Mid-Morning Art Thread

Skeletons Fighting over A Pickled Herring
James Ensor

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Ok then!

Posted by: BignJames at June 02, 2020 09:31 AM (X/Pw5)

2 metaphor!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

3
Two Bald Guys Fighting Over a Comb

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 09:32 AM (mht8P)

4 Boner?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 02, 2020 09:32 AM (dNzKv)

5
I dig some of Ensor's stuff.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 02, 2020 09:32 AM (s2VJv)

6 Hmm...

I like it.

Make of that what you will.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2020 09:32 AM (ejd/p)

7 Now, thet thars fukkin art.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 02, 2020 09:32 AM (o2MD2)

8
One on the right is from the Death's Head Hussars.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 09:32 AM (mht8P)

9 I love Scandi art.

Posted by: grammie winger at June 02, 2020 09:32 AM (lwiT4)

10 Nice painting but need more sinners on pikes being eaten by demons.

Posted by: freaked at June 02, 2020 09:33 AM (XfhKA)

11 It's a painting of post-tsarist Russia.

Posted by: klaftern at June 02, 2020 09:33 AM (RuIsu)

12 In life, the guy on the left was a backhoe.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:33 AM (qXNVo)

13 Double Dildo skeletor action,rattling good action (N.Y. Critic)

Posted by: saf at June 02, 2020 09:33 AM (5IHGB)

14 Coulda' been a Dead album cover...if the Dead weren't mostly dead.

Posted by: BignJames at June 02, 2020 09:33 AM (X/Pw5)

15 Herring?

Fish Puns time from the Jump?

Posted by: Allie at June 02, 2020 09:33 AM (vmRc0)

16 Two Dead Things, Struggling For A Dead Thing.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:34 AM (qXNVo)

17 Would hang... on Halloween.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 02, 2020 09:34 AM (wiXsO)

18 I like the skinny black haired one....................

Posted by: saf at June 02, 2020 09:34 AM (5IHGB)

19 A skeleton goes into a bar and says,

"Gimme a beer. And a mop."

And, I guess, a herring...

Posted by: Parker at June 02, 2020 09:34 AM (zV/fi)

20 Look, an allegory about the democrat constituency and their so-called leadership, fighting over looted scraps.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 02, 2020 09:34 AM (kA3Cp)

21 Pickled herring's bones become soft, almost gelatinous, and should pull apart very easily.

I'm doubting these skeletons' jaw muscles and commitment to core exercise.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 02, 2020 09:35 AM (gd9RK)

22 Jeezly crow, talk about art imitating life, or is it life imitating art ?

Apropos of Our Troubled Times, either way.

Innit ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at June 02, 2020 09:35 AM (XXrUA)

23 Looks like a Russian hat.

Posted by: Someguy at June 02, 2020 09:35 AM (zR1US)

24 Brian Stelter and Bill Kristol enjoying their last escapade

Posted by: Rick in SK at June 02, 2020 09:35 AM (FZYNt)

25 "...and they were found like that, eventually, dead from starvation, both so consumed with hunger that neither would let go of the fish, and so both perished, wasting away, joined in death by the object of their contest in life."

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:35 AM (qXNVo)

26 C.Ensor...C.Ensor please this is too Jerky for prime time.

Posted by: saf at June 02, 2020 09:35 AM (5IHGB)

27 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:36 AM (JFO2v)

28 An allegory of (insert country name) shortly after the Communist took power.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2020 09:36 AM (hKLpI)

29
zombie tug o war.

Posted by: Krusty at June 02, 2020 09:36 AM (RnPhr)

30 well, isn't that special.

I can see John Wayne Gacy hanging this in his living room.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2020 09:36 AM (V2Yro)

31 Bet there will be some carping over this one!

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:36 AM (JFO2v)

32 I know the rule but wanted to tell JJ (and I know he's around) your commentary on Rush was spot on. I'm glad you listened despite knowing the outcome.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at June 02, 2020 09:37 AM (IYHxL)

33 Anatomy class tableau.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:37 AM (kVr0X)

34 19 A skeleton goes into a bar and says,

"Gimme a beer. And a mop."

And, I guess, a herring...
Posted by: Parker at June 02, 2020 09:34 AM (zV/fi)

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He needs to chop down the largest tree in the forest...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:37 AM (CAJOC)

35 They worked themselves to death chopping down the mightiest tree in the forest.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 02, 2020 09:37 AM (NWiLs)

36 Magnificent!

Posted by: Fritz at June 02, 2020 09:37 AM (95j/9)

37 Bet there will be some carping over this one!

Uh oh. Here we go...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #CancelPantifa at June 02, 2020 09:38 AM (HaL55)

38 I told you global warming was going to kill us

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 02, 2020 09:38 AM (Xrf6t)

39 Okaaaay.

Posted by: WisRich at June 02, 2020 09:38 AM (G0vdT)

40 Skeleton on the left has a serious underbite.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:38 AM (CAJOC)

41 I think every European who lived through WW1 went insane.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2020 09:38 AM (V2Yro)

42 Who in their right mind would sit down and say......hey how about I paint two skeletons fighting over a pickled herring?

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 02, 2020 09:38 AM (JUOKG)

43 Can't they just share?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2020 09:39 AM (aKsyK)

44 Uh oh. Here we go...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #CancelPantifa at June 02, 2020 09:38 AM (HaL55)

what do you expect from a crappie pic like this?

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:39 AM (JFO2v)

45 I like pickled herring in a nice creamy dill sauce, not all dried like that one.

Posted by: LASue at June 02, 2020 09:39 AM (Ed8Zd)

46 It looks more like they're doing extreme French kissing.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 02, 2020 09:39 AM (6XLoz)

47 Pickled herring ?

Posted by: runner at June 02, 2020 09:39 AM (zr5Kq)

48 Norwegian Black Metal album cover art

Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at June 02, 2020 09:39 AM (RKQ/v)

49 Well, isn't this a cheery illustration?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2020 09:39 AM (2JVJo)

50 Eat The Herring.

It would make a fine album cover for Spinal Tap's sequel to Smell The Glove.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:39 AM (kVr0X)

51 ahahahaHA! Usually I hate anything skull or skeleton related but this is hilarious.

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 09:39 AM (SMd3b)

52 It was a fish this time, that summer when the motes of dust floated in the beam of light that formed an oblong of white on the dull dead wood floor and the gnats darned up and down in the still hot air. The fish, the dessicated husk of a being that could have gone from one end of the globe to the other underwater if only it had had the time to do so and the will and the ability to evade sharks, other fish, but mostly time, which would find it dead and then grasped between the teeth of two men, contestants, allies in hunger, enemies in their acquisitiveness, mutely struggling to obtain, capture, take, win the scaly dead dry prize of their nutritional ambitions...

Posted by: Zod Faulkner at June 02, 2020 09:40 AM (qXNVo)

53 He needs to chop down the largest tree in the forest...
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:37 AM (CAJOC)

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35 They worked themselves to death chopping down the mightiest tree in the forest.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 02, 2020 09:37 AM (NWiLs)

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The Horde hive mind. It's a thing.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:40 AM (CAJOC)

54 43 Can't they just share?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2020 09:39 AM (aKsyK)

nope systemic racism demands that one person get the whole pie.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:40 AM (JFO2v)

55 NOthing else left but pickled herring.

Posted by: runner at June 02, 2020 09:40 AM (zr5Kq)

56 I think every European who lived through WW1 went insane

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This one is late nineteenth...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2020 09:40 AM (h6CJG)

57 The artist knew that decades later, people would laugh and guffaw and compare his painting to the acts of political idiots of the day.

Posted by: Jonah Kyle at June 02, 2020 09:40 AM (SH7Tr)

58
Eh? - a limerick

An old fishing codger named Waring
Had no luck when he went out sea-faring
Told his first mate Sam Crowder
"You'll have to speak louder!
It seems I'm a bit hard of herring!"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2020 09:40 AM (m45I2)

59 Looks like our future under the Green New Deal.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 02, 2020 09:40 AM (tmA71)

60 Soros is providing pallets of fish to the protesters.

The protesters are throwing the fish at police.
And so it goes.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (qXNVo)

61 Things got a little tense when they were down to the last piece of beef jerky, but everyone agreed that George Donner really knew how to throw a party.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (kVr0X)

62 It's a funny-odd title.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (+eVzC)

63 One on right looks like a Davis smoking a joint.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (mEjqT)

64 40 Skeleton on the left has a serious underbite.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:38 AM (CAJOC)

Are you selling orthodontia services?

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (JFO2v)

65 Huh.

Now I've seen everything.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (1YlHz)

66 Why is the one on the left wearing a fez?

Posted by: Eisenhorn at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (F6tBH)

67 Davis = Beavis

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (mEjqT)

68 James Ensor was Belgian. He seems to have reached the peak of his career around the WWI/interWar period. I cannot ID the red outfit, but the one on the right seems to have the same hat as the some of the German military elite, like General August Mackensen. Because of this, I'm going to say that the one in red may represent German politicians, or some group from the French/British side. The pickled herring may be Belgium? Death on both sides fighting over a meal? The way they are fighting is interesting too. They aren't using their hands. They grip the fish in their teeth and try to pull it away from the other, like wolves. I can almost hear the snarling.

Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (aUFII)

69 One on the right is from the Death's Head Hussars.

A woman in a DHH uniform has always been one of my interests.

https://tinyurl.com/ybodoxea

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (2JVJo)

70 That is about me, isn't it.

Posted by: Karen Carpenter at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (ldmQR)

71 Nice little pick-me-up. Thanks loads, CBD.

Posted by: bluebell at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (/669Q)

72 Bezos sells pallets of fish? Yum.

Posted by: klaftern at June 02, 2020 09:42 AM (RuIsu)

73 The skull in the hat is exhibiting Dead Guy In a Hat Privilege

Posted by: freaked at June 02, 2020 09:42 AM (XfhKA)

74 A couple of mugs of Thorvald's Cream of Lutefisk would bring some comity and amity to this scene.

Posted by: Thorvald at June 02, 2020 09:42 AM (GfZaH)

75 Not a war allegory. Too early. By a quarter century.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2020 09:42 AM (h6CJG)

76 I got $20 on red shirt big-jaw boy. He's in it to win it.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 02, 2020 09:42 AM (l6b3d)

77 what the hell?

Posted by: dantesed at June 02, 2020 09:43 AM (88xKn)

78 Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2020 09:40 AM (m45I2)

holy mackeral kingfish

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:43 AM (JFO2v)

79 75 Not a war allegory. Too early. By a quarter century.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2020 09:42 AM (h6CJG)

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Napoleonic war then.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:43 AM (kVr0X)

80 I'm not seeing trees.

Posted by: m at June 02, 2020 09:43 AM (gvWOP)

81 Ah the famous hat vs no hate undead rivalry. Second level of hell as I recall. The key to the punishment was in life both hated herring.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at June 02, 2020 09:43 AM (eMtQa)

82 That is about me, isn't it.
Posted by: Karen Carpenter at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM

Well, it's not about me.

Posted by: Mama Cass at June 02, 2020 09:44 AM (GfZaH)

83 Apparently, Conan's admonishment that "Time enough for sleep in the grave" is in error, according to Mr. Ensor.

I knew there was no rest for the wicked, but this is ridiculous.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 02, 2020 09:44 AM (Z4rgH)

84 Painting is very appropriate for these days and times. Need to see some plague art. Because we are suffering from a plague and it ain't the Peking Pox.

Posted by: Sooner at June 02, 2020 09:44 AM (Fs5vw)

85 25
"...and they were found like that, eventually, dead from starvation,
both so consumed with hunger that neither would let go of the fish, and
so both perished, wasting away, joined in death by the object of their
contest in life."

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:35 AM (qXNVo)

What's this from?

Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 09:44 AM (aUFII)

86 >>71
Nice little pick-me-up. Thanks loads, CBD. Posted by: bluebell at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (/669Q)

Speaking of art, don't know if you heard, but the rebel statue in Old Town was removed this morning.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:44 AM (qXNVo)

87 Who in their right mind . . . ?

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS)

Indeed.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 02, 2020 09:44 AM (1YlHz)

88 80 I'm not seeing trees.
Posted by: m at June 02, 2020 09:43 AM (gvWOP)

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They just cut down the last one...

WITH A HERRING!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:44 AM (kVr0X)

89 It's like Napoleon at Borodino in 1812.

Posted by: Fritz at June 02, 2020 09:44 AM (95j/9)

90 That's one tough fish.

Posted by: Citizen at June 02, 2020 09:45 AM (ldmQR)

91 64 40 Skeleton on the left has a serious underbite.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:38 AM (CAJOC)

Are you selling orthodontia services?
Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (JFO2v)

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I don't think orthodontia would help in this case. Looks like his regular jaw fell off, and he grabbed the jawbone of an ass.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:45 AM (CAJOC)

92 >>What's this from? Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 09:44 AM (aUFII)

IT IS FROM THE MIND OF ZOD.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:45 AM (qXNVo)

93 How appropriate.

Posted by: mpfs at June 02, 2020 09:45 AM (qaIZZ)

94 There may well be some point to including this crap as art but, if so, it escapes me. Judging by this painting and some other James Ensor works I saw, he wasted a rewarding career as a ditch digger.

This work would make an interesting target at the 100 yard line.

Sorry. Not in the mood to tolerate nihilism let alone have it exalted by art critics and other of our 'betters'.

Posted by: JTB at June 02, 2020 09:45 AM (7EjX1)

95 What's this from?
Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 09:44 AM (aUFII)

Biden Abrams joint press confernce

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:45 AM (JFO2v)

96 The one on the right - RBG sits for her SCOTUS portrait.

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 09:45 AM (SMd3b)

97 Thank you, Kris, for offering some insight.

Posted by: Emmie at June 02, 2020 09:45 AM (clsJu)

98 that's the best art for today

made me laugh

gallows humor ftw

Posted by: vmom the cradle Catholic at June 02, 2020 09:45 AM (btJAX)

99 YD, what year is this?

Depending on the medium and the country, Expressionism started before the war. There was an impending sense of dread.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 02, 2020 09:46 AM (gd9RK)

100 41 I think every European who lived through WW1 went insane.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2020 09:38 AM

42 Who in their right mind would sit down and say......hey how about I paint two skeletons fighting over a pickled herring?
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 02, 2020 09:38 AM

Asked and answered. Or answered and asked. Whatever.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2020 09:46 AM (ejd/p)

101 Sorry. Not in the mood to tolerate nihilism let alone have it exalted by art critics and other of our 'betters'.

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Betters? CBD is worse than most of us.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:46 AM (kVr0X)

102 66 Why is the one on the left wearing a fez?
Posted by: Eisenhorn at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (F6tBH)

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Because a sombrero would have looked ridiculous.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:46 AM (CAJOC)

103 Napoleonic war then.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:43 AM (kVr0X)

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But those were seventy or so years before... this is about... something, but not that. Too late even for an allegory about the midcentury wars of nationalism. It's actually from one of the few relatively peaceful times.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2020 09:46 AM (h6CJG)

104 Not a war allegory. Too early. By a quarter century.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2020 09:42 AM (h6CJG)

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Napoleonic war then.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

It was Johnson and that damned war.

