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Mid-Morning Open Thread

Botero dancers.jpg

Dancers At The Bar
Fernando Botero

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 My eyes!! OMG!!

Posted by: dantesed at March 23, 2018 09:24 AM (88xKn)

2 Omnibus dancer

Posted by: LASue at March 23, 2018 09:24 AM (Z48ZB)

3 She's "body positive," not fat.

Posted by: josephistan at March 23, 2018 09:25 AM (7HtZB)

4 oo-lah-lah

Posted by: never enough caffeine at March 23, 2018 09:25 AM (N3JsI)

5 The wall?

Posted by: LASue at March 23, 2018 09:25 AM (Z48ZB)

6 Oh Dear Lord.....

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 23, 2018 09:25 AM (ea6nf)

7 TMI on the painting of fat Rahm.

Posted by: MSTisdale at March 23, 2018 09:25 AM (cQdTh)

8 Very limber gal.

Posted by: LASue at March 23, 2018 09:25 AM (Z48ZB)

9 talk about missing leg day

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 23, 2018 09:25 AM (FZYNt)

10 Your search history must be like a Superfund site.

Posted by: bluebell at March 23, 2018 09:26 AM (oMtOd)

11 Hmm

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at March 23, 2018 09:26 AM (nQHw/)

12 Fat bottomed girls they make the rockin' world go round

Posted by: Freddie M at March 23, 2018 09:26 AM (FZYNt)

13 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 23, 2018 09:26 AM (ZQfW9)

14 well.....what's to say.......

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 23, 2018 09:26 AM (0O7c5)

15 I knew Hillary did yoga but this is a revelation.

Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 23, 2018 09:26 AM (nBr1j)

16 CBD hates us

Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at March 23, 2018 09:26 AM (czkHE)

17 CBD......he hate me.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 23, 2018 09:27 AM (suHZ2)

18 I call it "Trigglypuff in Repose"....

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 23, 2018 09:27 AM (ea6nf)

19 Not buying it. You could make diamonds by putting a lump of coal under her toe.

Posted by: pep at March 23, 2018 09:27 AM (LAe3v)

20 Imagine the sounds and smells associated with getting that particular side of beef lifted that high.

Posted by: MSTisdale at March 23, 2018 09:27 AM (cQdTh)

21 She shaves her pits but I'll bet that bush runs down her legs. SPANISH!

Posted by: DJT at March 23, 2018 09:27 AM (FTPVM)

22 Hairy pits.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at March 23, 2018 09:27 AM (nQHw/)

23 She must have very strong toes.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2018 09:27 AM (/tuJf)

24 Didn't Disney already do this one with hippos?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 23, 2018 09:27 AM (p+Wdc)

25 I thought Hillary said she was doing yoga?

Posted by: WisRich at March 23, 2018 09:27 AM (G0vdT)

26 Your search history must be like a Superfund site.

Posted by: bluebell at March 23, 2018 09:26 AM (oMtOd)

You have no idea....

http://tinyurl.com/ybnkjcbn

I implore you....do not follow that link.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (wYseH)

27 Hah, soon as I post good looking naked woman on an ottoman we get a new post with an ugly woman showing her drawers.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (mpXpK)

28 Damn, CBD -- what did we ever do to you?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (jxbfJ)

29 This is my fault, isn't it?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (W+vEI)

30 21 Great minds.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (nQHw/)

31 Rehearsal for Swine Lake

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (NWiLs)

32 Willowed:

Dear Spirit Airlines:
Although, I would never fly your shitty greyhound bus lines of the sky, FUCK YOU TO ELEVENTY!!!!!!!111!!!!

Sincerely,
Archer


There I feel a little better now and will postpone my rampage for the time being.

Posted by: Archer at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (gbWkA)

33 No effing way she could go "en pointe."

Posted by: Cliff Claven at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (sCN2W)

34 Honestly, if she can support all that weight on one toe and also get her other leg up that high, she may well be the world's greatest dancer.

Posted by: bluebell at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (oMtOd)

35
Fernando likes the big 'uns. For realz.

Posted by: Carlos Slim Helu at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (YMuSO)

36 So now Trump is threatening to veto omnibus because it doesn't help the DACA kids? What bizarro world is this?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (UBzPO)

37 Off "know it all" mailman sock.

Posted by: JAS at March 23, 2018 09:29 AM (sCN2W)

38 You Maniac! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you to hell!

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 09:29 AM (fuK7c)

39 If I want to see a bloated figure I will look at the BS spending bill. It is sickening that this painting and the spending cluster fuck have any value.

Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2018 09:29 AM (V+03K)

40 This is uncalled for.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 23, 2018 09:29 AM (FTlwv)

41 CBD is DJT.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 09:29 AM (TUUTu)

42 Willowed:

The one thing that you can count on the left being is bigots. From the
Trail of Tears, Slavery, Jim Crow, German repression in WWI, "Jap"
internment camps in WW II, to the modern feminism attempt to repress
white men, the attacks on Alpha Males, and the subtle misdirection of
"Gun Control". A defining tactic of the left is lying propaganda against
some minority group - then their repression by the state. Fuck that
bunch of sick bigots.

Posted by: An Observation at March 23, 2018 09:29 AM (UR3h8)

43 That's Mitch McConnell during his "private time"

Posted by: DJT at March 23, 2018 09:29 AM (FTPVM)

44 >>Hah, soon as I post good looking naked woman on an ottoman we get a new post with an ugly woman showing her drawers.


The barcode tattoo on the hip is classy!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 23, 2018 09:29 AM (W+vEI)

45 Words fail me...

Posted by: Charlotte the sailor at March 23, 2018 09:29 AM (lGLBx)

46 Botero style is these big people. Latin people seem to love it, not sure what it is. My wife who is not big and round like this but is a Latina, loves Botero stuff.

Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2018 09:29 AM (Z5y53)

47 Those poor toes....

Posted by: Tami at March 23, 2018 09:29 AM (Enq6K)

48 willowed from last:
363 Laying $6 to $5 Trump will veto. Will also bet my $1 against your $20 that the OIG report is released today. Who's got the scratches today at Gulfstream?

Go ahead....I'll wait!

Posted by: Rockysan99 at March 23, 2018 09:30 AM (m7LQK)

49 Note rug burn on the elbow....

Posted by: MSTisdale at March 23, 2018 09:30 AM (cQdTh)

50 I'm gonna post this again here, thanks to Moron Robbie for the link:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Copy/paste and alter as you see fit.

Mr. President,

I don't have much time, and as much as I want to say THANK YOU for all you've done so far and for simply standing up to the would be tyrants across the country, I am writing to implore you to PLEASE veto the omnibus spending bill.

It is the utter antithesis of everything you ran on and everything you claimed to represent. It's a poison pill designed by those who hate you and would like nothing more than to see you brought down. To keep your base of support and to give you any hope of holding the house this fall, veto this bill.

God bless you,
(Your name here)

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 23, 2018 09:30 AM (72PAC)

51 Cankles. This is not art.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 09:30 AM (r9UYA)

52 I implore you....do not follow that link.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (wYseH)
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You don't need to implore me - I stopped following Dildo links looooooong ago.

Posted by: bluebell at March 23, 2018 09:30 AM (oMtOd)

53 >>So now Trump is threatening to veto omnibus because it doesn't help the DACA kids? What bizarro world is this?



This is classic Trump.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 23, 2018 09:30 AM (W+vEI)

54 Is this the same guy from yesterday's painting in drag?

Posted by: Rockysan99 at March 23, 2018 09:30 AM (m7LQK)

55
I implore you....do not follow that link.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (wYseH)





IT'S A TRAP!!!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at March 23, 2018 09:30 AM (XWkhW)

56 I think I'll pass that bar and go to another one further down the street.

Posted by: Archer at March 23, 2018 09:30 AM (gbWkA)

57 This is trolling. I am going to look at cute things on Twitter to cleanse the pallet

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 09:30 AM (2MIbC)

58 WHHHHHHHYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 23, 2018 09:31 AM (5AVMW)

59 If I want to see a bloated figure I will look at the BS spending bill.

Well, at least the painting has a wall.

Posted by: pep at March 23, 2018 09:31 AM (LAe3v)

60 What in the hell? What is up with the panface and earthquake thighs? Lena busy right now?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 23, 2018 09:31 AM (KP5rU)

61 I get what the artist was going for, but that was no reason to minimize the breasts and stomach. There should be two or three overlaps, or at least one smallish drooping onto one large one.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 23, 2018 09:31 AM (LV5XU)

62 28
Hah, soon as I post good looking naked woman on an ottoman we get a new post with an ugly woman showing her drawers.


Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (mpXpK)

Drawers? You can hear that camel toe yelling "Mike, Mike Mike....Guess what day it is?"

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 23, 2018 09:31 AM (jxbfJ)

63 As if.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 23, 2018 09:31 AM (U+nHb)

64 Woof.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 23, 2018 09:31 AM (p6e8W)

65 Bring me the head of CBD!!!!!!1!!!eleventy!!

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at March 23, 2018 09:32 AM (AM1GF)

66 Also, the leg reminds me of the old GI Joes and other toys that would have
rubber bands securing everything. When you over-articulated one it
would pop out of place.

That's what her right leg looks like to me.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Self-Driving Cars Have Killed More People Than My Guns at March 23, 2018 09:32 AM (LV5XU)

67 Rosie O'Dykell took up Ballet?

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 23, 2018 09:33 AM (y3aQB)

68 Dear Spirit Airlines:
Although, I would never fly your shitty greyhound bus lines of the sky, FUCK YOU TO ELEVENTY!!!!!!!111!!!!

Sincerely,
Archer

Wuts up with the worst US airline now? I swear they would charge extra to breath the air if they could figure out how to do it. Have they installed pay toilets yet?

Posted by: LASue at March 23, 2018 09:33 AM (Z48ZB)

69 Modern Art is supposed to evoke an emotion.

I am disgusted.

Posted by: JAS at March 23, 2018 09:34 AM (sCN2W)

70 reminds me to pickup bacon for breakfast tomorrow morning

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 23, 2018 09:34 AM (FZYNt)

71 At least she shaves her pits.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 23, 2018 09:34 AM (oVJmc)

72 60
What in the hell? What is up with the panface and earthquake thighs? Lena busy right now?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 23, 2018 09:31 AM (KP5rU)

Panface? It might improve it if a pan did hit it.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 23, 2018 09:34 AM (jxbfJ)

73 Pulling for an early appearance by chimp/gorilla.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 23, 2018 09:34 AM (suHZ2)

74 Words do not usually fail me, but in this case, I am without words.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 09:34 AM (MVjcR)

75 CBD IS DJT.

This is a definite Trump commenter ONT move.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 09:34 AM (TUUTu)

76 At least the sniper won't miss.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 09:34 AM (UBzPO)

77 Alt title.

Dancer at the all you can eat bar.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (z79tQ)

78 She seems nice.

Posted by: m at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (U6XUk)

79 I looked the guy up, Botero. A Columbian now 85 years old.

This is his schtick. This is basically all of his paintings.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (fuK7c)

80 The title says 'Dancers at the Bar'. Where are the others? Did she eat them ?

Posted by: dantesed at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (88xKn)

81 >>>You have no idea....

http://tinyurl.com/ybnkjcbn

I implore you....do not follow that link.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (wYseH)
__________
There once was whale on the couch,
It still made me horny, I vouch;
So I spread tween the rolls,
And aimed true my pole,
And drove home in that glorious pouch!

Posted by: Anthony Weiner - Sexual Poet at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (2MIbC)

82 That's what her right leg looks like to me.

-----------

Screw you right leg. I'm the one doing all the work here.

Posted by: The Left Leg. at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (sX1BW)

83 >>>78 She seems nice.
Posted by: m at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (U6XUk)

Stunning that I am the first person to say that in the thread.

Posted by: m at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (U6XUk)

84 That one could clog up a two holed outhouse. For the love of God, have you no shame?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (KP5rU)

85 Awfully dull this morning without the fat shaming.

Posted by: Off the reservation at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (vWMNq)

86 NFL nose tackle.

Posted by: BignJames at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (0+nbW)

87 I actually quite like the colors and that style of painting

But her knee seems weird

Posted by: LASue at March 23, 2018 09:36 AM (Z48ZB)

88 *hic*
I think she's kinda cute...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary at March 23, 2018 09:36 AM (FTPVM)

89 Chinese buffet restaurants fear her approach.

Posted by: Archer at March 23, 2018 09:36 AM (gbWkA)

90 Is that the woman who lost her little puppy when she sat on it?

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 23, 2018 09:36 AM (mpXpK)

91 I'm not saying it's Lena Dunham, but......


It's Lena Dunham.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....lost in America at March 23, 2018 09:37 AM (vcOmj)

92 On second thought - large girls can't run as fast and are generally easier to catch. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 09:37 AM (MVjcR)

93 She looks like a ColorForms.


They were fun.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 23, 2018 09:37 AM (5AVMW)

94 Senator Bob Corker urges PDT to veto Omnibus:

"Please (Veto), Mr. President. I am just down the street and will bring you a pen. The spending levels without any offsets are grotesque"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 23, 2018 09:37 AM (O7MnT)

95 Anyone else picturing CBD as Dr. Evil right now? Just sitting back and watching and enjoying himself thoroughly.

Posted by: bluebell at March 23, 2018 09:37 AM (oMtOd)

96 If those tights let loose, someone is going to get hurt.

Meeting my Sailor at his ship today for a big ceremony - it seems like I havent seen him forever. Both my wifes family and my late wifes family (sons mom) will be together for this.

Good folks all the way around. His mother would be so proud.

Posted by: tonypete at March 23, 2018 09:37 AM (kbCtN)

97 I am glad she is wearing a dance belt.

Don't nobody wanna see that camel toe

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 09:38 AM (2MIbC)

98 90 Is that the woman who lost her little puppy when she sat on it?
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 23, 2018 09:36 AM (mpXpK)
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That little puppy looks exactly like WeaselDog.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 09:38 AM (MVjcR)

99 Why?

Posted by: auscolpyr at March 23, 2018 09:38 AM (suO/a)

100 >>NFL nose tackle.

Look at those legs. You aren't moving that without a double team.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2018 09:38 AM (/tuJf)

101 I think Trump just threatened a veto of the spending bill.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at March 23, 2018 09:38 AM (aW5/6)

102 Macron at podium. His mother standing next to him.

meh meh meh. Za cheese. meh meh meh


Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 09:38 AM (r9UYA)

103 I didn't really want breakfast anyway.

Posted by: all doubt removed at March 23, 2018 09:38 AM (xj0OI)

104 That poor bar doesn't have a chance

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 23, 2018 09:38 AM (PtOP4)

105 Oh G-D my eyes

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 23, 2018 09:38 AM (5y11N)

106 Her thumb as reflected in the mirror, is on the wrong side of her hand.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at March 23, 2018 09:38 AM (yDqYW)

107 Hey, anybody mention she's fat yet?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 23, 2018 09:39 AM (oVJmc)

108 Oh. Oh dear lord.

Looks like what I'm faced with every time I go to the grocery around here. Not the tights, thank goodness, but the avoirdupois.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 09:39 AM (ClOmq)

109 90: Vic, the puppy isn't lost, it's in there, somewhere. That's a job for the fire department.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 23, 2018 09:39 AM (KP5rU)

110 Ive actually begun using CDBs art postings as my daily sketching and painting prompt.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 23, 2018 09:37 AM (71/k
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Oh dear. I'm sorry to hear this.

FOLKS, WE NEED AN INTERVENTION HERE.

Posted by: bluebell at March 23, 2018 09:39 AM (oMtOd)

111 >>>101 I think Trump just threatened a veto of the spending bill.
Posted by: Brunnhilde at March 23, 2018 09:38 AM (aW5/6)
_______
He did.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 09:39 AM (2MIbC)

112 http://bit.ly/2pC39c7
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McMaster Work For Foreign Think Tank IISS | The Daily Caller

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 23, 2018 09:39 AM (y3aQB)

113 She looks desperate
I'd hit it

Posted by: Jeff Bezos at March 23, 2018 09:39 AM (FTPVM)

114 Trump threatens to veto spending bill.

Black pillers BTFO again.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 23, 2018 09:39 AM (4ErVI)

115 You'll want to maintain a 1,000 yard radius in the event she lets one loose.

Posted by: Archer at March 23, 2018 09:40 AM (gbWkA)

116 Oh G-D my eyes
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 23, 2018 09:38 AM (5y11N)
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This is all because you stood him up the other night, you know.

Posted by: bluebell at March 23, 2018 09:40 AM (oMtOd)

117 Let this be a lesson to you all!

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 09:40 AM (MVjcR)

118
On second thought - large girls can't run as fast and are generally easier to catch. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 09:37 AM (MVjcR)





Hush, you.

Rule 1: Cardio. Definitely applies.

Rule 18: Limber Up. It ain't gonna help, fatty.

Posted by: The Living Dead at March 23, 2018 09:40 AM (XWkhW)

119 Ive actually begun using CDBs art postings as my daily sketching and painting prompt.

I love Botero, his paintings are visceral and relatable to the viewer.

He also uses composition and color very well.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 23, 2018 09:40 AM (rIplV)

120 Ballerinas Of WalMart

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 23, 2018 09:40 AM (oVJmc)

121 3 She's "body positive," not fat.
Posted by: josephistan at March 23, 2018

*
*
Like the number line we learned about in New Math? If, say, Sofia Vergara is 0, and Twiggy is a -16, then this twirler would be waaay over on the plus side. Say, + 77.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 09:40 AM (ClOmq)

122 Dance with me baby!

Posted by: Anthony Weiner gyrating in a thong at March 23, 2018 09:41 AM (2MIbC)

123 18 I call it "Trigglypuff in Repose"....
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 23, 2018

*
*
Does look like her, doesn't it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 09:41 AM (ClOmq)

124 You know what is really unrealistic about this painting? Ballet dancers are always thin. They work their ass off and there is no way they could gain that much weight while still dancing.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 23, 2018 09:41 AM (mpXpK)

125 I bet she wears yoga pants to Walmart.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 23, 2018 09:42 AM (suHZ2)

126 123
18 I call it "Trigglypuff in Repose"....

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 23, 2018

*

*

Does look like her, doesn't it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 09:41 AM (ClOmq)

But she doesn't have the bingo-wings that Triggly Puff had. Those things were epic.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 23, 2018 09:42 AM (jxbfJ)

127 hahaha the hand reflection is all fucked up. Stupid Whore!

