Mid-Morning Art Thread [Kris]

The Jungfrau
August Becker

August Becker was a German Romantic landscapist who became the art instructor for some of Queen Victoria’s children for a time. Becker was part of the Düsseldorf School, a subcategory in German Romanticism which had a heavy influence on the American Hudson River School. Jungfrau Mountain is located in southern Switzerland and is one of the major peaks of the region. In this painting, Becker creates a work of majestic nature that is quiet, sublime, and imposing in scale.

The work uses cool and neutral colors to create a relaxing mood. The deep, lush hues of the valley loses intensity as the picture retreats in space. Using atmospheric perspective (the observation that the earth’s atmosphere causes colors and forms to lose definition and intensity as they recede in space), the greens fade naturally until they give way completely to the greys and blues of the mountain and ice. These new colors merge almost seamlessly with the deep blue sky and its puffy, white clouds. The colors in this work are harmonic.

Countering the calm palette are the dramatic lines and sudden changes of form. The landscape is a series of lazy, soft rises and hollows. In the middle ground, the land begins to ascend to the base of the mountain. Notice, visually, how the highest part of the rise on the left doesn’t go much above the highest part of the copse of trees on the far right. The line created by these two points is also the horizontal middle of the painting. Below this line is bucolic. Above it, the forms are sharp, sudden, and solid, and they shoot out of the green landscape in an almost perpendicular angle. The mountain stretches from left to right, across the upper half of the painting, almost like a wall. Unlike the mass of individual images—trees, rocks, meadows, cows—that make up the bottom half, the mountain is one solid form and shade. This massive whole dominates the painting despite the dullness of its colors. Then, with its poofy clouds just floating by, the sky calms the painting down again.

After my eye is drawn up the mountain through its strong verticals, I am brought back down by the meandering glacier on the center left. The line continues along the base of the mountain across the painting, hidden by the center group of trees. It reemerges to the right of the trees and turns again to follow the front edge of the painting, through the group of cows and off the left edge. This wandering line is not completely static like the lazy hills, nor is it dynamic like the upward thrust of the mountain. It is somewhere in the middle—a leisurely stroll through the landscape.

The herd of cows and shepherd Becker inserted in the picture establishes the scale and proportion of the imagery. Usually large animals, the cattle are tiny in this painting. Their brownish-red coats are almost lost in the other earth-tones of the work. They mix in with the brownish brush at the very front edge of the painting. The human is even more hidden. I didn’t even see him until I started writing the last paragraph. These tiny figures are lost in this huge scene. Their scale enhances the height of the trees next to them, which are themselves puny next to the mountain. The atmospheric haze, that causes the colors of the landscape to fade rapidly, implies vast distances between the foreground and background, too. The mountain is huge, and the viewer is dwarfed by it.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 First??

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 08:30 AM (mZUr4)

3 Nice.

Where's the deer stand?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Shoulda known. Sponged again.

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 08:30 AM (mZUr4)

5 Bob Ross school of landscaping?

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2021 08:31 AM (AwYPR)

6 I would now like some Lemon Meringue Pie!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 05, 2021 08:31 AM (w9Wax)

7 It's a big world out there!
Great picture, thanks for some beauty!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 05, 2021 08:32 AM (hOUT3)

8 I've seen bigger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 08:32 AM (LvTSG)

9 Somewhere out there, in the vast expanse of that immense landscape, there is some dweeb painting a nekkid lardass on an ottoman.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 05, 2021 08:32 AM (o2MD2)

10 It looks like the artist got confused with the snow covered mountains and clouds. The mountains look to flow in a weird way.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

11 The Jungfrau
August Becker

You know who else spoke German?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:32 AM (OCTRt)

12 I'm a big fan of mountains.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 08:32 AM (9etX0)

13 This place doesn't really exist does it?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 05, 2021 08:32 AM (1EzGC)

14 Jungfrau is a funny name for a mountain.

Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2021 08:33 AM (88xKn)

15 I've seen bigger.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Obligatory: That's what she said!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:33 AM (OCTRt)

16 You know who else spoke German?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:32 AM (OCTRt)

Lili Von Shtupp?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 08:33 AM (9etX0)

17 I'd rather be there with the cows. Beautiful painting.

Posted by: Ziba at May 05, 2021 08:33 AM (S1hrL)

18 I'm a big fan of mountains.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Pairs. Side by side.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:33 AM (OCTRt)

19 This isn't a real picture. If it were, all those glaciers would be melted.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 05, 2021 08:33 AM (VVEnO)

20 I've seen bigger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 08:32 AM (LvTSG)

Them's fighting words!

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 08:34 AM (mZUr4)

21 You've got to zoom in pretty good to see the cows and the herder.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

22
I once met a Frau who had nice, big jungs.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2021 08:34 AM (dWwl8)

23 Because of Climate Change, that glacier has disappeared.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 05, 2021 08:34 AM (2goRJ)

24 It's no Eiger mountain. Would hang, though.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at May 05, 2021 08:34 AM (4I/2K)

25 20 I've seen bigger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 08:32 AM (LvTSG)

Them's fighting words!
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 08:34 AM (mZUr4)

==========

*cracks knuckles and neck*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 08:35 AM (LvTSG)

26 If you go to the top of that mountain, then make your way around the left side, you will find a cave.

In that cave, sits Anthony Fauci, demanding that you put a mask on.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 08:35 AM (9etX0)

27 Hey, I've been there! Or close to it. Would hang.

Posted by: sinalco at May 05, 2021 08:35 AM (yODqO)

28
Pairs. Side by side.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:33 AM (OCTRt)

My dad, the first time he'd been to Twin Peaks, explaining to me afterwards.......

"Twin Peaks...."

*motions with both hands cupped out in front of his chest*

"Get it?!?"

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

29 Needs more happy little trees in the foreground.

Posted by: Bob Ross at May 05, 2021 08:35 AM (H5knJ)

30 That's GLASS-YER, folks.

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2021 08:36 AM (AwYPR)

31 I like it. Very relaxing. Would hang.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2021 08:36 AM (m+jkK)

32 The sniper is on the other side of the mountain.

Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2021 08:36 AM (88xKn)

33 Nice scene. Excellent technique...

Would not hang. Bo-o-o-r-r-r-ing.

Should be hanging behind the front desk of a really classy hotel.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2021 08:36 AM (dWwl8)

34 LOts of happy little trees

what's the distinction between a jungfrau and a fraulein?

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 08:36 AM (iTXRQ)

35 Jungfrau is a funny name for a mountain.
Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2021 08:33 AM (88xKn)

German/Asian fusion.

Germasian.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

36 Reminds me of some areas near Colorado Springs looking west toward the Rockies.

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 08:37 AM (mZUr4)

37 I missed the mountain lion in the lower left about to get himself a hamburger.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 08:37 AM (9etX0)

38 what's the distinction between a jungfrau and a fraulein?

You go to the klink for touching the jungfraus.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 05, 2021 08:37 AM (H5knJ)

39 Where's the lonely goatherd?

Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo!

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at May 05, 2021 08:37 AM (4I/2K)

40 I don't care for this. The mountain looks wrong. It's not the beautiful cone shaped volcanoes we have here. But it isn't just that. The shadows look off.

I don't like it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 05, 2021 08:38 AM (U2p+3)

41 Reminds me of some areas near Colorado Springs looking west toward the Rockies.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 08:37 AM (mZUr4)

We camped not far from Pikes Peak a couple summers ago.

I won't disagree with you.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

42 what's the distinction between a jungfrau and a fraulein?
Posted by: DB- just DB

$20 - same as in town.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 05, 2021 08:38 AM (Rvt88)

43 The hills are alive with the sound of (pew pew)

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 08:39 AM (yrol0)

44 Jungfrau is a funny name for a mountain.
Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2021 08:33 AM

I know, right?

Posted by: The Grand Tetons at May 05, 2021 08:39 AM (m+jkK)

45 Would hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 05, 2021 08:39 AM (xW72t)

46 what's the distinction between a jungfrau and a fraulein?
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 08:36 AM (iTXRQ)

A hymen.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 08:39 AM (yrol0)

47 We camped not far from Pikes Peak a couple summers ago.

I won't disagree with you.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

Glad to hear that -- I get enough disagreement out of TJM!

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 08:40 AM (mZUr4)

48 The hills are alive with the sound if sni

Posted by: andycanuck at May 05, 2021 08:40 AM (UHVv4)

49 46 what's the distinction between a jungfrau and a fraulein?
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 08:36 AM (iTXRQ)

A hymen.
--------------Snort.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 08:40 AM (/MaDp)

50
Glad to hear that -- I get enough disagreement out of TJM!
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 08:40 AM (mZUr4)

He drinks piss and vinegar for breakfast, so......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

51 That glacier used to come all the way to the foreground of the painting but gallery warming has caused it to retreat.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 05, 2021 08:40 AM (0UNjH)

52 One time a long time ago,
On a mountain in Switzerland,
Yo lo lo lo,
There lived a fair young maiden,
Lovely but lonely,
Oh oh oh oh

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 05, 2021 08:40 AM (vuisn)

53 48 see 43 ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 08:40 AM (yrol0)

54 36 Reminds me of some areas near Colorado Springs looking west toward the Rockies.
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 08:37 AM (mZUr4)

I thought this was a Bierstadt when I first saw it. Wasn't surprised to learn he was influenced by this German style.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 08:40 AM (OyyDO)

55 My HS German is failing me

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 08:41 AM (iTXRQ)

56 THX KRIS

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 08:41 AM (yrol0)

57 I can even see the abandoned oxygen tanks and frozen mountaineers that didn't make the summit. If you look closely you can see the sherpas gathered counting the money of stupid frozen mountaineers that paid them to help carry gear to a basecamp on the glacier. How do you say stupid white people in Nepalese?