There is always some war just fought to make a bitter allegorical statement about.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at June 02, 2020 09:46 AM (vcOmj)

105 Ensor was fired from multiple ditch digging gigs. Couldn't color inside the lines.

Posted by: klaftern at June 02, 2020 09:46 AM (RuIsu)

106 Is this a Iron Maiden album cover?

Posted by: dantesed at June 02, 2020 09:47 AM (88xKn)

107 Meet James Ensor
Belgium's famous painter
Dig him up and shake his hand
Appreciate the man

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 02, 2020 09:47 AM (E+OcO)

108 Because a sombrero would have looked ridiculous.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:46 AM (CAJOC)

And would be cultural appropriation

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:47 AM (JFO2v)

109 Verrrry interesting

Posted by: Colonel Klink at June 02, 2020 09:47 AM (NVYyb)

110 Good heavens!

Posted by: creeper at June 02, 2020 09:47 AM (XxJt1)

111 88 80 I'm not seeing trees.
Posted by: m at June 02, 2020 09:43 AM (gvWOP)

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They just cut down the last one...

WITH A HERRING!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:44 AM (kVr0X)

O.k. touche, but the artist could'a showed it.

Posted by: m at June 02, 2020 09:47 AM (gvWOP)

112 Posted by: Zod Faulkner at June 02, 2020 09:40 AM (qXNVo)

Huh, I think the entire first chapter of Absalom! Absalom! was one sentence.

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 09:47 AM (32YRo)

113 I like pickled herring, with mustard, crackers, and a slab of onion, and a beer. Keeps the Karens away too.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 02, 2020 09:48 AM (o2MD2)

114 Are you selling orthodontia services?
Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (JFO2v)
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I don't think orthodontia would help in this case. Looks like his regular jaw fell off, and he grabbed the jawbone of an ass.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:45 AM (CA

hmm, and I thought Obama was still using his. Artistic license I guess.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2020 09:48 AM (V2Yro)

115 >>Huh, I think the entire first chapter of Absalom! Absalom! was one sentence. Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 09:47 AM (32YRo)

Six pages of "The Jail" were one sentence.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:48 AM (qXNVo)

116 Why is the one on the left wearing a fez?

Posted by: Eisenhorn at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM (F6tBH)

The one on the 'other left'?

Posted by: BignJames at June 02, 2020 09:48 AM (X/Pw5)

117 It was a fish this time, that summer when the motes of dust floated in the beam of light that formed an oblong of white on the dull dead wood floor and the gnats darned up and down in the still hot air. The fish, the dessicated husk of a being that could have gone from one end of the globe to the other underwater if only it had had the time to do so and the will and the ability to evade sharks, other fish, but mostly time, which would find it dead and then grasped between the teeth of two men, contestants, allies in hunger, enemies in their acquisitiveness, mutely struggling to obtain, capture, take, win the scaly dead dry prize of their nutritional ambitions...
Posted by: Zod Faulkner at June 02, 2020 09:40 AM

Now there's a Bulwer-Lytton contest entry right there.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2020 09:48 AM (ejd/p)

118 115 >>Huh, I think the entire first chapter of Absalom! Absalom! was one sentence. Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 09:47 AM (32YRo)

Six pages of "The Jail" were one sentence.
Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:48 AM (qXNVo)

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"Pikers."
-James Joyce

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 09:48 AM (LvTSG)

119 Victoria Secrets Summer Show?

No eet is not Covid Commrade just a bad flu..now back to the salt mines.........................

Posted by: saf at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (5IHGB)

120 107
Meet James Ensor
Belgium's famous painter
Dig him up and shake his hand
Appreciate the man
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 02, 2020 09:47 AM (E+OcO)

I immediately started hearing the music to:

Meet George Jetson

Posted by: m at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (gvWOP)

121 It's like Napoleon at Borodino in 1812.
Posted by: Fritz

I'll be here all week!

Try the fish, it's great!

Posted by: Napoleon at Borodino at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (vcOmj)

122 Probably the result of an absinthe hallucination, opium, something. Hate to think the guy's mind work like that normally.

Posted by: Citizen at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (ldmQR)

123 Because a sombrero would have looked ridiculous.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:46 AM (CAJOC)

A pussy hat, then?

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (Z4rgH)

124 79
75 Not a war allegory. Too early. By a quarter century.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2020 09:42 AM (h6CJG)

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Napoleonic war then.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:43 AM (kVr0X)
It could be but it seems like he's commenting on something contemporary. This feels very personal to me. Franco-Prussian maybe? Ensor was born in 1860. The black hat seems very Prussian to me. Unfortunately, unless American, military uniforms are hard for me.

Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (aUFII)

125 Actually, the "oblong of light" and "motes of dust" was cribbed and reworked from the opening of "Absalom, Absalom"...

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (qXNVo)

126 YD, what year is this?

Depending on the medium and the country, Expressionism started before the war. There was an impending sense of dread.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 02, 2020 09:46 AM (gd9RK

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Not exactly sure. I think 1890s was when these skeletons series were done. Maybe 1880s??

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (h6CJG)

127 113 I like pickled herring, with mustard, crackers, and a slab of onion, and a beer. Keeps the Karens away too.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 02, 2020 09:48 AM (o2MD2)

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Keeps pretty much everybody away, I would imagine.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (CAJOC)

128 The one on the left could put an orthodontist's kids through college.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (xfb67)

129 Alternate title:

"Worst Remake of "Lady and the Tramp" Evah!"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (wQxOB)

130 I need an art and Russian? historian to explain this one to me. I always feel like I'm missing the point with allegorical paintings. Fighting so hard over a small prize that you killed yourself I can get but I don't recognize the hat or red jacket to say what groups are represented and I always feel like 'there much be way more symbolism that I am just flat missing'

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (T9Hmo)

131 Skeleton No. 2 is wearing a car wash brush on his head.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:50 AM (kVr0X)

132
"Belgium's famous painter" is like "the tallest building in Possum Snot, Kentucky".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 09:50 AM (mht8P)

133 Why is the one on the left wearing a fez?
Posted by: Eisenhorn at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM

The other one isn't because they didn't want to be fez to fez during a pandemic.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2020 09:50 AM (ejd/p)

134 92 >>What's this from? Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 09:44 AM (aUFII)

IT IS FROM THE MIND OF ZOD.
Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:45 AM (qXNVo)

The Mind of Zod is truly a Wondrous thing. It has explained this image far more clearly than 100 years worth of "art critics" have.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2020 09:50 AM (V2Yro)

135 ok, got the skinny on gun store owner protecting his store: He had seen that there was a break-in attempt so he decided to stay overnite at the store. Sure enough, he hears them come in, they'd come back with boltcutters this time. (...cont.)

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 09:50 AM (SMd3b)

136 Buncha no-nooders!

Well, at least I got here after comment #100.

And...I got nothing.

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2020 09:51 AM (ZfRYq)

137 113 I like pickled herring, with mustard, crackers, and a slab of onion, and a beer. Keeps the Karens away too.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 02, 2020 09:48 AM (o2MD2)

that would knock a buzzard off a shitwagon

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:51 AM (JFO2v)

138 The skulls are good, but they're not match for the cover of The Deplorable Gourmet.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 02, 2020 09:51 AM (gd9RK)

139 >>>The other one isn't because they didn't want to be fez to fez during a pandemic.

Go to your room.

Posted by: m at June 02, 2020 09:51 AM (gvWOP)

140 "Belgium's famous painter" is like "the tallest building in Possum Snot, Kentucky".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 09:50 AM (mht8P)

Belgium's most famous Detective, maybe?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2020 09:51 AM (V2Yro)

141 Alternate title: 2020.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 02, 2020 09:51 AM (xfb67)

142 Not his best work. I like his Two Skeletons Fighting Over A Meatball Hogie. Its saucy.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (XEfKE)

143 People should look up James Ensor. He did some beautiful and strange art. This though, I did not know of.

Posted by: Baldy at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (OLCH5)

144 The skully with the underbite has no chance.

No clamping pressure.

I think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.

Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (Qf83p)

145 Who in their right mind . . . ?

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS)

Somebody's in their right mind?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (+y/Ru)

146 Seen on FB:

Okay, to enter a store now do I need a mask or a brick? 2020 is so confusing.

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (ZfRYq)

147 Is this piece public domain? Because I'd like to use it for my passport photo.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (kVr0X)

148 Why is the one on the left wearing a fez?

Obviously a Steely Dan fan.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #CancelPantifa at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (HaL55)

149 I wonder if Ensor painted something on The War of Jenkins' Ear.

That might be very interesting.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (1YlHz)

150 130 I need an art and Russian? historian to explain this one to me. I always feel like I'm missing the point with allegorical paintings. Fighting so hard over a small prize that you killed yourself I can get but I don't recognize the hat or red jacket to say what groups are represented and I always feel like 'there much be way more symbolism that I am just flat missing'

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (T9Hmo)

Red army and Green army by the colors perhaps?

Posted by: Someguy at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (zR1US)

151 Idiots snarling over a dead bone not realizing that they are the dead bones.

On a lighter note, the toddler Visigoth in my household plays that game with heavy-duty dog toys: my heart always stops when she is in a toothy tug-o-war with the New Old Dog.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (MIKMs)

152 "Pikers."
-James Joyce

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 09:48 AM (LvTSG)

"Tell me about it" - Virginia Woolf

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (32YRo)

153 I like pickled herring, with mustard, crackers, and a slab of onion, and a beer. Keeps the Karens away too.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

One Karen every eight hours keeps everyone annoyed.

Pass it on.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....lost in America at June 02, 2020 09:53 AM (vcOmj)

154
Early Spy vs. Spy

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 09:53 AM (mht8P)

155 Because a sombrero would have looked ridiculous.

I don't know. It was a good look in Grim Fandango.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at June 02, 2020 09:53 AM (F6tBH)

156 Looks like a Motorhead album cover idea that didn't happen.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 02, 2020 09:53 AM (z0bxT)

157 The one is wearing a hat so you can tell them apart. Jeeze, you people........

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 02, 2020 09:53 AM (o2MD2)

158 wtf

CNN brings an ex-military official on who suggests Trump may use nuclear weapons on U.S. cities to stop the violent riots: Our troops need to stand steady. The Congress and the Senate need to understand, this man has control of over 3,000 nuclear weapons

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:53 AM (JFO2v)

159 147 Is this piece public domain? Because I'd like to use it for my passport photo.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (kVr0X)

More flattering?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (XEfKE)

160 It's no Stanislaw Szukalski. It's no Henry Darger, for that matter.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (qXNVo)

161 The artist has a painting call Masks Confronting Death. Heh.

It is as bad a work if not worse than this one. He is terrible in my opinion, both technically and aesthetically.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (mEjqT)

162 I wouldn't hang this one but boy! is it appropriate for the times. Inspired choice, CBD.

Posted by: creeper at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (XxJt1)

163 Skeletons Fighting over a Pickled Herring. This painting depicts two skeletal figures fighting over a pickled herring in an amorphous landscape with pastel sky. The sky engulfs the two figures, whose dark tones make them stand out against the background - infusing the work with a lighthearted, comical nature.

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"Lighthearted comical nature"? Next, laughing during autopsies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (+y/Ru)

164
CNN brings an ex-military official on who suggests Trump may use nuclear weapons on U.S. cities to stop the violent riots

*daydreams*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (mht8P)

165 Looks like James Ensor did a bunch of creepy clown paintings and I'm out.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (xfb67)

166 Weed will get you through times of no herring, better then herring will get you through times with no weed

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 02, 2020 09:55 AM (Xrf6t)

167 Napoleonic war then.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:43 AM (kVr0X)
It could be but it seems like he's commenting on something contemporary. This feels very personal to me. Franco-Prussian maybe? Ensor was born in 1860. The black hat seems very Prussian to me. Unfortunately, unless American, military uniforms are hard for me.
Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (aUFII)

So I just looked for an analysis. And you are right it is very personal. But it is not a war commentary of any sort.

Ensor is the pickled herring. And the skeletons are two known critics tearing him apart with their hateful criticism.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 02, 2020 09:55 AM (pLf7w)

168 162 I wouldn't hang this one but boy! is it appropriate for the times. Inspired choice, CBD.
Posted by: creeper at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (XxJt1)

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

Perhaps he got tired of policing the comments. With this painting, it's easy to discuss current events and still stay on topic.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:55 AM (CAJOC)

169 Actually, the "oblong of light" and "motes of dust" was cribbed and reworked from the opening of "Absalom, Absalom"...

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:49 AM (qXNVo)

Yeah, hence my comment...that first chapter was a complete mess. Post-modern mess to be sure.

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 09:55 AM (32YRo)

170
Isn't Ensor one of those Star Wars planets?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 09:55 AM (mht8P)

171 Nice little pick-me-up. Thanks loads, CBD.
Posted by: bluebell at June 02, 2020 09:41 AM

Long-range sensors seem to be picking up a sarcasm disturbance, Captain.

Posted by: Science Officer Spock at June 02, 2020 09:55 AM (GfZaH)

172 Eest next.....Feesh-wear!

Verrry nice.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 02, 2020 09:56 AM (dfRN6)

173 CNN brings an ex-military official on who suggests
Trump may use nuclear weapons on U.S. cities to stop the violent riots:
Our troops need to stand steady. The Congress and the Senate need to
understand, this man has control of over 3,000 nuclear weapons

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:53 AM (JFO2v)

He's going to use the Swallowell strategy?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 02, 2020 09:56 AM (Nyx5N)

174 >>164 CNN brings an ex-military official on who suggests Trump may use nuclear weapons on U.S. cities to stop the violent riots
(Baltimore jumps up and down, waving hand, calling "Me, me, me! Call on me!" to Trump)

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:56 AM (qXNVo)

175 Ensor is the pickled herring. And the skeletons are two known critics tearing him apart with their hateful criticism.
Posted by: Buzzion at June 02, 2020 09:55 AM (pLf7w)

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Strangely, Ensor's problem with art critics failed to improve.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:56 AM (kVr0X)

176 Weed will get you through times of no herring, better then herring will get you through times with no weed

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 02, 2020 09:55 AM (Xrf6t)

I can't remember anyone getting the munchies for pickled herring.