Posted by: Chainsaw Whore at March 23, 2018 09:42 AM (FTPVM)

128 She's Oprah-esque.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 09:42 AM (MVjcR)

129 125
I bet she wears yoga pants to Walmart.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 23, 2018 09:42 AM (suHZ2)

and rides in one of those little basket-cycles with her cheeks hanging over the sides.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 23, 2018 09:43 AM (mpXpK)

130 Good folks all the way around. His mother would be so proud.
Posted by: tonypete at March 23, 2018 09:37 AM (kbCtN)
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Tonypete, how wonderful! Enjoy this great day. Your son is going to revel in his family being there.

Posted by: bluebell at March 23, 2018 09:43 AM (oMtOd)

131 Wonder if the drapes matches the carpet?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 23, 2018 09:43 AM (jxbfJ)

132 That level of flexibility seems...improbable...for a woman of that level of girthiness. As I'm sure the Horde has gently pointed out. Gently.

Posted by: joncelli, going phalangist at March 23, 2018 09:43 AM (RD7QR)

133 Wasn't that an album cover for one of Queens' lps?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 23, 2018 09:43 AM (KP5rU)

134 You know, when she decides to take a day off and just sit around the house, she SITS AROUND THE HOUSE.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 23, 2018 09:43 AM (5AVMW)

135 >>Her thumb as reflected in the mirror, is on the wrong side of her hand.


You, too?


Posted by: Barack the Magnificent at March 23, 2018 09:43 AM (W+vEI)

136 Count the headlights on the highway!

Posted by: m at March 23, 2018 09:43 AM (U6XUk)

137 Rule 1: Cardio. Definitely applies.

Rule 18: Limber Up. It ain't gonna help, fatty.
Posted by: The Living Dead at March 23, 2018 09:40 AM (XWkhW)

Double tap. Always double tap.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 23, 2018 09:43 AM (72PAC)

138 53 >>So now Trump is threatening to veto omnibus because it doesn't help the DACA kids? What bizarro world is this?

it's Charlie Brown's football. and Trump yanked it on you. again.

I think you're supposed to say AUUUGGGGHHHH!

Posted by: x at March 23, 2018 09:43 AM (nFwvY)

139 94
Senator Bob Corker urges PDT to veto Omnibus:



"Please (Veto), Mr. President. I am just down the street and will
bring you a pen. The spending levels without any offsets are grotesque"



Oh, STHU you attention-whoring little insect. You had your chances to do the right thing; many of them. Now, nobody cares what you think. You're yesterday's news. Get used to it.

Posted by: pep at March 23, 2018 09:44 AM (LAe3v)

140 BREAKING: Terrorist attack reported at AoS headquarters. tens blinded.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 23, 2018 09:44 AM (h/uSM)

141 I'm mostly sure I did nothing to deserve this...mostly.

Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 09:44 AM (eIQHF)

142 First officer to little boy: Son, you'll wait to hang on to that ballerina if we hit an ice berg, not a chance in hell she sinks.

Posted by: Archer at March 23, 2018 09:44 AM (gbWkA)

143
I'm surprised CBD didn't give us an 'alternative link' to click if we didn't like the painting. Disappointing.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 09:44 AM (LOgQ4)

144 Cue "Dance of the Hours"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 09:44 AM (HiQSt)

145 Do these morons at CNN think they're gonna shame me by trotting put all the tight snatch I've pounded back in the day?

And then interview the formerly hot broads about how much they were in love with me back then but are now upset I never made them into Mrs.Trump?

Seriously? They think that's gonna work?

BWAHAHAHA

Posted by: Donald Trump's Enormous Penis at March 23, 2018 09:44 AM (2MIbC)

146 OK. Here is a disgusting thought.

Over the years I have put on extra pounds. I am 50 lbs overweight. I am beginning to have trouble reaching around to wipe myself.

I have long arms too.

Every time I see an obese person, I am now thinking "That poor soul. Has to have help wiping up."

Posted by: JAS at March 23, 2018 09:45 AM (sCN2W)

147 Shillary, Sans MuuMuu and Depends

A study in disgust

Posted by: Bruce at March 23, 2018 09:45 AM (8ikIW)

148
OW!!!!!!!!

Posted by: My Left Toe at March 23, 2018 09:45 AM (xzOnr)

149 I'm afraid Mr. Dildo is preparing us for something unspeakably horrid.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (MVjcR)

150 Tony Siragusa with tits.

Posted by: Flatville Bill at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (5mVEw)

151 137
Rule 1: Cardio. Definitely applies.



Rule 18: Limber Up. It ain't gonna help, fatty.

Posted by: The Living Dead at March 23, 2018 09:40 AM (XWkhW)



Double tap. Always double tap.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 23, 2018 09:43 AM (72PAC)

Rule 7: Travel light. (guess the ballerina wannabe isn't coming with us).

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (jxbfJ)

152 Hopefully the floor wasn't built by the contractors as the FIU pedestrian bridge.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (NWiLs)

153 Disney did this with the dancing hippos. At least that was funny to look at.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (2DOZq)

154 On second thought - large girls can't run as fast and are generally easier to catch. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Weasel



Fat people are harder to kidnap. Just sayin'.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (TUUTu)

155 i am now EXTRA gay

Posted by: Male Ballerina at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (h/uSM)

156 Still not as big as the Burgomaster.

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (WDCYi)

157 89 Chinese buffet restaurants fear her approach.
Posted by: Archer at March 23, 2018 09:36 AM (gbWkA)

At least they can hear her approach & get ready.

Posted by: josephistan at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (7HtZB)

158 79 I looked the guy up, Botero. A Columbian now 85 years old.

This is his schtick. This is basically all of his paintings.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (fuK7c)

I toured the Bogota Museum of Art many years ago and now I remember a room full of fat women, or at least paintings of fat women, and maybe men as well. It's kind of odd because Colombians don't tend toward that level of obesity.

Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (nBr1j)

159 Look at her face.... I think he started off wanting to paint a Russian nesting doll, then things just kind of got out of hand......

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 23, 2018 09:47 AM (5AVMW)

160 157 89 Chinese buffet restaurants fear her approach.
Posted by: Archer at March 23, 2018 09:36 AM (gbWkA)

At least they can hear her approach & get ready.
Posted by: josephistan at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (7HtZB)

By going on lockdown.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 09:47 AM (NWiLs)

161 Bring me a bucket.

Posted by: Mr. Creosote at March 23, 2018 09:47 AM (HiQSt)

162 150: On a diving board. In a thong.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 23, 2018 09:47 AM (KP5rU)

163 Odds now 4 to 5 on Trump veto (assuming Senate passes)
Eff u Paul and Mitch!

Sincerely,
AOS HQ Oddsmaker

Posted by: Rockysan99 at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (m7LQK)

164 From the cup half full perspective, I bet she makes a mean sammich.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (MVjcR)

165 2 Omnibus dancer

Posted by: LASue at March 23, 2018 09:24 AM (Z48ZB)

I laughed!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (o7tuA)

166 Wasn't there a German painter who painted weird looking fat people too?

Posted by: josephistan at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (7HtZB)

167 >>>81 >>>You have no idea....

http://tinyurl.com/ybnkjcbn

I implore you....do not follow that link.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (wYseH)
__________
There once was whale on the couch,
It still made me horny, I vouch;
So I spread tween the rolls,
And aimed true my pole,
And drove home in that glorious pouch!
Posted by: Anthony Weiner - Sexual Poet at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (2MIbC)
___________

That was beautiful Anthony. Brought a tear to my eye, all three.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (EVjpz)

168 Spinal Tap was hilarious.

The bigger the cushion the sweeter the pushin'

Posted by: DanMan at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (XTiHL)

169 The dance of the TOO MUCH SUGAR PLUM!

Posted by: Archer at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (gbWkA)

170 So - WI Supreme Court Justice candidate Rebecca Dallet went to a San Francisco fundraiser hosted by Pelosi and told the crowd that Wisconsin values are San Francisco values.

If her opponent's campaign has any sense at all they will use Dallet's quote while running a brief montage displaying "San Francisco values"

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (H80UQ)

171 Wasn't there a German painter who painted weird looking fat people too?
Posted by: josephistan

Did his name start with an H?

Posted by: Bruce at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (8ikIW)

172 Posted by: pep at March 23, 2018 09:44 AM (LAe3v)

Maybe so but we need as many Senators as we can to raise the alarm and help kill this thing.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (2DOZq)

173 154 On second thought - large girls can't run as fast and are generally easier to catch. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Weasel



Fat people are harder to kidnap. Just sayin'.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (TUUTu)

Fat people are harder to pick up when they slip and fall.

Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (nBr1j)

174 It is clear that "Dances At The Bar" isn't referring to a salad bar.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (HiQSt)

175 What a way to start the weekend !

Posted by: JT at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (PJlYI)

176 I missed all the back and forth in the Morning Thread concerning the potential veto of the spending bill and PDT's tweets.



Sort of busy. But if that tweet is true about DACA and the wall, you know why I gave him the moniker President Richard Punch.


Someone said he probably heard Palsi and Schemer laughing at him in the hall, so bam a veto. LOL. I don't think he is that juvenile, thouugh, this guy seems to have a plan even though he makes it look like he is a dumbfuck lucky idiot. As I tell my kids, there are many kinds of smart. Try to be one of them.



But if this veto comes to fruition, then it will be Palsi and Schemer who fell for Trump's smooth conciliatory talk again. Not smaht. Sad.



Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (ymnmz)

177 Seriously, when USGS wants to calibrate their seismometers they just have this chick dance Romeo and Juliet. Leap! Land! 4.6 on the Richter scale! Thanks hon, we'll send your check when the budget comes out.

Posted by: joncelli, going phalangist at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (RD7QR)

178 Do these morons at CNN think they're gonna shame me by trotting put all the tight snatch I've pounded back in the day?

And then interview the formerly hot broads about how much they were in love with me back then but are now upset I never made them into Mrs.Trump?

Seriously? They think that's gonna work?

BWAHAHAHA
Posted by: Donald Trump's Enormous Penis
---
What I find laughable about the kvetching by some of the talking heads (cough cough Anderson Cooper) is that they are attempt to cast PDT as some amoral lout while they proclaim their love of sipping the penis.

Posted by: tonypete at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (kbCtN)

179 Follow Your Dreams!!!

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (h/uSM)

180 I'm just back from N'Awlins, including a quick trip down Bourbon St. to see the grotesque sights. Believe me when I tell you this woman would fit in just fine there. We are one fat-assed nation, and generally ill-clad, in the "what the hell were you thinking" sense.

Posted by: pep at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (LAe3v)

181 CBD...Ok you kno what I mean.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (o7tuA)

182 You don't need to implore me - I stopped following Dildo links looooooong ago.



Posted by: bluebell at March 23, 2018 09:30 AM


The HQ. The only place in the wold where that sentence would make sense.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (p+Wdc)

183 I've solved the murder!


It was the ballerina, in the dance studio, with a ham sandwich.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (5AVMW)

184 164 From the cup half full perspective, I bet she makes a mean sammich.
Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 09:48 AM (MVjcR)

I'll bet she has several hiding under the folds (friend who was an EMT found a sandwich under the breast of a large woman as he was applying the de-fib paddles once).

Posted by: josephistan at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (7HtZB)

185 happy hour at the barre, free jiggly trigglys

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (nWc4E)

186 155 i am now EXTRA gay
Posted by: Male Ballerina at March 23, 2018 09:46 AM (h/uSM)

Yes, but think of the GAINZZZZ.

Posted by: joncelli, going phalangist at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (RD7QR)

187 Jeeeminy CBD, you had to go and do Fernando Botero. Colombia's greatest offer to visual arts.

Up there with sad eyed puppies and rag-tag waifs, and torreadors on velvet.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (2K6fY)

188 There's a thin ballerina just dying to get out. No, really, there's one trapped under this one's fat folds.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (NWiLs)

189 The problem with dropping in at comment 150 is that every fat joke has already been made. Most of them, twice.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 09:50 AM (HiQSt)

190 Also, who translated the name of this drawing? (That's how it appears on all the searches).


It's a barre.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 09:50 AM (fuK7c)

191 Also, I find this stuff hilarious, so by all means, encore, CBD.

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 09:50 AM (WDCYi)

192 I calculate there is at least 10,000 psi on that toe.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 23, 2018 09:50 AM (1ISKN)

193 She also does not appear to be sweating profusely - can the scales be tipping (see what I did there) in her favor?

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 09:50 AM (MVjcR)

194 I've always found his "chubby" versions of some classic paintings disturbing but oddly compelling at the same time

Posted by: Tuna at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (Phln5)

195 Rehearsal for Swine Lake

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM


*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (p+Wdc)

196 She has a tiny mouth.

Makes ya wonder how she got that large.

Posted by: JT at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (PJlYI)

197 I have to say though, there are fat people who are excellent dancers.
Really light on their feet

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (hMwEB)

198 "Dancers at the Bar"?

I probably shouldn't ask what happened to the other dancers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (HiQSt)

199 There wasn't enough room on my iPad screen for that chunky monkey.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (o7tuA)

200 LANDWHALE, HO!

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (WDCYi)

201 That's Feinstein. Getting loosened up for a floor vote.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (KP5rU)

202 The Paolo says...

Nah

Posted by: Bruce at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (8ikIW)

203 >>BREAKING: Terrorist attack reported at AoS headquarters. tens blinded.


Charlie Brown's MICRO penis has no taste in art. Very bad. Stop punishing the horde! #PaintBabesNotBovines

Posted by: Donny Two-Scoops at March 23, 2018 09:52 AM (W+vEI)

204 Well, I see CBD is trying to fan the flames of Bigotry with this post.

Posted by: An Observation at March 23, 2018 09:52 AM (UR3h8)

205 Has Trump vetoed the Congressional Suicide Pact, yet?

The effects of that legislation will make Obamacare look positively benign.

*shudder*

That thing passes, and we're all on a retrograde, rear-guard action, defending to the end. Which end is baked into that particular Congressional Cake.

What we need in Congress, is a weaponized Irongrandpa.

Hell, we need three or four hundred Weaponized Irongrandpas there.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 23, 2018 09:52 AM (QzJWU)

206 198
"Dancers at the Bar"?



I probably shouldn't ask what happened to the other dancers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (HiQSt)

And where is the jar of of pickled eggs?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 23, 2018 09:52 AM (ymnmz)

207 Also, who translated the name of this drawing? (That's how it appears on all the searches).


It's a barre.
Posted by: Bandersnatch



So she shits in the woods?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 09:52 AM (TUUTu)

208 She has a tiny mouth.



Makes ya wonder how she got that large.

Posted by: JT at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM


She persisted.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 23, 2018 09:52 AM (p+Wdc)

209 bluebell said Dildo! bluebell said Dildo!!!!

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 09:52 AM (MVjcR)

210 You know what they say, heifer ballerina is better than none.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 09:52 AM (NWiLs)

211 197 I have to say though, there are fat people who are excellent dancers.
Really light on their feet

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (hMwEB)

Jackie Gleason.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 23, 2018 09:52 AM (o7tuA)

212 189 The problem with dropping in at comment 150 is that every fat joke has already been made. Most of them, twice.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 09:50 AM (HiQSt)

---

not seeing a problem

Posted by: Amy Schumer at March 23, 2018 09:53 AM (h/uSM)

213

Makes ya wonder how she got that large.

Posted by: JT at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM

She persisted.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 23, 2018 09:52 AM (p+Wdc)

She was full six slices of pizza ago. Yet she persisted.

Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 23, 2018 09:53 AM (nBr1j)

214 You can YouTube 'fat ballerina' if you want to see it in real life. Actually she's a pretty good dancer.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 09:53 AM (2DOZq)

215 . . . Like Diego Rivera, just not pregnant with social commentary, merely fat from eating fried plantain, yuca, arepas and lots of ajiaco with choclos.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 23, 2018 09:53 AM (2K6fY)

216 Jesus, Mary and Joseph! You just had to do it! A piece of "art" by the most overrated hack artist of modern times. An unmitigated stinking pile of crap. It'll never sink in why people buy this drivel.

Then, beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

Posted by: The Universal Spectator at March 23, 2018 09:53 AM (bihhb)

217 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE SH'E TOO FAT TO BALLERINA

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBURGER at March 23, 2018 09:53 AM (5AVMW)

218

I'd hit it....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 23, 2018 09:54 AM (mPeei)

219 Botero's Dance Studio and Cardiac Cath Lab

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 09:54 AM (NWiLs)

220 189 The problem with dropping in at comment 150 is that every fat joke has already been made. Most of them, twice.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 09:50 AM (HiQSt)

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I find this so disappointing. Is this the American Spirit that sent a man to the moon? I weep for the future

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 23, 2018 09:54 AM (h/uSM)

221 I have to say though, there are fat people who are excellent dancers.
Really light on their feet

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (hMwEB)

Jackie Gleason.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 23, 2018 09:52 AM (o7tuA)



Chris Farley

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 23, 2018 09:54 AM (5AVMW)

222 The lady knows how to mooove.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 09:54 AM (HiQSt)

223 Just right.

Posted by: Jame Gumb at March 23, 2018 09:54 AM (Bdeb0)

224 Swipe right out of morbid curiosity, then abandon her at a salad bar to make sure she gets the hint.

Posted by: Alskari at March 23, 2018 09:54 AM (tdVTp)

225 You can YouTube 'fat ballerina' if you want to see it in real life. Actually she's a pretty good dancer.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

We take her ice fishing. When she does pirouette, it's better then an ice auger.

Posted by: Bruce at March 23, 2018 09:55 AM (8ikIW)

226 The mirror image is all wrong.

In the mirror her hand should have the thumb up high on the top part of the hand. The puff ball on her head is in the wrong position. Her toe in the non-mirror portion of the picture is en pointe, in the mirror she's not.

Oh, and Trump tweeted an hour ago he's considering vetoing the Omnibus spending bill. That ought to cause some screaming. I doubt he'll do it, but we'll see.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 09:55 AM (iv0p7)

227 >>I'm just back from N'Awlins, including a quick trip down Bourbon St. to see the grotesque sights. Believe me when I tell you this woman would fit in just fine there. We are one fat-assed nation, and generally ill-clad, in the "what the hell were you thinking" sense.

I've seen things in New Orleans that no man should ever see.

The horror. The horror.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2018 09:55 AM (/tuJf)

228 197 I have to say though, there are fat people who are excellent dancers.
Really light on their feet
Posted by: @votermom

https://tinyurl.com/yagdjsgh

it's like gravity doesn't exist

Posted by: x at March 23, 2018 09:55 AM (nFwvY)

229
197 I have to say though, there are fat people who are excellent dancers.

Mark Morris for the win.

Posted by: Glenn John at March 23, 2018 09:56 AM (xzOnr)

230 By process of elimination, i figure the sniper is hiding in the bush.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 23, 2018 09:56 AM (h/uSM)

231 85 Awfully dull this morning without the fat shaming.

Posted by: Off the reservation at March 23, 2018 09:35 AM (vWMNq)
----------------------------

It's not fat-shaming. We're trying to figure out how they managed to create a localized anti-gravity well to make that picture possible.

