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It's Uncle Palp!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 15, 2017 09:56 PM (qJtVm) 2
Thirſt!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at December 15, 2017 09:57 PM (e9G8E) 3
Commie scum.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 09:57 PM (NWiLs) 4
What?
Posted by: linduh at December 15, 2017 09:57 PM (kufk0) 5
Secondſt!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at December 15, 2017 09:58 PM (e9G8E) 6
How the hell are you guys?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 09:58 PM (IcT7t) 7
I met Croats like that.
Posted by: Miklos, from Zagreb at December 15, 2017 09:59 PM (zCyNd) 8
Great content
Posted by: CN at December 15, 2017 09:59 PM (5gaNQ) 9
Please tell me that FB exchange is fake. Please.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:00 PM (NWiLs) 10
Caucasian cuisine relies heavily on aerosol cheese substance.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:00 PM (OVRJp) 11
6 How the hell are you guys?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 09:58 PM (IcT7t) Middlin'. How are you? Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:00 PM (NWiLs) Posted by: ALH at December 15, 2017 10:01 PM (za7hD) 13
Poland stronk!
* shifts thru resumes for Polish applicants * Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:01 PM (fA1SL) 14
Is this the ONT? Like Shep Smith's sexuality, the caption is a bit ambiguous.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:02 PM (OVRJp) Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:02 PM (IcT7t) 16
The news showed film of the California wild fires. I told Mr. H that looks like Hell, and I meant actual Hell, where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Posted by: ALH at December 15, 2017 10:03 PM (za7hD) 17
Stop with the mariaci music.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 15, 2017 10:03 PM (Xx7dP) 18
Wow, a Herman Cain sighting.
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:03 PM (GsAUU) 19
I like the "they say" it translates to Caucasian.
Posted by: no good deed at December 15, 2017 10:03 PM (eIQHF) 20
OK shitheads. Here is the story of eucalyptus in Cali.
They were imported because they don't need much water and they grow fast. The plan was to use them as railroad ties. Trouble is, they twist as they dry out and age, making them unsuitable as railroad ties. There. No more bullshit. Yeah. They don't have a deep roots either. So they fall down on houses. So. Don't have one near your house. Posted by: JAS at December 15, 2017 10:03 PM (7JbXq) 21
We have all these eucalyptus trees in CA through the malign influence of Big Koala.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:03 PM (OVRJp) 22
Oh Lord.
Now Palp has another fundraising opportunity from the Georgian diaspora. Buy two armored trains. Posted by: Miklos, not from Fusion anything at December 15, 2017 10:04 PM (zCyNd) 23
Dear Santa - This year, I've been very good, for some values of good. Please bring me my own armoured train, a division of Zombie Mongol mech infantry, and my own aidoru studio. My attorneys and I thank you in advance for your timely compliance. - Lil' Palpy
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:04 PM (fA1SL) 24
Remember, only you can prevent forest fires!
Posted by: Smokey at December 15, 2017 10:05 PM (DMUuz) 25
Night, y'all.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 15, 2017 10:05 PM (MINbv) 26
Judith Browne Dianis is a fucking dummy.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:05 PM (NWiLs) 27
They should have named it Stalin.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at December 15, 2017 10:06 PM (2DOZq) Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 15, 2017 10:06 PM (ZgKFD) 29
I'm almost done wrapping presents. My hands hurt I wrapped so many presents today.
Posted by: linduh at December 15, 2017 10:06 PM (kufk0) 30
Maybe if the Californians just imported a lot of koala.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 10:06 PM (6FqZa) 31
My attorneys and I thank you in advance for your timely compliance. - Lil' Palpy
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:04 PM (fA1SL) Fine. Now you have lawyers. Great, then I WANT MY OWN FRIGGIN BATTALION OF GURKHAS!!! OR THREE!! I understand that that Her Majesty has a few being downsized. Posted by: General Feldmarschall Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:07 PM (zCyNd) Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 15, 2017 10:07 PM (aMlLZ) 33
30 Maybe if the Californians just imported a lot of koala.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 10:06 PM (6FqZa) ------------- We'd have to vet each one, like they do with Middle Eastern refugees. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:08 PM (OVRJp) 34
21 We have all these eucalyptus trees in CA through the malign influence of Big Koala.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:03 PM (OVRJp) It was an infiltration plan. Drop bears were hiding there, just waiting for the right moment. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:08 PM (NWiLs) 35
LA must smell like a big steam room.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at December 15, 2017 10:08 PM (2DOZq) 36
Is Judith Browne retarded?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 10:08 PM (6FqZa) 37
Damn, I'm getting old. I can barely stay awake and it's not even 9:15 yet, sheesh!
Posted by: lin-duh at December 15, 2017 10:08 PM (kufk0) 38
22. Heh.....Kavkaz......love it.
Time for a song, no? One about a Kavkaz - okay, Chechen, but they're Kavkaz - with obligatory shashka girl: https://youtu.be/AN3uhImuy6E Fun facts - Armoured trains were used in recent war in Chechnya. Also, Chechen volunteers are fighting for DPR and LPR in Ukraine. Chechnya Stronk! Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:08 PM (fA1SL) 39
Dear Palpy -
I have made a note to my list regarding your requested gifts, for certain values of gifts. Please make sure that you have enough room to contain one N-scale armored train, division of Zombie Mongol mech infantry, and aidoru studio. Posted by: junior at December 15, 2017 10:08 PM (rRwEI) Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:09 PM (GsAUU) 41
Greetings fappers and fappees.
Dear Santa, I've been a very good Boy this year and there's this set of really cute twins who were in Playboy a couple of years ago... Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 10:09 PM (tRaq7) 42
It was an infiltration plan. Drop bears were hiding there, just waiting for the right moment.
Today I learned that drop bears are activated by fire. Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:09 PM (IcT7t) 43
@33 We'd have to vet each one, like they do with Middle Eastern refugees.
------------------ So what you're saying is, not at all? Posted by: junior at December 15, 2017 10:09 PM (rRwEI) 44
Ah, Yuletide...
Smoking the "Yule Log"... Drinking mead... "Sacrificing" "virgins" 'neath the mistletoe... Decking the feasting hall... Doffing our ghey apparel... Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at December 15, 2017 10:09 PM (e9G8E) 45
19 I like the "they say" it translates to Caucasian.
Posted by: no good deed at December 15, 2017 10:03 PM (eIQHF) Or she could just look up "kavkaz" on this amazing new thing they have called the Internet and see that it refers to the Caucasus region. Fucking dummy. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:09 PM (NWiLs) 46
Judith Browne Dianis is a fucking dummy. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular There's a lot of that going around. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2017 10:10 PM (IqV8l) 47
How do you wash a topless car? and the eucalyptus tree gives us eucalyptus oil which has many many medicinal properties. Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 15, 2017 10:10 PM (KdDCu) 48
36 Is Judith Browne retarded?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 10:08 PM (6FqZa) Left wing civil rights lawyer, so yeah. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:10 PM (NWiLs) 49
Wow, Alan Dershowitz had the same thing happen to him as Trump.
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:11 PM (GsAUU) Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:11 PM (IcT7t) Posted by: otho at December 15, 2017 10:11 PM (qGuLD) 52
Good Lord, watching Live PD and an episode of Reno 911 broke out. Dumb kid just did a back flip during a traffic stop.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 15, 2017 10:11 PM (tMFgx) 53
Well a Boston professor has declared Jingle Bells is a racist song so the retardation is spreading.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at December 15, 2017 10:12 PM (2DOZq) 54
Maybe if the Californians just imported a lot of koala.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 10:06 PM (6FqZa) Trump has destroyed our Clean Koala Air Quality Rule! Deplorables in West Virginia! I can't even. Posted by: Pissing in the EPA parking lot at December 15, 2017 10:12 PM (zCyNd) 55
What a very funny ONT, WD!!!
I gave up a Christmas party to stay home and read the ONT. You made it worth my while. However, I noticed some very naughty words... Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 10:12 PM (TdMsT) 56
42 It was an infiltration plan. Drop bears were hiding there, just waiting for the right moment.
Today I learned that drop bears are activated by fire. Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:09 PM (IcT7t) Nothing more terrifying than a burning drop bear hurtling straight at your head. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:12 PM (NWiLs) 57
Damn, I'm getting old. I can barely stay awake and it's not even 9:15 yet, sheesh!
Posted by: lin-duh at December 15, 2017 10:08 PM (kufk0) -------- See? If you lived on the Left Coast you'd still have two hours of alertness in you. Although, your house may have burned to cinders, which would suck. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:12 PM (OVRJp) 58
I'm almost done wrapping presents. My hands hurt I wrapped so many presents today.
I just finished decorating the tree and I'm beat. Still got a few more things to do, maybe I can get them all done tomorrow. Then I can kick back and enjoy the Season. Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 10:12 PM (tRaq7) 59
13 Poland stronk!
* shifts thru resumes for Polish applicants * Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:01 PM (fA1SL) --Reminds me: Have any other Morons seen on FNC the ad with various Polish clerics wishing us Happy Holidays? They also thank America for helping free them from communism. Interesting, and classy. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:12 PM (GsAUU) Posted by: the Polock who locked himself in a convertible at December 15, 2017 10:13 PM (zCyNd) 61
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is on next on Laura's show!
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:13 PM (GsAUU) 62
Received The Deplorable Cookbook today. Haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Had to go to work. I'll check it out when I get home tomorrow morning. Looking forward to experimenting with some of the recipes.
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 15, 2017 10:14 PM (peJQi) 63
Or she could just look up "kavkaz" on this amazing new thing they have called the Internet and see that it refers to the Caucasus region. Fucking dummy. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular She lost her internet connection with the fall of net neutrality. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2017 10:14 PM (IqV8l) 64
Or she could just look up "kavkaz" on this amazing new thing they have called the Internet and see that it refers to the Caucasus region. Fucking dummy.
Apparently her phone is smarter than she is. Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 10:15 PM (tRaq7) 65
Dear Santa,
I've been good this year but I know that doesn't count for a goddamn thing. So bring me something, or not. I really don't give a shit at this point. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:15 PM (NWiLs) 66
Yeah. They don't have a deep roots either. So they fall down on houses. So. Don't have one near your house. Posted by: JAS at December 15, 2017 10:03 PM (7JbXq) And Montecito (where the big-assed fire is) is sick with eucalyptus. All over the damned place. But it isn't the eucalyptus that burns, as much as the frickin' manzanita that's native to the chaparral in that part of SoCal. Imagine a bush made out of napalm. That's manzanita. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 15, 2017 10:15 PM (eXA4G) 67
Or she could just look up "kavkaz" on this amazing new thing they have called the Internet and see that it refers to the Caucasus region.
She's probably still trying to figure out why somebody from The Peach State would open a restaurant in Florida and have so many Russian patrons. Must be some sort of collusion. Posted by: no good deed at December 15, 2017 10:15 PM (eIQHF) 68
They also thank America for helping free them from communism.
Interesting, and classy. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:12 PM (GsAUU) Ask about Jimmy Carter's presidential mistranslation in Poland one day/thread. Heh. Posted by: Miklos, po Polsku at December 15, 2017 10:16 PM (zCyNd) Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 10:16 PM (6FqZa) 70
65 Dear Santa,
I've been good this year but I know that doesn't count for a goddamn thing. So bring me something, or not. I really don't give a shit at this point. ---------- Maybe it's time to roll out the "bring me a Ferrari or I'll shoot this dog" gambit. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:16 PM (OVRJp) 71
Oops. I ment The Deplorable Gourmet arrived today.
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 15, 2017 10:17 PM (peJQi) 72
Imagine a bush made out of napalm. That's manzanita.
But the drop bears won't hang out in manzanita, can't fall from high enough to reach terminal velocity while on fire. Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:17 PM (IcT7t) 73
Evening Horde, Ladyl.
I foresee a lifetime of happiness for Cassandra. Ladyl, are you sure that was a wise choice? Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2017 10:18 PM (tr2D7) Posted by: Huma Abedin Edmund Rodham Clinton Abedin Wiener at December 15, 2017 10:18 PM (OVRJp) 75
She's probably still trying to figure out why somebody from The Peach State would open a restaurant in Florida and have so many Russian patrons. Must be some sort of collusion.
Posted by: no good deed at December 15, 2017 10:15 PM (eIQHF) Activate the Special Counsel! And what the hell is a "samovar" anyway? I bet it's tied to the KKK! Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:18 PM (NWiLs) 76
Chechens are a funny bunch. Ukraine - most Chechens fighting there are veterans of the last Chechen War. Kiev regime has jihadists, Donbass and Lugansk regions have the regular Chechens. I saw a vid of Chechens hassling a ukropian soldier (ethnic russian) for killing his own people in donbass. 'We're Chechens, and we're more Russian than you, blyat!'
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:18 PM (fA1SL) Posted by: JAS at December 15, 2017 10:19 PM (7JbXq) 78
The Deplorable Gourmet was waiting for me Tuesday after work.
Serious question: can I now put "published author" on my resume? Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 10:19 PM (5wCUq) Posted by: Russian ladies show good time at December 15, 2017 10:19 PM (zCyNd) 80
I once dated a Mexican beauty named Manzanita. Marty Robbins even wrote a song about her.
Please clap. Posted by: El Gobernador Jeb Bush at December 15, 2017 10:19 PM (OVRJp) 81
Maybe we should push for common sense controls on government.
Posted by: George LeS at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (+TcCF) 82
Eucalyptus certainly, is a bad news burning tree.
But native to CA is also the creosote bush, manzanita and others in the chaparral, most all of which burn, if not as tall as the eucalyptus, then at least with an equal heat and intensity. As bad as these fires are, now imagine the WWII B-29 firebombing of Tokyo. Killed more people in one night, than died in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Seeing the photos and videos of the CA fires, should give a clue as to what it was like in Tokyo or Dresden. Quite literally, Hell on Earth. Prayers for the Safety of the California Division of Teh Horde. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (QzJWU) 83
Maybe it's time to roll out the "bring me a Ferrari or I'll shoot this dog" gambit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:16 PM (OVRJp) I don't want a Ferrari. I'd rather be significantly less unhappy about life. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (NWiLs) 84
Probably the last time I'll need to type this
For those who do so, please pray for my grandmom. She's my last living grandparent, any the littl'un's last living great-grandparent. She's in her final hours, and received Last Rites already. It's going to be hard to sleep, but I'll probably turn in in less than an hour so I can be up to get my brother's call. He'll visit her tomorrow if she makes it through the night. Sorry for the bummer, but I've no one else from myside of the family here in town. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (GsAUU) 85
"Oink, oink, you capitalist pig
Josh" And yet, odds are Josh is probably in favor open borders. Liberals are such retarded dupes. Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (/qEW2) 86
Wow, that Cassandra chick is a keeper, ain't she?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (tRaq7) 87
81 Maybe we should push for common sense controls on government.
Posted by: George LeS at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (+TcCF) We had that once. It was called the Constitution of the United States. But lawbreakers don't obey the law. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:21 PM (NWiLs) 88
Although, your house may have burned to cinders, which would suck.
--- only of you were dumb enough to build/buy a house in a fire prone area that wasn't designed to NOT burn at the first spark and WAS surrounded by plant life that might as well be gasoline when the flames come. i drove by the Skirball fire site today and it's a Fing miracle the whole neighborhood didn't go. #IdiotsWithMoreMoneyThanBrains Posted by: redc1c4 at December 15, 2017 10:21 PM (sL8H+) 89
69 Alan Dershowitz had the same thing happen to him as Trump
He porked a Slavic supermodel ? Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 10:16 PM (6FqZa) --Heh, I was waiting for that. He had a woman whom a lawyer threw money at to make false harassment charges against him. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:21 PM (GsAUU) 90
86 Wow, that Cassandra chick is a keeper, ain't she?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (tRaq7) I don't believe a word she says. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:21 PM (NWiLs) 91
I don't want a Ferrari. I'd rather be significantly less unhappy about life.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (NWiLs) --------- Drive the Ferrari for a week before you cast judgment. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:21 PM (OVRJp) 92
Birds won't even nest in eucalyptus, grass won't grow under them, their nectar is poisonous to some insects...California, when will you learn!
Posted by: Surfperch at December 15, 2017 10:21 PM (3s1Os) 93
73 Evening Horde, Ladyl.
I foresee a lifetime of happiness for Cassandra. Ladyl, are you sure that was a wise choice? Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2017 10:18 PM (tr2D7) Good evening Tonypete! The best choice ever. Seven parties in 3 weeks, and a party Sunday after I take the girls in my family to the Nutcracker. If I ever see party food and liquor again it will be too soon. How is the afib? Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 10:22 PM (TdMsT) 94
83. Okay - so the question is - Xardbas, slav metal, Mongolian metal, or trashy Serbian turbofolk? One of those is bound to cheer you up.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:22 PM (fA1SL) 95
Drive the Ferrari for a week before you cast judgment.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:21 PM (OVRJp) Heh. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:22 PM (NWiLs) 96
Please clap.
Posted by: El Gobernador Jeb Bush at December 15, 2017 10:19 PM (OVRJp) Standard antibiotics generally solve problems acquired when the night is so long. Posted by: Dr Mendez, no Green Card at December 15, 2017 10:22 PM (zCyNd) Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 10:22 PM (tRaq7) 98
Sorry for the bummer, but I've no one else from myside of the family here in town.
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (GsAUU) No problem man. May she be with God. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 15, 2017 10:22 PM (ZgKFD) 99
Sorry for the bummer, but I've no one else from myside of the family here in town.
No worries, been there. Prayers up. Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:23 PM (IcT7t) 100
I don't want a Ferrari. I'd rather be significantly less unhappy about life.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (NWiLs) --------- Drive the Ferrari for a week before you cast judgment. Posted by: Cicero Because the second week it will be in the shop. Posted by: Jean at December 15, 2017 10:23 PM (yM/Yl) 101
It's good to know that you trust us enough to confide such a personal issue, logprof. I know it will be a difficult night. We'll be praying for you and your family, as well as your grandmom.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2017 10:23 PM (V2Yro) 102
That FB exchange has got to be fake. Who would be dumb enough to openly conspire to make a false police report? I mean, it's got to be fake, right?
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:23 PM (NWiLs) 103
Top pic makes me wonder how the stupid Pollack jokes started. Probably communist propaganda.
Posted by: Aunt Luna at December 15, 2017 10:24 PM (Zd2ZF) 104
Sarah Huckabee Sanders so rocks.
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:24 PM (GsAUU) 105
103. I blame the Irish.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:24 PM (fA1SL) 106
In the first panel, Daffy represents "nature". In all others, he represents "man". Sloppy.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 10:24 PM (/qEW2) 107
I mean, it's got to be fake, right?