Posted by: BignJames at June 02, 2020 09:56 AM (X/Pw5)

177 CNN brings an ex-military official on who suggests Trump may use nuclear weapons on U.S. cities to stop the violent riots.

How anyone can take CNN serious now is beyond me.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at June 02, 2020 09:56 AM (F6tBH)

178 Okay, to enter a store now do I need a mask or a brick? 2020 is so confusing.

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM (ZfRYq)

Quite a few are embracing the power of AND.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 02, 2020 09:56 AM (Z4rgH)

179 I just bought a piece of artwork with skeletons as the subject. Very humorous.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 02, 2020 09:56 AM (XEfKE)

180 Metallica cover?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 02, 2020 09:57 AM (XEfKE)

181 CNN brings an ex-military official on who suggests
Trump may use nuclear weapons on U.S. cities to stop the violent riots:
Our troops need to stand steady. The Congress and the Senate need to
understand, this man has control of over 3,000 nuclear weapons

Which tells you just what THEY'RE thinking.

Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:57 AM (Qf83p)

182
Nuclear devastation could only improve Philadelphia. Call it "extreme urban renewal".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 09:57 AM (mht8P)

183 Why, it's almost as if CNN routinely engages in the sort of conspiracy-mongering they continually accuse the Right of engaging in. One might call it...projection. Yes, that's the word.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2020 09:57 AM (+7yf7)

184 >>Yeah, hence my comment...that first chapter was a complete mess. Post-modern mess to be sure. Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 09:55 AM (32YRo)

It's certainly not for everyone, de gustibus and all that.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:57 AM (qXNVo)

185 Pickled herring can be worth fighting over. And rollmops.

Especially if the br�tchen is still warm.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 02, 2020 09:57 AM (di1hb)

186 I LOVE THIS PAINTING!

thanks so much CBD

Meet James Ensor!
Belgium's famous painter
Pick him up and shake his hand
Appreciate the man

Posted by: SorryBlackOrchid at June 02, 2020 09:57 AM (j9HX3)

187 158 wtf

CNN brings an ex-military official on who suggests Trump may use nuclear weapons on U.S. cities to stop the violent riots: Our troops need to stand steady. The Congress and the Senate need to understand, this man has control of over 3,000 nuclear weapons
Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS

Eh, Rep Swalwell (whatever his name is) is way ahead of him in the nuking political enemies department.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 02, 2020 09:57 AM (z0bxT)

188 170
Isn't Ensor one of those Star Wars planets?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 09:55 AM (mht8P)

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

Ace's homeworld

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:57 AM (CAJOC)

189 ....Perp makes his way up to the 2nd floor, Mr. Isabella is waiting with an AR-15,, BLAM down goes thug, who was holding a handgun. The bullet went through perp 1, hit perp 2 who fled. Perps 3 and 4 who were downstairs made tracks. When police arrived Perp 1 was lying face down in his own blood, his gun on the floor between his legs.

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 09:58 AM (SMd3b)

190 99
YD, what year is this?

Depending on the medium and the country, Expressionism started before the war. There was an impending sense of dread.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 02, 2020 09:46 AM (gd9RK)

I went immediately to WWI because me, but others think this may be from before that. It's definitely a war critique, or a critique of a militaristic society. Because of the hat, Prussia's involved somehow. Anyone got any ideas on the red outfit on the left skeleton?The dating has to be after the Impressionist revolution, even after the Post-Impressionists. That should put the work sometime between 1860/1880 and 1914.

Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 09:58 AM (aUFII)

191 Nuking Detroit might finally bring down all the abandoned dilapidated buildings in the city.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 09:58 AM (mEjqT)

192
Pickled Herring is awful stuff.

However,

I do likes me some Kippered Herring salted in butter with Scrambled Eggs as an English inspired breakfast via P G Wodehouse.

Kippered Herring is like Limey Fish Bacon!

Yum.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 02, 2020 09:58 AM (wQxOB)

193 just bought a piece of artwork with skeletons as the subject. Very humorous.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 02, 2020 09:56 AM (XEfKE)

Not much to sink you teeth into, eh?

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 09:58 AM (32YRo)

194 CNN brings an ex-military official on who
suggests Trump may use nuclear weapons on U.S. cities to stop the
violent riots: Our troops need to stand steady. The Congress and the
Senate need to understand, this man has control of over 3,000 nuclear
weapons

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:53 AM

The kicker is that it was Honore, of Hurricane Katrina "stuck on stupid" fame.

Posted by: Bert G at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (OMsf+)

195 I can't remember anyone getting the munchies for pickled herring.
=====

Italians on Feast of Seven Fishes and Scandis all winter.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (MIKMs)

196 Ugh.

salted = sauteed

Posted by: naturalfake at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (wQxOB)

197 "Lighthearted comical nature"? Next, laughing during autopsies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (+y/Ru)

Eat at Luigi's.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (Z4rgH)

198 I don't think there is likely to be a second wave of virus, but if there is, the good news is that the looters are going to be the ones that get it.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (kA3Cp)

199
"Lighthearted comical nature"? Next, laughing during autopsies.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (+y/Ru)

I see you've never worked in a morgue.

Posted by: Sooner at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (Fs5vw)

200 When police arrived Perp 1 was lying face down in his own blood, his gun on the floor between his legs.

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I just adore a happy ending.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (kVr0X)

201 I can't remember anyone getting the munchies for pickled herring.
Posted by: BignJames at June 02, 2020 09:56 AM (X/Pw5)

that is probably the most popular doritos flavor in Belgium.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (JFO2v)

202 179 I just bought a piece of artwork with skeletons as the subject. Very humorous.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 02, 2020 09:56 AM (XEfKE)

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

It's the poster with skeletons in different sexual positions, isn't it?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (CAJOC)

203 Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 09:58 AM (SMd3b)

Feel good. Thanks!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (XEfKE)

204 CNN brings an ex-military official on who suggests Trump may use nuclear weapons on U.S. cities to stop the violent riots:

It was Russel Honore. I guess he got stuck on stupid after all. I am so over all of this bullshit.

Posted by: no good deed at June 02, 2020 10:00 AM (MmFTx)

205 Think of the story Edgar Allen Poe could pen from this painting.

jeeeesh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 02, 2020 10:00 AM (W2Pud)

206 200 When police arrived Perp 1 was lying face down in his own blood, his gun on the floor between his legs.

----------

I just adore a happy ending.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (kVr0X)

I love good DRT stories

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at June 02, 2020 10:00 AM (JFO2v)

207 Well the county coroner told us, but I can't trust him because he could be under pressure to stop a riot. And now another coroner said the opposite, and I can't trust him because he works for the family of the dead man.

The good news is the Jeffrey Epstein's coroner is going to step in, this will settle everything once and for all.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 02, 2020 10:00 AM (LxTcq)

208 They Might Be Giants song, "Meet James Ensor," was the first I ever heard of this guy.

Not a great song, but eh.

Anyhoo, his art is definitely more interesting that lots of folks. Better in theory than practice, I think.

I'd post a link to the song here, but y'all know how to find it if you want.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2020 10:00 AM (hku12)

209 The dating has to be after the Impressionist revolution, even after the Post-Impressionists. That should put the work sometime between 1860/1880 and 1914.

--

Franco-Prussian war?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 02, 2020 10:00 AM (kA3Cp)

210 Here is analysis of this 1891 painting from an art magazine:

"In this particular painting, Skeletons Fighting Over A Pickled Herring (1891), Ensor is the herring, and he is being ripped apart by art critics after receiving negative responses to his work.

"In this particular painting, Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring (1891), Ensor is the herring, and he is being ripped apart by art critics after receiving negative responses to his work."

From:

https://tinyurl.com/Ensor-Skeletons-Herring

This analysis seems a bit suspect.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 02, 2020 10:00 AM (1YlHz)

211
The painting dates from 1891. The skeleton on the left is France. The one on the right is Prussia. The herring is Alsace-Lorraine.

*submits analysis for Ph.D thesis*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:00 AM (mht8P)

212 It's the poster with skeletons in different sexual positions, isn't it?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (CAJOC)

Gives new meaning to "getting boned."

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2020 10:00 AM (+7yf7)

213 The painting represents the two critics: �douard F�tis and Max Sulberger. Their negative responses to Ensor's artwork drove him to portray them in multiple satirical paintings. In this particular work Ensor represents himself as a pickled herring being torn apart by their hateful criticism. The word herring in French, hareng-saur-close, if said with the proper pronunciation, apparently sounded like "art Ensor" or "Ensor's art."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (+y/Ru)

214 I think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

215 198 I don't think there is likely to be a second wave of virus, but if there is, the good news is that the looters are going to be the ones that get it.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (kA3Cp)

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

Good news as long as it doesn't cause my son's surgery to be cancelled again. #twoweeks

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (CAJOC)

216 Two skeletons walk into a bar and order two beers and a mop.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:02 AM (mEjqT)

217 101 ... "Betters? CBD is worse than most of us."

My comment is NO criticism of CBD. This thread brings a lot of light and joy into our mornings. Just because he uses a painting in the thread doesn't mean he thinks it is great. The 'betters' are the elite assholes in the culture who praise the darkness of the soul.

Posted by: JTB at June 02, 2020 10:02 AM (7EjX1)

218 Next time, boys and girls, Storytime with Miss Kallisto will feature the dumbass 24 year old looter who blew himself up trying to crack a boosted ATM. lolol

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 10:02 AM (SMd3b)

219 I think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

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Lots of premarital sax.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 02, 2020 10:02 AM (8XRCm)

220 25 "...and they were found like that, eventually, dead from starvation, both so consumed with hunger that neither would let go of the fish, and so both perished, wasting away, joined in death by the object of their contest in life."
Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 09:35 AM (qXNVo)

I seriously hope you write for a living.

Posted by: m at June 02, 2020 10:02 AM (gvWOP)

221 If Trump nukes the citadels of 21st century Maoism I'll begin work on an enormous statue to which the people of a grateful nation can make pilgrimage and pay homage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2020 10:02 AM (h6CJG)

222 So apparently the trendy thing for white people to do today is to post a black screen to their social media pages for "black out tuesday" to show your support for whatever these protests have devolved into.
It's both stunning and brave, and I just hope there aren't any injuries from people patting themselves on their backs so hard.

Posted by: brak at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (cG+eD)

223 And I have lost any sympathy for the Floyd family:

https://tinyurl.com/y9uh7d5f

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (2JVJo)

224 Headline from Seattle Times (no not an Onion or Bee thing)

Seattle Demonstrators vent anguish at death of George Floyd for a grieving nation.

The MSM is 100x worse than Antifa.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (j2Mrt)

225 think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, all2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

I thought it was all about sax.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (mEjqT)

226 The painting dates from 1891. The skeleton on the left is France. The one on the right is Prussia. The herring is Alsace-Lorraine.

*submits analysis for Ph.D thesis*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:00 AM

Lacks Critical Theory analysis.

Posted by: Your Committee at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (DMUuz)

227
The conductor Sir Thomas Beecham described the sound of a harpsichord as "two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (mht8P)

228 211

The painting dates from 1891. The skeleton on the left is France.
The one on the right is Prussia. The herring is Alsace-Lorraine.

france has a nasty underbite.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (kf5Ci)

229 Next, laughing during autopsies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (+y/Ru)

You have never attended funerals with my family, apparently.

Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (aUFII)

230 >>I seriously hope you write for a living. Posted by: m at June 02, 2020 10:02 AM (gvWOP)

Not any longer, but thanks for the compliment!

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:04 AM (QgtlX)

231 218 Next time, boys and girls, Storytime with Miss Kallisto will feature the dumbass 24 year old looter who blew himself up trying to crack a boosted ATM. lolol

Some of the Philly happenings from yesterday certainly did cheer me, Kallisto!

Posted by: SorryBlackOrchid at June 02, 2020 10:04 AM (j9HX3)

232 Well, if Mr. Ensor is the pickled herring in the painting,

I'd say he was pretty pickled alright.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 02, 2020 10:04 AM (Z4rgH)

233 222 So apparently the trendy thing for white people to do today is to post a black screen to their social media pages for "black out tuesday" to show your support for whatever these protests have devolved into.
It's both stunning and brave, and I just hope there aren't any injuries from people patting themselves on their backs so hard.

Posted by: brak at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (cG+eD)

=========

Yeah, I remember the first time that sort of thing happened. It was with a rainbow filter or something.

That was right about the time I started losing any remaining interest I had in social media.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:04 AM (LvTSG)

234 *peeks in*

Alrighty!

*backs away slowly*

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2020 10:04 AM (bDqIh)

235 229 Next, laughing during autopsies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (+y/Ru)

You have never attended funerals with my family, apparently.

Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (aUFII)

This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let us not bicker and argue about who killed who.

Posted by: Someguy at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (zR1US)

236
I think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

I will horn in on this.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (mht8P)

237 What do you bass that upon?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

Cello! It's instrumental to the whole construction of the piece!

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (32YRo)

238 The painting dates from this morning. The character on the right is Zod. The character on the left is Canis Zod Jr. The fish is the morning breakfast-bowl of dog food that Jr. is attempting to wrest from Zod's hand.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (QgtlX)

239 It's the poster with skeletons in different sexual positions, isn't it?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (CAJOC)

Kama Skeletor?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (XEfKE)

240 230 >>I seriously hope you write for a living. Posted by: m at June 02, 2020 10:02 AM (gvWOP)

Not any longer, but thanks for the compliment!
Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:04 AM (QgtlX)

========

You had a pretty good adventure book going for a while there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (LvTSG)

241 China flu-dipped bullets would be useful.
As for the painting this morning: Epic fail!

Posted by: The Man from Athens at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (QMwOT)

242 The conductor Sir Thomas Beecham described the sound of a harpsichord as "two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (mht8P)

Hark the herald angels sing,
Beecham's Pills are just the thing.
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
Two for man and one for child.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (2JVJo)

243 The funny thing is that everyone is still pretending all this shit has anything to do with the death of one black man. Hell, Chicago puts a dozen in the ground every week and nobody at BLM gives a fuck.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (o2MD2)

244 LOL

I love that painting. So appropriate

Posted by: Tuna at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (gLRfa)

245 Pickled herring can be worth fighting over. And rollmops.

Especially if the broetchen is still warm.

Yeah. It's awesome street food in northern Germany. There are pedestrian zones in the shopping area and little kiosks selling Matjes on Broetchen with pickled onion. Mmmm.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (gd9RK)

246 Would have been more interesting if it was a pickled egg.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (qHgVt)

247 235 229 Next, laughing during autopsies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (+y/Ru)

You have never attended funerals with my family, apparently.

Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (aUFII)

This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let us not bicker and argue about who killed who.