Posted by: JROD at May 05, 2021 08:41 AM (0jZnq)

58 I really thought we weren't saying 'dwarf' any more.

I think 'little person' is the appropriate noun now.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 08:42 AM (9etX0)

59 The Pacific NW volcanoes are beautiful until they decide to throw a mile thick river of 1000 degree ash at you.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 05, 2021 08:42 AM (0UNjH)

60 55 My HS German is failing me
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 08:41 AM (iTXRQ)

========

Demand your money back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 08:42 AM (LvTSG)

61
RICCOLA

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 08:42 AM (yrol0)

62 My HS German is failing me

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 08:41 AM (iTXRQ)

How's your Austrian?....Swiss?

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2021 08:43 AM (AwYPR)

63 Seeing the Swiss Alps is on my bucket list so this work really speaks to me.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 08:43 AM (OyyDO)

64 The Jungfrau (transl. "maiden, virgin"), at 4,158 meters (13,642 ft) is one of the main summits of the Bernese Alps,

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 08:43 AM (iTXRQ)

65 The sniper is on the other side of the mountain.
Posted by: dantesed

Ahhh. The Coriolis Effect.

I didn't account for that and only took his arm off.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:44 AM (OCTRt)

66 How do you say stupid white people in Nepalese?

Posted by: JROD at May 05, 2021 08:41 AM (0jZnq)

Biden.

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2021 08:44 AM (AwYPR)

67 ....Swiss?
Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2021 08:43 AM (AwYPR)

Cheesy.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2021 08:44 AM (dWwl8)

68 Looks fake to me.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 05, 2021 08:44 AM (JUOKG)

69 I really thought we weren't saying 'dwarf' any more.

I think 'little person' is the appropriate noun now.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

F'n midgets.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:45 AM (OCTRt)

70 Nice scene. Excellent technique...

Would not hang. Bo-o-o-r-r-r-ing.

Should be hanging behind the front desk of a really classy hotel.

Yeah, this painting's style is right in my wheelhouse, but for some reason, I just don't care for it much. I can't say why. It does look vaguely like motel art, but better.

Posted by: pep at May 05, 2021 08:45 AM (v16oJ)

71 14 Jungfrau is a funny name for a mountain.
Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2021 08:33 AM (88xKn)

It's named for the Virgin Mary.

Posted by: Fox2!! at May 05, 2021 08:45 AM (E67Aw)

72 The far mountain is in the foreground and the near field the background. An inversion of sorts.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2021 08:45 AM (DoV/l)

73 I like this. Really good composition and colors.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 05, 2021 08:45 AM (E+OcO)

74 57 I can even see the abandoned oxygen tanks and frozen mountaineers that didn't make the summit. If you look closely you can see the sherpas gathered counting the money of stupid frozen mountaineers that paid them to help carry gear to a basecamp on the glacier. How do you say stupid white people in Nepalese?
Posted by: JROD at May 05, 2021 08:41 AM (0jZnq)

The Von Trapps.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 08:45 AM (yrol0)

75 How do you say stupid white people in Nepalese?

Posted by: JROD

Mountain climber.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:46 AM (OCTRt)

76 64 The Jungfrau (transl. "maiden, virgin"), at 4,158 meters (13,642 ft) is one of the main summits of the Bernese Alps,
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 08:43 AM (iTXRQ)

What a night! I "skied" all over that virgin.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2021 08:46 AM (dWwl8)

77 F'n midgets.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:45 AM (OCTRt)

ha!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 08:46 AM (yrol0)

78 Thanks, Kris!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 05, 2021 08:47 AM (2SdPm)

79 Oops, it is an actual mountain in Switzerland. Okay, I just change "sherpas" to "guides" in my previous comment and how do you say stupid white people in Swiss?

Posted by: JROD at May 05, 2021 08:47 AM (0jZnq)

80 Should be hanging behind the front desk of a really classy hotel.

Super 8.

After being bought from the Starving Artists Art Sale held in the dining room that morning.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:47 AM (OCTRt)

81 Every last GOP senator and house rep can go eat a dump truck load of human feces - Ron Johnson, Jim Jordan, McCarthy, Turtle, Lindsey Boy, all of them. Wait, Jordan said something cool today, oh ok, never mind, all is well. GOP rocks!

Posted by: Cringe Biscuit at May 05, 2021 08:47 AM (JFOvj)

82 This is fine but I can't sanction paintings of the Eiger.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 05, 2021 08:47 AM (UHVv4)

83 How do you say stupid white people in Nepalese?

Posted by: JROD

Mountain climber.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:46 AM (OCTRt)
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Heh.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 05, 2021 08:47 AM (2SdPm)

84 I really thought we weren't saying 'dwarf' any more.

I think 'little person' is the appropriate noun now.

Posted by: AlaBAMA

Half-man is also acceptable

Posted by: Tyrion Lannister at May 05, 2021 08:47 AM (mZUr4)

85 Hey! Who's putting their Kools out on my mountain? This is my home!

Posted by: Billy Ray Yeti at May 05, 2021 08:48 AM (4I/2K)

86 "For every dollar the contestant is away from the actual prices, a mountain climber takes one step up a mountain..."

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 05, 2021 08:48 AM (vuisn)

87 79 Oops, it is an actual mountain in Switzerland. Okay, I just change "sherpas" to "guides" in my previous comment and how do you say stupid white people in Swiss?
Posted by: JROD at May 05, 2021 08:47 AM (0jZnq)

The French.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 08:48 AM (yrol0)

88 I don't care for this. The mountain looks wrong. It's not the beautiful cone shaped volcanoes we have here. But it isn't just that. The shadows look off.

I don't like it.
Posted by: nurse ratched

And.....no woodpeckers !

Posted by: JT at May 05, 2021 08:49 AM (arJlL)

89 Half-man is also acceptable
Posted by: Tyrion Lannister

Ahhhh. Caitlyn Jenner.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:49 AM (OCTRt)

90 Oddly enough, I finished up Band of Brothers last night, as they climbed up to the Eagles Nest in Berchtesgaden.

I imagine the views are similar.

It's a restaurant today.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 08:49 AM (9etX0)

91 Nehmen Sie meine Jungfrau...

...bitte

Posted by: Heinz Jungmann at May 05, 2021 08:49 AM (Fc5rx)

92 Half-man is also acceptable
Homunculus is right out.

Posted by: pep at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (v16oJ)

93 It's a restaurant today.
---------------
So they pound the schnitzel with their meat hammers?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (/MaDp)

94 But, where's the cozy wee cabin with the smoke wafting gently out the chimney, and the warm lights shining out from the frosted-over windows? Don't know how they're gonna sell this one to the mall-walkers without the smoke and the glowy lights!

And a Franklin Mint deal is right out!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (QzJWU)

95 It's a restaurant today.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 08:49 AM (9etX0)

The Wienerschnitzel, Wienerschnitzel, and Wienerschnitzel does not have much Wienerschnitzel in it.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (yrol0)

96 I would hang this one in my home. I love the shadowed cliff-face and the bright clouds extending from ridge-to-ridge at middle-right. At a casual glance this creates the appearance of an improbable isolated spire of rock in that area.

Posted by: Gref at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (AMIL/)

97 A vegan restaurant, AlaBAMA??

Posted by: andycanuck at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (UHVv4)

98 You climb the mountain to gain enlightenment from a sage in the cave at the summit, and as you crest the peak and arrive upon your destination, there sits Dr. Fauci.

>Do you jump off of the mountain?
>Do you throw Fauci off of the mountain?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (2goRJ)

99 For me, the mountain is lost in the sky and clouds, the foreground is just grass. The only focal point in the picture is the grouping of trees, and that is kind of boring.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (0UNjH)

100 ....Swiss?
Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2021 08:43 AM (AwYPR)

Cheesy.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2021 08:44 AM (dWwl

Fondue

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (4I/2K)

101 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (LvTSG)

102 93 It's a restaurant today.
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So they pound the schnitzel with their meat hammers?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (/MaDp)

No, but they do have nachos.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 05, 2021 08:51 AM (vuisn)

103 Accompanying music for the subject...

https://youtu.be/VbP4qf8PjfI

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 08:51 AM (mZUr4)

104 So they pound the schnitzel with their meat hammers?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (/MaDp)

The masturbating thread will be posted later tonight.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 08:51 AM (yrol0)

105 Hit me with your schnitzel maul!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 05, 2021 08:51 AM (UHVv4)

106 101 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (LvTSG)

braggin or complainin?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 08:51 AM (yrol0)

107 Oddly enough, I finished up Band of Brothers last night, as they climbed up to the Eagles Nest in Berchtesgaden.

I imagine the views are similar.

It's a restaurant today.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Try the matzo ball soup and Kugel - They're to die for!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 05, 2021 08:51 AM (Rvt88)

108 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare

Nice !

Congrats to you both !

Posted by: JT at May 05, 2021 08:52 AM (arJlL)

109 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned To Love the Covid

Whoopi Goldberg: I'm not going outside until I know everybody outside has had the shot...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 05, 2021 08:52 AM (VVEnO)

110 97 A vegan restaurant, AlaBAMA??
Posted by: andycanuck at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (UHVv4)

I sure hope not. If I hiked my ass up that mountain to get a meal and the waitress brought me soy meat, I'd pull out my Luger.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 08:52 AM (9etX0)

111 I've been to the summit of a few 14'ers including elbert. Some of the lower ones are too technically difficult because if I need ropes, picks, wedges and carabiners I'm out. But many of our 14ers are just a long strenuous hike. Two days up, one day down. Or more if you like. Just remember to base at night lower than you trecked that day. Beautiful trips.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2021 08:52 AM (DoV/l)

112 [ ]Do you jump off of the mountain?

