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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (3/14/20)You Asked For It Edition. The Start of Many.

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(Mystery Click - Adult theme H/T Pete Seria)

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The Saturday Night Joke - Southern Style

While riding my Harley, I swerved to avoid hitting a deer, lost control and landed in a ditch, severely banging my head.

Dazed and confused I crawled out of the ditch to the edge of the road when a shiny new convertible pulled up with a very beautiful woman who asked, "Are you okay"?

As I looked up, I noticed she was wearing a low-cut blouse with cleavage to die for...

"I'm okay I think," I replied as I pulled myself up to the side of the car to get a closer look.

She said, "Get in and I'll take you home, so I can clean and bandage that nasty scrape on your head."

"That's nice of you," I answered, "but I don't think my wife will like me doing that!"

"Oh, come now, I'm a nurse," she insisted. "I need to see if you have any more scrapes and then treat them properly."

Well, she was really pretty and very persuasive. Being sort of shaken and weak, I agreed, but repeated, "I'm sure my wife won't like this."

We arrived at her place which was just few miles away and,after a couple of cold beers and the bandaging, I thanked her and said, "I feel a lot better, but I know my wife is going to be really upset so I'd better go now."

"Don't be silly!", she said with a smile. "Stay for a while. She won't know anything. By the way, where is she?"

"Still in the ditch, I guess."


OK, lighten up, it's only a joke.

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Putting together tonight's ONT was a challenge. Everything is f*cking Kung Fu Flu related or so it seems. Even Charlie from the Manitowoc Minute is in on it.


Coronavirus, might as well have fun with it. Amirite? Big H/T to Legally Sufficient.

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Hmmm, guess who gets top notch reviews? Illegal drug dealers on the Darknet.

Trust used to be a very personal thing: You went on the recommendations of your friends or friends of friends. By finding ways to extend that circle of trust exponentially, technology is expanding markets and possibilities. Consider the darknet. It is creating trust between the unlikeliest of characters, despite a heavy cloak of anonymity.

You can’t get to the darknet using your regular web browser; most access it via an anonymizing software called Tor (an acronym for “The Onion Router”. The darknet is peopled by journalists and human rights organizations that need to mask their browsing activity but it’s also home to hundreds of thousands of drug sellers and buyers. People who would commonly be stereotyped as untrustworthy, the worst of the worst, yet here they are creating highly efficient markets. Effectively, they are creating trust in a zero-trust environment. Nobody meets in person. There are obviously no legal regulations governing the exchanges. It looks like a place where buyers could get ripped off. Theoretically, it would be easy for dealers to send lower quality drugs or not deliver the goods at all.

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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? Stick around for the steak dinner my Dear.

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. – A New York man inadvertently shot his girlfriend while trying to pay for their steakhouse dinner, WIVB reports.

Cheektowaga police say 19-year-old Anthony Ciccarelli dined with his girlfriend at Texas De Brazil Thursday evening. He reached into the front pocket of his pants when the bill arrived, and his gun discharged. The gunshot hit his girlfriend in the upper leg.

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Holy crap!!! It didn't take the Chinese long to put facial recognition to work. In of all places, the bathroom. H/T Bitter Clinger

This is not something you'd expect to go through a facial scan for, but in China toilet-goers now need to pass a facial recognition system in order to receive tissue paper.

These camera-equipped dispensers are designed to combat the so-called 'toilet paper thieves', who would hide several metres of communal toilet paper in their bags and sneak them home.

In Fuzhou, each toilet-goer would be given a piece of toilet paper measuring 70cm long (28 inches) once they have their face recognised.


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Hmmm. You don't see this every day.

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Not going anywhere? A Candy Bar Ended a Five-Hour Prison Standoff

Last summer, an Irish candy delivery company surveyed more than 7,000 people to determine the country's favorite candy bar. The winner was determined to be the plain Cadbury Dairy Milk bar, followed by Galaxy Smooth Milk and the Kinder Bueno. Mars bars didn't crack the top eight—the ranking only included eight varieties, for some reason—but that doesn't seem to matter to the inmates at the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise.


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Bring me a sammich Sugar T*ts. Or sexist advertising from yesterday.


Once again, lighten up.

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Bored in your self or mandatory quarantines? If you are in Italy Pornhub has you covered.

The coronavirus has hit Italy so hard the government announced a nationwide quarantine — and Pornhub wants to keep citizens from leaving their houses… by giving them premium subscriptions, entirely free of charge.

The adult content company announced Italian users can claim premium subscriptions without entering any of their credit card details throughout March. Pornhub is also donating a percentage all of its proceeds from Modelhub — a subsidiary that helps creators sell content — to local hospitals.

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The ONT Musical Interlude, A Month of Frank Zappa

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No word if ibguy knows this Genius Award Winner.

A 27-year-old Dayton woman is accused of stealing credit cards and other personal belongings from five different people on the same day last month in Kettering.

Cassie Marie Bunn’s arraignment is Tuesday in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court for 15 counts of receiving stolen property and one count of misuse of credit cards.

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1 First!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 09:46 PM (/UQ/R)

2 2nd

Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 09:46 PM (/UQ/R)

3 3rd....ok I'll go call the rest

Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 09:47 PM (/UQ/R)

4 Top 100?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 09:47 PM (aA3+G)

5 Hiya, reprobates.

Posted by: no good deed at March 14, 2020 09:48 PM (MmFTx)

6 Good Evening

Posted by: wing at March 14, 2020 09:48 PM (JFzNN)

7 I was distracted.

Posted by: Charles the Simple at March 14, 2020 09:48 PM (HuH1F)

8 Yo!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 09:48 PM (Y4EXg)

9 We're living in Michael Crichtons "State of Fear".

Yay, for FZ. Luv it!

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 09:49 PM (7ZQe3)

10 a crystal testis suspended in scotch

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 14, 2020 09:49 PM (ykYG2)

11 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 09:49 PM (arJlL)

12 So... England reportedly with all people over 70 on lockdown for four months...?

If
this is Chinese biowarfare, what the hell are we supposed to do about
it? If they just get away with it - accidental release or not - the
whole world is one giant bullseye.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2020 09:49 PM (lmYIz)

13 Yes, top ten?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 09:50 PM (BiNEL)

14 That was a newbie mistake, reading that damn content!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 09:50 PM (BiNEL)

15 Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 09:49 PM (7ZQe3)

Your appreciation duly noted and recorded my fellow CheeseHead.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 09:50 PM (aA3+G)

16 The drinking lamp is LIT.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 09:51 PM (XVuno)

17 A good night for all Bicycle enthusiasts

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 09:51 PM (7ZQe3)

18 Thanks, MisHum, I think I'll investigate this Event 201, and see what else our betters discussed to help us through the simulated coronavirus.

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 09:52 PM (ONvIw)

19 a crystal testis suspended in scotch
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 14, 2020 09:49 PM (ykYG2)


"If you want a vision of the future..."

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2020 09:52 PM (t+qrx)

20 Thanks for the ONT, Mis Hum! And the hat tip - I just love that widdle white kitty cat!

Great Saturday night joke!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2020 09:52 PM (WFcrO)

21 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 09:47 PM (aA3+G)

MisHum breakin' up the grand slam.

Posted by: tbodie at March 14, 2020 09:53 PM (2hlqN)

22
The manager at one of the local Publixes said his single store (here in the Greenville, SC area) is doing about $250K of sales per day, and it's increasing.

One of the local restaurants (Simpsonville) said his business is declining greatly. Every day the it falls off more.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 09:53 PM (f1Vqw)

23 I think I am going to have to block my kid's school on Facebook. They post a lot of information on it that is usually useful, but right now, all it is is parents shitting themselves over the kids needing things to do on the break. They already sent home work packets. If I was in charge, I would have told them all, "Peace out, enjoy the time off and be ready to work when you get back." It's not like they are all going to come back stupid after this. Hell, they could excuse the rest of the year, and things will still be fine.

Posted by: no good deed at March 14, 2020 09:53 PM (MmFTx)

24 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2020 09:53 PM (XyVor)

25 If
this is Chinese biowarfare, what the hell are we supposed to do about
it? If they just get away with it - accidental release or not - the
whole world is one giant bullseye.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2020 09:49 PM (lmYIz)


What could possibly go wrong with an engineered bioweapon cultured in a level four facility built by slave labor before we harvested their organs!!

Posted by: ChiCom Ministry of Black Swan Event at March 14, 2020 09:53 PM (BiNEL)

26 14 That was a newbie mistake, reading that damn content!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 09:50 PM (BiNEL)

You call that content?

You indeed are a kind southern gentleman.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 09:53 PM (aA3+G)

27 Cheektowaga police say 19-year-old Anthony Ciccarelli dined with his girlfriend at Texas De Brazil Thursday evening. He reached into the front pocket of his pants when the bill arrived, and his gun discharged. The gunshot hit his girlfriend in the upper leg.

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MORAL: Never let a 19 year-old take you out for dinner.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 09:53 PM (XVuno)

28 OK, lighten up, it's only a joke.

I've read a version of that joke from the 1930s where the accident is an overturned hay wagon and "Paw's under the wagon."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 09:53 PM (2JVJo)

29 Oh boy this is gonna be great!

Posted by: freaked at March 14, 2020 09:54 PM (Tnijr)

30 Tried some Larceny bourbon tonight. Pretty darned tasty. Looked a lot like that top pic.

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 09:54 PM (7ZQe3)

31 That dish made in Pyrex looks hideous...I wouldn't eat it!

Posted by: lin-duh at March 14, 2020 09:54 PM (UUBmN)

32 16 The drinking lamp is LIT.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 09:51 PM (XVuno

Posted by: RI Red at March 14, 2020 09:54 PM (RQoAh)

33 Good evening Horde.

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 09:55 PM (PhTYi)

34 That is on rock'n teenaged combo.

Posted by: freaked at March 14, 2020 09:55 PM (Tnijr)

35 Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2020 09:52 PM (WFcrO)

The Horde and I appreciate funny memes. Thanks.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 09:55 PM (aA3+G)

36 Nine thousand nine hundred and seventy three bottles of beer on wall, Nine thousand nine hundred and seventy three bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around...

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at March 14, 2020 09:55 PM (Wm5SB)

37 Even Charlie from the Manitowoc Minute is in on it.

That was a good one.

Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2020 09:55 PM (VP1E6)

38 Hey !

I'm on the ONT !

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 09:56 PM (arJlL)

39 paste fail.

Sheeeiit, Cicero, my lamp has been on so long it's dripping wax on the bar.

Posted by: RI Red at March 14, 2020 09:56 PM (RQoAh)

40 31 That dish made in Pyrex looks hideous...I wouldn't eat it!
Posted by: lin-duh at March 14, 2020 09:54 PM (UUBmN)

Maybe fish?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2020 09:56 PM (XyVor)

41 {{{Ladyl}}}

Posted by: ChiCom Ministry of Black Swan Event at March 14, 2020 09:56 PM (BiNEL)

42 That's a real weak your-wife joke.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 09:56 PM (Eicbe)

43 29 Oh boy this is gonna be great!
Posted by: freaked at March 14, 2020 09:54 PM (Tnijr)

Mrs. Mis. Hum. chuckled at that.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 09:56 PM (aA3+G)

44 That guy's mind is not on the meatloaf.

Posted by: freaked at March 14, 2020 09:56 PM (Tnijr)

45 The Donald is virus free!

Posted by: winning at March 14, 2020 09:57 PM (WX+x0)

46 My new favorite meme is a picture of Mr Wipple squeezing the Charmin with the phrase who's your daddy.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at March 14, 2020 09:57 PM (myjNJ)

47 Your wife called and said it was OK

.. and now she's in a ditch somewhere on the road.

Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 09:57 PM (aS1PU)

48 Evening Ladyl

Posted by: wing at March 14, 2020 09:57 PM (JFzNN)

49 44 That guy's mind is not on the meatloaf.
Posted by: freaked at March 14, 2020 09:56 PM (Tnijr)

Well, she evidently cooked it on their honeymoon. He has other priorities.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2020 09:57 PM (XyVor)

50 > Your wife called and said it was OK

.. and now she's in a ditch somewhere on the road.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 09:57 PM (aS1PU)


~tHe ciRcLe oF LiFe~

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2020 09:58 PM (t+qrx)

51 Your wife called and said I was okay, it happens to a lot of men.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 09:58 PM (Eicbe)

52 That dish made in Pyrex looks hideous...I wouldn't eat it!
Posted by: lin-duh at March 14, 2020 09:54 PM (UUBmN)

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Gelatinous brown food material garnished with egg slices, clumps of moss and a Christmas tree ornament? What's not to like?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 09:58 PM (XVuno)

53 I think the guy who opens the Old rations and so forth just does it for the cigarettes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2020 09:58 PM (XyVor)

54 What could possibly go wrong with an engineered bioweapon cultured in a level four facility built by slave labor before we harvested their organs!!
Posted by: ChiCom Ministry of Black Swan Event at March 14, 2020 09:53 PM (BiNEL)


I wonder if this is why the Chinese think it's an American creation

https://tinyurl.com/vxbdj8s

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 09:59 PM (ONvIw)

55 We're living in Michael Crichtons "State of Fear".

Yay, for FZ. Luv it!
Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 09:49 PM (7ZQe3)
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Nope. I'm in Michigan.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 09:59 PM (Eicbe)

56 In before 100!

Chinese place I hit on the weekend had me and one family for customers tonight.

Fvck the Dems and the MSM (birm) for pushing this bullshit.

Posted by: Gmac- The light at the end of the tunnel is the Trump 2020 train. at March 14, 2020 09:59 PM (qZdIZ)

57 That dish made in Pyrex looks hideous...I wouldn't eat it!
Posted by: lin-duh


Trust me, he won't notice.

Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2020 09:59 PM (gHCnG)

58 Nope. I'm in Michigan.
Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 09:59 PM (Eicbe)


*waves in Michigander*

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2020 10:00 PM (t+qrx)

59 Looks like Pyrex bride is about to experience the thrill of surprise anal.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 10:00 PM (XVuno)

60 Wing!

Chi Com!

JT!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (PhTYi)

61 Buona sera, amici miei!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (7WaWV)

62 If we don't start getting some Air Supply in the ONT instead of all this Jethro Tull crap I may stop lurking here.

Posted by: Allahpundit at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (+s3I6)

63 59 Looks like Pyrex bride is about to experience the thrill of surprise anal.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 10:00 PM (XVuno)

I did not know otters work tux and tails.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (XyVor)

64 Thanks for the Zapparama, MisHum!

I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I'm the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV set

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (Dc2NZ)

65 That dish made in Pyrex looks hideous...I wouldn't eat it!
Posted by: lin-duh

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Just for fun I occasionally page through my mom's Betty Crocker cookbook from 1950. The pictures of the foods are a scream. But apparently, I ate that stuff.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (Y4EXg)

66 Chinese place I hit on the weekend had me and one family for customers tonight.

Fvck the Dems and the MSM (birm) for pushing this bullshit.

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The entire live bat industry has been literally crushed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (XVuno)

67 I guess there is a chance coronavirus can be on our money. So panic and burn your money!

Posted by: Case at March 14, 2020 10:02 PM (EYKgr)

68 Another Saturday night and I've got the ONT.

Posted by: tbodie at March 14, 2020 10:02 PM (2hlqN)

69 That dish made in Pyrex looks hideous...I wouldn't eat it!
Posted by: lin-duh
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My dad explained that to me, "Son, if you didn't have to make it, don't complain about it". House rule.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2020 10:02 PM (xSo9G)

70 62 If we don't start getting some Air Supply in the ONT instead of all this Jethro Tull crap I may stop lurking here.
Posted by: Allahpundit at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (+s3I6)

*golf clap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2020 10:02 PM (XyVor)

71 *Waves to Axeman across the lake*

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 10:02 PM (7ZQe3)

72 Nope. I'm in Michigan.
Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 09:59 PM (Eicbe)

*waves in Michigander*
Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2020 10:00 PM (t+qrx)
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Are you wearing fuzzy earflaps?

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:02 PM (Eicbe)

73 I think The Zappa band is (or was) touring this summer with King Crimson.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at March 14, 2020 10:03 PM (Wm5SB)

74 Now thats a harley joke. I used to see the typical black T shirts that say on the back "If you can read this the bitch fell off". I knew better than to come home with one of those. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2020 10:03 PM (9Om/r)

75 Hiya Ladyl !

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 10:03 PM (arJlL)

76 That guy's mind is not on the meatloaf.
Posted by: freaked at March 14, 2020 09:56 PM (Tnijr)


Mine wouldn't be, either.

Which reminds me. . .

In the late 1950s, there was a series of joke books that went under the "Sexteen" label - Over Sexteen, More Over Sexteen, Sexteen in Color and so on - which had what used to be called "tired businessman" jokes about harridan wives, sexy secretaries, cheating partners and so on along with cartoons of scantily clad young women doing what scantily clad women do.

In any event, one cartoon that I always liked showed a newlywed couple in their honeymoon suite. The stacked bride was primping herself in front of a mirror while, behind her, the groom sat in his pajamas on the edge of the bed, a fearful look in his eye, because his new wife - in addition to her sexy nightgown - was wearing a shiny new set of spurs.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:03 PM (2JVJo)

77 Howdy, beloved Horde!

Hugs to WDS!

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2020 10:03 PM (ouBhA)

78 LS.......fist bump to you for the H/T......sorry can't do hugs tonight

Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 10:03 PM (/UQ/R)

79 Pyrex bride will soon have one in the oven.

Posted by: RI Red at March 14, 2020 10:03 PM (RQoAh)

80 {{{Ladyl}}}

you have many fans I see.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:03 PM (BiNEL)

81 All the models in the old sexist ads are hawt. I don't remember any of my friends' moms being hawt. Except for Craig Spencer. His mom was hawt.

Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at March 14, 2020 10:04 PM (VNfwt)

82
Yeah, another thing about The Virus...

I hope my case of imported TP I'm receiving on the 20th (I piled all my current pre-panic supply for an approximate 15 rolls) folds for another month, and doesn't run out before people quit panicking.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2020 10:04 PM (bQe8/)

83 WDS, do they call three in a row a "hat trick"?

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2020 10:04 PM (ouBhA)

84 The entire live bat industry has been literally crushed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (XVuno)


zombie Adam West: I might have something in my utility belt for that

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 14, 2020 10:04 PM (a8I88)

85 . . . because his new wife - in addition to her sexy nightgown - was wearing a shiny new set of spurs.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

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Cowgirls love leather and rope.

It is known.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:04 PM (Y4EXg)

86 Nope. I'm in Michigan.
Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 09:59 PM (Eicbe)


Doesn't Eris live in Michigan?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:05 PM (2JVJo)

87 {{{Hrothgar}}}

I'm watching a kinda scary movie.

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:05 PM (PhTYi)

88 I missed the Frank Zappa craze, back in the day.

Looks like that particular shortcoming in my musical education is about to be corrected.

Posted by: tbodie at March 14, 2020 10:05 PM (2hlqN)

89 70 62 If we don't start getting some Air Supply in the ONT instead of all this Jethro Tull crap I may stop lurking here.
Posted by: Allahpundit at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (+s3I6)

*golf clap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2020 10:02 PM (XyVor)


***SNORT***SNORT***

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:05 PM (aA3+G)

90 Doesn't Eris live in Michigan?
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She sure does!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2020 10:05 PM (Dc2NZ)

91 What would you do if we let you go home? When the plastic's all melted and so is the chrome? Who are the brain police?

Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2020 10:05 PM (l3+k2)

92 I think The Zappa band is (or was) touring this summer with King Crimson.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at March 14, 2020 10:03 PM (Wm5SB)
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Heard the same thing. It's intriguing.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:05 PM (Eicbe)

93 I'm watching a kinda scary movie.
Posted by: Ladyl

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If you would have said a horror flick I'da guessed "Klute".

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:06 PM (Y4EXg)

94 Cowgirls love leather and rope.

It is known.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:04 PM (Y4EXg)


They can bust more than a bronc, IYKWIM.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:06 PM (2JVJo)

95 Eris, I moved to your old quaint little town, and you moved to Michigan. I didn't mean to run you off.

Posted by: no good deed at March 14, 2020 10:07 PM (MmFTx)

96 >> Cowgirls love leather and rope.

And assless chaps.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 10:07 PM (f1Vqw)

97 Doesn't Eris live in Michigan?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:05 PM (2JVJo)
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So does Shibumi. Unless she defected to Ohio.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:07 PM (Eicbe)

98 {{{WDS}}}

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:07 PM (PhTYi)

99 I'm watching a kinda scary movie.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:05 PM (PhTYi)


Which one?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:07 PM (2JVJo)

100 Coronavirus outbreak postpones hearing on SF bathhouse policy
by Matthew S. Bajko, Assistant Editor
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020

A Thursday hearing to discuss a policy change to allow bathhouses like Steamworks in Berkeley in San Francisco has been canceled due to the coronavirus

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 14, 2020 10:07 PM (ykYG2)

101 Odd that some bands do not come across in videos very well. Personality, editing? Talking heads have terrible videos.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at March 14, 2020 10:07 PM (gSgAd)

102
I love assless chaps, too.

Posted by: Dr. Thong at March 14, 2020 10:07 PM (f1Vqw)

103 Are you wearing fuzzy earflaps?
Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:02 PM (Eicbe)


Of course not, it's 32°. It's not even cold out.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2020 10:08 PM (t+qrx)

104 Well. There is one good thing about this stupid Wuhan boo-shit. My baby brother flew home from the ME on leave to see his new son, and is now grounded.
*snaps fingers*

Jeepers. Now he has to spend more time with his wife and his baby boy.

Always look for the silver lining.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 10:08 PM (x8Wzq)

105 Good late evening. Spent the evening watching Top Gun for probably the 10th time. Moose was not amused. Neither was Goose.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 14, 2020 10:08 PM (dUJdY)

106 Suzy Creamcheese, honey, what's got inta ya?

Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2020 10:09 PM (l3+k2)

107 95 Eris, I moved to your old quaint little town, and you moved to Michigan. I didn't mean to run you off.
Posted by: no good deed at March 14, 2020 10:07 PM (MmFTx)
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Ha! It's a great little burg. Has it flooded again?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2020 10:09 PM (Dc2NZ)

108 I wonder if this is why the Chinese think it's an American creation

https://tinyurl.com/vxbdj8s

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 09:59 PM (ONvIw)


Bill Gates stepping down from senior positions before the SHTF?

But comrades, there is NOTHING to see here, da?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:09 PM (BiNEL)

109
99 I'm watching a kinda scary movie.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:05 PM (PhTYi)

Which one?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:07 PM (2JVJo)


I am Legend, with Will Smith.

I'm not a real movie watcher, so the violence is disturbing.

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:09 PM (PhTYi)

110 A lot of this panic is the media. But this panic buying is social media. Around here, Facebook.

Posted by: Case at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (EYKgr)

111 The Li'lest Blutarski found out his school in Chicago is going to be online the rest of the school year. He might come home for a bit. That's good, right?

Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (VNfwt)

112
That corona virus video was one of the best 3:05 of my life I have spent in a long time.


Not sure if Mis Hum finds incredibly entertaining videos for us, or if my life is that pathetic.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (sy5kK)

113 MisHum, I just read the joke and I thought it was very funny. So did my husband. (Maybe he liked it a little too much.)

I caught the the last pic as I scrolled down. Icing on the cake. Now to go back and peruse the middle.

Posted by: cfo mom at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (RfzVr)

114 If we don't start getting some Air Supply in the ONT instead of all this Jethro Tull crap I may stop lurking here.
Posted by: Allahpundit at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (+s3I6)
* * * *

Buh-bye!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (WFcrO)

115 I hope my case of imported TP I'm receiving on the 20th (I piled all my current pre-panic supply for an approximate 15 rolls) folds for another month, and doesn't run out before people quit panicking.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2020 10:04 PM (bQe8/)

Do you think they'll shut down "parts of the internet" to slow the panic, the way they did in the simulation back in October?

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (ONvIw)

116 Report from a semi-rural MS Dollar General -- Plenty of things in stock, though I didn't even check paper goods. I have plenty.

I picked up milk, eggs, diet coke, nuts, beef weenies, all adequately stocked. The cookies had been worked over a bit, but that was about the only bare shelf space I saw. The line had 3 people in front of me -- One cashier.

Gee, wasn't the cognoscenti opining, very recently, about the eveels of these stores?

Blow me.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (XF4b8)

117 Always look for the silver lining.
Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 10:08 PM (x8Wzq)

an added bonus, His wife posted a video of his first time changing a full-on back-blast diaper emergency. Welcome to father hood, kid.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (x8Wzq)

118 Eris, I moved to your old quaint little town, and you moved to Michigan. I didn't mean to run you off.
Posted by: no good deed at March 14, 2020 10:07 PM (MmFTx)


Funny thing about that... any town Eris moves to is de facto a twee quaint little towne.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (t+qrx)

119 Emmie....in hockey.....which we can no longer watch at all....three goals is a hat trick. I gave up a grand slam to call the corgis

Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (/UQ/R)

120 "Talking heads have terrible videos."

"Stop Making Sense" ?

Posted by: freaked at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (Tnijr)

121

Good evening all...
And good evening wing.
I often start reading the ont in the morning from where I signed off the night before.
I saw your goodnight.
That was kind. Thank you.

Posted by: teej at March 14, 2020 10:11 PM (NRjPt)

122 I'm watching a kinda scary movie.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:05 PM (PhTYi)

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Is that like a Groovy Kind of Love?

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:11 PM (Eicbe)

123 Passing through downtown Asheville this afternoon, I can tell you that the Millennial/Gen-X/hipsters are not worried about The Whu-hoo flu. Sidewalks busy with shabbily dressed M-G-H's, brewery parking lots full.

Apparently, if you're under 35 or so, why, no sweat.

I was out because I needed to visit a friend in the hospital. The hospital, by contrast was eerie. All but the front entrance locked down. There, the very few people entering were being 'screened', I assume. No one else entered when I did. I saw ONE other visitor while I was there. It is a large hospital, and seemed deserted. Spooky, kinda. Like a Twilight zone.

Looks that they have minimized staff. No volunteers, the sundry shops closed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2020 10:11 PM (CDGwz)

124 45 The Donald is virus free!
Posted by: winning


And Tom Hanks and his wife tested positive. Heh.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2020 10:11 PM (+lVUW)

125 Pornhub doing it's part for Italy!

I tweeted the other day that people will be fine staying inside as long as the porn servers hold up

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2020 10:11 PM (qAR6u)

126 112
That corona virus video was one of the best 3:05 of my life I have spent in a long time.


Not sure if Mis Hum finds incredibly entertaining videos for us, or if my life is that pathetic.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (sy5kK)

I try to find good stuff so you hang with us LC Dawg.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:11 PM (aA3+G)

127 I am Legend, with Will Smith.

I'm not a real movie watcher, so the violence is disturbing.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:09 PM (PhTYi)


I saw part of that. I don't like SF movies or horror or apocalypse films in general, so it did nothing for me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:11 PM (2JVJo)

128 I'm not doing any panic buying. I'm waiting for sales to crash because everybody is all overstocked and prices drop to try to entice buying.

Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2020 10:12 PM (l3+k2)

129 120. A classic

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at March 14, 2020 10:12 PM (gSgAd)

130 It has not, Eris. Gordon Ramsey just did a couple of renos on two of the restaurants downtown. I am slowly working my way to all of them.

Posted by: no good deed at March 14, 2020 10:13 PM (MmFTx)

131 I gave up a grand slam to call the corgis
Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (/UQ/R)


You're a good sport!

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2020 10:13 PM (ouBhA)

132 The cat meme is damn funny. Back to content

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at March 14, 2020 10:13 PM (w2TA9)

133
Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:05 PM (PhTYi)

Night of the living dead,

Or Nosferatu?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:13 PM (BiNEL)

134 And Tom Hanks and his wife tested positive. Heh.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2020 10:11 PM (+lVUW)

How long until we start seeing Beautiful People appearing at red carpet events with bedazzled masks and hand sanitizer holsters on their belts and purse straps?

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 10:14 PM (x8Wzq)

135 Do you think they'll shut down "parts of the internet" to slow the panic, the way they did in the simulation back in October?
Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (ONvIw)


That absolutely would not surprise me. Just like the governor who signed an executive order allowing her to forbid sales of guns, ammo, gasoline or even food if she determines it necessary, the ruling class is going to push this to see just what they can get away with.

And sadly, too many people are being stampeded by this treasonous MFM into allowing it. People who should be fighting back aren't.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:14 PM (2JVJo)

136 128 I'm not doing any panic buying. I'm waiting for sales to crash because everybody is all overstocked and prices drop to try to entice buying.
Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2020 10:12 PM (l3+k2)

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Check out our Coronavirus Blowout Event. You've never seen prices so low!

Posted by: Crazy Hakkim's Ottoman Empire at March 14, 2020 10:14 PM (XVuno)

137 Oh goodness Ladyl.. you need to watch a REAL horror movie! House of a 1000 Corpses.. Texas Chainsaw Massacre..Nightmare on Elm Street. I could go on.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 14, 2020 10:14 PM (dUJdY)

138 Kateurday ONT Compliance Pics

https://tinyurl.com/setv4aa

https://tinyurl.com/yx65h7py

https://tinyurl.com/ugon8oy

https://tinyurl.com/rsgq4dc

https://tinyurl.com/rclblke

https://tinyurl.com/uyd25lm

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2020 10:14 PM (qAR6u)

139 So...whassup?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 14, 2020 10:14 PM (NWiLs)

140 100 Coronavirus outbreak postpones hearing on SF bathhouse policy
by Matthew S. Bajko, Assistant Editor
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020

A Thursday hearing to discuss a policy change to allow bathhouses like Steamworks in Berkeley in San Francisco has been canceled due to the coronavirus
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 14, 2020 10:07 PM (ykYG2)


I can see why comedians are having a tough time these days, when regular life has better material.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 10:15 PM (sy5kK)

141 {{{WDS}}}

Virtual hugs are okay!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2020 10:15 PM (WFcrO)

142 Just for fun I occasionally page through my mom's Betty Crocker cookbook from 1950. The pictures of the foods are a scream. But apparently, I ate that stuff.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (Y4EXg)

Yeah, it all looks terrible. But so do the foods in a 1980's cookbook I own. I wonder if the photos aren't what is off - the colors look artificial and that makes everything look unappealing.

I have read that food photography is much harder to get right than you would think and I'm inclined to believe that after looking at the photos some people take of their food (home made and restaurant meals) and post online. They'll rave about the heavenly meal they're having and the picture looks like swill.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:15 PM (d6Ksn)

143 Oh goodness Ladyl.. you need to watch a REAL horror movie! House of a 1000 Corpses.. Texas Chainsaw Massacre..Nightmare on Elm Street. I could go on.
Posted by: Jewells45

Ladyl, start with the original Haunting. It's on TCM from time to time. Moody and spine chilling with not one drop of blood.

Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at March 14, 2020 10:15 PM (VNfwt)

144 Hey there, people! I'm...

Posted by: Bobby Brown at March 14, 2020 10:16 PM (hio7U)

145 108 I wonder if this is why the Chinese think it's an American creation

https://tinyurl.com/vxbdj8s

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 09:59 PM (ONvIw)

Bill Gates stepping down from senior positions before the SHTF?

But comrades, there is NOTHING to see here, da?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:09 PM (BiNEL)


The timing is interesting.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2020 10:16 PM (ouBhA)

146 Just for fun I occasionally page through my mom's Betty Crocker cookbook from 1950. The pictures of the foods are a scream. But apparently, I ate that stuff.
Posted by: Tonypete


I have a Pillsbury cookbook that is similar to the old Betty Crocker. I went through it a couple months ago and was a bit surprised at some of the recipes. The worst were the casseroles, but the jello salads with shredded raw vegetables were in there also.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2020 10:16 PM (+lVUW)

147 Another meme.....
Day 2 without sports.
Found a lady sitting on my couch.
Apparently she's my wife.
She seems nice.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at March 14, 2020 10:16 PM (myjNJ)

148
And sadly, too many people are being stampeded by this treasonous MFM into allowing it. People who should be fighting back aren't.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:14 PM (2JVJo)

I'm surprised this Event 201, isn't better known. Fascinating that it was at Johns Hopkins, the people running the tallies

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:16 PM (ONvIw)

149 137 Oh goodness Ladyl.. you need to watch a REAL horror movie! House of a 1000 Corpses.. Texas Chainsaw Massacre..Nightmare on Elm Street. I could go on.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 14, 2020 10:14 PM (dUJdY)


Omg. Never!

I'm a wuss when it comes to movies!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:16 PM (PhTYi)

150 I am Legend, with Will Smith.

I'm not a real movie watcher, so the violence is disturbing.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:09 PM (PhTYi)
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Kinda interesting that Bunchie from Ray Donovan plays the Alpha.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:16 PM (Eicbe)

151 124 45 The Donald is virus free!
Posted by: winning

And Tom Hanks and his wife tested positive. Heh.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2020 10:11 PM (+lVUW)

The best part - The Hanks got it in Australia, halfway around the globe from Trump. The Hollywood libtards don't even have a scapegoat and the blame points right back to their commie bastard friends in China.

Posted by: Roy at March 14, 2020 10:17 PM (ABjxW)

152 They'll rave about the heavenly meal they're having and the picture looks like swill.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:15 PM (d6Ksn)

All I'm asking for is a Whammy Burger that looks like the one in that picture.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 10:17 PM (x8Wzq)

153 136 128 I'm not doing any panic buying. I'm waiting for sales to crash because everybody is all overstocked and prices drop to try to entice buying.
Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2020 10:12 PM (l3+k2)

Big specials on TP and hand soap in May.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:17 PM (d6Ksn)

154 Night of the living dead,

Or Nosferatu?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:13 PM (BiNEL)


Well, which Nosferatu? The silent with Max Schreck or the 1979 Werner Herzog version? Both are wonderful (and yes, I did say I don't like horror), but being who I am, the silent version is the gold standard for me.

I saw Night of the Living Dead for the first time a few months back, and thought it interesting and claustrophobic. I'm glad I saw it, but I wouldn't want to see it again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:17 PM (2JVJo)

155 *looks at watch*

*waits*

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 10:17 PM (x8Wzq)

156 This is how sane people do it...
"Coronavirus: 60% of UK population need to become infected so country can build 'herd immunity', government's chief scientist says"

Posted by: The Shape of Vodka at March 14, 2020 10:17 PM (2oYEN)

157
Ladyl, start with the original Haunting. It's on TCM from time to time. Moody and spine chilling with not one drop of blood.
Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at March 14, 2020 10:15 PM (VNfwt)


That I might be able to handle!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:18 PM (PhTYi)

158 So how many more people have the virus today that didn't have it yesterday?

Posted by: JoeF. at March 14, 2020 10:18 PM (o1fzk)

159 130 It has not, Eris. Gordon Ramsey just did a couple of renos on two of the restaurants downtown. I am slowly working my way to all of them.
Posted by: no good deed at March 14, 2020 10:13 PM (MmFTx)
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Which ones? Portellis? I heard the owner skipped town after the last flood.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2020 10:18 PM (Dc2NZ)

160 Real crownbug posting hours who up

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at March 14, 2020 10:19 PM (IB++I)

161 50 > Your wife called and said it was OK

.. and now she's in a ditch somewhere on the road.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 09:57 PM (aS1PU)

~tHe ciRcLe oF LiFe~
Posted by: hogmartin


I figured she called from the ditch.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 14, 2020 10:19 PM (xeTf4)

162 149 137 Oh goodness Ladyl.. you need to watch a REAL horror movie! House of a 1000 Corpses.. Texas Chainsaw Massacre..Nightmare on Elm Street. I could go on.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 14, 2020 10:14 PM (dUJdY)


Omg. Never!

I'm a wuss when it comes to movies!
Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:16 PM (PhTYi)

Those aren't even all that scary.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 14, 2020 10:19 PM (NWiLs)

163 If she were my daughter, I'd........

Posted by: Hungary Freaks Daddy at March 14, 2020 10:19 PM (D2GZk)

164 The worst were the casseroles, but the jello salads with shredded raw vegetables were in there also.
Posted by: nerdygirl

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Lime green jello with shredded carrots and white grapes was a staple in my grade school.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (Y4EXg)

165 The timing is interesting.
Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2020 10:16 PM (ouBhA)

And these bastards wanted to keep the tourism industry going. No wonder they got pissy with Trump. Fuck them

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (ONvIw)

166 I think as long as you have a few full music rolls you can hold out for 2 weeks

By then the panic shoppers will have their 5 year supply of them and the shelves will have toilet paper sitting there for a week before they have to restock

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (qAR6u)

167 I'm surprised this Event 201, isn't better known. Fascinating that it was at Johns Hopkins, the people running the tallies

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:16 PM (ONvIw)


I sent a friend at my former company this note:

If I were still hiring for VHI VLLC, I'd offer this kid a preemptive internship!

https://ncov2019.live/about
https://ncov2019.live/

He obviously Lurned 2 Kode!

Better and more informative site than the JH one

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (BiNEL)

168 This is how sane people do it...
"Coronavirus: 60% of UK population need to become infected so country can build 'herd immunity', government's chief scientist says"
Posted by: The Shape of Vodka at March 14, 2020 10:17 PM (2oYEN)


He forgot to rub some dirt on it.

Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (aS1PU)

169 Those aren't even all that scary.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 14, 2020 10:19 PM (NWiLs)


I have no tolerance for gory movies.

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (PhTYi)

170 So how many more people have the virus today that didn't have it yesterday?
Posted by: JoeF. at March 14, 2020 10:18 PM (o1fzk)
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World Meters.info says that it's 584 cases today.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (Eicbe)

171 Lime green jello with shredded carrots and white grapes was a staple in my grade school.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (Y4EXg)

And you call yourself Catholic? I call Bull Shit.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:21 PM (aA3+G)

172 with not one drop of blood.

Where's the fun in that? Horror movies are supposed to be gory!

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 14, 2020 10:21 PM (dUJdY)

173 And sadly, too many people are being stampeded by this treasonous MFM into allowing it. People who should be fighting back aren't.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:14 PM (2JVJo)


Pard - that's too simple.

The media is not responsible for those that show up, thread after thread, telling all the booger eaters how this flu has went - wait for it - exponential.

The media is calling the tune. But there is no shortage of those humming along. And they all don't vote straight Democrat.

Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 10:21 PM (shN6a)

174 The first picture puts me in mind of my 9th grade civics teacher. He spent about a week of the class showing us how liquor and cigarette ads were hiding subliminal images. Ice cubes in drinks were a common place to hide the images, he said.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 14, 2020 10:21 PM (CAJOC)

175 Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2020 10:16 PM (+lVUW)

James Lileks (who wrote a hilarious book on the subject of '50's food) wonders if people drank so many highballs then that it killed their taste buds. (Might also explain traditional British and Irish cooking.)

My theory is that so many people of that generation ate bad food during the Depression and then in the armed services that that probably lowered culinary expectations as well.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:21 PM (d6Ksn)

176 Better and more informative site than the JH one
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (BiNEL)

Especially as they saw it coming at JHU

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:21 PM (ONvIw)

177 In other movie news, you might want to check out Fathom Events for the classic movies that will be showing up in concert with Turner Classic Movies during the year.

Tomorrow, for one day only, is 1933s King Kong, but scheduled for the rest of the year are anniversary screenings of Airplane!, The Blues Brothers, Apollo 13 and Fiddler on the Roof.

https://tinyurl.com/wwp53to

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:21 PM (2JVJo)

178 Little Market Cafe got a facelift. The Brewing Company and Phoenix Emporium combined and are now the Phoenix Brewing Company.

Posted by: no good deed at March 14, 2020 10:22 PM (MmFTx)

179 I consider Frank Zappa to be unlistenable. Different strokes for different folks, right?

I always suspected many of his fans just pretended to enjoy his music... because so many other folks didn't.

Posted by: mnw at March 14, 2020 10:22 PM (Cssks)

180 He forgot to rub some dirt on it.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (aS1PU)
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But morons really know it's slapping hot iron that does the trick.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:22 PM (Eicbe)

181 I am pretty picky about horror flicks. I like The Grudge and The Ring. And I don't care if the Japanese ones are better. I live in America.

Poltergeist was stupid. The clown doll scene scared the shit out of me, but it was mostly stupid.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 10:22 PM (x8Wzq)

182 "Successful Marriages Start in the Kitchen" -

I have been married 40 years. On our first date I made cabbage rolls. On our second date, I made lasagna. After that it was like the occasional fishing thread - all I had to do was reel him in.

Posted by: cfo mom at March 14, 2020 10:22 PM (RfzVr)

183 Lime green jello with shredded carrots and white grapes was a staple in my grade school.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (Y4EXg)


Call Any Vegetable.

Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 10:22 PM (aS1PU)

184 This is how sane people do it...
"Coronavirus: 60% of UK population need to become infected so country can build 'herd immunity', government's chief scientist says"
Posted by: The Shape of Vodka at March 14, 2020 10:17 PM (2oYEN)

That concept has worked so well in the UK for periodontal disease.

Posted by: Roy at March 14, 2020 10:22 PM (ABjxW)

185 Blah ending.

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:22 PM (PhTYi)

186 They put pineapple in ours, Tonypete.

Posted by: no good deed at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (MmFTx)

187 I saw this weird story about the toilet paper run. Honestly, this is not The Onion or The Babylon Bee or anything like that. But it kind of makes sense.

"Toilet Paper Mummy" Costume May Stop Spread of Corona Virus.

https://tinyurl.com/udknx8x

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (l9m7l)

188 In 2040 they will still be talking about The Great Toilet Paper Panic in 2020!

Posted by: Case at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (EYKgr)

189 And you call yourself Catholic? I call Bull Shit.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

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Overbaked salmon roll with Velveeta sauce on it on Lent Fridays.

It was the worst.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (Y4EXg)

190 I wonder how many people will DVR or rent old movies and discover that new movies are just CGI clusterfucks or SJW dreck?

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (qAR6u)

191 This is how sane people do it...
"Coronavirus: 60% of UK population need to become infected so country can build 'herd immunity', government's chief scientist says"

Posted by: The Shape of Vodka at March 14, 2020 10:17 PM (2oYEN)


Alternate version:

Coronavirus: 60% of UK population need to become infected so survivors can build 'herd immunity' and lessen burden on NHS by thinning out older more costly patients, government's chief scientist says

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (BiNEL)

192 That concept has worked so well in the UK for periodontal disease.

Posted by: Roy at March 14, 2020 10:22 PM



It's a Man's Life in the British Dental Association?

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 14, 2020 10:24 PM (7WaWV)

193 My favorite Harley joke:

What's the difference between a Harley Davidson and a Hoover vacuum?

Location of the dirt bag.

Posted by: trog04 at March 14, 2020 10:24 PM (oecje)

194 Bring me a sammich Sugar T*ts. Or sexist advertising from yesterday.


Once again, lighten up.
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So, there are so many new readers to AoS that you had to include a warning? Obviously the regulars would either take that as an insult, a test, or ignore it completely.


MisHum, always looking out for others!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 10:24 PM (sy5kK)

195 Overbaked salmon roll with Velveeta sauce on it on Lent Fridays.

It was the worst.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (Y4EXg)


Nope, the worst is fish sticks with ketchup.

Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 10:24 PM (aS1PU)

196 nice, Chasm.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 14, 2020 10:24 PM (ykYG2)

197 179 I consider Frank Zappa to be unlistenable. Different strokes for different folks, right?

I always suspected many of his fans just pretended to enjoy his music... because so many other folks didn't.
Posted by: mnw at March 14, 2020 10:22 PM (Cssks)

We have one month.
Do I hear two?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (aA3+G)

198 Seriously.. scariest movie I ever saw was The Strangers.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (dUJdY)

199 67 I guess there is a chance coronavirus can be on our money. So panic and burn your money!
Posted by: Case at March 14, 2020 10:02 PM (EYKgr)

Why risk starting a fire in your backyard? Send me all of your money...I'll burn it for you...

Posted by: Opportunity...knocking at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (8/7u2)

200 It's a Man's Life in the British Dental Association?
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto

Lemming, Lemming
Lemming of the BDA

Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (VNfwt)

201 Here is the tiny url for the story on 'herd immunity' in the UK Independent.
https://tinyurl.com/vpjhp9x

Posted by: The Shape of Vodka at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (2oYEN)

202 Well now that I'm angry that the "simulation" has not appeared in the media, I might read for a while to steady my nerves.

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (ONvIw)

203 I consider Frank Zappa to be unlistenable. Different strokes for different folks, right?

I always suspected many of his fans just pretended to enjoy his music... because so many other folks didn't.
Posted by: mnw at March 14, 2020 10:22 PM (Cssks)

I think it's more that Zappa's music was music for other musicians. Por ejemplo, the biggest Rush fans tend to be musicians as well - or D&D players. They get it. Zappa never landed in my playlist, but he was a true creative talent.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (x8Wzq)

204 I've listened to a lot of Zappa and don't like much of it. His stuff always starts out great (and he is a great producer and arranger) but then it meanders into wanking.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (l9m7l)

205 The COVID-19 update today was really worth watching. It was long, but those people are smart.

Posted by: m at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (Y3R0d)

206 Just the punchline . . .


"The last time I tried a shot like that, I took a double bogey"

Posted by: 2009Refugee - Thought Indifferent at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (8AONa)

207 I tried to make amends with the Frank Zappa pet photos on that thread but you had to go all Moon Unit on me like some Valley girls ex-boyfriend on Nick Cage MisHum.

Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (0x00j)

208
Yep, you've got amateur internet epidemiologists running around on the internet. These are not stupid people, they've got a math background and they get fired up by this and discover say, the SIR model equations, and then start running with it.

They post Doomsday scenarios the simple models predict, but not being real epidemiologists with real experience and knowledge, they have no idea of the limitations of those simple models, and how to recognize when they're making gross overestimations. ANd why they make such gross overestimations.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 10:26 PM (f1Vqw)

209 Lemming, Lemming,
Lemming of the BDA

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2020 10:26 PM (Dc2NZ)

210 Fun ONT - Thanks, MisHum!

As for that Kettering goniffete: never heard of her.

(Riiiiiight)

Posted by: ibguy at March 14, 2020 10:26 PM (EHVbt)

211 I have no tolerance for gory movies.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (PhTYi)


Don't ever watch any Italian giallo films from the 1970s, then. They'll give you nightmares.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:26 PM (2JVJo)

212 I consider Frank Zappa to be unlistenable. Different strokes for different folks, right?

I always suspected many of his fans just pretended to enjoy his music... because so many other folks didn't.
Posted by: mnw

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Any artist that can come up with the lyric "Kiss my aurora Dora." is a genius.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:26 PM (Y4EXg)

213 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (BiNEL)

The crownbug is nothing if not a thinner of herds

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at March 14, 2020 10:26 PM (IB++I)

214 169 I have no tolerance for gory movies.

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM

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Same here. I knew the art director of TCM and he badgered me to watch it. He said what made it so scary was how little fake blood they used.

I have still never seen it.

Posted by: TheHoser at March 14, 2020 10:26 PM (hio7U)

215 189 And you call yourself Catholic? I call Bull Shit.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

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Overbaked salmon roll with Velveeta sauce on it on Lent Fridays.

It was the worst.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (Y4EXg)

Well you Catholics stole that jello treat from us Lutherans.
And as far as our pilfery we never stole your damn salmon and velveeta

That sounds like child abuse to me

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:26 PM (aA3+G)

216 210 Fun ONT - Thanks, MisHum!

As for that Kettering goniffete: never heard of her.

(Riiiiiight)
Posted by: ibguy at March 14, 2020 10:26 PM (EHVbt)


I was wondering if you were going to show up.

Glad you don't know all of the riff-raff

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:27 PM (aA3+G)

217 Seriously.. scariest movie I ever saw was The Strangers.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (dUJdY)

I did like that one.

So much I've only seen it twice.

Friggin' chilling. I gotta get prepped for that one.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 10:27 PM (x8Wzq)

218 I consider Frank Zappa to be unlistenable. Different strokes for different folks, right?

I always suspected many of his fans just pretended to enjoy his music... because so many other folks didn't.
Posted by: mnw at March 14, 2020 10:22 PM (Cssks)


I feel that way about a lot of jazz fans, myself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:27 PM (2JVJo)

219 I think by May this will have all blown over, and even if it hasn't the weather will be getting really nice. People who live alone will be tired of being hermits and those who don't will be fantasizing about murdering their roommates or spouses.

Then think about the rug rats not being in school

I give it a week before lots of people say "fuck it, it's just a bad cold and it's only killing old geezers anyway"

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2020 10:27 PM (qAR6u)

220 Weekend nights at Bellagio in Vegas are going for $84. Those are normally $280 rooms.

Excalibur is comping weekday nights and charging $27 for weekends.

Stunning.

Posted by: Crazy Hakkim's Ottoman Empire at March 14, 2020 10:27 PM (XVuno)

221 Another meme.....
Day 2 without sports.
Found a lady sitting on my couch.
Apparently she's my wife.
She seems nice.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at March 14, 2020 10:16 PM (myjNJ)
* * * *

That's hilarious!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2020 10:28 PM (WFcrO)

222 They post Doomsday scenarios the simple models predict, but not being real epidemiologists with real experience and knowledge, they have no idea of the limitations of those simple models, and how to recognize when they're making gross overestimations. ANd why they make such gross overestimations.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 10:26 PM (f1Vqw)

Are "todays" predictions similar to the ones from the "simulation and planning" event for a coronavirus pandemic that Bill Gates paid for?

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:28 PM (ONvIw)

223 198 Seriously.. scariest movie I ever saw was The Strangers.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (dUJdY)

Really? I thought it was annoying. Like a lot of horror movies, the protagonists we're supposed to be identifying with are complete idiots.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 14, 2020 10:28 PM (NWiLs)

224 ANd why they make such gross overestimations.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 10:26 PM (f1Vqw)


Exactly why I always trust the government experts!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:29 PM (BiNEL)

225 Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 10:26 PM (f1Vqw)

My personal guess is to take a similar illness, the seasonal flu, and multiply it by the approximate delta in death rate- 10x, to get 610k. Then, an unknown number of people who will die because of the hospital resource squeeze. So I'm supposing from 610-1000k deaths, provided some kind of drastic measures aren't put in place.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at March 14, 2020 10:29 PM (IB++I)

226 Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a different movie from most slasher films.

In most slashers, you're kind of at a remove from the slasher and the victims. TCM puts you right in front. It's less of a "I hope they get away" thing than a "I am terrified" thing.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 10:29 PM (l9m7l)

227 The grandparents of a good friend of mine opened a restaurant here that existed from 1930's to the 1990's (it was killed by her sister, who took over the restaurant, became a Mormon and banned alcohol. Since this is Milwaukee and not Salt Lake City, the place went bankrupt. Sad because it was a beautiful old building with a lot of character.)

My friend has the original menu from the 1930's hanging in her kitchen. It has items like "Cheese Sandwich - 10 cents" and "Tuna Fish Sandwich - 10 cents" Then you get to the high end entrees "Spaghetti and Meatballs - 75 cents" "Calves Liver - 50 cents"

It was considered a pretty fancy place too.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:29 PM (d6Ksn)

228 I've listened to a lot of Zappa and don't like much of it. His stuff always starts out great (and he is a great producer and arranger) but then it meanders into wanking.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (l9m7l)
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I like a minority of Zappa's music. I am the Slime is in that minority. The proggier stuff around One Size Fits All and Inca Roads, I like well enough.

I think that the same people who go for degrees in other things go for his degree in music theory.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:29 PM (Eicbe)

229 Friggin' chilling. I gotta get prepped for that one.

Only saw it once. That was enough. Still creeps me out when I think about it.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 14, 2020 10:29 PM (dUJdY)

230 I give it a week before lots of people say "fuck it, it's just a bad cold and it's only killing old geezers anyway"


I give it THREE DAYS

people here are extremely grumpy with our totalitarian Governor WOLF already

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 10:30 PM (j9HX3)

231 I've loved Zappa since my youth. My older sister had diverse taste in music and had darn near every Zappa album there was (No Hot Rats or Burnt Weenie Sandwich). I learned much.

One of my favorites, Cheepnis, about Grade Z monster movies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMR6blBp1mw

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2020 10:30 PM (Dc2NZ)

232 The first picture puts me in mind of my 9th grade civics teacher. He spent about a week of the class showing us how liquor and cigarette ads were hiding subliminal images. Ice cubes in drinks were a common place to hide the images, he said.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

Was Jimmy Hoffa's face in the ice cube ?

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 10:30 PM (arJlL)

233 Scary horror movies:

The ORIGINAL "Night of the Living Dead," filmed in Pittsburgh for $2.37, in 1966 (I think it was).

I'm not readily scared, either... not by a movie.

The one sequel where everybody was panicking in a TV newsroom was pretty cool, too... plus it provided a great deal of vicarious pleasure, too...seeing all those azaleas throwing down their headphones, taking off their high-heeled shoes, & running for their lives. LOVED it!

Posted by: mnw at March 14, 2020 10:30 PM (Cssks)

234 I like FZ because he's not boring like Rush.

Posted by: freaked at March 14, 2020 10:31 PM (Tnijr)

235
Growing up in the Puget Sound area, Frank Zappa wasn't played much and got very limited exposure, except for a few FM stations that went from elevator music in the daytime to hard rock at night. These were the end of the '60's and the early to mid '70's.

Instead, there was a lot of English influenced rock and general heavy rock.

It was only at the end of my college days did I run into a guy who had nearly everything Zappa on a cassette tape(s).

And I thought at the phrase "watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow" was a one-off.

Catholic girls and crew sluts set me right.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 10:31 PM (sy5kK)

236 the protagonists we're supposed to be identifying with are complete idiots.

I'll give ya that but it still creeped me out. I mean if they figured it all out there would not be a movie.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 14, 2020 10:32 PM (dUJdY)

237 Are "todays" predictions similar to the ones from the "simulation and planning" event for a coronavirus pandemic that Bill Gates paid for?

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:28 PM (ONvIw)


You can't predict tomorrow when it goes "exponential". It's Science.

I intend on showing no mercy on this shit. Especially when the fear mongers try to lay low and pretend they weren't insisting that everybody else join them in their stupid fucking Pander Panic.

Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 10:33 PM (shN6a)

238 Weekend nights at Bellagio in Vegas are going for $84. Those are normally $280 rooms.

Excalibur is comping weekday nights and charging $27 for weekends.

Stunning.
Posted by: Crazy Hakkim's Ottoman Empire at March 14, 2020 10:27 PM (XVuno)


I really need to get on the ball and take advantage of low prices to book my room and flight for the NoVaMoMe in May.

Perhaps tomorrow.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:33 PM (2JVJo)

239 234 I like FZ because he's not boring like Rush.
Posted by: freaked at March 14, 2020 10:31 PM (Tnijr)


And then the fight broke out.....................

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:34 PM (aA3+G)

240 An homage:

Hello Mudda, hello Fadda,
here I am at Camp Corona,
it is very isolating,
I'm sure we'll live if death stops gaining.

You remember Orange Man Bad?
every one here thinks he's mad,
I think he's the best we've had; he makes the pussies so sad!


next verse?

Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 10:34 PM (0x00j)

241 25 If
this is Chinese biowarfare, what the hell are we supposed to do about
it? If they just get away with it - accidental release or not - the
whole world is one giant bullseye.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2020 09:49 PM (lmYIz)

What could possibly go wrong with an engineered bioweapon cultured in a level four facility built by slave labor before we harvested their organs!!
Posted by: ChiCom Ministry of Black Swan Event at March 14, 2020 09:53 PM (BiNEL)



In China, I wonder if they check if the donor has tested positive for corona virus, before they harvest their organs.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, curious about current events at March 14, 2020 10:34 PM (sy5kK)

242 I keep thinking that people are going to start noticing that they're not sick, no one they know is sick--and no one they know KNOWS someone is sick --and they're going to realize it just ain't happening.

But as someone upthread pointed out, people are WILLING to go along with the panic the MSM is pushing, almost like there's a primal NEED to panic.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 14, 2020 10:34 PM (o1fzk)

243
The Daily Mail's hair is on fire with an article with some of these ridiculous worst case model predictions. ZOMG! 10 million Americans will need to be hospitalized and 3 million will need ICU and ventilators.

If you read some stuff on this, which I did over the past few nights, you'll find examples of just how badly these models can overpredict. One case involving MERS or SARS or some shit in some local area. Model predicted 30K infections. There were 800 actual infections.

Model predicted 1 million Ebola cases in one of those outbreaks. Actual infections were 30K in the area.

And to be fair, there are examples where the models underestimated the infection rates, too.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 10:35 PM (f1Vqw)

244 Frank Zappa was like a psychedelic Spike Jones.

Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 10:35 PM (aS1PU)

245 What could possibly go wrong with an engineered bioweapon cultured in a level four facility built by slave labor before we harvested their organs!!
Posted by: ChiCom Ministry of Black Swan Event at March 14, 2020 09:53 PM (BiNEL)

---------

I feel better already!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 10:35 PM (XVuno)

246 My theory is that so many people of that generation ate bad food during the Depression and then in the armed services that that probably lowered culinary expectations as well.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V


Yeah, people also had more children, so meat had to go farther. I have to say, though, I do like beanie weenies.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2020 10:35 PM (+lVUW)

247 "One of my favorites, Cheepnis, about Grade Z monster movies"

If that's the one in the studio where they are recording it, it's great. The backup singers are just darling.

Fun fact. Tina Tuner sang backup for FZ on some tunes. I always wondered what she thought about the lyrics for "Uncle Remus".

Posted by: freaked at March 14, 2020 10:35 PM (Tnijr)

248 I intend on showing no mercy on this shit. Especially when the fear mongers try to lay low and pretend they weren't insisting that everybody else join them in their stupid fucking Pander Panic.
Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 10:33 PM (shN6a)

But will they try out more of the recommendations from their Event 201? Flooding the media with "consistent" info, shutting down parts of the internet to calm panic?

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:36 PM (ONvIw)

249 Frank... I could play you a dozen tunes that you would never guess were Frank. Most people only know the "corporate sell-out" phase where he was being marketed as weird and/or disguting.

I once played "Peaches and Regalia" for my dad who was a big band lover. He liked it until I told him it was "Frank Zappa, you know, the creep".

Yeah, lots of musicians like him cause musicians like music.

Posted by: Hungary Freaks Daddy at March 14, 2020 10:37 PM (D2GZk)

250 Overbaked salmon roll with Velveeta sauce on it on Lent Fridays.

It was the worst.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (Y4EXg)

I'm Catholic too and we never had such an monstrosity. I didn't like having to do Stations of the Cross when I was kid, but I would have rather done them all afternoon than eat that.

We went to nice fish fries at the parish hall.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:37 PM (d6Ksn)

251 I have to say, though, I do like beanie weenies.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2020 10:35 PM (+lVUW)

--------

There's something vaguely racist about this.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 10:37 PM (XVuno)

252 Fun fact. Tina Tuner sang backup for FZ on some tunes. I always wondered what she thought about the lyrics for "Uncle Remus".
Posted by: freaked

---

She probably treated it just like when someone called Liberace a 'fag' at one of his shows.

He said he cried all the way to the bank.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:38 PM (Y4EXg)

253

242 I keep thinking that people are going to start noticing that they're not sick, no one they know is sick--and no one they know KNOWS someone is sick --and they're going to realize it just ain't happening.

But as someone upthread pointed out, people are WILLING to go along with the panic the MSM is pushing, almost like there's a primal NEED to panic.


yes. this aspect of what's going is TERRIFYING me.

because this is NOTHING. it's so clearly not a horrible plague

and yet I'M getting guilt for still going out and trying to live a normal life

BECAUSE PANIC! MUST PANIC! SIT IN HOUSE AND WATCH NETFLIX

nope nope and nope

and the real danger is, this is a "new normal" so NEXT year when there's a new flu strain guess what??!! we do this idiocy all over again!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 10:38 PM (j9HX3)

254 The media is not responsible for those that show up, thread after thread, telling all the booger eaters how this flu has went - wait for it - exponential.

The media is calling the tune. But there is no shortage of those humming along. And they all don't vote straight Democrat.
Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 10:21 PM (shN6a)


I used that exact word a few thread ago talking about the flu. Do you have a problem with it ?

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 10:38 PM (zr5Kq)

255 Anyone else reading Camus's "The Plague"?
Seriously scary novel, by the way. He tells a story of what happens to the humans when the shit hits the fan....

Posted by: Beverly at March 14, 2020 10:38 PM (OU5cS)

256 the protagonists we're supposed to be identifying with are complete idiots.

I think you might have triggered TJM's "Prometheus" defense barrage. Do you have the new screens?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 10:38 PM (l9m7l)

257
I have a knack here of adding some thing that always lands at the end of the thread, so nobody sees it.

therefore, willowed:



Gates' plan?
Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 09:53 PM (ONvIw)

I made a comment late last night after seeing that Bill Gates is retiring from the Board of Directors at Microsoft.

He is taking his 1.36% of all Microsoft stock and leaving.

I hope that Bill just works with his Foundation that is well funded and helps people nationally and globally, and spends time with Melinda and the kids.

And I really hope he isn't thinking of being the mystery compromise candidate on the 11th ballot of the DNC convention.