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular You have way more faith in humanity than I do. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 10:24 PM (5wCUq) 108
Nah, I wouldn't want a Ferrari, but I would like a Corvette. I can settle for a 455hp Camaro. Probably get a rocking chair. Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 15, 2017 10:24 PM (KdDCu) 109
I'd like to think the Caucasian Restaurant tweet is mocking dumb-asses.
Like the dumb-ass who tweeted about the racist negro eyeliner (whatever it was) and included a pic for proof. It was labeled "black - negro - noir" Dumb-asses Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 15, 2017 10:24 PM (Eu5eZ) 110
I don't believe a word she says.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:21 PM (NWiLs) --She was probably not lying when she said she cheated. What a prize she is. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:25 PM (GsAUU) 111
Top pic makes me wonder how the stupid Pollack jokes started. Probably communist propaganda.
Nazi propaganda, IIRC. So pretty much the same thing. Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:25 PM (IcT7t) 112
94 83. Okay - so the question is - Xardbas, slav metal, Mongolian metal, or trashy Serbian turbofolk? One of those is bound to cheer you up.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:22 PM (fA1SL) Based on the links you've provided in the past, I'm not so sure about that. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:25 PM (NWiLs) Posted by: qdpsteve at December 15, 2017 10:25 PM (eMKNe) 114
would it be racist to have a song called "I'm Dreaming of a White Kwanza" if the song writer were a black person?
Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at December 15, 2017 10:25 PM (ILitO) 115
logprof,
I will pray for you and your family tonight and when I awake in the morning. Good night. Going to bed. Posted by: JAS at December 15, 2017 10:26 PM (7JbXq) 116
Back in the old days bears used to get drunk from eating fermented manzanita and madrone berries.
Posted by: Surfperch at December 15, 2017 10:26 PM (3s1Os) 117
Eucalyptus trees seem fine to me.
Posted by: Koala Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 15, 2017 10:26 PM (H5knJ) Posted by: Lester Maddox (D) at December 15, 2017 10:26 PM (zCyNd) 119
107 I mean, it's got to be fake, right?
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular You have way more faith in humanity than I do. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 10:24 PM (5wCUq) No, not really. Just desperately flailing. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:26 PM (NWiLs) 120
Re the spoof Christmas carols:
I admit I do a great super-unctious spoof IMHO of Burl Ives' 'Have A Holly Jolly Christmas.' Been debating whether to post an audio clip somewhere so you can all hear it. Posted by: qdpsteve at December 15, 2017 10:27 PM (eMKNe) 121
Better day at work today. I got to go to the bathroom without getting fired.
Congrats! When are you gonna bail on those losers? Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:27 PM (IcT7t) 122
would it be racist to have a song called "I'm Dreaming of a White Kwanza" if the song writer were a black person?
Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach Just avoid "Walking in a Weimar Wonderland". It tends to get ugly. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 10:27 PM (5wCUq) 123
92 Birds won't even nest in eucalyptus, grass won't grow under them, their nectar is poisonous to some insects...California, when will you learn!
Posted by: Surfperch at December 15, 2017 10:21 PM (3s1Os) --I know Cali has a lot of Stoopid today, but 1920?! Yeesh. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:27 PM (GsAUU) 124
The California fires are only going to be the beginning...when the rains come the landslides are going to be epic.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2017 10:28 PM (8bEU0) 125
Birds won't even nest in eucalyptus, grass won't grow under them, their nectar is poisonous to some insects...California, when will you learn!
Posted by: Surfperch at December 15, 2017 10:21 PM (3s1Os) Great for TP pulp though. Very fragrant. Japanese tried to lease old cane fields in Hawaii just for that. Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 15, 2017 10:28 PM (Eu5eZ) 126
"Say, we don't get many koala bears in this bar."
Posted by: The Bartender at December 15, 2017 10:28 PM (OVRJp) 127
Poland stronk!
* shifts thru resumes for Polish applicants * Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:01 PM (fA1SL) I nominate Ania Wyszkoni https://youtu.be/-I-LKGEEE9M Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2017 10:28 PM (2K6fY) 128
110 I don't believe a word she says.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:21 PM (NWiLs) --She was probably not lying when she said she cheated. What a prize she is. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:25 PM (GsAUU) I was trying for the Greek mythology riff but it was a bit obscure. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:28 PM (NWiLs) 129
In Zurich, Santa is known as "Samichclaus."
I bet the little ones leave bread and cold cuts out for him on Christmas Eve. And mayo. B'Gal and I are listening to the SOTS music channel on Speculum cable. Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 10:28 PM (tRaq7) 130
Another major culprit in the wildfires is California Bay. They smell great, but essentially made of oil. They're so flammable they'll sometimes burn twice.
Posted by: Surfperch at December 15, 2017 10:29 PM (3s1Os) 131
Better day at work today. I got to go to the bathroom without getting fired.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 15, 2017 10:25 PM (eMKNe) To paraphrase H. L. Mencken's admonition to Scott Fitzgerald: Restroom less. Write more. Posted by: H.L. Molnar at December 15, 2017 10:29 PM (zCyNd) 132
I always found Eucalyptus to be the one firewood that really doesn't need kindling. So yea, a landscape that is molded by fire does not need eucalyptus
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2017 10:29 PM (2K6fY) 133
124 The California fires are only going to be the beginning...when the rains come the landslides are going to be epic.
Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2017 10:28 PM (8bEU0) --------- When the levee breaks, mama you gotta move. Posted by: Robert Plant at December 15, 2017 10:29 PM (OVRJp) 134
Japanese tried to lease old cane fields in Hawaii just for that.
At 100 years for a tree to mature, that's either great foresight or total foolishness. Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:30 PM (IcT7t) Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2017 10:30 PM (8bEU0) 136
Was Dustin Hoffman's bigger crime exposing himself to a minor during the filming of Ishtar or was it the filming of Ishtar and exposing the movie to the American public?
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at December 15, 2017 10:30 PM (aCJ4a) 137
>>>The past century has made that perfectly clear. I illustrated my point with the following cartoon:
Yes, that mentality again. Also see: Adolf: "I just want Austria and that'll be it, I swear" Give a Mouse a Cookie Night of the Living Dead Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 10:30 PM (/qEW2) 138
112. Are you NOT drinking or something? Ahh - in light of Rafal up top, howzabout some Pinochet tributes as performed by an anticommie Polish rocker?
https://youtu.be/w4MxFm6eZS8 Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:31 PM (fA1SL) 139
would it be racist to have a song called "I'm Dreaming of a White Kwanza" if the song writer were a black person? Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach Have a Happy RamaHanuKwanzMas! https://youtu.be/p91GXkQ-Sas Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2017 10:31 PM (IqV8l) 140
Blanco and Molnar, thanks :-)
Yeah, I'd like to bail on 'em. One of the reasons I'm finally writing. I think at age 51 my bullshit tolerance limit has finally about been reached. Posted by: qdpsteve at December 15, 2017 10:31 PM (eMKNe) 141
How is the afib?
Posted by: Ladyl --- Under control and I feel good. Thanks. I have this nifty app on my iphone that will take my EKG, display it and let me know if I'm in afib. Doc says it's hereditary (thanks Mom!) and not to worry. Won't need an ablation. Seven holiday parties already? Girl! Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2017 10:31 PM (tr2D7) 142
on Speculum cable.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 10:28 PM (tRaq7) Oh yes. We know our customers. It might feel a bit cold at first. Posted by: Speculum Cable at December 15, 2017 10:31 PM (zCyNd) Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 10:32 PM (6FqZa) 144
84 Probably the last time I'll need to type this
For those who do so, please pray for my grandmom. She's my last living grandparent, any the littl'un's last living great-grandparent. She's in her final hours, and received Last Rites already. It's going to be hard to sleep, but I'll probably turn in in less than an hour so I can be up to get my brother's call. He'll visit her tomorrow if she makes it through the night. Sorry for the bummer, but I've no one else from myside of the family here in town. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (GsAUU) How very sad. Prayers for peace for your grandmom, and healing for you and your family. Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 10:32 PM (TdMsT) 145
I saw Ishtar on an aeroplane, transatlantic flight.
It was so bad I seriously considered opening the emergency exit. Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 10:33 PM (6FqZa) 146
Japanese tried to lease old cane fields in Hawaii just for that.
At 100 years for a tree to mature, that's either great foresight or total foolishness. Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:30 PM (IcT7t) Patience, they did those 99 year mortgages. Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 15, 2017 10:33 PM (Eu5eZ) 147
I'm about 300 miles north of the fires and there's still noticeable smoke, say safe horde.
Posted by: Surfperch at December 15, 2017 10:33 PM (3s1Os) 148
I also got in trouble today for... turning on the answering service for our phones.
Turns out we're not like other attorneys who use the answering service to pick up the phone when no one is in the office, oh no. My boss (who is an underling to the big boss, who has her name on the door) let me know we DON'T CARE if the phone never gets picked up while we're closed. We only use the answering service when no one can pick up the phone, during *regular business hours* it turns out. She couldn't believe I didn't already know that. Yeah, I understand. EVERYTHING I KNOW IS WRONG. Posted by: qdpsteve at December 15, 2017 10:33 PM (eMKNe) 149
141 How is the afib?
Posted by: Ladyl --- Under control and I feel good. Thanks. I have this nifty app on my iphone that will take my EKG, display it and let me know if I'm in afib. Doc says it's hereditary (thanks Mom!) and not to worry. Won't need an ablation. Seven holiday parties already? Girl! Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2017 10:31 PM (tr2D7) Can't you feel it if you have afib? Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 10:33 PM (TdMsT) Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:33 PM (IcT7t) 151
My friends in California used to keep sheep to maintain their firebreak, that was required by law. How would planting non-native, eucalyptus trees be allowed.
Posted by: Jean at December 15, 2017 10:33 PM (yM/Yl) 152
136 Was Dustin Hoffman's bigger crime exposing himself to a minor during the filming of Ishtar or was it the filming of Ishtar and exposing the movie to the American public?
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at December 15, 2017 10:30 PM (aCJ4a) Pass! Posted by: Ethics Board at December 15, 2017 10:34 PM (ZgKFD) 153
I wouldn't know, I've only ever killed communists.
Our Left feels the same about us. We are but tissue to be harvested. Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2017 10:34 PM (zu3jZ) 154
logprof, prayers.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 15, 2017 10:34 PM (eMKNe) 155
Posted by: Surfperch at December 15, 2017 10:33 PM (3s1Os)
Whoops! Autocucumber, *stay* safe horde. Posted by: Surfperch at December 15, 2017 10:34 PM (3s1Os) 156
151 My friends in California used to keep sheep to maintain their firebreak, that was required by law. How would planting non-native, eucalyptus trees be allowed.
Posted by: Jean at December 15, 2017 10:33 PM (yM/Yl) --------- Only ewe can prevent forest fires. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:34 PM (OVRJp) 157
I think "Cassandra" is pulling something like a James O'Keefe. Tricking liberals into showcasing their true nature.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 10:35 PM (/qEW2) 158
Patience, they did those 99 year mortgages.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 15, 2017 10:33 PM (Eu5eZ) Also knew a guy who planted the back forty with black walnut. For the great grand kids retirement, maybe. Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 15, 2017 10:35 PM (Eu5eZ) 159
I'm a good harasser, but only in the driveway.
Posted by: Rain Molester at December 15, 2017 10:35 PM (H5knJ) 160
How very sad. Prayers for peace for your grandmom, and healing for you and your family.
Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 10:32 PM (TdMsT) --I have consolation that she lived a long and blessed life. Even in her last years she had visitors every day. (As I commented earlier, that's the payoff for raising six children.) I'm missing all the Christmases at her house when I was growing up. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:36 PM (GsAUU) 161
The Caucuses Restaurant? I recommend the yellow cake!
Posted by: Hillary Radium Clinton at December 15, 2017 10:36 PM (Ndje9) Posted by: The Political Hat at December 15, 2017 10:36 PM (itfg0) 163
Happy Bill of Rights Day!
Today is the 226th anniversary of the first ten amendments to the Constitution coming into effect. The original Bill of Rights contained a preamble stating that the clauses were "declaratory and restrictive" -- i.e. they restricted the Federal Government and simply declared already existing rights and liberties. This is in stark contrast with almost every non-American declaration of rights, wherein inherent rights are conflated with promised of government handouts and benefits. http://politicalhat.com/?p=14265 Posted by: The Political Hat at December 15, 2017 10:36 PM (itfg0) 164
Little annoyed with Doordash.
There's a great pizza place that's not too far from me, but they don't deliver to my area. Anyway, with Doordash they were willing to make the trip, and I always rewarded them with nice tips. So today I log in, and find out that place won't deliver to my area at all anymore, Doordash or not. GRRR. Posted by: qdpsteve at December 15, 2017 10:37 PM (eMKNe) 165
150. He - kelthuzar - got his channel in yt pulled for a follow-up 'Physical Removal' - it was a good deal more explicit, and was also a very good example of EDM - brutalwave.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:37 PM (fA1SL) 166
160 How very sad. Prayers for peace for your grandmom, and healing for you and your family.
Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 10:32 PM (TdMsT) --I have consolation that she lived a long and blessed life. Even in her last years she had visitors every day. (As I commented earlier, that's the payoff for raising six children.) I'm missing all the Christmases at her house when I was growing up. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:36 PM (GsAUU) Daily visitors? Wow! She must be such a wonderful person! Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 10:37 PM (TdMsT) 167
150 https://youtu.be/w4MxFm6eZS8
That is the most beautiful thing I've heard in a long time. Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:33 PM (IcT7t) --In the comments: "Like an Ethiopian child, it never gets old." Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:38 PM (GsAUU) 168
The roots of gum trees aren't just shallow, they're invasive... spreading out a loooong way. Also they're insatiable for water. They drink up everything within reach. Posted by: otho at December 15, 2017 10:38 PM (qGuLD) 169
B E A Utiful content
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at December 15, 2017 10:38 PM (3BFzK) 170
I'm pondering how many more cookbooks I can order.
Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at December 15, 2017 10:38 PM (yJ1e6) 171
Sorry for the bummer, but I've no one else from myside of the family here in town.
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (GsAUU) Prayers for you and your family, logprof. Posted by: sinalco at December 15, 2017 10:38 PM (yODqO) 172
logprof......prayers for you.
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 15, 2017 10:39 PM (mMeIQ) 173
Seasonal spoofs: There are two absolutely ridiculous songs l have to listen to at this time of year - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer and Walking 'Round in Women's Underwear.
I sang that last one to B'Gal while I was decorating the tree. She tried to not laugh in between going, "That's awful." Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 10:39 PM (tRaq7) 174
"Frosty" looks like the result of Davros building a snowman after attending Oktoberfest.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 10:39 PM (/qEW2) Posted by: garrett at December 15, 2017 10:39 PM (8bEU0) 176
150 https://youtu.be/w4MxFm6eZS8
That is the most beautiful thing I've heard in a long time. Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 10:33 PM (IcT7t) You people joke, I knew the actual guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_R%C3%B3zsa-Flores Posted by: Eduardo, the Man of Flowers, and Killer at December 15, 2017 10:39 PM (zCyNd) Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:39 PM (OVRJp) Posted by: Santa Claus at December 15, 2017 10:40 PM (3s1Os) 179
Since I'm in Fire Central. It ain't the Eucs. It is all the under brush.
When I was a wee lad, there were controlled burns and fire breaks. Buuuuut the watermelons said NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Now there is only dry fuel waiting for an ember. But that is Trump's fault. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at December 15, 2017 10:40 PM (3BFzK) 180
Can't you feel it if you have afib?
Posted by: Ladyl --- Not always - that's the issue. If it is severe, yes but milder episodes are many times not felt or mistaken for something else. I did feel mine though - that's why I drove myself to the ER. Yes, yes, I know - everyone I know already yelled at me for that bit of foolishness. Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2017 10:40 PM (tr2D7) 181
re 127: of course I have no idea who Ania Wyszkoni is, so I checked with Google, and came across this under "People also search for":
Sylwia Grzeszczak and you guys wanted to know how to pronounce Strzok. Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at December 15, 2017 10:41 PM (ILitO) 182
Daily visitors? Wow! She must be such a wonderful person! Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 10:37 PM (TdMsT) --Yup, and until very recently she got taken to her old parish every Sunday for mass. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:42 PM (GsAUU) 183
Also on the eucalypti, they were brought over here to suck up water from the massive flooding we had in the 1880's (? way long ago). They do that well, sucking up entire rivers and creating drought conditions for other vegetation. This helps the fires, too.
Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2017 10:42 PM (zu3jZ) 184
He - kelthuzar - got his channel in yt pulled for a follow-up 'Physical Removal' - it was a good deal more explicit, and was also a very good example of EDM - brutalwave.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet My kinda song. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 10:42 PM (5wCUq) 185
Also they're insatiable for water. They drink up everything within reach.
Posted by: otho at December 15, 2017 10:38 PM (qGuLD) You know who that reminds me of? Hillary and Vodka. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 15, 2017 10:42 PM (ZgKFD) 186
Logprof, thoughts.
My GPs left when I was very young so take the years you have had as a blessing. Don't make it any easier though. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at December 15, 2017 10:43 PM (3BFzK) 187
Only ewe can prevent forest fires.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:34 PM (OVRJp) Sir- Your nomination has been received and approved. -The Swedish Academy of Sciences and Puns That Alter Our Understanding of Time, Space, andPhysics Posted by: Nobel says OK at December 15, 2017 10:43 PM (zCyNd) 188
In his 1982 memoirs, Over My Shoulder: Reflections on a Science Fiction Era, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach quotes L. Ron Hubbard as telling him in 1949, "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is."
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at December 15, 2017 10:43 PM (e8kgV) 189
Aetius, I hear Hillary wanted Vodka for her running mate, but her advisors said the name sounded too Russian. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 15, 2017 10:43 PM (eMKNe) 190
This thread has started down a dangerous and destructive path.
Posted by: Flashpoint Eucalyptus Imports & Sales, Inc. at December 15, 2017 10:44 PM (OVRJp) 191
Maybe it's a restaurant for Congressional Black Caucasians.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 10:44 PM (/qEW2) 192
182
Daily visitors? Wow! She must be such a wonderful person! Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 10:37 PM (TdMsT) --Yup, and until very recently she got taken to her old parish every Sunday for mass. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:42 PM (GsAUU) You have much to be grateful for, even in your time of sorrow. Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 10:45 PM (TdMsT) 193
189 Aetius, I hear Hillary wanted Vodka for her running mate, but her advisors said the name sounded too Russian. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 15, 2017 10:43 PM (eMKNe) Also, she would have been all over her running mate like Kerry was all over Edwards. More even. I think there were times when Kerry was INSIDE Edwards. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 15, 2017 10:45 PM (ZgKFD) 194
Arthur Eshbach quotes L. Ron Hubbard as telling him in 1949, "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is."
======= well a religio...cult that feeds on perveywood. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at December 15, 2017 10:45 PM (3BFzK) 195
soon...