Posted by: Cold Rage at March 23, 2018 09:56 AM (Zq4E3)

232 220 I find this so disappointing. Is this the American Spirit that sent a man to the moon? I weep for the future
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 23, 2018 09:54 AM (h/uSM)

Her spirit sent the moon to rotate around her.

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 09:56 AM (WDCYi)

233 I've seen things in New Orleans that no man should ever see.


The horror. The horror.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2018 09:55 AM (/tuJf)

CBD's Visitor's Guide To New Orleans:

Do not go anywhere near Bourbon Street.

That is all.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2018 09:57 AM (wYseH)

234 Last time I saw something like that, it told me I was going to have a really good year.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 23, 2018 09:57 AM (KP5rU)

235 170 So - WI Supreme Court Justice candidate Rebecca Dallet went to a San Francisco fundraiser hosted by Pelosi and told the crowd that Wisconsin values are San Francisco values.

I support this.

Posted by: Paul Ryan at March 23, 2018 09:57 AM (r9UYA)

236 I've seen things in New Orleans that no man should ever see.


Oh, that's such a disillusion.

I thought if I ever made it down there it would be nothing but lithe college girls waiting to show their boobs for trinkets.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 09:57 AM (fuK7c)

237 Thats a Dude. Look between the legs.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 23, 2018 09:57 AM (o7tuA)

238 These comments are NOT funny!

*sneers*

Um, is anybody going to finish those donuts?

Posted by: Body Image Rights Activist at March 23, 2018 09:57 AM (MxEKc)

239 And where is the jar of of pickled eggs?

Are pickled eggs any good? Should I try one?

It just sounds wrong.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 09:58 AM (iv0p7)

240 For some reason, this painting reminds me of the scene in Jurassic park when the camera zooms in on the water glass while the dinosaur walks by.

Posted by: johnd01 at March 23, 2018 09:58 AM (nVmgE)

241 I have to say though, there are fat people who are excellent dancers.
Really light on their feet
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (hMwEB)
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This was the very first thing I thought of when I saw this picture:

https://youtu.be/s4r1TNJuRjc

Posted by: bluebell at March 23, 2018 09:58 AM (oMtOd)

242 She part of the MosCow ballet company .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 09:58 AM (2DOZq)

243 I have to say though, there are fat people who are excellent dancers.
Really light on their feet

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 09:51 AM (hMwEB)

Jackie Gleason.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 23, 2018 09:52 AM (o7tuA)



Chris Farley
Posted by: SSBN 656


Chris Farley & Patrick Swayze SNL La Bare dance off

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 09:58 AM (TUUTu)

244 Hey now! This bill is severely conservative! Bill Kristol, Jonah and Kevin Williamson all gave their personal pegging of approval and I can't sit right today as proof!

Posted by: Paul Ryan - forever flaccid at March 23, 2018 09:59 AM (2MIbC)

245 233 CBD's Visitor's Guide To New Orleans:

Do not go anywhere near Bourbon Street.

That is all.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2018 09:57 AM (wYseH)

My only time in Louisiana, I didn't end up anywhere near NO. I was stuck WAY out in the sticks (South Lafourche Parish). Like "Trailers mounted on telephone poles" type of The Sticks.

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 09:59 AM (WDCYi)

246 197 I have to say though, there are fat people who are excellent dancers.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wIuSZznCWuk

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 09:59 AM (HiQSt)

247 it's like gravity doesn't exist


That is impressive. Also, omg, how hot was Michelle Phillips?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 09:59 AM (fuK7c)

248 That is all.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2018 09:57 AM (wYseH)

The balls on this guy, showing his face after Tub O' Ballerina.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 23, 2018 09:59 AM (o7tuA)

249 239 And where is the jar of of pickled eggs?

Are pickled eggs any good? Should I try one?

It just sounds wrong.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 09:58 AM (iv0p7)
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Pickled beets are good!

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 09:59 AM (MVjcR)

250 CBD's Visitor's Guide To New Orleans:

Do not go anywhere near Bourbon Street.

That is all.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

A buddy of mine suggestion was, when visiting Bourbon street, where a pair of shoes that you can throw away before you come home

Posted by: Bruce at March 23, 2018 10:00 AM (8ikIW)

251 Sounds like the French cops killed the murdering wog in the supermarket.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2018 10:00 AM (wYseH)

252 242 She part of the MosCow ballet company .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 09:58 AM (2DOZq)


Discow Moscow
Dancing to the "Who oh"
Everybody's stepping to the night
Moscow Discow
Go to San Francisco
Baby, take me higher in the fire of the night

--Some weird Italian dude

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 10:01 AM (WDCYi)

253 CBD's Visitor's Guide To New Orleans:
Do not go anywhere near Bourbon Street.
That is all.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


Agreed, with the exception of the morning after a big party night like St. Paddy's. You get to see the industrial cleanup operation, complete with specialized streetsweeping Zambonis, men with fire hoses, and trucks. The smell would knock buzzards off a honeywagon.

Posted by: pep at March 23, 2018 10:01 AM (LAe3v)

254 CBD, that is insensitive. It should be "Alleged murdering wog"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 23, 2018 10:02 AM (2K6fY)

255 >>>237 Thats a Dude. Look between the legs.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 23, 2018 09:57 AM (o7tuA)
__________
You will never see any of that down there.

There is an under garment called a dance belt which is worn specifically to prevent any sexual organs from *ahem* making an appearance.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:02 AM (2MIbC)

256 Insert fat joke here...

Pennsylvania Polka

Posted by: Archer at March 23, 2018 10:02 AM (gbWkA)

257 Then, beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
Posted by: The Universal Spectator at March 23, 2018 09:53 AM (bihhb)

Oh, is that how that goes?

I've heard it as beauty is in the eyes of the beer holder.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 23, 2018 10:02 AM (z79tQ)

258 247 it's like gravity doesn't exist

--

thank God, or i might be attracted to her

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 23, 2018 10:02 AM (h/uSM)

259
"At the bar"?

Criminy, make mine a double.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2018 10:02 AM (5OO3x)

260 Hefty, heft, hefty.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2018 10:02 AM (5OO3x)

261
I hate New Orleans.
Went there back before the flood with 10 year old daughter and 11 YO niece. on Canal ST. -near, but not in the French-mequarter. Westopped at a bodega for a coke, at the checkout counter was a rack of necklaces, each one made of a dozen lifelike penises w/ sack, painted in natural colors. I called bullshit to the clerk who looked like he just finished his curry, and the heat had rendered him incapable of understanding English.
Piss on those people.

Posted by: Put that kid back where it came from or So Help Me at March 23, 2018 10:02 AM (HPNqc)

262 There is an under garment called a dance belt which is worn specifically to prevent any sexual organs from *ahem* making an appearance.
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu


That way everyone looks like Ken or Barbie.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:03 AM (TUUTu)

263 251 Sounds like the French cops killed the murdering wog in the supermarket.
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If they drag the body behind a pickup truck for the press then I will start taking France seriously. I doubt the French even have pickup trucks.

Posted by: Gumby at March 23, 2018 10:03 AM (2LelM)

264 bet she gives good head, fat girls usually do because they are hungry

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 23, 2018 10:03 AM (FZYNt)

265 I love Botero. He knew...

Posted by: Ripley at March 23, 2018 10:03 AM (fVGR3)

266 There is an under garment called a dance belt which is worn specifically to prevent any sexual organs from *ahem* making an appearance.


You are perhaps unfamiliar with my work.

Posted by: Pina Bausch at March 23, 2018 10:03 AM (fuK7c)

267 I thought if I ever made it down there it would be nothing but lithe college girls waiting to show their boobs for trinkets.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 09:57 AM


Someone's been spending too much time on the interwebz.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 23, 2018 10:03 AM (p+Wdc)

268 There is an under garment called a dance belt which is worn specifically to prevent any sexual organs from *ahem* making an appearance.
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu

Not at the Windsor "Ballet"

Posted by: Bruce at March 23, 2018 10:03 AM (8ikIW)

269 I've seen things in New Orleans that no man should ever see.


Oh, that's such a disillusion.

I thought if I ever made it down there it would be nothing but lithe college girls waiting to show their boobs for trinkets.

Posted by: Bandersnatch


New Orleans is a dump. Even the touristy areas. Or at least it was when I visited in '10.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at March 23, 2018 10:03 AM (AM1GF)

270 Pickled beets are good!

Do you find those in a specialty store? I've never seen one.

I'm in WA state if anyone can suggest a place to pick up pickled beets and or pickled eggs. I'm feeling slightly adventurous.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 10:03 AM (iv0p7)

271 >>>245
My only time in Louisiana, I didn't end up anywhere near NO. I was stuck WAY out in the sticks (South Lafourche Parish). Like "Trailers mounted on telephone poles" type of The Sticks.
Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 09:59 AM (WDCYi)
______
You haven't lived until you've been to the fish camp in Port Fourchon

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:04 AM (2MIbC)

272 Your search history must be like a Superfund site.
Posted by: bluebell
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Potential Thread Winner

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2018 10:04 AM (5OO3x)

273 She's really too fat for me.

Guy writing the lyrics to the She's too fat for me polka.

Posted by: Archer at March 23, 2018 10:04 AM (gbWkA)

274 New Orleans might as well be a different country from the rest of Louisiana. In my travels and residences across the USA, I found Louisiana to have the biggest population of hot regular girls. You can go into any Waffle House , Walmart, convience store, etc and you will see at least one very hot girl working there.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 10:04 AM (2DOZq)

275 What a nice portrait a baobab! Art of the highest quality.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 23, 2018 10:04 AM (CPk08)

276 Do you find those in a specialty store? I've never seen one.

I'm in WA state if anyone can suggest a place to pick up pickled beets and or pickled eggs. I'm feeling slightly adventurous.
Posted by: bonhomme


Pickled beets. Any grocery store. Canned vegetable aisle.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:05 AM (TUUTu)

277 Rehearsal for Swine Lake



Posted by: Insomniac{/i]

Nailed it. (Figuratively). We can go on to off-topics now.

Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2018 10:05 AM (2z74n)

278 Pickled hard boiled eggs - most any bar or tavern.

Not a "club".

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:05 AM (TUUTu)

279 New Orleans is a dump. Even the touristy areas. Or at least it was when I visited in '10.
Posted by: Brother Cavil
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It's like taking a sauna in a crime-filled ditch.

Posted by: P.J. O'Rourke at March 23, 2018 10:05 AM (y3sT9)

280 And I ain't wild about the rest of Louisiana either.

Posted by: Put that kid back where it came from or So Help Me at March 23, 2018 10:06 AM (HPNqc)

281 This was the very first thing I thought of when I saw this picture:

https://youtu.be/s4r1TNJuRjc

Posted by: bluebell at March 23, 2018 09:58 AM (oMtOd)

Oh I forgot how funny that movie was

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 10:06 AM (hMwEB)

282 Ah, I see it.

Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2018 10:06 AM (2z74n)

283 Do you find those in a specialty store? I've never seen one.

I'm in WA state if anyone can suggest a place to pick up pickled beets and or pickled eggs. I'm feeling slightly adventurous.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 10:03 AM (iv0p7)

Most grocery stores carry them (Walmart has them). Canned veggie aisle.

Also any Amish or specialty food store.

Posted by: Tami at March 23, 2018 10:06 AM (Enq6K)

284 Dictator Pope dictates

The Vatican has taken new measures to punish critics of Pope Francis in a move that seems to belie the pope's earlier calls for greater dialogue and debate within the Church. -BB

Red Frank strikes again.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 10:06 AM (r9UYA)

285 No, "Massive Dancer" just doesn't have the right ring to it. We need to tweak it a bit.

Posted by: Elton John at March 23, 2018 10:06 AM (7HtZB)

286
So I've had my sous vide machine for a week. Every day I've either had beef, salmon, flounder, or chicken. Tasty food, more in the rare to medium range. No desire to eat junk foods. Very filling. Remainder of diet pretty much all Paleo, very little bread.

Got on the scale this morning and I'm down three pounds.

Correlation or causation?

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 10:06 AM (LOgQ4)

287 My only time in Louisiana, I didn't end up anywhere
near NO. I was stuck WAY out in the sticks (South Lafourche Parish).
Like "Trailers mounted on telephone poles" type of The Sticks.
Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 09:59 AM (WDCYi)

Sportsman's Paradise.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:07 AM (UBzPO)

288 The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry her
She ain't heavy, she's my dancer

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 23, 2018 10:07 AM (h/uSM)

289
Stormy is hinting she has a recording or picture of Donald and her getting it on.

Posted by: Glenn John at March 23, 2018 10:07 AM (xzOnr)

290 >>>262 266 268
I mean I only know about dance belts because personally I wear em daily to hide my obscenely enormous penis.

Never done ballet, cuz thats for fags....

...

I hate all of you.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:07 AM (2MIbC)

291 >>A buddy of mine suggestion was, when visiting Bourbon street, where a pair of shoes that you can throw away before you come home
Posted by: Bruce at March 23, 2018 10:00 AM (8ikIW)

Sage advice. Was there years ago. Weekday, mid-day around lunch, a woman in a mid-level management business suit emerges from a store, walks calmly to the curb of Bienville St., bends slightly at the waist, and pukes all over her shoes (practiced, as though she'd done it before). It was like a zombie-movie establishing-atmospherics shot. No one really noticed.

Posted by: Zod at March 23, 2018 10:07 AM (Bdeb0)

292 Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand.



Posted by: Michael Moore at March 23, 2018 10:07 AM (ctuyM)

293 She's light on her feet anyway.

Posted by: eleven at March 23, 2018 10:07 AM (+lOpA)

294 Forgot My Nic, what kind of sous vide machine do you have?

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 10:07 AM (hMwEB)

295 You could land the H-4 "Spruce Goose" on that fupa.

Posted by: Pappy Boyington at March 23, 2018 10:07 AM (AKCXa)

296 Pickled beets. Any grocery store. Canned vegetable aisle.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:05 AM (TUUTu)
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I sometimes find them at roadside vegetable stands in jars. Ho-Lee-Krap are they good.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:08 AM (MVjcR)

297 Piss on those people.
Posted by: Put that kid back where it came from or So Help Me at March 23, 2018 10:02 AM (HPNqc)

Most places charge extra for that. Better hurry, there's a big push to close down the last whore houses in the Quarter.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:08 AM (UBzPO)

298 285 No, "Massive Dancer" just doesn't have the right ring to it. We need to tweak it a bit.
Posted by: Elton John at March 23, 2018 10:06 AM (7HtZB)


Hold me closer giant gravity well
Bend time and space with your mass
Poke a wormhole in contuinuity


nope nope nope

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 23, 2018 10:08 AM (CPk08)

299 Thunder...

Posted by: Tentotwo at March 23, 2018 10:08 AM (yhf6w)

300 289
Stormy is hinting she has a recording or picture of Donald and her getting it on.
Posted by: Glenn John at March 23, 2018 10:07 AM (xzOnr)

My prediction - She's going to claim Trump paid for her to have an abortion.

Posted by: josephistan at March 23, 2018 10:10 AM (7HtZB)

301 So I've had my sous vide machine for a week.
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How does this differ from a pressure cooker with regards to the meat?

Posted by: Gumby at March 23, 2018 10:10 AM (2LelM)

302 Watching all the pink elephants spinning and spinning in Dumbo as a child doesn't prepare you for your first bed spinning crash and hangover. I view it very differently after that.

Posted by: Downcast at March 23, 2018 10:10 AM (1mpdO)

303 284 Dictator Pope dictates

The Vatican has taken new measures to punish critics of Pope Francis in a move that seems to belie the pope's earlier calls for greater dialogue and debate within the Church. -BB

Red Frank strikes again.
Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 10:06 AM (r9UYA)

Frank's Red Hot. He puts that shit on everything.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 10:10 AM (NWiLs)

304 I have decided to dedicate my life to the pursuit of pickled beets. I now have a purpose.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:10 AM (MVjcR)

305 Indeed...

Posted by: Emerson Biggins at March 23, 2018 10:10 AM (AURKQ)

306 Stormy is hinting she has a recording or picture of Donald and her getting it on.
Posted by: Glenn John at March 23, 2018 10:07 AM (xzOnr)

She's clearly enjoying her 15 minutes of re-fame.
I get the impression that the 60 minutes interview will be all sizzle and no steak.

She's teasing a DVD, 60 minutes is teasing a blockbuster.

Whores know how to tease.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 23, 2018 10:10 AM (z79tQ)

307 From the morning opener:

220
Eveytime that reptile Schumer appears on the news praising this spending
bill, I think it cant get worse. Then Lindsey Graham shows up. Im
embargoing all media this weekend otherwise I may try to drink it away.


Posted by: BluesFish at March 23, 2018 08:15 AM (3g9Il)
BEHOLD THE POWER OF AND

Posted by: Bonecrusher at March 23, 2018 10:11 AM (JNTt1)

308 Forgot My Nic, what kind of sous vide machine do you have?

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale


Gormia. $69.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M22K1OF

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 10:11 AM (LOgQ4)

309 How does this differ from a pressure cooker with regards to the meat?
Posted by: Gumby at March 23, 2018 10:10 AM (2LelM)

--

I think sous vide is closer to a slow cooker, low and slow, except it keeps the food at a constant temp and sealed.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 10:11 AM (hMwEB)

310 I'm soooooo glad I have finally gotten to a age where I really couldn't give a shit what men want, like or need. I didn't really care all that much growing up except for the times when society forced my hand.

Posted by: Ripley at March 23, 2018 10:11 AM (fVGR3)

311 Nothing turns a man on like neck fat.

Posted by: Gumby at March 23, 2018 10:11 AM (2LelM)

312 I sometimes find them at roadside vegetable stands in jars. Ho-Lee-Krap are they good.
Posted by: Weasel


Wife loves them. I think they taste like chewing a 2x4.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:11 AM (TUUTu)

313 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M22K1OF

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 10:11 AM (LOgQ4)

do you need a separate plastic vacuum sealer ?

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 10:12 AM (hMwEB)

314 Beets taste like dirt.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 10:12 AM (NWiLs)

315 304 I have decided to dedicate my life to the pursuit of pickled beets. I now have a purpose.
Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:10 AM (MVjcR)


Well, they don't run very fast, so TBH, you might find success comes a bit too easily.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 23, 2018 10:12 AM (CPk08)

316 New Orleans is a dump. Even the touristy areas. Or at least it was when I visited in '10.

I watched a recreation of a federal sting operation against NOPD cops. The sting took place in the late 80s I think. They actually had audio of one of the cops ordering a hit on a woman who made an official complaint about the cops beating up her son or neighbor's son (I forget which).

