.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 14, 2017 11:35 AM (mpXpK)

481 So you are fluent in more than 3,000?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 14, 2017 11:35 AM (vp7+1)

482 472 - I'm in the same boat. I would not have seen the last couple of movies but for my wife (who enjoys them). They've never recaptured the magic of the original trilogy for me.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 14, 2017 11:36 AM (UubSE)

483 Nood silverback

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 11:36 AM (fA1SL)

484
Strangely, it was one of the cutest things I've heard.

Posted by: Gelatinous, Mass
__________________

Here's another cute one:

I ain't noooo waaaaayyyyyysssss tarrrddd...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 14, 2017 11:39 AM (mPeei)

485 The best actor in the world is portraying Winston Churchill in a movie .
You wouldn't recognize Gary Oldman unless someone told you it was him.
Yes, but it's still great when he says, "Whatcha talkin' 'bout, Willis?"

Posted by: andycanuck at December 14, 2017 11:40 AM (QCX64)

486 four generations of Farentholds living on the taxpayers backs is probably enough.

Posted by: x at December 14, 2017 11:40 AM (nFwvY)

487 You know who else was a painter and a leader during WWII?
Posted by: Kris at December 14, 2017 09:31 AM (nwqNw)
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Eisenhower!
Yes, he was a painter too.
If you search images of the Oval Office of his day, you will see some of his landscapes on the walls.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 14, 2017 11:44 AM (0jtPF)

488 Speaking of pretentious food, there's a restaurant in DC that is all hip and trendy. They serve pork. But nooooo, not like you think. They cook the, um, not-prime-cuts. No pork chops, but if you want a roasted bone cut in half where you scoop the marrow out, there you go.

Basically, they charge like sin for pieces of meat that won't sell at the grocery store. And the hipsters in DuPont just go crazy over it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at December 14, 2017 11:45 AM (PFy0L)

489 479 Each adjective on a menu is going to cost you.

Tomatoes - $1.00

Vine Ripened Tomatoes - $2.00

Locally Sourced Organic Vine Ripened Tomatoes - $5.00

Spent some time at a hotel in Silicon Valley in which the breakfast featured "imported Irish oatmeal".

Posted by: Anachronda at December 14, 2017 11:52 AM (v3pYe)

490 Each adjective on a menu is going to cost you.

Tomatoes - $1.00

Vine Ripened Tomatoes - $2.00

Locally Sourced Organic Vine Ripened Tomatoes - $5.00

Spent some time at a hotel in Silicon Valley in which the breakfast featured "imported Irish oatmeal".
Posted by: Anachronda
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"Artisnal Marinated Turnip Tops" - $15.00

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 12:02 PM (5OO3x)

491 garret: heh. Yeah, that reverse thing can be a killer.

Kind of like those guys who cast right handed, then switch the reel to their left hand and reel right handed.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 14, 2017 12:23 PM (3myMJ)

492 The refrigerated mash potatoes you can buy in the grocery store taste as good as any homemade.

No.

Not that I have ever tried them, but...no.

Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2017 11:04 AM (IVBVQ)
I had the same response as you - then I tried them and found out I was wrong. Most likely the mashed potatoes you had at Thanksgiving were frozen.

Posted by: An Observation at December 14, 2017 12:31 PM (ga0UL)

493 Tituba? Is that an orchestral instrument?

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They usually perform duets

Posted by: Bonecrusher at December 14, 2017 01:00 PM (r+mGZ)

494 >>Kind of like those guys who cast right handed, then switch the reel to their left hand and reel right handed.

You know why that is?

The Hardy Brothers were BOTH left handed!

It became traditional as they were the first manufacturer of fly reels.

Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2017 01:15 PM (IVBVQ)

495 >>Most likely the mashed potatoes you had at Thanksgiving were frozen.

Nope. I suffer for my mashers. I don't even cheat and use the Kitchen Aid.

Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2017 01:16 PM (IVBVQ)

496 Apparently the Morons found that topless Sophia picture...

Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2017 01:19 PM (IVBVQ)

497
Winnie, stick to painting, you'll never amount to anything in politics.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at December 14, 2017 03:35 PM (1hM1d)

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