Posted by: Australia at December 15, 2017 10:45 PM (zu3jZ) 196
Oh my. Check out the post at Insty about the FBI and the IG Report... Oh my.
Posted by: davidt at December 15, 2017 10:45 PM (RbSs1) 197
Sylwia Grzeszczak
and you guys wanted to know how to pronounce Strzok. Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at December 15, 2017 10:41 PM (ILitO) --Q: When a woman marries a Polish man, what does she get on her wedding night that's long and hard? A: A new last name Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:45 PM (GsAUU) 198
Grzeszczak = Smith
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 10:45 PM (tRaq7) 199
Crab juice.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 15, 2017 10:46 PM (WbIyz) 200
Sylwia Grzeszczak
and you guys wanted to know how to pronounce Strzok. Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at December 15, 2017 10:41 PM (ILitO) I run a summer basketball camp with emphasis on consonant drill. Posted by: Mike Krzyzewski at December 15, 2017 10:46 PM (zCyNd) 201
I hear Hillary wanted Vodka for her running mate
Good thing she had her big, black stumble mate. Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2017 10:47 PM (zu3jZ) 202
I did feel mine though - that's why I drove myself to the ER. Yes, yes, I know - everyone I know already yelled at me for that bit of foolishness.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2017 10:40 PM (tr2D7) My husband also drove himself to the ER. I wasn't home. The outcome was the worst... Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 10:47 PM (TdMsT) 203
Aetius, I hear Hillary wanted Vodka for her running mate, but her advisors said the name sounded too Russian. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve In an alternate reality Hillary Caesar appointed her vibrating egg to replace Franken in the Senate. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 10:47 PM (5wCUq) 204
There's an image, making the rounds in Facebook, with Sarah Huckabee Sanders as Xena with a sword at Jim Acosta's throat.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 15, 2017 10:47 PM (Lqy/e) 205
184. I found it - hidden, amd restricted, so can't link to it.
Radio zelaza is the channel name. Worth digging for, I assure you. Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:47 PM (fA1SL) 206
Eucalyptus are the sleeper cells of trees.
Posted by: Aunt Luna at December 15, 2017 10:48 PM (Zd2ZF) Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:48 PM (GsAUU) 208
The problem is, their is no Streisand effect for Democrats. The Media sees to that.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 10:48 PM (/qEW2) 209
Business before pleasure.
Posted by: just the punchline at December 15, 2017 10:49 PM (QCX64) Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 15, 2017 10:50 PM (KdDCu) 211
Also on the eucalypti, they were brought over here to suck up water from the massive flooding we had in the 1880's (? way long ago). They do that well, sucking up entire rivers and creating drought conditions for other vegetation. This helps the fires, too.
Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2017 10:42 PM They're good for arid conditions where other types may not flourish. They're built for growth in very dry conditions, so you can have a forest/cover/shade etc where otherwise you wouldn't. But they have no "off switch" due to their make up. Put them in a fertile zone with reliable water and they'll go crazy. They're kind of like the weeds of trees. Posted by: otho at December 15, 2017 10:51 PM (qGuLD) 212
Posted by: davidt at December 15, 2017 10:45 PM (RbSs1) This one? REMEMBER THIS NAME AND REMEMBER THIS DATE: Posted by: Milos with a good mix of vowels and consonants at December 15, 2017 10:52 PM (zCyNd) 213
https://youtu.be/w4MxFm6eZS8
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:31 PM (fA1SL) That was good. Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 15, 2017 10:52 PM (NWiLs) 214
So Dallas is renaming schools named after Lee and Jackson.
There's a Robert E. Lee St. here in EP. I wonder how long that will last? It's kind of a decrepit side road, though, so that wouldn't be all bad. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:52 PM (GsAUU) 215
Eucalyptus trees have been known to hunt in packs, exhibiting an almost human-like intelligence when they coordinate to attack their prey.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:53 PM (OVRJp) 216
No, eucalyptus are the quokka of the plant world.
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:54 PM (GsAUU) 217
Well just finished watching Star Warbles the Last Yeti.
The good things? I got to watch the movie while seated in a leather recliner and not a single little kid acted up during the whole movie. The bad things? If I took a shot every time they reused a line from the first three movies, I would have been drunk by the halfway point. If I had taken a shot every time they had recycled a scene from the original trilogy, I would have been dead due to alcohol poisoning halfway through the movie. I do not plan to see Episode IX because of one simple reason. When it comes to this franchise you are very much like the current crop of Star Trek writers in your conceit that as long as the story babbles what the audience is used to experiencing it will be a success. Keep porking the Porgs there Disney. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 10:55 PM (wiubB) 218
Condemning the restaurant for the "caucasian cuisine" sign is kavkazesque.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 10:55 PM (/qEW2) 219
If the California fires have burned out all the eucalyptus trees then that problem has been taken care of, yes? Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 15, 2017 10:55 PM (KdDCu) 220
213. RADIO ZELAZA:
https://www.youtube.com/user/cejrowskiyt under videos, 'Physical Removal' Right wing.libertarian brutalwave EDM. It. Exists. Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:55 PM (fA1SL) 221
No, eucalyptus are the quokka of the plant world.
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:54 PM Cute, but deadly? Posted by: otho at December 15, 2017 10:55 PM (qGuLD) 222
It's kind of a decrepit side road, though, so that wouldn't be all bad.
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:52 PM (GsAUU) Change the name, it'll be as swanky as all the MLK Boulevards. Posted by: Miklos, looking toward Midnight at December 15, 2017 10:55 PM (zCyNd) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2017 10:57 PM (IqV8l) 224
SHUT THAT BLOODY BOUZOUKI OFF!
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 10:57 PM (QCX64) 225
under videos, 'Physical Removal' Right wing.libertarian brutalwave EDM. It. Exists. Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:55 PM (fA1SL) --It appears Youtube has put that video in the demonetized ghetto, so they're doing it right. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:58 PM (GsAUU) 226
219
If the California fires have burned out all the eucalyptus trees then that problem has been taken care of, yes? ---------- Nope. Eucalyptus trees survive fire by burrowing deep into the soil until the danger has passed. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:58 PM (OVRJp) 227
Keep porking the Porgs there Disney.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) Speaking for myself, me personally, I loved it. It was totally original in a way that was like every other Star Wars movie. And it had so many things I recognized. Very cool. VERY COOL. VERY COOL Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 10:58 PM (5wCUq) Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:58 PM (fA1SL) 229
It's kind of a decrepit side road, though, so that wouldn't be all bad.
And it's still a better neighbourhood than around Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. I'm guessing. Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 10:59 PM (QCX64) 230
225. Yep. I was shocked it was up as long as it was. The chorus is really not at all subtle.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:00 PM (fA1SL) 231
Good evening, Horde! I haz cookbook, no thanks to UPS (but much thanks to weasel, bluebell, and all who contributed)!
And now I sleep...laters all! Posted by: Brother Cavil, this space for rent! Call 1-800-MORON-AD for details! at December 15, 2017 11:01 PM (lLeln) 232
33 30 Maybe if the Californians just imported a lot of koala.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 10:06 PM (6FqZa) ------------- We'd have to vet each one, like they do with Middle Eastern refugees. ====== That'll take , what, about 15 minutes total? Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad. at December 15, 2017 11:01 PM (5wTO9) 233
Eupocalyptus Now. I love the smell of brushfires in the morning.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 11:02 PM (/qEW2) 234
Eucalyptus trees have been known to hunt in packs, exhibiting an almost human-like intelligence when they coordinate to attack their prey.
Clever girl.. Posted by: Robert Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:02 PM (WbIyz) 235
When I was a wee lad, there were controlled burns and fire breaks. Buuuuut the watermelons said NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Now there is only dry fuel waiting for an ember. But that is Trump's fault. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at December 15, 2017 10:40 PM (3BFzK) I was worried about you, did you have to evacuate? I hope you're wearing a mask. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2017 11:02 PM (Ri/rl) 236
Sorry for the bummer, but I've no one else from myside of the family here in town.
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:20 You know you have many friends here who support you. I was in the same situation when my Mom was passing. The Horde was a substantial source of strength. Our prayers for you, T & Jules Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at December 15, 2017 11:03 PM (yJ1e6) 237
Greetings from Colorado. How've everyone doing tonight?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:03 PM (wPiJc) 238
Here's a hundred bucks for more ammo Mr. Ganowicz.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at December 15, 2017 11:03 PM (w+Jhj) 239
Ya know, these cane toads I'm sellin' will clear up that eucalyptus problem in no time at all, china.
Posted by: a successful australian businessman at December 15, 2017 11:04 PM (QCX64) 240
I thought Eucalyptus were those little guitars that they play in Hawaii.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:04 PM (wPiJc) 241
Greetings from Colorado. How've everyone doing tonight?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:03 PM (wPiJc) Everyone's doing everyone tonight, but how! Posted by: Phrased differently, not less accurately at December 15, 2017 11:05 PM (zCyNd) 242
I have about 15 eucalyptus trees on my property.
We use that wood for fires in the fireplace, I like that it doesn't smell like the oak does but eucalyptus pops like crazy. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2017 11:05 PM (Ri/rl) 243
Vojczovik
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 10:58 PM (fA1SL) "Voight" Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2017 11:05 PM (2K6fY) 244
You clipped us!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2017 11:06 PM (IqV8l) 245
Hoom Hom!! Who are you calling Calyptus??
Posted by: Treebeard at December 15, 2017 11:06 PM (RbSs1) 246
240 I thought Eucalyptus were those little guitars that they play in Hawaii.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:04 PM (wPiJc) -------- You're thinking of shillelaghs. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 11:06 PM (OVRJp) Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:07 PM (wPiJc) 248
'Sup Muldoon!
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 11:07 PM (GsAUU) 249
241 Greetings from Colorado. How've everyone doing tonight?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:03 PM (wPiJc) Everyone's doing everyone tonight, but how! Posted by: Phrased differently, not less accurately at December 15, 2017 11:05 PM (zCyNd) Why is it that I am ALWAYS left out? Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 11:07 PM (TdMsT) 250
243. Kompt
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:07 PM (fA1SL) 251
Australia seems to be Darwin's proving ground for prototype species.
Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 15, 2017 11:08 PM (KdDCu) 252
We use that wood for fires in the fireplace, I like that it doesn't smell like the oak does but eucalyptus pops like crazy. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2017 11:05 PM (Ri/rl) --------- Soon, bitch. Posted by: A Eucalyptus With A Long Memory at December 15, 2017 11:08 PM (OVRJp) Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:08 PM (wPiJc) 254
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (GsAUU)
Prayers for your beloved grandmother and you and your family during this difficult and painful time. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2017 11:08 PM (Ri/rl) 255
Howdy cliquers !
Posted by: 5/8 Mex at December 15, 2017 11:08 PM (lgPb4) 256
All right, time to turn in early.
Hope I had enough pills to sleep through the trepidation tonight. Thanks for all the support, Horde! Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 11:09 PM (GsAUU) 257
Ya know, these cane toads I'm sellin' will clear up that eucalyptus problem in no time at all, china.
Posted by: a successful australian businessman at December 15, 2017 11:04 PM Cane toads? That's an odd name. I'd a called 'em Chazwazzers. Posted by: otho at December 15, 2017 11:10 PM (qGuLD) Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2017 11:10 PM (Ri/rl) 259
Sorry to hear about your grams, logprof. God bless her and keep her. Good night!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:11 PM (wPiJc) 260
I thought a shillelagh was a four-leafed clover.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:08 PM (wPiJc) My favorite song as a child: AAaaaii've been worked over By a four-leafed clover, that's worked me over befoooooore! Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2017 11:11 PM (2K6fY) 261
Hi Muldoon! Greetings from Colorado right back at you
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 15, 2017 11:11 PM (mMeIQ) 262
Sorry Ludwig it was bantha podo mainly.
How many times will we see the Millennium Falcon swoop down to save the day? How many times must we see the ship go careening through narrow defiles and chasms that remind one of the second Death Star? Casino? Higher class clientele but still as vile as the cantina at Mos Eisley. Plus the polemic about evil war merchants. Rey and Luke, think back to Dagobah. Similar dynamics. Oh the First Order firing on the fleeing Rebel ships and Rey can see them from Snokes throne? Palpatine and Luke at second Death Star. Sith apprentice turning on Sith master, again the second Death Star. Once again AT-ATs plus other toys assaulting a Rebel base. Hoth anyone? Instead of snowspeeders, rickety skimmers. Turrets and trenches? Again Hoth. Amazing how many troops the Rebels had at that base when they only had 400 at the start of the pursuit. On the plus side I guess, the ice Fennecs of Hoth II don't smell like Tauntauns. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:11 PM (wiubB) 263
Hi Muldoon! Greetings from Colorado right back at you
**** Other side of the hill. You guys gotten any snow yet this month? We've had squat all nothing. Dry as a bone. Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:13 PM (wPiJc) 264
Don't the Aussies have funny sounding names for everything? Like a eucalyptus is also known as a bonkwillybangbang Kaboolalboollah tree or some such?
I don't know much about Australia when you get right down to it. Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:16 PM (wPiJc) 265
A drive at 4:30 that normally takes 10 to 15 minutes at that time took 55 to 60 minutes tonight. Speed limits of 25-35 mph. With about an inch of snow.
Yeah, it was slippery out, but really people. Posted by: RM at December 15, 2017 11:16 PM (eP+dt) 266
SpaceX had some GAINZZZ today. They launched another cargo resupply mission to the ISS, and it went flawlessly.
They've relaunched used first stages and used Dragon capsules before, but this was the first time they've launched both a used first stage and a used Dragon capsule on the same flight. It was the first launch from SLC-40 at the Cape since that little oopsie in Sept. 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BgJEXQkjNQ The pad infrastructure has been rebuilt and improved since then. It has also been hardened so that a similar accident today would only take about three months to repair instead of over a year. There were some gorgeous visuals in today's flight. It was a perfectly clear sky, so ground cameras could follow the first stage continuously from launch to landing. Here is NASA TV from first stage shutdown to landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm64mQTBSkI And here is the SpaceX webcast. Starting at about 21:12, the descending Stage 1 rocketcam shows the contrail that it made minutes earlier during ascent. That blew my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPHbqY9LHCs This was also the 20th successful landing of the Falcon 9 first stage. The first one was on December 21, 2015, less than two years ago. It made headlines, and it was compared to 1950s science fiction come to life. Now they're making it look routine. Posted by: rickl at December 15, 2017 11:16 PM (sdi6R) Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2017 11:17 PM (tRaq7) 268
Solo tu preventos los fuego del forresto!
Posted by: Smokey the Koala Bear at December 15, 2017 11:17 PM (/qEW2) 269
243, 250.
You're walking thru a desert, Leonid. You look down at your feet and see a cherpaxa.... Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:17 PM (fA1SL) Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad. at December 15, 2017 11:17 PM (5wTO9) 271
SpaceX had some GAINZZZ today. They launched another cargo resupply mission to the ISS, and it went flawlessly.
Posted by: rickl at December 15, 2017 11:16 PM (sdi6R) The ISS is still up there? Is there anyone on it? Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 15, 2017 11:17 PM (8gDQu) 272
Gosh, didn't mean to kill the thread.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:17 PM (wPiJc) 273
I saw it last night Anna. I liked it better when it was called ROTJ and ESB. One truly original thing from the move, though.
Bombers, dropping gravity bombs. In space. What the ever loving hell? Posted by: Weirddave at December 15, 2017 11:17 PM (Nyyc4) 274
Amazing how many troops the Rebels had at that base when they only had 400 at the start of the pursuit.
Are we allowed to do spoilers on the first day? Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 15, 2017 11:18 PM (WbIyz) 275
It made headlines, and it was compared to 1950s science fiction come to life. Now they're making it look routine. Posted by: rickl Isn't that what killed the original space program? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2017 11:18 PM (IqV8l) Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:19 PM (fA1SL) 277
Shillelaghs-the stick you can take into the courthouse and even up to jail when you visit people.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 15, 2017 11:19 PM (Lqy/e) 278
owch, Anna, you took one for the team tonight.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 15, 2017 11:19 PM (6FqZa) 279
Muldoon's here?
That explains why all the good marshmallow pieces are missing from my bowl of Lucky Charms... Posted by: Miklos, happy that Lucky Charms are EBT qualified at December 15, 2017 11:19 PM (zCyNd) Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2017 11:19 PM (2K6fY) 281
Sorry Ludwig it was bantha podo mainly.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) I haven't (won't) seen it, I was just doing the Nerd Crew schtick. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 11:20 PM (5wCUq) 282
They're good for arid conditions where other types may not flourish. They're built for growth in very dry conditions, so you can have a forest/cover/shade etc where otherwise you wouldn't. But they have no "off switch" due to their make up. Put them in a fertile zone with reliable water and they'll go crazy. They're kind of like the weeds of trees.
Posted by: otho at December 15, 2017 10:51 PM (qGuLD) They also are messy trees. All of my friends that have bought big lots with eucalyptus trees the first thing they do is cut them down. If they're far away from your house they're not so bad. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2017 11:20 PM (Ri/rl) Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 15, 2017 11:20 PM (WbIyz) 284
That explains why all the good marshmallow pieces are missing from my bowl of Lucky Charms...
******** Well I could hardly help myself. They ARE after all magically delicious! Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:21 PM (wPiJc) 285
Solo tu preventos los fuego del forresto!
Posted by: Smokey the Koala Bear at December 15, 2017 11:17 PM (/qEW2) The man say fuego, so I fuego... Posted by: Illegal alien possessor of stolen pistol at December 15, 2017 11:21 PM (zCyNd) Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 11:22 PM (TdMsT) 287
Naming conventions are a funny thing. They'll ensure that not even an alley is named after Robert E. Lee, but are content to have the worst street in every city named after Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted by: Koala Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 15, 2017 11:22 PM (H5knJ) 288
I had to do it. It said it had soft shoulders and was slippery when wet!
Posted by: road sign f#cker at December 15, 2017 11:23 PM (QCX64) 289
Damn web browsers are acting weird, asking for passwords and log on credentials. All four of'm. Weird. Damn web keeps evolving. What good are standards if no one uses them? Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 15, 2017 11:24 PM (KdDCu) 290
Muldoon--I love your limericks in the Deplorable Gourmet!
Posted by: Ladyl ****** **blushes demurely** Why thanks, Ladyl Bluebell asked me if I could come up with something. Was happy to help out. Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:24 PM (wPiJc) 291
Yeah space bombers. In ESB the TiE bombers were the inspiration? Might as well talk of how stupid Poe's little stall tactic was and how the First Order never seemed to detect the bombers until "Surprise!"