The hit was carried out by a gang member. They also had audio of the cop receiving news she was dead, and he howled with glee like an animal.

Same cop was being paid by the undercover to watch a warehouse the undercover was storing his drug shipments in. The cop recruited several other NOPD officers to help him do that. They demanded a car to sit in so they didn't have to run their cars all day to have A/C. The feds provided a minivan and put listening devices in it and caught several cops plotting to kill the undercover and take over his drug business.

New Orleans is a shithole, and I doubt the NOPD is any better today.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 10:13 AM (iv0p7)

317 Wife loves them. I think they taste like chewing a 2x4.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:11 AM (TUUTu)
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You sure you're eating beets?

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:13 AM (MVjcR)

318 I have decided to dedicate my life to the pursuit of pickled beets. I now have a purpose.


I don't think they run very fast. You're going to need a new purpose tomorrow.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 10:13 AM (fuK7c)

319 She certainly beat anorexia!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front Splitter Chapter at March 23, 2018 10:13 AM (rdl6o)

320 Beets taste like dirt.
Posted by: Insomniac



Dirt & woody.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (TUUTu)

321 Beets taste like dirt.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 10:12 AM (NWiLs)

Rinse them first next time.
Then they'll just taste like shit.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (z79tQ)

322 301 So I've had my sous vide machine for a week.
----------------------
How does this differ from a pressure cooker with regards to the meat?
Posted by: Gumby at March 23, 2018 10:10 AM (2LelM)

Sous vide machines are sloooooooow.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (H80UQ)

323 With Sous Vide I can chose Rare, Med... and hold at that temp.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (aVYsC)

324 Mexican women stream across our borders seeking to acquire that look. They're not gonna get that look by moving to Venezuela.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (/qEW2)

325 I don't think they run very fast. You're going to need a new purpose tomorrow.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 10:13 AM (fuK7c)

Never let it be said that we pass up obvious gags...

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (CPk08)

326 I may even cut down all the trees at WeaselAcres and convert to beet farming.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (MVjcR)

327 Lindsey Graham's comments this morning are significant. You can take it as a given that not only was there support in the Senate for this bill, there was a dedicated 2/3 majority in support of this spending bill, probably enough to override a veto.

The GOP-e is indistinguishable from the Dems when it comes to spending, and when it comes to the wall. The house is bit better than the senate, but not much as long as Ryan is in charge.

Trump has too many battles going on already. He's got to finish the one with the FBI and the CIA and the State Dep't before he can launch a war against what we have to admit is a Congress controlled by liberal democrats.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (k1TUh)

328 How does this differ from a pressure cooker with regards to the meat?

Posted by: Gumby


Time and temperature is completely different. It's a much lower temperature - usually in the 140 to 160 degree range. Slower cooking.

You're vacuum sealing the juices in. I also add some additional flavoring to the bag before sealing like wine, butter, lemon juice, bacon, bbq sauce, etc.

Like a pressure cooker leaner cuts of meat take longer to make tender.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (LOgQ4)

329 I am intrigued.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (QQ+il)

330 She must be mainlining bacon!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front Splitter Chapter at March 23, 2018 10:15 AM (rdl6o)

331 Pickled hard boiled eggs - most any bar or tavern.

Posted by: rickb223
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Beer and pickled eggs. Produces stoichiometric gas mixture that is additionally staggeringly odiferous.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2018 10:15 AM (5OO3x)

332 Sometimes Under Wife makes a green salad with sliced hard boiled eggs and pickled beets on top. The beets turn the eggs kinda purple. It is very good though.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 10:15 AM (r9UYA)

333 Pickled beets. Any grocery store. Canned vegetable aisle.

Thanks! I'll try it out.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 10:15 AM (iv0p7)

334 Beet Haters!

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:15 AM (MVjcR)

335 Wife loves them. I think they taste like chewing a 2x4.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:11 AM (TUUTu)
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You sure you're eating beets?
Posted by: Weasel

Tastes like dirt & woody.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:15 AM (TUUTu)

336 326 I may even cut down all the trees at WeaselAcres and convert to beet farming.
Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (MVjcR)

Game on.

Posted by: Dwight Schrute at March 23, 2018 10:15 AM (NWiLs)

337 Never let it be said that we pass up obvious gags...

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In



I know, dude. I was like, is this lame or is it the beauty of the Horde Hive Mind?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 10:16 AM (fuK7c)

338 >>Beer and pickled eggs. Produces stoichiometric gas mixture that is additionally staggeringly odiferous.

Weaponized flatulence.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 10:16 AM (r9UYA)

339 New Orleans is a shithole, and I doubt the NOPD is any better today.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 10:13 AM (iv0p7)

Is Baton Rouge any better?

Just wondering where you move to in LA if you're from a little town and want to find work and don't want to leave the state.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 23, 2018 10:16 AM (H80UQ)

340 Wakes up.
Yawns.
Scratches.
Sees picture.
Figures it is not going to be a normal Friday.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2018 10:16 AM (0tfLf)

341 If Trump vetoes and Congress overrides, Trump stil wins.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 10:17 AM (hMwEB)

342 nice rack

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 23, 2018 10:17 AM (FZYNt)

343 Had borscht once. Must be an acquired taste.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front Splitter Chapter at March 23, 2018 10:17 AM (rdl6o)

344 316- so the movie "The Big Easy" was really just a documentary?

Posted by: moki at March 23, 2018 10:17 AM (V+V48)

345 do you need a separate plastic vacuum sealer ?

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale


Not really, but it's better to have.

For $39.99 I got the Gormia vacuum sealer also:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MAUKU54/

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 10:17 AM (LOgQ4)

346 Dirt woody.

Honestly, I could not say. I do not know what a woody tastes like.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 23, 2018 10:17 AM (H5rtT)

347 Stormy Daniels is most likely a sad, damaged and broken woman. Her primary money making skill is expiring every day as she ages and getting a non-porn job after porn is rough. Call center type work.

I mentioned in a previous thread that I knew a girl from college who did porn for a short while. It's a horrific industry that destroys lives. Very few women can psychologically handle it without permanent damage.

I'd feel sorry for her if she wasn't trying to bring down our glorious president.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:17 AM (2MIbC)

348 I'm late today, clicked on ace of spades eagerly to see..this..lordy. I am going on a diet, pronto.

Posted by: IC at March 23, 2018 10:17 AM (a0IVu)

349
Beer and pickled eggs. Produces stoichiometric gas mixture that is additionally staggeringly odiferous.
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Had to work with a Mexican named Pacho on a three story scaffold. Paccho loved eggs. I suspect that experience soured me to Mexicans.

Posted by: Gumby at March 23, 2018 10:17 AM (2LelM)

350 326 I may even cut down all the trees at WeaselAcres and convert to beet farming.
Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (MVjcR)

HANG THIS MAN!!

Posted by: Greenies Everywhere at March 23, 2018 10:18 AM (72PAC)

351 They're the circulatory Super-Food.

Posted by: Dana Loesch at March 23, 2018 10:18 AM (r9UYA)

352 36 So now Trump is threatening to veto omnibus because it doesn't help the DACA kids? What bizarro world is this?
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 09:28 AM (UBzPO)

He's "doing it for the children", basically lying, and assigning blame to the congressmen/senators who approved it.
Better that saying, PDT won't sign this bloated SOB because it's full of irk and betrayal.
"Yes I defied the unclean Trump" is easier to declare than "I have lots of constituents and clients who deserve my graft, but the DACAns don't rate Hugh enough"

Posted by: Downcast at March 23, 2018 10:18 AM (1mpdO)

353 Is Baton Rouge any better?

Just wondering where you move to in LA if you're from a little town and want to find work and don't want to leave the state.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V


Depending on what you do, CenLa - Alexandria.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:18 AM (TUUTu)

354 You can be anything you want to be!
I want to be a ballerina!
Honey, ballerinas are usually small because they have to jump and float across the stage.
You're attacking me with your fat shaming, you bigot! Now make me the lead or I'll have you fired for being a racist homophobic bigot!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2018 10:18 AM (wdmm9)

355 I've been thinking of a sous vide, maybe one of those immersion ones
Problem is the family thinks rare is icky

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 10:19 AM (hMwEB)

356 347 Stormy Daniels is most likely a sad, damaged and broken woman. Her primary money making skill is expiring every day as she ages and getting a non-porn job after porn is rough. Call center type work.

I mentioned in a previous thread that I knew a girl from college who did porn for a short while. It's a horrific industry that destroys lives. Very few women can psychologically handle it without permanent damage.

I'd feel sorry for her if she wasn't trying to bring down our glorious president.
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:17 AM (2MIbC)


I still think she's angling for a judicial appointment.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 23, 2018 10:19 AM (CPk08)

357 Thanks! I'll try it out.
Posted by: bonhomme
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Go back! It's a trap!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2018 10:19 AM (QxXRY)

358 134 You know, when she decides to take a day off and just sit around the house, she SITS AROUND THE HOUSE.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 23, 2018

*
*
And when she does exercise, she goes out to teeter-totter . . . with the Fourth Marine Division.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 10:19 AM (ClOmq)