[x]Do you throw Fauci off of the mountain?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (2goRJ)

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2021 08:52 AM (AwYPR)

113 /sock

Posted by: Muldoon at May 05, 2021 08:53 AM (Fc5rx)

114 Toblerone did it better.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 05, 2021 08:53 AM (0UNjH)

115 Whoopi Goldberg: I'm not going outside until I know everybody outside has had the shot...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I accept your terms!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 05, 2021 08:53 AM (Rvt88)

116 The James Madison. Don't do a "renewal" of your vows.

That's too close to being denied parole and having to serve your full sentence!

/snrk!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 05, 2021 08:53 AM (QzJWU)

117 Whoopi Goldberg: I'm not going outside until I know everybody outside has had the shot...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 05, 2021 08:52 AM (VVEnO)

I'm sensing an opportunity here...

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 08:54 AM (9etX0)

118 Personally, I would be suspect of any "Sage" who spends all his time freezing his balls off in some mountain cave. Doesn't speak well of his sageiness. More like Ted Kaczynski.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 05, 2021 08:54 AM (o2MD2)

119 Toblerone did it better.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

RICCOLA!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:54 AM (OCTRt)

120 Jeopardy maligns beloved Mrs. Thatcher.

https://tinyurl.com/5x8uu88t

PS and gets the clue wrong

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 08:54 AM (yrol0)

121 Whoopi Goldberg: I'm not going outside until I know everybody outside has had the shot...
I'm not going outside until I know everybody outside has been shot.

Posted by: Joy Behar at May 05, 2021 08:55 AM (v16oJ)

122 @EmeraldRobinson

Facebook will continue the ban of President Trump on its app.

Their ruling from on high has come down....

Posted by: Tami at May 05, 2021 08:55 AM (cF8AT)

123 I just have that madonna song going through my head:

"Like a jungfrau
Touched for the very first time"

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2021 08:55 AM (U1eOr)

124 Action figures! Get your action figures here!

https://bit.ly/33f2gdV

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 05, 2021 08:55 AM (VVEnO)

125 "New guidelines say there's no evidence that blanket bans on specific foods reduce allergic reactions in schools." (I think for Toronto or Ontario schools.)

Posted by: andycanuck at May 05, 2021 08:55 AM (UHVv4)

126 The Jungfrau is teh hawt!

Posted by: Pike's Peak at May 05, 2021 08:56 AM (PiwSw)

127 On a mountain named for a young miss
A mountaineer climbs to find his bliss
With all of his soul
The summit's his goal
Where he'll stand on high taking a piss

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2021 08:56 AM (dWwl8)

128 Nice painting. I have always liked Albert Bierstadt. Wonderful landscape painter.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 08:56 AM (0KKyI)

129 It's no Georgia O'Keeffe

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 05, 2021 08:56 AM (U2p+3)

130
Billie Hayes who played Witchiepoo on H.R. Pufnstuf has died at the age of 96

They are mourning at CNN Atlanta

(formerly The World of Sid and Marty Krofft)

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2021 08:57 AM (RHGPo)

131 I like the 14ers with roads to the top

Pike's Peak and Mt Evans
though the last time I went up Pike's Peak, I had to chain-smoke Marlboros to give my lungs something to hold on to
don't think I'll go back

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 08:57 AM (iTXRQ)

132 The mountain is huge, and the viewer is dwarfed by it.

Amazingly, something quite similar has been observed about one of my paintings.

Posted by: zombie Lucien Freud at May 05, 2021 08:57 AM (DMUuz)

133 Witchiepoo...
had not thought of that/ her in a long time.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 08:58 AM (0KKyI)

134 Billie Hayes who played Witchiepoo on H.R. Pufnstuf has died at the age of 96
They are mourning at CNN Atlanta
(formerly The World of Sid and Marty Krofft)
Posted by: SMOD

Wow. 96.
Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:58 AM (OCTRt)

135 Look at a portion of FB's ruling...what nerve.

https://tinyurl.com/yh363lga

Posted by: Tami at May 05, 2021 08:58 AM (cF8AT)

136 There's too hot for TV and then there's too wrong for Tapper.

The anchor of CNN's two-hour mid-afternoon show "The Lead" suggested to his colleagues Tuesday that he would bar Republicans from appearing if they were "not willing to stick to standards and facts."

"How am I supposed to believe anything they say?" Tapper asked "New Day" hosts John Berman and Brianna Keilar. "If they're willing to lie about Joe Biden wanting to steal your hamburgers and QAnon and the Big Lie about the election, what are they not willing to lie about? Why should I put any of them on TV?"

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2021 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

137 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare

Nice! Congratulations!

That's what?...The Cabbage Anniversary?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2021 08:58 AM (dWwl8)

138 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

We're dying over here. What'd she say?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:59 AM (OCTRt)

139 137 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare

Nice! Congratulations!

That's what?...The Cabbage Anniversary?
Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2021 08:58 AM (dWwl

Could not do that today. The Times, They Are A'Chanin'.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 08:59 AM (0KKyI)

140 You don't say...

'On Tuesday, after Gary O'Connor, the chair of the Lamar County Democratic Party in Texas, had offered his resignation in the wake of blowback for calling Senator Tim Scott an 'oreo' on Facebook, the Lamar County Democratic Party declared it would not accept his resignation.'

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (9etX0)

141 You know who else spoke ~~German~~ Austrian?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:32 AM

FIFY.

Posted by: B. Hussain Obama at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (DMUuz)

142 Me and a good friend took mountaineering lessons at a school called Alpine Skills international. The building overlooks Donner Lake. He actually did something with it and got hired on with Rainier Mountaineering. To climb a lot of the tallest peaks in N. America and the globe you need to have record (usually permits) to apply to climb the worlds tallest peaks. For example you need to climb and successfully summit Rainier to apply for a permit to climb Denali in Alaska. This goes for the tallest peaks in S.America and Nepal, etc. He has summited all the tallest mountains on the globe except Everest but has been to one of the camps near the summit.

Posted by: JROD at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (0jZnq)

143 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (LvTSG)

* tries to think of something nice to say that won't make TJM want to fight me *

* ponders *

* accepts fate -- realizes any comment will return "Them's fighting words!" from TJM *

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (mZUr4)

144 138 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

We're dying over here. What'd she say?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:59 AM (OCTRt)

==========

"Who are you?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (LvTSG)

145 Witchiepoo scared the shit out of me when I was a little girl.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (U2p+3)

146 #135 News chyron here saying the ban was for fomenting violence on Jan. 6th and its deadly violence. ['Fomenting' is my description and not AP's or Farcebook's phrasing.]

Posted by: andycanuck at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (UHVv4)

147 10 years is tin!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (yrol0)

148 Come climb the mountains!

Posted by: Kitten Natividad at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (4I/2K)

149 140 You don't say...

'On Tuesday, after Gary O'Connor, the chair of the Lamar County Democratic Party in Texas, had offered his resignation in the wake of blowback for calling Senator Tim Scott an 'oreo' on Facebook, the Lamar County Democratic Party declared it would not accept his resignation.'
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (9etX0)

Why would they? Racism is chic now...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:01 AM (0KKyI)

150 >10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.

Hey, I popped the question in front of the National Christmas Tree in DC

we lasted 12 years

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 09:01 AM (iTXRQ)

151 * tries to think of something nice to say that won't make TJM want to fight me *

* ponders *

* accepts fate -- realizes any comment will return "Them's fighting words!" from TJM *
Posted by: Doof

Prometheus.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:01 AM (OCTRt)

152 143 * tries to think of something nice to say that won't make TJM want to fight me *

* ponders *

* accepts fate -- realizes any comment will return "Them's fighting words!" from TJM *
Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (mZUr4)

=========

Groovy...

*pumps shotgun with chainsaw hand*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 09:01 AM (LvTSG)

153 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare

Did she sign the prenup?

Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2021 09:01 AM (88xKn)

154 It's no Georgia O'Keeffe
Posted by: nurse ratched

And she's no Rosie O'Grady !

Posted by: JT at May 05, 2021 09:01 AM (arJlL)

155 128 Nice painting. I have always liked Albert Bierstadt. Wonderful landscape painter.
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 08:56 AM (0KKyI)

Fun Fact: While many American landscapists, were accepted to the same institute this artist came from, Albert Bierstadt was rejected. Yet this work reminded me of him the most.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 09:01 AM (OyyDO)

156 Mt. Pilatus is nice. There's a tiny chapel near the peak -- "die Klimsenkapelle" -- very scenic.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 05, 2021 09:01 AM (vuisn)

157 Trump statement (not about the FB ruling)...

https://tinyurl.com/ye8ys2nw

Posted by: Tami at May 05, 2021 09:01 AM (cF8AT)

158 In a society where people like Jake Tapper have authority over anything, nothing is believable.

Posted by: Only Context at May 05, 2021 09:01 AM (xEIoY)

159 I climbed one of Whitney's lil bro's in CA. Then got word that a park ranger that the exit was gonna close down for two days to work on a boulder. Made it down off the mountain in hours. Running in a pack. Taking 7 foot strides down steep switchbacks. Gravity is a wild drug.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 05, 2021 09:02 AM (DoV/l)

160 "Who are you?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Damn. Same thing my mom said when I called home from summer camp.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:02 AM (OCTRt)

161 >the Lamar County Democratic Party declared it would not accept his resignation.'

of course not

'it's not wrong when we do it'

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 09:02 AM (iTXRQ)

162 144 138 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

We're dying over here. What'd she say?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:59 AM (OCTRt)

==========

"Who are you?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (LvTSG)
Who, who, who, who..
We really wanna know...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:02 AM (0KKyI)

163 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It brought tears to TJM's eyes.