Apparently in the Star Wars universe no one has thought of missiles. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:24 PM (wiubB) 292
Don't the Aussies have funny sounding names for everything? Like a eucalyptus is also known as a bonkwillybangbang Kaboolalboollah tree or some such?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:16 PM That's just ridiculous and silly. They're called Oodnadatta skysticks. Posted by: otho at December 15, 2017 11:24 PM (qGuLD) 293
290 Muldoon--I love your limericks in the Deplorable Gourmet!
Posted by: Ladyl ****** **blushes demurely** Why thanks, Ladyl Bluebell asked me if I could come up with something. Was happy to help out. Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:24 PM (wPiJc) You are a poetic genius. Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 11:25 PM (TdMsT) 294
Next thing we need are menu plans from the cookbook
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 15, 2017 11:25 PM (Lqy/e) 295
Look out! Curves ahead!!!
Posted by: road sign f#cker at December 15, 2017 11:26 PM (QCX64) Posted by: Al Franken at December 15, 2017 11:26 PM (zCyNd) Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2017 11:26 PM (Ri/rl) 298
My Limerick compilation, er compendium, er whatever should be available for purchase in a couple of days. Doing the final proof tonight and tomorrow. I pulled over 250 limericks from the last year or so of the blog.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:26 PM (wPiJc) 299
298 My Limerick compilation, er compendium, er whatever should be available for purchase in a couple of days. Doing the final proof tonight and tomorrow. I pulled over 250 limericks from the last year or so of the blog.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:26 PM (wPiJc) Will it be sold on Amazon? Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 11:27 PM (TdMsT) 300
Smokey el Oso Grande is in da house!!!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:27 PM (wPiJc) 301
Ludwig, "the nerd is strong in you."
I will say this, Rey and Yoda trying to knock sense back into Luke was cool. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:28 PM (wiubB) 302
What is cenizo? Smoky the bear?
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2017 11:26 PM (Ri/rl) Who. Put. Da Coke. In da Holes? Who. Is. Smokey The Bear? Posted by: The Sheriff From Colors at December 15, 2017 11:28 PM (8gDQu) 303
Will it be sold on Amazon?
Posted by: Ladyl ****** Yeah, if I get the final tweaks in place I'll announce on the Sunday Book Thread. Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:29 PM (wPiJc) 304
Now they're making it look routine.
Posted by: rickl at December 15, 2017 11:16 PM (sdi6R) The next one is launching from Vandenberg next week. I like watching them. It's been very smoky at the base though because of the fire. I don't know if I'll be able to see it because of the smoke around here. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2017 11:30 PM (Ri/rl) 305
First months proceeds go to charity. After that proceeds go to Muldoon's whiskey and cigar fund.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:30 PM (wPiJc) 306
Oso Negro is a fine vodka that Mexican-Moron-Americans know well.
The cenizero is where you put the ashes of your cigars and enemies. Posted by: Miklos "El Jefe" Molnar at December 15, 2017 11:30 PM (zCyNd) 307
303 Will it be sold on Amazon?
Posted by: Ladyl ****** Yeah, if I get the final tweaks in place I'll announce on the Sunday Book Thread. Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:29 PM (wPiJc) Congrats, Muldoon! I'm looking forward reading it! Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 11:31 PM (TdMsT) 308
214 So Dallas is renaming schools named after Lee and Jackson.
There's a Robert E. Lee St. here in EP. I wonder how long that will last? It's kind of a decrepit side road, though, so that wouldn't be all bad. Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:52 PM (GsAUU) The Great Helmsman reminds us that it is on a blank page that the most beautiful poetry is written. Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at December 15, 2017 11:32 PM (XF0vH) 309
Yeah, if I get the final tweaks in place I'll announce on the Sunday Book Thread.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:29 PM (wPiJc) --------- I will review it. But in haiku. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 11:32 PM (OVRJp) 310
291 ...
Apparently in the Star Wars universe no one has thought of missiles. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:24 PM (wiubB) In FA, Po gives Finn gunnery OJT and "missiles" was on the weapon select list. Also, Finn's first kill was against a missile launched by a TIE/sf, IIRC. Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 15, 2017 11:32 PM (di1hb) 311
305 First months proceeds go to charity. After that proceeds go to Muldoon's whiskey and cigar fund.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:30 PM (wPiJc) Fantastic! Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 11:32 PM (TdMsT) 312
First months proceeds go to charity. After that proceeds go to Muldoon's whiskey and cigar fund.
Posted by: Muldoon Is Charity dancing tonight? Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 11:32 PM (5wCUq) Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:32 PM (wPiJc) 314
One of the trailers before the movie was Battle Angel Alita. And yeah they have somehow omitted for Doc Ito his forehead Tiphranes mark.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:33 PM (wiubB) 315
Is Charity dancing tonight?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 11:32 PM (5wCUq) --------- There could be a lot of dollar bills turning up in her g-string in the very near future. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 11:33 PM (OVRJp) 316
The office of Rep Mo Brooks issued a statement today that his prostate surgery went well and that his initial prognosis is good.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 15, 2017 11:34 PM (398bZ) 317
How's the market for limericks these days? We should do some focus group testing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 11:35 PM (OVRJp) 318
Cenizo el oso, It's actually "ashy" the bear, 'Cause smokey is "humo" and that sounds . . . funny.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2017 11:35 PM (2K6fY) 319
Did it happen in Force Awakens? I watched it when it first came out. Never bothered to buy it on Blu-Ray.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:35 PM (wiubB) Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:35 PM (fA1SL) 321
Is Charity dancing tonight?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 11:32 PM (5wCUq) I believe Charity has become Char. She had a dick glued to her hip and now calls herself a guy. ... and they said "close enough" only counted in horseshoes and hand grenades ... Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 15, 2017 11:35 PM (8gDQu) 322
I never quite "got" haiku. So yeah, 5-7-5. But is there supposed to be some kind of rhythm, or context, or hidden meaning, or just what exactly?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:35 PM (wPiJc) 323
Casual Friday ONT Compliance Pics
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/941722116394598400 https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/941722189476302848 https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/941722271017787393 https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/941722361329577986 https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/941722627303002114 Posted by: kbdabear at December 15, 2017 11:36 PM (eh0Va) 324
I never quite "got" haiku. So yeah, 5-7-5. But is there supposed to be some kind of rhythm, or context, or hidden meaning, or just what exactly?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:35 PM (wPiJc) Just numbers, man. Just numbers. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 15, 2017 11:37 PM (8gDQu) 325
317 How's the market for limericks these days? We should do some focus group testing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 11:35 PM (OVRJp) My guess is that the market is excellent. Most people on the right are looking for an antidote to the humorless left. Posted by: Ladyl at December 15, 2017 11:37 PM (TdMsT) 326
The Great Helmsman reminds us that it is on a blank page that the most beautiful poetry is written.
Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at December 15, 2017 11:32 PM (XF0vH) This is beautiful. Posted by: Pol Pot at December 15, 2017 11:37 PM (zCyNd) 327
Don't the Aussies have funny sounding names for everything?
433 words for things that will kill you. It was 432 until the eucalyptuses broke their cover. Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2017 11:37 PM (TYOIW) 328
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319 Did it happen in Force Awakens? I watched it when it first came out. Never bothered to buy it on Blu-Ray.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:35 PM (wiubB) If you're asking me, yes. By "FA", I meant "Force Awakens" Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 15, 2017 11:37 PM (di1hb) 330
I never quite "got" haiku. So yeah, 5-7-5. But is there supposed to be
some kind of rhythm, or context, or hidden meaning, or just what exactly? The answer you seek Can not be given to you In a short post here Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 11:38 PM (IcT7t) 331
How's the market for limericks these days?
******* Probably not good. I suspect your average "Man from Nantucket" limerick aficionado would not grok my particular style. Hell, half the time I don't even get my own jokes. Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:38 PM (wPiJc) 332
Muldoon, think of Haiku as a form of sonnet, except without rhyme, prosody or complete sentences.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2017 11:38 PM (2K6fY) 333
322. 5-7-5, even 3-2-3.
There arw very formal styles, of course, with rules for noun and verb location. No rhyme. Haiku used to be segments of longer, more formal poems. Japanese pared it right down. Spontaneity is valued - supposed to catch a mood or thought 'alive.' Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:38 PM (fA1SL) 334
Haiku is to poetry what ichibana is to flower arranging, or something.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 11:38 PM (OVRJp) Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:39 PM (fA1SL) Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:39 PM (wPiJc) 337
I believe Charity has become Char. She had a dick glued to her hip and now calls herself a guy. ... and they said "close enough" only counted in horseshoes and hand grenades ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair C'mon I know strippers have issues, but they're not that psychosexually aberrant. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 11:39 PM (5wCUq) 338
But is there supposed to be some kind of rhythm, or context, or hidden meaning, or just what exactly?
I don't know about rhyming (maybe alot of words in Japanese rhyme already?) but you're supposed to mention a season of the year e.g. winter in them I've read. Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 11:39 PM (QCX64) 339
C'mon I know strippers have issues, but they're not that psychosexually aberrant.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 11:39 PM (5wCUq) I wasn't talking about strippers. I was talking about the bono kid. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 15, 2017 11:40 PM (8gDQu) 340
There once was a man
Who was born in Nantucket He wiped off his chin ------ See? The empty space becomes the most important element in the composition. *cracks open a cold one* Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 11:40 PM (OVRJp) 341
I've never been prosody. I think we should recriminalize it.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 11:41 PM (QCX64) 342
Oh man, you people crack me up!!!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:42 PM (wPiJc) 343
Muldoon, think of Haiku as a form of sonnet, except without rhyme, prosody or complete sentences.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2017 11:38 PM (2K6fY) Aha. This helps greatly in deconstructing this morning's "art". Posted by: Mikos, no curator him at December 15, 2017 11:42 PM (zCyNd) 344
In fact, Muldoon, Haiku is sort of a footless poetic form.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2017 11:42 PM (2K6fY) Posted by: Hands at December 15, 2017 11:42 PM (EzdLW) 346
Oddly enough, haiku is the one poetic device that I did not suck at.
Limericks are tough, but doable. Iambic pentameter is out of the question. Free verse is for fags. Posted by: Pug Mahon aka the Deplorable P.U.G. at December 15, 2017 11:42 PM (bZ4w4) Posted by: don lemon at December 15, 2017 11:42 PM (QCX64) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 15, 2017 11:42 PM (IqV8l) Posted by: Richard Pryor at December 15, 2017 11:43 PM (398bZ) 350
Don't the Aussies have funny sounding names for everything? Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:16 PM They are a strange lot. They put steaks on their Barbie dolls. Posted by: Hands at December 15, 2017 11:43 PM (EzdLW) Posted by: The Leprechaun at December 15, 2017 11:43 PM (OVRJp) 352
Spontaneity is valued - supposed to catch a mood or thought 'alive.'
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:38 PM (fA1SL) And while still alive it will be filleted, and then eaten while still gasping because Japanese! Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 15, 2017 11:44 PM (tMFgx) 353
"Why so low?" asked the trimmer.
"Eucalyptus!" replied the topiary. Posted by: Hands at December 15, 2017 11:44 PM (EzdLW) 354
Obviously, Obama held back the economy.
The real question is ... why ? Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at December 15, 2017 11:45 PM (e8kgV) 355
I complained I had no shoes then I met a footless poetic form.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 11:45 PM (QCX64) 356
>>>I never quite "got" haiku.
It's never appealed to me. Too minimalist. It's like the Rothko of stanzas. I'm guessing people try to force themselves to like it for the sake of political correctness. Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 15, 2017 11:45 PM (/qEW2) 357
Everything in Australia will kill you. Except koalas. They simply lull you into a kind of fuzzy, goofy trance until the tiny ants get past your socks, then...BAM!
Posted by: Pug Mahon aka the Deplorable P.U.G. at December 15, 2017 11:45 PM (bZ4w4) 358
318 Cenizo el oso, It's actually "ashy" the bear, 'Cause smokey is "humo" and that sounds . . . funny.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2017 11:35 PM (2K6fY) Thanks, my Spanish isn't that great. Posted by: CaliGirl at December 15, 2017 11:45 PM (Ri/rl) Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:45 PM (wPiJc) 360
I wasn't talking about strippers. I was talking about the bono kid.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair That was Chastity (I know, right) Bono. Wasn't she abused by her bull-dyke nanny when she was a kid? I wonder if that had any impact on how she turned out. *hauled off by LGBBTTQAAIPPPHT#99(and twice on Sundays) thought police* Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 11:46 PM (5wCUq) 361
#348 Thread haiku winner.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 11:46 PM (QCX64) 362
As the evening wears on, I find that the ginger ale/bourbon proportions appear to change.
Perhaps there is something about that in the Feynman Lectures. Posted by: Mikos, no physicist, nor any type of "deGrasse" at December 15, 2017 11:47 PM (zCyNd) 363
Better the sake of political correctness than the wine of despair!
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 11:47 PM (QCX64) 364
Missus Muldoon and I call our cabin "Little Naked Bear". The closest translation I could come up with was "Osito en Cueros", which means something along the lines of the little bear in his skin.
Works for me. Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:48 PM (wPiJc) 365
Everything in Australia will kill you. Except koalas. They simply lull you into a kind of fuzzy, goofy trance until the tiny ants get past your socks, then...BAM!
Posted by: Pug Mahon aka the Deplorable P.U.G. at December 15, 2017 11:45 PM That's a common misconception. The male koalas are venomous, with a toxicity on par with the Death Adder. Just because they usually don't bite, doesn't mean they won't. Posted by: otho at December 15, 2017 11:48 PM (qGuLD) 366
First they came for the iambic pentameter, and I said nothing,
Because I composed only in haiku Posted by: The Leprechaun at December 15, 2017 11:48 PM (OVRJp) 367
Obviously, Obama held back the economy.
The real question is ... why ? Because he was trying to help out the Iranians at our expense? Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 11:49 PM (IcT7t) Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 15, 2017 11:49 PM (KdDCu) 369
352. Bonsai as the key to Japanese culture - careful cultivation and mutilation under controlled conditions to attain one of a defined number of formal types.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:49 PM (fA1SL) 370
Max'd my Roth IRA a few minutes ago. But that's no big deal.
(technically, I max it on Monday when the order goes through) Messing with my investment spreadsheet. Trying to plan my 2018 taxes as best I can. It's small potatoes, but in the event I have to sell a mutual fund I have in a taxable account, I want to pay ZERO F***ING Long-Term Cap Gainzz. Which means putting just enough in my one retirement account to drop me into the poor people's bracket. Oh, and planning my annual mutual fund rebalance. Posted by: Arch Stanton at December 15, 2017 11:50 PM (MCbul) 371
353 "Why so low?" asked the trimmer.
"Eucalyptus!" replied the topiary. Posted by: Hands at December 15, 2017 11:44 PM (EzdLW) Objection. Posted by: the 8th Amendment at December 15, 2017 11:50 PM (zCyNd) Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 11:51 PM (5wCUq) 373
Saw Star Wars today, better than Force Awakens, but still recycling scenes and concepts from the first trilogy, parts of episodes 5 and 6 in this one.
And, as a new added feature, all the men are evil assholes, cowards, or trigger happy idiots who want to blow shit up. All the women are fantastic and have none of the flaws of the men. Rey had three Jedi lessons and she is now more lethal that Bruce Lee, Chris Kyle and Chuck Norris combined. With two or three more lessons she will likely be able to defeat the entire First Order with a slingshot and three pebbles. Posted by: JB1000 at December 15, 2017 11:51 PM (SGGel) 374
368. * zombie Eliot and Pound shamble relentlessly toward you *
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:51 PM (fA1SL) 375
That's a common misconception. The male koalas are venomous, with a
toxicity on par with the Death Adder. Just because they usually don't bite, doesn't mean they won't. It's my understanding that they don't always invenomate their victims immediately, because they like the screaming during the mauling process. Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 11:51 PM (IcT7t) 376
305 First months proceeds go to charity.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:30 PM (wPiJc) The Muldoon Global Initiative? Posted by: rickl at December 15, 2017 11:51 PM (sdi6R) 377
Don't the Aussies have funny sounding names for everything?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:16 PM They are a strange lot. They put steaks on their Barbie dolls. Posted by: Hands at December 15, 2017 11:43 PM (EzdLW) ======== That's not all they put on there. Nudge, nudge, know what I mean? Seriously though, I think a lot of the etymologies are based on aboriginal names, just like here. Billabong, Chappaqua, etc. Posted by: Robert Reich at December 15, 2017 11:51 PM (/qEW2) 378
I'm trying to refrain from poetry puns but I don't know if I can make it.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 11:52 PM (QCX64) 379
291 Yeah space bombers. In ESB the TiE bombers were the inspiration? Might as well talk of how stupid Poe's little stall tactic was and how the First Order never seemed to detect the bombers until "Surprise!"
Apparently in the Star Wars universe no one has thought of missiles. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:24 PM (wiubB) Space bombers where they pretty much all blow up, if any ONE of them blow up, no less. Pretty hilarious. And that's without thinking too much about the Physics of bombers (which DROP bombs) in a medium that has no gravity. It's easily the stupidest part of the movie - and really none of the movie made any sense. SPOILERS... But notice how desperately stupid they had to go, in order to discredit super-pilot guy ("Poe", maybe?), after he single-handedly launches an assault against a massive fleet of the bad guys, alone in his puny little fighter, and succeeds. This Star Wars went totally feminazi. The bad guys are white males, generally older. The good guys are female/diverse. When the few males on the good guy team do something heroic, they're literally either stopped by a woman on their own side (who Knows Better), or derided for being some sort of a loose cannon. In one instance one of the women does the self-sacrifice thing, but when a man tries to do the exact same thing he's stopped - like he's being some macho idiot. There are entire sub-plots completely devoted to having the male good guys try some desperate thing - and fail - just to make them look bad! In any normal Star Wars movie, these crazy little schemes always run into trouble, but then miraculously work. These brilliant women (who decline to even tell the men what's going on - for no reason) manage to get so many of their people killed that what's left of the entire Resistance easily fits inside the Millenium Falcon as passengers. The only male hero that gets a big moment is Luke, and that turns out to be a scam - then he somehow dies for no real reason. The whole plot surrounding HIM is idiotic, and even HE is lectured by our new female heroine for basically being a complete idiot. Posted by: Optimizer at December 15, 2017 11:53 PM (EnK/R) 380
Rey had three Jedi lessons and she is now more lethal that Bruce Lee, Chris Kyle and Chuck Norris combined. With two or three more lessons she will likely be able to defeat the entire First Order with a slingshot and three pebbles.
Posted by: JB1000 That's why Vox Day dubbed her "Mary Suewalker". Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 15, 2017 11:53 PM (5wCUq) 381
How do you tell if the koala that's attacking you is a male?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 11:53 PM (OVRJp) Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:53 PM (wPiJc) 383
Wherever you are, it's "here".