359 Beets taste like dirt.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 10:12 AM
~~~~~

Agreed. But pickled beets are a whole 'nother animal. They're delicious!

Posted by: IrishEi at March 23, 2018 10:19 AM (HiDrR)

360 So now Trump is threatening to veto omnibus because it doesn't help the DACA kids? What bizarro world is this?

He's escalating the already-hot war between DACA activists and Chuck Schumer. *munches popcorn*

Posted by: Ian S. at March 23, 2018 10:19 AM (3J/LN)

361 Beer and pickled eggs. Produces stoichiometric gas mixture that is additionally staggeringly odiferous.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2018 10:15 AM (5OO3x)

So... you're saying the whole is greater than the sum of the farts?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2018 10:19 AM (AURKQ)

362 Jesus, I just finished breakfast. Thanks a lot CBD.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 23, 2018 10:20 AM (zRZaJ)

363 326 I may even cut down all the trees at WeaselAcres and convert to beet farming.
Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (

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You would be missing a huge opportunity. Alpaca ranching is set to take off in the next decade.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 10:20 AM (HiQSt)

364 The only bar that dancer should be at is the salad bar...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at March 23, 2018 10:20 AM (AM1GF)

365
Tastes like dirt & woody.

Posted by: rickb223
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Is that some kinda' urban dictionary slang?

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 23, 2018 10:20 AM (mPeei)

366 So... you're saying the whole is greater than the sum of the farts?
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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I'm telling Muldoon.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2018 10:21 AM (w1zJX)

367 I've boned worse

Posted by: Billy at March 23, 2018 10:21 AM (VWsDy)

368 180 I'm just back from N'Awlins, including a quick trip down Bourbon St. to see the grotesque sights. Believe me when I tell you this woman would fit in just fine there. We are one fat-assed nation, and generally ill-clad, in the "what the hell were you thinking" sense.
Posted by: pep at March 23, 2018

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I know. I grew up in the French Quarter. The change for the worse is horrible.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 10:21 AM (ClOmq)

369 339 Is Baton Rouge any better?



Just wondering where you move to in LA if you're from a little town and want to find work and don't want to leave the state.

Posted by: DonnaV. at March 23, 2018 10:16 AM (H80UQ)

My youngest brother lived in Baton Rouge for a number of years. his wife hated it.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 23, 2018 10:21 AM (mpXpK)

370 I've been thinking of a sous vide, maybe one of those immersion ones
Problem is the family thinks rare is icky

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale


In that case 'finishing' is an option. Take your finished protein, heat up a fry pan, throw some butter in, and give it a quick sear on both sides. It actually helps to restore a more natural finished color to meat.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 10:22 AM (LOgQ4)

371
Tastes like dirt & woody.

Posted by: rickb223
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Is that some kinda' urban dictionary slang?

*hic*

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I assumed Dirt and Woody was some kind of British pub food. Pairs well with Spotted Dick.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 10:22 AM (HiQSt)

372 "New Orleans is a shithole, and I doubt the NOPD is any better today."

They are better today, and it only goes to prove that Katrina was in fact the best thing to happen to New Orleans in the last hundred years. You remember how the National Guard had to be brought in to police the city for over a year after Katrina hit? It wasn't publicized because it was so embarrassing, but when outsiders came in and started looking at things, they ended firing the entire police department and having to rebuild it from scratch.

I remember one particular incident - immediately after Katrina, federal officials were amazed that 300 or more policeman listed as being on duty had apparently disappeared, and everything was critically understaffed. It turned out that New Orleans had been receiving large grants of money from the Feds that were based on a per capita police head count, and so the City Govm't had created 300 or more "police officers" who existed only on paper. The Mayor, the D.A., and the Police Chief were splitting the extra cash from this between themselves, of course passing along some to their personal henchmen in each area. (Who can break a conspiracy that's being run BY the DA and the Police dep't??)

And that's just a small tidbit of how corrupt New Orleans was before Katrina.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:22 AM (k1TUh)

373 Montana has paid $485,000 to settle claims that a program meant to boost the number of highway contracts going to disadvantaged businesses illegally discriminated against a construction company for having rich, white male owners. -WZ

Using their rules against them.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 10:22 AM (r9UYA)

374
You would be missing a huge opportunity. Alpaca ranching is set to take off in the next decade.
Posted by: Cicero
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One word: Chinchilla ranching

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 23, 2018 10:22 AM (ZpfqO)

375 Beets taste like dirt.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 10:12 AM (NWiLs)

Campari and Beet Cocktail:

2 ounces gin
1 ounce Campari
1 beet muddled in low ball glass
Garnish with lemon peel

Discard and open a beer.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2018 10:23 AM (wYseH)

376 255 There is an under garment called a dance belt which is worn specifically to prevent any sexual organs from *ahem* making an appearance.
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:02 AM (2MIbC)

And then there's a "gaff", which pre-op trannies use to hide theirs.

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 10:23 AM (WDCYi)

377 Is that some kinda' urban dictionary slang?

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton


Tastes like chewing on a dirty branch.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:23 AM (TUUTu)

378 In that case 'finishing' is an option. Take your finished protein, heat up a fry pan, throw some butter in, and give it a quick sear on both sides. It actually helps to restore a more natural finished color to meat.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 10:22 AM (LOgQ4)

ooh, good idea!

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 10:23 AM (hMwEB)

379 One word: Chinchilla ranching
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 23, 2018 10:22 AM (ZpfqO)

My property in Montana is already tied up in dental floss.

Posted by: Farmer Frank at March 23, 2018 10:23 AM (AURKQ)

380 New Orleans is a shithole, and I doubt the NOPD is any better today.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 10:13 AM (iv0p7)

That caused a federal consent decree that has since crippled the department. Average response time for a 911 call is 45 minutes (if they show up at all).

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:23 AM (UBzPO)

381 >>Tastes like dirt & woody.

Dirty Sanchez?

Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 10:24 AM (r9UYA)

382 I mentioned in a previous thread that I knew a girl from college who did porn for a short while. It's a horrific industry that destroys lives. Very few women can psychologically handle it without permanent damage.

Life is an obstacle course of holes.

Posted by: Chucky Darwin at March 23, 2018 10:24 AM (VWsDy)

383 Average response time for a 911 call is 45 minutes (if they show up at all).
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That might beat the DC police.

Posted by: Gumby at March 23, 2018 10:24 AM (2LelM)

384 I usually look at the blow-ups of the paintings. Not today.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2018 10:24 AM (ZpfqO)

385 Life is an obstacle course of holes.
Posted by: Chucky Darwin at March 23, 2018 10:24 AM (VWsDy)

ISWYDT...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2018 10:25 AM (AURKQ)

386 Criticize Louisiana all you want and there's plenty to criticize. However, it's one of the last truly free places left in the country.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:25 AM (UBzPO)

387 On second thought, beet farming sounds like work. Back to pine trees.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:25 AM (MVjcR)

388 I've been thinking of a sous vide, maybe one of those immersion ones Problem is the family thinks rare is icky
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at March 23, 2018 10:19 AM (hMwEB)
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You can't do "well done" in a sous vide?

Posted by: IrishEi at March 23, 2018 10:25 AM (HiDrR)

389 Just wondering where you move to in LA if you're from a little town and want to find work and don't want to leave the state. "

My wife and family are from Shreveport/Bossier, it's been growing a lot if you don't mind the casino's downtown.

North Louisiana is radically different than South Louisiana. More like Texas and Mississippi.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:25 AM (k1TUh)

390 I posed for this when I was young and svelte . Some may say I was hot. I really wasn't paying attention.

Posted by: Rafaela Vazquez at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (VWsDy)

391 Dancer at Taco Bar?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (km8Y2)

392 beets are wonderful.....now i'm craving beets.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (0O7c5)

393 I usually don't comment on the Art Thread b/c you know I know nothing about art (or so I'm told) but...

* blink *
* blink *

My eyes hurt...

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (8SR1L)

394 327 Lindsey Graham's comments this morning are significant. You can take it as a given that not only was there support in the Senate for this bill, there was a dedicated 2/3 majority in support of this spending bill, probably enough to override a veto.

The GOP-e is indistinguishable from the Dems when it comes to spending, and when it comes to the wall. The house is bit better than the senate, but not much as long as Ryan is in charge.

Trump has too many battles going on already. He's got to finish the one with the FBI and the CIA and the State Dep't before he can launch a war against what we have to admit is a Congress controlled by liberal democrats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (k1TUh)


If they've already declared their overriding no matter what, then you absolutely HAVE to call Grahamnesty's bluff and make them all put it in writing.

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (WDCYi)

395 *they're*

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (WDCYi)

396 My sister-in-law is from Colombia and has some prints of his works. She gave me a tie for Christmas based on his art.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Says Use Misery Marinade for Your Next BBQ! at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (hLRSq)

397 390 I posed for this when I was young and svelte . Some may say I was hot. I really wasn't paying attention.Posted by: Rafaela Vazquez at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (VWsDy

brutal

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (0O7c5)

398 This week perfectly represented by a painting.

Posted by: Eli Cash at March 23, 2018 10:27 AM (a+WIL)

399 Just wondering where you move to in LA if you're from a little town and want to find work and don't want to leave the state.
Posted by: DonnaV. at March 23, 2018 10:16 AM (H80UQ)

Depends on what kind of work. Most of the refinery/industrial plants are in those small towns. If one can pass a drug test the most menial jobs start at $50k/year. Equipment operators easily hit 6 figures.


Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:27 AM (UBzPO)

400 beets are wonderful.....now i'm craving beets.....
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (0O7c5)

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Troll-B-Gone!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 10:27 AM (HiQSt)

401 386 Criticize Louisiana all you want and there's plenty to criticize. However, it's one of the last truly free places left in the country.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018

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Free to drive into potholes, free to deal with floods after even mild rains, free to sweat 10 months a year. And then there's the red light and speeding cameras on those potholed streets.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 10:28 AM (ClOmq)

402 I hope that studio is on the ground floor.

Posted by: BignJames at March 23, 2018 10:28 AM (0+nbW)

403 392 beets are wonderful.....now i'm craving beets.....
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (0O7c5)
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I knew that I liked you!

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:28 AM (MVjcR)

404 You can't do "well done" in a sous vide?

Posted by: IrishEi at March 23, 2018 10:25 AM


Not really. The manual that came with my machine has time and temps for three settings:
Sushi
Rare
Medium

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 10:28 AM (LOgQ4)

405 Beets and leeks are just wrong.

Posted by: IC at March 23, 2018 10:28 AM (a0IVu)

406 You can't do "well done" in a sous vide?


You can't exceed 212 degrees I wouldn't think.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018 10:28 AM (QQ+il)

407 I assumed Dirt and Woody was some kind of British pub food. Pairs well with Spotted Dick.
Posted by: Cicero
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Bangers & Mash.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2018 10:28 AM (QxXRY)

408 >>398 This week perfectly represented by a painting.

Fat, bloated, and ugly.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 10:29 AM (r9UYA)

409 She looks 200 lbs lighter at closing time.

Posted by: Tentotwo at March 23, 2018 10:29 AM (yhf6w)

410 I'm Pro Beet and I vote!

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:29 AM (MVjcR)

411
Tastes like chewing on a dirty branch.

Posted by: rickb223
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Azz to mouth sounds good to me....

Posted by: Shep at March 23, 2018 10:29 AM (mPeei)

412 I enjoyed visiting all the haunted places in New Orleans but it is definitely hot and smelly. It's worth visiting once for sure.

Posted by: Max Power at March 23, 2018 10:30 AM (QCc6B)

413 I think disliking beets disqualifies you from ever getting a Bootleg Adidas-ripoff tracksuit.

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 10:30 AM (WDCYi)

414 "Fat people are harder to kidnap. Just sayin'."

On the other hand, they can be used as a flotation device in the event of a water landing.

Posted by: Anagram Nation at March 23, 2018 10:30 AM (aId/R)

415
What I find laughable about the kvetching by some of the talking heads (cough cough Anderson Cooper) is that they are attempt to cast PDT as some amoral lout while they proclaim their love of sipping the penis.

Posted by: tonypete at March 23, 2018 09:49 AM (kbCtN)





"sipping" the penis?

That's totally unfair.

I think it'd be more accurate to describe it as "guzzling".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 23, 2018 10:30 AM (XWkhW)

416 Baby Got Back
Sir Mix-a-lot

https://tinyurl.com/o5uyo4y


Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 23, 2018 10:30 AM (bB4HN)

417 Free to drive into potholes, free to deal with
floods after even mild rains, free to sweat 10 months a year. And then
there's the red light and speeding cameras on those potholed streets.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 10:28 AM (ClOmq)

That's New Orleans. It may as well be a different state than the rest of Louisiana.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:30 AM (UBzPO)

418 274 New Orleans might as well be a different country from the rest of Louisiana. In my travels and residences across the USA, I found Louisiana to have the biggest population of hot regular girls. You can go into any Waffle House , Walmart, convience store, etc and you will see at least one very hot girl working there.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018

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Maybe in the northern part of the state. In Da Swamp you see creatures more like our beloved dancer above.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 10:30 AM (ClOmq)

419 the office plant here is a Marble Queen Pothos. someone just watered it.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 23, 2018 10:31 AM (FJM5p)

420 You know, there's something to be said about a full-body burka for some women. Some.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at March 23, 2018 10:31 AM (9BLnV)

421 62 Drawers? You can hear that camel toe yelling "Mike, Mike Mike....Guess what day it is?"

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
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And this is why we have such a loyal following.

Dammit man, you made me wake up the puppy after spillin' my coffee when I busted out laughing while drinking from the cup of life...

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at March 23, 2018 10:31 AM (8SR1L)

422 My bread drawer has half a loaf of bread and five boxes of different Entenmann's products.

Priorities.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 23, 2018 10:31 AM (HiDrR)

423 419 the office plant here is a Marble Queen Pothos. someone just watered it.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 23, 2018 10:31 AM (FJM5p)

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You could have called me, you know.

Posted by: H. Weinstein at March 23, 2018 10:32 AM (HiQSt)

424 I liked living in Louisiana but I can see why people from other areas might not like it. Also keep in mind that Louisiana has at least five distinct parts. The three parts that people are probably aware of is Catholic South Louisiana , Bible Belt North Louisiana and New Orleans.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 10:32 AM (2DOZq)

425 If they've already declared their overriding no matter what, then you absolutely HAVE to call Grahamnesty's bluff and make them all put it in writing."

No - that would be bad tactics for Trump. You don't march into a defeat when you know it's coming, you find a way to sidestep it gracefully. To put it in military terminology, Trump does not have the forces to win this one, and a defeat would embolden his enemies in all of the other battles he's fighting. There are sound reasons why all strategists strongly advise against getting into a two front (or 3 front, or 5 front) war. You can't effectively prosecute any of them, and they all start to feed on each other and coordinate their attacks on you.

Trump has begun making bold moves with his staff. He had got to defeat the Mueller probe and win the November elections and get a new Senate before he can do anything more. And if he loses the Senate, then everything gets much much worse.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:32 AM (k1TUh)

426 the office plant here is a Marble Queen Pothos. someone just watered it.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo



This time I'm going to let someone else make the obvious gag.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 10:32 AM (fuK7c)

427 392 beets are wonderful.....now i'm craving beets.....
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (0O7c5)

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Beets are wonderful, as long as someone else is eating them somewhere I'm not.

Posted by: Blake at March 23, 2018 10:32 AM (qC1Sy)

428 North Louisiana is radically different than South Louisiana. More like Texas and Mississippi.

I've always thought Northwest Louisiana is more like Texas, and Southeast Texas is more like South Louisiana. When we lived in Bossier City, it seemed like there was an article in the local paper lamenting none of the money from the government ever made it north of I-10. That area has a thriving movie industry. It was just starting to take off when we left. I haven't been through since the flood. The last time I drove that way, I-20 was nothing but dirt. I hope they've finished the construction by now.

Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 10:32 AM (eIQHF)

429 415 "sipping" the penis?

That's totally unfair.

I think it'd be more accurate to describe it as "guzzling".
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 23, 2018 10:30 AM (XWkhW)


Yes, but "sipping" makes them sound more like the effete, ineffectual, limp-lame turdsicle-eaters they are.

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 10:33 AM (WDCYi)

430 I love pickled beets. MIL use to can pickled beets with onions. Yum!

She doesn't can anything anymore. She's now completely useless.....

Posted by: Tami at March 23, 2018 10:33 AM (Enq6K)

431 413. It does. It does indeed. True Slav respect and appreciate the beet and all good things it makes possible. Hate beets? Why don't you just slap babushka?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 23, 2018 10:33 AM (fA1SL)

432 What the hell style of art is that? There has to be a name.

Posted by: Burger Chef at March 23, 2018 10:33 AM (RuIsu)

433 I feel like the fantasy mom in A Christmas Story: Ralphie, what did we doooooooo ?

Posted by: Texican(ette) at March 23, 2018 10:33 AM (CjE8v)

434 Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:32 AM (k1TUh)

I don't entirely disagree, but if he signs this bill I think losing November becomes a very real possibility.

Not worth that risk.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 23, 2018 10:33 AM (72PAC)

435
She doesn't can anything anymore. She's now completely useless.....
Posted by: Tami at March 23, 2018 10:33 AM (Enq6K)

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Sounds like it's Ice Floe Time for her.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 10:34 AM (HiQSt)

436 my co-worker loves to drink beet juice in the office..he looks like a damn vampire drinking that red stuff and then talking to me with red stained teeth...

Posted by: IC at March 23, 2018 10:34 AM (a0IVu)

437 Soap .. Poisoning ..

Posted by: Ralphie at March 23, 2018 10:34 AM (QQ+il)

438 Whoa! "But is it art??"

Is this Naked Ottoman Guy's girlfriend?

Gotta heads-up my dancing daughter about this one.

Posted by: mindful webworker - doomed but still breathing at March 23, 2018 10:34 AM (PukHz)

439 My bread drawer has half a loaf of bread and five boxes of different Entenmann's products.

Priorities.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 23, 2018 10:31 AM (HiDrR)


Back when I was in college, and my metabolism could handle it, I could burn through a box of Entenmann's donuts in no time flat. Now they just have to be an occasional treat. Sigh...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 23, 2018 10:34 AM (+F0Wk)

440 What the hell style of art is that? There has to be a name.

Posted by: Burger Chef at March 23, 2018 10:33 AM


Disagreeable school of art.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 10:34 AM (LOgQ4)

441
What the hell style of art is that? There has to be a name.

Posted by: Burger Chef at March 23, 2018 10:33 AM (RuIsu)





The Emetic School

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 23, 2018 10:34 AM (XWkhW)

442 My bread drawer has half a loaf of bread and five boxes of different Entenmann's products.
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Pfft.

Posted by: Little Debbie snack cakes at March 23, 2018 10:35 AM (c/EDo)

443 I haven't been through since the flood. The last time I drove that way, I-20 was nothing but dirt. I hope they've finished the construction by now.
Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018

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I-20, at least near Shreveport, is fine. Once you get off of it onto state roads, or even onto the new-ish I49, you take your car's suspension into your hands. And I-49 runs on forever. Gently rolling hills, more gently rolling hills, a green exit sign, more gently rolling hills . . . and the air gets steadily warmer as you go south. Gah.

In case anybody is in any doubt, I live in this pesthole, and I dream of fleeing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 10:35 AM (ClOmq)

444 432 What the hell style of art is that? There has to be a name.
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 23, 2018 10:33 AM (RuIsu)

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Wal-Mart Socialist Realism

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 10:35 AM (HiQSt)

445 NOLA has the odor of a pile of rotting beets.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 10:35 AM (r9UYA)

446 it seemed like there was an article...

I left out "every day" in that sentence.

Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 10:35 AM (eIQHF)

447 Is it me, or does it look like our ballerina gal spent too much time 'in the night kitchen'.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 23, 2018 10:35 AM (W+vEI)

448 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 10:30 AM (ClOmq)

No I'm talking south Louisiana sans New Orleans. Sorry but I hate New Orleans and consider it totally separate from the rest of the State. You even got your own Brooklyn accent.

Lafayette, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge , New Iberia and the dozens of small towns surrounding them have a higher than usual harness factor IMO.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (2DOZq)

449 394 327 Lindsey Graham's comments this morning are significant. You can take it as a given that not only was there support in the Senate for this bill, there was a dedicated 2/3 majority in support of this spending bill, probably enough to override a veto.

The GOP-e is indistinguishable from the Dems when it comes to spending, and when it comes to the wall. The house is bit better than the senate, but not much as long as Ryan is in charge.

Trump has too many battles going on already. He's got to finish the one with the FBI and the CIA and the State Dep't before he can launch a war against what we have to admit is a Congress controlled by liberal democrats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM (k1TUh)


If they've already declared their overriding no matter what, then you absolutely HAVE to call Grahamnesty's bluff and make them all put it in writing.
Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (WDCYi)
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I started thinking about the override option as soon as he tweeted and said to myself "yep, there are enough GOPe squishes in the Senate to override.

If they do, the GOP is finished. They've porkbarrelled themselves into a corner.

Posted by: WisRich at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (G0vdT)

450 That "lone hacker" who stole the DNC emails???
Turns out "Gucifer" is actually a Russian military intelligence officer.and anyone conspiring with him is now another target for Mueller and closer to proving collusion.
Shocking ???

Posted by: Yup at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (FOWRt)

451 And that's just a small tidbit of how corrupt New Orleans was before Katrina.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:22 AM (k1TUh)

Chicago of the South.

The difference is in earlier days, Chicago had enough industry to attract people despite it's corruption. If you were a blue collar guy with a decent paying job at the meat-packing plant or in construction, you could overlook the shady dealings of city hall. Now that industry has dried up and Chi-town is left with gangbangers on the South Side, yuppies on the North Side and a flood of illegals. If they work they're doing jobs the white ethnics used to do.

But New Orleans never had heavy industry to offset the corruption. In some ways, it's more like a Caribbean city than an American one. Some very wealthy elites, lots of really poor people, massive corruption, an exotic atmosphere that attracts tourists (that makes it a cut above a complete shithole like Port au Prince) and good restaurants, but crime-ridden and a crumbling infrastructure.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (H80UQ)

452 looking for the wet spot

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (FZYNt)

453 435
She doesn't can anything anymore. She's now completely useless.....

Posted by: Tami at March 23, 2018 10:33 AM (Enq6K)

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Sounds like it's Ice Floe Time for her.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 23, 2018 10:34 AM (HiQSt)

Anyone know the weight limit on those things?

Posted by: Tami at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (Enq6K)

454 Harness = hotness . Autocorrect was trying to be funny.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (2DOZq)

455
Also keep in mind that Louisiana has at least five distinct parts. The three parts that people are probably aware of is Catholic South Louisiana , Bible Belt North Louisiana and New Orleans.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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So,, like turtle meat....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (mPeei)

456 If there is 2/3 to override the Donald should veto just to preserve his reputation. What's to lose?

Posted by: joncelli, going phalangist at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (RD7QR)

457 I took the day off. Time for more coffee and a cigar.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (MVjcR)

458 Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018 10:37 AM (QQ+il)

459 Help us, Gorilla Pundit, You're our only hope.

Even the JV Pundit.

Posted by: Blanco at March 23, 2018 10:37 AM (QGdDN)

460 I had friends who did oilfield work out of Morgan City, which is a grimy, dirty industrial town down near the Gulf. They used to say that if you went to a strip club in Morgan City, you needed to put 24 of the dancers together to get a full set of teeth.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:37 AM (k1TUh)

461 the office plant here is a Marble Queen Pothos. someone just watered it.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo


This time I'm going to let someone else make the obvious gag.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 10:32 AM (fuK7c)


I'll pass...

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at March 23, 2018 10:37 AM (+F0Wk)

462
458 Shut up, Dunce.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018 10:37 AM (QQ+il)
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ok.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:38 AM (MVjcR)

463 Happy Friday all!

Just read the Comment of the Day at another site:

Liberal commenter: "Does ANYONE not feel Hillary would be way safer than John Bolton?"

Conservative reply: "Chris Stevens, for one."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 23, 2018 10:38 AM (ptqGC)

464 Paul Ryan replaces all his shoe laces with licorice. In case he needs an emergency "carb up"

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:38 AM (2MIbC)

465 456 If there is 2/3 to override the Donald should veto just to preserve his reputation. What's to lose?"

In politics, losing only gives you a reputation for losing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:38 AM (k1TUh)

466
Sent my letter to the president at the White House website to veto the bill. I said "...paraphrasing one of the best political pundits out there, J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ..."

I really am a schmuck.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2018 10:38 AM (VM6ev)

467 ok.


Heh.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018 10:38 AM (QQ+il)

468 The one foot on the ground defeats my entire life's work.

Posted by: Galileo Galilei at March 23, 2018 10:38 AM (VWsDy)

469
Girthy ... and not in a good way!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 23, 2018 10:39 AM (pNxlR)

470 The NO council got paid off and approved AirBNB everywhere except the French Quarter. That will be the final nail in New Orleans coffin. All the neighborhoods are in the process of being bought out by northern money. The city is finished.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:39 AM (UBzPO)

471 Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Surfperch at March 23, 2018 10:39 AM (WTo7q)

472
looking for the wet spot

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (FZYNt)








You have a flour silo in your back yard?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 23, 2018 10:39 AM (XWkhW)

473 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2018 10:38 AM (VM6ev)
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I'd agree with that. No shit.

Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:39 AM (MVjcR)

474 This guy is good enough to illustrate an SJW line of Marvel Comics about a fat latina superhero. It's not really art though.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 23, 2018 10:39 AM (/qEW2)

475 In case anybody is in any doubt, I live in this pesthole, and I dream of fleeing.

I don't blame you. I lived there many years ago. Worst 2 years of my life.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 23, 2018 10:39 AM (zRZaJ)

476 The city is finished.


Can there be cleansing fire?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018 10:39 AM (QQ+il)

477 Lindsey Graham keeps a single serving packet both of muscle relaxers and personal lubrication on him at all times.

Milo Yanopolis can probably guess why.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:39 AM (2MIbC)

478 450
That "lone hacker" who stole the DNC emails???

Turns out "Gucifer" is actually a Russian military intelligence
officer.and anyone conspiring with him is now another target for
Mueller and closer to proving collusion.

Shocking ???
Posted by: Yup at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (FOWRt)

Yeah, top Russian hacker spy forgot to mask his Kremlin IP address. You betcha.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM (UBzPO)

479 410 I'm Pro Beet and I vote!
Posted by: Weasel at March 23, 2018 10:29 AM (MVjcR)
#metoo!

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM (0O7c5)

480 146
OK. Here is a disgusting thought.



Over the years I have put on extra pounds. I am 50 lbs overweight.
I am beginning to have trouble reaching around to wipe myself.



I have long arms too.



Every time I see an obese person, I am now thinking "That poor soul. Has to have help wiping up."





Posted by: JAS at March 23, 2018 09:45 AM (sCN2W)

Have you thought about using a rag on a stick? Perhaps rigging a squirter like one on the garden hose? Have a Joe Biden installed at the house? That way you don't have to actually reach it.Mean jesting aside; I wrenched my back a year ago and for 5 weeks or so, using terlit paper was a painful challenge. It took me 3 weeks to be able to tie my shoes.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM (JNTt1)

481 >>Sent my letter to the president at the White House website to veto the bill. I said "...paraphrasing one of the best political pundits out there, J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ..."

I really am a schmuck.



When can we expect you to start referring to yourself in the third person when posting and commenting here?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM (W+vEI)

482 Flake and Booker snowballing.

Hey, stay in your lane, guys

Posted by: Stormy at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM (VWsDy)

483 471 Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Surfperch at March 23, 2018 10:39 AM (WTo7q)

And just what the hell is THAT supposed to mean?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM (NWiLs)

484 Worst 2 years of my life.

Were you at Ft. Polk?

Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM (eIQHF)

485 Sent my letter to the president at the White House
website to veto the bill. I said "...paraphrasing one of the best
political pundits out there, J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ..."



I really am a schmuck.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2018 10:38 AM (VM6ev)


I keep waiting to get a "thank you" from Rush for the Deplorable Gourmet cookbook I sent him.

Waiting....and waiting....

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM (ptqGC)

486 Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:37 AM (k1TUh)

Good looking Louisiana girls have the good sense not to work the pole.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM (2DOZq)

487 Yeah, top Russian hacker spy forgot to mask his Kremlin IP address. You betcha.


Ssh. He's rolling.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM (QQ+il)

488 She looks like a mere skeleton of a woman.

Posted by: Michael Moore at March 23, 2018 10:41 AM (WTo7q)

489
If they've already declared their overriding no matter what, then you absolutely HAVE to call Grahamnesty's bluff and make them all put it in writing.
Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 10:26 AM (WDCYi)
------------

I started thinking about the override option as soon as he tweeted and said to myself "yep, there are enough GOPe squishes in the Senate to override.

If they do, the GOP is finished. They've porkbarrelled themselves into a corner.
Posted by: WisRich at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (G0vdT)

We now have... yes... a Cuckhold GOP Congress...

GOPe is the Husband... Dems are the one brought in...

And we are the Wife getting rogered...

Posted by: Don Q. at March 23, 2018 10:41 AM (NgKpN)

490 >>Have you thought about using a rag on a stick?

Rump swab.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 10:41 AM (r9UYA)

491 I started thinking about the override option as soon as he tweeted and said to myself "yep, there are enough GOPe squishes in the Senate to override.

If they do, the GOP is finished. They've porkbarrelled themselves into a corner.
Posted by: WisRich at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (G0vdT)

That may be the part of the calculation the GOP hasn't considered.
Sure, they'd like to neuter Trump by forcing him to sign a Porkulous that funds all the wrong things.

But Trump has only one way to increase his power and that is to veto. Every other way diminishes him.

Force them to override and call the Senate's bluff.
He holds his base, and those who choose to vote for override are exposed to the voters.