Posted by: Someguy at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (zR1US)

Nothing personal. Just business.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (XEfKE)

248 think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

I will horn in on this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (mht8P)

You piccolo standard of puns. But good effort.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (mEjqT)

249 The fight over who would cut down the mightiest tree in the forest went to the death. The true reason for the sudden disappearance of the Knights of Camelot.

Posted by: red speck at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (gS3OW)

250 So apparently the trendy thing for white people to do today is to post a
black screen to their social media pages for "black out tuesday" to
show your support for whatever these protests have devolved into.

It's both stunning and brave, and I just hope there aren't any injuries from people patting themselves on their backs so hard.

Posted by: brak at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (cG+eD)

How about post a picture of Ralph "Mamie" Northam?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (Nyx5N)

251
I got $20 on red shirt big-jaw boy. He's in it to win it.
Posted by: banana Dream

Red Skeleton?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (aKsyK)

252 Jay Leno on the left.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 02, 2020 10:07 AM (oVJmc)

253 And I have lost any sympathy for the Floyd family:

https://tinyurl.com/y9uh7d5f

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM

---

So joe biden is going to "rip out the roots of systemic racism in America" when he gets elected.

If he has that kind of power why didn't he do that during his 30 year Senate career or the 8 years he was Vice President of the US?

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 02, 2020 10:07 AM (JUOKG)

254 >>You had a pretty good adventure book going for a while there. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (LvTSG)

D. You sell your life insurance policy, hire a unit of heavily-armed bath-salt gorilla cavalry mercenaries, and instruct them to "fill the streets with the bodies of rioters."

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:07 AM (QgtlX)

255 I prefer my herring shaved.

Posted by: Alan Colmes at June 02, 2020 10:07 AM (SRV7Q)

256 ooh! Just now hearing U.S.Attorney is preparing charges against Philly rioters. Federales baby. He is calling out Soros D.A. for fanning flames of unrest.

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 10:07 AM (SMd3b)

257 Quite the prognathous jaw on the left skeleton.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 02, 2020 10:07 AM (rpbg1)

258 154
Early Spy vs. Spy
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 09:53 AM (mht8P)

Yes!

Posted by: m at June 02, 2020 10:07 AM (gvWOP)

259 Anybody who has seen "Lady and The Tramp" knows how this scene ends.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2020 10:08 AM (m45I2)

260 ooh! Just now hearing U.S.Attorney is preparing
charges against Philly rioters. Federales baby. He is calling out Soros
D.A. for fanning flames of unrest.

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 10:07 AM (SMd3b)

Next do Chicago

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 02, 2020 10:08 AM (Nyx5N)

261 209
The dating has to be after the Impressionist revolution, even after the
Post-Impressionists. That should put the work sometime between 1860/1880
and 1914.

--

Franco-Prussian war?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 02, 2020 10:00 AM (kA3Cp)
Someone above says it's really about two art critics so what do I know. *shrug* My BS generator is still on vacation, apparently.

Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 10:08 AM (aUFII)

262 Some yuuthes tried to rob a gun store in Philly. Guess what happened to them?

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 02, 2020 10:08 AM (j2Mrt)

263 235 229 Next, laughing during autopsies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (+y/Ru)

You have never attended funerals with my family, apparently.

Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (aUFII)

==========

Not nearly enough people have seen Coupling from the UK.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:08 AM (LvTSG)

264
My comment is NO criticism of CBD. This thread brings a lot of light and joy into our mornings. Just because he uses a painting in the thread doesn't mean he thinks it is great. The 'betters' are the elite assholes in the culture who praise the darkness of the soul.
Posted by: JTB at June 02, 2020 10:02 AM (7EjX1)

One has to have glimpses of the dark to appreciate the light. Scolding in the name of "class" is part of today's dark side.

Posted by: Sooner at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (Fs5vw)

265 How about post a picture of Ralph "Mamie" Northam?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (Nyx5N)

From my VA vantage point, he is usually called Ralph "Mammy" Coonman y Northam

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (6wiwL)

266 1. That's a smoked herring, not a pickled one.
2. Anyway, it isn't art.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (CPk08)

267 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Sleep in and I miss all the boner puns.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (axyOa)

268 76 I got $20 on red shirt big-jaw boy. He's in it to win it.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 02, 2020 09:42 AM (l6b3d)

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

Nah. He's going down. The red shirt is the clue...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (CAJOC)

269 A black guy killed a police officer in ND on the same day as Floyd was killed. ( I think same day.. may have been day after) . Local story.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (mEjqT)

270 and so both perished, wasting away, joined in death by the object of their contest in life
=====

The Duel (Eugene Field)

https://poets.org/poem/duel

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (MIKMs)

271 What wouldn't I do for a sweet, lingering kiss right now.

all of yall who have sweethearts better go kiss them.

because those of us who don't haven't had any real affection for a LONG time.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (W2Pud)

272 >>256
ooh! Just now hearing U.S.Attorney is preparing charges against Philly
rioters. Federales baby. He is calling out Soros D.A. for fanning flames
of unrest. Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 10:07 AM (SMd3b)

When I see a chain-gang of orange-suited perps shuffling into the courtroom, led by a weeping, recently-sodomized James Comey, I'll think there's something to this. Alas.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (qXNVo)

273 I missed the whole discussion on Rush and the Breakfast Club Crew. I know Rush had many motives for that, but I believe he forgot that the first tenant of Critical Race Theory is that if you do not agree with Critical Race Theory, then you have failed to understand it.

This tautology is, of course, wrong. However, it sets up its proponents with a sense of infallibility, which is on display during interviews like this. Best to simply not engage.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (svbBD)

274 262 Some yuuthes tried to rob a gun store in Philly. Guess what happened to them?

Darwin at work! One was killed the other wounded

MEANWHILE for some stupid reason JOE BIDEN is coming to the city today.

Just what we need. What a MORON!

Posted by: SorryBlackOrchid at June 02, 2020 10:10 AM (j9HX3)

275 In case you didn't notice, that herring is pickled, bitches!

Posted by: Fritz at June 02, 2020 10:10 AM (95j/9)

276 259 Anybody who has seen "Lady and The Tramp" knows how this scene ends.
Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2020 10:08 AM (m45I2)

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

They might be needing that poster I mentioned up-thread.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 10:10 AM (CAJOC)

277 >>The 'betters' are the elite assholes in the culture who praise the darkness of the soul.
Posted by: JTB at June 02, 2020 10:02 AM (7EjX1)

Insult status: Owned.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:10 AM (QgtlX)

278 One has to have glimpses of the dark to appreciate the light. Scolding in the name of "class" is part of today's dark side.

Posted by: Sooner at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (Fs5vw)

How Dare You!

Posted by: Commissaress Greta Karenina at June 02, 2020 10:10 AM (6wiwL)

279
So joe biden is going to "rip out the roots of systemic racism in America" when he gets elected.

Why didn't Obama?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 02, 2020 10:11 AM (oVJmc)

280 I can't even concentrate on my own book today.

I need a drive in the country to change my mood.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2020 10:11 AM (2JVJo)

281 Born in 1849. Died in 1949. The artist lived through 2 world wars. That would color your outlook on life I guess.

Posted by: Tuna at June 02, 2020 10:11 AM (gLRfa)

282 "Ensor!" said the Tensor!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 02, 2020 10:11 AM (rpbg1)

283 all of yall who have sweethearts better go kiss them.

because those of us who don't haven't had any real affection for a LONG time.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (W2Pud)

Amen Nurse. I have resigned myself to the fate of lonely old man at this point. Oh well, God's will.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 02, 2020 10:11 AM (o2MD2)

284 >>then you have failed to understand it. Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (svbBD)

This is exactly why Zod immediately tunes out any conversation that begins with the phrase "what you need to understand is...."

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:12 AM (qXNVo)

285 setting fire to motor vehicles is a federal crime. So nice of pAntifarts to take selfies with their charred trophies to post on social.

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 10:12 AM (SMd3b)

286 So joe biden is going to "rip out the roots of systemic racism in America" when he gets elected.

Why didn't Obama?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 02, 2020 10:11 AM (oVJmc)

Too busy fanning the flames

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 02, 2020 10:12 AM (Nyx5N)

287 The one on the right has cap privilege.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 02, 2020 10:12 AM (SqopC)

288 Biden said he would essentially generalized al local police departments within 100 days. This shit is all coordinated with this as the end goal. Dc bureaucrats running police departments in Mayberry.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 02, 2020 10:12 AM (j2Mrt)

289 Posted by: nurse ratched at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (W2Pud)

As usual, nurse reminds us of fundamental truth!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:13 AM (6wiwL)

290 At least as skeltons they don't have to taste pickled herring.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 02, 2020 10:13 AM (xfb67)

291 setting fire to motor vehicles is a federal crime.
So nice of pAntifarts to take selfies with their charred trophies to
post on social.

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 10:12 AM (SMd3b)

If they get charged. I'm sure Kim Foxx in Crook county will have them on the streets by the end of the week.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 02, 2020 10:13 AM (Nyx5N)

292 FEDeralized not generalized damn auto fill.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 02, 2020 10:13 AM (j2Mrt)

293 269 A black guy killed a police officer in ND on the same day as Floyd was
killed. ( I think same day.. may have been day after) . Local story.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here

He also killed his 60yo mother, she was in the apartment when he ambushed the 4 sheriff/police officers.

Posted by: old chick at June 02, 2020 10:14 AM (sOete)

294 ~~"Ensor!" said the Tensor!~~

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 02, 2020 10:11 AM (rpbg1)

Then the Censor stepped in!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:14 AM (6wiwL)

295 Holy cow! What difference a day makes.
Very interesting CBD.

Posted by: Cheriebebe at June 02, 2020 10:14 AM (Xt7n2)

296
Too busy fanning the flames

It's really interesting to note that Gaylord got eight years, nothing got better on the racial front, but a lot of shit got worse. Especially for his fellow black people.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 02, 2020 10:14 AM (oVJmc)

297 I wish Biden would recommend for us what he recommended for Iraq. Splitting us into 3 separate countries. I may have to consider him if it could be done.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:14 AM (mEjqT)

298 Fatty fatty two-by-four, smack that herring with an oar.

Posted by: James Carville at June 02, 2020 10:14 AM (SRV7Q)

299 296
Too busy fanning the flames

It's really interesting to note that Gaylord got eight years, nothing got better on the racial front, but a lot of shit got worse. Especially for his fellow black people.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 02, 2020 10:14 AM (oVJmc)

========

In his first two years, he could have passed a law through the Democratic majorities in Congress to outlaw all police to fix all the problems in the black community, but he didn't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:15 AM (LvTSG)

300 272. Zod - keep hope alive!

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 10:15 AM (SMd3b)

301 Norway?

Posted by: setnaffa at June 02, 2020 10:15 AM (c4NCi)

302
{i]Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 02, 2020 10:08 AM (j2Mrt)

263
235 229 Next, laughing during autopsies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 02, 2020 09:54 AM (+y/Ru)

You have never attended funerals with my family, apparently.

Posted by: Kris at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (aUFII)

==========

Not nearly enough people have seen Coupling from the UK.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:08 AM (LvTSG)

I don't think I've ever been at an autopsy where somebody doesn't laugh, and I've done thousands of them.

If you can't laugh, you can't do the work.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 02, 2020 10:15 AM (CPk08)

303 This shit is all coordinated with this as the end goal. Dc bureaucrats running police departments in Mayberry.

Hence - the problem with the Feds coming in and over-ruling the States. The Feds you want may not always be the Feds you get.

Posted by: Things Best Left Unsaid at June 02, 2020 10:15 AM (mMMjw)

304 286 So joe biden is going to "rip out the roots of systemic racism in America" when he gets elected.

wut, he's gonna get black people to stop being racists

I don't think so

the hate for whitey is deeply ingrained, thanks to dims

Posted by: REDACTED at June 02, 2020 10:16 AM (JgrP5)

305 271 What wouldn't I do for a sweet, lingering kiss right now.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (W2Pud)

*looks for Insom and Heidi *

You're lucky Heidi just walked in babe.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 02, 2020 10:16 AM (XEfKE)

306 Willowed like a herring:

Eh, look, Rush is staring the Grim Reaper in the face and like all people he wants his time on Earth to mean something.

"You get no do-overs." as he likes to say.

Rush strikes me as a guy who knows himself very well. He knows his strengths. He knows his weaknesses.

One of his strengths is that he is a master persuader.

And I believe, one of his core beliefs is that, as a Conservative that the Law and the US Constitution are for all men and women. That following its guidelines will lead to a a happy and prosperous nation filled with happy prosperous people regardless of race or religion, etc.

However, you've got to jump into the pool and swim. If you stand outside US society and its opportunities, either through contempt or fear or, if you're held outside by alligence to the Democrat Party,

you have no way to benefit.

That doesn't mean you'll have an easy life. It just means the opportunities are there for everyone.

That positive message is what Rush was trying to convey to the Breakfast Club's audience.

That the US is for you. The Constitution was built ultimately for everyone.

And that every life has hard knocks but it's not necessarily a conspiracy against you cuz you're Black or Black people in general.

It was noble effort.

And anyone of TBC's listeners who had an open mind might be persuaded.

This wasn't meant to be a knock down, drag out, ideological fight.

If so, Rush would've gone straight after "the Magic Words" which CtG kept evoking and never defining..

ie.

What exactly is "White Privilege" defined concretely? What is "White Supremacy" defined concretely?
How does it affect you directly?
Where are the houses, the colleges, the jobs, the government positions which no Black person can access?
Etc.

These words are "Magic Signifiers" meant to be purposefully vague so that like "blank slate" Oblabla, they can mean anything to anyone,

and therefore can be used as a weapon to shutdown discussion as CtG did time after time.

As a sidenote: the Yi Girl seemed like the smartest and most open to discussion, if not to persuasion.

I liked Rush's effort.

It was positive.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 02, 2020 10:16 AM (wQxOB)

307 299

A law banning single fathers and mandating parents give a fuck about their kids education.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 02, 2020 10:16 AM (j2Mrt)

308 I would regard this as a political cartoon, and as a cartoon, it is quite remarkably well done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (kJfq1)

309 One does not calmly look upon Ensor.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (gd9RK)

310 And BTW, an autopsy is one of the least funny procedures around.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (CPk08)

311 Sloe Joe has delusions of grandeur.

Posted by: Fox2! at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (qyH+l)

312 Off to have the WuFlu antibody test. I'm fairly certain I've had the Chinese lung aids, we shall see.
Will report back on the procedure.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (JVgnl)

313 Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (svbBD) \

Since you have not fully accepted the Reality Of Critical Race Theory as fact, there is no point in discussing the details with you!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (6wiwL)

314 My next piece will be three filthy neanderthals fighting over a lutefusk.

Posted by: Fritz at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (95j/9)

315 Not nearly enough people have seen Coupling from the UK.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:08 AM (LvTSG)

#badteeth channel on pornhub?