I'm pretty sure it was the pepper spray.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 05, 2021 09:03 AM (Rvt88)

164 Alaska is a state of Denali??

Posted by: andycanuck at May 05, 2021 09:03 AM (UHVv4)

165 'On Tuesday, after Gary O'Connor, the chair of the Lamar County Democratic Party in Texas, had offered his resignation in the wake of blowback for calling Senator Tim Scott an 'oreo' on Facebook, the Lamar County Democratic Party declared it would not accept his resignation.'

Good. The Lamar County Republican Party should make them wear it like an albatross. But will they or will they default to "let bygones be bygones?" I know which way I'm betting.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 05, 2021 09:03 AM (qc+VF)

166 I looked at that Biden/Carter pic again this morning. It might be the most ridiculous political photograph I've ever seen. (Justin Trudeau dressed like a Bollywood extra comes close.)
The thing that puzzles is why someone as vain and thinskinned as Joe Biden approve release of a photograph that makes everyone involved look absurd.

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at May 05, 2021 09:03 AM (cSyAR)

167 >>>That's what?...The Cabbage Anniversary?<<<
>You better have some cabbage in the bank account or you're not going to make it to twenty.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 05, 2021 09:03 AM (2goRJ)

168 10 years is tin!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (yrol0)

Really? No wonder the wife didn't like the cardboard.

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2021 09:03 AM (AwYPR)

169 There are peaks in the Himalayas far more difficult and dangerous than Everest.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 05, 2021 09:04 AM (o2MD2)

170 The only violence on Jan 6th was a lefty shit stain who shot and killed a young woman for nothing.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 09:04 AM (9etX0)

171 10 years is tin!

Posted by: rhennigantx

Really? No wonder the wife didn't like the cardboard.
Posted by: BignJames

Tin membership card for the HQ. Cool.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:05 AM (OCTRt)

172 This Facebook theater about banning President Trump is just that. Play acting. They had no intention of reinstating his account. Announcing some big committee meeting last week was to drive news media and possibly their stock.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2021 09:05 AM (MQFnu)

173 What's a "prenup"??

Posted by: bill gates at May 05, 2021 09:05 AM (UHVv4)

174 155 128 Nice painting. I have always liked Albert Bierstadt. Wonderful landscape painter.
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 08:56 AM (0KKyI)

Fun Fact: While many American landscapists, were accepted to the same institute this artist came from, Albert Bierstadt was rejected. Yet this work reminded me of him the most.
Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 09:01 AM (OyyDO)

Interesting... wonder why?.. On a side note, Kris, have you ever read any Larry McMurtry? In the Berrybender Family Saga, Bierstadt and other artists appear in the books, trailing along with the family as they explore the old west.... really good books...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:06 AM (0KKyI)

175 134 Billie Hayes who played Witchiepoo on H.R. Pufnstuf has died at the age of 96
They are mourning at CNN Atlanta
(formerly The World of Sid and Marty Krofft)
Posted by: SMOD

I moved to ATL about 6 months after they closed that place. You could still see the giant pinball machine at the top of that huge escalator in the Omni.
Another trivial fact: Burt Reynolds had a bar up near that level. Good combination in my opinion.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 05, 2021 09:06 AM (vuisn)

176 O.M.G!

I'm pretty sure use of this would be assault...

https://tinyurl.com/ye6qvur6

Posted by: Tami at May 05, 2021 09:06 AM (cF8AT)

177 So, how long before the FDA approves, sorry, requires, in utero immunizations for the CCP lung flu? You know it's coming.

Posted by: Vyx at May 05, 2021 09:06 AM (uxqZF)

178 Lamar County, Texas has about 50,000 people and votes 75-25 Republican. This guy is a nonentity who is getting way more than his 15 minutes of fame.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 05, 2021 09:06 AM (BMmaB)

179 a bit of one book:

In their kiss, he tasted passion, forgotten chemistry, and her alarm at the loss of control. He felt her tremble as he kissed her hand in the moonlight, he said.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 09:06 AM (yrol0)

180 If you're still on Facebook, you're either an idiot or working for the other side.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 09:06 AM (9etX0)

181 "Jungfrau" Mountain, eh? I like it. Plenty of cracks to violate, and the bumps are covered in snow, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at May 05, 2021 09:07 AM (T4U4P)

182 169 There are peaks in the Himalayas far more difficult and dangerous than Everest.

Really? I thought the dangerous part was coming back down.

Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2021 09:07 AM (88xKn)

183 Sid and Marty Krofft lived their lives stoned.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 05, 2021 09:07 AM (flINI)

184 Jungfrau.... "Young Wife", yes??

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:07 AM (0KKyI)

185 165 'On Tuesday, after Gary O'Connor, the chair of the Lamar County Democratic Party in Texas, had offered his resignation in the wake of blowback for calling Senator Tim Scott an 'oreo' on Facebook, the Lamar County Democratic Party declared it would not accept his resignation.'

I don't understand how Democrats can feel black are obligated to agree with them. It's almost like they're slave owners.

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at May 05, 2021 09:08 AM (cSyAR)

186 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM (LvTSG)

Well, Happy Anniversary you youngins!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

187 We're holding a kegger on the hill on the left.

You can just make us out.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 05, 2021 09:08 AM (xxG/v)

188 It's no Bob Ross.

Posted by: red speck at May 05, 2021 09:08 AM (gS3OW)

189 Morin' all.. So I see fakebook has decided to permanently ban Trump... This is my shocked face...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2021 09:09 AM (Zmnko)

190 Interesting... wonder why?.. On a side note, Kris, have you ever read any Larry McMurtry? In the Berrybender Family Saga, Bierstadt and other artists appear in the books, trailing along with the family as they explore the old west.... really good books...
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:06 AM (0KKyI)

I've never heard of those books. I'm reading Follet's "Eye of the Needle" right now.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 09:09 AM (OyyDO)

191 That painting shows the Glacier when it was a bit too long. It was the right length around 1900, or so I'm told by environmental experts.

Posted by: Brian at May 05, 2021 09:10 AM (eV752)

192 TJM, Happy Anniversary, from a random internet Cephalopod... taking here some place nice?

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:10 AM (0KKyI)

193 Jungfrau.... "Young Wife", yes??
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:07 AM (0KKyI)

Jungfrau means "virgin" in english.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at May 05, 2021 09:10 AM (uxUoN)

194 the Lamar County Democratic Party declared it would not accept his resignation.'

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (9etX0)
so they like having racists in their org? typical democrats

Posted by: kallisto at May 05, 2021 09:10 AM (DJFLF)

195 Cecil the seasick sea serpent >>HR Puffenstuff

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 09:10 AM (yrol0)

196 We're holding a kegger on the hill on the left.

You can just make us out.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 05, 2021 09:08 AM (xxG/v)

Intergalactic?

Posted by: Zed at May 05, 2021 09:10 AM (4I/2K)

197 Sid and Marty Krofft lived their lives stoned.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

Now you know how they came up with the shit they did.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:10 AM (OCTRt)

198 rickb223, am I a joke to you?

Posted by: Alien Covenant at May 05, 2021 09:11 AM (faP8w)

199 The Fbook decision. They're going to review it in 6 months. They're probably hemorrhaging users. Twitter is down. This is an effort to appear middle of the road, reasonable and have good coverage. Let's be honest: what is going to change in 6 months that would change the decision?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 05, 2021 09:12 AM (Ib1Cd)

200 192 TJM, Happy Anniversary, from a random internet Cephalopod... taking here some place nice?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:10 AM (0KKyI)

===========

Nah. It's just the anniversary of the proposal. Normal day round these parts.

I have no idea if we'll be able to do anything special for the wedding anniversary in December. I imagine her mother will come to babysit, but who knows?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

201 The bear went over the mountain, you know.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 05, 2021 09:12 AM (faP8w)

202 Greetings mountainous fappers. I take it this isn't the one featured in the Allman Bros album Eat a Peach because not enough peaks.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 05, 2021 09:12 AM (HaL55)

203 >>197 Sid and Marty Krofft lived their lives stoned.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

Supposedly, they never "partook."
I guess they were Naturally Stoned.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 05, 2021 09:12 AM (vuisn)

204 Thank you Kris, for doing these discussions. I enjoy reading them. It's like taking an art appreciation class - something I never had "time" for in college - reading your thoughts.

Posted by: Archer at May 05, 2021 09:13 AM (gmo/4)

205 Lovely art.

Could use a cabin though. Cabins are always nice.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 05, 2021 09:13 AM (mZOHK)

206 190 Interesting... wonder why?.. On a side note, Kris, have you ever read any Larry McMurtry? In the Berrybender Family Saga, Bierstadt and other artists appear in the books, trailing along with the family as they explore the old west.... really good books...
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:06 AM (0KKyI)

I've never heard of those books. I'm reading Follet's "Eye of the Needle" right now.
Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 09:09 AM (OyyDO)

Good book. Follet has done some excellent books... " Pillars of the Earth" is my favorite. If you want to try some McMurtry, most public libraries have a shelf full of his work.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:13 AM (0KKyI)

207 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

===

We're dying over here. What'd she say?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 08:59 AM

"I didn't think you had it in you."