Could spell the end of the GOPe, in that it would outrage voters to the point of a bloodbath for the party.

I dunno, it's clear they want minority status. I don't know if they want to be hated.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 23, 2018 10:41 AM (z79tQ)

492 146
OK. Here is a disgusting thought.
Over the years I have put on extra pounds. I am 50 lbs overweight.
I am beginning to have trouble reaching around to wipe myself. I have long arms too. Every time I see an obese person, I am now thinking "That poor soul. Has to have help wiping up."

Posted by: JAS at March 23, 2018 09:45 AM (sCN2W)


This is why we have illegals to do the jobs Americans refuse to do...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2018 10:41 AM (VM6ev)

493 484 Worst 2 years of my life.

Were you at Ft. Polk?
Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM (eIQHF)

I will agree Leesville is a what dumps refer to as a dump.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (2DOZq)

494 Even if the senate overrides the veto, doesn't the house have to as well?

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (72PAC)

495 Report: French "Allah Akbar" supermarket hostage taker has killed 2 so far, has grenades, too.
https://tinyurl.com/yb5qwhsx

Posted by: KTbarthedoor at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (BVQ+1)

496 The Dems won't override the veto and go against Trump and those poor helpless DACA kids.

They are in a bind and they know it.

Luckily Low IQ Maxine Waters is on the case. Right now she's re-watching John Wick to learn the best moves for fighting the Russians.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (2MIbC)

497 Don't the Japanese make a ridiculously expensive toilet that washes you "down there?"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (ptqGC)

498 Every time I see an obese person, I am now thinking "That poor soul. Has to have help wiping up."
Posted by: JAS at March 23, 2018 09:45 AM (sCN2W)

Pretty sure that's what power washers are for

Posted by: IDK at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (VWsDy)

499 494 Even if the senate overrides the veto, doesn't the house have to as well?
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (72PAC)


I would think that it's 2/3 in both houses.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (VM6ev)

500 Luckily Low IQ Maxine Waters is on the case. Right now she's re-watching John Wick to learn the best moves for fighting the Russians.
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (2MIbC)

What happens when she forgets the movie 5 minutes after it finishes?

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 23, 2018 10:43 AM (72PAC)

501 490. Rump swab.
***
'Zat you, Mistah Carr?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 23, 2018 10:43 AM (fA1SL)

502 477 Lindsey Graham keeps a single serving packet both of muscle relaxers and personal lubrication on him at all times.

Milo Yanopolis can probably guess why.
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:39 AM (2MIbC)

Clandestine Bathhouse meetings with Black Jesus himself, former President Amyl Nitrate.

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 10:43 AM (WDCYi)

503 Were you at Ft. Polk?

Barksdale AFB.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 23, 2018 10:43 AM (zRZaJ)

504 497 Don't the Japanese make a ridiculously expensive toilet that washes you "down there?"
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (ptqGC)


The Joey Bidet...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2018 10:43 AM (VM6ev)

505 Aren't tutus specifically designed to cover the knuckle?

Posted by: Fritz at March 23, 2018 10:43 AM (2Mnv1)

506 Anyone gets a lap dance, I'm not cleaning it up. Just saying.

Posted by: Orson at March 23, 2018 10:43 AM (g4Q3w)

507
Report: French "Allah Akbar" supermarket hostage taker has killed 2 so far, has grenades, too.

https://tinyurl.com/yb5qwhsx

Posted by: KTbarthedoor at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (BVQ+1)


French are reporting he's rapidly assuming room temp. Done got shot.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 23, 2018 10:43 AM (ptqGC)

508 497 Don't the Japanese make a ridiculously expensive toilet that washes you "down there?"
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (ptqGC)

A Fatboy ??

Posted by: NIP at March 23, 2018 10:43 AM (VWsDy)

509 But New Orleans never had heavy industry to offset the corruption. In some ways, it's more like a Caribbean city than an American one. Some very wealthy elites, lots of really poor people, massive corruption, an exotic atmosphere that attracts tourists (that makes it a cut above a complete shithole like Port au Prince) and good restaurants, but crime-ridden and a crumbling infrastructure."

A few writers (John Barry, for one) have made the case over the years that New Orleans should have been the natural choice as the city to be the center of the growing Energy Industry during the 20th Century. But, they were insular and corrupt, focused inwardly on themselves and resistant to any newcomers with new money and new ways. So, the energy industry instead became based in Houston, which really had very little going for it 100 years ago. Now Houston is the 4th largest city in the US and one of the wealthiest cities in the world, while New Orleans is still just same old New Orleans, a bit worse for the wear.

Houston is what New Orleans should have been, but rejected.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (k1TUh)

510 456 If there is 2/3 to override the Donald should veto just to preserve his reputation. What's to lose?
Posted by: joncelli, going phalangist at March 23, 2018 10:36 AM (RD7QR)
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What's to lose?

If they do and get away with it, then have determined they can ignore Trump. That's not a good thing

Posted by: WisRich at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (G0vdT)

511
This is why we have illegals to do the jobs Americans refuse to do...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton


Groom of the stool?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (IqV8l)

512 But she's "healthy at any size"! Right? Right?

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (MX7xj)

513 490 >>Have you thought about using a rag on a stick?

Rump swab.
Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 10:41 AM (r9UYA)


*Note to self: call Q-Tip company*

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (VM6ev)

514 When can we expect you to start referring to yourself in the third person when posting and commenting here?


Rickey Henderson would approve.

Posted by: Rickey Henderson at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (QQ+il)

515 Don't the Japanese make a ridiculously expensive toilet that washes you "down there?"

I was in Nagoya for a week and was scared of the toilet.
DON'T PUSH ANY BUTTONS!!!

Posted by: Roland THTG at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (xBSm0)

516 500 Luckily Low IQ Maxine Waters is on the case. Right now she's re-watching John Wick to learn the best moves for fighting the Russians.
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (2MIbC)

What happens when she forgets the movie 5 minutes after it finishes?
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 23, 2018 10:43 AM (72PAC)

She'll threaten to impeach them.

Posted by: Surfperch at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (WTo7q)

517 Dream big, I guess.

Posted by: bluebell at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (oMtOd)

518
Could spell the end of the GOPe, in that it would outrage voters to the point of a bloodbath for the party.

I dunno, it's clear they want minority status. I don't know if they want to be hated.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 23, 2018 10:41 AM (z79tQ)

Yeah.... I can't see how angering your base... the very people who swept you into office...

Right before an election where you NEED a high turnout...

Is really good politics...

Posted by: Don Q. at March 23, 2018 10:45 AM (NgKpN)

519 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2018 10:42 AM (VM6ev)

That's what I thought.

Then let the uniparty tyrants in the sentate override the veto. As much as the GOPe house members may hate Trump, they HAVE to know that if they override his veto they are worse than toast in November.

Maybe they do hate him THAT much, but I think they lust for power more.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 23, 2018 10:45 AM (72PAC)

520 From the neck down, she resembles April Ryan.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2018 10:45 AM (VM6ev)

521
From the neck down, she resembles April Ryan.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2018 10:45 AM (VM6ev)


And Joy Reid.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 23, 2018 10:45 AM (ptqGC)

522
Paul Ryan replaces all his shoe laces with licorice. In case he needs an emergency "carb up"

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:38 AM (2MIbC)




Heh.

A guy from my old unit told a story about when he went through Ranger school. One of his classmates was always chewing, and the instructors were sure that he had pogy bait stashed in his gear. They'd rip everything apart trying to get at it.

Then they realized that he was only chewing after adjusting his bootlaces.

He'd replaced the laces with 550 cord, which was common. What wasn't common was that he replaced the inner strands with thin licorice strands.

Dood got a minus for eating pogy bait, but also got a plus for ingenuity.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 23, 2018 10:45 AM (XWkhW)

523 Every time I see an obese person, I am now thinking "That poor soul. Has to have help wiping up."
Posted by: JAS at March 23, 2018 09:45 AM (sCN2W) \

That's what I think when I see really jacked body builders. "How do they reach behind to wipe?"

Posted by: josephistan at March 23, 2018 10:45 AM (7HtZB)

524 some one mentioned "sous vide".....got one for Christmas.....i hate it.....the last straw was making soft boiled eggs.....it took.....4 hours to do what 2 min would achieve.....the ugly bland everything else sucked too....it's like the crossfitveganvegetariangainssolecycle of cooking

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 23, 2018 10:46 AM (0O7c5)

525
Jeebus.


WTF Dildo??

Posted by: fixerupper at March 23, 2018 10:46 AM (8XRCm)

526 Correlation or causation?
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 10:06 AM (LOgQ4)

Causation. I've lost 37 lbs on SouthBeach, which is low-carb, low-sugar (not exactly like Atkins or paleo, since it restricts fat intake - "good fats" only - and fruit, which contains sugar.)

I thought I would hit a plateau at some point but I'm still losing weight steadily. My body is responding well to the absence of carbs and sugar.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 23, 2018 10:46 AM (H80UQ)

527 511
This is why we have illegals to do the jobs Americans refuse to do...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Groom of the stool?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (IqV8l)


Bill Clinton on his wedding day.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2018 10:46 AM (VM6ev)

528 Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (k1TUh)

Funny that Galveston could have been that city if it were not for global warming and the Hurricanes it creates.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 10:46 AM (2DOZq)

529 525
Jeebus.




WTF Dildo??
Posted by: fixerupper at March 23, 2018 10:46 AM (8XRCm)
is she searching for it?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 23, 2018 10:46 AM (0O7c5)

530 511
This is why we have illegals to do the jobs Americans refuse to do...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Groom of the stool?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (IqV8l)

I'm glad we married her off, but I feel kinda bad for that poor guy.

Posted by: Father of the stool at March 23, 2018 10:47 AM (NWiLs)

531 revolting!

Posted by: CN at March 23, 2018 10:47 AM (5gaNQ)

532 French are reporting he's rapidly assuming room temp.


I once watched a guy get run over a lot in a way that made me pretty sure he was dead, but I ran out to stop traffic and check on him.

I was like, "ok, self, you're about to touch a dead guy" and I was bracing myself for him to be cold. It turned out that he had a pulse and was not at all dead.

It only occurred to me later that he would still have been warm. My brain does stupid things.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 10:47 AM (fuK7c)

533 >>>505 Aren't tutus specifically designed to cover the knuckle?
Posted by: Fritz at March 23, 2018 10:43 AM (2Mnv1)
_______
No, as I mentioned earlier, dance belts are for hiding that.

You ignorant savages know nothing about ballet

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:47 AM (2MIbC)

534 Barksdale AFB.

I had our son while we were stationed there. So, I have good memories. It was an easy drive to visit my parents down in TX too. They had just finished the riverwalk while we were there, but they were having trouble keeping tenants in the storefronts. Right before we left, the postal service stopped delivering mail to part of Shreveport because it was too dangerous. The residents kept shooting at each other.

Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 10:47 AM (eIQHF)

535 "You can take it as a given that not only was there support in the Senate for this bill, there was a dedicated 2/3 majority in support of this spending bill, probably enough to override a veto."
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 10:14 AM

When you understand debt slavery, you can interpret all governmental treason accordingly. The object is to continue to borrow money into existence. They know that once this stops, the treadmill will cease to turn and the debts will be called in. No Senatwhore or Congresscritter wants to be on watch when this happens. They know that the sheep will overreact and stretch their necks.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at March 23, 2018 10:48 AM (9BLnV)

536
Worst 2 years of my life.

Were you at Ft. Polk?
Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM (eIQHF)





*snicker*

I rotated through JRTC several years before the move to Ft Polk, when it was at Ft Chaffee, AR.

*sticks out tongue at the unfortunates*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 23, 2018 10:50 AM (XWkhW)

537 bump

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018 10:50 AM (QQ+il)

538 >>>522
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 23, 2018 10:45 AM (XWkhW)
______
That would seriously work?

Wow!

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:50 AM (2MIbC)

539 Fundamental problem with our political system is that while "leadership" has tremendous power /influence over what happens in the rest of the country, they are only accountable to their local constituency, which is almost certainly going to continue reelecting a powerful member.

Posted by: random lurker commenter at March 23, 2018 10:50 AM (zmD8S)

540 514 When can we expect you to start referring to yourself in the third person when posting and commenting here?


Rickey Henderson would approve.
Posted by: Rickey Henderson at March 23, 2018 10:44 AM (QQ+il)

"Bob Dole will have you know that's Bob Dole's schtick. Bob Dole won't stand for this! You'll be hearing from Bob Dole's attorneys!"

--Bob Dole

Posted by: Hikaru at March 23, 2018 10:50 AM (WDCYi)

541 Oh, yeah......and if yer visiting, just stay off Airline Drive.
Ex-wife had family in the Shreveport - Bossier area. He grandparents had a nice little house from the Before Times. Things.....changed, let us say.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 23, 2018 10:51 AM (fA1SL)

542 Armpit hair is a nice touch

Posted by: random lurker commenter at March 23, 2018 10:51 AM (zmD8S)

543 You ignorant savages know nothing about ballet


I repeat, you know nothing of my work.

You might also check on my colleague Molissa Fenley.

Posted by: Pina Bausch at March 23, 2018 10:51 AM (fuK7c)

544 She's going to need a knee replacement soon.

Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 10:51 AM (lwiT4)

545 Back to the painting but I'm sure someone pointed out what I just observed but that the reflection of the toe stand does not match the toe stand.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 10:51 AM (2DOZq)

546 476 The city is finished.


Can there be cleansing fire?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018

*
*
The city won't catch. Too damp.

To the person who said NO smells like rotting beets, I've never smelled that, but to me it has a wonderful aroma of rancid sweat, dead skunk, and rotted fish. Oh, and beer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 10:52 AM (ClOmq)

547 Ive actually begun using CDBs art postings as my daily sketching and painting prompt.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 23, 2018 09:37 AM

I've been using them for "visio divina" practice. This hasn't been a successful week, to put it mildly.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 23, 2018 10:52 AM (rp9xB)

548 524 some one mentioned "sous vide".....got one for Christmas.....i hate it.....the last straw was making soft boiled eggs.....it took.....4 hours to do what 2 min would achieve.....the ugly bland everything else sucked too....it's like the crossfitveganvegetariangainssolecycle of cooking
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 23, 2018 10:46 AM (0O7c5)

Same thing here! I kept thinking "why am I spending 4 or 6 hours to cook veggies and eggs when the results taste no better?"

I thought steaks were pretty good - but you have to sear them at the end so you're not eating gray meat. It's an unnecessary complication of what is normally a pretty easy thing - just throwing steaks on the grill.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 23, 2018 10:52 AM (H80UQ)

549 No good deed. Sounds like you may have been there around the same time as me. I remember vaguely the river walk and believe it was completed before I left. I actually lived in Shreveport, ex-husband was stationed at Barksdale but for some reason we lived off base. I hated it there.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 23, 2018 10:53 AM (zRZaJ)

550 Roller derby queen does ballet. Who knew?

Posted by: BluesFish at March 23, 2018 10:53 AM (YKCpP)

551 Don't the Japanese make a ridiculously expensive toilet that washes you "down there?"


It's a very smart move on their part. It could help with caretaking for the elderly/infirm. Japan is running out of people and their solution is not increased immigration, but increased automation.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 23, 2018 10:53 AM (/qEW2)

552 545 Back to the painting but I'm sure someone pointed out what I just observed but that the reflection of the toe stand does not match the toe stand.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

she needs a kick stand

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 23, 2018 10:53 AM (FZYNt)

553 To the person who said NO smells like rotting beets, I've never smelled that, but to me it has a wonderful aroma of rancid sweat, dead skunk, and rotted fish. Oh, and beer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 10:52 AM (ClOmq)

You forgot the urine and vomit smells.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 10:53 AM (NWiLs)

554 >>539 Fundamental problem with our political system is that while "leadership" has tremendous power /influence over what happens in the rest of the country, they are only accountable to their local constituency, which is almost certainly going to continue reelecting a powerful member.

Didn't work out so well for me.

Posted by: Eric Cantor at March 23, 2018 10:53 AM (r9UYA)

555
538 >>>522
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 23, 2018 10:45 AM (XWkhW)
______
That would seriously work?

Wow!

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:50 AM (2MIbC)




That's the story. Although, it may have been told to a bunch of guys who were just about to go through the Combat Leaders Course (often thought of in those days as the "pre-Ranger course") as a trap.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 23, 2018 10:53 AM (XWkhW)

556 The chick in the pic is part of a group of acrobats.....


The Gorging Wallendas !

Posted by: JT at March 23, 2018 10:53 AM (PJlYI)

557 Have you thought about using a rag on a stick?

Rump swab.
Posted by: Under Fire at March 23, 2018 10:41 AM (r9UYA)


*Note to self: call Q-Tip company*

Posted by: J.J. Sefton



Back to Roman times.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:53 AM (TUUTu)

558
This guy is good enough to illustrate an SJW line of Marvel Comics about a fat latina superhero.


And shill for diabetes' supplies by mail services.

Red Sonia Sotomayor!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 23, 2018 10:53 AM (pNxlR)

559 Ain't seen legs like that since the pool table in my grandparents basement

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 23, 2018 10:54 AM (FZYNt)

560 Huey P. Long was Donald Trump a hundred years ago. Good chance he could've been President had he not been killed.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:54 AM (UBzPO)

561 My 1st trip to N.O. we took the Amtrak from Atlanta. Hopped a cab from the train station and 45 minutes and 50 bucks later we were on Bourbon St. Got to talking with a bartender and told him about our trip down on the train and how much of the city we got to see on the ride over in the cab. He laughed and said the train station is less then a mile from the bar and that was a common tactic of the cabbies.

Posted by: Tentotwo at March 23, 2018 10:54 AM (yhf6w)

562 Don't the Japanese make a ridiculously expensive toilet that washes you "down there?"


It's a very smart move on their part. It could help with caretaking for the elderly/infirm. Japan is running out of people and their solution is not increased immigration, but increased automation.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear



Robot wiper.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:55 AM (TUUTu)

563 So, the energy industry instead became based in Houston, which really had very little going for it 100 years ago.

I don't know if I buy that. Proximity and timing probably has more to do with it. Beaumont was home to the first Gulf Coast gusher, and Texaco had an office in Houston as early as 1913 I think.

Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 10:55 AM (eIQHF)

564 560 Huey P. Long was Donald Trump a hundred years ago. Good chance he could've been President had he not been killed.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:54 AM (UBzPO)

You think Trump is a crooked socialist tyrant?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 10:55 AM (2DOZq)

565 I've been thinking of a sous vide, maybe one of those immersion ones
Problem is the family thinks rare is icky


Chef steps time and temp guide for sous vide:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/na33m84

You don't have to stick to rare, at all. Also, for steaks you want to finish it even if you do like rare. You can do cast iron, a searsall blowtorch, or even my favorite, a charcoal chimney that's still flaming hot.

Also, don't do butter in the sous vide bag. Tons of people will tell you to do it, but I've done extensive taste testing with myself and others, universally they all pick the steak with no butter in the bag as the better steak.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 10:55 AM (iv0p7)

566 553 To the person who said NO smells like rotting beets, I've never smelled that, but to me it has a wonderful aroma of rancid sweat, dead skunk, and rotted fish. Oh, and beer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 10:52 AM (ClOmq)

You forgot the urine and vomit smells.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018

*
*
Masked by the skunk, no doubt.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 10:56 AM (ClOmq)

567 >>>Back to the painting but I'm sure someone pointed
out what I just observed but that the reflection of the toe stand does
not match the toe stand.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth<<<

Neither does the odd looking hand-in-the-air.

Posted by: Fritz at March 23, 2018 10:56 AM (2Mnv1)

568 I estimate that board she's standing on is being subjected to around 2,000 pounds of pressure.

Perhaps this is where she was standing when that FIU bridge collapsed.

Also, her toe must be made out of Carbonite.

Lastly, thank you, artist, for the lack of moosetoe.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 23, 2018 10:57 AM (0ogQG)

569 544 She's going to need a knee replacement soon.
Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 10:51 AM (lwiT)


She's gonna have to replace that floor too. Dancing en pointe would be basically like using a jackhammer.

All the liddle bones of the foot go smoosh!

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 23, 2018 10:57 AM (CPk08)

570 I hated it there.

We lived in Bossier City right outside of the gate on Airline. I liked listening to the B-52s spin up. We were there when 8th AF HQ caught fire from a lightning strike.

Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 10:57 AM (eIQHF)

571 Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 10:55 AM (eIQHF)

Houston would not be what is today if Galveston wasn't destroyed in 1900.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 10:57 AM (2DOZq)

572 Speaking of washing the nether-areas, have you ever watched "My 600 lb.Life"?

The significant others always have to take care of that (literal) crap. Saw one episode where the husband/boyfriend had to hose the blimp down on the back porch every other day because she couldn't fit in the shower.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 23, 2018 10:57 AM (HiDrR)

573 speaking of Caribbean shitholes, Puerto Rico still has 115000 people without power. although San Juan are hosting conferences. Winter Cancer Symposium at La Concha now. eMedEvents.com.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 23, 2018 10:57 AM (FJM5p)

574 Didn't work out so well for me.
Posted by: Eric Cantor at March 23, 2018 10:53 AM (r9UYA)

Hence the "almost".

Only recourse the rest of the country has is to donate to opponents and I think I have seen where it is possible to phone bank remotely.

Posted by: random lurker commenter at March 23, 2018 10:58 AM (zmD8S)

575 You think Trump is a crooked socialist tyrant?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 10:55 AM (2DOZq)

Don't confuse Huey Long with the rest of the Long family that came after him. Louisiana would still have all dirt roads if it weren't for him.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:58 AM (UBzPO)

576 Don't confuse Huey Long with the rest of the Long family that came after him. Louisiana would still have all dirt roads if it weren't for him.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans

I need a new drug

Posted by: Huey Lewis at March 23, 2018 10:58 AM (FZYNt)

577 Neither does the odd looking hand-in-the-air.
Posted by: Fritz at March 23, 2018 10:56 AM (2Mnv1)


Homage to Degas, down to the color scheme.

(And by "homage" I mean "hate fuck").

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 23, 2018 10:58 AM (CPk08)

578 572 Speaking of washing the nether-areas, have you ever watched "My 600 lb.Life"?

The significant others always have to take care of that (literal) crap. Saw one episode where the husband/boyfriend had to hose the blimp down on the back porch every other day because she couldn't fit in the shower.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 23, 2018

*
*
TLC used to be called "The Learning Channel." Nowadays it's more like "The Loser Channel."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 10:59 AM (ClOmq)

579 >>>543
I repeat, you know nothing of my work.

You might also check on my colleague Molissa Fenley.
Posted by: Pina Bausch at March 23, 2018 10:51 AM (fuK7c)
____________
I know virtually nothing about watching ballet. I never even watched black swan movie.when it was out.

I did know a crazy Russian girl a few years back who dancef professionally. Learned a few things. She was completely nuts, had a copy of fucking Mein Kampf and also wished the Soviet Union would come back to power b/c Stalin was dreamy. Didn't see the contradiction. Or didn't want to. Very hot though.

Are those ones you mentioned famous for showing the goods or something?

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:59 AM (2MIbC)

580 The significant others always have to take care of
that (literal) crap. Saw one episode where the husband/boyfriend had to
hose the blimp down on the back porch every other day because she
couldn't fit in the shower.



Posted by: IrishEi at March 23, 2018 10:57 AM (HiDrR)
================

What a sad way to live.

Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 10:59 AM (lwiT4)

581 speaking of Caribbean shitholes, Puerto Rico still has 115000 people without power.



Is that the same 115,000 who refused to pay their bill before the hurricane?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 10:59 AM (TUUTu)

582 Pocket veto. He's still got the pocket veto. Look at the congressional calendar. Both houses go into recess on Monday.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 23, 2018 10:59 AM (fA1SL)

583 Right before we left, the postal service stopped delivering mail to part of Shreveport because it was too dangerous. The residents kept shooting at each other.

Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 10:47 AM (eIQHF)

Augh, lived in Shreveport during my formative years (junior high). Hated every part of it. Thank God we returned to Texas.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 23, 2018 11:00 AM (MX7xj)

584 580 The significant others always have to take care of
that (literal) crap. Saw one episode where the husband/boyfriend had to
hose the blimp down on the back porch every other day because she
couldn't fit in the shower.



Posted by: IrishEi at March 23, 2018 10:57 AM (HiDrR)
================

What a sad way to live.
Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 10:59 AM (lwiT4)

You mean big, fat and fabulous?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:00 AM (NWiLs)

585 I know virtually nothing about watching ballet. I never even watched black swan movie.when it was out.

I did know a crazy Russian girl a few years back who dancef professionally. Learned a few things. She was completely nuts, had a copy of fucking Mein Kampf and also wished the Soviet Union would come back to power b/c Stalin was dreamy. Didn't see the contradiction. Or didn't want to. Very hot though.

Are those ones you mentioned famous for showing the goods or something?
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 10:59 AM (2MIbC)


I really love ballet. But yeah, most dancers are completely nuts.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 23, 2018 11:00 AM (CPk08)

586 Good Lord, I haven't thought about that part of my life in years. My oldest daughter was only 7 months old when we moved there. She's 44 now and has given me 3 grand kids and 2 great grand kids.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 23, 2018 11:00 AM (zRZaJ)

587 Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:58 AM (UBzPO)

Huey Long was a huge Socialist. I don't know what they teach you in New Orleans. And dont make me list the other tyrants who built roads.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 11:01 AM (2DOZq)

588 Look at the congressional calendar. Both houses go into recess on Monday.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 23, 2018 10:59 AM (fA1SL)
==============

Yeah. They can't wait to observe Holy Week.

/

Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 11:01 AM (lwiT4)

589 Cliff Notes version of sous vide:

So, how does sous vide work? And why is it so much better than traditional cooking methods for some foods? Allow us to explain. With traditional cooking methods, heat flows from a burner to a pan then into our food, or the glowing elements of an oven heat the air around the food, cooking it. Because the air in the oven and the metal in the pan are much hotter than you want your food to be, you’ve got to take it away from the heat at just the right time. Take it off too early or too late and your food is either over- or undercooked. But when cooking with water, instead of an oven or a pan, we can raise the temperature just enough to get the food to the exact temperatures we prefer. We can take it out as soon as it's done cooking, or let it rest in the water until we’re ready to eat—no more obsessively checking inside the oven, no more chaining yourself to the stove.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 11:01 AM (LOgQ4)

590 I've decided to look on the bright side. If the Rethugs lose the House and/or Senate this fall, It'll be because they fvcking deserve it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 23, 2018 11:01 AM (+y/Ru)

591 580 The significant others always have to take care of
that (literal) crap. Saw one episode where the husband/boyfriend had to
hose the blimp down on the back porch every other day because she
couldn't fit in the shower.


IT'S HORMONES !

Posted by: Human Blimp at March 23, 2018 11:01 AM (r9UYA)

592
Huey P. Long was Donald Trump a hundred years ago. Good chance he could've been President had he not been killed.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans


Huey was a proponent of the "maximum wage" just like Keith Ellison.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2018 11:01 AM (IqV8l)

593 You forgot the urine and vomit smells."

yeah - especially Bourbon Street always has that aroma hanging over it. Mixed with that sickly sweet smell of spilled Hurricanes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 11:02 AM (k1TUh)

594 You mean big, fat and fabulous?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:00 AM (NWiLs)

That woman is a horrible person.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 23, 2018 11:03 AM (MX7xj)

595 588. Brilliant, though. He doesn't have to do a damned thing. Just let it land and die on his desk. This then forces them to do a veto override. And the genius is, he doesnt have to lift a finger.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 23, 2018 11:03 AM (fA1SL)

596 Worst 2 years of my life.

Were you at Ft. Polk?
Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM



I spent a lifetime one weekend at Ft Polk in 1966. I was just a kid. Gawd...what an eye-opener!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2018 11:03 AM (0tfLf)

597 You mean big, fat and fabulous?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:00 AM (NWiLs)
===============

I watched that 600 lb show a couple of times. The person would tell their family members to go out and get them fried chicken, doritos, ice cream, cookies - tons of food. And the family members would do it!

I don't understand that at all.

Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 11:03 AM (lwiT4)

598 My property in Montana is already tied up in dental floss.
Posted by: Farmer Frank at March 23, 2018 10:23 AM


At least you've gotten to see Montana.

Posted by: Capt. Vasili Borodin at March 23, 2018 11:04 AM (ctuyM)

599 593 You forgot the urine and vomit smells."

yeah - especially Bourbon Street always has that aroma hanging over it. Mixed with that sickly sweet smell of spilled Hurricanes.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 11:02 AM (k1TUh)

The place is just disgusting. I will never understand the attraction it holds for so many people.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:04 AM (NWiLs)

600
It took me 3 weeks to be able to tie my shoes.

Posted by: Bonecrusher
___________

It took me longer than that to find my shoes....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 23, 2018 11:04 AM (mPeei)

601 Are those ones you mentioned famous for showing the goods or something?


Yeah, Pina Bausch is a German choreographer ex-dancer whose stagings often include loose fitting clothing that the dancers fall out of. See Tanztheater Wupperthal, Rite of Spring (le Sacre du Printemps).

Molissa Fenley is a modern dancer choreographer whom I was privileged to see doing her famous topless thing in the 80s in NYC.

Because I'm an appreciator of the arts.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 23, 2018 11:04 AM (fuK7c)

602 I'm about to dump this British TV show....every damn episode lately has a gay couple in it....every.damn.one.

Posted by: Tami at March 23, 2018 11:04 AM (Enq6K)

603 From Drudge: CNN will veer left.

How?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 23, 2018 11:04 AM (+y/Ru)

604 The place is just disgusting. I will never understand the attraction it holds for so many people.


They had a nice zoo.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018 11:04 AM (QQ+il)

605 597 You mean big, fat and fabulous?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:00 AM (NWiLs)
===============

I watched that 600 lb show a couple of times. The person would tell their family members to go out and get them fried chicken, doritos, ice cream, cookies - tons of food. And the family members would do it!

I don't understand that at all.
Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 11:03 AM (lwiT4)

Same reasons for buying booze for an alcoholic, I assume.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:05 AM (NWiLs)

606 I watched that 600 lb show a couple of times. The
person would tell their family members to go out and get them fried
chicken, doritos, ice cream, cookies - tons of food. And the family
members would do it!

I don't understand that at all.


Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 11:03 AM (lwiT4)
I'm sort of addicted to it - love the Dr. though, he tells it to them straight.

Posted by: IC at March 23, 2018 11:05 AM (a0IVu)

607 some one mentioned "sous vide".....got one for Christmas.....i hate it.....the last straw was making soft boiled eggs.....it took.....4 hours to do what 2 min would achieve.....the ugly bland everything else sucked too....it's like the crossfitveganvegetariangainssolecycle of cooking

My steaks are as good as John Howie.

Cut open any steak at home or at even a moderately good steak house. There will be a grey band around the perfect pink middle. My steaks don't have that. Edge to edge perfection.

Sure it takes an hour to cook, but all it takes is a tiny bit of planning. I put in water in the tank in the morning and can heat it up from an app on my phone. Then an hour before I'm ready for my perfect steak, I toss it in the water.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 11:05 AM (iv0p7)

608 What a sad way to live.
Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 10:59 AM
~~~~~