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2020 10:18 AM (ZfRYq)

316

Amen Nurse. I have resigned myself to the fate of lonely old man at this point. Oh well, God's will.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 02, 2020 10:11 AM (o2MD2)

I find living alone exhilarating. No one nagging me with endless lists of honeydos and honeydon'ts.

Posted by: Sooner at June 02, 2020 10:18 AM (Fs5vw)

317 You could've stopped at delusional.

Posted by: unkaren at June 02, 2020 10:18 AM (vGJY7)

318 Not his best work. I like his Two Skeletons Fighting Over A Meatball Hogie. Its saucy.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 02, 2020

*
*

I heard Ensor attempted "Two Skeletons at a Crawfish Boil." Gave it up as pointless.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 02, 2020 10:18 AM (rpbg1)

319 fusk fisk?

filthy scandis.

Posted by: Fritz at June 02, 2020 10:18 AM (95j/9)

320 think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

I will horn in on this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (mht8P)

You piccolo standard of puns. But good effort.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (mEjqT)

These puns have clearly been orchestrated.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (Uu+Jp)

321 313. Touche

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (svbBD)

322 My next piece will be three filthy neanderthals fighting over who has to eat a lutefusk.
Posted by: Fritz at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (95j/9)

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: Things Best Left Unsaid at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (mMMjw)

323 And BTW, an autopsy is one of the least funny procedures around.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (CPk0

So no "Eat at Luigi's!" jokes, eh.

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (32YRo)

324 315 Not nearly enough people have seen Coupling from the UK.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:08 AM (LvTSG)

#badteeth channel on pornhub?
Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2020 10:18 AM (ZfRYq)

==========

You must become aware of the nudity buffer, the giggle loop, and the melty man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (LvTSG)

325 I wonder if the media is hyping Biden's speech so they can say he stopped the riots.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 02, 2020 10:20 AM (xfb67)

326 Skeletons.
So why are they wearing clothes?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2020 10:20 AM (axyOa)

327 Amen Nurse. I have resigned myself to the fate of lonely old man at this point. Oh well, God's will.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 02, 2020 10:11 AM (o2MD2)

I find living alone exhilarating. No one nagging me with endless lists of honeydos and honeydon'ts.
Posted by: Sooner at June 02, 2020 10:18 AM (Fs5vw)

I for one miss the touch of a woman.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:20 AM (Uu+Jp)

328 >>No one nagging me with endless lists of honeydos and honeydon'ts. Posted by: Sooner at June 02, 2020 10:18 AM (Fs5vw)

This is learned behavior; it can be unlearned.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:20 AM (qXNVo)

329 Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 02, 2020 09:34 AM (kA3Cp)

That was my first thought. Democrats destroying where they live.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at June 02, 2020 10:21 AM (+CiEK)

330 They literally have Biden copying Trump. Whenever he stumbles on the Prompter during a speech, he interrupts himself and repeats the line extemporaneously to get himself back on track.

They are utterly shameless!!!

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2020 10:21 AM (uEbPt)

331 Skeletons.
So why are they wearing clothes?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2020 10:20 AM (axyOa)

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To hide their boners.

duh

Posted by: fixerupper at June 02, 2020 10:21 AM (8XRCm)

332 No one gives a fuck about Beau

Posted by: REDACTED at June 02, 2020 10:21 AM (JgrP5)

333 I wonder if the media is hyping Biden's speech so they can say he stopped the riots.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 02, 2020 10:20 AM (xfb67)

Well, you know they don't need a reason.

Posted by: BignJames at June 02, 2020 10:21 AM (X/Pw5)

334 It's both stunning and brave, and I just hope there aren't any injuries from people patting themselves on their backs so hard.

Posted by: brak at June 02, 2020 10:03 AM (cG+eD)

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Yeah, I remember the first time that sort of thing happened. It was with a rainbow filter or something.

That was right about the time I started losing any remaining interest I had in social media.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I've been building a mental catalog of passé Lefty virtue signaling devices.

Remember the 'Message written on the hands meme'? "I wrote this on my hands, and here's a picture of my hands. I must *really* be woke and virtuous".

Then, there was the Lapel Diaper Pin, which apparently said, 'I'm a member of the resistance'. The irony that they would use a diaper pin eventually became apparent, even to the dullest of Progressives, which is pretty much plumbing the depths of the shallows.

I was never aware of the 'filter' thing, I'm happy to say.

Anyhow, those others come to mind, they had a half-life of about a month, maybe less.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:21 AM (9Fwwf)

335 The signifying monkey told the Lion one day...

Posted by: klaftern at June 02, 2020 10:21 AM (RuIsu)

336 ....Perp makes his way up to the 2nd floor, Mr. Isabella is waiting with an AR-15,, BLAM down goes thug, who was holding a handgun. The bullet went through perp 1, hit perp 2 who fled. Perps 3 and 4 who were downstairs made tracks. When police arrived Perp 1 was lying face down in his own blood, his gun on the floor between his legs.
Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 09:58 AM (SMd3b)

Mr. Isabella got a lot of value out of one round. Nice shooting, dude!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2020 10:21 AM (kJfq1)

337 It was positive.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 02, 2020 10:16 AM (wQxOB)

I just hope some of the listeners actually heard and then thought about both sides of the "discussion" that was presented to them.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:21 AM (6wiwL)

338 >>I for one miss the touch of a woman. Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:20 AM (Uu+Jp)

There are thousands of angry, black-clad young men on television right now who feel your pain.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:22 AM (qXNVo)

339 A South Philadelphia gun shop owner shot and killed a man trying to break into his store early Tuesday morning amid heightened looting concerns.

Philadelphia police said the owner of Firing Line Inc. was staying the night inside the shop on South Front Street because over the last few nights someone had tried breaking in.

The owner told police he was monitoring his surveillance camera and saw three or four people trying to get in around 4 a.m. The group was using bolt cutters on the gate. A broken lock could later be seen on the ground.

Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2020 10:22 AM (3aI0K)

340 310 And BTW, an autopsy is one of the least funny procedures around.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (CPk0

Not if you've studied ventriloquism.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 02, 2020 10:22 AM (oVJmc)

341 I for one miss the touch of a woman.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:20 AM (Uu+Jp)

That's what Biden says in his basement...

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 10:22 AM (32YRo)

342 My next piece will be three filthy neanderthals fighting over who has to eat a lutefusk.
Posted by: Fritz at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (95j/9

I hate those filthy racist Neanderthals !

Posted by: Cro Magnon at June 02, 2020 10:22 AM (mEjqT)

343 I for one miss the touch of a woman.

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They do make a good sandwich.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 02, 2020 10:23 AM (xfb67)

344
I've been building a mental catalog of pass� Lefty virtue signaling devices.

Remember the 'Message written on the hands meme'? "I wrote this on my hands, and here's a picture of my hands. I must *really* be woke and virtuous".

Then, there was the Lapel Diaper Pin, which apparently said, 'I'm a member of the resistance'. The irony that they would use a diaper pin eventually became apparent, even to the dullest of Progressives, which is pretty much plumbing the depths of the shallows.

. . .
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020

*
*
"Uptwinkles" and "downtwinkles" come to mind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 02, 2020 10:23 AM (rpbg1)

345 We went up to Nisswa, MN for 5 days. What'd I miss?

btw my company is virtue signalling/social justicing the hell out of this. Our CEO wants to hear our suggestions and comments (lol sure you do) - my two favorites so far are suggesting we all read a book about white fragility or some shit, and someone who posted a bunch of bullet points including "avoid groupthink". Can't make it up.

Posted by: jhawk90 at June 02, 2020 10:23 AM (OhQi4)

346 Facebook has turned i to a sewer over this rioting shit. Nice thing is my "friends" list has gotten real thin this last week.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2020 10:23 AM (4RRDi)

347 Hasn't Joe run out of "up" time for this morning? Or did they up his meds?

Posted by: Fox2! at June 02, 2020 10:23 AM (qyH+l)

348 I for one miss the touch of a woman.
Posted by: Northernlurker
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Also, they have a civilizing influence.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:23 AM (9Fwwf)

349 My next piece will be three filthy neanderthals fighting over who has to eat a lutefusk.
Posted by: Fritz at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (95j/9

I hate those filthy racist Neanderthals !
Posted by: Cro Magnon at June 02, 2020

*
*

You had the last laugh. You outlived 'em.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 02, 2020 10:24 AM (rpbg1)

350 I do likes me some Kippered Herring salted in butter with Scrambled Eggs as an English inspired breakfast via P G Wodehouse.

Kippered Herring is like Limey Fish Bacon!

Yum.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 02, 2020 09:58 AM

This.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2020 10:24 AM (ejd/p)

351 Not if you've studied ventriloquism.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 02, 2020 10:22 AM (oVJmc)
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Covfefe in nose, thanks.

Posted by: jhawk90 at June 02, 2020 10:24 AM (OhQi4)

352 320 think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

I will horn in on this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (mht8P)

You piccolo standard of puns. But good effort.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (mEjqT)

These puns have clearly been orchestrated.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (Uu+Jp)

Why must you guys continually trumpet your punning prowess?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:24 AM (6wiwL)

353 "Uptwinkles" and "downtwinkles" come to mind.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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*adds to list*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:25 AM (9Fwwf)

354 Who is Biden's audience ?

Is he that weak with black people ?

Whites don't want to hear this crap

they want peace restored

now

Posted by: REDACTED at June 02, 2020 10:25 AM (JgrP5)

355 I for one miss the touch of a woman.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:20 AM (Uu+Jp)

After my first wife passed, I didn't think I'd ever marry again. Been married almost 7 yrs. now. Ya never know.

Posted by: BignJames at June 02, 2020 10:25 AM (X/Pw5)

356 Wow.. he surer liked skeletons!

Too bad he never learned how to paint!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 02, 2020 10:25 AM (CjFDo)

357 This is learned behavior; it can be unlearned.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:20 AM (qXNVo)

Um no, its a gene located on a the female chromosome, situated on the left distal end.

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 10:25 AM (32YRo)

358 "Uptwinkles" and "downtwinkles" come to mind.
=====

Ahem. Uptinkles and downtinkles.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 02, 2020 10:25 AM (MIKMs)

359 The painting represents the two critics: douard Ftis and Max Sulberger. Their negative responses to Ensor's artwork drove him to portray them in multiple satirical paintings. In this particular work Ensor represents himself as a pickled herring being torn apart by their hateful criticism. The word herring in French, hareng-saur-close, if said with the proper pronunciation, apparently sounded like "art Ensor" or "Ensor's art."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (+y/Ru)

Obviously this has been discussed a million times over, and I'm not going to dwell on it, but art criticism has been detrimental to human artists for eons. Probably forever.

The elitist attitude has presumably never not been present, and those who see it as a legitimate way to gatekeep art, will always defend their right to put some artists on the outside and leave them there.

Ensor seems to have been particularly damaged (emotionally and presumably financially) by criticism.

Now, people don't have to like his stuff, but frankly I'd rather hang an Ensor painting in my home than the endless bland and boring fruit bowls, portraits, and landscrapes that are considered masterpieces by all the right people.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2020 10:26 AM (hku12)

360 Who is this rambling scolding speech trying to appeal to?

Posted by: batterup at June 02, 2020 10:26 AM (4FrDP)

361 think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

I will horn in on this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (mht8P)

You piccolo standard of puns. But good effort.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (mEjqT)

These puns have clearly been orchestrated.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (Uu+Jp)

Why must you guys continually trumpet your punning prowess?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!-

I always enjoy a little sax after a morning of punning.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2020 10:26 AM (axyOa)

362 So no "Eat at Luigi's!" jokes, eh.

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (32YRo)
Well, there are a lot of jokes. About just about anything.
There's a sort of unspoken rule, which I have never heard formulated or mentioned: you don't joke about the patient. I mean some people probably do, but I don't think it would go over very well at all where I am. And with kids I can't imagine it. But outside of that......

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 02, 2020 10:26 AM (CPk08)

363 There are thousands of angry, black-clad young men on television right now who feel your pain.
Posted by: Zod

*types*
*deletes*

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 02, 2020 10:26 AM (W2Pud)

364 358 "Uptwinkles" and "downtwinkles" come to mind.
=====

Ahem. Uptinkles and downtinkles.
Posted by: mustbequantum at June 02, 2020 10:25 AM (MIKMs)

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

*raises eyebrows*

What parts of the web do you frequent?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2020 10:27 AM (CAJOC)

365 Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, post mortem. Brunch in Hell.

Posted by: Simplemind at June 02, 2020 10:27 AM (ZuGkg)

366 Also, they have a civilizing influence.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:23 AM (9Fwwf)

Bwahaha! That joke never gets old, amirite?

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 10:27 AM (32YRo)

367 Who is this rambling scolding speech trying to appeal to?
Posted by: batterup at June 02, 2020 10:26 AM (4FrDP)

This is AoS, you have to be much more specific!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:27 AM (6wiwL)

368 setting fire to motor vehicles is a federal crime.
So nice of pAntifarts to take selfies with their charred trophies to
post on social.

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 10:12 AM---

Conspiracy to commit if you use a computer (facebook) or a cell phone to organize anything illegal under Federal Criminal Code. Both of those cross State lines and lets the Fed jump in and charge people if they want to.

Getting a Jury to convict them is a different color of Zebra though.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 02, 2020 10:28 AM (JUOKG)

369

Not if you've studied ventriloquism.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 02, 2020 10:22 AM (oVJmc)

You'd fit in fine.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 02, 2020 10:28 AM (CPk08)

370 ooh! Just now hearing U.S.Attorney is preparing charges against Philly rioters. Federales baby. He is calling out Soros D.A. for fanning flames of unrest.
Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 10:07 AM (SMd3b)

Good. DC too, I assume, since its under federal jdx to begin with.

Posted by: LASue at June 02, 2020 10:28 AM (Ed8Zd)

371 >>put some artists on the outside and leave them there.

As a matter of historical fact, these artists tend to have the last laugh (and not always posthumously).

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:28 AM (qXNVo)

372 setting fire to motor vehicles is a federal crime.
So nice of pAntifarts to take selfies with their charred trophies to
post on social.

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 10:12 AM---

Conspiracy to commit if you use a computer (facebook) or a cell phone to organize anything illegal under Federal Criminal Code. Both of those cross State lines and lets the Fed jump in and charge people if they want to.

Getting a Jury to convict them is a different color of Zebra though.
Posted by: Mr. Scott

Declare insurrection. Roll military. Let military arrest, try & imprison them.