;-)

Posted by: David at May 05, 2021 09:13 AM (DMUuz)

208
High School German Indeed!! - a limerick

In Deutschland, traum ist 'dream land'
Und wo findet jemand ein baum ist 'forest land'
Aber venn der Führer erklärt
Wir gehen jetzt vorwarts!
Lebensruam ist immer nur 'Po land'!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 05, 2021 09:13 AM (Fc5rx)

209 rickb223, am I a joke to you?
Posted by: Alien Covenant

Noooooooo

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:14 AM (OCTRt)

210 240 days to go.

Wish this year were over.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2021 09:14 AM (2JVJo)

211 The same pieces of shit that make damn near everything we buy:

The Chinese Commie Party, on Weibo (their twitter), posted two side by side photos with the caption 'China lighting a fire vs India lighting a fire'.

On the left was a Chinese rocket preparing for launch.

On the right was a picture of India officials cremating the bodies of people who died from COVID.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 09:14 AM (9etX0)

212 Kris,
That was a wonderful explanation of why and how this painting is so effective. Thanks. The only thing I can add is the sense of seasonal continuity implied in the scene. The wooded, lush landscape of summer pasture is fed by the waters of the massif in the background as it is each year. There is a sort of kinship between the tiny figures and the magnificant, dwarfing mountains. A bit humbling, perhaps, but still a connection.

I can see the influence this approach had on the American artists later in the century.

Posted by: JTB at May 05, 2021 09:14 AM (7EjX1)

213 Netanyahu misses midnight deadline to form a coalition government. I don't know if that means the Opposition Leader gets a chance now to form his own coalition government. (That's how it works in Brit-style legislatures.)

Posted by: andycanuck at May 05, 2021 09:15 AM (UHVv4)

214 Posted by: Muldoon at May 05, 2021 09:13 AM (Fc5rx)

Thats a groaner in any language.

*groan*

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at May 05, 2021 09:15 AM (uxUoN)

215 Nah. It's just the anniversary of the proposal. Normal day round these parts.

I have no idea if we'll be able to do anything special for the wedding anniversary in December. I imagine her mother will come to babysit, but who knows?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

Same here. Our 20th is in September. We've been planning it for years, then the Plague hit and we're scrambling for ideas.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 09:15 AM (OyyDO)

216 On the left was a Chinese rocket preparing for launch.

On the right was a picture of India officials cremating the bodies of people who died from COVID.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 09:14 AM (9etX0)

I remember a year or so ago, you could see the smoke from the Chinese crematoriums from SPACE.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

217 Ich sehe keine Paviane.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 05, 2021 09:15 AM (vuisn)

218 Ah, unforgiving Caradhras.

Posted by: FrodoB-
cause I am at May 05, 2021 09:16 AM (yFOIQ)

219 Landscape painting is my favorite genre.... well, that and the Dogs Playing Poker Genre...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:16 AM (0KKyI)

220 Pike's Peak and Mt Evans
though the last time I went up Pike's Peak, I had to chain-smoke Marlboros to give my lungs something to hold on to
don't think I'll go back
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 08:57 AM

That was a great hike mumblemumble years ago. The view was spectacular.

Posted by: RedMMindBlueState at May 05, 2021 09:16 AM (m+jkK)

221 Pillars of the Earth" is my favorite.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:13 AM (0KKyI)

I've almost finished that...he needs a better editor...he could've trimmed that book by half.

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2021 09:16 AM (AwYPR)

222 Seeing the Swiss Alps is on my bucket list so this work really speaks to me.
Posted by: Kris

You're gonna need a bigger bucket !

Posted by: JT at May 05, 2021 09:16 AM (arJlL)

223 210 240 days to go.

Wish this year were over.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2021 09:14 AM (2JVJo)

What an optimist! Thinking that next year will be better.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 05, 2021 09:16 AM (z5Vrg)

224 There are peaks in the Himalayas far more difficult and dangerous than Everest.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 05, 2021 09:04 AM (o2MD2)

Like K2?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:17 AM (y7DUB)

225 218 Ah, unforgiving Caradhras.
Posted by: FrodoB-
cause I am at May 05, 2021 09:16 AM (yFOIQ)

" This will be the death of the halflings... especially that Little Shit Pippin.."

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:17 AM (0KKyI)

226 207 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
----------------
James, Jefferson was a white man who owned slaves. Does your wife know this?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:17 AM (/MaDp)

227 the Lamar County Democratic Party declared it would not accept his resignation.'

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 09:00 AM (9etX0)

And were he a Republican, not only would the party have disavowed him, the airwaves would be full of assholes like Cheney and Romney bleating about Trump's "climate of hate" and how there is no place for people like this in the GOP.

I want to kill every damned Democrat, but for fuck's sake, at least the bastards stick together.

"I know, right?" - Sheriff Roy Moore.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2021 09:17 AM (2JVJo)

228 Beautiful painting and excellent commentary. Would hang.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 05, 2021 09:18 AM (jvt6t)

229 Denali IS IN Alaska and there are more dangerous peaks than Everest but the permits to climb them are cheaper. Everest isn't as difficult in a technical way as other summits what makes it more dangerous than others is the weather.

Posted by: JROD at May 05, 2021 09:18 AM (0jZnq)

230 Landscape painting is my favorite genre.... well, that and the Dogs Playing Poker Genre...
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:16 AM

It's time to expand your horizons.

Posted by: Black Velvet Elvii at May 05, 2021 09:18 AM (DMUuz)

231 221 Pillars of the Earth" is my favorite.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:13 AM (0KKyI)

I've almost finished that...he needs a better editor...he could've trimmed that book by half.
Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2021 09:16 AM (AwYPR)

Fat book, all right.... but he uses words so well!

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:18 AM (0KKyI)

232 So FB is extending the ban on PDT

Fuck them

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 05, 2021 09:18 AM (Qs27O)

233 O.M.G!

I'm pretty sure use of this would be ~~assault~~ battery...

https://tinyurl.com/ye6qvur6
Posted by: Tami at May 05, 2021 09:06 AM

Fixed for legal accuracy.

Posted by: RedMMindBlueState at May 05, 2021 09:19 AM (m+jkK)

234 The Chinese Commie Party, on Weibo (their twitter), posted two side by side photos with the caption 'China lighting a fire vs India lighting a fire'.

On the left was a Chinese rocket preparing for launch.

On the right was a picture of India officials cremating the bodies of people who died from COVID.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

YOU DON'T HAVE TO CREMATE THEM WHEN YOU WELD THEM INTO THEIR APARTMENTS YOU FUCKING CHINKS!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:19 AM (OCTRt)

235 I want to kill every damned Democrat, but for fuck's sake, at least the bastards stick together.

"I know, right?" - Sheriff Roy Moore.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2021 09:17 AM (2JVJo)

Honestly, it's their greatest strength. Our party would have kicked Biden to the curb day one when the stories broke about his sniffing people and forcing female SS agents to watch him swim naked.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 05, 2021 09:19 AM (9etX0)

236 Good book. Follet has done some excellent books... " Pillars of the Earth" is my favorite. If you want to try some McMurtry, most public libraries have a shelf full of his work.
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:13 AM (0KKyI)

I have 11 titles on post-its next to my computer. About half are Moron suggestions. Thanks, all!

You convinced me about Pillars of the Earth. I was turned off by the description, but I'll put it on the list now. His "Man from St. Petersburg" is there too.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 09:19 AM (OyyDO)

237 Story on the FB continuing ban on Trump at LI. The group making these decisions on what to ban include foreign nationals and an American who testified against Trump at one of the impeachment hearings.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2021 09:20 AM (MQFnu)

238 226 207 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

James, Jefferson was a white man who owned slaves. Does your wife know this?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:17 AM (/MaDp)
Both of them were probably hoping the other forgot about that bit.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 05, 2021 09:20 AM (mZOHK)

239 226 207 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
----------------
James, Jefferson was a white man who owned slaves. Does your wife know this?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:17 AM (/MaDp)

=========

She thinks I'm a fucking weirdo for planning on doing it there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

240 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.

****

Sproingggg!

Posted by: The Washington Monument at May 05, 2021 09:20 AM (Fc5rx)

241 Wish this year were over.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2021 09:14�

Heh

Posted by: 2022 at May 05, 2021 09:20 AM (+5yHl)

242 This judge is great!

@TheFirstonTV

Attorney attempts to race-bait to get his client off... and the judge is having NONE of it

https://tinyurl.com/ygbp48ok

Posted by: Tami at May 05, 2021 09:21 AM (cF8AT)

243 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 08:50 AM

Congrats to you both, TJM!

Posted by: RedMMindBlueState at May 05, 2021 09:21 AM (m+jkK)

244 237 Story on the FB continuing ban on Trump at LI. The group making these decisions on what to ban include foreign nationals and an American who testified against Trump at one of the impeachment hearings.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2021 09:20 AM (MQFnu)

My shocked face...

-_-

Posted by: Tami at May 05, 2021 09:21 AM (cF8AT)

245 What an optimist! Thinking that next year will be better.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 05, 2021 09:16 AM (z5Vrg)

No, I'm far from being an optimist. It's just that (all things being equal) I can retire on December 31 and the waiting is making me even more depressed than usual.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2021 09:22 AM (2JVJo)

246 236 Good book. Follet has done some excellent books... " Pillars of the Earth" is my favorite. If you want to try some McMurtry, most public libraries have a shelf full of his work.
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:13 AM (0KKyI)

I have 11 titles on post-its next to my computer. About half are Moron suggestions. Thanks, all!