It really is. Not surprisingly, many of these people reveal that they were abused as children or had other terrible things happen to them, like the death of a parent, which was the impetus for their overeating.

And sadly, many, if not most of them, don't make it.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 23, 2018 11:05 AM (HiDrR)

609 Thank God we returned to Texas.

I think my mom is regretting moving from TX to LA a little bit because of the roads and the bullshit the parishes pull with repairs. They'll poor mouth about how they don't have funds for repairs but have the same guys come out to "fix a bridge" 5 times because they don't do it correctly the first time.

Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 11:05 AM (eIQHF)

610 I'd hit it

Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 23, 2018 11:05 AM (FZYNt)

611 OMG. Zell Miller has died.

My husband went to school with his two sons, and has known the Millers for a long time.

Zell spoke at a dinner here years ago, and he was a fiesty old guy.

I gifted a Give 'Em Zell! button I was wearing to Brent Bozell.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 23, 2018 11:05 AM (ptqGC)

612 594 You mean big, fat and fabulous?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:00 AM (NWiLs)

That woman is a horrible person.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 23, 2018 11:03 AM (MX7xj)

Yup. A wretched human being.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:05 AM (NWiLs)

613 596 Worst 2 years of my life.

Were you at Ft. Polk?
Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 10:40 AM


I spent a lifetime one weekend at Ft Polk in 1966. I was just a kid. Gawd...what an eye-opener!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2018 11:03 AM (0tfLf)

I may have seen you there. Once a month I would travel with my father from Lake Charles to the Ft Polk PX to shop and buy cartons of tax free cigarettes.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 11:06 AM (2DOZq)

614 587 Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 10:58 AM (UBzPO)

Huey Long was a huge Socialist. I don't know what they teach you in New Orleans. And dont make me list the other tyrants who built roads.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018

*
*
Anybody who has as his campaign slogans "Share the Wealth" and "A Chicken in Every Pot" is probably somewhere to the left of Trump -- though maybe not as far to the left as Bernie Sanders is. Long pushed Airline Highway, U.S. 61, through from Baton Rouge to New Orleans so he could drive easily down to NO and party, which included gambling. True, the Long name was gold in Loozyana for a very long time after his death. The rural people especially believed in him. But as he himself said, "God help Loozyana if I die; my rascals will steal the state blind."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 11:06 AM (ClOmq)

615 I guess the Vatican is veering left, too:

Vatican Cracks Down on Critics of Pope...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 23, 2018 11:06 AM (+y/Ru)

616 I'm sort of addicted to it - love the Dr. though, he tells it to them straight.

Posted by: IC at March 23, 2018 11:05 AM (a0IVu)

He used to be kind of milquetoast, and then one day he kind of "snapped". He doesn't put up with any sh*t anymore. He's pretty cool.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 23, 2018 11:06 AM (MX7xj)

617 608. A shutdown is not at all a bad thing, comes to that.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 23, 2018 11:06 AM (fA1SL)

618 Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 23, 2018 11:03 AM (fA1SL)

I wonder if Rand Paul was actively cooperating with Trump by going on his Twitter rant yesterday listing all the crap hidden in the bill.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 23, 2018 11:06 AM (rp9xB)

619 >>>585
I really love ballet. But yeah, most dancers are completely nuts.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 23, 2018 11:00 AM (CPk0
_________
Why is that? You must have your shit together in order to maintain the physique needed for dancing. There's a huge amount of self.control needed.

I've volunteered in ghetto homeless shelters before. Most crazy people have zero impulse control and couldn't organize a trip to the grocery store. Not hyperbole.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 11:06 AM (2MIbC)

620 It's cute, but the image in the mirror doesn't quite match up to the big dancer.

Posted by: Obama waving from Martha's Vineyard at March 23, 2018 11:07 AM (Y8+tJ)

621 The most horrifying artwork yet. HR Giger would be easier on the eyes.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 23, 2018 11:07 AM (toi7g)

622
I'm ready for my perfect steak, I toss it in the water.

Steak on the water
A fire in the sky

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2018 11:07 AM (IqV8l)

623 617 608. A shutdown is not at all a bad thing, comes to that.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 23, 2018 11:06 AM (fA1SL)

I agree. I don't get the hair on fire reaction some people have to a government "shutdown," which isn't really a shutdown anyway.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:07 AM (NWiLs)

624 Huey P. Long was Donald Trump a hundred years ago. Good chance he could've been President had he not been killed. "

He got killed by his own bodyguards, accidentally. Fun story -years ago, I was on a trip through Baton Rouge, took my grade school aged daughter on a short tour of the State Capitol (beautiful building) and we were in the vestibule just off the main lobby, and this man walks out of an office, see us looking at a picture of Huey L, and says "yeah, this is where that cat got himself shot". You can still see all the pockmarks in the marble walls of that room, they're everywhere. So he tells a bit of the history on the shooting, then takes us over to the House Chamber and shows it to us, and then said "well, I got to get to work, very nice talking to you!" He never introduced himself, but on leaving I looked up at some picture of the current leadership, and realized it was the current Louisiana Speaker of the House. A very nice treat!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 11:07 AM (k1TUh)

625 Huey Long was a huge Socialist. I don't know what
they teach you in New Orleans. And dont make me list the other tyrants
who built roads.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 11:01 AM (2DOZq)

He was more of a populist. It's difficult to understand him without the context of the Great Depression and the shape Louisiana had been in for decades leading up to it. To just dismiss him outright with a socialist label is a mistake. There's much to learn since we're headed straight for another Depression.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 11:07 AM (UBzPO)

626 Somebody supersized Degas.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 23, 2018 11:08 AM (WSDXt)

627 619 >>>585
I really love ballet. But yeah, most dancers are completely nuts.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 23, 2018 11:00 AM (CPk0
_________
Why is that? You must have your shit together in order to maintain the physique needed for dancing. There's a huge amount of self.control needed.