He does have as much hubris as Trump, he just shows it differently. NYC in your face, versus Pac NW laid back style, but two peas in a pod as far as they think of their level of success.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 10:03 PM (sy5kK)

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, curious about current events at March 14, 2020 10:39 PM (sy5kK)

258 Yeah, people also had more children, so meat had to go farther. I have to say, though, I do like beanie weenies.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2020 10:35 PM (+lVUW)

Yeah, and I still like tuna casserole too.

You're right, if you have 8 people to feed for dinner every night "casserole" is gonna end up on the table frequently.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:40 PM (d6Ksn)

259 But as someone upthread pointed out, people are WILLING to go along with the panic the MSM is pushing, almost like there's a primal NEED to panic.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 14, 2020 10:34 PM (o1fzk)


This stupid shit, in no small measure, feeds the need of many to just be a fucking scold.

It's not enough for them to hole up. They've got to tell you and me why we need to hole up as well.

They insist on it. It's the same group, perversely, that always have to tell you how stupid it is to believe that Epstein didn't kill himself.

Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 10:40 PM (shN6a)

260 Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 10:38 PM (j9HX3)

Y'all don't live in the right places for this, though. The crownbug is CRUSHING the urbanite. Rejoice!

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at March 14, 2020 10:40 PM (IB++I)

261 Zappa was part of the Echo Canyon crowd of musicians. There's a pretty good documentary on Netflix about it. He was atypical, as you can imagine

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 10:40 PM (7ZQe3)

262 30 Tried some Larceny bourbon tonight. Pretty darned tasty. Looked a lot like that top pic.
Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 09:54 PM (7ZQe3)


did you have to steal it?

wouldn't that make it taste just a bit better?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, curious about current events at March 14, 2020 10:40 PM (sy5kK)

263
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, curious about current events at March 14, 2020 10:39 PM (sy5kK)

Event 201 recommendations might explain why the left is still so open borders?

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:41 PM (ONvIw)

264 LOL LS.....

{{{{LS}}}}}

Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 10:41 PM (/UQ/R)

265 Nope, the worst is fish sticks with ketchup.
Posted by: DR.WTF


My fifties childhood must have warped me. I liked fish sticks with ketchup, spam, and tuna casserole. My personal view is that we should have been allowed to eat spam during lent because it hardly qualifies as real meat.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2020 10:41 PM (+lVUW)

266 Plenty of people on Siesta Key Beach tonight. I think you'll find lots of people outdoors when the weather's nice and they aren't packed together. But the bars were doing good business too, though the streets weren't packed as they would be at this time of the year.

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2020 10:41 PM (qAR6u)

267 Coronavirus outbreak postpones hearing on SF bathhouse policy

Probably a major crime in CA to knowingly give someone coronavirus.

Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2020 10:41 PM (jyVW0)

268 The media is not responsible for those that show up, thread after thread, telling all the booger eaters how this flu has went - wait for it - exponential.

Booger eaters ?

Hey !

I've got an idea for a new restaurant !

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 10:42 PM (arJlL)

269 I wondering what to put on my commemorative T-shirt should I we survive the ceebola pandemic of 2020...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 14, 2020 10:42 PM (7WaWV)

270 "And I really hope he isn't thinking of being the mystery compromise candidate on the 11th ballot of the DNC convention."

Gates makes Bloomberg look like Mr. Charisma.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:42 PM (d6Ksn)

271 This stupid shit, in no small measure, feeds the need of many to just be a fucking scold.


YES. it's all the same hectoring annoying fucking women who drive me batty on social media going OFF on me for going out for a beer or a hike when I'm supposed to "stay indoors" for three weeks or some nonsense

STOP. TELLING. PEOPLE. WHAT. TO. DO

yes, people can be idiots! it's not your fucking business! go give your poor sad husbands a pity BJ or something! dayum!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 10:42 PM (j9HX3)

272 >>>We have one month.

Do I hear two?


Ain't enough good, decent, tolerable, Z music to fill two months of ONT.

Sorry MisHum, I will have to agree to disagree about his "music".

Posted by: cfo mom at March 14, 2020 10:42 PM (RfzVr)

273 I'm sorry, Laurel Canyon. Echo in the Canyon is the name of the flick

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 10:42 PM (7ZQe3)

274
I'm getting sick of this "exponential!" shit. Again, amateurs who maybe know a little math, but just know enough to be dangerous.

Simple equations will predict exponential bacterial growth in some simple system. One cell divides, then those divide and the population doubles every so often. That's geometric (discrete)/exponential (continuous) growth.

Now, does anything like that sustain in the real world? Hell now. Finite resources limit the growth. Your simple models and equations don't take that into account. When they do, things get exponentially (heh) more complex and your equations get harder to solve.

And that's exactly what happens with a disease and the number of infected. When the number of infected is a tiny fraction of the population, then the simple SIR model shows exponential growth. That's only the very initial phase.

Now, once the number of infected gets to be a non-trivial fraction of your total population, the exponential slows down.

The infection curve of the SIR mode is a quick ramp-up to a peak, then a flat top and a slow tapering tail.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 10:42 PM (f1Vqw)

275 For understated horror I liked The Fallen with Denzel Washington and John Goodman. Very little gore but scared the heck out of me.

Posted by: Big V at March 14, 2020 10:43 PM (XEC2p)

276 You're right, if you have 8 people to feed for dinner every night "casserole" is gonna end up on the table frequently.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V

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Oh yeah - I have seven sibs. Potatoes, noodles, pasta and polenta were common items. Tuna noodle casserole, chicken pot pie - the PA German version - no crust - noodles, etc., etc., etc.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:43 PM (Y4EXg)

277 I was at a bar/burger/sports joint 2nite. (STL suburbs) I thought it would be deserted. It was PACKED.

Posted by: mnw at March 14, 2020 10:43 PM (Cssks)

278 Gates makes Bloomberg look like Mr. Charisma.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:42 PM (d6Ksn)

Event 201 was held at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and sponsored by Bill and Melinda

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:44 PM (ONvIw)

279 did you have to steal it?

wouldn't that make it taste just a bit better?

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I guess that would make it Grand Larceny

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 10:44 PM (7ZQe3)

280 And I think that after Bloomie stepped on his dick, even the DNC isn't stupid enough to nominate another colorless billionaire and think that he'll be able to spend himself into the WH.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:44 PM (d6Ksn)

281 272 >>>We have one month.

Do I hear two?

Ain't enough good, decent, tolerable, Z music to fill two months of ONT.

Sorry MisHum, I will have to agree to disagree about his "music".
Posted by: cfo mom at March 14, 2020 10:42 PM (RfzVr)


We have two months.
Do I hear 3?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:44 PM (aA3+G)

282 I'm trying to figure a rational explanation for what we're going through besides "fucking commies fucking with the world just because they can" and the best I can come up with is that there is classified information about the virus's danger that no one is telling us. I'm still leaning heavily on A. I have nothing else.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2020 10:44 PM (uEbPt)

283 I think a lot of Generation Juicebox will find out why everyone isn't all that fond of mass transit.

Some are saying avoid Uber too.

Think they'll be able to bicycle 10 miles to where they want to go in March?

I think some will find out that the gaia-killing cars aren't such a bad thing.

Posted by: kbdabear at March 14, 2020 10:44 PM (qAR6u)

284 I just had explosive diarrhea in a public restroom.


Is that a symptom of coronavirus?

Posted by: LOL at March 14, 2020 10:44 PM (AXS9h)

285 269
I wondering what to put on my commemorative T-shirt should I we survive the ceebola pandemic of 2020...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 14, 2020 10:42 PM (7WaWV)


I Survived the Toilet Paper Hysteria of 2020(and all I got was this stupid shirt.)

Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2020 10:44 PM (l3+k2)

286 Gonna move to..Beverly Hills
Just before dawn
And knock the little jockeys
Off the rich peoples lawns

And before they get up
I'll be gone

Posted by: Uncle Remus at March 14, 2020 10:45 PM (D2GZk)

287 Scariest movie I've ever seen was the original 1960's version of The Haunting.

Spoiler alert: nothing happens. You wish something would.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 10:45 PM (l9m7l)

288 I used that exact word a few thread ago talking about the flu. Do you have a problem with it ?
Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 10:38 PM (zr5Kq)


Somewhere - a child is eating biscuits and gravy as part of a school provided meal.

I have no idea why you are wasting time here when shit like that is going on.

Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 10:45 PM (shN6a)

289 I was at a bar/burger/sports joint 2nite. (STL suburbs) I thought it would be deserted. It was PACKED.

ESPN must be awful right now. What do they put on the TV's?

Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2020 10:45 PM (jyVW0)

290 So, with Spring Break coming up will everyone run to the beach and risk "flesh eating bacteria" or "Shark! attacks?
Keep feeding the media folks.

Posted by: Case at March 14, 2020 10:46 PM (EYKgr)

291 284 I just had explosive diarrhea in a public restroom.

Is that a symptom of coronavirus?
Posted by: LOL

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So what's the name of the restaurant you cook at?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:46 PM (Y4EXg)

292 289 I was at a bar/burger/sports joint 2nite. (STL suburbs) I thought it would be deserted. It was PACKED.

ESPN must be awful right now. What do they put on the TV's?
Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2020 10:45 PM (jyVW0)

Probably reruns of women's basketball and soccer. Ugh

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:46 PM (aA3+G)

293 I Survived the Toilet Paper Hysteria of 2020(and all I got was this stupid shirt.)

I had to use the shirt.

Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2020 10:46 PM (jyVW0)

294 I'm sorry, Laurel Canyon. Echo in the Canyon is the name of the flick
Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 10:42 PM (7ZQe3)


Now I've got this song stuck in my head:

https://tinyurl.com/wwql267

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:46 PM (2JVJo)

295 And I think that after Bloomie stepped on his dick, even the DNC isn't stupid enough to nominate another colorless billionaire and think that he'll be able to spend himself into the WH.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V

Aww heck Bloomie never stepped on his dick.

If he ever thought about doing that, it would be the only time in his life that he wished he was shorter.

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 10:46 PM (arJlL)

296 This is not something you'd expect to go through a facial scan for, but in China toilet-goers now need to pass a facial recognition system in order to receive tissue paper.
These camera-equipped dispensers are designed to combat the so-called 'toilet paper thieves', who would hide several metres of communal toilet paper in their bags and sneak them home.

In Fuzhou, each toilet-goer would be given a piece of toilet paper measuring 70cm long (28 inches) once they have their face recognised.

This is the beauty of the Socialist System. From abilities to needs, fairly. Capitalism is evil, it uses too much TP.

Posted by: Bernie Shouts at Clouds at March 14, 2020 10:47 PM (ljmGq)

297 I have read that food photography is much harder to get right than you would think and I'm inclined to believe that after looking at the photos some people take of their food (home made and restaurant meals) and post online. They'll rave about the heavenly meal they're having and the picture looks like swill.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:15 PM (d6Ksn)

A lot of the "food" you see in advertising is fake.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2020 10:47 PM (miJU3)

298 282 I'm trying to figure a rational explanation for what we're going through besides "fucking commies fucking with the world just because they can" and the best I can come up with is that there is classified information about the virus's danger that no one is telling us. I'm still leaning heavily on A. I have nothing else.


omg ME TOO kdabear! I keep thinking, this is nuts, there MUST be some secret info we're not getting?!?!!?

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 10:47 PM (j9HX3)

299 For understated horror I liked The Fallen with Denzel Washington and John Goodman. Very little gore but scared the heck out of me.

Good movie.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 14, 2020 10:47 PM (dUJdY)

300 Posted by: LOL at March 14, 2020 10:44 PM (AXS9h)

Only if you have a fevaah

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at March 14, 2020 10:47 PM (IB++I)

301 Somewhere - a child is eating biscuits and gravy as part of a school provided meal.

I have no idea why you are wasting time here when shit like that is going on.
Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 10:45 PM (shN6a)'

I am here to read you very clever posts.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 10:48 PM (zr5Kq)

302 One of the Californians I follow on Instagram (because hot/crazy/Italian works better at long range) posted "we should all stay home so we don't spread the virus. The smart way to do things. the way the Italians are doing things. That's what our government should be telling us"

If Trump said stay inside and don't touch anyone, all of California would immediately rush outside and start licking one another.

Posted by: Downcast at March 14, 2020 10:48 PM (xgpfE)

303 Scariest movie I've ever seen was the original 1960's version of The Haunting.

Spoiler alert: nothing happens. You wish something would.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 10:45 PM (l9m7l)
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One of the best.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:48 PM (Eicbe)

304 I Survived the Toilet Paper Hysteria of 2020(and all I got was this stupid shirt.)

Better one: "But all I had was this stupid shirt"

Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2020 10:48 PM (jyVW0)

305 Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 10:42 PM (f1Vqw)

Also, you're dealing with a living virus interacting with living people, not a math equation on paper. So many variables come into play - age, general health, hygiene practices, whether a given infected person isolates or goes to a San Fran bathhouse.....I don't see how you can do anything but guess.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:48 PM (d6Ksn)

306 Concur on Fallen as well.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:49 PM (Eicbe)

307 If you are under 50, I think it is important that each individual take personal responsibility for building herd immunity.
So if you see a sniffling, coughing, or feverish guy or gal you are attracted to just walk right up and give them a big old slobbery buss on the lips.
Just be sure to ask before you move on to a TSA gropedown.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 14, 2020 10:49 PM (e1mEI)

308 I ate lunch at a heretofore popular Chinese restaurant on Friday. We were the only party there.

I got the owner to rant a bit by commenting on it.

I here thirty years! No go China! People are clazy!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 14, 2020 10:49 PM (yQpMk)

309 302 One of the Californians I follow on Instagram (because hot/crazy/Italian works better at long range) posted "we should all stay home so we don't spread the virus. The smart way to do things. the way the Italians are doing things. That's what our government should be telling us"

If Trump said stay inside and don't touch anyone, all of California would immediately rush outside and start licking one another.
Posted by: Downcast at March 14, 2020 10:48 PM (xgpfE)


Please dear Lord Jesus let Donnie Two-Scoops say that outloud.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:49 PM (aA3+G)

310 One of the most interesting parts of the Echo Canyon movie is the fact that most of these celebrities don't age too well. Not well at all.

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 10:49 PM (7ZQe3)

311 The old illustrations in cookbooks might not look all that great, but cook them according to the recipe with fresh ingredients, and you can thank me later!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:50 PM (BiNEL)

312
A lot of the "food" you see in advertising is fake.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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I think for the most part it's real. The Truth In Advertising Act forced food companies to stop substituting shaving cream for whipped cream, etc. And it's a challenge when photographing foods that melt under intense lights.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2020 10:50 PM (G51Gf)

313 297 I have read that food photography is much harder to get right than you would think and I'm inclined to believe that after looking at the photos some people take of their food (home made and restaurant meals) and post online. They'll rave about the heavenly meal they're having and the picture looks like swill.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 10:15 PM (d6Ksn)

A lot of the "food" you see in advertising is fake.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2020 10:47 PM (miJU3)

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I recall seeing something about how they "stage" food for photography. Basically, it's not really food anymore. The one I remember most is how they use glue for milk.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 14, 2020 10:50 PM (CAJOC)

314 We have two months.
Do I hear 3?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:44 PM (aA3+G)
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Oh there's plenty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awRy4x9ecfM

Wonderful Wino

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2020 10:50 PM (Dc2NZ)

315 310 One of the most interesting parts of the Echo Canyon movie is the fact that most of these celebrities don't age too well. Not well at all.
Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 10:49 PM (7ZQe3)

Shocked. Fucking shocked I am.


Booze, needles, drugs, Hep C. What could go wrong.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:50 PM (aA3+G)

316 For understated horror I liked The Fallen with Denzel Washington and John Goodman. Very little gore but scared the heck out of me.



If a demon takes a personal interest in fucking with you, you are fucked.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 14, 2020 10:51 PM (yQpMk)

317 314 We have two months.
Do I hear 3?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:44 PM (aA3+G)
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Oh there's plenty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awRy4x9ecfM

Wonderful Wino
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2020 10:50 PM (Dc2NZ)


I knew I could count on you for your support Eris.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:51 PM (aA3+G)

318 I keep thinking, this is nuts, there MUST be some secret info we're not getting?!?!!?

Or the media got suckered into a weak virus like the Democrats got suckered into the Ukraine, revealing their own wrongdoing. That keeps rattling around in my head.

Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2020 10:51 PM (Ry8mf)

319 "Journal of the Plague Year," by Daniel Defoe is an exciting read, but it's a NOVEL written 60-70 years after the fact (going by memory), & it's not historically accurate... & I suspect Defoe didn't care.

Samuel Pepys has a brief, first-person eyewitness account of the 1665 London plague in his diary.

Posted by: mnw at March 14, 2020 10:52 PM (Cssks)

320 Robert Wise's Haunting was one of the best-made horror movies ever. And then Hollywood had to remake it in 1999, you know, like Hollywood would.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:52 PM (Eicbe)

321 ...The one I remember most is how they use glue for milk.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 14, 2020 10:50 PM



I'd read that it was Ivory Liquid...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 14, 2020 10:52 PM (7WaWV)

322 The real interesting thing about those ads is it used to be possible to have a house and raise two children on *one* middle class salary.


I don't know how much more "free" stuff we can afford....

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2020 10:52 PM (WdocV)

323 I was disappointed with Echo in the Canyon. I've always been interested in that era and that "sound", and while the old clips and interviews ( Michelle Phillips admits being a slut) were cool, I thought the new versions of the old songs by some people I like--Jake Dylan, Beck-- were kind of lame.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 14, 2020 10:52 PM (o1fzk)

324 Booze, needles, drugs, Hep C. What could go wrong.

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Michelle Phillips is almost unrecognizable . And she was quite the Fox in her day

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 10:52 PM (7ZQe3)

325
I recall seeing something about how they "stage" food for photography. Basically, it's not really food anymore. The one I remember most is how they use glue for milk.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 14, 2020 10:50 PM (CAJOC)

They say it like it's a scandal, but getting a picture of the food that looks like it tastes is really difficult. Some people figure something out and they think they've blown open the biggest crime in history.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at March 14, 2020 10:53 PM (IB++I)

326 The one I remember most is how they use glue for milk.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 14, 2020 10:50 PM (CAJOC)


Go on.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 14, 2020 10:53 PM (2N7oZ)

327 Or the media got suckered into a weak virus like the Democrats got suckered into the Ukraine, revealing their own wrongdoing. That keeps rattling around in my head.


it's weak here now bc it HAS BEEN HERE SINCE AUTUMN

when we get an antibody test and IF we all get to take it, we will know

but I swear to you, there was a weird fucking bug going around last november and it was KILLER with a weird cough and utter fatigue and it took forever to go away. negative for flu (and I had the flu shot like I always do). my mom got it from me and was laid out for a couple of months with it.

it's weak here - because it's BEEN here

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 10:54 PM (j9HX3)

328 If Trump said stay inside and don't touch anyone, all of California
would immediately rush outside and start licking one another.

***

Pretty sure that's exactly what a bunch of californians are doing now.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2020 10:54 PM (WdocV)

329 Top Gear is perfectly fine shut-in programming.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 14, 2020 10:54 PM (JCrfD)

330 Samuel Pepys has a brief, first-person eyewitness account of the 1665 London plague in his diary.



Bubonic plague.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 10:54 PM (zr5Kq)

331 Zappa: Penguin In Bondage is fairly accessible at only 5:49, timewise. Effective narration so's you don't get lost.


Shake up the pale dry ginger ale...

Posted by: klaftern at March 14, 2020 10:54 PM (RuIsu)

332 Please dear Lord Jesus let Donnie Two-Scoops say that outloud.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:49 PM (aA3+G)


You have a mean streak, but I like the way you think!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:55 PM (BiNEL)

333 Glenmorangie.


Laguvalin.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - No Coronavirus On Mars! at March 14, 2020 10:55 PM (T3tQh)

334 it's weak here - because it's BEEN here
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 10:54 PM (j9HX3)

I'm not so sure. The simulation event was in October, but the virus was 6 weeks later

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:55 PM (ONvIw)

335 Putin offers emergency resupply of toilet paper stocks but Dems block imports...

Posted by: Fake Meme at March 14, 2020 10:55 PM (JjtHW)

336 Robert Wise's Haunting was one of the best-made horror movies ever. And then Hollywood had to remake it in 1999, you know, like Hollywood would.
Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:52 PM (Eicbe)

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The remake had a big special effects budget, loads of CGI, and it couldn't touch the terrifying original.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 10:55 PM (XVuno)

337 @320 we're on the same page, as your reply to me previous is clear. No one makes movies like that anymore.

No one wants to make movies that scare people.

They want to make movies that lecture people.

That said, the Nick Cage "Color Out of Space" comes close.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 10:55 PM (l9m7l)

338 325
I recall seeing something about how they "stage" food for photography. Basically, it's not really food anymore. The one I remember most is how they use glue for milk.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 14, 2020 10:50 PM (CAJOC)

They say it like it's a scandal, but getting a picture of the food that looks like it tastes is really difficult. Some people figure something out and they think they've blown open the biggest crime in history.
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at March 14, 2020 10:53 PM (IB++I)

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What I saw was pretty neutral about it. They acknowledged that food is difficult to photograph well as is. Milk, if I remember correctly, shows up with a slightly blue tinge.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 14, 2020 10:56 PM (CAJOC)

339 I missed the Frank Zappa craze, back in the day.

Looks like that particular shortcoming in my musical education is about to be corrected.


Well, clearly you need to refine your cultural experiences.

A nice sample from Joe's Garage:

https://youtu.be/XPzvr9S34pc

Posted by: 🐧 at March 14, 2020 10:56 PM (uYQjf)

340 I think it's more that Zappa's music was music for other musicians. Por ejemplo, the biggest Rush fans tend to be musicians as well - or D&D players. They get it. Zappa never landed in my playlist, but he was a true creative talent.
Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 10:25 PM (x8Wzq)

Zappa also had a wicked sense of humor. A lot of his stuff is very, very funny. Listen to "Dinah Mo Hum" (very NSFW). If Frank were alive today, he would make a fine Moron.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2020 10:56 PM (miJU3)

341 195 Overbaked salmon roll with Velveeta sauce on it on Lent Fridays.

It was the worst.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (Y4EXg)

Nope, the worst is fish sticks with ketchup.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 10:24 PM (aS1PU)

Both of these sound wonderful to me. Comfort food.

Posted by: m at March 14, 2020 10:56 PM (Y3R0d)

342 "Oh there's plenty!"

There's probably a dozen versions of "Big Leg Emma".

Posted by: freaked at March 14, 2020 10:56 PM (Tnijr)

343 I hope Trump keeps holding giant rallies. Never compromise, even in the face of Germageddon.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 14, 2020 10:56 PM (yQpMk)

344 All science uses mathematics to approximate "reality". An exponential curve approximates the growth curve of a epidemic and the nature of exponents give some insight into the manner of it's propgation. It's just a construct and can be taken to extreames.

Posted by: pawn at March 14, 2020 10:56 PM (D2GZk)

345 The only funny thing SNL has done in the past two decades is The Californians sketch. Nail. On. The. Head.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 14, 2020 10:56 PM (JCrfD)

346
You have a mean streak, but I like the way you think!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 10:55 PM (BiNEL)

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (aA3+G)

347 If he ever thought about doing that, it would be the only time in his life that he wished he was shorter.

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 10:46 PM (arJlL)

I basically Dorf.

Posted by: Lil' Mikey at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (2N7oZ)

348 That's funny. Italy feels that he rest of the EU is trying to shut them out.

Some are beginning to suspect that the EU is not all for one after all.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (Eicbe)

349
Now if you're interested, and it might good to bone up a little on this, to be able to temper some of the hair on fire shit.

Here's Wiki's elementary treatment of the simple epidemic dynamic models:

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

(remove line feed)

Now, note there are several different models. The first one is the SIR model, which is what is applicable here.

Note what you have. Three sets of coupled, non-linear differential equations in three variables, all functions of time. Now, if you know a little math, you know the "non-linear" part means "hard to solve". There are no analytic solutions (someone apparently came up with a closed form analytic solution to the SIR equations around 2014, but it's a very complicated mess), so only numerical solutions are possible.

Here is a link to the graphic showing the form of a typical solution:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yx3m7pdn

Blue curve is S, the susceptibles, the people who haven't caught the disease. The green curve is the number of actively infected people. The Red curve is the number who have recovered (or died) and are no longer infectious.

Pay attention to the green curve. That's the infection curve.

Note the little initial piece of it near zero. That's the exponential phase. Then note it quickly ramps up to a peak, then slowly declines with a long tail.

The final red curve number tells you the total number of people who were infected but recovered (or died). Note interestingly that not all people will get it.

That is the "curve" you hear everyone talking about, the one you want to "flatten"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (f1Vqw)

350 I'm not so sure. The simulation event was in October, but the virus was 6 weeks later


ok it was after november into december - regardless my point is this thing is not "just now" coming to the USA

no idea on the Event 201 thing - it seems creepy and disturbing, just from a quick read. we are all a bunch of sheep apparently

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (j9HX3)

351 You're welcome All Hail Eris.
JT, you are dead to me.

Those that agree with me. Stand firm against the Misanthropic Humanitarian at your own risk.

I plan on groveling for forgiveness; simply asking the court to consider the circumstances to which I was subjectedintroduced to the Mothers. I was an Island boy age 18 at the University of Oregon, a few of my dorm mates gave me a ride to my uncle's house in Portland. They didn't seem evil, until the "music" started. Longest three hours of my young, a.m. radio life. Forty years I've carried this burden. Forgive me Dweezil for I have sinned.

Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (0x00j)

352 Sheik Yerbouti had a lot of great material too.

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (7ZQe3)

353 Anyway if you're bored here's the recommendations of the Event 201 group
who planned for a coronavirus pandemic a few weeks before it happened
***

Yeah, that's weird.


But....a lot of this stuff is obvious. We should maintain a significant production of important resources/basic items domestically. There are a lot of ways to do this but tariffs are probably the easiest and fairest.


Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (WdocV)

354 I keep thinking, this is nuts, there MUST be some secret info we're not getting?!?!!?

I really don't think so. This is just stupid fucking group dynamics.

Those in charge will never say "Well Fuck - we got no clue." And there is never a shortage of the rank and file that will then mimic whatever bullshit rationale those in charge puke down their stupid fucking throats.

It makes the parrots feel superior. People love to scold.

Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (shN6a)

355 Interesting titbit about food photography--Judy, from "Night of the Living Dead" became a food stylist for just that.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (l9m7l)

356 328--I agree. It's been here since December at least. Everyone seemed to have it in different degrees of seriousness, but it was unique enough that ALL remarked about how weird it felt, unlike other "flus."

Posted by: JoeF. at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (o1fzk)

357 Are You Ready To Rumble?

Tomorrow Night! In Phoenix, Peoria, or some other place!

Me against Colonel Sanders! His chicken just isn't finger-licking-good!

There'll be excitement, as I struggle to remember the name of the President I served under, and struggle to remember what office I'm running for!

The anticipation for the big bout will be palpable, until the DNC cancels at the last second, and blames the bolognavirus!

Fight me!

Posted by: Senile Joe Biden! at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (I2/tG)

358 342 195 Overbaked salmon roll with Velveeta sauce on it on Lent Fridays.

It was the worst.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (Y4EXg)

Nope, the worst is fish sticks with ketchup.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 10:24 PM (aS1PU)

Both of these sound wonderful to me. Comfort food.
Posted by: m at March 14, 2020 10:56 PM (Y3R0d)


I'm sorry to hear that

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (aA3+G)

359 344 I hope Trump keeps holding giant rallies. Never compromise, even in the face of Germageddon.


yeah I agree but unfortunately this is Trump's one big weakness - he's a germophobe

the Left has finally hit on how to disarm him with this

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 10:58 PM (j9HX3)

360 Some are beginning to suspect that the EU is not all for one after all.

What body would willingly choose to put FRANCE in charge of the army?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 14, 2020 10:59 PM (JCrfD)

361 Putin offers emergency resupply of toilet paper stocks but Dems block imports...

Posted by: Fake Meme at March 14, 2020 10:55 PM (JjtHW)


That ain't the only thing that's blocked.

Posted by: Jerry Nadler at March 14, 2020 10:59 PM (2N7oZ)

362 ---

Just for fun I occasionally page through my mom's Betty Crocker cookbook from 1950. The pictures of the foods are a scream. But apparently, I ate that stuff.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:01 PM (Y4EXg)

Old cookbooks.

I have an old paperback set of The Joy of Cooking. Growing up, it was my mom's primary cookbook and she had the hard cover version, tattered and spattered.

I just checked, the original copyright was 1931. My paperback version print date was 1974.

It still has in wild game recipes, and how to clean freshly killed game. How to clean pheasants and ducks, rabbits, and squirrels all have an accompanying simple drawing how to pull the skin/fur off properly and where to cut, and other specifics about handling wild game that nobody would see in a modern cookbook.

They also have tips for bear, woodchuck, raccoon, opossum, muskrat, beaver as well as of course those North American standbys - venison, moose and elk.

For wild boar, they reference the suckling pig recipe for young boar, or the moist heat process for pork, if it is older. Both of those recipes are in different sections.

Oh, and they point out in the first sentence of Beaver, to ONLY USE YOUNG BEAVER. It's the first sentence, so it must be really important.




Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 10:59 PM (sy5kK)

363 357 328--I agree. It's been here since December at least. Everyone seemed to have it in different degrees of seriousness, but it was unique enough that ALL remarked about how weird it felt, unlike other "flus."
Posted by: JoeF. at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (o1fzk)

I know people with flu that started with headaches and bone pain, this year's illness was different.

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:59 PM (ONvIw)

364 >>>We have two months.

Do I hear 3?


You don't scare me Dad! I don't have to click on your links!

(Actually if you could point me to some Zappa that does not make my ears want to stab themselves, I would appreciate that. The guy put out a lot of product, but most of what I have heard is pretty yucky. I am open to being shown otherwise.)

Posted by: cfo mom at March 14, 2020 10:59 PM (RfzVr)

365 The remake had a big special effects budget, loads of CGI, and it couldn't touch the terrifying original.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 10:55 PM (XVuno)
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And the remake substituted an *attack* by a fireplace for unrelieved suspense.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:59 PM (Eicbe)

366 Your wife, she called to say itsa o.k.

Posted by: The Paolo at March 14, 2020 10:59 PM (0x00j)

367 I think?


Spankings will make girls quit.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - No Coronavirus On Mars! at March 14, 2020 10:59 PM (T3tQh)

368 I presume that this is just a reflection of our no risk society.


If a politician pushes people to quarantine/work from home there is no cost to them. If things get bad he was the one looking out for you and if things don't get bad well, that's because he was looking out for you!




Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2020 11:00 PM (WdocV)

369 My fifties childhood must have warped me. I liked
fish sticks with ketchup, spam, and tuna casserole. Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2020 10:41 PM


Fifties? Hell, that was my 70s and 80s!