Fuck spineless civil authority.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2020 10:30 AM (4RRDi)

373 The 'Hate Has No Homo' signs are proving to be remarkably persistent. I suppose that once you have planted the sign in the yard, it becomes a zero maintenance item, and most conveniently, doesn't require you to actually do *anything*. Why, it's virtue with no effort at all!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:30 AM (MUTE3)

374 365 Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, post mortem. Brunch in Hell.
Posted by: Simplemind at June 02, 2020 10:27 AM (ZuGkg)

HA! Good one.

Posted by: Sooner at June 02, 2020 10:30 AM (Fs5vw)

375
Ensor seems to have been particularly damaged (emotionally and presumably financially) by criticism.

Now, people don't have to like his stuff, but frankly I'd rather hang an Ensor painting in my home than the endless bland and boring fruit bowls, portraits, and landscrapes that are considered masterpieces by all the right people.
Posted by: BurtTC

.........

Where's the happy little trees?

Huh?

I don't see ANY happy little trees..

And where's the happy little cloud that wants to live RIGHT THERE??!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 02, 2020 10:30 AM (CjFDo)

376 Is this a biden body double ?

Seems too lucid to be the real biden.
Although, he is just reading someone else's words.

Posted by: Crom at June 02, 2020 10:30 AM (NJXLB)

377 CH-47 Chinook flying overhead my apartment here in SE Michigan.

I am 25 miles West of Selfridge AFNG Base, but that was still odd for 10:30am on a Tuesday.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 02, 2020 10:30 AM (Do5/p)

378 361 think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

I will horn in on this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (mht8P)

You piccolo standard of puns. But good effort.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (mEjqT)

These puns have clearly been orchestrated.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (Uu+Jp)

Why must you guys continually trumpet your punning prowess?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!-

I always enjoy a little sax after a morning of punning.

Posted by: Diogenes

So long as you don't toot your own horn, it's OK!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:30 AM (6wiwL)

379 This is AoS, you have to be much more specific!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:27 AM (6wiwL)

crap - this isn't Wendy's?

j/k - Biden is on TV reading a speech - it is also the first time he has seen it

Posted by: batterup at June 02, 2020 10:31 AM (4FrDP)

380 >These puns have clearly been orchestrated.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (Uu+Jp)

something something French hornwhat'd I win

also: the art is weird

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 02, 2020 10:31 AM (iTXRQ)

381 White suburban voters do want to hear this, they want peace and order restored immediately

Posted by: REDACTED at June 02, 2020 10:31 AM (JgrP5)

382 ah formatting

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 02, 2020 10:31 AM (iTXRQ)

383 Refusing to engage was exactly the Karl Rove strategery that got the SCOAMF elected. Rush got to speak to their audience. That is of far more value than speaking to them.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 02, 2020 10:31 AM (oiJof)

384 Riots or no - disband the FBI.

Lest we forget.

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2020 10:32 AM (ZfRYq)

385 >>373
The 'Hate Has No Homo' signs are proving to be remarkably persistent. I
suppose that once you have planted the sign in the yard, it becomes a
zero maintenance item, and most conveniently, doesn't require you to
actually do *anything*. Why, it's virtue with no effort at all! Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:30 AM (MUTE3)

True. As I noted in the previous thread, Hate is homeless, but not hopeless. Zod has given him a home, some hot meals, access to a hot shower and a shave, and a suit of clean if modest clothes.
He'll be on his own in no time, with a job and his pride back. He'll be ready for his own home then.
And with a handshake, I'll see him off.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:32 AM (qXNVo)

386 Verrrry interesting

Posted by: Colonel Klink
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Exsqueeze me?

Posted by: Arte Johnson at June 02, 2020 10:32 AM (dQF3z)

387 Where's the happy little trees?

Huh?

I don't see ANY happy little trees..

And where's the happy little cloud that wants to live RIGHT THERE??!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 02, 2020 10:30 AM (CjFDo)
It just isn't art, is it?
Not even a cabin. Cabins are always nice.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 02, 2020 10:32 AM (CPk08)

388 Anyone making 1968 comparisons is comparing a two countries. The US of 1968 no longer exists. Hell the US of 2000 no longer exists.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 02, 2020 10:32 AM (j2Mrt)

389 I have an outpatient procedure coming up on Thursday and they are requiring a Chinese Lung AIDS test first, so I just got my freaking brain stem probed.

I asked for the antibody test but the lab said that they aren't doing those.

They sure do jab that swab way way up the sinuses. And not particularly gently either.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 02, 2020 10:32 AM (573j3)

390 230 >>I seriously hope you write for a living. Posted by: m at June 02, 2020 10:02 AM (gvWOP)

Not any longer, but thanks for the compliment!
Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:04 AM (QgtlX)

Seriously, you're in my Top 10 Standup Comics.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 02, 2020 10:32 AM (di1hb)

391 James Ensor! A favorite. He understood the surreal madness of crowds.

By the way, are we still All In This Together?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2020 10:32 AM (Dc2NZ)

392 Good. DC too, I assume, since its under federal jdx to begin with.
Posted by: LASue at June 02, 2020 10:28 AM (Ed8Zd)

I knew there was a reason why they want statehood for DC!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:32 AM (6wiwL)

393 Perp makes his way up to the 2nd floor, Mr. Isabella is waiting with an AR-15,, BLAM down goes thug, who was holding a handgun. The bullet went through perp 1, hit perp 2 who fled. Perps 3 and 4 who were downstairs made tracks. When police arrived Perp 1 was lying face down in his own blood, his gun on the floor between his legs.
Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2020 09:58 AM (SMd3b)

Mr. Isabella got a lot of value out of one round. Nice shooting, dude!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2020 10:21 AM (kJfq1)

Wait, wait, wait. I heard 5.56 is pathetic and useless. Surely this can't be true?

Posted by: Vanya at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (BAsqb)

394 Augh! Definitely not Monet! Eep!

Posted by: California Girl (not Caligirl) at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (TeHZy)

395
So long as you don't toot your own horn, it's OK!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
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Stop stringing them along.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (qHgVt)

396 I don't think I've ever been at an autopsy where somebody doesn't laugh, and I've done thousands of them.

I think there's a Don Martin cartoon where there is an autopsy on a clown, and when they cut him open all the organs bounce out on springs.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (oVJmc)

397 think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

I will horn in on this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (mht8P)

You piccolo standard of puns. But good effort.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (mEjqT)

These puns have clearly been orchestrated.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (Uu+Jp)

Why must you guys continually trumpet your punning prowess?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!-

I always enjoy a little sax after a morning of punning.

Posted by: Diogenes

The way y'all string that out takes some real brass.

Posted by: Brother Tim at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (OUMaO)

398 @306 -

Yeah, overall I agree.
Couldn't listen to if for more than 30 seconds at a time, myself, but full respect to Rush for a brave try.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (XXrUA)

399 One does not calmly look upon Ensor.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 02, 2020 10:17 AM (gd9RK)

My knowledge of his biography is entirely limited to what the boys in TMBG said in their song about him, but it would not surprise me in the least of Ensor suffered from some serious mental illness.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (hku12)

400 So the DC Park Police did not use tear gas to disperse the crowd last night, they used smoke and they did not know that Trump was going to walk to the Church.

They dispersed the crowd because they were being pelted with water bottles and vandals were going after a structure they vandalized/burned the night before.

So much for the media narrative because you know they will ask why Trump had innocent protestors shot and killed last night for a photo op and the new press secretary will rip them a new one.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (JUOKG)

401 ZOD,

It's just a red herring, you can relax. Oh! And put the booze down and go to bed.

Posted by: DontGetOutMuch at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (pOp+P)

402 6 Skeletons.
So why are they wearing clothes?

*******

To hide their boner?

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2020 10:34 AM (m45I2)

403 I think there's a Don Martin cartoon where there is
an autopsy on a clown, and when they cut him open all the organs bounce
out on springs.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (oVJmc)

With sound effects.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 02, 2020 10:34 AM (CPk08)

404 I'm not going to fret about the puns.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:34 AM (qHgVt)

405 Biden just blamed all the worlds problems on PDT after he has been in DC for over 40 years.

brain dead.

Also did not offer one specific solutions, just the usual left wing platitudes

NOw FOX has another brain dead person on Juan

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 02, 2020 10:34 AM (85Gof)

406 White suburban voters do want to hear this, they want peace and order restored immediately
Posted by: REDACTED at June 02, 2020 10:31 AM (JgrP5)

Of course they do - so they can go right back to supporting all the policies that added up to this.

I'll be stunned if any kind of red wave sweeps through the burbs in November.

Posted by: Things Best Left Unsaid at June 02, 2020 10:35 AM (mMMjw)

407 The 'Hate Has No Homo' signs are proving to be remarkably persistent. I

suppose that once you have planted the sign in the yard, it becomes a

zero maintenance item, and most conveniently, doesn't require you to

actually do *anything*. Why, it's virtue with no effort at all!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:30 AM (MUTE3)

Like Berserker said a few nights ago on the ONT:
"Hate has no home, but vengeance has a master suite."

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2020 10:35 AM (DjiZK)

408 Grump928. That's why I'm having the antibody test. Have surgery coming up and don't want the swab. Offered through one of our hospital systems at their urgent care location. $65 and worth ever penny.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 02, 2020 10:35 AM (JVgnl)

409 think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

I will horn in on this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (mht8P)

You piccolo standard of puns. But good effort.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (mEjqT)

These puns have clearly been orchestrated.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (Uu+Jp)

Why must you guys continually trumpet your punning prowess?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!-

I always enjoy a little sax after a morning of punning.

Posted by: Diogenes

The way y'all string that out takes some real brass.
Posted by: Brother Tim at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (OUMaO)

Once again, y'all have been snared by puns.

You need to be drummed out of the HQ.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 02, 2020 10:35 AM (wQxOB)

410 think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

I will horn in on this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (mht8P)

You piccolo standard of puns. But good effort.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (mEjqT)

These puns have clearly been orchestrated.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (Uu+Jp)

Why must you guys continually trumpet your punning prowess?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!-

I always enjoy a little sax after a morning of punning.

Posted by: Diogenes

The way y'all string that out takes some real brass.
Posted by: Brother Tim at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (OUMaO)

Now I have a weird craving for cello salad.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:35 AM (Uu+Jp)

411 I posted this towards the end of the ONT. Given one interpretation of CBD's subject, it seemed appropriate.

This really is an amazing bit of work. A gentleman took film that was made during the Battle of the Somme. He went to France and found the places in the films and then did his own video. Then, as much as possible, he synced up the two videos. Like looking through a window in time. Seeing ghosts.

https://tinyurl.com/j5p2p6l

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 02, 2020 10:35 AM (A5zUN)

412 think the artist wants us to see the violins inherit in the system.
Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 09:52 AM

What do you bass that upon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 02, 2020 10:01 AM (DMUuz)

I will horn in on this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2020 10:05 AM (mht8P)

You piccolo standard of puns. But good effort.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:06 AM (mEjqT)

These puns have clearly been orchestrated.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (Uu+Jp)

Why must you guys continually trumpet your punning prowess?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!-

I always enjoy a little sax after a morning of punning.

Posted by: Diogenes

The way y'all string that out takes some real brass.
Posted by: Brother Tim at June 02, 2020 10:33 AM (OUMaO)
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Cut this out before I start per-cussin!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 02, 2020 10:36 AM (dfRN6)

413 Like an awful Dead Bootleg Cover....

Here's some of Kate Beckinsale in yoga pants to clean your Art Sensors:

https://tinyurl.com/ycjhgj3a

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2020 10:36 AM (SNns0)

414
I knew there was a reason why they want statehood for DC!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
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One word: Puerto Rico

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 02, 2020 10:36 AM (qHgVt)

415 Refusing to engage was exactly the Karl Rove strategery that got the SCOAMF elected. Rush got to speak to their audience. That is of far more value than speaking to them.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 02, 2020 10:31 AM (oiJof)

A different point of view, rationally and politely presented, might well reach some/many otherwise inaccessible people in that audience!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:36 AM (6wiwL)

416 All of this media conditioning has gotten almost every black person in the country to believe in "White Privilege" and "Institutional Racism". Once either of those two terms is mentioned, all rational thought goes out the window and no reasoned discussion is possible, because the people who believe in them demand that you bow down on your knees and worship those ideas before they will even talk to you.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2020 10:36 AM (Kpl3J)

417 Rosne was I ere I saw Ensor.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 02, 2020 10:36 AM (oVJmc)

418 When I see a chain-gang of orange-suited perps shuffling into the courtroom, led by a weeping, recently-sodomized James Comey, I'll think there's something to this. Alas.
Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:09 AM (qXNVo)

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: DontGetOutMuch at June 02, 2020 10:36 AM (pOp+P)

419
Anyone making 1968 comparisons is comparing a two countries. The US of 1968 no longer exists. Hell the US of 2000 no longer exists.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 02, 2020 10:32 AM (j2Mrt)

We got to where we are today because the idealized United States of 1968 did not exist even in 1968.

Extending communist agitators the privileges of fellow citizens was an act of national suicide.

Posted by: fktheleft at June 02, 2020 10:37 AM (I54dk)

420 Finally! Real art!

Posted by: Weasel at June 02, 2020 10:37 AM (MVjcR)

421 This represents the aggression of Russia (black hat) against the peaceful people of Finland.

Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2020 10:38 AM (gmo/4)

422 So no "Eat at Luigi's!" jokes, eh.

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 10:19 AM (32YRo)

Ahem.

Eat at Luigi's.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 02, 2020 09:59 AM (Z4rgH)

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 02, 2020 10:38 AM (Z4rgH)

423 This really is an amazing bit of work. A gentleman took film that was made during the Battle of the Somme. He went to France and found the places in the films and then did his own video. Then, as much as possible, he synced up the two videos. Like looking through a window in time. Seeing ghosts.

https://tinyurl.com/j5p2p6l

Posted by: Aetius451AD

I've seen that before. Eerie. But damn cool.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2020 10:38 AM (4RRDi)

424 I have a plethora of puns coming out of my kazoo.

Posted by: Fritz at June 02, 2020 10:39 AM (95j/9)

425 415 Refusing to engage was exactly the Karl Rove strategery that got the SCOAMF elected. Rush got to speak to their audience. That is of far more value than speaking to them.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 02, 2020 10:31 AM (oiJof)

A different point of view, rationally and politely presented, might well reach some/many otherwise inaccessible people in that audience!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:36 AM (6wiwL)

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"Really? We've been electing Democrats in my city for 60 years and we're still this bad?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:39 AM (LvTSG)

426 Mind you, I could only make cello salad if I was a lute-erin.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:40 AM (Uu+Jp)

427 423 This really is an amazing bit of work. A gentleman took film that was made during the Battle of the Somme. He went to France and found the places in the films and then did his own video. Then, as much as possible, he synced up the two videos. Like looking through a window in time. Seeing ghosts.

https://tinyurl.com/j5p2p6l

Posted by: Aetius451AD

I've seen that before. Eerie. But damn cool.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2020 10:38 AM (4RRDi)

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I really like the increased interest over the past couple of years for WWI.