Posted by: Hands at December 15, 2017 11:53 PM (EzdLW) 384
Muldoon...we did get a scant inch Wednesday. Drove over to Glenwood the Saturday after Thanksgiving and couldn't believe how bad the ski areas were. My brother is a junior mogul coach at WP and they can't even practice on the mountain
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 15, 2017 11:53 PM (mMeIQ) 385
367 Obviously, Obama held back the economy.
The real question is ... why ? "Fairness" of course. Posted by: Puddleglum at December 15, 2017 11:54 PM (peJQi) 386
How do you tell if the koala that's attacking you is a male?
******* Got that thing that goes up. Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:54 PM (wPiJc) 387
Beware the tiny koala boner.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 11:55 PM (OVRJp) 388
Mary Sue, or Mary Sue not. There is no Jedi.
Posted by: Hands at December 15, 2017 11:56 PM (EzdLW) 389
Tonypete, welcome to the A-Fib club!
I was diagnosed 6-7 years ago. Ablation shocked the A-Fib out but came right back. Cardiac catheterization luckily showed no blockage. I can honestly say it has no noticeable impact on my life. Cardiologist says on bi-annual visits to stay as active as possible, keep weight under control, and all looks good. I'm sure it is different for everyone, but I sincerely send all good wishes to you for great results. I stay very active and Have two friends in the club. One regularly bikes 40-50 miles and the other is my former masters swim coach who is like a shark in the water. Hang in! Posted by: RM at December 15, 2017 11:56 PM (eP+dt) 390
The Muldoon Global Initiative?
Posted by: rickl ***** Heh. Pretty much, yeah. Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:53 PM (wPiJc) Haiti is waiting. Haitian Creole Haiku with Voodoo sauce. With UN sponsorship. Posted by: UNDP/unrealized CGI promises at December 15, 2017 11:56 PM (zCyNd) 391
I complained I had no shoes then I met a footless poetic form.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 11:45 PM (QCX64) The general rule is that romance languages follow the use of syllabic meter in poetry, and Germanic languages use foot meter. It is supposed to be because some languages have greater stress variation than others, but I suspect it has to do with what literary traditions the poetry looks back to. Romance languages and Japanese look to written forms in Latin and Chinese, and Germanic languages look back to oral traditions where the prosody and alliteration and rhyme was essential for memorization. There are some indication that early Spanish epic poetry, like The Cid did use a form of foot meter, but it seems it is somewhat irregular. Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2017 11:56 PM (2K6fY) 392
My brother is a junior mogul coach at WP and they can't even practice on the mountain
Posted by: westminster dog show ***** Yep. As dry as I can remember in the past 40 years. Posted by: Muldoon at December 15, 2017 11:56 PM (wPiJc) 393
It's my understanding that they don't always invenomate their victims immediately, because they like the screaming during the mauling process.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 15, 2017 11:51 PM That's been known to happen, yes. Also, they don't always envenomate because they have a primitive delivery system like the funnel web. The aggression combined with full rapid delivery can result in venom expended before the fangs penetrate. This saves many lives and is a reason for a relatively high victim survival rate. Posted by: otho at December 15, 2017 11:57 PM (qGuLD) 394
The general rule is that romance languages follow the use of syllabic meter in poetry, and Germanic languages use foot meter. It is supposed to be ...back to oral traditions where the prosody and alliteration and rhyme was essential for memorization. ??? Racist!! Posted by: English Ph.D. candidate, Yourtown U. at December 15, 2017 11:58 PM (zCyNd) 395
You asked for it: Poetical terms quiz...
https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/quiz/termquiz.htm Show your work. Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 11:58 PM (QCX64) Posted by: Hands at December 15, 2017 11:59 PM (EzdLW) 397
"Yes my young apprentices let the hate flow," Sith Lord Disney says as he deposits more bucks in the bank.
Poe and Finn had their moments thwarted by women. Leia with Poe. And Rose for Finn.. and how did a grease monkey like Rose of the Shock Prod know how to pilot? Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 15, 2017 11:59 PM (wiubB) Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2017 12:00 AM (wPiJc) 399
Show your work.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 15, 2017 11:58 PM (QCX64) Even.More.Racist. And stuff. Buncha words. Posted by: English Ph.D. candidate, Yourtown U. at December 16, 2017 12:00 AM (zCyNd) 400
Golbuhl warming and all
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 16, 2017 12:00 AM (mMeIQ) 401
Poe and Finn had their moments thwarted by women. Leia with Poe. And Rose for Finn.. and how did a grease monkey like Rose of the Shock Prod know how to pilot?
------- Wait. Is this a spoiler? DON'T RUIN IT FOR ME, MAN!!!!! Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 16, 2017 12:01 AM (OVRJp) Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2017 12:01 AM (wPiJc) 403
Poetry be hard, yo by the meter, by the foot, long not to reason why but to espeek the rhyme or do the time when the jury don't acquit the lawyer still get paid, see? Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:01 AM (KdDCu) 404
Don't worry Rian Johnson already ruined the movie by writing it.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:02 AM (wiubB) 405
re: star wars.
I hate to say it, but who cares? I loved the original trilogy, read a ton of the books (sorry, "legends"), and was thoroughly let down by prequels 1-3. I've seen one of the Disney Star Wars movies, and thought it was a more PC digitally re-mastered with new special effects A New Hope. Probably will get around to seeing the others, but... eh. I guess I'm back to "who cares?" Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 16, 2017 12:02 AM (wmaTe) 406
Or shows dogs how?
Posted by: andycanuck at December 16, 2017 12:02 AM (QCX64) 407
373 Saw Star Wars today, better than Force Awakens, but still recycling scenes and concepts from the first trilogy, parts of episodes 5 and 6 in this one.
And, as a new added feature, all the men are evil assholes, cowards, or trigger happy idiots who want to blow shit up. All the women are fantastic and have none of the flaws of the men. Rey had three Jedi lessons and she is now more lethal that Bruce Lee, Chris Kyle and Chuck Norris combined. With two or three more lessons she will likely be able to defeat the entire First Order with a slingshot and three pebbles. Posted by: JB1000 at December 15, 2017 11:51 PM (SGGel) I must not remember the second set of movies very well, because while I did recognize certain lines, it wasn't like the last one where they literally had another Death Star, and literally blew it up (only this time without any one Hero using the force, or even not using the Force). Maybe I need a run-down on it. A lot of times I thought I was seeing some re-hash, it didn't go the way I expected. But "hell, yeah" on the rest. I was going brutal on the feminazi stuff in another comment while yours popped up. Posted by: Optimizer at December 16, 2017 12:02 AM (EnK/R) 408
?????
Posted by: Edgar Allan Poe and Huck Finn at December 16, 2017 12:02 AM (zCyNd) 409
So our neighbor across the street has Christmas decorations that play a loop of music. I will forever hate every song on that loop
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 16, 2017 12:03 AM (mMeIQ) 410
Rey had three Jedi lessons and she is now more lethal that Bruce Lee, Chris Kyle and Chuck Norris combined. With two or three more lessons she will likely be able to defeat the entire First Order with a slingshot and three pebbles.
Posted by: JB1000 Well, if she doesn't put her eye out first. Watch it with that light saber, there. Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at December 16, 2017 12:03 AM (S6Pax) 411
Bonsai as the key to Japanese culture - careful
cultivation and mutilation under controlled conditions to attain one of a defined number of formal types. Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:49 PM (fA1SL) So . . . Abenomics? Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2017 12:04 AM (2K6fY) 412
381 How do you tell if the koala that's attacking you is a male?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 11:53 PM (OVRJp) Did it oppress you before it attacked? Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 16, 2017 12:04 AM (tMFgx) 413
Well, if she doesn't put her eye out first.
Watch it with that light saber, there. Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet It happens more often than you think. Posted by: Ralphie Skywalker at December 16, 2017 12:05 AM (5wCUq) Posted by: Miklos Molnar at December 16, 2017 12:05 AM (zCyNd) 415
It happens more often than you think.
Posted by: Ralphie Skywalker If you can't Force - levitate, you're going to get a mouthful of Lifeboy soap, young Jedi! Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at December 16, 2017 12:06 AM (S6Pax) 416
Then Rian totally ruins the concept of Luke being this Jedi hermit by waving hands and suddenly the island has these caretakers.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:06 AM (xDfWx) 417
I think the worst part of the CA wildfires for most Californians must be the agony of knowing about all that greenhouse gas going into the atmosphere. I'm not sure why they are against controlled burns. It's not as if settling for periodic out of control wildfires will decrease the amount of greenhouse gases in the end.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 12:06 AM (/qEW2) 418
405 re: star wars.
I hate to say it, but who cares? ... Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 16, 2017 12:02 AM (wmaTe) It's just a "heads-up" to the hoarde on a major pop culture event, dude - and reporting just how nutty Hollywood has gotten. You might notice that nobody's telling you to go see it. I wouldn't have seen it myself, if I hadn't had an opportunity to do so for free. Posted by: Optimizer at December 16, 2017 12:07 AM (EnK/R) 419
So . . . Abenomics?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2017 12:04 AM (2K6fY) I don't think that Abenomics relates to bonsai. Abenomics is more like taking a dead twig, krazy gluing 2 tons of dead leaves to it and then watering it every day with Rondo. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 16, 2017 12:07 AM (8gDQu) 420
Oh you guys......how many times do I have to explain it......NO I do not show dogs. Remember when it came up in 2011 about Barky eating dog? And I said to myself......hey I live in Westminster......so
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 16, 2017 12:07 AM (mMeIQ) 421
It happens more often than you think.
Posted by: Ralphie Skywalker at December 16, 2017 12:05 AM (5wCUq) Obi Wan said that we must preserve the Light Source with the fishnet stockings... Posted by: Jedi Red Ryder at December 16, 2017 12:07 AM (zCyNd) 422
I don't recall it all but I think the guy who invented the Daleks was upset about the treatment of plant life including being tortured through bonsai practices.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 16, 2017 12:08 AM (QCX64) 423
https://youtu.be/X4RuB3gT8t0 Wait for the plot twist about 12 seconds in. Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2017 12:08 AM (rnAwa) 424
Thanks for the chit and the chat, y'all. I will leave you to your various and sundry peregrinations. Good night.
Endeavor to persevere. Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2017 12:08 AM (wPiJc) 425
It's just a "heads-up" to the hoarde on a major pop culture event, dude - and reporting just how nutty Hollywood has gotten. You might notice that nobody's telling you to go see it. I wouldn't have seen it myself, if I hadn't had an opportunity to do so for free.
Posted by: Optimizer at December 16, 2017 12:07 AM (EnK/R) a bit defensive, there no? I was making a commentary on how cheek-beard George Lucas and now Disney is destroying what was a great franchise. Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 16, 2017 12:08 AM (wmaTe) 426
It's not as if settling for periodic out of control wildfires will decrease the amount of greenhouse gases in the end.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear In the end, it all goes back to CO2. I think all the genuine Global Warmists won't be happy until we get another Ice Age. Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at December 16, 2017 12:09 AM (S6Pax) 427
Muldoon......probably had a different nic at the time. My son went to Adams
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 16, 2017 12:09 AM (mMeIQ) 428
I don't recall it all but I think the guy who invented the Daleks was upset about the treatment of plant life including being tortured through bonsai practices.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 16, 2017 12:08 AM Davros actually said that? Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 12:09 AM (qGuLD) 429
then watering it every day with Rondo.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 16, 2017 12:07 AM (8gDQu) To be clear-Rondo is a cheap Chinese knock-off of the Original Brawndo, and has no electrolytes and shit. Posted by: Brawndo Brands, Inc. at December 16, 2017 12:10 AM (zCyNd) 430
I thought it was Davos who proclaimed all plant life is superior to all Humans.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:10 AM (xDfWx) 431
oh, oh, a lady I know just got a clear crochet hook with an internal LED that makes it glow when she switches it on . . . it has a sort of pink color to it.
I think there should be a sound chip in it that makes a tiny "Warrrrr -- Whooom - - -- Ktchassss-Ktchassss" noise when she is crocheting with it. That would be soooooo cool. Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2017 12:10 AM (2K6fY) 432
419. "And Brezhnev stood up, started the gramophone playing the sound of a train on the rails, amd pulled down the shades. 'Problem solved,' he told them. "
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 16, 2017 12:10 AM (fA1SL) 433
To be clear-Rondo is a cheap Chinese knock-off of the Original Brawndo, and has no electrolytes and shit.
Posted by: Brawndo Brands, Inc. at December 16, 2017 12:10 AM (zCyNd) Heh. I knew something looked wrong, there. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 16, 2017 12:10 AM (8gDQu) 434
With two or three more lessons she will likely be able to defeat the entire First Order with a slingshot and three pebbles. Posted by: JB1000 Which she must take from the hand of Master Poe before she can leave. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2017 12:11 AM (IqV8l) Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:11 AM (xDfWx) 436
I don't recall it all but I think the guy who invented the Daleks was
upset about the treatment of plant life including being tortured through bonsai practices. I missed the reveal where Davros and Harrison Chase were shown to be one and the same. Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 16, 2017 12:12 AM (IcT7t) 437
Well, if she doesn't put her eye out first. Watch it with that light saber, there. Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet Beer bottle snowman is holding a light saber. If he's not careful he's gonna put a button out. Posted by: Hands at December 16, 2017 12:12 AM (EzdLW) 438
429. Is true. Adidas is higher-class, but true gopnik wear Adibas with pride.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 16, 2017 12:12 AM (fA1SL) 439
419. "And Brezhnev stood up, started the gramophone playing the sound of a train on the rails, amd pulled down the shades. 'Problem solved,' he told them. "
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 16, 2017 12:10 AM (fA1SL) LOL. At least, that was cheap. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 16, 2017 12:12 AM (8gDQu) 440
416 Then Rian totally ruins the concept of Luke being this Jedi hermit by waving hands and suddenly the island has these caretakers.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:06 AM (xDfWx) Really, though - is there ANYTHING in the plot that makes ANY sense? Plus, they rip off Harry Potter, with the whole "psychic connection between good guy and bad guy" thing. Which she doesn't have the sense to tell her Master about, BTW. 'Cause I guess She Knows Best. Posted by: Optimizer at December 16, 2017 12:12 AM (EnK/R) 441
He has a light-saber because he wants to keep the beer.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:13 AM (xDfWx) 442
define rondo noun - a musical form with a recurring leading theme, often found in the final movement of a sonata or concerto. Thought so. Morons playing word games again. Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:13 AM (KdDCu) 443
"And Brezhnev stood up, started the gramophone playing the sound of a train on the rails, amd pulled down the shades. 'Problem solved,' he told them. "
Don't forget the rocking back and forth part. I guess you had to be there. Posted by: Miklos, cursed or blessed with such a memory at December 16, 2017 12:13 AM (zCyNd) 444
410 Rey had three Jedi lessons and she is now more lethal that Bruce Lee, Chris Kyle and Chuck Norris combined. With two or three more lessons she will likely be able to defeat the entire First Order with a slingshot and three pebbles.
Posted by: JB1000 Well, if she doesn't put her eye out first. Watch it with that light saber, there. Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at December 16, 2017 12:03 AM (S6Pax) Long..... cylindrical.... not really a sabre.... Note.... almost all the sex toys Lesbians use, are shaped like MAN parts... Posted by: Don Q. at December 16, 2017 12:13 AM (NgKpN) 445
443. "And the doctor said, 'Well, the problem is that Andropov takes these special batteries from Germany.....' "
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 16, 2017 12:15 AM (fA1SL) 446
440 416 Then Rian totally ruins the concept of Luke being this Jedi hermit by waving hands and suddenly the island has these caretakers.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:06 AM (xDfWx) Really, though - is there ANYTHING in the plot that makes ANY sense? Plus, they rip off Harry Potter, with the whole "psychic connection between good guy and bad guy" thing. Which she doesn't have the sense to tell her Master about, BTW. 'Cause I guess She Knows Best. Posted by: Optimizer at December 16, 2017 12:12 AM (EnK/R) Its now a Disney product... Which has not really come up with anything original since Walt died... Posted by: Don Q. at December 16, 2017 12:15 AM (NgKpN) 447
I don't recall it all but I think the guy who invented the Daleks was upset about the treatment of plant life including being tortured through bonsai practices.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 16, 2017 12:08 AM (QCX64) Nope. His first haircut was traumatic. Posted by: Miklos, cursed or blessed at December 16, 2017 12:15 AM (zCyNd) 448
Note.... almost all the sex toys Lesbians use, are shaped like MAN parts...
Posted by: Don Q Reminds me of a joke: Why do wind vanes always have a cock on them? Because if it was a cunt, the wind would go right through it. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 16, 2017 12:16 AM (5wCUq) 449
434
With two or three more lessons she will likely be able to defeat the entire First Order with a slingshot and three pebbles. Posted by: JB1000 Which she must take from the hand of Master Poe before she can leave. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2017 12:11 AM (IqV8l) Nah.... she's female..... She gets his Pebbles in the Divorce Decree... /facepalm Posted by: Don Q. at December 16, 2017 12:17 AM (NgKpN) Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:17 AM (xDfWx) 451
Enter the Kung-Pao Jedi Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:11 AM (xDfWx) "Two Jedi from column one, one Jedi from column two, light saber extra!" Posted by: Miklos, cursed or blessed at December 16, 2017 12:17 AM (zCyNd) 452
444 410 Rey had three Jedi lessons and she is now more lethal that Bruce Lee, Chris Kyle and Chuck Norris combined. With two or three more lessons she will likely be able to defeat the entire First Order with a slingshot and three pebbles.
Posted by: JB1000 She will never snatch the fruity pebbles from my hand. Posted by: Michael Moore at December 16, 2017 12:17 AM (tMFgx) 453
Which has not really come up with anything original since Walt died...
------------- cars frozen toy story Wall-E Shrek ET Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:17 AM (KdDCu) 454
426 ... I think all the genuine Global Warmists won't be happy until we get another Ice Age.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at December 16, 2017 12:09 AM (S6Pax) Wow - file that under "Still Doesn't Get It." If another Ice Age suddenly arrived - they'd blame it on Global Warming!! That's just how it works. Posted by: Optimizer at December 16, 2017 12:19 AM (EnK/R) Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 16, 2017 12:19 AM (5wCUq) 456
Frozen is a completely mangled version of a Hans Christian Anderson story.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:19 AM (xDfWx) 457
453 Which has not really come up with anything original since Walt died...
------------- cars frozen toy story Wall-E Shrek ET Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:17 AM (KdDCu) Very well... I stand corrected... I should have said GOOD and original... and I did like Shrek.... at least the first one... Posted by: Don Q. at December 16, 2017 12:20 AM (NgKpN) 458
447. I remember those episodes with him during the time of the One True Doctor. Maybe I was a little twisted, but I did not understand why the people there were so bent outta shape by what Davros did. I mean - they told him to come up with a solution, and he did. If they didn't want pitiless, genocidal floating salt-shakers, they should have said so earlier.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 16, 2017 12:20 AM (fA1SL) 459
To be clear-Rondo is a cheap Chinese knock-off of the Original Brawndo, and has no electrolytes and shit.