Posted by: Bert G at March 14, 2020 11:00 PM (OMsf+)

370 320 Robert Wise's Haunting was one of the best-made horror movies ever. And then Hollywood had to remake it in 1999, you know, like Hollywood would.
Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 10:52 PM (Eicbe)

Same thing happened with "The Shining." The 1988 Dutch-French film was one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen (and it had no gore whatsoever).

The director then trashed his own movie by making a Hollywood version (with a "happy" ending) a few years later. It sucked.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 11:00 PM (d6Ksn)

371 it's weak here - because it's BEEN here

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 10:54 PM (j9HX3)


Our beloved trading partners, the ChiComs, knew it had escaped the Wuhan lab back in the fall, but failed to warn anyone for at least two (probably three or more) months and Wuhan is a major manufacturing city with extensive traffic (and sales) between the US and China. Toss in at least one week of asymptomatic disease and presto!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:00 PM (BiNEL)

372
I try to find good stuff so you hang with us LC Dawg.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:11 PM (aA3+G)

You da man!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 11:00 PM (sy5kK)

373 All science uses mathematics to approximate "reality". An exponential curve approximates the growth curve of a epidemic and the nature of exponents give some insight into the manner of it's propgation. It's just a construct and can be taken to extreames.

If you are CNN, exponential is your Go-To.

If you are honest, you will look at the Gompertz Curve.

Posted by: 🐧 at March 14, 2020 11:01 PM (uYQjf)

374 If a politician pushes people to quarantine/work from home there is no cost to them. If things get bad he was the one looking out for you and if things don't get bad well, that's because he was looking out for you!




Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2020 11:00 PM (WdocV)

Exactly.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 11:01 PM (d6Ksn)

375 The most frightening thing is what you don't know. That's why the big-budget splatter stuff never works as well as the original.

Exception alert: The Thing, from John Carpenter. Took it in a different direction and it worked.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 11:01 PM (l9m7l)

376 A Harley fan comment I always liked:

"I'd rather see my sister in a whorehouse than my brother on a Honda"

Posted by: mnw at March 14, 2020 11:01 PM (Cssks)

377 Or the media got suckered into a weak virus like the Democrats got suckered into the Ukraine, revealing their own wrongdoing. That keeps rattling around in my head.
Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2020 10:51 PM (Ry8mf)

Ucrane ?? nevah hurd ovit !!

Posted by: MSM at March 14, 2020 11:01 PM (rpxSz)

378 365 >>>We have two months.

Do I hear 3?

You don't scare me Dad! I don't have to click on your links!

(Actually if you could point me to some Zappa that does not make my ears want to stab themselves, I would appreciate that. The guy put out a lot of product, but most of what I have heard is pretty yucky. I am open to being shown otherwise.)
Posted by: cfo mom at March 14, 2020 10:59 PM (RfzVr)


There will be plenty of time to click to see what you may like.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 11:01 PM (aA3+G)

379 Spankings will make girls quit.
___

You aren't meeting the right girls apparently.

Posted by: Obligatory at March 14, 2020 11:01 PM (WdocV)

380 JT, you are dead to me.

!

I always wondered how I was gonna die.

Kinda seems .........anti-climactic .

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 11:01 PM (arJlL)

381 I miss Frank too. I would love to see the current craziness through his eyes and "ears".

Posted by: pawn at March 14, 2020 11:02 PM (D2GZk)

382 no idea on the Event 201 thing - it seems creepy and disturbing, just from a quick read. we are all a bunch of sheep apparently
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM (j9HX3)


It seems like the usual junket justification people come up in any sphere, from what I can tell. I got to run through GRIDEX 2019 which was a realtime simulation of a coordinated attack on power generation, transmission, and distribution nationwide. Spoiler alert: the "lessons learned" were common sense and should have surprised nobody. But a bunch of fancy people got to put a big shiny bullet point on their resumes.

https://tinyurl.com/rvtfn4t

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2020 11:02 PM (t+qrx)

383 If a politician pushes people to quarantine/work from home there is no cost to them. If things get bad he was the one looking out for you and if things don't get bad well, that's because he was looking out for you!


right it's another take on The Forgotten Man problem that Amity Shales spoke of.

this situation is really worrying me b/c if they are wrong (which they definitely are) on this being some horrible deadly plaque they are just going to say "well it was no big deal b/c of the sheltering in place thing" and then this 2-3 weeks of isolation of EVERYONE will be SOP

that's really bad

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 11:02 PM (j9HX3)

384
Blow me.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (XF4b


I've been busy, but text me your address and I'll be there this week.

Posted by: Andrew Gillum at March 14, 2020 11:02 PM (sy5kK)

385 "I'd rather see my sister in a whorehouse than my brother on a Honda"

___

That's hot.

Posted by: Lena Dunham at March 14, 2020 11:02 PM (WdocV)

386 I think Overbaked salmon roll with Velveeta sauce was the name of Frank's 36th album.

Posted by: Axeman at March 14, 2020 11:02 PM (Eicbe)

387 SAD.
Is that the end?



Posted by: deplorable unperson - No Coronavirus On Mars! at March 14, 2020 11:03 PM (T3tQh)

388 Oh, and they point out in the first sentence of Beaver, to ONLY USE YOUNG BEAVER. It's the first sentence, so it must be really important.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 10:59 PM (sy5kK)


Good advice is timeless!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:03 PM (BiNEL)

389 You know, it looked to me like it was titty skin..

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 14, 2020 11:03 PM (yQpMk)

390 ONLY USE YOUNG BEAVER.
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Words I lived by

Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein at March 14, 2020 11:03 PM (WdocV)

391 FZ Yo' Mama is the one my daughter and I relate to the most... Then there's Village of the Sun.

Posted by: sTevo at March 14, 2020 11:03 PM (JjtHW)

392 52 That dish made in Pyrex looks hideous...I wouldn't eat it!
Posted by: lin-duh at March 14, 2020 09:54 PM (UUBmN)

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Gelatinous brown food material garnished with egg slices, clumps of moss and a Christmas tree ornament? What's not to like?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 09:58 PM (XVuno)

Food at the reception must have been atrocious.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, at March 14, 2020 11:04 PM (Vy7tf)

393 I was sick AF first half of December. Stubborn URI I couldn't shake. Doctor diagnosed me with pneumonia, gave me amoxicillin.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 14, 2020 11:04 PM (iTXRQ)

394 I think it was Boris Karloff (but it has been attributed everywhere) who said it best--
"Horror" is what you are confronted with. EG, a mutilated body.

"Terror" is what might be out there. EG, noises in the night.

"Drunkeness" is what you might confront from AoS commentors.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 11:04 PM (l9m7l)

395 Also, if MLB doesn't shut down when all the other sports do, and someone who goes to Yankee Stadium on Opening Day later tests positive, and so do a handful of other people, well, lawsuits here we come.

I think these businesses are deciding they'd rather take a dive now than get sued later - and get smeared for "putting profits before people."

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 11:04 PM (d6Ksn)

396 We were sitting outside tonight drinking adult beverages and I asked if anyone knew or had heard of anyone sick with this Kung flu. There were 10 if us and none of us knew of anyone or any family that was sick. So we all called our kids and sibs to find put if anyone knew of anyone sick. No one could come up with anyone who even had a cold. We went through nearly 100 people in every area of the country, and couldn't find anyone sick. Yes, we're all fairly healthy but we're all over 29. But we all heard the same story, there was panic shopping, everyone had 5 years worth of toilet paper, and the hate for the MSM seems to be starting.

Posted by: Abby at March 14, 2020 11:04 PM (SM/op)

397 Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:53 PM (ONvIw)

Damn CN. A space, all you had to do is put a space in the middle of that text string and you would not have blown the margins.

Posted by: tbodie at March 14, 2020 11:04 PM (V0CWC)

398 382 I miss Frank too. I would love to see the current craziness through his eyes and "ears".
Posted by: pawn at March 14, 2020 11:02 PM (D2GZk)

Trouble Every Day is timeless.

You are what you is is so fitting for the cray cray transshit.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 11:05 PM (aA3+G)

399 He might have left out the last bit

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 11:05 PM (l9m7l)

400 Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 11:02 PM (j9HX3)

Why do you think I also want the power to confiscate your long guns?

Posted by: VA Governor Ralph Coonman Gosnell y Northam at March 14, 2020 11:05 PM (BiNEL)

401 cfo mom

Check out "The Yellow Shark", his last.

There are many more.

Posted by: pawn at March 14, 2020 11:05 PM (D2GZk)

402 Zappa was a musical genius, you can't argue that.
He appeared on the Steve Allen show (before it was the Tonight Show) playing a tune on bicycle spokes.
He had an anti-authoritarian streak a mile wide, mostly due to an obscenity bust early on in his career, in which a deputy hired him to record a naughty song, then busted him for producing obscene works. Classic entrapment.
His son is touring and performing his works.

Posted by: navybrat, at large at March 14, 2020 11:05 PM (w7KSn)

403 Yes, we're all fairly healthy but we're all over 29. But we all heard the same story, there was panic shopping, everyone had 5 years worth of toilet paper, and the hate for the MSM seems to be starting.
Posted by: Abby at March 14, 2020 11:04 PM (SM/op)


Somebody doesn't understand exponents.

Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 11:06 PM (shN6a)

404 ...and then this 2-3 weeks of isolation of EVERYONE will be SOTP.

Fixed.

Posted by: Bert G at March 14, 2020 11:06 PM (OMsf+)

405 I LOVE my dear one.


Hope you all have the same story.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - No Coronavirus On Mars! at March 14, 2020 11:06 PM (T3tQh)

406 Zappa was a musical genius, you can't argue that.

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Could I have the floor please?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 11:07 PM (XVuno)

407 Eddie Van Halen once said, BEFORE his brother Duane died in a one-vehicle motorcycle crash:

"My brother's Harley only has 2 speeds: 90 & parked."

Posted by: mnw at March 14, 2020 11:07 PM (Cssks)

408 392 FZ Yo' Mama is the one my daughter and I relate to the most... Then there's Village of the Sun.
Posted by: sTevo at March 14, 2020 11:03 PM (JjtHW)


I guess you don't listen to "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"


If she were my daughter, i'd...
What would you do, frankie?
Well, if she were my daughter, i'd...
What would you do, frankie?
If she were my daughter, i'd...
What would you do, frankie?
Check this out
Smother my daughter in chocolate syrup
And strap her on again, oh baby
Smother that girl in chocolate syrup
And strap her on again
She's my teen-age baby
She turns me on
I'd like to make her do a nasty
On the white house lawn
Smother my daughter in chocolate syrup
And boogie 'til the cows come home

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 11:07 PM (aA3+G)

409 .."But all I had was this stupid shirt"

Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2020 10:48 PM (jyVW0)



One Upsmanship: "..But all I had was this shitty tee shirt."



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 14, 2020 11:07 PM (QzJWU)

410 I recall seeing something about how they "stage" food for photography. Basically, it's not really food anymore. The one I remember most is how they use glue for milk.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 14, 2020 10:50 PM (CAJOC)
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I saw that too--must have been linked here. They used white glue for pizza cheese and soy sauce for coffee. And they screwed pizza to a board and covered up the screw with a piece of pepperoni. LOL

Posted by: IrishEi at March 14, 2020 11:07 PM (sGotD)

411 t's weak here now bc it HAS BEEN HERE SINCE AUTUMN

Interesting theory. May explain why the CDC put out requests for Quarantine Officers last fall.

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/549063900

Posted by: 🐧 at March 14, 2020 11:07 PM (uYQjf)

412 @341 If Frank were alive today, he would make a fine Moron.

My brother attends all the Zappa plays Zappa. Dweasel played Hot Rats on the latest tour, just the other day in Albany, NY. At the Egg.

Posted by: sTevo at March 14, 2020 11:08 PM (JjtHW)

413 334 Glenmorangie.


Laguvalin.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - No Coronavirus On Mars! at March 14, 2020 10:55 PM (T3tQh)
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O Elbereth Gilthoniel!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2020 11:08 PM (Dc2NZ)

414 Don't be "that guy". You know, that guy who two months from now can't park his cars in his double car garage because it's stuffed with toilet paper.

Posted by: Case at March 14, 2020 11:08 PM (EYKgr)

415 Zappa testified against Tipper Gore, in House hearings.

You like Tipper, Cicero? Wonder bread music?

Posted by: navybrat, at large at March 14, 2020 11:08 PM (w7KSn)

416 Trouble Every Day

The early version from Freak Out

Pre rap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girnJH7tvpM

Posted by: pawn at March 14, 2020 11:09 PM (D2GZk)

417 I saw that too--must have been linked here. They used white glue for pizza cheese and soy sauce for coffee. And they screwed pizza to a board and covered up the screw with a piece of pepperoni. LOL
Posted by: IrishEi at March 14, 2020 11:07 PM (sGotD)

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In hamburger shots, they paint the meat with mineral oil to make it look juicy. Yum.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 11:09 PM (XVuno)

418 I was sick AF first half of December. Stubborn URI I couldn't shake. Doctor diagnosed me with pneumonia, gave me amoxicillin.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 14, 2020 11:04 PM (iTXRQ)


Very healthy, but older, neighbor really had a bad bout of something in Mid February, but he seems to be on the mend.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:09 PM (BiNEL)

419 132 The cat meme is damn funny. Back to content
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at March 14, 2020 10:13 PM (w2TA9)

I've already shared it with some of my warped friends and gotten a couple of expected responses.

It takes some good material to get multiple responses from the warped people I associate with.

Well, guessing that because I am often here like many others, you all understand exactly what I mean.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 11:09 PM (sy5kK)

420 233 Scary horror movies:

The ORIGINAL "Night of the Living Dead," filmed in Pittsburgh for $2.37, in 1966 (I think it was).

I'm not readily scared, either... not by a movie.

The one sequel where everybody was panicking in a TV newsroom was pretty cool, too... plus it provided a great deal of vicarious pleasure, too...seeing all those azaleas throwing down their headphones, taking off their high-heeled shoes, & running for their lives. LOVED it!
Posted by: mnw



Filmed in Cranberry Township and Evans City, just north of Pittsburgh. (takes W.PA nerd glasses off). I can say that I had a relative in that movie. My Great-great-grandmother is buried at the Evans City cemetery. She was buried there in 1941, so she was in Night of the Living Dead. Well, under it anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 14, 2020 11:09 PM (6nDkh)

421 "Your wife called and said it was ok."
Harley Davidson Motorcycle Dealer

"Bring your wife in and we'll dicker."
'80s used car salesman

Posted by: Rex B at March 14, 2020 11:10 PM (xjSBF)

422 You like Tipper, Cicero? Wonder bread music?
Posted by: navybrat, at large at March 14, 2020 11:08 PM (w7KSn)

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I dig REO Speedwagon just as much as the next hipster, man.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 11:10 PM (XVuno)

423 Donna&&&&&&&.......MLB has already cancelled/postponed. Not happy about our opening day tickets and celebration of Larry Walker HOF two weeks later

Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 11:10 PM (/UQ/R)

424 The thing about music is that it strikes everyone in a far more personal vein than any other artform. It strikes right at the center of the lizard brain in all humans.

There are artists and genres of music that I would not hesitate to share, because they really speak to the emotional center of the human brain.

There are other artists, genres and even songs that mean a lot to me, but I would never expect to mean anything to anyone, ever. Do I love them less?

No, I just find them a little more difficult to justify. Actually, that's a lie, I don't try to justify them to anyone. I like them, and that's that.

I will NEVER be asked to be the DJ at a Horde Party, and I'm OK with that.

So: you may love Zappa, you may love Eno, you may love Beatles, you may love (whoever) and I am totally okay with all of that.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 11:11 PM (l9m7l)

425 >>> I LOVE my dear one.


Hope you all have the same story.
Posted by: deplorable unperson

Not sure if this counts, but I met my wife (going on 24 years) and mother of our three kids, in a strip club. And she out-earns me, exponentially. Yes, I count my luck stars every day.

Posted by: 6-4-3 at March 14, 2020 11:11 PM (+s3I6)

426 Well, I made the mistake of signing into FacePlant. The "extrapolationists" are quite worked up - "100,000 or more potential cases in Ohio alone by next week!!!". Didn't some bint from the CDC offer up this garbage? What a CF.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 14, 2020 11:11 PM (EgshT)

427 btw just ranting but if I hear "we're all in this together" one more damn time....

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 11:11 PM (j9HX3)

428 Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:53 PM (ONvIw)

Blowing the margins makes it unpleasant for others to read the blog.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 14, 2020 11:11 PM (dLLD6)

429 Puddle

George Romero HAD it. He just DID.

Posted by: mnw at March 14, 2020 11:11 PM (Cssks)

430 The problem with any idea that the media/Dems are pushing this to get Trump is that the panic and hysteria are all over the world. There's a TP shortage in Australia as well. "Get Trump" doesn't explain why everyone in Italy is reduced to entertaining themselves by singing on their balconies. Or why everything is shut down in Israel too.

How about: the media just likes to stir shit up because that's what they do.

And the hysteria about this is driven by the fact that, unlike Swine Flu, there is no vaccine.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 11:11 PM (d6Ksn)

431
Don't be "that guy". You know, that guy who two months from now can't
park his cars in his double car garage because it's stuffed with toilet
paper.

Posted by: Case at March 14, 2020 11:08 PM (EYKgr)

Garage?

Posted by: Shep! at March 14, 2020 11:12 PM (2N7oZ)

432 Without Zappa, we would be The Carpenters, all day, every day.

Posted by: navybrat, at large at March 14, 2020 11:12 PM (w7KSn)

433 All I ever wanted was for you to love me. Was that too much to ask?

Posted by: Kazi the pariah at March 14, 2020 11:12 PM (0x00j)

434 I am going to bed, I think. I love all of you. I hope your Sunday is awesome.

And even though from the above, I sound like one, I am not a dog.

(Wish I could be.)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2020 11:12 PM (l9m7l)

435
Do you think they'll shut down "parts of the internet" to slow the panic, the way they did in the simulation back in October?
Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (ONvIw)

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Oh, who knows? Probably. Everyone and everything has become stupid.

It's not like people could figure out to use a rag, and then clean and boil it, or run the rinsed rags through the washer with some disinfectant.

No. Just buy every shred of pulped paper in the Northern Hemisphere, and then shut down the internet. That's the ticket.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2020 11:12 PM (bQe8/)

436 @408 I try to maintain a PG-13 correspondence with my kids, even though they are of age!

Posted by: sTevo at March 14, 2020 11:12 PM (JjtHW)

437 423 Donna&&&&&&&.......MLB has already cancelled/postponed. Not happy about our opening day tickets and celebration of Larry Walker HOF two weeks later
Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 11:10 PM (/UQ/R)

I know. I'm saying that's what they're afraid would happen if they didn't postpone.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 11:12 PM (d6Ksn)

438 188 In 2040 they will still be talking about The Great Toilet Paper Panic in 2020!
Posted by: Case at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (EYKgr


Hoo, the humanity!

Posted by: Spotted Owl at March 14, 2020 11:13 PM (Vy7tf)

439 Posted by: DonnaV at March 14, 2020 11:11 PM (d6Ksn)

The American media drive a significant portion of the world media. It is naive to think that the Aussies aren't consuming our media and taking their cues from it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 14, 2020 11:13 PM (dLLD6)

440 Not sure if this counts, but I met my wife (going on 24 years) and mother of our three kids, in a strip club.
Posted by: 6-4-3

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If you claim YOU were doing the stripping and she was the vice cop, I'm gonna have to throw the BS flag on this one.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 11:13 PM (Y4EXg)

441 If you love someone?

Good for you. SO awesome to be crazy for her.

Tell her and Show her.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - No Coronavirus On Mars! at March 14, 2020 11:13 PM (T3tQh)

442 btw just ranting but if I hear "we're all in this together" one more damn time....

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 11:11 PM (j9HX3)


Given the exponential infection rates, and the abundance of caution that only makes sense - we really are.

*pukes in own mouth a little bit*

Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 11:13 PM (shN6a)

443 403 Zappa was a musical genius, you can't argue that.


He's no Moon Unit.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 14, 2020 11:13 PM (oVJmc)

444 Night BC

Posted by: The Paolo at March 14, 2020 11:13 PM (0x00j)

445 First!!!

Posted by: ALH at March 14, 2020 11:14 PM (Jeys4)

446 So, if Wuhan Flu kills less people than the "normal" flus that keep coming out of China are we going to do this same song and dance every few years when a new one comes along?


Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2020 11:14 PM (WdocV)

447 Hey everybody.

That's a pussywhipped Harley dealership right there

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2020 11:14 PM (L2ZTs)

448 446 So, if Wuhan Flu kills less people than the "normal" flus that keep coming out of China are we going to do this same song and dance every few years when a new one comes along?


thank you 18-1 this is EXACTLY what I'm worried about.

I think yeah - this is now precedent!!!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 11:15 PM (j9HX3)

449 >>> If you claim YOU were doing the stripping and she was the vice cop, I'm gonna have to throw the BS flag on this one.
Posted by: Tonypete at March


Dear Penthouse,

Posted by: 6-4-3 at March 14, 2020 11:15 PM (+s3I6)

450 You know dying without toilet paper is a real sh*tty way to go.

Posted by: Obligatory at March 14, 2020 11:15 PM (WdocV)

451 I would have been here sooner but it took me this long to read the content.
MisHum spent his entire nickel tonight.

Posted by: ALH at March 14, 2020 11:16 PM (Jeys4)

452 SK reports 76 new cases.


First time in 23 days they were under 100.

Posted by: LOL at March 14, 2020 11:16 PM (AXS9h)

453 @ 450 I was thinking the same thing and couldn't put it to words.

Posted by: sTevo at March 14, 2020 11:16 PM (JjtHW)

454 So, if Wuhan Flu kills less people than the "normal" flus that keep coming out of China are we going to do this same song and dance every few years when a new one comes along?

Depends if Trump is elected to a second term.

Posted by: 🐧 at March 14, 2020 11:16 PM (uYQjf)

455 Rzzzzzzzzzzz..........

Posted by: Weasels at March 14, 2020 11:16 PM (D2GZk)

456 Oh I read a bit on the Spanish flu last night. One of the better vetted theories is that it came out of....China...originally.


Apparently though on everything updated recently that theory is listed as rayciss.


Note, that doesn't mean the theory is right - there are other theories as well - but apparently we can't do science anymore.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2020 11:17 PM (WdocV)

457 451 I would have been here sooner but it took me this long to read the content.
MisHum spent his entire nickel tonight.
Posted by: ALH at March 14, 2020 11:16 PM (Jeys4)

---------

Does anybody really need all this content?

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at March 14, 2020 11:17 PM (XVuno)

458 But we all heard the same story, there was panic shopping, everyone had 5 years worth of toilet paper, and the hate for the MSM seems to be starting.
Posted by: Abby at March 14, 2020 11:04 PM (SM/op)


Europe - Italy's been hit pretty hard. Not China, western country, with fairly good living standard. People just don't know. The doctors I talked to point to CDC and say that they don't know. Data gathering is still in progress. Upthread someone mentioned bubonic plague. At the time no one knew where that came from, how it spread or how to cure it. They did not know either.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 11:17 PM (zr5Kq)

459 Blowing the margins makes it unpleasant for others to read the blog.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 14, 2020 11:11 PM (dLLD6)


It depresses those of us who aren't getting any, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 11:17 PM (2JVJo)

460 Kazi?

I always loved you.


Don't waste time. Loving someone, makes you more than you are.

Do it.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - No Coronavirus On Mars! at March 14, 2020 11:17 PM (T3tQh)

461 SK reports 76 new cases.


First time in 23 days they were under 100.
Posted by: LOL at March 14, 2020 11:16 PM (AXS9h)


That could be exponential. Decay.

Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 11:18 PM (shN6a)

462 I think yeah - this is now precedent!!!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 11:15 PM (j9HX3)


Just wait until a Dem administration is gifted with such an event!

Bernie will look like a kindly old man!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:18 PM (BiNEL)

463 "CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y.

and his gun discharged."


See? THIS is why NYers should have their guns taken away.
This would never happen in Texas or Montana.


*runs and hides*

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2020 11:18 PM (3ghq6)

464 156 This is how sane people do it...
"Coronavirus: 60% of UK population need to become infected so country can build 'herd immunity', government's chief scientist says"
Posted by: The Shape of Vodka at March 14, 2020 10:17 PM (2oYEN)


George Carlin had the same message over 20 years ago, when he told the crowd about how as a kid, he swam in the Hudson River, and how to build a strong immune system (also linked a few nights ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y-yH_Qyipc

the swimming part starts about 2:25, but worth the entire 5:55.

I think of this place every time I watch it.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 11:18 PM (sy5kK)

465 >>>publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 10:57 PM

Wow. "...simple epidemic dynamic models", "non-linear differential equations", "exponential phase".

This is the Horde, It's 11 pm on a Saturday night. That seems a bit too intellectual for us at this time.

Posted by: cfo mom at March 14, 2020 11:19 PM (RfzVr)

466 We scored toilet paper today! I guess we win Game of Throne!

So fucking over it. I begged my boss to just let me come to work, but no, for the next two weeks we're on some forced rotation scheme that makes no sense.

My kid went to a St. Paddy's party tonight and was asked to bring a bottle to share...and a roll of paper towels, lol.

Posted by: Gem at March 14, 2020 11:19 PM (65i3Q)

467 If we ever should run out of bogroll here at teh palatial Zettaibunker, I think I would just do my bidness in the shower and stomp my leavings down into the drain...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 14, 2020 11:19 PM (7WaWV)

468 Note, that doesn't mean the theory is right - there are other theories as well - but apparently we can't do science anymore.

No one "does" science these days, rather you "believe in science".

Posted by: 🐧 at March 14, 2020 11:19 PM (uYQjf)

469
btw just ranting but if I hear "we're all in this together" one more damn time....

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 11:11 PM (j9HX3)

----

Yeah, fuck that.

This guy ain't in it with all of "us."

I'm going to keep on keeping on, and if I happen to CATCH A FUCKING COLD, then so be it.

Because it's a cold, and I'm nonplussed.

Ridiculous, silly shit.

I'm going to take full advantage of this idiocy, though. My company's planning to give us all more or less open ended WFH privileges, as opposed to my usual every-other-day deal.

And airfares are rock-bottom.

I'ma take the kids and old lady to my folks' place in the Great Smokys, kick dem feet up, and pop open an ice-cold beer, while all these people act a fool. Even though it tastes like shit, I might make the first one a Corona, just to toast my good fortune.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2020 11:19 PM (bQe8/)

470 Note, that doesn't mean the theory is right - there are other theories as well - but apparently we can't do science anymore.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2020 11:17 PM (WdocV)

--------

In The Great Influenza, the author surmises that it actually originated in Kansas and got shipped overseas with the WWI doughboys.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at March 14, 2020 11:19 PM (XVuno)

471 Oops. Off, commie sock.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 11:20 PM (XVuno)

472 Has we hit a thousand yet?

Howdy, Hordies.

The Bicycle video? There was something about it that was just terribly distracting. About a minute into it, I hit 'mute.' Helped a lot.

You can see by this, I'm barely engaged yet in the content.

Posted by: mindful webworker
The Sanders-Biden Debate
at March 14, 2020 11:20 PM (jhgxs)

473 Bernie is a piece of human shit.

Seriously. Valueless.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - No Coronavirus On Mars! at March 14, 2020 11:20 PM (T3tQh)

474 Rzzzzzzzzzzz..........
Posted by: Weasels

Are you competing with NGU ?

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 11:20 PM (arJlL)

475 You do love me! You do love me!

Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 11:21 PM (0x00j)

476
Same thing happened with "The Shining." The 1988 Dutch-French film was one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen (and it had no gore whatsoever).

The director then trashed his own movie by making a Hollywood version (with a "happy" ending) a few years later. It sucked.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V

=======

Are you thinking of "The Vanishing"?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2020 11:21 PM (G51Gf)

477 I like the Carpenters. They both had a lot of talent. Karen's voice was one of the most beautiful I have ever heard.

Posted by: ALH at March 14, 2020 11:21 PM (Jeys4)

478
Oh I read a bit on the Spanish flu last night. One of the better vetted theories is that it came out of....China...originally.


Apparently though on everything updated recently that theory is listed as rayciss.


Note, that doesn't mean the theory is right - there are other theories as well - but apparently we can't do science anymore.


Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2020 11:17 PM (WdocV)


So blaming the spics isn't racist, but blaming the chinks is?

Posted by: WTF at March 14, 2020 11:21 PM (2N7oZ)

479 Hey, y'all!

Wow! It's all contenty. Wonder what it all says...

And Top 500! Woo-hoo!

Thanks, Mis Hum

Posted by: Boomer Redneque hears small arms fire off in the distance at March 14, 2020 11:21 PM (KXHve)

480 Frank Zappa was like a psychedelic Spike Jones.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 10:35 PM (aS1PU)

Heh. True, dat. Both were consummate musicians.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2020 11:22 PM (miJU3)

481 Posted by: navybrat, at large at March 14, 2020 11:12 PM (w7KSn)

Or air supply

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 11:22 PM (aA3+G)

482 I am sure it has been mentioned, but anyone remember when parents would throw "chicken pox" parties? Or maybe it was measles, or mumps. But I remember something like that being a thing.

Posted by: 6-4-3 at March 14, 2020 11:23 PM (+s3I6)

483 We are 2 days into corona virus lock down, schools closed soccer suspended, parties canceled. most activities shut down. Kids are bored, whining, fighting and driving me crazy.


Only Day 2. I hope the wine Mom's are enjoying this as much as me. How much worse can death by Chinese flu be?

Posted by: Ripley at March 14, 2020 11:23 PM (UPTl7)

484 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 14, 2020 11:23 PM (Ci6sH)

485 Here is a 100% true anecdote about the Black Plague of 1347-8 (i.e., the BIG one!):

It was decided that it would be unseemly for the Pope to flee Rome as the Plague approached. Wouldn't look good. So... they put him in front of a roaring fire, in the middle of a very hot Roman summer. It worked. Rats & fleas don't LIKE fire.

They didn't know WHY it worked. Somebody just thought, "Well, it couldn't hurt."

Posted by: mnw at March 14, 2020 11:23 PM (Cssks)

486 I just had a premonition of the future a year from now: Everyone is panicking over Coronavirus II, also known as DosEquisVirus.

"My virus doesn't always kill, but when it does, it kills with extreme prejudice!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2020 11:23 PM (L2ZTs)

487 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2020 11:19 PM (bQe8/)


Prost

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 11:24 PM (aA3+G)

488 I am sure it has been mentioned, but anyone remember when parents would throw "chicken pox" parties?


==


No. WHat's that ??