It's all because of the centennial, of course, and won't last, but it's nice to see WWI entering the popular consciousness again for even a short time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:40 AM (LvTSG)

428 This represents the aggression of Russia (black hat) against the peaceful people of Finland.

Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2020 10:38 AM (gmo/4)

The skel from Finland is drunk on cheap booze.

Posted by: Roland THTG at June 02, 2020 10:41 AM (88+cf)

429 >Refusing to engage was exactly the Karl Rove strategery that got the SCOAMF elected.

If I was up against Karl Rove, I would not appeal to reason or any lofty thing. I would bully him. I've seen what works with him.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 02, 2020 10:41 AM (LxTcq)

430 "Really? We've been electing Democrats in my city for 60 years and we're still this bad?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:39 AM (LvTSG)

Surely, THAT can't be right...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:41 AM (6wiwL)

431 Apparently you guys are going to keep hammering-on the puns until the monkey gets here?

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2020 10:41 AM (SNns0)

432 Tomorrow is my birthday...for real. I will be 64 - for real. Now, get off my lawn - for real...

Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2020 10:42 AM (gmo/4)

433 All these problematic policies are in blue states and cities. The riots are not so much in red areas. Police brutality is a problem in blue cities. The killing and crime is in blue cities. Its almost like this is a problem of the left. Almost.

Posted by: USNtakim at June 02, 2020 10:42 AM (0OmEj)

434 >>WW1
Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee.
That is all.

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:42 AM (qXNVo)

435 The skel from Finland is drunk on cheap booze.

Posted by: Roland THTG at June 02, 2020 10:41 AM (88+cf)

What's that beer they make from spruce needles?

Posted by: BignJames at June 02, 2020 10:42 AM (X/Pw5)

436 432 Tomorrow is my birthday...for real. I will be 64 - for real. Now, get off my lawn - for real...
Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2020 10:42 AM (gmo/4)

Today is mine, #66.

Posted by: bars and restaurants closed to the banned at June 02, 2020 10:43 AM (udT9C)

437 Basically biden gave the "This is not who we are speech"

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 02, 2020 10:43 AM (85Gof)

438 That picture sucks.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 02, 2020 10:43 AM (l+j8B)

439 Tomorrow is my birthday...for real. I will be 64 - for real. Now, get off my lawn - for real...
Posted by: Archer
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Hmm. You youngsters get kind of bratty when you haven't had a nap.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:43 AM (qHgVt)

440 426 Mind you, I could only make cello salad if I was a lute-erin.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:40 AM (Uu+Jp)

Just be sure you never put baton on cello salad!

Posted by: Wuhan Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:44 AM (6wiwL)

441 What's that beer they make from spruce needles?
Posted by: BignJames at June 02, 2020 10:42 AM (X/Pw5)

Spruce Needle Beer.

Spruceweiser.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 02, 2020 10:44 AM (wQxOB)

442 Basically biden gave the "This is not who we are speech"
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 02, 2020 10:43 AM (85Gof)

Does he even know who he is?

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:44 AM (Uu+Jp)

443 Basically biden gave the "This is not who we are speech"
Posted by: Nevergiveup
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1984'esque. Because, quite apparently to a sane observer, that is *exactly* who they are.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:45 AM (CTJwJ)

444 Basically biden gave the "This is not who we are speech"
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 02, 2020 10:43 AM (85Gof)

Does he even know who he is?

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:44

Biblical:

I am not what I am not!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:45 AM (6wiwL)

445 436 432 Tomorrow is my birthday...for real. I will be 64 - for real. Now, get off my lawn - for real...
Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2020 10:42 AM (gmo/4)

Today is mine, #66.
Posted by: bars and restaurants closed to the banned at June 02, 2020 10:43 AM (udT9C)

Mine was yesterday. I'm still in my 40's (barely).

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (Ez6QX)

446 Iran, Russia, China, Turkey celebrate 'collapse' of US
The goal of Turkey, Iran, China and Russia during the current US crises is to use it to their advantage to press gains.

Guess which side the dems and msm is on?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (85Gof)

447 Did the artist paint this before or after Looney Toones were created?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (WEBkv)

448 442 Basically biden gave the "This is not who we are speech"
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 02, 2020 10:43 AM (85Gof)

Does he even know who he is?
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 02, 2020 10:44 AM (Uu+Jp)

Of course I d! I'm Senator Joe Bibum, from, you know, the place that sells chili!

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (Izzlo)

449 Spruce tea is quite good. A bracing winter drink. You'd think it might taste like liquid air freshener, but it doesn't.

Some spruces have stinky needles though. I believe black spruce is one to avoid. I know Blue spruce is good. Watch the pointy needles.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (+7yf7)

450 445 436 432 Tomorrow is my birthday...for real. I will be 64 - for real. Now, get off my lawn - for real...
Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2020 10:42 AM (gmo/4)

Today is mine, #66.
Posted by: bars and restaurants closed to the banned at June 02, 2020 10:43 AM (udT9C)

Mine was yesterday. I'm still in my 40's (barely).
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (Ez6QX)

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I'll be halfway to seventy next Wednesday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (LvTSG)

451
Sure, why not?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 02, 2020 10:47 AM (pNxlR)

452 Guess which side the dems and msm is on?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (85Gof)

Say what you will about the dems, they ARE team players!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 02, 2020 10:47 AM (6wiwL)

453 What ever else Karl Rove may have done I will always be grateful for his role in turning Texas red. Hopefully it's not just temporary though it looks that way. It was a good run.

Posted by: Cro Magnon at June 02, 2020 10:47 AM (mEjqT)

454 Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (+7yf7)

the beer is sahti.....looked it up

Posted by: BignJames at June 02, 2020 10:48 AM (X/Pw5)

455 Mine was yesterday. I'm still in my 40's (barely).

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (Ez6QX)

Class of 89? I was Class of 91

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2020 10:48 AM (DjiZK)

456 Some spruces have stinky needles though. I believe black spruce is one to avoid. I know Blue spruce is good. Watch the pointy needles.
Posted by: Guy Smiley
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*ponders Bog Cedar tea*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:48 AM (CTJwJ)

457 45 436 432 Tomorrow is my birthday...for real. I will be 64 - for real. Now, get off my lawn - for real...
Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2020 10:42 AM (gmo/4)

Today is mine, #66.
Posted by: bars and restaurants closed to the banned at June 02, 2020 10:43 AM (udT9C)

Mine was yesterday. I'm still in my 40's (barely).
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (Ez6QX)

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I'll be halfway to seventy next Wednesday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (LvTSG)

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I did the math once.

My Birthday is closer to the start of WW I for the USA than it is to todays date.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 02, 2020 10:48 AM (8XRCm)

458 Off semi troglodyte sock .

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:48 AM (mEjqT)

459 I'll be halfway to seventy next Wednesday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (LvTSG)

I was told there would be no math.

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2020 10:48 AM (ZfRYq)

460 Class of 89? I was Class of 91
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2020 10:48 AM (DjiZK)

Yep.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2020 10:48 AM (Ez6QX)

461 All I know about James Ensor is that he lived with his mother and repeated himself. He may also have been subject to the torments of Christ.

Thanks TMBG.

Posted by: egd at June 02, 2020 10:48 AM (v9lde)

462 All these problematic policies are in blue states and cities. The riots are not so much in red areas. Police brutality is a problem in blue cities. The killing and crime is in blue cities. Its almost like this is a problem of the left. Almost.

Posted by: USNtakim at June 02, 2020 10:42 AM (0OmEj)
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There's a 5th column of traitors and seditionists - the actually privileged children of hard working middle class folks who live in nice mostly red neighborhoods. The whole Occupy Wall Street which has morphed into antifa. Mooching off their parents while aligning themselves with The Left which will use them as long as they are useful.

Posted by: Boots at June 02, 2020 10:49 AM (oGBso)

463 I'm going to stay 59 as long as possible.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:49 AM (mEjqT)

464 @393: Robbing a gun store is a unique form of self Darwinization. But it keeps happening.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 02, 2020 10:49 AM (oiJof)

465 I really like the increased interest over the past couple of years for WWI.

It's all because of the centennial, of course, and won't last, but it's nice to see WWI entering the popular consciousness again for even a short time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Wish I could find a nice 1903 shooter relatively inexpensive.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2020 10:49 AM (4RRDi)

466 Pelosi & Schumer?

Posted by: Shanks for the memory at June 02, 2020 10:49 AM (TdCQk)

467 I finally got my $1200 payment. How much is a case of Val-U-Rite? Will the blackout last long enough that when I come out of it that everything is better?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 02, 2020 10:49 AM (Xrf6t)

468 Class of 89? I was Class of 91
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2020 10:48 AM (DjiZK)
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I'm quite sure Jordan61 has class.....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 02, 2020 10:50 AM (WEBkv)

469 Spruce needles are very high in vitamin C too. The young blue spruce needles are the highest. The ones that actually have the bluish bloom on them from whence the tree gets its name.

I know, I know. They don't look Blewish.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2020 10:50 AM (+7yf7)

470
*ponders Bog Cedar tea*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:48 AM (CTJwJ)
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I read that as "Bong Cedar Tea" and thought ewwww yuck.

Posted by: Boots at June 02, 2020 10:50 AM (oGBso)

471 It's all because of the centennial, of course, and won't last, but it's nice to see WWI entering the popular consciousness again for even a short time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Yeah I agree.... but ..... all the usual fucktwits are all "seeee what NATIONALISM does to the world!!"

Posted by: fixerupper at June 02, 2020 10:50 AM (8XRCm)

472 467
I finally got my $1200 payment. How much is a case of Val-U-Rite? Will
the blackout last long enough that when I come out of it that everything
is better?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 02, 2020 10:49 AM (Xrf6t)

Val-U-Rite? Buy ammo.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 02, 2020 10:51 AM (N39Ws)

473 I'll be halfway to seventy next Wednesday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (LvTSG)
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Good grief, you're younger than my children.

I was going to offer to buy you an alcoholic beverage, should we ever meet, but, instead, I'll just request you assist me with my walker.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 02, 2020 10:51 AM (WEBkv)

474 471 It's all because of the centennial, of course, and won't last, but it's nice to see WWI entering the popular consciousness again for even a short time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Yeah I agree.... but ..... all the usual fucktwits are all "seeee what NATIONALISM does to the world!!"
Posted by: fixerupper at June 02, 2020 10:50 AM (8XRCm)

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Or, secret pacts and abandonment of the gold standard.

Whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:51 AM (LvTSG)

475 473 I'll be halfway to seventy next Wednesday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (LvTSG)
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Good grief, you're younger than my children.

I was going to offer to buy you an alcoholic beverage, should we ever meet, but, instead, I'll just request you assist me with my walker.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 02, 2020 10:51 AM (WEBkv)

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Yeah, most of you all are old farts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:52 AM (LvTSG)

476 Tomorrow is my birthday...for real. I will be 64 - for real. Now, get off my lawn - for real...

Posted by: Archer

But how do we know your lawn is for real?

Posted by: Brother Tim at June 02, 2020 10:52 AM (OUMaO)

477 LSD must have been around for longer than I thought.

Posted by: Cosda at June 02, 2020 10:52 AM (L5l9a)

478 Val-U-Rite? Buy ammo.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 02, 2020 10:51 AM (N39Ws)

Ammo...dipped in Val-U-Rite

Posted by: BignJames at June 02, 2020 10:52 AM (X/Pw5)

479 Yep.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2020 10:48 AM (Ez6QX)

sweet - and happy belated birthday young lady. my daughter's is Friday and she will be 21.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2020 10:53 AM (DjiZK)

480 Iran, Russia, China, Turkey celebrate 'collapse' of US

The goal of Turkey, Iran, China and Russia during the current US crises is to use it to their advantage to press gains.

---

Well, at least someone in the world understands what's going on here.

The best I can get out of people around me is my limpdick pastor wanting to do a prayer vigil.

Over facebook.

Posted by: Methos at June 02, 2020 10:53 AM (kOpft)

481
Wish I could find a nice 1903 shooter relatively inexpensive.
Posted by: rickb223
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Geeze, probably a bit rancid by now, no?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:53 AM (vOGqy)

482 Yeah, most of you all are old farts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:52 AM (LvTSG)
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I knew I was getting old when I realized the doctor treating my mom was younger than my children.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 02, 2020 10:53 AM (WEBkv)

483 393: Robbing a gun store is a unique form of self Darwinization. But it keeps happening.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 02, 2020 10:49 AM (oiJof)

There is a vid of an attempted armed robbery in broad daylight where the owner pulled his 1911 and dropped the guy before the guy could say a word.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:53 AM (mEjqT)

484 Wish I could find a nice 1903 shooter relatively inexpensive.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2020 10:49 AM (4RRDi)

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Me too.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 02, 2020 10:54 AM (8XRCm)

485 >Yeah, most of you all are old farts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist

I was born in black and white

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 02, 2020 10:54 AM (iTXRQ)

486 353 "Uptwinkles" and "downtwinkles" come to mind.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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*adds to list*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:25 AM (9Fwwf)

There was the snappy "Check your privilege" "comeback."

Posted by: m at June 02, 2020 10:54 AM (gvWOP)

487 Tomorrow is my birthday...for real. I will be 64 - for real. Now, get off my lawn - for real...

Posted by: Archer

But how do we know your lawn is for real?
Posted by: Brother Tim at June 02, 2020 10:52 AM (OUMaO)

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What if.... YOU are God..... and all this is just godly lucid dreaming??

Posted by: fixerupper at June 02, 2020 10:55 AM (8XRCm)

488
Yeah, most of you all are old farts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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*huh? whut?*

Oh, sorry, I must have nodded off there for a moment..

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:55 AM (vOGqy)

489 Skelton choking on a crust of bread.

Posted by: Sting at June 02, 2020 10:55 AM (iuFgi)

490 1200 bucks can buy a whole warehouse of Val-U-Rite.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2020 10:55 AM (+7yf7)

491 I was born in black and white

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 02, 2020 10:54 AM (iTXRQ)

Lucky - I was drawn on a cave wall.