--------- It's an energy drink and a body-filler! Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2017 12:20 AM (c/EDo) 460
Which has not really come up with anything original since Walt died...
------------- cars frozen toy story Wall-E Shrek ET Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:17 AM Toy Story wasn't Disney. Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 12:21 AM (qGuLD) Posted by: Hands at December 16, 2017 12:21 AM (EzdLW) 462
The floating salt shakers only arose when they finally had an effects budget. Before then, they were thwarted by simple stairs.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:21 AM (xDfWx) 463
cars
frozen toy story Wall-E Shrek ET Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:17 AM (KdDCu) Of those, I've only seen Frozen (because I was forced to) and ET. ET sucked donkey shlong. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 16, 2017 12:22 AM (8gDQu) 464
462. So was a certain other evil entity of recent memory.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 16, 2017 12:22 AM (fA1SL) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2017 12:22 AM (IqV8l) 466
It's an energy drink and a body-filler!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2017 12:20 AM (c/EDo) Dammit, do I have to pay lawyers to get this straight? Posted by: Miklos, Brawndo, Bondo, whatever at December 16, 2017 12:23 AM (zCyNd) Posted by: Hands at December 16, 2017 12:23 AM (EzdLW) 468
Hey everybody, I'm back.
OMG. Was reading about Ken Russell at Wikipedia, and a piece about this short subject that Russell made in the 2000s popped up, so I read about it. Sounds like a really warped version of a Christmas film IMHO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kitten_for_Hitler Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2017 12:23 AM (eMKNe) 469
I remember those episodes with him during the time of the One True
Doctor. Maybe I was a little twisted, but I did not understand why the people there were so bent outta shape by what Davros did. I mean - they told him to come up with a solution, and he did. If they didn't want pitiless, genocidal floating salt-shakers, they should have said so earlier. A solution, not the final solution. And yes, I think that was deliberate on the writers' part. Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 16, 2017 12:23 AM (IcT7t) 470
How are you going to keep 'em down on the moisture farm once they've seen Mos Eisley?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2017 12:23 AM (9tO1t) 471
Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:17 AM
Toy Story wasn't Disney. Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 12:21 AM (qGuLD) yeah, like half of those are Pixar, which is now owned by disney, but at the time of their biggest hits was owned by steve jobs during his sabbatical from Apple. but OTOH, Disney did the release and promotions for the Pixar films. Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 16, 2017 12:24 AM (wmaTe) 472
447. I remember those episodes with him during the time of the One True Doctor. Maybe I was a little twisted, but I did not understand why the people there were so bent outta shape by what Davros did. I mean - they told him to come up with a solution, and he did. If they didn't want pitiless, genocidal floating salt-shakers, they should have said so earlier.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 16, 2017 12:20 AM The one true Davros... Michael Wisher. When he demanded obedience, you bloody well complied. Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 12:24 AM (qGuLD) Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 16, 2017 12:25 AM (fA1SL) 474
How are you going to keep 'em down on the moisture farm once they've seen Mos Eisley?
First Order solution, "easy, you blow up Mos Eisley." Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:25 AM (xDfWx) 475
Pixar has released 19 feature films, which were all released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.
Cites Wikie as a source adds The Incredibles Finding Nemo - I never saw it but everyone loved it Monsters, Inc and *everything* has been done before, and it will all happen again. and again, and again. It's the circle of life. Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:25 AM (KdDCu) 476
ET sucked donkey shlong. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 16, 2017 12:22 AM (8gDQu) If you can't get behind a children's movie starring an interplanetary walking foreskin who just wants to go home, then maybe the movie just isn't for you. Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 16, 2017 12:25 AM (tMFgx) 477
I want my cake back too! Gimmee my cake NOW!
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at December 16, 2017 12:26 AM (0OmEj) 478
but OTOH, Disney did the release and promotions for the Pixar films.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 16, 2017 12:24 AM (wmaTe) that's like saying a Publisher should get credit for an Authors work.... Posted by: Don Q. at December 16, 2017 12:26 AM (NgKpN) 479
Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:25 AM (KdDCu)
How's this for a mind fuck? ALL Pixar films take place in the same universe. www.pixartheory.com I know it blew my mind when I read the theory for the first time. Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 16, 2017 12:26 AM (wmaTe) 480
How are you going to keep 'em down on the moisture farm once they've seen Mos Eisley?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2017 12:23 AM (9tO1t) Shake it up baby! Twist AND Shout! Posted by: The Mos Eisley Brothers at December 16, 2017 12:27 AM (zCyNd) 481
Ok. I'm still not over the Matt Lauer/Dustin Hoffman parody bit in the earlier thread. WTF am I MF'ing MISSING HERE? That did NOT happpen. Tell me that didn't happen. Please. Somebody TELL ME THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN!!?!?!?!?!??!? Because I'm feeling like Brad Pitt wondering 'What's in the box!?!?!?' here...
Posted by: Abiss at December 16, 2017 12:27 AM (L6Zpd) 482
Given that a guy (Rian Johnson) was in charge of the Last Jedi project, maybe the feminazi vibe was another instance of Hollywood pervyness at work.
"Hey baby, I can write your character into a space admiral, a star commander instead of a bit part. You could be an amazing influence on a whole generation of teen girls and women. Now, *leer*, all you have to do is come to this motel with me, and my friend, a ficus named Unicorn". In any case I'm glad I got the heads up here. The annoyance from the SJW crap would outweigh any enjoyment I'd get from the film. Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 12:27 AM (/qEW2) 483
Mos Def > Mos Eisley
Posted by: Hands at December 16, 2017 12:27 AM (EzdLW) 484
*waves to qdpsteve*
Be warned, we are talking the new Star Warbles the Last Yeti movie and Disney. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:28 AM (xDfWx) 485
and *everything* has been done before, and it will all happen again. and again, and again. It's the circle of life.
Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:25 AM (KdDCu) Hakuna Matata? Oh... wait... circle of LIFE.... Posted by: Some Rodent in Lion King at December 16, 2017 12:28 AM (NgKpN) 486
and *everything* has been done before, and it will all happen again. and again, and again. It's the circle of life.
Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:25 AM (KdDCu) Well, there was that time in Branson with the midget trannies . . . That had to have been a first. Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2017 12:28 AM (2K6fY) 487
Anna, no problem. ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2017 12:29 AM (eMKNe) 488
"Hey baby, I can write your character into a space admiral, a star commander instead of a bit part. You could be an amazing influence on a whole generation of teen girls and women. Now, *leer*, all you have to do is come to this motel with me, and my friend, a ficus named Unicorn". In any case I'm glad I got the heads up here. The annoyance from the SJW crap would outweigh any enjoyment I'd get from the film. Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 12:27 AM (/qEW2) and the really sad part... There is a series of books with a VERY strong Female Lead character..... that actually make SENSE as to why she can kick ass.... That will never be filmed by Hollywood... because the story is inherently pro military... and speaks coherently about the nature of Government... Honor Harrington.... Posted by: Don Q. at December 16, 2017 12:30 AM (NgKpN) Posted by: LurkingStill at December 16, 2017 12:31 AM (B9Yhg) 490
Mos Def > Mos Eisley
Posted by: Hands at December 16, 2017 12:27 AM (EzdLW) Geoffrey McGivern>Mos Def Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2017 12:31 AM (2K6fY) 491
The Simpsons' Branson episode is one of their best.
"No, you're in BRONSON, Missouri!"... (where everybody, man woman and child, looks like the classic movie star.) "Hey ma, how 'bout some cookies?" "No dice." "This ain't ovah!" ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2017 12:31 AM (eMKNe) 492
I don't recall it all but I think the guy who invented the Daleks was upset about the treatment of plant life including being tortured through bonsai practices.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 16, 2017 12:08 AM (QCX64) ======== No. That was Seeds of Doom. The Krinoids were the enemies there. Part of it took place in the Antarctic. Very cool Mountains of Madness vibe to it. Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 12:32 AM (/qEW2) Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:32 AM (KdDCu) Posted by: Jar Jar - Meesa ruin haiku too at December 16, 2017 12:33 AM (H5knJ) 495
The floating salt shakers only arose when they finally had an effects budget. Before then, they were thwarted by simple stairs.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:21 AM Bah. Humbug. When you're literally an exterminating machine, you don't worry about stairs. Old school Daleks weren't concerned with stairs. There never were any. There were always ramps. Lots and lots of ramps. Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 12:34 AM (qGuLD) 496
Anna, are you talking about Doctor Who?
I imagine a lot of those early BBC episodes are a hoot, when they had no budget for any effects at all, and everything was pretty much just people talking in a room somewhere. Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2017 12:35 AM (eMKNe) 497
Just think if Mara Jade had made it to the silver screen.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:36 AM (xDfWx) 498
The floating salt shakers only arose when they finally had an effects budget.
--- What? The BBC couldn't afford to do wire work with an inanimate object? Ah, yes. Removing the wires from the millions and millions of frames. Ok then. Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:36 AM (KdDCu) 499
"Hey ma, how 'bout some cookies?" "No dice." "This ain't ovah!" ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2017 12:31 AM -- IIRC, that was the episode where grandpa goes to track down a woman and ends up on watching a variety revue called something like "No, We're Not Dead." That being said, I might want to move to Broson. It would be like living in a pulp fiction novel... Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2017 12:37 AM (aT+Bx) Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2017 12:37 AM (2K6fY) 501
shibumi, LOL.
Probably a pretty gun-friendly city... ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2017 12:37 AM (eMKNe) 502
qdpsteve, the budget for some of the early early Doctor Who episodes could barely afford film for the cameras along with tea and scones. In the early episode where they go back to visit the Aztecs you can see the 'walls' billow a bit.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:38 AM (xDfWx) 503
Bah. Humbug. When you're literally an exterminating machine, you don't
worry about stairs. Old school Daleks weren't concerned with stairs. There never were any. There were always ramps. Lots and lots of ramps. Skaro, the first completely ADA compliant planet! Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 16, 2017 12:38 AM (IcT7t) 504
Anna, I can imagine. I just read recently BBC was still broadcasting in B&W until what, the early 1970s?
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2017 12:39 AM (eMKNe) 505
Eucalyptus were imported to So Cal because they were fast growing. They were planted as wind-breaks for the citrus orchards. That they are dirty and literally explode when put to a match I guess was considered a plus.
Posted by: Charles the Simple at December 16, 2017 12:39 AM (w7U7L) 506
Still reading Syd Field's Screenplay. Great book.
Makes me want to go back and watch Chinatown again. (Doesn't hurt that Field brings up what a great, and greatly written, flick it is in EVERY chapter.) Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2017 12:40 AM (eMKNe) 507
Yeah Syd Fields loves that movie. A lot.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:41 AM (xDfWx) 508
n the early episode where they go back to visit the Aztecs you can see the 'walls' billow a bit.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:38 AM (xDfWx) "Billow" is an incorrect term. The aliens who taught the Aztecs know better. Posted by: Erich von Daniken at December 16, 2017 12:41 AM (zCyNd) 509
No. That was Seeds of Doom. The Krinoids were the enemies there. Part of it took place in the Antarctic. Very cool Mountains of Madness vibe to it.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 12:32 AM Fantastic installment, that one. It featured one of the best "villains" the show ever had... Scorby with shifting alliances. Great foil for the doctor and Sarah and it was shame he was killed off. Could have been an excellent recurring troublemaker. Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 12:41 AM (qGuLD) 510
Erich mein freund, don't the Grays have the anal probe all lubed up for you?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:43 AM (xDfWx) 511
I just read recently BBC was still broadcasting in B&W until what, the early 1970s?
Posted by: qdpsteve IIRC, season 2 of Dad's Army (1969) was shot in colour. Don't know if it was broadcast in color though. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 16, 2017 12:44 AM (5wCUq) Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:46 AM (KdDCu) 513
As a non-movie-watcher-or-carer, now is the time to redirect my attention to the possibility of accomodating armored trains at "Atoll Kontroll", over an expanse of tropical ocean.
My engineers shall accomplish this task. Posted by: Miklos il-Jong at December 16, 2017 12:47 AM (zCyNd) 514
513 As a non-movie-watcher-or-carer, now is the time to redirect my attention to the possibility of accomodating armored trains at "Atoll Kontroll", over an expanse of tropical ocean.
My engineers shall accomplish this task. Posted by: Miklos il-Jong at December 16, 2017 12:47 AM (zCyNd) https://youtu.be/c0HSCEXu88Q?t=31m41s Posted by: Ace's liver at December 16, 2017 12:52 AM (+azJs) 515
I just read recently BBC was still broadcasting in B&W until what, the early 1970s?
Posted by: qdpsteve They started broadcasting in colour in 67 ramped up in 68 through 69. But not all shows were made in colour. IIRC, Dr Who continued to be made in b/w until the end of Troughton's run in 69. Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 12:52 AM (qGuLD) Posted by: #the real KimJong il at December 16, 2017 12:53 AM (zCyNd) 517
F you, ya miserable inbred, worm hiding, gook POS.
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 16, 2017 12:56 AM (sL8H+) 518
I kill this thread! I crush it's tiny head!
Crush crush! Ha Ha! Posted by: #the real KimJong il My thread shall go on! Posted by: Celine Di Yon at December 16, 2017 12:56 AM (5wCUq) 519
https://youtu.be/c0HSCEXu88Q?t=31m41s
Posted by: Ace's liver at December 16, 2017 12:52 AM (+azJs) I loved that show. When i was 8, I thought Artemus Gordon was cool. By the time I was 11, I wanted to be Wo Fat. A misspent youth, without the advantage of skill at pool. Posted by: #the real Miklos at December 16, 2017 12:57 AM (zCyNd) 520
Erich mein freund, don't the Grays have the anal probe all lubed up for you?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:43 AM (xDfWx) Mein freund, our friends do not use such terms. Their chosen contact, Mr. Weinstien from Brattleboro, can explain further... Posted by: Erich von Daniken at December 16, 2017 01:01 AM (zCyNd) 521
OK, poll question of the night.
If you were a talented musician, who would you want to grow up to be: 1. Sting 2. Gene Simmons I thought the answer was obvious but apparently it is not. Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2017 01:01 AM (aT+Bx) 522
The floating salt shakers only arose when they finally had an effects budget. Before then, they were thwarted by simple stairs.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:21 AM (xDfWx) ======== Levitation, which was kind of odd. They could have had the actors inside stick their legs through the bottom of the costume to walk up. They could be silver-spray painted to make them look like robot legs, although that might look too silly. In the Hartnell adventure the Web Planet, actors that were supposed to be giant ants (Zarbis) had their legs (painted black) clearly sticking out of the ant costumes. It was very hard to try to suspend disbelief there. Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 01:02 AM (/qEW2) 523
My thread shall go on!
Posted by: Celine Di Yon at December 16, 2017 12:56 AM (5wCUq) And I will survive! Posted by: Gloria Gaynor at December 16, 2017 01:03 AM (zCyNd) 524
Levitation, which was kind of odd. They could have had the actors inside stick their legs through the bottom of the costume to walk up. They could be silver-spray painted to make them look like robot legs, although that might look too silly. In the Hartnell adventure the Web Planet, actors that were supposed to be giant ants (Zarbis) had their legs (painted black) clearly sticking out of the ant costumes. It was very hard to try to suspend disbelief there.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 01:02 AM That was a freaky one. I remember when it was first broadcast. Made quite an impression. Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 01:04 AM (qGuLD) 525
qdpsteve, the budget for some of the early early Doctor Who episodes could barely afford film for the cameras along with tea and scones. In the early episode where they go back to visit the Aztecs you can see the 'walls' billow a bit.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 16, 2017 12:38 AM (xDfWx) ======== Hah! I remember a scene where Ian Chesterton had to replace a circular stone in order to block of some passage. He tried valiantly to make it appear as if he were struggling to shift it, but it was apparent that it was made of styrofoam. Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 01:06 AM (/qEW2) 526
If you were a talented musician, who would you want to grow up to be:
1. Sting 2. Gene Simmons I thought the answer was obvious but apparently it is not. Posted by: shibumi Gene Simmons, obviously. $$$ + trim = #Winning Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 16, 2017 01:06 AM (5wCUq) 527
OK, poll question of the night.
If you were a talented musician, who would you want to grow up to be: 1. Sting 2. Gene Simmons I thought the answer was obvious but apparently it is not. Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2017 01:01 AM (aT+Bx) Are you remotely serious? An American-Hungarian Jew versus the world? MiklosBot release 2.2.0.23.66.1 votes eleven million times, in a split New York high-speed trading second. Posted by: Miklos Molnar at December 16, 2017 01:08 AM (zCyNd) 528
We have all these eucalyptus trees in CA through the malign influence of Big Koala. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:03 PM (OVRJp) And Uka-ranians. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 01:10 AM (oPNmq) 529
Scorby with shifting alliances. Great foil for the doctor and Sarah and it was shame he was killed off. Could have been an excellent recurring troublemaker.
Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 12:41 AM (qGuLD) ======== He was a badass gangsta with a goatee. Agree, they could easily have reused him in another mercenary role, but this time, with a score to settle. Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 01:11 AM (/qEW2) 530
Fellow babies of the Horde, I can't believe this happened to me today, and it wasn't of the "Dear Penthouse" variety, but the "Dear 11 O'Clock News, Bleed 'N' Lead" type. I'm still in a state of shock. But this afternoon, somewhere between 2 and 3PM, I was close to shooting man. Drawing and shooting. This -> What happened. Well, long story, but my dear parents, bless their hearts, fell hook, line, and sinker for a classic bunko con man scam. It was the old "asphalt sealing" scam. Hey, we were just doing a big job over the way, had some sealant left over, noticed your driveway was in bad shape, and thought we'd just help you out. The "sealant" is just diesel fuel/kerosene with some black shit in it. It will make the pavement look slick for a day or so, then wash off. They charge a big fee and run. I got there, after running some errands, right in the middle of it. I realized what was going on. I called the sheriff and got some deputies on the way. I first tried the non-emergency number and got put on hold. I would likely still be on hold now. So, I went ahead and dialed 911. If they put in me jail for frivolous use, then so be it. I think to get the get the tag number of their vehicle, using binoculars. I have to convince the gal that I'm "uneasy" and need to the law there. She gets them on the way. I get my gun, my SandW 9mm. I stick it in the front of my pants, covered with my coat, which I leave unzipped. The guy barges in the house, announcing he's through, and that'll be $1200, but he's gonna give dear old Dad a deal. $800 cash. And he'll ride with him to the bank. I can't believe this happening. Long story, but it ends with me and him in a standoff of sorts. I'm getting ready to shoot him. He decides to leave. Thank God. The cops get there after he's gone. Long story for the details, but I'm living a charmed life somehow. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 01:11 AM (8O3HH) 531
How do you wash a topless car?
Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 15, 2017 10:10 PM (KdDCu) Very carefully, if you don't want to get the upholstery wet. BTDT. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 01:13 AM (oPNmq) 532
And Uka-ranians.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 01:10 AM (oPNmq) You have spoken the word. You have chosen. The Ukelele Gods are angry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSlcNfThUA Posted by: Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky at December 16, 2017 01:15 AM (zCyNd) 533
452 444 410 That ain't even CLOSE to being the dumbest thing in the movie. Guess what it was?
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 16, 2017 01:15 AM (v9gSJ) 534
Goodness publius...... glad you were there!
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 16, 2017 01:16 AM (mMeIQ) 535
RE: Gene vs. Sting, I thought the answer was really obvious.
Sting: pretentious rain forest loving musician who has "respect" Gene Simmons: girls, cash, marketing, tongue, doesn't give an eff about respect. However, I asked four people and they all said Sting. But... they are all either left or leaning left, so maybe Sting is a liberal thing. That being said, if you're going to be a liberal musician, be Peter Gabriel. Or Roger Waters. They're both more talented than "Sting" IMHO. Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2017 01:16 AM (aT+Bx) 536
Sting and Simmons; what a horrible choice.
Sting. His albums have sucked ever since what Ten Summoners Tales? And he's a pretentious twat prattling on about tantra and having sex for five hours without cumming. Simmons. Kiss hasn't had a decent album is a long time either. Simmons is just gross; he probably leaves a trail of slime in his wake like a snail. And he's so tacky he's actually hawked Kiss coffins. Posted by: Koala Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 16, 2017 01:17 AM (H5knJ) 537
Sorry for the bummer, but I've no one else from myside of the family here in town.
Posted by: logprof at December 15, 2017 10:20 PM (GsAUU) Geeze, logprof, sad to hear that news. May her passing be peaceful. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 01:19 AM (oPNmq) 538
Otho, do you like Alejandro Escovedo?
Posted by: cosmic Charlie at December 16, 2017 01:21 AM (PUmDY) 539
And he's so tacky he's actually hawked Kiss coffins.
--- Hahaha. I did not know that. Oddly enough, Sting and Gene Simmons are tied for the richest bassists in the world. Tacky or not, I'd be Gene has had WAY more fun than Sting. Exponentially more. Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2017 01:21 AM (aT+Bx) 540
Drive the Ferrari for a week before you cast judgment.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 10:21 PM (OVRJp) And forge a life-long friendship with your local exotic-car mechanic. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 01:22 AM (oPNmq) Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2017 01:23 AM (aT+Bx) 542
publius, the Persistent ... Excellent outcome. If only you had had a Tazer (a real one), a stun gun, and a couple of cans of pepper spray and a bag of Harbor Freight 3/8" zip ties ... you could have handed the clowns over to the sheriff. Posted by: Arbalest at December 16, 2017 01:23 AM (FlRtG) 543
He was a badass gangsta with a goatee. Agree, they could easily have reused him in another mercenary role, but this time, with a score to settle.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 01:11 AM Yep. For a one story character and not the main antagonist, he was very memorable. Partly due to the fantastic writing and partly due to the actor's chops. He was deliciously unpredictable... sometimes ruthless and dangerous, sometimes a life saver for the Doctor and Sarah. So much was great about that story, but they allwere back during that run. Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 01:24 AM (qGuLD) 544
Hi Arbalest!
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 16, 2017 01:27 AM (mMeIQ) 545
last week, early on in the california fires, a tv reporter on the scene on a half burned out bel air street said that the same neighborhood had been gutted by wild fires in 1961. among the famous who lost homes was ronald reagan.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 16, 2017 01:27 AM (Pg+x7) 546
452 She will never snatch the fruity pebbles from my hand.
Posted by: Michael Moore at December 16, 2017 12:17 AM (tMFgx) hand? come on, you dig them out of your fat rolls. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at December 16, 2017 01:28 AM (zSv/O) 547
Bebe!
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 16, 2017 01:28 AM (mMeIQ) 548
Ferrari should subcontract Ducati to make their engines for them.
For one, the Desmo valve train. Mechanical music. Can you imagine the insane howl of a V-12 Desmo engine? For two? Ducatis just RUN. Totally counter to the "finicky Italian thoroughbred" stereotype. This would be a project with some major fun upside potential! Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at December 16, 2017 01:30 AM (QzJWU) 549
Does that mean that koala turds make good candles then?
I'm thinking the all organic crowd would go apeshit for them then. *thanks to weirddave for the amusing ONT* Posted by: GnuBreed at December 16, 2017 01:32 AM (0ogQG) 550
testes
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at December 16, 2017 01:33 AM (PUmDY) Posted by: Arbalest at December 16, 2017 01:34 AM (FlRtG) 552
OK, poll question of the night.
If you were a talented musician, who would you want to grow up to be: 1. Sting 2. Gene Simmons I thought the answer was obvious but apparently it is not. Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2017 01:01 AM (aT+Bx) ======== Duh. Sting of course. Kiss never appealed to me. I tried listening to there hits. Nope, no likey. Also they are ugly and Sting is not. Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 01:34 AM (/qEW2) 553
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WdS!!!!
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at December 16, 2017 01:36 AM (zSv/O) 555
KISS albums through Alive II are solid
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at December 16, 2017 01:36 AM (PUmDY) 556
... i would guess that fires sweep through these southern california near desert valley's once or twice a century at least.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 16, 2017 01:36 AM (Pg+x7) 557
549 Does that mean that koala turds make good candles then?
I'm thinking the all organic crowd would go apeshit for them then. Posted by: GnuBreed at December 16, 2017 01:32 AM (0ogQG) Try wombat turds. They're cube shaped and won't roll off the table. That's right. The other animals in Australia are so scary that wombats literally shit bricks. True story. Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 16, 2017 01:39 AM (tMFgx) 558
Sting or Gene Simmons? Neither, really. Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 01:40 AM (qGuLD) 559
So much was great about that story, but they allwere back during that run.
Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 01:24 AM (qGuLD) ======== And then ... John Nathan Turner. F*ck him. He was the Roger Goodell of Dr. Who. Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 01:42 AM (/qEW2) 560
Bebes....are you guys doing ok?
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 16, 2017 01:43 AM (mMeIQ) 561
Tina Weymouth
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at December 16, 2017 01:43 AM (PUmDY) 562
>> Excellent outcome.
It was high anxiety, that's for sure. This son of bitch was classic con man, good. I saw him using classic con man techniques. When he was literally, as they say, going to take a near 90 yr old man "for a ride", well, it was a shitting your pants type of moment for me. This was bad dude. Bad dude, as TGE would say, indeed. At that point, I thought about dropping all pretense, and ordering him out, or I was going to shoot him. But, I wondered if he would the type who would take that as a challenge and see if I was willing to actually do that. It was surreal. When he did the "take you to the bank thing", I just dropped into dumb, stupid, naive "good boy, but not swift in the head" mode. I said, "Nah, he can't go, but I'll go to the bank, but traffic in town is bad this time of day, so we'll wait a little bit and then go". Again, deputies were on the way, wait it out. He'd said something about "Well, I've got something else I need to do, so let's go right now. Love to wait, but ain't got the time". I said, "No, we're going to wait". That was the last words that were spoken. For a while. I never said another word to him, I don't think. At the point, I was sizing him up, and he was sizing me up. I was standing a couple feet away from him. Again, this is surreal, and I'm trying to sort of pinch myself, "Is this real?". I'm holding my right hand at about belt buckle level, inches from the pistol. At that point, I'm trying to calm myself, thinking I may have to shoot this son of a bitch. And I'm trying to keep myself calm, and trying to steel myself to do it if need be. It would take me pages to describe the details, but I was in "line up the shot" mode. I was thinking about were the bullets were going to go in the house, and what might be damaged. There's a sub panel and some other shit around the den and closets I don't want to shoot. I've never shot a man and am wondering what it's going to be like. Will these bullets go through, I think their hollow points (they were). I'm slowly moving trying to put the line of fire out the sliding glass door. At that point, I'm sure I was giving off an intense vibe. I was wondering if he might he armed, hiding a gun somewhere. I looked him up and down. If I had seen what I thought was some gun bulge, I would have pulled the trigger with the plan I'd made. But I didn't see it, and just stood there. I wonder if he knows I'm armed. I guess it's obvious to him, with the odd moving slowly with hand right at the belt buckle. I'm wondering if I can actually do it, or will I just shit my pants and pass out or something. Again, I'm sure I was giving off an intense vibe. He was too. We were just staring at each other. I was making the plan in my mind. I had picked out the point on his chest I was going to aim. I was going through the firing procedure in my mind. Could I do this calmly or would I lose it. I was sort of close and I wondered if I made the move, would he jump and grab it. Could he. So, I was going to, if I made the move, step back with my right leg, draw, fire, and then walk into him, firing some more. At the point, he backed out. He said, "Oh I forget something, I'll be right back" -- something like that. He then backed out the door, jumped in the truck and high tailed it. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 01:45 AM (8O3HH) 563
No rhyme. Haiku used to be segments of longer, more
formal poems. Japanese pared it right down. Spontaneity is valued - supposed to catch a mood or thought 'alive.' Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 15, 2017 11:38 PM (fA1SL) Kind of like if you were to bonsai Longfellow. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 01:46 AM (oPNmq) 564
And then ... John Nathan Turner. F*ck him. He was the Roger Goodell of Dr. Who.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 01:42 AM Yeah, it got a bit dicey even before T. Baker's run ended, though there were some good ones in there. Douglas Adams was doing some at that stage, IIRC. But that 75 to 76 run, in particular, like the 67 to 69 run, was an uninterrupted batch of awesomeness. Posted by: otho at December 16, 2017 01:47 AM (qGuLD) 565
Sorry to head out.....long day. Hugs to you bebe {{}}
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 16, 2017 01:47 AM (mMeIQ) 566
In fact, Muldoon, Haiku is sort of a footless poetic form.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2017 11:42 PM (2K6fY) Well, tentacles aren't feet, so they got that right. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 01:47 AM (oPNmq) 567
Kind of like if you were to bonsai Longfellow.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Bonsai Longfellow is my porn name. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 16, 2017 01:49 AM (5wCUq) Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 16, 2017 01:53 AM (5wCUq) 569
560 Bebes....are you guys doing ok?
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at December 16, 2017 01:43 AM (mMeIQ) yeah. Gushka is still healing. seems to be doing a lot better. i'm trying g to adapt to my new job. having a hard time getting my mind right. been at so many crazy places, and now that i'm not i'm completely out of sorts. boss is tough, but fair. no screaming at people, and i can't imagine her finger pointing to cover fuck ups. and i don't think she fucks up much, if ever. how are you? Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at December 16, 2017 01:54 AM (H5Gwx) 570
Frosty the Beer Man looks like a dinosaur.
Posted by: Alana at December 16, 2017 01:54 AM (o3d0j) 571
What font type does Woody Allen use?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at December 16, 2017 01:56 AM (PUmDY) 572
After that was over, the deputies got there. What's the saying, when seconds count, the cops are just minutes away? I decided not to mention how close I was to shooting the SOB. That might, well, just don't go there. I said I think he realized I had called the cops, and was trying to delay him We all had a long talk. They figured that those idiots were long gone and wouldn't be back. They had the license plate, and they were going to run it and see. It was Georgia plate. Who knows. It could've been fake, but it could be they were from Georgia, and came up here, far away from home, to run the scams. This asphalt sealing/paving thing is a classic. From time to time, there's a rash of them. They move in, run it a few days, then get out. Sometimes they catch them, sometimes they don't. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 01:58 AM (8O3HH) 573
Which
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at December 16, 2017 01:58 AM (PUmDY) 574
The Krinoids were the enemies there. Part of it took place in the Antarctic. Very cool Mountains of Madness vibe to it.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2017 12:32 AM (/qEW2) Crinoids ( with a "C") are actual creatures. AKA "sea lilies". Distantly related to urchins. Fossil crinoids are found in many ages of rock. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 01:59 AM (oPNmq) 575
Ah, yes. Removing the wires from the millions and millions of frames. Ok then.
Posted by: Boris Aleksandar Oloafson at December 16, 2017 12:36 AM (KdDCu) Easy-peasy. Paint the wires red, and shoot with orthochromatic film. It does not react to red light. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 02:01 AM (oPNmq) 576
Tina Weymouth
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at December 16, 2017 01:43 AM -- I was told I look sort of like her. Was that compliment? Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2017 02:04 AM (aT+Bx) 577
"I've never shot a man ..." Me neither. If life goes correctly, it will always be this way. But, having other non-lethal "tools" is a good thing. I'm reading parts of Branca's "LoSD" book ... he recommends having such "tools". I figure tazing or spraying a clown is Very Much Easier ... to do, to live through, to continue after ... but I prefer to leave this as a paper/though exercise. Posted by: Arbalest at December 16, 2017 02:06 AM (FlRtG) 578
I was told I look sort of like her.
Was that compliment? Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2017 02:04 AM (aT+Bx) Avoid the "Innsmouth" look. The wet-head really is dead. Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2017 02:09 AM (2K6fY) 579
Publius:
However justified you would have been drawing your weapon and shooting the con, by the time it's all said and done, you would, without question, have rather paid the $1200. That's assuming you were justified. 1. When you shoot someone, do not wound him. That scenario--wounding rather than terminating--will be even more of a nightmare, in every respect. You must assume that you're shooting to kill. 2. The legal fees you would have garnered, in explaining to the police, let alone justifying, a homicide, would have surpassed $1200 on day one. Even if you simply discharged your weapon, without pointing it at anyone at all, you would have imperiled yourself with law-enforcement. And shooting someone is thoroughly traumatic, and complicated, and involved, and relentless, and EXPENSIVE; it's a horror. That's assuming the police are on your side. 3. Had you shot the con, you would have had the decedent's relatives, friends, family to deal with, and a conman does not live with saints. Imagine pacing, night after night, looking out the window of your parent's home. Again, I'm assuming you would have been justified in shooting . . . Do you want to defend yourself for years, in litigation, if the con were wounded? (You know he would sue, however much in the wrong he would have been. He would want an insurance settlement.) Obviously, if your life is in imminent danger, shoot, and shoot to kill. Otherwise, argue, threaten, refuse, and call the police. Calling the police was precisely the right thing to do. But do not shoot anyone, unless absolutely necessary. Posted by: the Pink Panzer at December 16, 2017 02:09 AM (BhzaG) 580
So, I was going to, if I made the move, step back with my right leg, draw, fire, and then walk into him, firing some more.
At the point, he backed out. He said, "Oh I forget something, I'll be right back" -- something like that. He then backed out the door, jumped in the truck and high tailed it. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 01:45 AM (8O3HH) Wow, publius! Here we have an actual instance where a concealed carry weapon ensured a positive outcome to a criminal confrontation, without even having been drawn. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 02:11 AM (oPNmq) 581
They had the license plate, and they were going to
run it and see. It was Georgia plate. Who knows. It could've been fake, but it could be they were from Georgia, and came up here, far away from home, to run the scams. This asphalt sealing/paving thing is a classic. From time to time, there's a rash of them. They move in, run it a few days, then get out. Sometimes they catch them, sometimes they don't. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 01:58 AM (8O3HH) "Irish Travelers", I'll betcha. aka Gypsies. Bogus home repairs are their big thing. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 02:13 AM (oPNmq) 582
>> Me neither. If life goes correctly, it will always be this way.
Amen, brother. My behavior was based on having the following burned into me by older and wiser men, who had been there: "Don't show a gun unless you're going to draw it, and don't draw unless you're going to shoot." My poor mother was bug eyed during that. She said she had realized it was a scam, but wasn't really scared until that "take you for a ride" thing. But she said, "My god, [publius], you were about to shoot him, weren't you?" She then hugged me, and said she was glad I was there to take care of them. That sort of choked me up. My father, well he's not exactly hitting on all 8 cylinders, and I don't know if he knew how intense it was getting. Again, I don't know if the SOB was armed or not. He had two 20 something yr old flunkies. I was wondering if they were armed, had he given them instructions, etc. But they decided to run, it's over, and that's it. I'm still sort of in hyper-vigilant mode. In the back of my mind, I'm worried they might try to come back and retaliate. Deputies said that wasn't likely, they didn't think. It could happen, but they didn't think they would. They're probably getting the hell out of Dodge, knowing the cops are looking for them. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 02:14 AM (8O3HH) 583
Thanks for the chat and responses, everyone. Happy weekend. :-)
Last 'ordinary' weekend until the big holiday too... Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2017 02:15 AM (eMKNe) 584
412 381 How do you tell if the koala that's attacking you is a male?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 15, 2017 11:53 PM (OVRJp) Did it oppress you before it attacked? Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 16, 2017 12:04 AM (tMFgx) Did you just assume zir's gender??? Posted by: Australia, now with 100% Gay Marraige at December 16, 2017 02:16 AM (itfg0) 585
But they decided to run, it's over, and that's it.
I'm still sort of in hyper-vigilant mode. In the back of my mind, I'm worried they might try to come back and retaliate. Deputies said that wasn't likely, they didn't think. It could happen, but they didn't think they would. They're probably getting the hell out of Dodge, knowing the cops are looking for them. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 02:14 AM (8O3HH) If they do come back, I'd say to go ahead and shoot. It's no longer you dealing with a non-violent scam artist, but dealing with a criminal bent on a vendetta. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 02:18 AM (oPNmq) 586
We have a "castle doctrine" law here. Now, the folks had let him in, but he had barged in to collect his fee. I have no idea would that legally hold. Again, I wasn't going to shoot him unless I thought he was going to make some move. It was that "take you for a ride" thing that got me to that point. I was trying to figure out if he was packing himself. Again, if I thought I saw something suspicious, I likely would have. But I didn't. Again, I think I was giving off a pretty intense "I'm about to kill you" vibe. Now, if I was getting that, on someone else's property, I would've given the old "I don't mean any harm, I'm no threat" response. He didn't. I mean he was starting at me, and I was staring at him. I think it was pretty obvious to him I had a gun and was close to pulling it. And he just stood there for a while. I was getting a strong "bad, dangerous dude" vibe from the guy. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 02:21 AM (8O3HH) 587
Publius,
I hope those scammers did leave for good. That was a situation you were in that I hope never happens to anyone else here. Despite the Left's stereotypes of gun-toting nutjobs, the vast majority of gun owners who own for self-defense hope to never ever have to use their guns in self-defense. Posted by: The Political Hat at December 16, 2017 02:26 AM (itfg0) 588
I think it was pretty obvious to him I had a gun and was close to pulling it. And he just stood there for a while.