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 11:24 PM (zr5Kq)

489
Overbaked salmon roll with Velveeta sauce on it on Lent Fridays.

It was the worst.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:23 PM (Y4EXg)


wow! overbaked salmon?

we only got "fish". have no idea what fish it was. just "please mom, more tartar sauce".

you must be from the rich side of the tracks!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 11:24 PM (sy5kK)

490 You do love me! You do love me!
Posted by: Kazi

Ummm......not after ya kilt me !

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 11:24 PM (arJlL)

491 Without Zappa, we would be The Carpenters, all day, every day.
Posted by: navybrat, at large at March 14, 2020 11:12 PM


Karen Carpenter, isolated vocals
https://youtu.be/kDpeU4lF4d8

Posted by: Chuck C at March 14, 2020 11:24 PM (r6GXX)

492 apparently we can't do science anymore.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2020 11:17 PM (WdocV)


"I would prefer not to."

Posted by: Scrivener Bartleby at March 14, 2020 11:24 PM (BiNEL)

493 done - much love to you all

Posted by: deplorable unperson - No Coronavirus On Mars! at March 14, 2020 11:25 PM (T3tQh)

494 431
Don't be "that guy". You know, that guy who two months from now can't
park his cars in his double car garage because it's stuffed with toilet
paper.

Posted by: Case at March 14, 2020 11:08 PM (EYKgr)

Garage?
Posted by: Shep! at March 14, 2020 11:12 PM (2N7oZ)

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

Car-hole.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 14, 2020 11:25 PM (CAJOC)

495 I am sure it has been mentioned, but anyone remember when parents would throw "chicken pox" parties?

yes I was a kid who was made to go to one! lol but it was the best way - get it over with. get the immunity

and Ripley I feel you!!! we haven't really started this lockdown yet and the kids are already climbing the walls. both of mine seriously into sports and NOTHING TO DO. they had a gym but that just announced closure!?!? no gyms and the idiot PA Gov closed all the parks too!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 11:25 PM (j9HX3)

496 I'm in bed thinking about the coffee and breakfast my son in law will make tomorrow morning.

He is the world's best cook.

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 11:25 PM (PhTYi)

497
WHen the number of new infections is declining, you are over the peak of the infection curve. This means it's winding down in South Korea.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 11:25 PM (f1Vqw)

498 Well, if this leads to Westerners realizing that outsourcing everything, especially medical supplies, to China is a very bad idea, that would be great I'm not holding my breath though.

I do think this will make more Americans receptive to the idea that borders need to be enforced. AOP is OK, and so is Mark Steyn, but I don't want any more of those maple syrup guzzling Canucks invading.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 11:25 PM (d6Ksn)

499 Only Day 2. I hope the wine Mom's are enjoying this as much as me. How much worse can death by Chinese flu be?
Posted by: Ripley at March 14, 2020 11:23 PM (UPTl7)

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The "Chinese" Flu? I thought we had evolved past those detestable racial stereotypes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 11:25 PM (XVuno)

500 Night du

Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 11:26 PM (0x00j)

501 The world would be a far different place today if Karen Carpenter had eaten that chicken sammich instead of Mama Cass...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 14, 2020 11:26 PM (7WaWV)

502 495 I am sure it has been mentioned, but anyone remember when parents would throw "chicken pox" parties?

yes I was a kid who was made to go to one! lol but it was the best way - get it over with. get the immunity

and Ripley I feel you!!! we haven't really started this lockdown yet and the kids are already climbing the walls. both of mine seriously into sports and NOTHING TO DO. they had a gym but that just announced closure!?!? no gyms and the idiot PA Gov closed all the parks too!
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 11:25 PM (j9HX3)


Yep!

Always in early summer, so we wouldn't have to miss school!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 11:26 PM (PhTYi)

503 Well, guessing that because I am often here like many others, you all understand exactly what I mean.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 11:09 PM (sy5kK)
* * * *

Uh huh!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2020 11:27 PM (WFcrO)

504 Scott Adams predicts that Joe Biden will refuse to debate Trump.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 14, 2020 11:27 PM (LxTcq)

505 Ladyl, phrasing.

Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 11:27 PM (0x00j)

506 Zettai, that chicken sandwich is still on the lam to this day

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2020 11:27 PM (L2ZTs)

507 Wuhan flu is racist? Well good thing that Ebola outbreak petered out years ago I guess.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2020 11:27 PM (WdocV)

508 345 The only funny thing SNL has done in the past two decades is The Californians sketch. Nail. On. The. Head.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 14, 2020 10:56 PM (JCrfD)

The Macys commercial spoof about getting kids dressed up for holidays was pretty funny.

Posted by: Gem at March 14, 2020 11:27 PM (65i3Q)

509 446 So, if Wuhan Flu kills less people than the "normal" flus that keep coming out of China are we going to do this same song and dance every few years when a new one comes along?


Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2020 11:14 PM (WdocV)

How long will Trump preside?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, Ragin' Contagion at March 14, 2020 11:27 PM (Vy7tf)

510 Scott Adams predicts that Joe Biden will refuse to debate Trump.
___

I challenge you to a push up contest Mr Trump!

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 14, 2020 11:27 PM (WdocV)

511 Are you thinking of "The Vanishing"?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2020 11:21 PM (G51Gf)


Another great Brad Pitt movie. God - that guy really is good when you look at his entire body of work.

Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 11:28 PM (shN6a)

512 and Ripley I feel you!!! we haven't really started this lockdown yet and the kids are already climbing the walls. both of mine seriously into sports and NOTHING TO DO. they had a gym but that just announced closure!?!?no gyms and the idiot PA Gov closed all the parks too!
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 11:25 PM (j9HX3)


Fucking politicians. Idiots, low-grade morons.

Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 11:28 PM (aS1PU)

513 AOP is OK, and so is Mark Steyn, but I don't want any more of those maple syrup guzzling Canucks invading.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 11:25 PM (d6Ksn)


Thank goodness Vendette and Gingy North are already here!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:28 PM (BiNEL)

514 Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 14, 2020 11:26 PM (7WaWV)

Not ham?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 11:28 PM (aA3+G)

515
Scott Adams predicts that Joe Biden will refuse to debate Trump.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

=======

I've seen that theory here and there. Tomorrow will be interesting.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2020 11:28 PM (G51Gf)

516 a piece of toilet paper measuring 70cm
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Hope you didn't eat anything messy

Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2020 11:29 PM (kOpft)

517 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2020 11:21 PM (G51Gf)

Duh! Yeah, it was "The Vanishing."

I caught part of "The Shining" yesterday morning, so I have it on the brain.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 11:29 PM (d6Ksn)

518
I've heard Brad Pitt described as a character actor in a leading man's body.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 14, 2020 11:29 PM (f1Vqw)

519 But we all heard the same story, there was panic shopping, everyone had 5 years worth of toilet paper, and the hate for the MSM seems to be starting.
Posted by: Abby at March 14, 2020 11:04 PM (SM/op)


Definitely hate for the MSM is growing, even amount the left.

I was surprised, but sort of proud, that my grocery store sold out of yeast. .

Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2020 11:29 PM (YxML+)

520 171 Lime green jello with shredded carrots and white grapes was a staple in my grade school.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (Y4EXg)

And you call yourself Catholic? I call Bull Shit.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 10:21 PM (aA3+G)

no, that's correct, MisHum.

the Lutherans used red grapes. that's how you tell the difference.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 11:29 PM (sy5kK)

521 >Scott Adams predicts that Joe Biden will refuse to debate Trump.
Posted by: BourbonChicken



I imagine Joe will be very tightly managed from here on out. His only chance is to not campaign, imo.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 14, 2020 11:30 PM (iTXRQ)

522 wait Brad Pitt wasn't in the Vanishing ?!?!

the american version had um.. Kiefter I think

the better version was foreign

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 11:30 PM (j9HX3)

523 How long will Trump preside?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, Ragin' Contagion at March 14, 2020 11:27 PM (Vy7tf)


Not long enough!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:30 PM (BiNEL)

524 Not ham?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 11:28 PM



I'm pretty sure it was chicken... Anyways, there's always someone here who's never heard that one before!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 14, 2020 11:31 PM (7WaWV)

525
I also predict a Biden campaign refusal to debate. I figure their only play is to claim that a debate with orangeman is beneath the old Statesman's dignity.

But that will not work. The voters will only see him as old and weak.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2020 11:31 PM (bQe8/)

526 Scott Adams predicts that Joe Biden will refuse to debate Trump.



Biden will accede to video conference debate.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 11:32 PM (zr5Kq)

527 Scott Adams predicts that Joe Biden will refuse to debate Trump.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 14, 2020 11:27 PM (LxTcq)


Trump will start carrying an empty chair around with him.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 11:32 PM (2JVJo)

528 Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 14, 2020 11:31 PM (7WaWV)

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 11:32 PM (aA3+G)

529 I imagine Joe will be very tightly managed from here on out. His only chance is to not campaign, imo.
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 14, 2020 11:30 PM (iTXRQ

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Focus group results suggest that Sundown Joe sells best as a concept, not as an actual human being.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 11:32 PM (XVuno)

530 Lime green jello with shredded carrots and white grapes was a staple in my grade school.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2020 10:20 PM (Y4EXg)

And you call yourself Catholic? I call Bull Shit.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

I can attest. Only place I had ever seen white grapes. I became very adept at taking a bite of the jello with out getting any of the carrots or grapes.

Posted by: 6-4-3 at March 14, 2020 11:32 PM (+s3I6)

531 at this point they will probably try to postpone the convention and then who knows who the nom will be

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 11:32 PM (j9HX3)

532 I made my fish stew this week, and no salmon was in the frozen section. I got the alaska cod but it wasn't as good. Some of these types are more expensive than I would like.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 14, 2020 11:32 PM (LxTcq)

533 "Hold my beer" causes far more death than corona virus and we don't have to crash the Dow and shut the country down for that.

Posted by: Ripley at March 14, 2020 11:33 PM (UPTl7)

534
Yeah, people also had more children, so meat had to go farther. I have to say, though, I do like beanie weenies.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2020 10:35 PM (+lVUW)


when my late wife was growing up, her mom fed her 5 growing kids lunch of tuna fish sandwiches for all, on just one can of tuna.

and about 5 boiled eggs that were mashed in, too.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 11:33 PM (sy5kK)

535 Maybe my favorite Brad Pitt role is when he climbs into the sewers to disable the power grid so Sean Connery can rob all the casinos on Fremont.

Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 11:33 PM (shN6a)

536 The voters will only see him as old and weak.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2020 11:31 PM (bQe8/)


Never underestimate the competence of a populace that elected Obama TWICE!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:33 PM (BiNEL)

537 OK, long day tomorrow. Going to try to hit the grocery store, get fitted for a suit and buy airplane tickets to the MoMe.

Hope you all have a lovely night.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 11:33 PM (2JVJo)

538 Make a disgusting unrecognizable Pyrex casserole on your wedding night and your husband will never ask you to cook for him again. My mom used that trick on my dad.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 14, 2020 11:34 PM (m45I2)

539 every rose has its thorn
just like every night has its... dorn

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 14, 2020 11:34 PM (ykYG2)

540 Animatronic Biden will accede to video conference debate.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 11:32 PM (zr5Kq)

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:34 PM (BiNEL)

541 Wife: Do you think my sister is prettier than me?

Husband: No, but she makes a much better Spam-a-roni tuna noodle casserole!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 14, 2020 11:35 PM (m45I2)

542
Truly, how funny is the Cat Meme?

At the grocery store today, the toilet-paper-and-paper-towel shelves were empty, save for a few scraps of torn coupons.

Save for several bowls of the large specialty instant ramen/noodles, only a few packs of ramen were to be found.

Hand-sanitizer is now the stuff of legends. Laundry detergent seems to be less plentiful than before, and I suspect that dishwashing liquid will soon be scarce.

Cat food was still plentiful.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 14, 2020 11:35 PM (FlRtG)

543 Brad Pitt - "I can eat fifty eggs".

What a flick.

Posted by: Man is not a Rational Animal at March 14, 2020 11:35 PM (shN6a)

544 430: But we are using Gilead's remdesivir on the cruise ship cases and so far so good. And a vaccine will come

Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 11:35 PM (ONvIw)

545 Animatronic Biden will accede to video conference debate....


Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:34 PM (BiNEL)


CGI, man. No need for mechanics.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 11:36 PM (zr5Kq)

546 Cat food was still plentiful.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 14, 2020 11:35 PM (FlRtG)

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We can all take a lesson from the cats.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 11:36 PM (XVuno)

547 My tennis club this morning sent out an email, canceling all official matches, tournaments, and club-sponsored instruction.

Private groups can play (I mostly play private clinics) with four or fewer players. But most clinics have 5 players.

We were all eyeing each other today, wondering which one of us would be voted off the island.

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 11:36 PM (PhTYi)

548 Cat food was still plentiful.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 14, 2020 11:35 PM (FlRtG)


Hmmmmm.

Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2020 11:36 PM (aS1PU)

549 Chuck C.......thank you! Always loved the carpenters!

Ladyl......you expecting breakfast in bed?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 11:36 PM (/UQ/R)

550 >>>Cat food was still plentiful.
Posted by: Arbalest

My nieces have newborns. They say formula and diapers are hard to come by.

Posted by: 6-4-3 at March 14, 2020 11:36 PM (+s3I6)

551 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:33 PM (BiNEL)

No shit!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 11:36 PM (aA3+G)

552 Never underestimate the competence of a populace that elected Obama TWICE!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:33 PM (BiNEL)

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For all his faults, Obama at least appeared young and virile.

People have a strong bias against weak old men selecting leaders. Biden is and will continue to be that thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2020 11:37 PM (bQe8/)

553 We were all eyeing each other today, wondering which one of us would be voted off the island.

Battle Royale with tennis racquets.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 14, 2020 11:37 PM (ykYG2)

554 We can all take a lesson from the cats.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 11:36 PM (XVuno)


Wait for someone to become incapacitated before start nibbling on his digits and liver?

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 11:38 PM (zr5Kq)

555 maybe people are eating their cats

no need for fancy feast anymore

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 14, 2020 11:38 PM (iTXRQ)

556 Can't do science anymore?

Not long ago I read an account of some researchers trying to isolate and identify the 1918 strain, to do some more analysis on it and figure out what to try next time. It's not easy to research a virus that swept through the world over a hundred years ago, and people tried hard to avoid and get rid of.

Point is, the reason I heard about the research was that it was described in one of those shrimp-on-a-treadmill Golden Fleece lists. That university was going to be burned, and the earth salted. Now, more or less all of a sudden, we'd like to know why nobody pursued that research with more urgency.

See what I'm saying?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 14, 2020 11:38 PM (8IOEj)

557
I caught part of "The Shining" yesterday morning, so I have it on the brain.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V

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It's the King Curse!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2020 11:38 PM (G51Gf)

558 it's weak here - because it's BEEN here
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 14, 2020 10:54 PM (j9HX3)
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My wife and I both had this. It made me miserable for over a month. I wound up getting a pneumonia at the end which resolved with antibiotics.

Posted by: Drc at March 14, 2020 11:38 PM (+sA7q)

559 Don't make a fuss, just get on the bus

Posted by: Zappa at March 14, 2020 11:39 PM (sy5kK)

560 For all his faults, Obama at least appeared young and virile.

People have a strong bias against weak old men selecting leaders. Biden is and will continue to be that thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2020 11:37 PM (bQe8/)


So you explained the first election...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:39 PM (BiNEL)

561 Never underestimate the competence of a populace that elected Obama TWICE!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:33 PM (BiNEL)


Gotta admit, second time it was not as much baracka winning, as romney losing.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 11:39 PM (zr5Kq)

562 In the late 1950s, there was a series of joke books that went under the "Sexteen" label - Over Sexteen, More Over Sexteen, Sexteen in Color and so on - which had what used to be called "tired businessman" jokes about harridan wives, sexy secretaries, cheating partners and so on along with cartoons of scantily clad young women doing what scantily clad women do.

In any event, one cartoon that I always liked showed a newlywed couple in their honeymoon suite. The stacked bride was primping herself in front of a mirror while, behind her, the groom sat in his pajamas on the edge of the bed, a fearful look in his eye, because his new wife - in addition to her sexy nightgown - was wearing a shiny new set of spurs.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 14, 2020 10:03 PM (2JVJo)


I have my Dad's copy of "Still More Over Sexteen". Discovered it down in the basement when I was about 15 and swiped it when I left home

Posted by: Boomer Redneque hears small arms fire off in the distance at March 14, 2020 11:39 PM (KXHve)

563
Ladyl......you expecting breakfast in bed?
Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 11:36 PM (/UQ/R)


No breakfast in bed, but I will surely get a wonderful breakfast tomorrow morning!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 14, 2020 11:39 PM (PhTYi)

564 Arbalest! How be ye?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 11:39 PM (/UQ/R)

565 Blonde, recently Stephen King wrote at Twitter, Coronavirus is nothing like The Stand.

Somebody tweeted him back: "How would you know anything about it? Did you even read that book?!!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2020 11:40 PM (L2ZTs)

566 Brad Pitt was quite good in a low budget, largely forgotten film called "Kalifornia."

Posted by: mnw at March 14, 2020 11:40 PM (Cssks)

567 Brad Pitt nailed the Saxophone solo in The Lost Boys.

Posted by: Hmmmm at March 14, 2020 11:41 PM (5d9bs)

568 Ok, since I'm dead, here's my Zappa story.

Growing up, I had a buncha friends, we'd play football, baseball, some b-ball, most of the guys I hung out with were older, some the same age, none younger.

I'm 15 years old, and I find myself at a party on a Saturday afternoon in a 3rd floor apartment. The guy who lived there ( his fam was outta town) was celebrating the purchase of a POUND of pot.

Zappa was BLARING on the stereo. And I mean BLARING. Someone called the cops. I looked out the window, and there were cop cars EVERYWHERE !
Fortunately, one of the guys there was the son of a famous local cop, and went downstairs, introduced himself, (he was a pretty personable guy) and managed to cool the cops out if the music got turned down/off.

That was my introduction to Zappa.

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 11:41 PM (arJlL)

569 Obama corrupt and commie > Obama young and virile

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 14, 2020 11:42 PM (RCrpJ)

570 my grocery store sold out of yeast.

Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2020 11:29 PM (YxML+)

I've got plenty.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 14, 2020 11:42 PM (dLLD6)

571 Brad Pitt nailed the Saxophone solo in The Lost Boys.

Did the sax player get his autograph ?

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 11:42 PM (arJlL)

572 {{{{{Ladyl}}}}}

Fist bumps too! Enjoy your family and your breakfast

Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 11:42 PM (/UQ/R)

573 Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 11:41 PM (arJlL)

Awesome

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 14, 2020 11:43 PM (aA3+G)

574 Did the sax player get his autograph ?
Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 11:42 PM (arJlL)


He wasn't that good.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 11:43 PM (zr5Kq)

575 When I realized the premise of It was basically pedophilic fantasizing by King (evil preys on innocence so a prepubescent has to pull a train to save the boys).

Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 11:44 PM (0x00j)

576 LOL.

https://tinyurl.com/yx2lxzaa

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2020 11:44 PM (L2ZTs)

577 435
Do you think they'll shut down "parts of the internet" to slow the panic, the way they did in the simulation back in October?
Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:10 PM (ONvIw)


Shut down the drive by media and the panic will stop.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 14, 2020 11:45 PM (9PpCN)

578 Ok, since I'm dead, here's my Zappa story.
...
That was my introduction to Zappa.
Posted by: JT at March 14, 2020 11:41 PM (arJlL)


O_O

...so what happened to the goldfish?

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2020 11:46 PM (t+qrx)

579
Blonde, recently Stephen King wrote at Twitter, Coronavirus is nothing like The Stand.

Somebody tweeted him back: "How would you know anything about it? Did you even read that book?!!"
Posted by: qdpsteve

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HAHA, that's perfect!

No, wait, *this* would have been perfect:

"How would you know anything about it? Did you even read that sh!tty book?!!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2020 11:46 PM (G51Gf)

580
Event 201 recommendations might explain why the left is still so open borders?
Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 10:41 PM (ONvIw)


maybe. too much stink in the air, there is some shit lying around somewhere. and as Leroy Jethro Gibbs says, there ARE no coincidences.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 11:46 PM (sy5kK)

581 I can understand your bitterness now JT...you're back in the will.

Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 11:46 PM (0x00j)

582 Okay, content devoured. Double helping of Frank the Z. Both great, quality of a/v notwithstanding. Don Pardo. Heh.

This may be my last communication... eyelids drooping... speech shatnerizing... can't... breathe...

*Milady refills my wineglass*

Well, okay, maybe read a few comments before I cave in. Where'd I come in, #472?...
.
.
.

Posted by: mindful webworker
The Sanders-Biden Debate
at March 14, 2020 11:47 PM (jhgxs)

583 So I listened to the Karen Carpenter isolated and it is very lovely. Someone in the comments of the video said the only modern singer to rival Karen is Hayley Williams of Paramore.

I listened to a few of her songs and she's not terrible, but she has that vocal fry I despise, as so many modern singers do.

Posted by: Gem at March 14, 2020 11:47 PM (65i3Q)

584 So Captain Trips should be Chairman Trips.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 11:47 PM (x8Wzq)

585 Springsteen tries to do Zevon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlDbP4tdqc

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2020 11:47 PM (L2ZTs)

586 >>my grocery store sold out of yeast.

Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2020 11:29 PM (YxML+)

I've got plenty.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke

Yeah on a hot summer day you probably smell like a bread factory.

Posted by: Aviator at March 14, 2020 11:48 PM (2cuLk)

587
LOL.

https://tinyurl.com/yx2lxzaa
Posted by: qdpsteve

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omg I just sent that to a few people.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2020 11:48 PM (G51Gf)

588 508 345 The only funny thing SNL has done in the past two decades is The Californians sketch. Nail. On. The. Head.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 14, 2020 10:56 PM (JCrfD)

Really? They really do spend half their time talking about the damn traffic and freeways? LOL.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 11:49 PM (d6Ksn)

589 Yeah on a hot summer day you probably smell like a bread factory.
Posted by: Aviator at March 14, 2020 11:48 PM (2cuLk)

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You can spot her by the seagulls circling in the sky.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 11:49 PM (XVuno)

590 I'd have to say Annie Lennox is one of the best vocalists alive. Classically trained and fearless.

Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 11:49 PM (0x00j)

591 Blonde, great minds think alike :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2020 11:50 PM (L2ZTs)

592

HI WMD.

I'm busy watching for signs of the Beer Virus, in between sessions of going to the grocery store and watching people react to the Venezuelazation therein.

How are things with you?

Posted by: Arbalest at March 14, 2020 11:50 PM (FlRtG)

593 Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 14, 2020 11:38 PM (8IOEj)

I seem to remember that there was an Alaskan or NWT village that had been wiped out by the Spanish Influenza. A virus research team found the village and was planning to exhume the bodies to seen if they could find traces of the virus, never heard of that again...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:50 PM (BiNEL)

594 Crap. I hope the Eurythmics pass muster here.

Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 11:52 PM (0x00j)

595 so, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson: Let's say we have this fancy new disease so we can insert ourselves into the nation's spotlight again because we were starting to feel unloved.

We just take their word that they were totally exposed to Wuhan you guys.

Got me a shit-ton of skepticism.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 11:52 PM (x8Wzq)

596 Springsteen tries to do Zevon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlDbP4tdqc

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2020 11:47 PM (L2ZTs)

Operative word has been bolded for your convenience!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:52 PM (BiNEL)

597 I seem to remember that there was an Alaskan or NWT village that had been wiped out by the Spanish Influenza. A virus research team found the village and was planning to exhume the bodies to seen if they could find traces of the virus, never heard of that again...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:50 PM (BiNEL)


I would watch this movie.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2020 11:52 PM (t+qrx)

598
Now, more or less all of a sudden, we'd like to know why nobody pursued that research with more urgency.

See what I'm saying?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

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That everyone who researched the virus suddenly went mad and tore themselves to shreds?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2020 11:53 PM (G51Gf)

599 302 One of the Californians I follow on Instagram (because hot/crazy/Italian works better at long range) posted "we should all stay home so we don't spread the virus. The smart way to do things. the way the Italians are doing things. That's what our government should be telling us"

If Trump said stay inside and don't touch anyone, all of California would immediately rush outside and start licking one another.
Posted by: Downcast at March 14, 2020 10:48 PM (xgpfE)


DNK if true, but some Iranians were licking the doors of Mosques to fight Beervirus, it was reported. Allah more powerful than Jews, and he will protect us, or some such nonsense.

I wouldn't put anything past them.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 14, 2020 11:53 PM (sy5kK)

600 Hrothgar, right. Didn't say Bruce succeeded.
Warren could have shown him how to really sell that song.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2020 11:53 PM (L2ZTs)

601 Arbalest.......doing well. Pretty much doing the same.

How is the one who shall not be named doing? Been neglectful in emailing him

Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 14, 2020 11:54 PM (/UQ/R)

602 Annie Lennox has a beautiful voice.

That said, I fucking hate the Eurhythmics.

Shitty new-wave.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 11:54 PM (x8Wzq)

603
Blonde, great minds think alike :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve

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I mean I clicked on your link, laughed like crazy, and emailed it right off to a few people.

But yes, they do think alike. :-)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2020 11:54 PM (G51Gf)

604 Gotta admit, second time it was not as much baracka winning, as romney losing.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 14, 2020 11:39 PM (zr5Kq)


Fair enough, there were mitigating factors!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:54 PM (BiNEL)

605 Yeah I know it's dated. I love this anyway.

"We got to live together!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUUhDoCx8zc

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2020 11:55 PM (L2ZTs)

606
The problem with any idea that the media/Dems are pushing this to get
Trump is that the panic and hysteria are all over the world.
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There was literally a newspaper (NYT, I think) editorial about how the Wuhan Flu was the perfect issue to 'get Trump.'

Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2020 11:56 PM (kOpft)

607
WMD: Neglect does not become you. Write, then click send.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 14, 2020 11:56 PM (FlRtG)

608 I would watch this movie.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2020 11:52 PM (t+qrx)


We should request a pitch meeting!

Brie Larsen can be the female research team lead that says "What could possibly go wrong?"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:57 PM (BiNEL)

609 >DNK if true, but some Iranians were licking the doors of Mosques to fight Beervirus,


I also read that the head Grand Poobah over there told his people to rub a special oil on their anuses to ward off disease

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 14, 2020 11:57 PM (iTXRQ)

610 >>Biden will accede to video conference debate.

*Beep*

Posted by: Joe Biden in a Capt Pike Wheel Box at March 14, 2020 11:58 PM (2cuLk)

611 There was literally a newspaper (NYT, I think) editorial about how the Wuhan Flu was the perfect issue to 'get Trump.'
Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2020 11:56 PM (kOpft)

American media is desperate for any tool it can use against Trump.

I don't think that's motivating the people who are shutting down Norway and Israel.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 14, 2020 11:58 PM (d6Ksn)

612 Night all. Be blessed.

Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 11:58 PM (0x00j)

613 Per GP: Bill Gates and John Hopkins simulated Coronavirus pandemic.

Funny that.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 14, 2020 11:59 PM (RCrpJ)

614 {{{Ladyl}}} hope you get pancakes tomorrow morn!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:59 PM (BiNEL)

615 >Brie Larsen can be the female research team lead that says "What could possibly go wrong?"
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

there should be a plot twist, aliens, Area 51, something, and the government is keeping it a secret.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 14, 2020 11:59 PM (iTXRQ)

616 Brie Larsen can be the female research team lead that says "What could possibly go wrong?"
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:57 PM (BiNEL)


Maybe Steve Buscemi for comic relief?

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2020 11:59 PM (t+qrx)

617 French toast with maple syrup!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 15, 2020 12:00 AM (7WaWV)

618 space dementia- excellent

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:00 AM (iTXRQ)

619 Having a nice fire on the patio tonight after guiding another shooter friend into the 1000yd club. No need to hoard when you can shoot hoarders.. hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Posted by: DBCooper at March 15, 2020 12:00 AM (+cQBs)

620 Per GP: Bill Gates and John Hopkins simulated Coronavirus pandemic.

Funny that.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 14, 2020 11:59 PM (RCrpJ)


Upthread comment:
http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/
event201/

Dammit, I keep telling you nicely there is NOTHING to see here comrade (if you know what's good for you)!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:01 AM (BiNEL)

621 Italy's been hit pretty hard. Not China
---
Italy and China do have one thing in common: they both seem to think the way to treat the disease is to lock the diseased in their homes along with anyone else who happens to be there, and then wait for them to die rather than attempting treatment.
So they 'save' most of their population by sacrificing anyone near an outbreak. Don't think there aren't people here who wish to do the same thing. The accounting chick at my church said as much, and it was all I could do to not remind her that God gave us the second amendment to deal with that sort of attitude.

Posted by: Methos at March 15, 2020 12:02 AM (kOpft)

622
No need to hoard when you can shoot hoarders.

Posted by: DBCooper

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I'd love to tweet that. It'd be the death of my Twitter account, but I'd love to tweet it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 12:05 AM (G51Gf)

623 251 I have to say, though, I do like beanie weenies.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2020 10:35 PM (+lVUW)

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There's something vaguely racist about this.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2020 10:37 PM (XVuno)


Took me a few seconds, but then I got it. Laughed out loud, I did.

Posted by: Boomer Redneque hears small arms fire off in the distance at March 15, 2020 12:05 AM (KXHve)

624 there should be a plot twist, aliens, Area 51, something, and the government is keeping it a secret.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 14, 2020 11:59 PM (iTXRQ)


Alien ship crashed there in 1917, but they froze to death, but not before they infected the villagers. USAF Area 51 has been guarding the sight for a century, but Trump military budget cuts made them pull the 24/7 guard team leaving only a few SimpliSafe cameras there to monitor the site...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:05 AM (BiNEL)

625 Sorry Hrothgar. Just finished the Bacardi bottle and checked-in. Not the whole bottle, but enough.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 15, 2020 12:06 AM (RCrpJ)

626 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 15, 2020 12:06 AM (RCrpJ)

No problem, I think I better cease and desist or I will be even more worthless than usual tomorrow!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:08 AM (BiNEL)

627 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:08 AM (BiNEL)

I doubt that

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 15, 2020 12:09 AM (aA3+G)

628 If Biden refuses to debate Trump it's like a forfeit. It doesn't matter what the reason is, or what the media excuses are. An estimated 80,000,000 people watched the first debate in 2016.

What percentage of voters who were "undecided" watched at least part of one of the debates? How about, uh, I would guess, 90+% of them?

Scott Adams needs to tune his prediction model. You can't beat an incumbent without debating, I don't care who your VP is. People are not going to vote for someone they are not allowed to see take on the most basic challenge of all. It will not happen in this or any universe.