You convinced me about Pillars of the Earth. I was turned off by the description, but I'll put it on the list now. His "Man from St. Petersburg" is there too.
Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 09:19 AM (OyyDO)

Since you opened the door to my pet obsession... books, NOT pornography, you Horde Reprobates out there!!!... I would recommend Martin Cruz Smith... he writes exremely well about fictional Soviet Union characters... makes it come alive...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:22 AM (0KKyI)

247 232 So FB is extending the ban on PDT

Fuck them

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 05, 2021 09:18 AM (Qs27O)
Good heavens whateverwillIdowithoutfacebookandprofessionalsports.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 05, 2021 09:22 AM (mZOHK)

248 Looks like a Bierstadt. I really like this, thanks, Kris.

Posted by: bluebell at May 05, 2021 09:22 AM (wyw4S)

249 Mrs Doof and I "celebrated" our 25th anniversary last April. Peak "lockdown" period. We ordered curbside carry-out. Woo-hoo. At least we were in the midst of binge-watching Ray Donavan at the time.

26th anniversary this year was a tad better. OK - not really. More carry-out and some movies.

I owe her a nice trip -- IF there is ever any kind of return to normalcy. Maybe for our 50th???

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 09:22 AM (mZUr4)

250 227. Mary Poppins your rhetoric is moving past the line here. Hope the mods take notice.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2021 09:23 AM (MQFnu)

251 Story on the FB continuing ban on Trump at LI. The group making these decisions on what to ban include foreign nationals and an American who testified against Trump at one of the impeachment hearings.
Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2021 09:20 AM (MQFnu)

And someone who compared PDT to Hitler

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 05, 2021 09:24 AM (Qs27O)

252 Since you opened the door to my pet obsession...
books, NOT pornography, you Horde Reprobates out there!!!... I would
recommend Martin Cruz Smith... he writes exremely well about fictional
Soviet Union characters... makes it come alive...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:22 AM (0KKyI)
But have you ~~looked into~~ researched Soviet pornography?

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 05, 2021 09:24 AM (mZOHK)

253 I have a FB conference later this month, then I am deleting my FB account

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 05, 2021 09:24 AM (Qs27O)

254 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Congrats to you both, TJM!
Posted by: RedMMindBlueState

Seriously TJM, congratulations!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:25 AM (OCTRt)

255 239 226 207 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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James, Jefferson was a white man who owned slaves. Does your wife know this?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:17 AM (/MaDp)

=========

She thinks I'm a fucking weirdo for planning on doing it there.
----------------
Your wife isn't black is she?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:25 AM (/MaDp)

256 Denali IS IN Alaska and there are more dangerous peaks than Everest but the permits to climb them are cheaper. Everest isn't as difficult in a technical way as other summits what makes it more dangerous than others is the weather.
Posted by: JROD at May 05, 2021 09:18 AM (0jZnq)

When I was at Denali (which base to summit is significantly higher than Everest, where the base is at a higher elevation) a couple summers ago I talked with someone who climbed it. He said it wasn't a difficult climb because you just follow the glacier most of the way. The only difficulty was sleeping in *really* cold temperatures.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:25 AM (y7DUB)

257 Fun Fact: While many American landscapists, were accepted to the same
institute this artist came from, Albert Bierstadt was rejected.
You know who else was rejected from art school?

Posted by: pep at May 05, 2021 09:26 AM (v16oJ)

258 252 Since you opened the door to my pet obsession...
books, NOT pornography, you Horde Reprobates out there!!!... I would
recommend Martin Cruz Smith... he writes exremely well about fictional
Soviet Union characters... makes it come alive...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:22 AM (0KKyI)
But have you looked into researched Soviet pornography?
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 05, 2021 09:24 AM (mZOHK)

Meh... all clothes on, in a corner of the Tractor Factory, on lunch break...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:26 AM (0KKyI)

259 Mary Poppins your rhetoric is moving past the line here. Hope the mods take notice.
Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2021 09:23 AM (MQFnu)

All right, I'll go. I have to go to work anyway.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 05, 2021 09:26 AM (2JVJo)

260 Jungfrau is breathtaking when you see it. This painting does it justice...no mean feat.

Posted by: creeper at May 05, 2021 09:26 AM (XxJt1)

261 You know who else was rejected from art school?
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Has anyone written a book about Hitler at Art School?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM (/MaDp)

262 Since you opened the door to my pet obsession...
books, NOT pornography, you Horde Reprobates out there!!!...

Posted by: kraken

Dear Penthouse Forum.....

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM (OCTRt)

263 I need to be able to see something like this in real life. I'm sick of endless yellow-green flatness.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM (/XOcP)

264 How is Tim Scott an "oreo," anyway? One is a delicious cookie, and the other is an asshole. Maybe I'm missing something. *shrugs*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM (Uh2oA)

265 Meh... all clothes on, in a corner of the Tractor Factory, on lunch break...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:26 AM (0KKyI)But look at how many tons per year they produced!

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 05, 2021 09:28 AM (mZOHK)

266
263 I need to be able to see something like this in real life. I'm sick of endless yellow-green flatness.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM (/XOcP)

Florida, right?

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:28 AM (0KKyI)

267 255 239 226 207 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

James, Jefferson was a white man who owned slaves. Does your wife know this?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:17 AM (/MaDp)

She thinks I'm a fucking weirdo for planning on doing it there.
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Your wife isn't black is she?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:25 AM (/MaDp)

That'd put a strange new dimension on the redhead aspect.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 05, 2021 09:28 AM (z5Vrg)

268 Years ago, I saw Jungfrau open for Dokken at The Armory.

Posted by: johnd01 - pronouns: First/1st at May 05, 2021 09:28 AM (ukNFU)

269 261 You know who else was rejected from art school?
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Has anyone written a book about Hitler at Art School?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM (/MaDp)

Related: A pretty good movie about Hitler's art is "Max," about his art dealer.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 09:28 AM (OyyDO)

270 256 She thinks I'm a fucking weirdo for planning on doing it there.
----------------
Your wife isn't black is she?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:25 AM (/MaDp)

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That would have added an interesting subtext to it all, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

271 Hey doof! What's your favorite coffee blend from Kensington?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:29 AM (y7DUB)

272 You know who else was rejected from art school?
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Has anyone written a book about Hitler at Art School?
Posted by: Puddin Head

Hitler did. Called it something something Blitzkrieg.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:29 AM (OCTRt)

273 But have you looked into researched Soviet pornography?

*******

High speed collision between two drunken Russians. Captured on dashcam.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 05, 2021 09:30 AM (Fc5rx)

274 Having seen Hitler Art, and not in any way being an artist myself.... it seems lifeless, with no style having been developed... help me out here, Kris...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:30 AM (0KKyI)

275 How is Tim Scott an "oreo," anyway? One is a delicious cookie, and the other is an asshole. Maybe I'm missing something. *shrugs*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM (Uh2oA)

I voted for Tim..he ain't perfect but he's head and shoulders better than Lindsey.

Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2021 09:30 AM (AwYPR)

276 Surely that's a Bill Alexander painting, right? Also German!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 05, 2021 09:30 AM (CjFDo)

277 267 255 239 226 207 10 years ago today, at the Jefferson Memorial in DC, I asked Dolley to marry me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

James, Jefferson was a white man who owned slaves. Does your wife know this?
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She thinks I'm a fucking weirdo for planning on doing it there.
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Your wife isn't black is she?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:25 AM (/MaDp)

That'd put a strange new dimension on the redhead aspect.
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Embrace the genius of weaves. I shouldn't bust your balls. I proposed to my wife on Christmas morning by putting an engagement ring in a HO Boxcar I gave her cuz I gave myself an HO Train Set for Christmas.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:31 AM (/MaDp)

278 Doof!

Check your e-mail

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 05, 2021 09:31 AM (snOKo)

279 274 Having seen Hitler Art, and not in any way being an artist myself.... it seems lifeless, with no style having been developed... help me out here, Kris...
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He was very adept at bold strokes.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:31 AM (/MaDp)

280 Has anyone written a book about Hitler at Art School?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM

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Never went. Got rejected a couple times. Got accepted for architecture school, but declined. Spent a couple years selling pictures of St. Stephens to tourists in Vienna, doing a little ad work, that sort of stuff. Made very little money, lived in a flophouse, and eventually moved on to seek new opportunities. That's about all there was to Hitler as an artist.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 05, 2021 09:32 AM (Uh2oA)

281 277 Embrace the genius of weaves. I shouldn't bust your balls. I proposed to my wife on Christmas morning by putting an engagement ring in a HO Boxcar I gave her cuz I gave myself an HO Train Set for Christmas.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:31 AM (/MaDp)

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Heh. That's almost Homer buying Marge a bowling ball for her birthday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 09:32 AM (LvTSG)

282 There are peaks in the Himalayas far more difficult and dangerous than Everest.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 05, 2021 09:04 AM (o2MD2)

Like K2?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:17 AM (y7DUB)

And Annapurna.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 05, 2021 09:32 AM (cSyAR)

283 281 277 Embrace the genius of weaves. I shouldn't bust your balls. I proposed to my wife on Christmas morning by putting an engagement ring in a HO Boxcar I gave her cuz I gave myself an HO Train Set for Christmas.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:31 AM (/MaDp)

==========

Heh. That's almost Homer buying Marge a bowling ball for her birthday.
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Pretty much.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:33 AM (/MaDp)

284 I met my future wife in a support group... which shall remain Anonymous... it has been a wonderful marriage... God works in funny ways, a lot...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:33 AM (0KKyI)

285 Since you opened the door to my pet obsession...
books, NOT pornography, you Horde Reprobates out there!!!...

Posted by: kraken

Dear Penthouse Forum.....
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM

Posted by: RedMMindBlueState at May 05, 2021 09:33 AM (m+jkK)

286 Put your fingers in Homer's eyes and your thumb in Homer's mouth.

Posted by: Jean-Paul at May 05, 2021 09:34 AM (UHVv4)

287 I voted for Tim..he ain't perfect but he's head and shoulders better than Lindsey.
Posted by: BignJames at May 05, 2021 09:30 AM (AwYPR)

I think it's time to nail the coffin shut on any hope that Goober Graham will ever be anything more than a backstabbing RINO.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:34 AM (y7DUB)

288 286 Put your fingers in Homer's eyes and your thumb in Homer's mouth.
Posted by: Jean-Paul at May 05, 2021 09:34 AM (UHVv4)

Heh.