I was getting a strong "bad, dangerous dude" vibe from the guy. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 02:21 AM (8O3HH) If he is smart, he will never return. He is out practically zero dollars, since his materials and labor are almost worthless. And returning means a good chance of either getting shot or going to jail, for what? It's not like he is a respectable business, with a good name to trade upon. Anything he does to earn a bad name impacts his ability to con the next mark down the pike. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 02:27 AM (oPNmq) 589
bebe's boobs destroy at December 16, 2017 01:54 AM (H5Gwx)
if'n you be here still, hope you get in-sync with work. Tell Gushie I'm glad to hear she is on the mend. It just takes time. Posted by: Adriane the Critical Critic ... at December 16, 2017 02:28 AM (AoK0a) 590
>>He is out practically zero dollars, since his materials and labor are almost worthless
THe deputies said, which I did, to take some pictures of the driveway, to show how sorry the "sealing job" was. He said they could sue you for non-payment, I mean it was possible, and that way you'd have some proof it was a scam, and not a legitimate deal. They didn't they would, but just in case do it. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 02:30 AM (8O3HH) 591
If he is smart, he will never return. He is out practically zero dollars, since his materials and labor are almost worthless. And returning means a good chance of either getting shot or going to jail, for what? It's not like he is a respectable business, with a good name to trade upon. Anything he does to earn a bad name impacts his ability to con the next mark down the pike.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 02:27 AM (oPNmq) The SOB might be clever, but he is not smart. That is where the problem lies. If he is hell bent on causing trouble, and some folks just are, then watch your (and your parents') back. It is precisely the unpredictability of the criminal crowd, along with their lack of fear of violence, that makes them, well, criminals. Probably would not hurt to put in an alarm system, one that your folks can easily trigger should they see this dude in the neighborhood again. Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2017 02:31 AM (NXsWM) 592
I was getting a strong "bad, dangerous dude" vibe from the guy.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 02:21 AM (8O3HH) There is a HUGE difference between young dangerous vibe guys... and older dangerous vibe guys... Young? They are dumb enough... to still think themselves immortal... Older? not so much... I had a great discussion a couple weeks ago with a bunch of my retired military friends... We came to the conclusion that if pushed, we are probably MORE likely to kill, than when we were younger.... simply because we know we can't take the damage we once could... But we are also much less likely to ever put ourselves IN that situation.... Posted by: Don Q. at December 16, 2017 02:35 AM (NgKpN) 593
Publius:
I was not suggesting in any regard, you acted imprudently or inappropriately. Quite the contrary. I was not being critical. In fact, under the circumstances, having something to defend yourself, is entirely prudent. I was only letting you know that shooting a weapon, without striking anyone at all, can by itself be a very messy entanglement. With a revolver? Perhaps given to you as a gift, a while ago, without perfect paper-work? Blah, blah, blah. You doubtless know all this . . . If some LEO happens not to like the color of your shoes . . . blah, blah, blah. And then, assuming you had shot him, there may be, during subsequent years, some regret . . . second guessing . . . By all means, defend yourself. Protect your parents, etc. My point is that you must be confident and discerning, or the result will become very expensive, in every way. (And do NOT put an Ace of Spades in the stiff's mouth.) Posted by: the Pink Panzer at December 16, 2017 02:35 AM (i/H7f) 594
The "bad dude" guy was likely about 50, my age. His two flunkies were in their '20s. I mean, rough guesstimate. It's all over now, no sense in wondering, but I'm wondering if I should've gone the "drop the pretense" and ordered him the fuck out. But I don't know. My gut was just to do nothing and wait until the cops got there unless he made a move. And that's the thing, he seemed like he was happy to get in the stone cold staring contest with me. I wonder if he was armed. Maybe it's better if I don't know. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 02:40 AM (8O3HH) 595
This asphalt sealing/paving thing is a classic. From time to time, there's a rash of them. They move in, run it a few days, then get out. Sometimes they catch them, sometimes they don't.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 01:58 AM (8O3HH) Amigo, I'm glad you're OK, and un-stained by gunpowder and blood after all that. Three times in my life, I've had to look across the sights of a gun into another man's soul. The first two, were in the line of duty, and I was wearing a USAF badge at the time. Fortunately, both perpetrators instantly realized the error of their ways, and the deadly seriousness of my intent. And so, they humbly complied and submitted to my very loud commands, un-handed their weapons, and were arrested, handcuffed and processed, withal. The third? My own flesh and blood brother. I'd lent him my Jeep, and come home to discover my nightstand .38 Charter Arms snubbie...missing. Brother, in my Jeep, arrives home 'bout 9 P.M., and comes in the front door, only to meet me and my S&W Model 28, .357 Mag. Highway Patrolman, with a bead on the bridge of his nose. Having proned him out on the living room rug, I withdrew the heretofore missing Charter .38 from his waistband, and instructed him to start packing, NOW. Shortly thereafter, dropped him off just East of San Antonio on I-10 East, with his Springer Spaniel, to hitchhike to "wherever". He ended up in Orlando, where he delivered untold grief to my Dad and Step Mom for a couple of years, before he disappeared Northward, out of the State of Florida. Three years after, I was visited by agents of the FBI. They were looking for him for a series of bank robberies a bit North of San Antonio, in Austin. Yep, he'd used my Charter for the deeds. I helped them to find him, and he served eight years in Club Fed for the crimes. And I won't narrate the other bank job that got him a second ride in the Club Fed Hotel. But, he did. Point is this. I've come >this Never had to follow through though, and let the hammer fall onto the primer. Let me tell you this, in closing. All the adrenaline provided clarity, focus and success in managing each and every instance during each and every conflict. I'm THANKFUL beyond words, that none resulted in carnage or mayhem. But that "let down" from the post-adrenaline rush? That's the shit of damn near PTSD nightmares, if not into that territory, itself. YOU DONE GOOD, SIR! You done VERY good. Don't doubt yourself on this, EVER. You wanna vent or talk about it, you let me know. Email is in my nic. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at December 16, 2017 02:40 AM (QzJWU) 596
>> Quite the contrary. I was not being critical.
Oh no, I didn't take offense. You're right, and I was just wondering about the castle doctrine and if it would've applied. Oh, there's also a pretty good "disparity of force" thing. My parents are old and vulnerable, and me, with this damn RA -- arthritis, bad knees and other thing, I was no physical match for any of them. I just don't know what he was really thinking. Would he have gone violent. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 02:45 AM (8O3HH) 597
The SOB might be clever, but he is not smart.
That is where the problem lies. If he is hell bent on causing trouble, and some folks just are, then watch your (and your parents') back. It is precisely the unpredictability of the criminal crowd, along with their lack of fear of violence, that makes them, well, criminals. Probably would not hurt to put in an alarm system, one that your folks can easily trigger should they see this dude in the neighborhood again. Posted by: tcn in AK at December 16, 2017 02:31 AM (NXsWM) These scammers are organized. It is a known racket. And one of the the things they know, and are taught, is not to make big waves. Law enforcement is not really too concerned with scammers that "do some work" take cash, and vanish again. It's hard to prove fraud, if some work, regardless of how shoddy, was done. But if they resort to violence, or threats of violence, to collect payment for their "work", that crosses a line. For them, why waste a day trying to collect from a family that won't be intimidated, when another two or three driveways can be "sealed" at $800 a pop, with risk of trouble? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 02:47 AM (oPNmq) 598
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 02:45 AM (8O3HH)
And he is probably sitting around a fire tonight... talking to his Gypsy buddies... going... "Damn.... I wasn't sure whether I was going to get shot or not... I tried to play the tough guy, but he just wasn't buying it...." There are two sides to every story... and the other side is most often just as confused as our side is... Posted by: Don Q. at December 16, 2017 02:49 AM (NgKpN) 599
Early alarm for work in the a.m.
It's already the a.m. I'll steal a few scant hours of sleep. Hasta la nite nite, Horde! Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at December 16, 2017 02:55 AM (QzJWU) 600
Jim, thanks. Yep, from your posts, I figured you'd been a couple or three of these SHTF situations, itchy trigger finger things. What do you make of his behavior. I mean, based on my behavior, do you think he realized I was armed and about to use it if necessary? And what about the just standing there and staring back? Was he scared as shit too, and didn't know what to do. Or was he perhaps sizing me up to decide if he thought he could take me? Again, if I were in his shoes -- well I'm not a criminal and if I had someone, in his own house, scared enough to shoot me, it would've been a serious misunderstanding, and I would've been putting my hands up, and explaining I was no threat, sorry, and backing out with a thousand apologies. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 02:57 AM (8O3HH) 601
Jim, I hope you see that before you go. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 02:57 AM (8O3HH) 602
Well, I have to go hit the sack, too. I'm guessing your conman was just trying to bluff you into paying up. He probably would not want to be there when the cops showed up. Chances are he would get a citation for not having a contractor's license for the town or county, and could lose his truck and tools.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2017 03:01 AM (oPNmq) 603
Thanks AOP. To my thinking, if I was pulling that kind of con shit, I'd be afraid I was going to myself shot. But maybe they have such success, they don't worry. And I'm not gonna be bluffing someone I think might shoot me. Not gonna take the chance. But that's me, not thinking like a criminal scam artist. Well, I'll quit worrying about what he was thinking. Was he going to do something, or was he just bluffing. Hopefully I won't see him again. Good night, AOP. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 03:05 AM (8O3HH) 604
"He had two 20 something yr old flunkies." It's a good thing you did not have to shoot. "I was wondering if they were armed, " Probably not with firearms ... " ... had he given them instructions, etc." I think it's clear that people like this have plans & contingencies. If you had had to shoot, at a minimum, the 2 youngsters would have lied their asses off, and you would be facing all sorts of legal trauma (see one or two previous posts by other commenters) A couple of non-lethal tools, just in case, is not a bad idea. I spent 2011-2016 (ended start of August) living next (i.e. separated by one (1) 2x4 stud wall from a clown selling weed. Nothing ever came through the wall, other than occasional noise and the smell of weed. The carport was another matter; he and his posse drank, smoked & transacted business there, essentially 11AM-11PM, every day. No violence or overt threats, but many of his friends (expensive cars owned by unemployed 20-somethings with no visible means of support ... how?). Apparently, I've been living in a slum since at least 2011. However, I had many "tools", "apparati", etc., strewn about my place, just in case one of them decided to accidentally forget to knock. Never happened, but now I (and many neighbors too, I found out) sleep better, as they are gone, and the situation is now only in my log book. Posted by: Arbalest at December 16, 2017 03:05 AM (FlRtG) 605
>> the 2 youngsters would have lied their asses off, and you would be facing all sorts of legal trauma (see one or two previous posts by other commenters)
------------------ Yeah, they would've played we were just doing honest work, and this lunatic goes nuts and starts shooting. But I wonder if it would've worked. They might have a record. They were going to run that license plate and see what it turned up. I wonder what that will turn up. But, there would've been two other witnesses, my mother and father. Oh, and this out in the country, not town or suburbs. This area is growing fast, but it's still rural. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 03:43 AM (8O3HH) 606
Up and at um'
Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2017 04:03 AM (aC6Sd) Posted by: redc1c4 at December 16, 2017 04:50 AM (sL8H+) 608
I have almost completed the second story on that damn dollhouse. A bit more trim work for the stairs and I have to build a "wall" for the bathroom (just a bit of something to hold a door and the rest of it will be open so you can access the room...it is a dollhouse, after all), then the second story ceiling/third story floor can go on...then three rooms up there...and then I can put the roof and porch on the damn thing.
I can almost feel the freedom...almost... I also got my copy of the Deplorable Gourmet today. I laughed, I cried...f'n onions... What's up with all of the rest of you? Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 16, 2017 04:53 AM (vbvxt) 609
@595 Jim
That's rough Jim. I expect if from the general population, but it hurts most when it's family lying and dragging you into problems. Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at December 16, 2017 05:07 AM (zVFn9) 610
I do not watch SNL and have not done so in years. Mrs. Krebs was playing this clip earlier this week that I thought was hilarious https://youtu.be/YvT_gqs5ETk Imagine my surprise when she said it was SNL. Tonight on the ride up to Staten Island I told the three Scouts riding with me about the clip, which they then located and played. They, too, found it hilarious and we started riffing on it using our then current situation. It was great fun. "I don't know 'bout that" is going to be the next two days' "go to" phrase. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 16, 2017 05:10 AM (0LaWm) 611
That Godwin fellow likes to correct people on the use of the term. It turns out calling someone a NAZI or like Hitler doesn't automatically trigger Godwin's Law and you wouldn't be surprised to learn that he thinks that it should be applied pretty closely to whatever Democrats think at the time.
Posted by: wodun at December 16, 2017 05:16 AM (lFga6) 612
I built a dollhouse for my niece when she was liitle, scale 1" = 1'.It had working doors, windows, stone fireplace, cedar shingles on roof with copper flashing in valleys.
Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2017 05:25 AM (aC6Sd) 613
Good morning!
Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere. Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2017 05:26 AM (hyuyC) 614
Hey NaCly,
If ya get here and see this would ya shoot me an email? I have nothing in my contacts and if I can't remember how an addy starts auto fill won't kick in. And why there is no "add to contacts" thing-a-ma-jig on the phone when I receive one,,, only the shadow knows. Did a couple tunes in the studio yesterday and I think I can shoot em to ya as mp3's. Posted by: teej at December 16, 2017 05:27 AM (5cCew) Posted by: The Political Hat at December 16, 2017 05:28 AM (itfg0) 616
Hey, look who showed up while I was typing.
Posted by: teej at December 16, 2017 05:28 AM (5cCew) 617
GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter
Life is good. Got the out-of-town Christmas Cards out. I have a Deplorable cookbook to give out at a Republican Party Christmas Party tonight. And I will cook one of my recipes, in the book, as my food contribution. Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2017 05:29 AM (hyuyC) 618
Geez, Jim, your very own "I am Ted Kaczynski's brother" experience? That's gotta be tough, but having him pull you into it by using your own weapon for the robberies (unknown to you at the time) would be the bridge to far moment for practically everyone. Years back when I was dating Mrs. Krebs, our son (actually my stepson, to be technically correct although I love him dearly as though he were my own flesh and blood) and I were visiting a store. He was a fifth or sixth grader and he triggered an alarm as we walked out. He went through the motions of saying he was clean and both the store staff and I bought the story. We get home and shortly thereafter, I notice that he has one or two brand new "Magic, the Gathering" booster card decks that he had opened but I knew he not been purchased by him during our excursion. I corralled the future Mrs. Krebs and we confronted him. Turned out he had shoplifted the cards and the triggered alarm had been for real. We had him bundle up the purloined items and I drove him back to the store to confess his guilt and return the cards. The store staff appreciated the gesture and declined to press charges, much to the youngun's relief. On the way back home I told him that had they searched him, found the cards after the alarm triggered, I would have had no legal standing to assist him at that time and he very well might have been hauled off and, in fact, I would have applauded the move. Wide-eyed, he promised me that he would never do such a thing ever again. And he hasn't. I'm thinking, now that he is a father himself, of revisiting this story with him during one of our lunches together, both to see what he remebers as well as to remind him, gently, of what lessons he is responsible for imparting to his own offspring. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 16, 2017 05:34 AM (0LaWm) Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2017 05:39 AM (hyuyC) 620
This asphalt sealing/paving thing is a classic. From time to time, there's a rash of them. They move in, run it a few days, then get out. Sometimes they catch them, sometimes they don't.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 16, 2017 01:58 AM (8O3HH) There was a movie about that, even. It was a gypsie thing in the movie. Bill Paxton was in it. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 16, 2017 05:39 AM (8gDQu) 621
Bonsai as the key to Japanese culture - careful cultivation and mutilation under controlled conditions to attain one of a defined number of formal types.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet Thats very wise, palpatine-san Posted by: Jean at December 16, 2017 05:44 AM (yM/Yl) 622
The Political Hat
What a crazy video. I'd never do that with a gun I liked. Glad he stopped before he used rubidium. And I thought potassium alone would be more reactive than a NA / K alloy. Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2017 05:45 AM (hyuyC) 623
Finally some coffee
Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2017 05:45 AM (aC6Sd) Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2017 05:49 AM (hyuyC) 625
And it's butter coffee! That makes it a good morning in ETEX. Off to work, comrades.
Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2017 05:49 AM (zLDYs) 626
Sweet.
And fair warning, they aren't going to sound like some "major recording" with tons of overdubbing and all those fix it tricks they use. Pretty much just us playing. But, with the exception of some cymbal rolls being just a bit too far in the background on one song and light percussion stuff on the other it's pretty much what we sound like live. The guy who has the studio did add some keyboards on request also. Posted by: teej at December 16, 2017 05:52 AM (5cCew) 627
Looking forward to it, teej.
May all your groupies misbehave when they are around you. Got some chores to do now, but stay blessed. Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2017 05:55 AM (hyuyC) 628
Heh. Chemistry.
What I'm doing now, Pb stands for percent binder. I guess you know how my brain reads it initially. Posted by: teej at December 16, 2017 05:56 AM (5cCew) 629
However justified you would have been drawing your weapon and shooting the con, by the time it's all said and done, you would, without question, have rather paid the $1200.
That's assuming you were justified. 1. When you shoot someone, do not wound him. That scenario--wounding rather than terminating--will be even more of a nightmare, in every respect. You must assume that you're shooting to kill. 2. The legal fees you would have garnered, in explaining to the police, let alone justifying, a homicide, would have surpassed $1200 on day one. Even if you simply discharged your weapon, without pointing it at anyone at all, you would have imperiled yourself with law-enforcement. And shooting someone is thoroughly traumatic, and complicated, and involved, and relentless, and EXPENSIVE; it's a horror. That's assuming the police are on your side. 3. Had you shot the con, you would have had the decedent's relatives, friends, family to deal with, and a conman does not live with saints. Imagine pacing, night after night, looking out the window of your parent's home. Again, I'm assuming you would have been justified in shooting . . . Do you want to defend yourself for years, in litigation, if the con were wounded? (You know he would sue, however much in the wrong he would have been. He would want an insurance settlement.) Posted by: the Pink Panzer at December 16, 2017 02:09 AM (BhzaG) I consider this an unacceptable condition. We shouldn't need a new bill of rights just for courts and lawyers. Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2017 06:01 AM (rnAwa) 630
But that "let down" from the post-adrenaline rush?
Ain't never pulled a gun nor had one pulled on me. I did have a thing where I had to rush into a dark stairwell where what sounded like child abuse was happening. (There were neighbors yelling down "what's happening, is a child being abused down there", which was of course very helpful). It was a guy abusing his wife, the kid was just screaming, and he was big but kind of doughy and there wasn't much drama in holding him until the cops came, but I didn't know that nor what I was facing when I ran down the stairs. So, the adrenaline hook...on the night of it was just a thing that happened. About three days later the cops called to get my story and I went through it and they said something about how most people wouldn't have done that and it was only after I hung up the phone that it all hit me and I started shaking. Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 16, 2017 06:03 AM (fuK7c) 631
EMT is nood
Posted by: Bruce at December 16, 2017 06:05 AM (8ikIW) 632
Communists are humans. They're just sorta the condensed worst parts of humans.
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