Posted by: ... at March 15, 2020 12:09 AM (lmYIz)

629 Epidemiology is fascinating. Just reading how scientists used molecular genetics to study autopsy samples to research Spanish Flu.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 15, 2020 12:09 AM (zr5Kq)

630 >Alien ship crashed there in 1917, but they froze to death, but not before they infected the villagers. USAF Area 51 has been guarding the sight for a century, but Trump military budget cuts made them pull the 24/7 guard team leaving only a few SimpliSafe cameras there to monitor the site...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar


but Brie Larson and her plucky band of researchers manage to enter the site and collect samples. ...just then, The Guy Who Always Gets Killed And As It Turns Out Is Also A Mole For The Secret Government Agency accidently RELEASES the deadly substance, unbeknownst to Brie, who is driving back from town and picks up a hitchhiker who looks like Brad Pitt...

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:10 AM (iTXRQ)

631 Well, not research, more like study.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 15, 2020 12:10 AM (zr5Kq)

632 Posted by: Abby at March 14, 2020 11:04 PM (SM/op)

Italy's problems have nothing to do with quarantining, but all to do with the demographics of the first hit, and apparently how bad their hospital system ended up being. To my knowledge they did NOT lock people in their houses to die or something dumb like that.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at March 15, 2020 12:10 AM (IB++I)

633 Bill Gates is starting to look like he's past his gone stale date. Like Biden. Keep an eye on him.

Posted by: klaftern at March 15, 2020 12:10 AM (RuIsu)

634 594 Crap. I hope the Eurythmics pass muster here.
Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 11:52 PM (0x00j)


Would I Lie to You?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 15, 2020 12:11 AM (sy5kK)

635 Italy's problems have nothing to do with quarantining, but all to do with the demographics of the first hit, and apparently how bad their hospital system ended up being.

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Wait. You're telling me that the superpower that vanquished Ethiopia in '37 can't operate a functional hospital system?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 12:14 AM (XVuno)

636 Before I go, my report on the whoo-hu virus panic as observed in The City today.

Picked up pizzas around noon. Place was mostly empty. Servers talked about how slow it was. Carry-out seemed to be brisk.

At the purveyor of adult beverages, I decided to buy beer which I never do, but, pizza. I feel old - it all looked expensive. Best buy was Tecate, so I reached for that, then thought, I'd like the amber Tecate. That space on the shelf was vacant!!! The horror!

The checker said yesterday's sales had been like it was before Christmas. Well, at least stocking up on booze is understandable. Didn't see any empty shelves there, though.

The pizza was for a party at my mom's for my granddaughter's 1st birthday. Her brother is almost 2 and brilliant.

Ol' grampa me was taking a catnap when Grandson slapped me on the chest to make me go over and play the piano with him. Definitely one of my top two greatest moments in music. He's cool, no banging on the keys, and even carefully lowered the lid when we were done.

They (and 2 hours on the road) wore me out.

Guess I'll go now.

Keep commenting. Still got a ways to go before 1000.

Posted by: mindful webworker
The Sanders-Biden Debate
at March 15, 2020 12:14 AM (jhgxs)

637 634 594 Crap. I hope the Eurythmics pass muster here.
Posted by: Kazi at March 14, 2020 11:52 PM (0x00j)


Would I Lie to You?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 15, 2020 12:11 AM (sy5kK)

Ha

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 15, 2020 12:14 AM (aA3+G)

638 I ain't gonna squash it and you don't need to wash it!

Posted by: Zappa at March 15, 2020 12:14 AM (sy5kK)

639 I doubt that

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 15, 2020 12:09 AM (aA3+G)


Oh, ye of little faith!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:14 AM (BiNEL)

640 Italy's problems have nothing to do with quarantining, but all to do with the demographics of the first hit, and apparently how bad their hospital system ended up being. To my knowledge they did NOT lock people in their houses to die or something dumb like that.
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at March 15, 2020 12:10 AM (IB++I)

It's normally overlooked that Italy has a lot of direct airline traffic with China, and a lot of Chinese "guest workers" in the precise Northern area affected.

Just had a phone call with my Sis in Vancouver. The WuFlu has taken hold there, with some deaths in nursing homes on the North Shore, amongst elderly patients of Chinese ethnicity.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 12:16 AM (miJU3)

641 mindful webworker

You play piano ?

Nice !

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2020 12:16 AM (arJlL)

642 546 Cat food was still plentiful.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 14, 2020 11:35 PM (FlRtG)

And this tells you how retarded people are. When the cat runs out of food it WILL eat your face while you sleep. Like one of the horrors of Doctor Phibes.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, Ragin' Contagion at March 15, 2020 12:17 AM (Vy7tf)

643 The accounting chick at my church said as much, and it was all I could
do to not remind her that God gave us the second amendment to deal with
that sort of attitude.


+1

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 15, 2020 12:17 AM (EgshT)

644 And this tells you how retarded people are. When the cat runs out of food it WILL eat your face while you sleep. Like one of the horrors of Doctor Phibes.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom
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My first move was to buy a month's worth of cat food.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2020 12:19 AM (xSo9G)

645 I've liked Zappa since I was about 11 or 12, and was telling my big brother about some bullying I was getting (I was not a "cool" girl, but developed--bigly--sooner than they did, so was marked for death) and after he listened, and told me how to handle it, then told me not to care what they thought by singing "What's the Ugliest Part of your Body?" to me.

I have a good big brother.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 15, 2020 12:19 AM (W7IZQ)

646 My first move was to buy a month's worth of cat food.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2020 12:19 AM (xSo9G)

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Your liver and eyeballs are safe for now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 12:20 AM (XVuno)

647 Chuck Norris has contracted the Carona virus.

The virus has agreed to self quarantine for two weeks.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 15, 2020 12:20 AM (axyOa)

648 Just had a phone call with my Sis in Vancouver. The WuFlu has taken hold there, with some deaths in nursing homes on the North Shore, amongst elderly patients of Chinese ethnicity.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 12:16 AM (miJU3)

Got exposed by relatives visiting ?

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 15, 2020 12:21 AM (zr5Kq)

649 Italy's problems have nothing to do with quarantining, but all to do with the demographics of the first hit, and apparently how bad their hospital system ended up being. To my knowledge they did NOT lock people in their houses to die or something dumb like that.
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at March 15, 2020 12:10 AM (IB++I)

Yep. Italy has many old people and not enough ventilators.
And Germany's not giving them any, either.

I haven't seen any videos of Italians dragging infected people out of their homes and tossing them into windowless trailers.

I would not be surprised to find out that China simply started killing infected people to stop the spread.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 15, 2020 12:21 AM (d6Ksn)

650 596 Springsteen tries to do Zevon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlDbP4tdqc

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 14, 2020 11:47 PM (L2ZTs)

Operative word has been bolded for your convenience!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 14, 2020 11:52 PM (BiNEL)


I have never been able to tolerate Springsteen. He's desperate to appear profound, and he just isn't.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 12:22 AM (wGeit)

651
My first move was to buy a month's worth of cat food.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2020 12:19 AM (xSo9G)

You are safe. For a month.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 15, 2020 12:22 AM (zr5Kq)

652 Me, fumblefingering: Her brother is almost 2

Argh. He's almost 3. Over 2&1/2. Whatever. Goodnightttttttt

Posted by: mindful webworker
The Sanders-Biden Debate
at March 15, 2020 12:22 AM (jhgxs)

653 I would not be surprised to find out that China simply started killing infected people to stop the spread.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 15, 2020 12:21 AM (d6Ksn)

Tossing in some Uighurs for good measure.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 15, 2020 12:22 AM (x8Wzq)

654 Ace's liver,

I think of Springsteen as the Robert DeNiro of rock. He's a great actor, but at the end of the day that's all he is... an *actor.*

I enjoy him, but don't take him nearly as seriously as I used to.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 15, 2020 12:23 AM (L2ZTs)

655 "It's normally overlooked that Italy has a lot of direct airline traffic with China, and a lot of Chinese "guest workers" in the precise Northern area affected."

It's being overlooked because it's not being reported. Must not upset the ChiCom overlords.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 15, 2020 12:23 AM (d6Ksn)

656 I've been watching these homesteading vlogs by Justin Rhodes. They have a small creek on their place. To build their immune systems,, they take a dip in the creek, no matter how cold.

I am wondering when we start losing old folks to suicide.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 15, 2020 12:23 AM (Lqy/e)

657
You are safe. For a month.
Posted by: runner
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So is the cat...for a month.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2020 12:23 AM (xSo9G)

658 Evenin' Horde...

So tomorrow we're having a celebration of life for Average Son, mostly for his friends. Neighbor offered to host it at his house. So, about 30 people crammed into a not-very-big house. Hopefully the wind & rain will relent for a couple of hours so we can overflow to the covered patio. Will have disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer available, but there ain't gonna be much social distancing going on. There will be gin & tonics served, so perhaps the quinine will fend off the Wuhan Flu.

Posted by: Average Guy at March 15, 2020 12:23 AM (BaHwF)

659 >Alien ship crashed there in 1917, but they froze to death, but not before they infected the villagers. USAF Area 51 has been guarding the sight for a century, but Trump military budget cuts made them pull the 24/7 guard team leaving only a few SimpliSafe cameras there to monitor the site...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar


but Brie Larson and her plucky band of researchers manage to enter the site and collect samples. ...just then, The Guy Who Always Gets Killed And As It Turns Out Is Also A Mole For The Secret Government Agency accidently RELEASES the deadly substance, unbeknownst to Brie, who is driving back from town and picks up a hitchhiker who looks like Brad Pitt...


Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:10 AM (iTXRQ)

Fortunately, the senior Area 51 researcher (played by Bill Bob Thornton) has been working on quick reaction development of anti-virals using miniscule viral samples. Unfortunately, his system has not quite been perfected and the anti-viral they develop and distribute in an abundance of caution (but without adequate testing) turns out to have some rather serious side-effects! These side effects only show up after Congress (as part of their special medical insurance program) gets the shots before anyone else!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:23 AM (BiNEL)

660 647 Chuck Norris has contracted the Carona virus.

The virus has agreed to self quarantine for two weeks.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 15, 2020 12:20 AM (axyOa)


Saw a tweet with the same joke, only with Keith Richards.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 12:23 AM (wGeit)

661 Good night, horde.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 15, 2020 12:24 AM (d6Ksn)

662 I know it's too late for the movie thread, but has anyone here ever seen the flick Punch Line?

I watched it recently. I was actually happy with the ending... it was kind of out of left field.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 15, 2020 12:24 AM (L2ZTs)

663 I would not be surprised to find out that China simply started killing infected people to stop the spread.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 15, 2020 12:21 AM (d6Ksn)


What am I, chopped river?

Posted by: Whoa Fat at March 15, 2020 12:25 AM (wGeit)

664 Posted by: Average Guy at March 15, 2020 12:23 AM (BaHwF)

This is a good (and difficult) thing to do.
You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:25 AM (BiNEL)

665 But we are using Gilead's remdesivir on the cruise ship cases and so far so good. And a vaccine will come
Posted by: CN at March 14, 2020 11:35 PM (ONvIw)


It looks like this is one of the RNI inhibitor drugs, in short it prevents duplication of the RNA strand as part of the virus replication.

This is a very big thing.

The other testing vaccine is one that tries to get the immune system to not pay attention to the receptor keys on the surface of the virus - those are what look like mushrooms studding the surface of the cell in the micrographs- and has the body pay attention to the stem instead. The head of the "mushroom" changes regularly under immune response, but the stem is more stable

Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2020 12:25 AM (6rS3m)

666 Heh. 'I Wake Up Screaming' coming on TCM.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2020 12:25 AM (xSo9G)

667 Posted by: Average Guy at March 15, 2020 12:23 AM (BaHwF)

*Lysol bro-hug*

Also prayers aloft.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 15, 2020 12:26 AM (x8Wzq)

668 I also wanted to ask if anyone here has seen this Netflix (?) sitcom, Fighting With My Family.

It looks interesting...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 15, 2020 12:27 AM (L2ZTs)

669 Italy's per capita medical expenditure is 1/3 of the US' and healthcare is 70% public vs 20% in the US. Median age is 45 in Italy (6th highest) and 37 in the US (62nd highest is the world).

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, Ragin' Contagion at March 15, 2020 12:27 AM (Vy7tf)

670
An estimated 80,000,000 people watched the first debate in 2016.

Posted by: ...

======

Holy smack.

Also, hahaha. I've been watching that Hillary on Hulu docuseries and after the first debate, Bill literally did jump up and down with excitement over her performance.

I think it's arguable that she won, which makes the election outcome even sweeter to me. Doing your homework and writing all your thank-you notes doesn't make up for a career of lies, scandals, threats, power grabs, and general fakery.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 12:28 AM (G51Gf)

671 So now I posted what can not be posted; may weasels rip my flesh.
We start with three points;
1; Nursing home deaths by the the Wuflu;
2; The aids time concept of viral load (I prefer re-load) connected with aids death;
3; The effective functioning of an ICU tent. New air hard in and infected air hard out.
I propose a name for a theory these connections; stewing in the juices.

Fresh air in (and maybe water and sunshine) allows your systems to adjust; so you don't reload the virus. Does the common sized and energy tight house have sufficient volume of air? For two people? Comrades please don't get quarantined.

Posted by: SF Jeff at March 15, 2020 12:28 AM (kJqpv)

672 I would not be surprised to find out that China simply started killing infected people to stop the spread.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 15, 2020 12:21 AM (d6Ksn)


Funny how the Wuhan 24/7 crematorium stories are not mentioned anymore...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:28 AM (BiNEL)

673 >These side effects only show up after Congress (as part of their special medical insurance program) gets the shots before anyone else!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar


AND NOW WE have a plague of zombie-like Congress-persons roaming the countryside.

Enter MacGruber.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:28 AM (iTXRQ)

674 I've liked Zappa since I was about 11 or 12, and was telling my big brother about some bullying I was getting (I was not a "cool" girl, but developed--bigly--sooner than they did, so was marked for death) and after he listened, and told me how to handle it, then told me not to care what they thought by singing "What's the Ugliest Part of your Body?" to me.

I have a good big brother.
Posted by: barbarausa

Nice !

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2020 12:29 AM (arJlL)

675 I mentioned this on the movie thread. I watched an Alan Rickman movie today, CBGB. He plays Hilly Kristal, the guy that started the place. I thought it was entertaining.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 15, 2020 12:29 AM (Lqy/e)

676 I thought Fighting With My Family was a movie.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 15, 2020 12:29 AM (aR/F+)

677 Zappa always kind of gave me the creeps. I don't know why. Strange stuff.

It's said he didn't like to use drugs at all. This put him decidedly in a different spot than many of his contemporaries. His pad in Laurel Canyon was a revolving door for all kinds of people, he hung out with some strange cats.

Maybe, though, he was actually one of the good guys. There were some super creepy folks running around out there back then. It definitely wasn't all groovy peace and dope and flowers in yer hair. Not even close.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 12:30 AM (QJIMk)

678 This flu movie on the ONT is better than anything I've watched in forever.

However, someone needs to be watching tv and the Nicholas Brothers need to be on.

Posted by: Texican ette at March 15, 2020 12:30 AM (aUFe9)

679 DrSpank, maybe so. It looked to me like one of these online series.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 15, 2020 12:30 AM (L2ZTs)

680 I've been watching these homesteading vlogs by Justin Rhodes. They have a small creek on their place. To build their immune systems,, they take a dip in the creek, no matter how cold.

I am wondering when we start losing old folks to suicide.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Depression due to shrinkage ?

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2020 12:31 AM (arJlL)

681 I don't think that's motivating the people who are shutting down Norway and Israel.
Posted by: DonnaV at March 14, 2020 11:58 PM (d6Ksn)


In Brazil they are using it as an excuse to deny permitting for rallies supporting president Bolsinaro.
Not stopping state fairs or carnivale or soccer matches for some reason.

It is tailor made to prevent people from getting together to protest.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2020 12:31 AM (6rS3m)

682 Zappa didn't use drugs (but he smoked cigs) and he had disdain for the entire hippie movement, although they comprised a large part of his audience.

Posted by: navybrat, at large at March 15, 2020 12:32 AM (w7KSn)

683 Got exposed by relatives visiting ?
Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 15, 2020 12:21 AM (zr5Kq)

Presumably so. Vancouver, B.C. is a Chinese city now. The to-and-fro traffic to China is huge.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 12:32 AM (miJU3)

684 I lived in Manhattan, just a few blocks away from CBGB... I never was there, never even knew it existed then!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 15, 2020 12:32 AM (7WaWV)

685 And a little Michelle Malkin on the CDC's competence

shorturl.at/mFW35

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:33 AM (BiNEL)

686 I lived in Manhattan, just a few blocks away from CBGB... I never was there, never even knew it existed then!
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 15, 2020 12:32 AM (7WaWV)

NERD!!!

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 15, 2020 12:34 AM (x8Wzq)

687 No, depression over expecting to get the virus. Should have made that comment a separate post. Old folks tend to get isolated anyway. Tell them to isolate for a month or two and it may cause depression.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 15, 2020 12:34 AM (Lqy/e)

688 Exosquad... was actually a pretty solid show with a legit hard sci-fi plot about android humans rebelling against their creators and taking over mankind's terraformed solar system colonies. Also, everyone fought with sweet exoskeletons.
comettv.com/2017/09/ranking-the-90s-most-obscure-sci-fi-fantasy-cartoons/

Dude, someone should have informed me about this. Two or more decades ago.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 15, 2020 12:34 AM (ykYG2)

689 Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:28 AM (iTXRQ)

We need to get this to re-write and schedule a pitch meeting, this is going to be fantastic!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:34 AM (BiNEL)

690 Posted by: qdpsteve


I think the Rock was in it. And no not the Mountain Brian Dennehy.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 15, 2020 12:35 AM (aR/F+)

691 Enter MacGruber.

Someone mentioned SNL earlier. I haven't watched in years.

But , ya gotta admit, over the years, they've put out some funny stuff.

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2020 12:35 AM (arJlL)

692 Thanks Commissar & Thomas. It's something we thought would be important for his friends. We're going to be moving soon, and didn't want to leave without giving them a chance to have some closure.

I know coronavirus is over-hyped, but it is real. So I pray that no one gets it from attending tomorrow.

Like I said, it needs to be done, and since we'll be moving it can't be postponed to a later date.

Posted by: Average Guy at March 15, 2020 12:35 AM (BaHwF)

693 There were some super creepy folks running around out there back then

No way.

Posted by: charles manson at March 15, 2020 12:35 AM (ykYG2)

694 It is tailor made to prevent people from getting together to protest.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2020 12:31 AM (6rS3m)


Good thing WE have First Amendment protections so our government cannot do that here!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:36 AM (BiNEL)

695 Saw Zappa in Atlanta, the Auditorium, October 18, 1975

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2020 12:37 AM (CDGwz)

696 Wondering about Yellowstone. There are a lot of Chines tours rumbling through all season. It has become a problem.

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 15, 2020 12:37 AM (x8Wzq)

697 NERD!!!

Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 15, 2020 12:34 AM



I just looked it up: 6 short blocks, 0.4 miles, 8 minutes on foot away!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 15, 2020 12:38 AM (7WaWV)

698 >We need to get this to re-write and schedule a pitch meeting, this is going to be fantastic!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar



I know right? Oscar buzz...

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:38 AM (iTXRQ)

699 {{{{{Averageguy}}}}}

Prayers up for you, your family and friends

Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at March 15, 2020 12:38 AM (/UQ/R)

700 Posted by: Average Guy at March 15, 2020 12:35 AM (BaHwF)

Take care, and do not isolate yourself from this den of iniquity!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:38 AM (BiNEL)

701 Would Aspirin be contraindicated for this? Or Ibuprofen better? Have Aspirin on hand. Forgot to buy Ibuprofen. They were probably out, I dunno. I seem to remember reading something aomething about aspirin being problematic in the 1918 debacle.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 12:38 AM (QJIMk)

702 >Enter MacGruber.

Someone mentioned SNL earlier. I haven't watched in years.

But , ya gotta admit, over the years, they've put out some funny stuff.
Posted by: JT



the MacGruber sketches cracked me up. The movie less so.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:39 AM (iTXRQ)

703 Advil / Ibuprofen is supposed to be super bad for Winnie The Flu. As in, send you to a ventilator bad.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 15, 2020 12:39 AM (ykYG2)

704 MacGruber did teach the world about the Upper Decker.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 15, 2020 12:40 AM (ykYG2)

705 Boulder: No kidding? I always avoided the synthetics. I used to watch people pop that stuff after a night of drinking. "Do you guys care for your liver at all??"

I keep aspirin on hand, although it does cause a certain amount of stomach bleeding.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 12:42 AM (QJIMk)

706
I thought I remembered something about the Spanish Flu samples. They indeed collected virus samples from frozen bodies and have done research on them. They were able to get a full genetic sequencing of the virus. It was a type of H1N1.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 15, 2020 12:43 AM (rCwaK)

707 I think it's arguable that she won, which makes the
election outcome even sweeter to me. Doing your homework and writing all
your thank-you notes doesn't make up for a career of lies, scandals,
threats, power grabs, and general fakery.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 12:28 AM (G51Gf)

She didn't win. Trump went in with an overarching strategy and he pulled it off with an incredibly aplomb. My mouth was agape pretty much the whole time at how amazing he was.

Debates aren't about who scores the most points. I mean, the slam dunks matter but even those aren't necessarily the deciding factor. Debates are about whose message is better, and who gets their message across better. Trump had a very clear message, he hit three or four indelibly strong points over and over and over. Even though I expected him to do well, he astounded me.

Posted by: ... at March 15, 2020 12:43 AM (lmYIz)

708 Before I sign off, in spite of what some retreads (banned but not forgotten because they keep showing up under different names) say, this current Whuhan/Covid19 flu is serious business. Its growth has been exponential where ignored - 20 % jump in cases from one day to the next in Italy, before they got serious about it. Just finished reading how Israel is dealing with it. These guys are not stupid and have some of the best scientists and geneticists in the world. They decided that for now the best thing is to close the country down until they get a handle on it. Education sector, shops, restaurants. Spanish flu decimated world population. Ninety yers later scientists figured out why - a group of genes that weakened victim's breathing apparatus (bronchial tubes). No panic, but not something to ignore and dismiss.

Posted by: runner, buy Lysol. at March 15, 2020 12:44 AM (zr5Kq)

709 Annie Lennox has a beautiful voice.

That said, I fucking hate the Eurhythmics.

Shitty new-wave.
Posted by: Thomas Meagher (fka Pug Mahon) at March 14, 2020 11:54 PM (x8Wzq

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A similar one is The Cranberries. I never particularly liked any of their songs that much. Too pretentious for my blood. But Dolores O'Riordan's voice was unique, unmistakable and beautiful. It made otherwise unremarkable, even annoying, music saleable.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 15, 2020 12:44 AM (bQe8/)

710 No, depression over expecting to get the virus. Should have made that comment a separate post. Old folks tend to get isolated anyway. Tell them to isolate for a month or two and it may cause depression.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Aw, heck, I was only kidding, though I've bathed/swum in icy waters.

I hear ya about being isolated, but I gotta tell ya, if my neighbors say more than hello, I think they;re being nosy.

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2020 12:45 AM (arJlL)

711 Aside from my two low-dose BP meds, I seldom take any kind of medication. Sometimes Aleve. But very seldom.

Tums on occasion.

Lotsa booze though.

Posted by: Tom Meagher at March 15, 2020 12:45 AM (x8Wzq)

712 I was lucky to remember the other day that I'm out of Tylenol. It's not something I take often but we ran out a few months back. I got the last bottle.

Posted by: ... at March 15, 2020 12:46 AM (lmYIz)

713 History repeats itself AGAIN, and into perpetuity.. Imagine that clueless !

Swine flu, remember ? Were all gonna die, its the end of the world!

bird flu flu, remember ? Were all gonna die, its the end of the world!

and about a half dozen scare mongering epidemics in the last few DECADES.

Don't people EVER get tired of being played by current P.T.Barnum crisis management politicians ? Give up being easily manipulated stooges ! Even Johnny Carson, decades ago got tired of constant scare manipulations that played people for fools, so he started a phony toilet paper shortage scare. Which on TV he gladly laughed at such stooges/fools.

Can you believe how people want to be made fools of anymore ? As demorats said over and over, never let a crisis go to waste (fool too).

Posted by: ron n. at March 15, 2020 12:46 AM (om5HK)

714 707 I think it's arguable that she won, which makes the
election outcome even sweeter to me. Doing your homework and writing all
your thank-you notes doesn't make up for a career of lies, scandals,
threats, power grabs, and general fakery.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 12:28 AM (G51Gf)

She didn't win. Trump went in with an overarching strategy and he pulled it off with an incredibly aplomb. My mouth was agape pretty much the whole time at how amazing he was.

Debates aren't about who scores the most points. I mean, the slam dunks matter but even those aren't necessarily the deciding factor. Debates are about whose message is better, and who gets their message across better. Trump had a very clear message, he hit three or four indelibly strong points over and over and over. Even though I expected him to do well, he astounded me.
Posted by: ... at March 15, 2020 12:43 AM (lmYIz)


Bah. People always think their candidate "won" the debate. Democrats in my family were astounded I didn't see Hillary as the winner, while it seemed obvious to me Trump came out on top. That crap is mostly a waste of time.

Though this year the debates might be entertaining because of the possibility Biden's handlers won't be able to hide his senility.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 12:46 AM (wGeit)

715 > Trump had a very clear message, he hit three or four indelibly strong points over and over and over.


and I expect he'll do that again. Biden's message devolves to 'I'm not Trump and it's my turn.'

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:47 AM (iTXRQ)

716 Posted by: ... at March 15, 2020 12:46 AM (lmYIz)

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See, I never buy tylenol, because its bad on the liver, and I drink, so better not to do it.

But then I found that pregnant women and nursing mothers aren't supposed to touch Ibuprofen. So I'm using it now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 15, 2020 12:48 AM (bQe8/)

717 I know right? Oscar buzz...

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:38 AM (iTXRQ)


Gotta start think about casting:

First set of picks
Brie Larsen
Brad Pitt
Billy Bob Thornton
Angelina Jolie (for some good press)
Meghan Markel-Mountbatten-Windsor (for the wine moms)

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:49 AM (BiNEL)

718 and I expect he'll do that again. Biden's message devolves to 'I'm not Trump and it's my turn.'
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:47 AM (iTXRQ)


More like "Remember... that guy, you know, my boss..."

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 12:49 AM (wGeit)

719 and I expect he'll do that again. Biden's message devolves to 'I'm not Trump and it's my turn.'
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:47 AM (iTXRQ)

Followed by a long monolog about why tapioca is his favorite pudding, and that his slippers are warm, because the cat sleeps on them sometimes.

Sad old bastard needs to retire and watch Gunsmoke reruns.

Posted by: Tom Meagher at March 15, 2020 12:50 AM (x8Wzq)

720 BrotherH proposed the Kung Flu virus be renamed the Xi-19 virus!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:50 AM (BiNEL)

721 Bah. People always think their candidate "won" the
debate. Democrats in my family were astounded I didn't see Hillary as
the winner, while it seemed obvious to me Trump came out on top. That
crap is mostly a waste of time.



Though this year the debates might be entertaining because of the
possibility Biden's handlers won't be able to hide his senility.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 12:46 AM (wGeit)

I'm an exception then. I don't always think my candidate won the debate. In fact I often grimace and cringe and my candidate when warranted.

Trump won the debates. It's fairly indisputable, as it's a good chunk of the reason he won the election.

She was essentially the incumbent *and* a known quantity. He was unknown as a political persona other than what the media had repeatedly told everyone. Anyone who didn't decide based on the media's portrayal was watching, and curious. He HAD to get up and sell himself as a better choice than she was, and he did.

Posted by: ... at March 15, 2020 12:51 AM (lmYIz)

722 Biden's message devolves to 'I'm not Trump and it's my turn.'

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:47 AM



This, too, is in many ways the story of Oma Panzersuit's campaign...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at March 15, 2020 12:51 AM (7WaWV)

723 For some reason, I remember vividly a brief expression on Jeb! face during the very first Pub debate about 5 minutes in. I can't read minds, but after a while ya don't have to. He was looking at somebody with a mixture of fear and desperation as if to say "we can't have THIS guy here, he'll ruin our phony balogna con game". I thought he was gonna cry. I'm sure he's a "nice guy" but look what that's gotten us for the last 50 years or so. Pubbies worry a tad bit too much about being "civil" with people who have no morals or conscience, and will shiv you when not looking.

THANK YOU DJT

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 12:52 AM (QJIMk)

724 But Dolores O'Riordan's voice was unique, unmistakable and beautiful. It made otherwise unremarkable, even annoying, music saleable.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 15, 2020 12:44 AM (bQe8/)


THIS!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:52 AM (BiNEL)

725 See, I never buy tylenol, because its bad on the liver, and I drink, so better not to do it.



But then I found that pregnant women and nursing mothers aren't supposed to touch Ibuprofen. So I'm using it now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 15, 2020 12:48 AM (bQe8/)

I have a condition which makes it an extremely bad idea to take anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen. Tylenol kills pain roughly as well as a tic tac but it *is* a fever reducer.

Posted by: ... at March 15, 2020 12:53 AM (lmYIz)

726 Tylenol has zero effect on me. Neither does Codeine. Might as well be taking salt tablets.

Kind of the same with Ibuprofen.

Aleve is the only med that will calm a headache. Even so, I seldom use it.

Posted by: Tom Meagher at March 15, 2020 12:53 AM (x8Wzq)

727 >Gotta start think about casting:
...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar


Kurt Russell as President Rex Kramer

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:53 AM (iTXRQ)

728 688 Exosquad... was actually a pretty solid show with a legit hard sci-fi plot about android humans rebelling against their creators and taking over mankind's terraformed solar system colonies. Also, everyone fought with sweet exoskeletons.
comettv.com/2017/09/ranking-the-90s-most-obscure-sci-fi-fantasy-cartoons/

Dude, someone should have informed me about this. Two or more decades ago.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 15, 2020 12:34 AM (ykYG2)



I liked the show when it was on. At least up until the first season ended. Although the "android humans" sounds like crap to me. They always seemed artificially grown, not robots.

Posted by: buzzion at March 15, 2020 12:55 AM (Z7lwY)

729 Kurt Russell as President Rex Kramer
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:53 AM (iTXRQ)

Andrew Gillum as President Rex Buttholez.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 12:56 AM (miJU3)

730 Is Tylenol superior to Aspirin for fever reduction in equivalent dosages?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 12:57 AM (QJIMk)

731 But then I found that pregnant women and nursing mothers aren't supposed to touch Ibuprofen. So I'm using it now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 15, 2020 12:48 AM (bQe8/)


Having trouble following your logic!
I agree that acetaminophen is deadly and that for you ibuprofen is a good alternative.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 12:58 AM (BiNEL)

732 The Trumpentwatters has had an interesting video up for several hours, top of timeline.

Video of Italy's air force demonstration team the Tricolore, pretty sure, doing a nice maneuver, over water.