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:35 AM (0KKyI)

289 Never went. Got rejected a couple times. Got accepted for architecture school, but declined. Spent a couple years selling pictures of St. Stephens to tourists in Vienna, doing a little ad work, that sort of stuff. Made very little money, lived in a flophouse, and eventually moved on to seek new opportunities. That's about all there was to Hitler as an artist.
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Sounds like life in Portland.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:35 AM (/MaDp)

290 274 Having seen Hitler Art, and not in any way being an artist myself.... it seems lifeless, with no style having been developed... help me out here, Kris...
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:30 AM (0KKyI)

For the most part they are more illustrative than art, but demonstrate high skill. BUT he has some that he painted during WWI of ruins. Some are really good, very Romantic. He was born 100 years too late.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 09:35 AM (OyyDO)

291 meh

Posted by: grammie winger at May 05, 2021 09:35 AM (45fpk)

292 Has anyone written a book about Hitler at Art School?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM (/MaDp)

There was an episode of Justified in Season 1 that featured an art dealer who had a interest in Hitler paintings. It was a great episode with a really good resolution to that story.

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 09:35 AM (mZUr4)

293 I wish I never met my first wife.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 05, 2021 09:35 AM (Ti60C)

294 2020 Census

NY was more than 3.8% off, and NJ was more than 4.5% off from the projected population. NY had about 850k added when in fact about 1.3 million left NY looking a tax roles.

In total, almost 2.5 Million were FAKE added to 2020 in the blue states.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 09:36 AM (yrol0)

295 Peloton is recalling all its treadmill machines due to injuries.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2021 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

296 BREAKING NEWS:

NY Post reports Adam Sandler took one of his young children to IHOP and was told there was a 30 minute wait.

HOW DARE THEY!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

297 Piquing Your Interest - a limerick

Although the Swiss Alps are unique
The Jungfrau ain't the mountain you seek
So if you get the chance
You might try another glance
Or, if you will, take another peak!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 05, 2021 09:36 AM (Fc5rx)

298 290 274 Having seen Hitler Art, and not in any way being an artist myself.... it seems lifeless, with no style having been developed... help me out here, Kris...
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:30 AM (0KKyI)

For the most part they are more illustrative than art, but demonstrate high skill. BUT he has some that he painted during WWI of ruins. Some are really good, very Romantic. He was born 100 years too late.
Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 09:35 AM (OyyDO)

So, potential. Maybe the world would have been different if the art school would have accepted him. Who knows?

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:36 AM (0KKyI)

299 Has anyone written a book about Hitler at Art School?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM (/MaDp)

LOL. Every last aspect of Hitler has been a topic for yet another book, so I doubt his arty ambitions were overlooked by people looking to keep him alive for their own political purposes.

Posted by: CN at May 05, 2021 09:36 AM (ONvIw)

300 I wish I never met my first wife.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 05, 2021 09:35 AM (Ti60C)

I'm still married to mine.

I'm not her first, however and there's a chance she feels the same way about her first husband.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

301 For the most part they are more illustrative than art, but demonstrate
high skill. BUT he has some that he painted during WWI of ruins. Some
are really good, very Romantic. He was born 100 years too late.
What do you think of Piranesi's stuff? I love it.

Posted by: pep at May 05, 2021 09:37 AM (v16oJ)

302 Next time let's have a critique of a Rothko.

Posted by: Corona at May 05, 2021 09:37 AM (nakGR)

303 Peloton is recalling all its treadmill machines due to injuries.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2021 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

ALL??!?

That's gonna leave a mark.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

304 294 2020 Census

NY was more than 3.8% off, and NJ was more than 4.5% off from the projected population. NY had about 850k added when in fact about 1.3 million left NY looking a tax roles.

In total, almost 2.5 Million were FAKE added to 2020 in the blue states.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 09:36 AM (yrol0)
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That's about a three seat swing from R to D in the House.

Can you imagine the outcry if Trump had done this.

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2021 09:38 AM (G0vdT)

305 "a HO Boxcar"

They were probably heading to Al Swearingen's place in Deadwood

Posted by: Doof at May 05, 2021 09:38 AM (mZUr4)

306 It's 66 degrees and sunny at Casa de Sucio this morning. Drinking coffee in the garage and watching the deer stroll by while listening to music. It's the little things that make you happy. I'll get angry later.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 05, 2021 09:38 AM (jvt6t)

307 299 Has anyone written a book about Hitler at Art School?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM (/MaDp)

LOL. Every last aspect of Hitler has been a topic for yet another book, so I doubt his arty ambitions were overlooked by people looking to keep him alive for their own political purposes.
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Oddly, teh gays have not claimed Hitler was gay. You'd think they would have buy now.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:38 AM (/MaDp)

308 So, potential. Maybe the world would have been different if the art school would have accepted him. Who knows?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:36 AM (0KKyI)
++++
The world would have been very different. A different totalitarian, possibly in a different country in Europe or North America, would have ridden a socialist wave into attempted world conquest and at least one different leader would likely have been leading one faction of the socialist hordes as they slaughtered each other and everyone else.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2021 09:38 AM (Jsjd7)

309 It's 66 degrees and sunny at Casa de Sucio this morning. Drinking coffee
in the garage and watching the deer stroll by while listening to music.
It's the little things that make you happy. I'll get angry later.
The wife and I were sitting in the sunroom this morning, drinking coffee, and watching the dog, who was watching a squirrel, who was looking for seeds around the birdfeeder. It's nonstop action at the pep household, and I couldn't be happier.

Posted by: pep at May 05, 2021 09:40 AM (v16oJ)

310 Has anyone written a book about Hitler at Art School?
Posted by: Puddin Head

Downfall parody: Hitler finds out he's been accepted to art school.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:40 AM (OCTRt)

311 205 Lovely art.

Could use a cabin though. Cabins are always nice.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 05, 2021 09:13 AM (mZOHK)

The airlines looking to hire based on diversity over qualifications will rectify that situation in no time.

Posted by: Bete at May 05, 2021 09:40 AM (Ojki1)

312 Apropos of whatever, currently reading Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt.... helluva book. I never had any problems growing up, in comparison..... sheesh!

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:40 AM (0KKyI)

313 That's about a three seat swing from R to D in the House.

Can you imagine the outcry if Trump had done this.
Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2021 09:38 AM (G0vdT)

Correct TX should have had 3, AZ 2, and maybe another to FL.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 09:40 AM (yrol0)

314 I wish I never met my first wife.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 05, 2021 09:35 AM (Ti60C)

Ditto.

Posted by: Diesel Jones at May 05, 2021 09:42 AM (Vu7A1)

315 2020 Census

NY was more than 3.8% off, and NJ was more than 4.5% off from the projected population. NY had about 850k added when in fact about 1.3 million left NY looking a tax roles.

In total, almost 2.5 Million were FAKE added to 2020 in the blue states.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 05, 2021 09:36 AM (yrol0)
++++
Raise your hand if you're surprised. There's not a single department of any major organization - government or industry - that is not entirely corrupt and filled end-to-end with cheats and liars.

Welcome to zero trust.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2021 09:42 AM (Jsjd7)

316 He was born 100 years too late.
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What would have happened if Hitler had been born in 1789 instead of 1889? We probably would have never heard of him.

Posted by: zmdavid at May 05, 2021 09:42 AM (xqRaG)

317 Oddly, teh gays have not claimed Hitler was gay. You'd think they would have buy now.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:38 AM (/MaDp)

The gays haven't claimed him, but other groups declare he was gay. There are no unturned stones, so that's why we have so much, entirely too much, Hitler fiction.

Posted by: CN at May 05, 2021 09:43 AM (ONvIw)

318 Oddly, teh gays have not claimed Hitler was gay. You'd think they would have buy now.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:38 AM (/MaDp)

Mein Fuhrer, we don't care about the uni-orchid thing.

Posted by: Ernst Rohm at May 05, 2021 09:43 AM (4I/2K)

319 310 Has anyone written a book about Hitler at Art School?
Posted by: Puddin Head

Downfall parody: Hitler finds out he's been accepted to art school.
_____________
Imagine Hitler as Bob Ross.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:43 AM (/MaDp)

320 What would have happened if Hitler had been born in 1789 instead of 1889? We probably would have never heard of him.
He'd probably have died in a battle with Nappy.

Posted by: pep at May 05, 2021 09:43 AM (v16oJ)

321 Like K2?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:17 AM (y7DUB)

Yup.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 05, 2021 09:43 AM (o2MD2)

322 Becker was part of the D�sseldorf School, a subcategory in German Romanticism which had a heavy influence on the American Hudson River School.