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 10:55 AM (32YRo)

492
*adds to list*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:25 AM (9Fwwf)

There was the snappy "Check your privilege" "comeback."
Posted by: m
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Ah. Of course.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2020 10:56 AM (vOGqy)

493 So this is Don Martin in the autopsy suite:
https://tinyurl.com/yd9wj56c
and this is the one I was thinking of (Ging Ging...)https://tinyurl.com/y8dm7azz

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 02, 2020 10:56 AM (CPk08)

494 I still feel like I'm 35 fifty percent of the time.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 02, 2020 10:56 AM (mEjqT)

495 sweet - and happy belated birthday young lady. my daughter's is Friday and she will be 21.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2020 10:53 AM (DjiZK)

Thank you, and early happy birthday to your daughter!

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2020 10:56 AM (Ez6QX)

496 >Lucky - I was drawn on a cave wall.

Posted by: Boswell

you win

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 02, 2020 10:56 AM (iTXRQ)

497 489 Skelton choking on a crust of bread.
Posted by: Sting at June 02, 2020 10:55 AM (iuFgi)

I will always be King of Suede

Posted by: Weird Al at June 02, 2020 10:56 AM (Izzlo)

498 Nope.
Buy ammo. Lots of it.

Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 02, 2020 10:57 AM (d9Irc)

499 Yeah, most of you all are old farts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Eh.....???

Why of COURSE we have old parts.

We are old!!

Posted by: fixerupper at June 02, 2020 10:57 AM (8XRCm)

500 I'll be halfway to seventy next Wednesday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:46 AM (LvTSG)

Nice!

I think, so far, anyway, that's the best time of Life.

You've got a youngish, sexy wife, you've got young kiddos who still regard you as a benevolent god,

you're climbing the ladder of success in your job shaving ferrets or whatever the hell is that you do for a living.

Man, it is all good at that age.

Enjoy!

*drinks ~~a toast~~ a sip of coffee cruz it's before 5 PM*

Posted by: naturalfake at June 02, 2020 10:57 AM (wQxOB)

501 "467 I finally got my $1200 payment. How much is a case of Val-U-Rite? Will the blackout last long enough that when I come out of it that everything is better?"
*********
Ours finally came this week in the form of a VISA debit card with my name wrong.

Posted by: Cosda at June 02, 2020 10:57 AM (L5l9a)

502 >>What if.... YOU are God..... and all this is just godly lucid dreaming?? Posted by: fixerupper at June 02, 2020 10:55 AM (8XRCm)

(accepts bong, carbs, inhales, exhales)

"It's like...Schroedinger's God...like, God/not-God. Kinda thing..."

(Stares at Pure Prairie League album cover, absently eats Cheetos).

"...or whatever."

(passes bong)

Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:57 AM (qXNVo)

503 Are "twinkles" like quarks? "Charm" twinkles sound like quantum fun.

Posted by: klaftern at June 02, 2020 10:57 AM (RuIsu)

504 I was born in black and white

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 02, 2020 10:54 AM (iTXRQ)

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We had a black and white teevee that, in my tender yoot, I thought I could make color with a can of orange spray paint.

My old father was.....not very understanding.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 02, 2020 10:57 AM (dfRN6)

505 At the range the other day, one of the guys commented that he still had his hearing, even at his age.

I told him the reason we still had our hearing was so we could hear our joints when we got up in the morning.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 02, 2020 10:58 AM (WEBkv)

506 500 Nice!

I think, so far, anyway, that's the best time of Life.

You've got a youngish, sexy wife, you've got young kiddos who still regard you as a benevolent god,

you're climbing the ladder of success in your job shaving ferrets or whatever the hell is that you do for a living.

Man, it is all good at that age.

Enjoy!

*drinks a toast a sip of coffee cruz it's before 5 PM*

Posted by: naturalfake at June 02, 2020 10:57 AM (wQxOB)

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I knew there were some kind people around here.

Not many, but some.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:58 AM (LvTSG)

507 well I'm thinking about blowing my $1200 in plague dollars at the gun mart
Colt Government model
or similar Springfield

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 02, 2020 10:58 AM (iTXRQ)

508 >>What if.... YOU are God..... and all this is just godly lucid dreaming?? Posted by: fixerupper at June 02, 2020 10:55 AM (8XRCm)

(accepts bong, carbs, inhales, exhales)

"It's like...Schroedinger's God...like, God/not-God. Kinda thing..."

(Stares at Pure Prairie League album cover, absently eats Cheetos).

"...or whatever."

(passes bong)
Posted by: Zod at June 02, 2020 10:57 AM (qXNVo)

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Keep Calm and Chive On bruh......

Posted by: fixerupper at June 02, 2020 10:58 AM (8XRCm)

509 Yeah, most of you all are old farts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in
Nakatomi Tower at June 02, 2020 10:52 AM (LvTSG)

One of my shipmates turned 49 today and the other people on the conference call were kidding him about how old he is. I told them all to stop fuckin digging

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 02, 2020 10:58 AM (85Gof)

510 48 in two days.

I hate time.

Posted by: Things Best Left Unsaid at June 02, 2020 10:59 AM (mMMjw)

511 So Biden gave a speech in Philly on the riots/Trump and is getting rave reviews from the MSM.

I know nobody wants to hear it, but he MSM is second only to God now in how powerful it is. Biden can't lose with that fawning media at his back.

Just look at Cuomo and his 80% approval rating.

Posted by: Baseballisdead at June 02, 2020 10:59 AM (jjPW1)

512 Someone needs to tell Biden that when white suburban voters sense oncoming criminal activity

they call a cop not a priest

I'm pretty sure that black suburban voters feel the same way

Posted by: REDACTED at June 02, 2020 10:59 AM (JgrP5)

513 A description of how Chicago PD messed up their riot response from SCC Blog:

Saturday. Officers downtown are overwhelmed. Daytime officers released from their posts so as not to incur any overtime. Finally officers downtown call for backup after many 10-1s. Deputy Chief of nearest area refuses to send officers downtown. All hell breaks loose. Decision to send additional officers-resources, raise bridges and use tear gas come too late as many businesses, police cars and property in the downtown area have been destroyed by the looters.
At 1130 pm department decides to cancel days off and change start times to allow for a large group of officers to assemble at White Sox Park for deployment.
Sunday. Due to how late the decision came out many officers had no idea that start times were changed causing more confusion. Some of the group were sent to HQ to protect it. Most sat in Sox Park Parking Lot never leaving despite massive rioting-looting in the neighborhoods. Looters were treated to a shopping spree with little to no police resistance. Nearby suburbs were also hit.
Monday. Finally deploying officers from Sox Park. Still outmanned. Officers playing whack a mole with each new looting location.
If this doesnnot go down as the worst response to a riot in the history of free world I will be amazed. There is no leadership anywhere in this city. Brownie makes Jody Wies look like Patton. Downtown looks like something out of a bad Bruckheimer movie. Lightfoot spent all her energy chasing worshippers out of churches and has no energy (or desire) to do anything about the looters. Welcome to the third world.

Posted by: rd at June 02, 2020 10:59 AM (+0uDE)

514 We had a black and white teevee that, in my tender yoot, I thought I could make color with a can of orange spray paint.

My old father was.....not very understanding.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 02, 2020 10:57 AM (dfRN6)
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I'm surprised I didn't do that as a youngster.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 02, 2020 10:59 AM (WEBkv)

515 well I'm thinking about blowing my $1200 in plague dollars at the gun mart
Colt Government model
or similar Springfield

Posted by: DB- just D

M1A at PSA for $1299.00

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2020 10:59 AM (4RRDi)

516 it isn't really a bonefish.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 02, 2020 11:00 AM (dNzKv)

517 >>We had a black and white teevee that, in my tender yoot, I thought I could make color with a can of orange spray paint.

Remember those weird screen things you could put on your black and white TV to make them kind of colored? - yeah, retarded.

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2020 11:00 AM (32YRo)

518 Good morning Glories!
Nice painting, they stuck to their diets.
Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers?

Posted by: ALH at June 02, 2020 11:00 AM (w4wzp)

519 "BeckoningChasm at June 02, 2020 09:47 AM (E+OcO)"

Thank God there's a man of culture around here.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 02, 2020 11:00 AM (naEeR)

520 Nooooooooooooooooooooood! Minor monkey has arrived.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at June 02, 2020 11:01 AM (KVr/m)

521 Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers?
Posted by: ALH at June 02, 2020 11:00 AM (w4wzp)
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Auschwitz diet.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 02, 2020 11:01 AM (WEBkv)

522 Minkey nood.

Posted by: eleven at June 02, 2020 11:01 AM (Qf83p)

523 346 Facebook has turned i to a sewer over this rioting shit. Nice thing is my "friends" list has gotten real thin this last week.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2020 10:23 AM (4RRDi)

Same here. The most amusing part of it is that it's all the same people who were hysterically supporting corona lockdowns just last week.

Really goes to show you just how true the NPC meme is.

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at June 02, 2020 11:01 AM (LZ7Gl)

524 Monday. Finally deploying officers from Sox Park. Still outmanned. Officers playing whack a mole with each new looting location.
If this doesnnot go down as the worst response to a riot in the history of free world I will be amazed. There is no leadership anywhere in this city. Brownie makes Jody Wies look like Patton. Downtown looks like something out of a bad Bruckheimer movie. Lightfoot spent all her energy chasing worshippers out of churches and has no energy (or desire) to do anything about the looters. Welcome to the third world.
Posted by: rd

AND, insurance doesn't pay for riots.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2020 11:01 AM (4RRDi)

525 At least I wasn't born before talkies, whipper snappers!

Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2020 11:01 AM (gmo/4)

526 The best I can get out of people around me is my limpdick pastor wanting to do a prayer vigil.

Over facebook.
Posted by: Methos at June 02, 2020 10:53 AM (kOpft)

What would you like your pastor to do and have you told him? How can you help him with that?

And what's wrong with prayer? I gather you'd like him to do something stronger, but you realize, I'm sure, that your pastor has a bunch of voices in the church he has to listen to and they may say conflicting things. Conflict in the church is nothing new.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2020 11:02 AM (+eVzC)

527 A description of how Chicago PD messed up their riot response from SCC Blog:

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He mentions in another post that 75 officers were assigned to protecting the mayor's house.

Posted by: Methos at June 02, 2020 11:02 AM (kOpft)

528 It's almost as if some force is at work attempting to destroy our once great cities once and for all. I know most of you will say, "let them burn", but that's not what I'm getting at. It's like some deep-pocketed consortium or foreign entity wants to destroy them and buy up whatever's left on the cheap.

Or am I hallucinating?

Posted by: JoeF. at June 02, 2020 11:03 AM (CqE5x)

529 A description of how Chicago PD messed up their riot response from SCC Blog:

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He mentions in another post that 75 officers were assigned to protecting the mayor's house.
Posted by: Methos at June 02, 2020 11:02 AM (kOpft)

I could say something about the "quality" of the type of people who run big cities today, but I don't want to get banned.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 02, 2020 11:04 AM (CqE5x)

530 And what's wrong with prayer? I gather you'd like him to do something stronger, but you realize, I'm sure, that your pastor has a bunch of voices in the church he has to listen to and they may say conflicting things. Conflict in the church is nothing new.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2020 11:02 AM (+eVzC)

Maybe some bold, think outside the box leadership? Maybe not use idiotic Facebook?

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at June 02, 2020 11:08 AM (CLteG)

531 *huh? whut?*

Oh, sorry, I must have nodded off there for a moment..

I WAS JUST RESTING MY EYES!

Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 02, 2020 11:09 AM (cGJ7O)

532 Would Jesus use Facebook?

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at June 02, 2020 11:09 AM (CLteG)

533 You know just how deeply brainwashed people have been when you see comments from people condemning Trump and praising the "protesters." People who live in NYC, DC, and LA with streets full of broken glass and rubble.

I will never again wonder how most Germans - a well educated people - came to believe in Hitler.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 02, 2020 11:10 AM (HabA/)

534 For that matter, I'm pretty sure Jesus would not be on AoSHQ.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at June 02, 2020 11:11 AM (CLteG)

535 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2020 11:02 AM (+eVzC)

Prayer vigils in the face of violence are feckless. We need to be organizing a common defense.

Doing it over facebook is about playing along with the left's covid scam.

Posted by: Methos at June 02, 2020 11:15 AM (kOpft)

536 416 All of this media conditioning has gotten almost every black person in the country to believe in "White Privilege" and "Institutional Racism". Once either of those two terms is mentioned, all rational thought goes out the window and no reasoned discussion is possible, because the people who believe in them demand that you bow down on your knees and worship those ideas before they will even talk to you.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2020 10:36 AM (Kpl3J)

I'd wish that Rush asked about 'Black Privilege'-after the initial gasps about why it doesn't exist explain that is what every single rational person thinks when they hear about 'White Privilege'.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at June 02, 2020 11:15 AM (vgwv+)

537 I just read that Episcopal bishop's reaction to PDT visiting the church yesterday.

What a sad, pathetic dipshit he is.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2020 11:17 AM (ufFY8)

538 For that matter, I'm pretty sure Jesus would not be on AoSHQ.
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He was happy to hang out with tax collectors and prostitutes.

Posted by: Methos at June 02, 2020 11:17 AM (kOpft)

539 >>>Yeah, most of you all are old farts.
<<<

Old farts < fresh sharts

You've crossed over the threshold here, the event horizon.

Posted by: Sleepy Joe at June 02, 2020 11:18 AM (95j/9)

540 534
For that matter, I'm pretty sure Jesus would not be on AoSHQ.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at June 02, 2020 11:11 AM (CLteG)

I'm not too sure about that. He was quite the revolutionary.
Or we are just the whores, harlots, and sinners.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2020 11:18 AM (ufFY8)

541 Posted by: Methos at June 02, 2020 11:17 AM (kOpft)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2020 11:20 AM (ufFY8)

542 Posted by: Methos at June 02, 2020 11:15 AM (kOpft)

It might be instructive to have you pastor look at writings by pastors in the Soviet Union or other Eastern Bloc Countries during th e 50's until the Fall of the Berlin wall I don't know what to direct you to. I know that the RCC was one of the key elements in the solidarity movement in Poland.

I don't think prayer is ever feckless. "Greater is he that is within you than he that is in the world, nor is calling on the Holy Spirit, but it needs t be done in public.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2020 11:22 AM (+eVzC)

543 I don't think prayer is ever feckless. "Greater is he that is within you
than he that is in the world, nor is calling on the Holy Spirit, but it
needs t be done in public.
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It depends on what is being prayed for.

I would insist on praying for the defeat of the army of savages pillaging its way across America, but I don't think that's what he has in mind.

Posted by: Methos at June 02, 2020 11:48 AM (kOpft)

544 Well, you don't need your pastor to be the official prayer-er. If you have men in the church who are willing to get together in your house form a prayer group. Call it the " prayer warriors" perhaps and inform your pastor this is what you're going to do. Invite him. I don't think he'd object unless you're planning to get the Deacons or Admin Board to remove him from office.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2020 12:08 PM (+eVzC)

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