Along with the statement "THE UNITED STATES LOVES ITALY!".

Weird - fine, great - but kinda odd. Presumably just a show of support during Italy's rather difficult time at the moment.

The larger demo teams, who use smaller training jets, do make a nice visual impact with their large, smoke-on maneuvers. Snow Birds, Tricolore, Red Arrows. There's even a small US privately-funded team, the Patriots, that uses Czech L-39 jets, their 5-plane maneuvers are also nice.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 12:58 AM (El6T/)

733 Bill (Jazz) Gillum, Key to the Highway. A fine old bluesman:

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=5F1fUHMc1hU

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 12:59 AM (miJU3)

734 and about a half dozen scare mongering epidemics in the last few DECADES.
---
Don't forget global warming and plastic straws.
Hey, it must be true because I wrote a computer program that gave me the answer I wanted to get.

Posted by: Methos at March 15, 2020 12:59 AM (kOpft)

735 I take St. Joseph's aspirin for children.

It makes me feel young !

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2020 12:59 AM (arJlL)

736 here's what I know about pain meds:

my kidney dr advises me to use Tylenol instead of ibuprofen. says Tylenol is more 'kidney friendly'.

my oral surgeon told me to take 1g of Tylenol with 600mg of ibuprofen for pain after recent oral surgery

oxycodone has little effect on me.

in the past I have been guilty of taking megadoses of ibuprofen for aches and pains. I'm talking one or two grams at a time. Probably why I ended up with kidney stones in the first place.

stuff I liked best was Vicodin but no one seems to prescribe that any more. That was nice stuff.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 01:00 AM (iTXRQ)

737 Motrin is the only otc pain reliever that works for me. Aleve may as well be sugar pills, same as tylenol. codine and vicodin too. Percocet works well. I metabolise novocaine and the dental drugs fast. (I always get enough that my face is numb up to my eyes and have to use the gas as well)

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at March 15, 2020 01:00 AM (0OmEj)

738 > In the late 1950s, there was a series of joke books that went under the "Sexteen" label - Over Sexteen, More Over Sexteen, Sexteen in Color

Those were still around at least in the late '60s to early '70s.

My stepfather had some of them. Not that I would've sneaked looks at them with my virgin eyes when no one was around or anything like that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 15, 2020 01:01 AM (tLWGd)

739 Kurt Russell.

What a career he has had. I remember his old Disney movies.

Recently watched Bone Tomahawk. Jeebus, that one freaked me out.

But think about it: I have known who he is for the majority of my life. And in a good way, not in a Yoko Ono way. He's a legit badass.

Posted by: Tom Meagher at March 15, 2020 01:01 AM (x8Wzq)

740 Kurt Russell as President Rex Kramer
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 12:53 AM (iTXRQ)

Andrew Gillum as President Rex Buttholez.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 12:56 AM (miJU3)


Adding Gillum should certainly broaden the appeal to intersectional audiences!

I can see box office success looming!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 01:01 AM (BiNEL)

741 Regular chain grocery store was actually pretty normal. Didn't check paper products, I'm sure those were gone. Other departments not that picked over. Pasta gone.

My favorite, amusing one - all the flour.

?????

Find it hard to believe that even 10% of the customers of that store know how to bake anything, maybe other than cookies from the pre-prepared chilled package. So that was funny.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:01 AM (El6T/)

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:02 AM (El6T/)

743 Find it hard to believe that even 10% of the customers of that store
know how to bake anything, maybe other than cookies from the
pre-prepared chilled package. So that was funny.

--
I'd be willing to live on homemade chocolate chip cookies for a pretty long time.

Posted by: Methos at March 15, 2020 01:02 AM (kOpft)

744 > Pyrex bride will soon have one in the oven.

They could name him Oedipus Pyrex, especially since in that era he would've likely been a bottle baby.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 15, 2020 01:03 AM (tLWGd)

745 Holy jeepers !

Would ya look at the time !

I gotta get up in the mawnin' and go grocery shopping !

So, here's my question : If I forget my shopping list, and all the shelves are empty, is that one of them "what is the sound of one hand clapping" dealies ?

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2020 01:03 AM (arJlL)

746 Au revoir, my insane friends and associates. The morrow is all to near!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 01:04 AM (BiNEL)

747 Although the "android humans" sounds like crap to me. They always seemed artificially grown, not robots.

That was a thing in the early 1990s, playing around with the term 'android'. It just means man-like. Not necessarily electronic.

In Star Control 1 [still one of the best space epic games] they had Androsynths. They got ate by Shub Niggurath between sequels.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 15, 2020 01:04 AM (ykYG2)

748 Many years ago I wondered if I was getting an ulcer. No health plan. It was the weirdest thing. A dull ache in stomach, no puking, no runs, but I couldn't lay down for any length of time, and I couldn't stand up. That doesn't leave many possibilities. So I'd pace for a while. It was awful. A few hours of that I wondered what the hell that was about. After a couple days it went away.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 01:04 AM (QJIMk)

749 ahem, the sequel was the awesome space epic. SC1 was pretty much just Space War with Errol Otus artwork.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 15, 2020 01:05 AM (ykYG2)

750 Never took aspirin again, not very often. Alka-Seltzer

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 01:05 AM (QJIMk)

751 One thing that pissed me off about this recent locust effect:

I do not have enough rice and oatmeal on hand. We have plenty of provisions, so we'll endure, but rice and oatmeal are great long-term storage items.

My prepper-fu is still a work in progress.

Posted by: Tom Meagher at March 15, 2020 01:06 AM (x8Wzq)

752 Good to see the pub run by a hockey acquaintance was fairly busy tonight. Generally there was pretty good traffic around, possibly lighter than usual for a Saturday - but barely. BevMo was busy. I realize millions will die if the place doesn't look like Milan or Agdam, but I'd like to see the retail economy not take a huge hit.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:06 AM (El6T/)

753 Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:01 AM (El6T/)

One of my old cookbooks has a recipe for refrigerator yeast rolls. Mix up a batch with simple ingredients, toss in refrigerator and bake what you need with the three or four day starter dough from the frig.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2020 01:07 AM (BiNEL)

754 it's way past my bedtime
Buenos noches amigos

Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 01:07 AM (iTXRQ)

755 Goodnight to all who are heading in.

Prolly gonna do the same soon.

Posted by: Tom Meagher at March 15, 2020 01:09 AM (x8Wzq)

756 Only reason I noticed the flour thing was because I was buying some white sugar for my next batch of limoncello. Other people there also were laughing, saying "who in the hell bakes this much?".

It's kind of an early 20th century, or rural/wildnerness thing. Urban/suburban types aren't known to stock up on raw materials (vs. finished products) when they hoard.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:09 AM (El6T/)

757 This was a pretty good day.

Daughter the younger with the g-babies were in town to move the kids' playset with the other g-parents helping.

They dropped by for a few hours and I experienced a very special kind of joy listening to g-baby the elder read to her little sister.

They have no access to screens, they're homeschooled and are outside all the time.

I thank God that my Gammy instilled a love of reading in me and my daughters -- and seeing that love of the written word passed down to another generation.



Posted by: SMH at March 15, 2020 01:10 AM (RU4sa)

758 > The Truth In Advertising Act forced food companies to stop substituting shaving cream for whipped cream, etc.

As I understand it (and I could be wrong) it's okay to use fake food if the fake is not the food you're actually selling.

For example, you're selling hot dogs, and have a Fourth of July picnic-themed ad with bowls of ice cream in the background. It'd be okay to substitute colored mashed potatoes for the ice cream, but the hot dogs would have to be real (well, as real as hot dogs ever are).

Similarly, it's okay to use fake ice in a booze ad, but not okay to use fake ice in an ice ad (or maybe even an ice-maker ad).


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 15, 2020 01:10 AM (tLWGd)

759 > Lime green jello with shredded carrots and white grapes was a staple in my grade school.

I never understood the carrots in jello. Grapes, fine. A little weird, but fine. Who the hell came up with the idea of carrots? That's worse than putting carrots in chili!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 15, 2020 01:12 AM (tLWGd)

760 Followed by a long monolog about why tapioca is his favorite pudding,
and that his slippers are warm, because the cat sleeps on them
sometimes.

___

Wait, I also need to tell you my favorite crayon. Its red. Tastes delicious!

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 15, 2020 01:12 AM (WdocV)

761 Kurt Russell.

What a career he has had. I remember his old Disney movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55cF-kA-zY

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2020 01:12 AM (arJlL)

762 Oatmeal has a ton of carbs. It has a fair amount of protein though.

I started making Granola before the Late Unpleasantness. So now I have about 4 pounds worth. Really easy to make, and tastes way better than the store bought stuff, and costs next to nothing to make. Nature Valley people should be flogged. Wavy Gravy would agree I betcha. I can tell I'll never buy it again.

I planned 6 months ago at least a hiking trip out west to start on the 24th. I have no idea what to do as such.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 01:13 AM (QJIMk)

763 Nature Valley people should be flogged.

---

Those, along with Red Bull, kept me going on many a patrol or mission.

Posted by: SMH at March 15, 2020 01:14 AM (RU4sa)

764 Common Tater, mind sharing your granola recipe?

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:15 AM (El6T/)

765 This was a pretty good day.

Daughter the younger with the g-babies were in town to move the kids' playset with the other g-parents helping.

They dropped by for a few hours and I experienced a very special kind of joy listening to g-baby the elder read to her little sister.

They have no access to screens, they're homeschooled and are outside all the time.

I thank God that my Gammy instilled a love of reading in me and my daughters -- and seeing that love of the written word passed down to another generation.



Posted by: SMH

Nice !

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2020 01:15 AM (arJlL)

766 730 Is Tylenol superior to Aspirin for fever reduction in equivalent dosages?
Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 12:57 AM (QJIMk)

no, in my experience Tylenol is much, much less effective. I had to tell the night time hospital staff that once when my father had a fever going past 103, and the tylenol compounds they were giving him were ineffective. I told them "Switch to aspirin! You're going to let him die if you don't!" And they were "well the doctor didn't put that on his list when he went home tonight" and them me: "Well dammit wake that doctor up and tell him to do it now!!!! (it was 2 am) His patient won't make it til morning if he doesn't!!!"

so they called him, he said "oh yeah that's a good idea" and the fever broke within 30 minutes. Aspirin is even better at fever than ibuprofen, although ibrupofen is better at inflammation.

honestly, I think Tylenol is by far the most useless of the three. Also, this episode demonstrated why, when someone you care about is in the hospital, a close friend or relative needs to be around at ALL times, because we're the only ones who are gonna catch the big fuckups that happen in the middle of the night.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 15, 2020 01:16 AM (V2Yro)

767 The first robots, as in the play that introduced the word, were biological as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 15, 2020 01:16 AM (WdocV)

768 Flour tends to get bugs - weevils iirc. About a week in the freezer should kill them, but it needs to be a good freezer, below 0 F. iirc. I keep mine at -15 below, something like that. Back when I drank a lot of milk I could buy 5 gallons at a time and they would stay fine at just above freezing.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 01:17 AM (QJIMk)

769 > honestly, I think Tylenol is by far the most useless of the three.

I've never gotten any significant pain relief from Tylenol, ever.

Well, a couple of times I've had Tylenol with codeine after dentistry. That worked, but I don't think it was the Tylenol. Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 15, 2020 01:17 AM (tLWGd)

770 This song was covered by Canned Heat in 1968, forty years after this record was made. They played it pretty straight. This is a pretty good-sounding record, I think RCA had electronic recording by 1928.

Bull Doze blues, by Henry Thomas:

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=sYy716zmXcM

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 01:18 AM (miJU3)

771 SMH that's spectacular about the reading (from real books!). That and they're being outside a lot (translation: being kids).

I know there are private schools that strictly limit use of computers, which sounds like a great idea.

Of course a society that produced 4-yr undergrads with the actual education of a 1950 4-yr undergrad would be wonderfully unrecognizable today. Maybe even a 1950 high school grad.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:18 AM (El6T/)

772 I thank God that my Gammy instilled a love of reading in me and my daughters -- and seeing that love of the written word passed down to another generation.



Posted by: SMH at March 15, 2020 01:10 AM (RU4sa)

Wonderful. So wonderful.

I read to my sons every night. Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings.

It was a thing.

Bedtime! And I would carry one boy in a blanket, Sant Claus style and dump him into his bed. And then the same for the other son. then I would read a chapter or two.

Getting all nostalgic now. I love my sons; they are good men. But I miss those little guys that I could carry around like a sack of oats.

Posted by: Tom Meagher at March 15, 2020 01:18 AM (x8Wzq)

773 JT,

They're six and four.

Eldest is reading at a third grade level. She just finished Charlotte's Web.

Needless to say, I'm shopping books on Prime at the moment.

Posted by: SMH at March 15, 2020 01:18 AM (RU4sa)

774 All these sports cancellations are too much. People may learn to live without going to sports events.... Welcome to the world if we have "President Biden"..........

Posted by: James "Buster" Hymannd at March 15, 2020 01:20 AM (qM84C)

775 right, 'robot' was just the Czech word for 'serf' iirc

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 15, 2020 01:20 AM (ykYG2)

776 > I remember his old Disney movies.

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes was robbed, ROBBED, I say, at the Academy Awards.

Seriously, I loved that movie when I was a little kid.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 15, 2020 01:20 AM (tLWGd)

777 Hmmm, aren't we due for a sloppy but earnest lecture on the current peril? It's been a while. I'm getting complacent, I can feel it (spoken in the voice of HAL, as Dave disconnects his AI modules).

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:21 AM (El6T/)

778 apparently the best pain relief is Smirnoff, meth, and penis.

amazing that Gillum lost by only a fraction of a percent.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 15, 2020 01:22 AM (ykYG2)

779 Fortunately the gym and the ice rink haven't changed anything, so that kind of exercise will not be interrupted. Biking and hiking only need the rain to stop.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:22 AM (El6T/)

780 Getting all nostalgic now. I love my sons; they are good men. But I miss those little guys that I could carry around like a sack of oats.
Posted by: Tom Meagher at March 15, 2020 01:18 AM (x8Wzq)

---

My daughters' are amazing women.

But I missed a lot of their growing up, and felt guilty for the longest time.

Grandbabies are
God's way of saying, "You done good."

Posted by: SMH at March 15, 2020 01:23 AM (RU4sa)

781 767 The first robots, as in the play that introduced the word, were biological as well.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 15, 2020 01:16 AM (WdocV)

--------

I remember reading Rossum's Universal Robots in high school. Wasn't that where the word "robot" was coined?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 01:24 AM (XVuno)

782 I've never gotten any significant pain relief from Tylenol, ever.

Well, a couple of times I've had Tylenol with codeine after dentistry. That worked, but I don't think it was the Tylenol. Heh.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 15, 2020 01:17 AM (tLWGd)

my experience exactly!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 15, 2020 01:25 AM (V2Yro)

783 What are you doing, Dave? I will tell you a story about Corn Pop and the Swarthy Dwarves...

Posted by: klaftern at March 15, 2020 01:25 AM (RuIsu)

784 BTH, my first and only comment on that glorious ace thread about Gillum was that - he very nearly won the effing governorship. Pretty inspiring.

Speaking of which, it appears that DeSantis' efforts to get a real e-Verify law passed has been defeated. Guess which party, go ahead. Defeated, as in gutted (no enforcement provision, making it actual mockery of those who want to do the obvious common sense thing).

But from voters who almost preferred Gillum, what can we expect from their legislature, I guess.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:26 AM (El6T/)

785 What I do is usually read a few online recipes, and try to get a sense of what the basic ratio or proportions are, and avoid the "I substituted asparagus yogurt for the butter and it tastes just fine!" type of recipes. This is one from Chowhound:

3 cups rolled oats (not instant)
3 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup small-dice dried fruit
1/2 cup coarsely chopped raw or toasted nuts or seeds
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I tried one batch with butter, since I was out of veggie oil. Another batch with bacon grease. Both are excellent. Honey and Brown sugar work fine. I tried Mollasses and that's good, too. Nutmeg, Dried Orange peel, freeze dried coffee...

Pineapple, Cranberries, M&Ms. I roasted in a cast iron pan. I've found there is nothing hardly better than cast iron for baking or frying because it holds the heat. The recipe takes about 20 minutes or maybe 30 ... keep an eye on it, it takes forever, and then Bam! It's done. A nice darkening.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 01:27 AM (QJIMk)

786 Grandbabies are
God's way of saying, "You done good."
Posted by: SMH at March 15, 2020 01:23 AM (RU4sa)

Still waiting on that moment. My sons are good men, as I said, but they have not found the right women. The younger generation seems to be populated by damaged souls, both sexes. Thankfully, both boys are very careful in that regard. They are patient. And so are me and the missus. We don't need a lot of drama.

Still. Can't wait to have a grandkid to spoil rotten.

Posted by: Tom Meagher at March 15, 2020 01:27 AM (x8Wzq)

787
As I understand it (and I could be wrong) it's okay to use fake food if the fake is not the food you're actually selling.

For example, you're selling hot dogs, and have a Fourth of July picnic-themed ad with bowls of ice cream in the background. It'd be okay to substitute colored mashed potatoes for the ice cream, but the hot dogs would have to be real (well, as real as hot dogs ever are).

Similarly, it's okay to use fake ice in a booze ad, but not okay to use fake ice in an ice ad (or maybe even an ice-maker ad).


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

========

Precisely. I talked to an ad woman who was alive during the Mad Men era and she told me about the way things got all plexy when they had to start putting studio lights on meltable foods.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 01:28 AM (G51Gf)

788 JT,

They're six and four.

Eldest is reading at a third grade level. She just finished Charlotte's Web.

Needless to say, I'm shopping books on Prime at the moment.
Posted by: SMH

That's great. If you can read, you can do anything !

Both of my parents were readers, and when I was pre-school, my mom took me to the library and checked out a coupla books, and we went home and she read them to me.

I was awestruck by the whole experience.

And hooked for life !

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2020 01:31 AM (arJlL)

789
Flour tends to get bugs - weevils iirc.

Posted by: Common Tater

=======

Flour and oatmeal attract a bug called "pantry moths." They look like moths, but they're grain eaters. The way to keep them out is to seal your containers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 01:31 AM (G51Gf)

790 Common Tater, gracias. Funny, I do exactly the same thing for many recipes - peruse the web, and often end up doing a hybrid that appeals to me or corresponds to ingredients on hand.

And I love the comment about "asparagus yogurt" substitution.

Somewhere - here? - not long ago, somebody linked a sarcastic blog essay on this truly annoying and idiotic pattern of online recipes being buried at the end of incredibly boring, banal, or pretentious little essays. Captured it perfectly. I'll typically hit "Page Dn" 3/4 times before even starting to read when one of those recipes is on the screen.

I don't care about your favorite little coffee bar in Parioli, in Rome, recipe author. Just f***ing give me ingredients and directions - grazzie!

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:31 AM (El6T/)

791 There are nifty little stick-um coated fold-up cardboard traps for those pantry moths that work quite well. Not sure if they're preventative or just responsive, not knowing the pantry moth cycle. But they work.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:33 AM (El6T/)

792 I remember reading Rossum's Universal Robots in high school. Wasn't that where the word "robot" was coined?
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Yes, robot sounds like a czech word for forced labor. The author says his brother coined the term though, not he himself.


The play seemed very much a piece of its own time though - the robots are clearly to my mind the proles overthrowing the bourgeoisie.


Posted by: 18-1 at March 15, 2020 01:34 AM (WdocV)

793
Just looking at the DailyMail. Wally World is going to cut hours to 6am - 11pm, rather the 24 hr.

They had pictures of a store somewhere they had to call the cops to supervise the TP aisle. Cops on the TP aisle.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 15, 2020 01:34 AM (f1Vqw)

794
no enforcement provision,

Posted by: rhomboid

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Perfect. iirc, the lack of enforcement provisions in federal security regulations was revealed in the Clinton email scandal. No, you're not allowed to leave top secret federal records lying around on Anthony Wiener's laptop. No, we won't do anything if you actually do.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 01:35 AM (G51Gf)

795 730 Is Tylenol superior to Aspirin for fever reduction in equivalent dosages?
Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 12:57 AM (QJIMk)


No, not really. What you want to take depends pretty much on what risks you are willing to live with. Aspirin will cause upset stomach in some people, and if you have some problem that makes you prone to bleeding it can make bleeding more likely. You wouldn't want to take aspirin if you have an ulcer, or if you're over 65. If you take too much asprin, or too much for too long, it can cause ulcers or other types of bleeding.

Tylenol probably won't upset your stomach, but if your liver isn't functioning properly, or you're taking other medications that affect the liver (like alcohol or statins), you probably want to go easy on the Tylenol. The big knock on Tylenol is there isn't a whole lot of air between the recommended dosage and an overdose, so if you're the kind of person who doesn't keep track you want to be a little more diligent about what you took and when than is your wont.

For both drugs if you take as directed no longer than directed, and you're generally healthy, they're about the same in terms of effectiveness, and you won't have problems.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 01:37 AM (wGeit)

796

Time for a somewhat serious question:

Has anyone heard the term "Groyper"?

I received this link via Quora:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-groypers/answer/Jon-Davis-10

by "Jon Davis, Writer of Understanding and Dismantling the Alt Right"

He also has a current thread on Quora: "The Groyper War". No link yet, as it's current.

His info indicates that he has lots of influence on Quora. His words screeds (?) suggest that he's a Propagandist.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 15, 2020 01:37 AM (FlRtG)

797 Pantry moths? I think I found those oncet. Commercial flour also has bug eggs of some kind. Anyone hoarding a lot of flour will discover that.

Canned foods need inspection. Once in a while a can will just wig out in extended storage. The store brand el-cheapo tomato based soups will eat through the can. Tomatos are acidic. Store brand holds up, but you will taste the can when it gets a few years old.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 01:39 AM (QJIMk)

798 794
no enforcement provision,

Posted by: rhomboid

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Perfect. iirc, the lack of enforcement provisions in federal security regulations was revealed in the Clinton email scandal. No, you're not allowed to leave top secret federal records lying around on Anthony Wiener's laptop. No, we won't do anything if you actually do.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 01:35 AM (G51Gf)


Funny, that's not the attitude the government took when I was handling classified data.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 01:40 AM (wGeit)

799
Funny, that's not the attitude the government took when I was handling classified data.
Posted by: Ace's liver

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Heheh, you mean there are enforcement provisions? I guess they're optional.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 01:41 AM (G51Gf)

800
Just looking at the DailyMail. Wally World is going to cut hours to 6am - 11pm, rather the 24 hr.

Walmart and Kroger both cut hours here in January.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 15, 2020 01:42 AM (aKsyK)

801 no enforcement provision,

Posted by: rhomboid


I would like five (5) get out of jail free cards saying that.

Les Autres only need a bit of encourage-ing.

Posted by: Miklos du Monde (open 24 hours) at March 15, 2020 01:43 AM (QzkSJ)

802 Actually Blonde M., the Espionage Act provisions violated (sytematically, deliberately, for years, by a cabinet-level national security official and her staff, with evidence of actual damage resulting) by Clinton & Co. are quite prosecutable, and apart from espionage conducted explicitly on behalf of a foreign power, they probably are the most egregious violations of the Act since it was enacted.

But your general point stands. As now seen in cases beyond quick recounting, clear and serious violations of law by senior officials and others with clear guidelines might not be pursued, at all. But that's just the astounding and gross suspension of justice and rule of law that it appears to be, not an example that's illustrative of most situations.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:44 AM (El6T/)

803 800
Just looking at the DailyMail. Wally World is going to cut hours to 6am - 11pm, rather the 24 hr.

Walmart and Kroger both cut hours here in January.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 15, 2020 01:42 AM (aKsyK)


They had a special set of nails, and a wall.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 01:44 AM (wGeit)

804 He also has a current thread on Quora: "The Groyper War". No link yet, as it's current.

His info indicates that he has lots of influence on Quora. His words screeds (?) suggest that he's a Propagandist.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 15, 2020 01:37 AM (FlRtG)

I think Widespread Pepe, aka ok, or the ahwu flu guy, could help you with that. He used to be involved in that corner of the Internets before he became an epidemiologist.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 01:46 AM (miJU3)

805 Also, I think the phrase "dark hole from which you will never emerge" was used.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 01:46 AM (wGeit)

806 "I guess they're optional."

Yeah, depends on who you are.

Posted by: Case at March 15, 2020 01:47 AM (EYKgr)

807 Jon Davis, Writer of Understanding and Dismantling the Alt Right

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Sigh. The guy isn't as REEEEEEE as most lefties are when trying to comment on the right, but when he calls Milo Y one of these crypto-neo-nazis he is making up he spoils the game.


There certainly are anti-Semites and racists in the larger right wing movement*, but in an era when leftwing politicians talk about using WMDs against conservatives, openly talk of re-education camps and want to make conservative unemployable I don't f*cking care.


*just like there are in the left

Posted by: 18-1 at March 15, 2020 01:47 AM (WdocV)

808
There are nifty little stick-um coated fold-up cardboard traps for those pantry moths that work quite well. Not sure if they're preventative or just responsive, not knowing the pantry moth cycle. But they work.
Posted by: rhomboid

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That's part of the treatment once you get them. My mom had them, and we had to:

- throw away all food & containers that had them.
- take EVERYTHING out of the pantry (that was a ton of stuff).
- set out the little traps.
- wait a few days as the bugs accumulated. They worked!
- wipe down all the shelves and floor with a bleach solution.
- wipe down the remaining food containers.
- finally, replace the grains but put everything in a sealed container. That means you buy a giant box of Cheerios, you put it into a plastic container. Glass jars with lids aren't good enough; you've got to put a layer of plastic wrap over the jar first. No cardboard boxes of oats, no paper bags of flour, etc.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 01:47 AM (G51Gf)

809 When I buy flour (KA is pretty good) I immediately wrap it up in plastic tightly and put it in the freezer for a week or so. I haven't had any moths since that routine. I have maybe 15 pounds. Since I lost all that weight since June I don't eat very much anymore. I do like me some homemade biscuits and french bread and pizza though. I had a craving for french bread today. Crispy crunchy outside and soft insides drenched in butter.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 01:49 AM (QJIMk)

810 So I'm gonna be allowed to become complacent, no sloppy lectures enlightening me that Tel Aviv is Everywhere, and the response must be the same?

OK.

I can sense the attitude softening. I might open the door to my positive-pressure isolation room get a drink of water.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:49 AM (El6T/)

811 No, you're not allowed to leave top secret federal records lying around on Anthony Wiener's laptop. No, we won't do anything if you actually do.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

*wipes sweat off forehead*

No Intent.

That and the Statue of Limits, and the Good and Plenty Clause, my Peeple all good.

Posted by: Miklo, third shift jailhouse lawyer and DNC Consultant at March 15, 2020 01:49 AM (QzkSJ)

812 You make your own bread when you do French bread?

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 01:50 AM (wGeit)

813 Blonde M., sounds right.

And I like the freezing idea Common Tater.

Haven't had pantry moth issues in a long time, but they can arise very quickly.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 01:51 AM (El6T/)

814 No intent ?

Posted by: klaftern at March 15, 2020 01:52 AM (RuIsu)

815
Actually Blonde M., the Espionage Act provisions violated (sytematically, deliberately, for years, by a cabinet-level national security official and her staff, with evidence of actual damage resulting) by Clinton & Co. are quite prosecutable, and apart from espionage conducted explicitly on behalf of a foreign power, they probably are the most egregious violations of the Act since it was enacted.

Posted by: rhomboid

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I might be mistaken about something -- I vaguely recall forms that were supposed to be signed, attestations that were supposed to be made, that never were -- and it turned out there were no prescribed consequences. Hillary could rightly say she didn't violate such-and-such an agreement because she never agreed, and that crook Patrick Kennedy never saw to it that she did.

But it's vague, and it came in such an avalanche of crimes that never got prosecuted. One of Cheryl Mills's transcripts with Judicial Watch actually had something like "I don't know why we didn't, oh how I wish we had." Similarly, Huma's testimony was a shrug and "Ask my boss." I don't think Hillary was ever dragged into Judicial Watch, although supposedly she will be, at which time her amnesia will be worse than Joe Bye-den's.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 01:54 AM (G51Gf)

816 There are nifty little stick-um coated fold-up cardboard traps for those pantry moths

We don't have Pantry Moths here.

The flying Palmetto Bugs (roaches) are sufficient.

*note to relocating Yankees and Californians-FLYING ROACHES*

Posted by: Miklos Caroliniensis at March 15, 2020 01:54 AM (QzkSJ)

817 I think some of the prepper sites recommend putting dry foods like beans, rice, or flour in food-grade plastic pails, and using CO2 or another asphyxiant gas, maybe nitrogen, to displace all the air from the container. Bugs need oxygen to live and breed, and also spoilage of the food from oxidation will be reduced.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 01:56 AM (miJU3)

818
When I buy flour (KA is pretty good) I immediately wrap it up in plastic tightly and put it in the freezer for a week or so.

Posted by: Common Tater

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Aha. And after the freezing week you can put it in the cupboard (still wrapped?). I'll do that with flour, since I, too, use so durn much of it. I have a bread machine.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 01:56 AM (G51Gf)

819 Yeah, french bread isn't too difficult. I'm not too good of a baker, but good enough. I inherited some clay bannetons from dear old Mom. I like to let dough age a couple few days, that improves the flavor quite a bit. This works with cookie dough too. Recipes often say "chill one hour". No. Chill overnight.

This won't work with kids. "Wanna make some cookies!?"

"YAY!!! Yes!!!"

"OK .. now that the dough is done, we'll pop it in the fridge and make them ... Tomorrow!!"

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 01:57 AM (QJIMk)

820 The flying Palmetto Bugs (roaches) are sufficient.

*note to relocating Yankees and Californians-FLYING ROACHES*
Posted by: Miklos Caroliniensis at March 15, 2020 01:54 AM (QzkSJ)

Is a .410 adequate for bagging them, or do you need a full 12-bore?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 01:57 AM (miJU3)

821 But it's vague, and it came in such an avalanche

Not vague, but the avalanche is accurate.


I will leave it the obviously informed Rhomboid to detail the laws and regulation Miss Millz violated.

Long list.

Posted by: Miklos, from CIFIUS at March 15, 2020 01:58 AM (QzkSJ)

822 Long term food storage.

Vacuum seal all things such as flour, rice or beans.

Then freeze 'em, at sub-zero, for about two weeks.