I've volunteered in ghetto homeless shelters before. Most crazy people have zero impulse control and couldn't organize a trip to the grocery store. Not hyperbole.
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 11:06 AM (2MIbC)

There are plenty of driven people with raging personality disorders.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:08 AM (NWiLs)

628 Say what you want, CBD has stretched the frontier of the Art Thread today.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 23, 2018 11:09 AM (ctuyM)

629 Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

Posted by: Kim Jong-fu at March 23, 2018 11:09 AM (artIV)

630 Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 11:03 AM (lwiT4)

I don't either, although I guess "normalcy bias" could be in effect and they don't really *see* what the person they claim to love, and are killing, has become.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 23, 2018 11:09 AM (rp9xB)

631 Say what you want, CBD has stretched the frontier of the Art Thread today.


Like a Fun House mirror.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018 11:09 AM (QQ+il)

632 I'm sort of addicted to it

Me too. I'm also addicted to Hoarders. I use those shows to jumpstart my diet and to motivate me to clean the house.

Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 11:09 AM (eIQHF)

633 I don't understand that at all.
Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 11:03 AM (lwiT4)

Nor do I. No different than an alcoholic's family running out to buy them booze everyday.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 23, 2018 11:10 AM (H80UQ)

634 This thread is grinding to a halt.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 11:10 AM (iv0p7)

635 Don't know why, but this reminds me of the 1930s-type 'heroic socialist workers'. Cartoon images, I guess.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 23, 2018 11:11 AM (MIKMs)

636 632 I'm sort of addicted to it

Me too. I'm also addicted to Hoarders. I use those shows to jumpstart my diet and to motivate me to clean the house.
Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 11:09 AM (eIQHF)

Intervention is a good one to remind you to say no to drugs.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:11 AM (NWiLs)

637 Re 600 lb life, yeah, the stories are pretty bad - childhood sexual abuse etc. - its sad and I always root for them to make it through and regain their health and self esteem.

Posted by: IC at March 23, 2018 11:11 AM (a0IVu)

638 I saw that someone named Delaforce is trapped in the Phantom Zone.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018 11:11 AM (QQ+il)

639 I think the ballerina scared off the monkey.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 23, 2018 11:11 AM (72PAC)

640 (444) See cover art for "Shoot: On the Frontier.
As usual, I have the vinyl around here somewhere.

Posted by: Burger Chef at March 23, 2018 11:11 AM (RuIsu)

641 Old and busted: juvenile delinquents

New hotness: toddler delinquents

SHOCK SUIT: Kindergartners SODOMIZE classmate, record on iPad...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 23, 2018 11:11 AM (+y/Ru)

642 Hoarders depresses me to no end. I can't watch it.

Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 11:11 AM (lwiT4)

643 633 I don't understand that at all.
Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 11:03 AM (lwiT4)

Nor do I. No different than an alcoholic's family running out to buy them booze everyday.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 23, 2018 11:10 AM (H80UQ)

Codependency.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:11 AM (NWiLs)

644 Hoarders depresses me to no end. I can't watch it.

Posted by: grammie winger - next week: Baseball for Realz! - at March 23, 2018 11:11 AM (lwiT4)

Ditto. So sad.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 23, 2018 11:12 AM (MX7xj)

645 some one mentioned "sous vide".....got one for Christmas.....i hate it.....the last straw was making soft boiled eggs.....it took.....4 hours to do what 2 min would achieve.....the ugly bland everything else sucked too....it's like the crossfitveganvegetariangainssolecycle of cooking

Posted by: phoenixgirl


13 minutes at 167 degrees for a soft boiled egg for a recipe like eggs benedict. I just made one. It was nearly perfect. I might go a tad longer.

But using sous vide process for eggs is like buying a car for the sole purpose of driving to the mailbox to check the mail. Sure you can do it, but it's probably faster to just walk.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 11:12 AM (LOgQ4)

646 I have lots of stuff. But I don't have garbage in my house. That's what freaks me out about the Hoarder shows.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 23, 2018 11:12 AM (QQ+il)

647 Long pushed Airline Highway, U.S. 61, through from
Baton Rouge to New Orleans so he could drive easily down to NO and
party, which included gambling. True, the Long name was gold in
Loozyana for a very long time after his death. The rural people
especially believed in him. But as he himself said, "God help Loozyana
if I die; my rascals will steal the state blind."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2018 11:06 AM (ClOmq)

When Long was first elected Governor there were 400 miles of paved roads in Louisiana. Four years later there were 4,000 miles of paved roads.

Today they can't even add an extra lane to one mile of interstate in that time. Would I vote for him today? No, but his historical significance is important. He shook things up when he went to DC.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 11:12 AM (UBzPO)

648 Clint Eastwood's son is so handsome...photo on Drudge..

Posted by: IC at March 23, 2018 11:12 AM (a0IVu)

649 Well, she certainly doesn't spend much time at the salad bar.

But shouldn't it be Dancers at the Barre?

Posted by: WarEagle82 at March 23, 2018 11:12 AM (xUc0d)

650 Hoarders helps me rationalize that my messy domestic environs really ain't so bad.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:13 AM (NWiLs)

651 Funny how one letter can make a difference ... Botero, and you get today's painting.

Bolero, and you get music that ranks up there with Barry White in efficacy.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 23, 2018 11:13 AM (ctuyM)

652 Oh, and how Huey's bodyguards accidentally killed him - Huey had a thing about making himself look like Al Capone, he always kept two bodyguards with him who openly carried .45 caliber Thompson machine guns. It made him quite a sight! So they were in this rather small marble lined vestibule when Carl Weiss, a physician, walked up carrying a small .38 caliber pistol. It's doubtful whether or not Weiss ever fired, because upon seeing him, the two bodyguards with Tommy guns cut loose. It's a small room, who can still see the bullet pock marks all over it - 45 caliber bullets were richocheting everywhere. Weiss was killed instantly, Long died later.

The bullet that killed Huey was removed and subsequently disappeared - because it was a 45 caliber, not a 38.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 11:13 AM (k1TUh)

653 643. It's an overused but correct term. The people supporting an addict are every bit as addicted as their loved one.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 23, 2018 11:13 AM (fA1SL)

654 He never introduced himself, but on leaving I looked
up at some picture of the current leadership, and realized it was the
current Louisiana Speaker of the House. A very nice treat!
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 11:07 AM (k1TUh)

How soon did you realize your wallet was missing?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 23, 2018 11:13 AM (UBzPO)

655 From the previous thread:

"I'm in IL and what little reason I had to maintain GOP registration for
primaries just evaporated when Ives lost to Rauner...who prefers to vote
for the social issues of his Democrat wife rather than keep his
promises.



I'm supporting Trump, but I'm also registering independent."

I live in IL and have registered to vote at least half a dozen times in 5 different counties over the past 30+ years. Not once have I ever been asked to state a party affiliation at the time of registration, or been obligated to stick to that party affiliation.

In IL primary elections you do have to choose either the Republican or Democratic ballot, and which ballot you took is part of your voting record. It was my understanding that you are free to choose either the Republican or Democrat (or other party if there is one) ballot in a primary regardless of how you have voted in the past. Since independents, by definition, don't belong to a party and wouldn't have primaries, how would you register as one? Am I missing something here?

Posted by: Secret Square at March 23, 2018 11:13 AM (+HoK2)

656 Monkey up

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2018 11:14 AM (TUUTu)

657 636 632 I'm sort of addicted to it

Me too. I'm also addicted to Hoarders. I use those shows to jumpstart my diet and to motivate me to clean the house.
Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 11:09 AM (eIQHF)

Intervention is a good one to remind you to say no to drugs.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 23, 2018 11:11 AM (NWiLs)

Not to start the long bow crossbow opiate debate but I see the same type of denials and stories from my Workers comp 'chronic pain' claimants as the people in that show.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 23, 2018 11:14 AM (2DOZq)

658 Intervention is a good one to remind you to say no to drugs.

I watch it too. It's more for pointers for dealing with my brother, sadly.

Posted by: no good deed at March 23, 2018 11:14 AM (eIQHF)

659 I don't understand that at all.

Ever get locked in a battle of wills with a toddler?

Now imagine you've been locked in the same battle of wills for decades, and they have the adult mental capacity for effective threats and manipulation added in.

I think most of us would last a few years before breaking down and just giving in, but I don't think any of us could avoid that forever.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 11:15 AM (iv0p7)

660 I predict there will be a fast food restaurant chain using sous vide to produce medium rare hamburgers.

Due to the regulations and threats of lawsuits, companies like Burger King that used to make a decent product years ago now produce dry, intensely overcooked meat patties.

Using sous vide, they can precisely put the burger to temperature, keeping it in the medium rare range, then do a quick sear on the outside for flavor.

Posted by: Jwest at March 23, 2018 11:15 AM (/roJx)

661 SHOCK SUIT: Kindergartners SODOMIZE classmate, record on iPad...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler


Couple that with the guy who got shot in his backyard holding an iPhone and someone has to stand up to big Apple products. Mandatory waiting periods, age requirements, background checks!!!

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 11:15 AM (LOgQ4)

662 Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 11:06 AM (2MIbC)

People only have a finite amount of will-power and then it has to be replenished. It could be that they are very together in their narrow endeavor, but that intense level of focus leaves them nothing for the rest of day-to-day life.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 23, 2018 11:15 AM (rp9xB)

663 >>>634 This thread is grinding to a halt.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 23, 2018 11:10 AM (iv0p7)
_______
Did somebody say grinding?

Posted by: Anthony Weiner - still dancing for dollars at March 23, 2018 11:15 AM (2MIbC)

664 Why is that? You must have your shit together in order to maintain the physique needed for dancing. There's a huge amount of self.control needed. "

actually crystal meth is well known for killing the appetite completely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 11:15 AM (k1TUh)

665 The most horrifying artwork yet. HR Giger would be easier on the eyes.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 23, 2018 11:07 AM (toi7g)


========

Despite the subject matter, Giger is beautiful and interesting in his own way. This is just senselessly ugly and banal.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 23, 2018 11:17 AM (/qEW2)

666 628 Say what you want, CBD has stretched the frontier of the Art Thread today.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 23, 2018 11:09 AM (ctuyM)

Not as much as that ballerina has stretched her tutu.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 23, 2018 11:18 AM (WSDXt)

667 I just got a ceramic egg cooker from Pampered Chef for $15. Poaches an egg in a minute. Toss a couple of eggs in it, stir them up and add veggies or cheese and you've got scrambled eggs in about a minute and a half (you have to be careful not to overcook the eggs.)

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 23, 2018 11:18 AM (H80UQ)

668 Hoarders and 600 lb life have the opposite effect on me. The first show makes me say "My house isn't really that messy." The second show tells me, "Hey, I'm not so fat after all."

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 23, 2018 11:19 AM (toi7g)

669 >>>664
actually crystal meth is well known for killing the appetite completely.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2018 11:15 AM (k1TUh)
________
Many stimulants have that effect.

Ritalin and even some of the super-bruh pre-workouts sold at GNC

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 23, 2018 11:19 AM (2MIbC)

670 "But using sous vide process for eggs is like buying a car for the sole purpose of driving to the mailbox to check the mail. Sure you can do it, but it's probably faster to just walk."
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 11:12 AM (LOgQ4)


Using sous vide for one order of eggs benedict is a total waste of time. However, if you need to do 45 orders (90 eggs) in one morning, the "cook and hold" aspect of sous vide comes in handy.

Posted by: Jwest at March 23, 2018 11:20 AM (/roJx)

671 I predict there will be a fast food restaurant chain using sous vide to produce medium rare hamburgers.

Due to the regulations and threats of lawsuits, companies like Burger King that used to make a decent product years ago now produce dry, intensely overcooked meat patties.

Using sous vide, they can precisely put the burger to temperature, keeping it in the medium rare range, then do a quick sear on the outside for flavor.

Posted by: Jwest at March 23, 2018 11:15 AM


Burger King used to have the ultimate process. Precision sized raw hamburger, precisely timed conveyor belt, flamed on both sides simultaneously.

The lines used to stretch out the door and up the sidewalk. Half an hour wait was common.

Now I've read they microwave the burgers.

They probably had some leftist neighbor sue the franchise because of the incessant scent of perfectly cooked hamburger going up the chimney made them get fat.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 23, 2018 11:20 AM (LOgQ4)

672 >>>666

Not as much as that ballerina has stretched her tutu.
Posted by: tankdemon at March 23, 2018 11:18 AM (WSDXt)
_________
Did somebody say stretching?

Posted by: Anthony Weiner - Two Dollar Twerking at March 23, 2018 11:21 AM (2MIbC)

673 I've got to say how impressed I am at the quality of women our man Trump has bedded.

Posted by: Jwest at March 23, 2018 11:24 AM (/roJx)

674 Since independents, by definition, don't belong to a
party and wouldn't have primaries, how would you register as one? Am I
missing something here? Posted by: Secret Square at March 23, 2018 11:13 AM (+HoK2)
=====

Independents still vote in 'primaries' because many, many tax and constitutional issues are done in the spring and fewer people vote in them so it is easier to get a tax passed with activism because people do not want to declare a party by requesting a ballot.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 23, 2018 11:24 AM (MIKMs)

675 OK ~ so ~ as many of you know, Mrs. Redux is Colombian. And Colombians love the Colombian painter Botero. He represents the Colombians as fat in keeping with their larger than life, and affluent lifestyle and larger than life personalities (and egos). Colombians consider themselves the "Texans" of South America (Bigger and better) ~ they love their horses and their land. Who am I to disagree ( having been all over South America it is hard to not agree).

Now, Botero is not my usual cup of tea ~ but I do appreciate him. And his brushwork, use of color and updated Goya~esque approach to subjects is something to see ( especially in person ~ pictures do not do the paintings justice) I do not like his sculptures though. It si not the same in mono color in three dimensions.

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 23, 2018 11:25 AM (0/0WS)

676 This talk of Huey Long allows me discuss one of my favorite books, All the King's Men. Although it is described as a great political novel, I don't think it is a political novel. I think it is a modern (1940s) retelling of The Divine Comedy. Consider, The Divine Comedy begins:

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

Although too long to quote, All the King's Men begins with the depiction of a driver losing concentration and crashing off the side of the road. Both are about negligently falling into sin and achieving redemption through suffering and intelligence.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 23, 2018 11:26 AM (+y/Ru)

677 I've got to say how impressed I am at the quality of women our man Trump has bedded.

-
IMPEACH THE WITCH!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 23, 2018 11:27 AM (+y/Ru)

678 I agree with Tom Servo's posts(I can't seem to copy them and repost them here today).

I watched the press conference yesterday with Short and Mulvaney. Not only did they detail what the Republican's got out of the budget deal, such as funding for 156 miles of wall, that includes both new sections and rebuild, remodel of sections of a secondary wall in San Diego, but they also pointed out what they didn't get. And why. They explained , not nicely either, that the Senate is NOT under Republican control, because the rules require a 60 member majority to pass spending bills, which means at least 9 Dem Senators have to vote with ALL of the Republicans. So you have to give things to the Dems, I believe Mulvaney used the term, "buy Democrat votes". They also said that if the line item veto was available today, there would have been many items that Trump would have vetoed out of the bill. But it's not , so that is not something he can use.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 23, 2018 11:27 AM (m0lmR)

679 Now, Botero is not my usual cup of tea ~ but I do appreciate him. And his brushwork, use of color and updated Goya~esque approach to subjects is something to see ( especially in person ~ pictures do not do the paintings justice) I do not like his sculptures though. It si not the same in mono color in three dimensions.

Posted by: Publius Redux


That is quite interesting...definitely puts today's offering in a different light!

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at March 23, 2018 11:31 AM (AM1GF)

680 You did that on purpose.

Posted by: franksalterego at March 23, 2018 11:52 AM (3cq8T)

681 Well damn I definitely can't un-see that.

Posted by: NC Ref at March 23, 2018 12:07 PM (pAx+1)

682 "Now Houston is the 4th largest city in the US and one of the wealthiest cities in the world, while New Orleans is still just same old New Orleans, a bit worse for the wear.

Houston is what New Orleans should have been, but rejected."

Galveston was Texas' largest city before the hurricane of 1900 hit it but it was already on its way to losing that status. The corruption associated with the Port of New Orleans was duplicated in Galveston and Texas was being throttled because of it.

A US senator from north of Houston named Thomas Ball joined with William Marsh Rice to convince city leaders to join them in a push to create the Houston Ship Channel in order to allow commerce to bypass Galveston. Sen Ball was able to get federal funding for the massive dredging operation to get a channel deep enough all the way to the confluence of Buffalo Bayou at the far north end of Galveston Bay. Ball had been instrumental in getting rail service to Houston that fed the port. The city of Tomball is named after him and Rice University was founded by WM Rice.

What lured the oil companies from locating in Beaumont 90 miles to the east was the opulence of the Courtlandt Place development south of the center of the city. Courtlandt Place was initially built from the wealth of the massive lumber industry that was churning north of Houston in what is known as the Piney Woods.

Posted by: DanMan at March 23, 2018 12:36 PM (XTiHL)

683 She appears to have psoriasis on her right elbow.

Either that or a brush burn.

Posted by: True the Note at March 23, 2018 01:28 PM (HLTe8)

684 Watch your spelling or the grammar police will

LOCK HIM UP!

Dancers at the barre

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at March 23, 2018 04:30 PM (EMi53)

685 That camel has no toe.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at March 24, 2018 03:29 AM (hUqh+)

686 "Fernando likes the big 'uns. For realz."
____________________________________
Din't no Fernando be a bruthuh.....???

Posted by: Old Codger at March 24, 2018 10:27 AM (fpd99)

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