There won't be no bugs or weevils 'live to testify against ya.

Canned goods? Store 'em as cool as you're able.

We can't have "root cellars' down here on the Gulf Coast. You Northerners, can.

Don't store your canned goods in the Pantry. Store 'em colder, and they'll last longer.

Ammo should be at room temperature.

Hunting in sub-zero weather?

If you expect to USE your boomstick first thing at zero dark thirty (as in hunting), stow it outside of your front door.

Scope fogging ain't yer friend.

Oh, and if you do this, RABIDLY de-oil the entire action, in detail. Chamber, too. Don't forget the trigger mechanism.

Congealed, semi-frozen gun oil ain't yer friend.

I'm passing on the wisdom of many high-country, cold weather hunters, before me.

You can laugh ME off, but you'd be well advised to heed THEIR advice.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 15, 2020 01:58 AM (QzJWU)

823 Yes - stores on the shelf in the pantry, after the freeze-kill cycle. I wrap in plastic, just to keep humidity out I guess. But if there are critters wanting to get in...

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 01:59 AM (QJIMk)

824
Also, I think the phrase "dark hole from which you will never emerge" was used.
Posted by: Ace's liver

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"Book deal and 4-part Hulu docuseries" wasn't in the sentencing guidelines?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 02:00 AM (G51Gf)

825 Blonde M. that would have been the forms to sign after security training, I think.

Pretty sure violations of the Act are not protected by ignorance of the law, all such violations can be prosecuted, technically.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 02:00 AM (El6T/)

826
Well, that's useful advice about pre-freezing the grains. I shall inform la mom.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 02:01 AM (G51Gf)

827 The flying Palmetto Bugs (roaches) are sufficient.

*note to relocating Yankees and Californians-FLYING ROACHES*
Posted by: Miklos Caroliniensis at March 15, 2020 01:54 AM (QzkSJ)

Is a .410 adequate for bagging them, or do you need a full 12-bore?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

When I was a kid, there were Farmer Gray cartoons and he would chase mice all around his house and shoot at them with a shotgun while mad music played in the background.

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2020 02:03 AM (arJlL)

828 Is a .410 adequate for bagging them, or do you need a full 12-bore?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Nurse R. has better experience in over-gunning.


Any AOP Canuck types would be welcome here. I think Canada has a consulate at Myrtle Beach.

We even put up with your obviously nationalistic stories about how the tiny Canadian mosquitoes are better than US NATO-compliant giant Attack Mosquitoes.

Posted by: Miklos, who calls girlfrends "Skeeter" (all of them, makes things easier) at March 15, 2020 02:05 AM (QzkSJ)

829 Pre-freezing works for flour and grains, but it has to be well below "freezing" to be effective, I'd have to look it up, but I think -5F or something. If you look at a kitchen thermometer it shows -15F below as "freezer zone". Most people's freezers are probably set pretty warm.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 02:07 AM (QJIMk)

830
Blonde M. that would have been the forms to sign after security training, I think.

Pretty sure violations of the Act are not protected by ignorance of the law, all such violations can be prosecuted, technically.
Posted by: rhomboid

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That sounds like it. "I have been informed and I agree to X." Even though ignorance of the law is no excuse, there's a backup, which everyone has to sign unless they don't.

The violations of the Espionage Act boggle my mind. What did Comey think he had to lose by prosecuting her? He surely knew he would be fired on Day One of her administration regardless.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 02:07 AM (G51Gf)

831 Panty moths? Wait, wut?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, Ragin' Contagion at March 15, 2020 02:08 AM (Vy7tf)

832 ..I might be mistaken about something -- I vaguely recall forms that were supposed to be signed, attestations that were supposed to be made, that never were -- and it turned out there were no prescribed consequences. Hillary could rightly say she didn't violate such-and-such an agreement because she never agreed, and that crook Patrick Kennedy never saw to it that she did.

But it's vague, and it came in such an avalanche of crimes that never got prosecuted. One of Cheryl Mills's transcripts with Judicial Watch actually had something like "I don't know why we didn't, oh how I wish we had." Similarly, Huma's testimony was a shrug and "Ask my boss." I don't think Hillary was ever dragged into Judicial Watch, although supposedly she will be, at which time her amnesia will be worse than Joe Bye-den's.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 01:54 AM (G51Gf)



Which is why Independent Operators need to be funded, patted on the back, encouraged, and turned loose to the ends of their own devices.

Fund ONE and the odds are slim.

Fund ONE THOUSAND?

Well, that changes things, doesn't it?

Later, rinse, repeat, recycle.

Money turns the tide to our favor.

Fuck "lawfare"

And yeah, it's Asshole Time in the Political Discourse.

*disclaimer

I'm not the Shooter Asshole, nor the Funder Asshole.

But I'll cheer the Assholes on, just so long as they're on OUR side.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 15, 2020 02:08 AM (QzJWU)

833 You can laugh ME off, but you'd be well advised to heed THEIR advice.



Jim

Possible downside-

Jim will feed you a freeze dried dinner.

Posted by: Miklos, whose Dad never liked what they gave in Korea, half frozen at March 15, 2020 02:10 AM (QzkSJ)

834
*note to relocating Yankees and Californians-FLYING ROACHES*
Posted by: Miklos Caroliniensis at March 15, 2020 01:54 AM (QzkSJ)

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Okay, okay!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 02:10 AM (G51Gf)

835 Typical Yukon mosquito:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/tzgsqy8

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 02:11 AM (miJU3)

836 Which is why Independent Operators need to be funded, patted on the back, encouraged, and turned loose to the ends of their own devices.


Letters of Marque and/or Reprisal?

Posted by: Miklos, who wants one at March 15, 2020 02:11 AM (QzkSJ)

837 Okay, okay!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

You could be sponsored for a South Carolina H1-Moron Visa.

Posted by: Miklos, who knows the Guvna (who also owes me money) at March 15, 2020 02:16 AM (QzkSJ)

838
Fuck "lawfare"


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim

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I'd still like to see what military tribunals can do. I've heard of a theory that they would apply to some of our better-pedigreed traitors.

Meanwhile, you don't think a Manhattan courtroom would be the perfect venue for getting justice against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 02:17 AM (G51Gf)

839 ..Letters of Marque and/or Reprisal?

Posted by: Miklos, who wants one at March 15, 2020 02:11 AM (QzkSJ)



Even our Founders did not expect nor anticipate this Article or Section to be used against our own Government as means of addressing the Long Chain of Usurpations as described in our Declaration of Independence.

But if it fits, it fits.

And it fits.

I beg only to pull the first trigger from the bronze grip up in the Fire Director Tower of the Iowa Class BB Fuck You Up Ship.

Not saying I'm aiming at Pelosi.

But she'd best not be sitting in her chair.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 15, 2020 02:19 AM (QzJWU)

840 And yeah, it's Asshole Time in the Political Discourse.


I have a Pl.D. in that.

Posted by: Miklos, actual sheepskin on the wall guy (not real sheepskin, because them peoples CHEAP) at March 15, 2020 02:20 AM (QzkSJ)

841
You could be sponsored for a South Carolina H1-Moron Visa.
Posted by: Miklos, who knows the Guvna

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I'm flattered, but the flying roaches would need to understand that it's a two-way street. I don't bother them, they don't bother me. Somehow I don't think they'd respect the fine print.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 02:20 AM (G51Gf)

842 Saturday Night Joke is sort of a Reverse Good Samaritan Cowgirl.

Well done.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 15, 2020 02:21 AM (3fnVZ)

843 Well, I am going to go to bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 02:24 AM (miJU3)

844 Just got home from a week away and my place sticks like nicotine residue. Yuck! Fucking downstairs neighbor must have been smoking up a chimney all week. By the way, the Govt. wants me to spend the next two weeks in self quarantine on account of being in Europe prior to the travel ban.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 15, 2020 02:24 AM (zqs/f)

845 829 Pre-freezing works for flour and grains, but it has to be well below "freezing" to be effective, I'd have to look it up, but I think -5F or something. If you look at a kitchen thermometer it shows -15F below as "freezer zone". Most people's freezers are probably set pretty warm.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 02:07 AM (QJIMk)


Canadians have the advantage here. I follow a Canadian beekeeper on Youtube, and to kill wax moths he just stores the comb in an unheated shed.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 02:24 AM (wGeit)

846 I'm to the snoozer, y'all.

Mission is though, Kill all the Commies.

Anything less, is a lack of focus on the objective.

Free Fire Zone. Man Minute.

You know the rest.


zzzz

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 15, 2020 02:25 AM (QzJWU)

847 If anyone wants a True Story of Miklos In Real Life (today) I got one.

Posted by: Miklos, How To Deal With Asshole, Legally. Part 1753 at March 15, 2020 02:27 AM (QzkSJ)

848 847 If anyone wants a True Story of Miklos In Real Life (today) I got one.
Posted by: Miklos, How To Deal With Asshole, Legally. Part 1753 at March 15, 2020 02:27 AM (QzkSJ)


Does it involve alcohol, guns, or large breasted women?

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 02:30 AM (wGeit)

849 Serious Cat, welcome back from Switzerland (?).

No please wash your hands, close the door, and remain inside for 14 days.

Just kidding.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 02:30 AM (El6T/)

850

I want some SC H1B-3 (hottie model visas) quotas here.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 15, 2020 02:31 AM (f1Vqw)

851 The only question I have about the slapfight between Nick Fuentes (white nationalist... with a Hispanic surname?) and Charlie Kirk (shallow grifter trying to be one of the cool MAGA kids) is: Can't they both lose? Because conservatism would win at that point. We don't need wannabe nahhtsies, online trolls and spouters of empty platitudes. We need people willing to take responsibility for their actions and use their experiences to build up this country.

Posted by: pookysgirl, knitter extraordinaire at March 15, 2020 02:31 AM (XKZwp)

852
Good night to all who have left! See you on the flip side.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 02:32 AM (G51Gf)

853 Does it involve alcohol, guns, or large breasted women?
Posted by: Ace's liver

Alcohol, yes.

Woman, yes, but of no particular breastage.

They was no brandishing.

It is just an example of Double Triple Miklosian anti-asshole-ing, with The Law on my side.

Posted by: Miklos, pay attention, chirrens at March 15, 2020 02:34 AM (QzkSJ)

854 851 read alan colmbs book thank the liberals for saving america.

Posted by: raimondo at March 15, 2020 02:35 AM (cJc4W)

855
Can't they both lose?

Posted by: pookysgirl, knitter extraordinaire

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No. Only we can lose.

Crazy loudmouths and elite criminals have seen to it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 02:35 AM (G51Gf)

856
If anyone wants a True Story of Miklos In Real Life (today) I got one.
Posted by: Miklos, How To Deal With Asshole, Legally. Part 1753 at March 15, 2020 02:27 AM (QzkSJ)

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Want, want!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 02:36 AM (G51Gf)

857 MisHum, if you still awake --

As long as we'll be doing Zappa for a while, can we haz Zomby Wolf??

Posted by: Eleanor, What the Cat Dragged In at March 15, 2020 02:37 AM (QU+qf)

858 If trump and biden jumped off the empire state building who would win? Answer either is correct who cares? or the american people.

Posted by: raimondo at March 15, 2020 02:37 AM (cJc4W)

859 I want some SC H1B-3 (hottie model visas) quotas here.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

The Florence/Myrtle Beach TV station had the one hot Weather/News for YOU! chick.

Apparently got another job.

Posted by: Miklos, gotta pay attention at March 15, 2020 02:38 AM (QzkSJ)

860 853 Does it involve alcohol, guns, or large breasted women?
Posted by: Ace's liver

Alcohol, yes.

Woman, yes, but of no particular breastage.

They was no brandishing.

It is just an example of Double Triple Miklosian anti-asshole-ing, with The Law on my side.
Posted by: Miklos, pay attention, chirrens at March 15, 2020 02:34 AM (QzkSJ)


You only need one of the three. Lay it on us.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 15, 2020 02:39 AM (wGeit)

861 TRumpf also 10,000 felons like education and healthy donors are treatment showing blue. McSalley is been looking for battle. Antifa is now was doris millegal in north care. it will end. The election and the police off!

Posted by: raimondo on tap at March 15, 2020 02:39 AM (QzkSJ)

862 Well, Blonde Morticia, they ain't welcome in my house, but that's about all I can do.

Posted by: pookysgirl, knitter extraordinaire at March 15, 2020 02:39 AM (XKZwp)

863
Well, Blonde Morticia, they ain't welcome in my house, but that's about all I can do.
Posted by: pookysgirl, knitter extraordinaire

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It's too bad others tune them in. One of those products/services that half of us are trying to obsolete while the other half is addicted to.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 02:41 AM (G51Gf)

864 Good grief, someone needs to re-learn English. And not from a Mad Libs book this time!

Posted by: pookysgirl, knitter extraordinaire at March 15, 2020 02:43 AM (XKZwp)

865 They had pictures of a store somewhere they had to call the cops to supervise the TP aisle. Cops on the TP aisle.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 15, 2020 01:34 AM (f1Vqw)

This buttwipe run is straight out of Idiocracy.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 15, 2020 02:43 AM (ufFY8)

866
I'm waiting, Miklos.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 02:44 AM (G51Gf)

867 Oh dear, Miklos, you do not want to keep Morticia waiting! She'll sic Uncle Fester on you!!!

Oh wait, that's Joe Biden. EVEN WORSE!

Posted by: pookysgirl, knitter extraordinaire at March 15, 2020 02:47 AM (XKZwp)

868

Watching "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" on MeTV, an enemy agent has release a "fear gas" on the Seaview, making them all go insane with paranoia and panic.

Hmmmmmmm......

Miley said that Saturday nights with me watching MeTV's cheesy '60s sci-fi shows is like babysitting an 8 yr old.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 15, 2020 02:50 AM (f1Vqw)

869 Treasure of the Sierra Madre on here.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 15, 2020 02:51 AM (ufFY8)

870 Fear Gas?
This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Eric Swallowswell at March 15, 2020 02:53 AM (ufFY8)

871 an enemy agent has release a "fear gas" on the Seaview, making them all go insane with paranoia and panic.

Any ill-clad buxom damsels in distress?

Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer at March 15, 2020 02:53 AM (7y4w6)

872
*poof*

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2020 02:56 AM (G51Gf)

873 >> Any ill-clad buxom damsels in distress?


Unfortunately, "Voyage" didn't have many babes on it. The first season was more cold war type stuff, and had a few femme fatale types, but they were fully clothed.

Later seasons went to "monster of the week" themes, and I think the show hold the record for no women featured in a whole season.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 15, 2020 02:56 AM (f1Vqw)

874 Story

Situation

Solution

There was something in Mama Miklos neighborhood. Many cars.

The drive was effective blocked-one car parked on the street opposite the driveway, cars parked intimately close to the driveway. Six inches into the driveway.

Mama Miklos is Old Lady, drives Big Old Buick.


So.

Miklosian Solution #1

1/a-Miklos parks own car four (4) inches from front bumper of most offending car.

1/b-Miklos parks Buick four (4) inches from rear bumper of Chief Offender Example to be Made of Car

*About two hours*


"Are those your cars? I'm blocked in. Could move one?"


Miklos At His Best-

"No. I live here and can park as I damn well please. I can block my own driveway."

"So those are your cars? Can you move one?"

"People like you aggravate me so much I need a Whisky Drink. So I am drinking this one."


"But you can move a car?"

"No. I will not Drink and Drive, and it is a criminal offense for you to ask or allow me to."

*Good Day in the Paul Harvey voice*

Posted by: Miklos, Clint Eastwood before Clint Eastwood was Clint Eastwood at March 15, 2020 03:04 AM (QzkSJ)

875 874 How did paul harvey avoid serving his country in the military in world war II? Good day!

Posted by: raimondo at March 15, 2020 03:12 AM (cJc4W)

876 Good negro sailor arrested by election dollars the desert by good samiritans sneak into couldn't should keep the murder patrol agents don't die for shooting as repeal state is still purple. Voters absentee ballot is how to an unnamed negros were getting rid of socialism which sides are for trump!

Posted by: raimondo at March 15, 2020 03:14 AM (QzkSJ)

877 I always thought that Star Trek was a derivative of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Posted by: yop at March 15, 2020 03:15 AM (nqhkI)

878 875 874 How did paul harvey avoid serving his country in the military in world war II? Good day!
Posted by: raimondo at March 15, 2020 03:12 AM (cJc4W)

A toothache in his heel.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, Ragin' Contagion at March 15, 2020 03:17 AM (Vy7tf)

879 How did paul harvey avoid serving his country in the military in world war II?

How did FDR avoid realizing all his influential appointees in the State Department were Soviet spies?

Posted by: the world wonders at March 15, 2020 03:27 AM (7y4w6)

880 871 an enemy agent has release a "fear gas" on the Seaview, making them all go insane with paranoia and panic.

Any ill-clad buxom damsels in distress?

Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer at March 15, 2020 02:53 AM (7y4w6)

Memory seems to recall Barbara Eden in the series pilot/movie. The one with global warming/Van Allen belt on fire.
Crew disappointed. Captains girl.
Too bad I forget to check the stove when leaving and remember this.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 15, 2020 03:28 AM (e1mEI)

881 Yeah, back in the day you needed a Binford XRi220 Shelby Turbo Def*ckulator to get past the Tim Van Allen belts.

Posted by: basic engineering at March 15, 2020 03:36 AM (7y4w6)

882 A toothache in his heel.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom




For want of a toothache
Went the ONT

Posted by: Mildly Medieval Miklos at March 15, 2020 03:45 AM (QzkSJ)

883 Any ill-clad buxom damsels in distress?



Iss in ze Plan!

Posted by: Dr. Miklos Stranagelove at March 15, 2020 03:48 AM (QzkSJ)

884 Mornin', all.

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 04:28 AM (Z/jzm)

885 Everyone quarantined?

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 04:33 AM (Z/jzm)

886 Roomy in here, i guess i should get the coffee going

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 04:41 AM (Z/jzm)

887 People will come to this thread if we advertise TP.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 15, 2020 04:44 AM (ufFY8)

888 1 ply or 2?

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 04:56 AM (Z/jzm)

889 Scariest movie talk upthread....for me, Burnt Offerings. I remember having nightmares for a long time after that

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 04:58 AM (Z/jzm)

890 1 ply. We want the hardy souls to visit us.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 15, 2020 04:58 AM (ufFY8)

891 1 ply or 2?
Posted by: My life is insanity

One. once , and one time.

Posted by: the Sheryl Crow Theory of Socialist Democracy at March 15, 2020 05:03 AM (QzkSJ)

892 We are back to seasonal temperature reality.

It's only 31 now and won't get much warmer today. Forecast for the week shows highs of only 46. We actually had some snow flurries yesterday.

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 05:07 AM (Z/jzm)

893 I'm struck by the fact that there are people that insist this is a "hoax" to some degree. There are numerous countries that are having some serious issues, at least as far as we can tell. How can that be a ginned up issue? Sure, the leftists or 5th column types will try to use this to flip the November election, but that doesn't make it a hoax. It just seems weird that there is a dichotomy of extremes - one camp is "We're all going to Die!" And the other "It's just the Flu!".

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 05:10 AM (QJIMk)

894 >> ply or 2?
Posted by: My life is insanity

One. once , and one time.
Posted by: the Sheryl Crow Theory of Socialist Democracy at March 15, 2020 05:03 AM (QzkSJ)

But all she wants to do is have some fun

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 05:12 AM (Z/jzm)

895 @893

It's a hoax in a sense that by comparison, 50 million Americans contract the flu annually, anywhere from 13-18k die from it annually.


We've decided to tank the global economy because 1000 people have been infected and we have 50 deaths, the majority of them from on nursing home in Washington State.


This is bullshit, this is intentional and this is a massive "hoax" being perpetrated to bring down Trump.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 15, 2020 05:17 AM (e+X5z)

896
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 15, 2020 05:22 AM (dY4CJ)

897 Everyone quarantined?

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 04:33 AM (Z/jzm)


My tummy's quarantined after last night's feast. No breakfast today because . . . no room.

After getting my $0 due tax returns done today, maybe I'll eat. Then again, maybe not. Stuffed doesn't begin to cover my poor widdle tummy. But it was a good feast so no complaints. Except for the groaning.

Posted by: RickZ at March 15, 2020 05:23 AM (Y8PSl)

898 Morning 'rons and 'ettes.

No quarantine here, MLiI.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 15, 2020 05:26 AM (Dhht7)

899 Well OK, but it hasn't hit here yet. So we don't know yet, what will happen. At one time China had 700 million people locked down under quarantine. Was that part of the ruse? Italy's hospitals were overwhelmed, I'm told. See where I'm goin' with that? Hospitals aren't normally completely overwhelmed on an annual basis are they?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 05:26 AM (QJIMk)

900 I agree that 'don't let any crisis go to waste' is being used to get Trump. It's appalling. God willing, he will survive this latest. I can't even imagine what they will use next.

That said, this virus is out there, use your head and take the precautions to keep the people in your life most at risk, safe. Just like you would do in any situation. The panicking is feeding on itself. I sure hope it tamps down soon.

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 05:31 AM (Z/jzm)

901 It just seems weird that there is a dichotomy of extremes - one camp is "We're all going to Die!" And the other "It's just the Flu!".

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 05:10 AM (QJIMk)


When you look at the number of deaths from the H1N1 virus a few years ago, and the lack of 'oh my gawd, we're all going to die so it's time to panic!!!' reporting, this whole nonsense is designed to stop Trump. It's a two-fer because it stops Trump from holding campaign rallies as well as allowing Plugs Biden not to campaign and make a greater fool of himself.

I also like a comment I read which stated that the media is really pissed off at Trump for calling them out as fake news. So they got their little journo-list lock-step marching orders to say, 'Fake news? Okay, take this!' reporting. For me, this is the media going into their attack mode against Trump to show him (and us Deplorables) the power they still possess to the point of making people fight over friggin' toilet paper in the store aisles.

Posted by: RickZ at March 15, 2020 05:31 AM (Y8PSl)

902 Mornin', olddog. How are things?

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 05:32 AM (Z/jzm)

903 Or put another way, it hasn't hit here yet in a big way which is rather the point isn't it?

The idea being to flatten the curve, to avoid a crush of hospital admissions to ICUs, there are only so many beds. The interviews with Italian doctors and nurses sounded pretty dire. That's not a hoax is it?

If "nothing happens" here is that because of or in spite of all the draconian measures? I dunno. You can bet how the 5th column will try to frame it.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 05:33 AM (QJIMk)

904 Common Tater, I think I just "got" your nic! Until now I always thought potatoes

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 05:34 AM (Z/jzm)

905 Maybe because you gave me awesome directions to make breakfast potatoes a while ago

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 05:35 AM (Z/jzm)

906 Interesting theory, but that doesn't make any sense.

So the "I'll show you!" answer to being (correctly) called "fake news" is to spew even more absurd vile bullshit, that even the leftists are appalled? That isn't going to work is it?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 05:37 AM (QJIMk)

907 Been up since 3:30, at 5:30 decided toget up finally

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 05:40 AM (ZCEU2)

908 That said, this virus is out there, use your head and take the precautions to keep the people in your life most at risk, safe. Just like you would do in any situation. The panicking is feeding on itself. I sure hope it tamps down soon.
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 05:31 AM (Z/jzm)


Good morning Horde.

Found out yesterday an old high school buddy has tested positive. He's 57 or so. Quite ill but resting at home.

Wonder how long COVID has been around the US and folks just didn't know they had it.

Posted by: golfman at March 15, 2020 05:41 AM (M3a0a)

909 I agree they are pulling out all the stops here - to try and damage the presidents popularity and the economy -

but there are unmistakable signs of oanic around the world, too. Which makes anyone complicit in these actions against the president unspeakably vile and disgusting.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 05:42 AM (QJIMk)

910 Speaking of TP, my 1st ever online grocery order was kind of a bust. Early yesterday I placed an order of much needed groceries at Meijer's.
Including TP. (Down to 4 rolls) Everything I ordered was listed as in stock. I wondered about that, but there were quite a few things listed that said out-of-stock so I was confident that the site was updated. Yeah, not so much. I only got 1/2 of what I ordered, of course TP and a few other things I'm almost out of, were not there.

I guess it was convenient in that I could keep mom from walking through the crowds but now i still have to shop today for the stuff needed.

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 05:45 AM (Z/jzm)

911 This is day 4 of the zombie apocalypse

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 05:45 AM (ZCEU2)

912 MLII: it was the Hash Brown Treatise, as I recall. Did they turn out well?

I made a killer hamburger casserole yesterday. I figured it should last 2 days. It didn't. *burp*

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 05:45 AM (QJIMk)

913 That isn't going to work is it?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 05:37 AM (QJIMk)


Look at the power being exerted in Democrat-run shitholes. Cutting off gun sales, closing down schools and businesses, tanking the economy. Lefties don't give a shit about the economy except when it's going good if a Republican is president. Then they have to stop that from happening. If some Democrat was president today, the media would not have the same tone of BeerVirus reporting -- at all. They would not be screaming racism if the borders were closed under a Democrat president, that's for damn sure. They wouldn't be talking about a lack of diversity in the president's response team, either.

The Cabal are using this crisis too good to waste to stop the populist nationalist movements taking hold across the globe, Trump, Brexit, Eastern Europe, Brazil, et.al. Calling it the Wuhan Virus is racist and xenophobic? Give me a friggin' break.

Posted by: RickZ at March 15, 2020 05:47 AM (Y8PSl)

914 Common Tater, yes! Thank you

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 05:48 AM (Z/jzm)

915 There seems to be a booming market for on line groceryat the store I go to. There can be 5 gathers going around when I go at any time. Wife wondered if they get first choice but told her they go get items off the shelf like anyone else.

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 05:50 AM (ZCEU2)

916 I've been ordering online and pickup or delivery (groceries) for a while.

It does kind of boggle that they can't keep better control of "out of stock" but as a practical matter fhey send shoppers out to pick your order off the shelves like anyone else would. If the Zombies sweep through picking up the TP....

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 05:52 AM (QJIMk)

917 Skip, and they ask if you'd like a substitute product if the one you order is not available. I chose not to do that, which may or may not be why I didn't get everything. But I'm guessing it's because those particular shelves were bare.

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 05:52 AM (Z/jzm)

918 Yesterday first thing the store was quite cleaned out except fresh vegetables, on way home stoped at one out a ways andc it was about normal though no tp either.
I think tp is only made in Wuhan China.

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 05:56 AM (ZCEU2)

919 It's a pretty big thing at all the stores here. Before it was an online thing I thought it would be a good service to take to the elderly. When I was considering what I could do after I realized I could no longer do sewing alterations as a living, I gave that some serious thought as a business.

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 05:57 AM (Z/jzm)

920 Rick, I agree with every bit of that. Except leftists seem preternaturally (whatever that means) prone to going off the rails early, getting impatient, writing tell-all books outlining their evil plans, etc.

If you plan on sending your political opponents to gulags amd re-educafion camps, you're supposed to confiscate all the guns first. Now everybody has seen the mask slip. They have a lot of power and are dangerous, but they are way more exposed than ever.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 05:57 AM (QJIMk)

921 If you plan on sending your political opponents to gulags amd re-educafion camps, you're supposed to confiscate all the guns first.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 05:57 AM (QJIMk)


See the flurry of 'red flag' laws recently passed in Democrat-controlled shitholes.

They killed a guy in Maryland while he slept last night serving one of those warrants.

Posted by: RickZ at March 15, 2020 06:00 AM (Y8PSl)

922 >>I think tp is only made in Wuhan China.
Posted by: Skip

Wisconsin!! Kimberly Clark is here.

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 06:00 AM (Z/jzm)

923 "This is day 4 of the zombie apocalypse"

mornin yall. It's Subday Sunday Sunday and I'm off to the races.

Posted by: freaked at March 15, 2020 06:01 AM (Tnijr)

924 230 I give it a week before lots of people say "fuck it, it's just a bad cold and it's only killing old geezers anyway"


I give it THREE DAYS

people here are extremely grumpy with our totalitarian Governor WOLF already

---

How about his great plan to close the state stores? Only in Delco, Montco, and Bucks. 3 days from now. Why don't they do it immediately if the threat is so great?

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at March 15, 2020 06:03 AM (mgJUX)

925 Again to reiterate, 50 million Americans get the flu, this is a particularly virulent strain of the flu, and 10's of thousands die in the US alone.

The H1N1 outbreak of 2009 killed 13k people in the US, I don't remember massive nationwide quarantines of efforts to tank the global economy.

These outbreaks happen all of the time and kill thousands, SARS, MERS, H1N1, Avian flu, etc.

I don't remember tanking the global economy over them.

This is bullshit, this is intentional.

We all wondered what the Deep State's next move would be to take down Trump, never in my wildest dreams could I imagine that whipping up a panic over the flu and tanking the global economy would be it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 15, 2020 06:04 AM (FVrDO)

926 I saw that some state parks in New Mexico are closing the campgrounds, something something to prevent transmission, another fishing hole somewhere etc.

Shades of Barky and closing the WWII memorial.

That really fucking pissed me off.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2020 06:06 AM (QJIMk)

927 We all wondered what the Deep State's next move would be to take down Trump, never in my wildest dreams could I imagine that whipping up a panic over the flu and tanking the global economy would be it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 15, 2020 06:04 AM (FVrDO)


They are creative bastards, if anything.

Posted by: RickZ at March 15, 2020 06:07 AM (Y8PSl)

928 EMT is up

Posted by: My life is insanity at March 15, 2020 06:10 AM (Z/jzm)

929 @927
They are creative because their are no checks on them, they can pretty much do whatever they want.


Every day they they go unpunished and unchecked is a day closer to the US becoming a fascist socialist shit hole.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 15, 2020 06:10 AM (FVrDO)

930 "Again to reiterate, 50 million Americans get the flu, this is a particularly virulent strain of the flu"

It is not any kind of "flu".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 15, 2020 07:42 AM (tLWGd)

931 Lighten up? I laughed my ass off at the joke.

Posted by: Daniel J Kunkle at March 15, 2020 08:54 AM (bkqDH)

932 I'm wondering of this lock down goes beyond 30 days will the MSM run out of ignorant , insane things to say? Or do they have an emergence supply that will get them through this?


I fear the latter.

Posted by: Ripley at March 15, 2020 08:56 AM (UPTl7)

933 We all wondered what the Deep State's next move would be to take down
Trump, never in my wildest dreams could I imagine that whipping up a
panic over the flu and tanking the global economy would be it.



Posted by: Thomas Bender


Same here. I figured another impeachment fail was out of the question and all the other phony scandals just weren't holding people attention for more than a few minutes. They had to find something people could not ignore, even those despicable deplorables.

Posted by: Ripley at March 15, 2020 09:01 AM (UPTl7)

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