Kris, have you read Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory? It's mainly a history book but spends a lot of time interweaving artistic movements glorifying the natural scenery.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:44 AM (y7DUB)

323 First! to say:

First there is a mountain then there is no mountain then there is.

Posted by: m at May 05, 2021 09:44 AM (ya129)

324 One child was killed on the treadmill; unspecified number of injuries to other users.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 05, 2021 09:44 AM (UHVv4)

325 319 310 Has anyone written a book about Hitler at Art School?
Posted by: Puddin Head

Downfall parody: Hitler finds out he's been accepted to art school.
_____________
Imagine Hitler as Bob Ross.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:43 AM (/MaDp)

Or Bob Fosse...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:45 AM (0KKyI)

326 323 First! to say:

First there is a mountain then there is no mountain then there is.
Posted by: m at May 05, 2021 09:44 AM (ya129)

Juanita!!!! Juanita!!!!

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:46 AM (0KKyI)

327 Imagine Hitler as Bob Ross.
Posted by: Puddin Head

Ve vill make a happy 88mm shell over here.
Und a few 88mm shells over there!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:46 AM (OCTRt)

328 Imagine Hitler as Bob Ross.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:43 AM (/MaDp)

Or Bob Fosse...
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:45 AM (0KKyI)
++++
This is the Horde. Embrace the power of and. One can dance and paint and conquer all of Europe simultaneously ....

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2021 09:46 AM (Jsjd7)

329 One child was killed on the treadmill; unspecified number of injuries to other users.
Posted by: andycanuck

Do not start treadmill at 25mph!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:47 AM (OCTRt)

330 301 For the most part they are more illustrative than art, but demonstrate
high skill. BUT he has some that he painted during WWI of ruins. Some
are really good, very Romantic. He was born 100 years too late.
What do you think of Piranesi's stuff? I love it.
Posted by: pep at May 05, 2021 09:37 AM (v16oJ)

Piranesi's stuff is very interesting. Lots of mood. There's a Gothic horror feel to a lot of it. Hitler's work seems more like vedute art to me.

Posted by: Kris at May 05, 2021 09:47 AM (OyyDO)

331 I need to be able to see something like this in real life. I'm sick of endless yellow-green flatness.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 09:27 AM (/XOcP)

Florida, right?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021

***

Lousy-ana. Almost as bad for weather (at least we have 1 month of "winter"), not as good as regards WooHoo Flu hysteria. On the other hand, FL actually paves the roads and streets.

On the gripping hand, more frequent hurricanes. So --

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 09:47 AM (/XOcP)

332 328 Or Bob Fosse...
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:45 AM (0KKyI)
++++
This is the Horde. Embrace the power of and. One can dance and paint and conquer all of Europe simultaneously ....
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2021 09:46 AM (Jsjd7)

=========

Required:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPXHRX8Q2hs

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 09:47 AM (LvTSG)

333 Has anyone written a book about Hitler at Art School?
Posted by: Puddin Head

Downfall parody: Hitler finds out he's been accepted to art school.
_____________
Imagine Hitler as Bob Ross.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:43 AM (/MaDp)

Or Bob Fosse...
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:45 AM (0KKyI)

Or Apollo Ono

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at May 05, 2021 09:48 AM (4I/2K)

334 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Zwei bier bitte!
Goes looking for bratwurst.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2021 09:48 AM (axyOa)

335 48 The hills are alive with the sound of sni
Posted by: andycanuck at May 05, 2021 08:40 AM (UHVv4)

Golf clap. (Typo fixed.)

Posted by: m at May 05, 2021 09:48 AM (ya129)

336 I wish I never met my first wife.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 05, 2021 09:35 AM (Ti60C)

Ditto.
Posted by: Diesel Jones at May 05, 2021

***
I learned a lot of life lessons from both spouses. All things to avoid, generally.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 09:49 AM (/XOcP)

337 Peloton is recalling all its treadmill machines due to injuries.

ALL is a lot. Why bother? Just abandon ship. "Did you suffer soreness, etc.,? Call the Law Offices of..."

Posted by: t-bird at May 05, 2021 09:50 AM (pbStR)

338 Imagine Hitler as Bob Ross.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:43 AM

You vill put ein frohlich, klien baum hier! Hier, dumkopf!!!

Posted by: Adolf "Bob" Hitler at May 05, 2021 09:50 AM (m+jkK)

339 Peloton is recalling all its treadmill machines due to injuries.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2021 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

ALL??!?

That's gonna leave a mark.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

I dunno, I didn't even know they made treadmills. Now if they had to recall all the BIKES...

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2021 09:50 AM (Ez6QX)

340 We've mostly had our "spring bloom" here in the Bluegrass. There are some flowering shrubs that haven't flowered yet, and our meager looking Irises will just two blooms. OTOH my wife's Peonies will be pretty decent when they finally pop.

It's a lush time of the year. The fact that we've had over 15 inches of rain since 1 Jan helps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2021 09:51 AM (3H9h1)

341 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:51 AM (0KKyI)

342 Never went. Got rejected a couple times. Got accepted for architecture school, but declined. . . . That's about all there was to Hitler as an artist.
---------------
Sounds like life in Portland.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021

***
What if he had gone to architecture school? Would we be talking about the Hitlerian style?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 09:52 AM (/XOcP)

343 Thank you, m.

My tablet's keyboard pretends I'm hitting the key one square to the left and that I'm not hitting the 'o' key hard enough. Itls crap (and l for ') as it never happens for a second stroke on the same keys later in the paragraph!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 05, 2021 09:52 AM (UHVv4)

344 Huh. One of my company's competitors has some new(ish) products. My company put out a competitive brief about it. It's a rosy picture (of course - it always will be), but the document itself is riddled with copy-and-paste artifacts, poor grammar, some misses in proofreading, etc. This thing was *hurried.* This makes me think that, despite the rosy picture, someone's very nervous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2021 09:52 AM (Jsjd7)

345 341 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:51 AM (0KKyI)

========

Go with the vacuum instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 09:52 AM (LvTSG)

346 Weather warm, going to humid, in my unspecified corner of the country..

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:53 AM (0KKyI)

347 What if he had gone to architecture school? Would we be talking about the Hitlerian style?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 09:52 AM (/XOcP)
++++
Well, we already have Bauhaus...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2021 09:53 AM (Jsjd7)

348 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:51 AM (0KKyI)

If that's what she's into, definitely. If she's a fatass who sits on the couch all day and this is your way of dropping a hint, probably not.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2021 09:53 AM (Ez6QX)

349 342 Never went. Got rejected a couple times. Got accepted for architecture school, but declined. . . . That's about all there was to Hitler as an artist.
---------------
Sounds like life in Portland.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021

***
What if he had gone to architecture school? Would we be talking about the Hitlerian style?
------------
Imma gonna guess today's fast food drive thrus would be more orderly.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:53 AM (/MaDp)

350 I dunno, I didn't even know they made treadmills. Now if they had to recall all the BIKES...
Posted by: Jordan61

Fancy schmancy treadmills. Press a button and a preloaded program has you running up and down hills.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:54 AM (OCTRt)

351 341 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:51 AM (0KKyI)

Has she mentioned wanting anything like it?

Cause otherwise someone in her circle will offer her the suggestion that you are subtly saying she is fat.

So yes, but you might want to get a comfortable couch for yourself with it.

Posted by: Bete at May 05, 2021 09:54 AM (Ojki1)

352 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
You need to set it up by prefacing the unveiling with some remarks along the lines of "Hon, I see you've put on a few, well, quite a few, lately".

Posted by: pep at May 05, 2021 09:54 AM (v16oJ)

353 What would have happened if Hitler had been born in 1789 instead of 1889?

Rejected, brooding artist would have fit right in to the Berkeley or Portland or Seattle scene if he'd been born in 1989.

Posted by: t-bird at May 05, 2021 09:54 AM (pbStR)

354 What if he had gone to architecture school? Would we be talking about the Hitlerian style?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 09:52 AM (/XOcP)
++++
Well, we already have Bauhaus...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2021

***
Krieghaus style . . . the Schutzstaffel School . . . the Panzerists . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 09:55 AM (/XOcP)

355 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
Posted by: kraken

*372 people have died from broken necks on treadmills.

Your call.

(* joke)

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:55 AM (OCTRt)

356 Godwin's law?

Posted by: CN at May 05, 2021 09:55 AM (ONvIw)

357 Rejected, brooding artist would have fit right in to the Berkeley or Portland or Seattle scene if he'd been born in 1989.

Posted by: t-bird at May 05, 2021 09:54 AM (pbStR)

Being a socialist would have helped too.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 05, 2021 09:55 AM (1ISKN)

358 Hitler finds out he's been accepted to his second choice art school.

Posted by: klaftern at May 05, 2021 09:56 AM (RuIsu)

359 242 This judge is great!

@TheFirstonTV

Attorney attempts to race-bait to get his client off... and the judge is having NONE of it

https://tinyurl.com/ygbp48ok
Posted by: Tami at May 05, 2021 09:21 AM (cF8AT)

That is pretty great. "In light of what has been happening in this country...." "Irrelevant."

Posted by: m at May 05, 2021 09:56 AM (ya129)

360 Hitler finds out he's been accepted to his second choice art school.
Posted by: klaftern at May 05, 2021

***

"Adolf! Your safety school has accepted you!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 09:57 AM (/XOcP)

361 352 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
You need to set it up by prefacing the unveiling with some remarks along the lines of "Hon, I see you've put on a few, well, quite a few, lately".
Posted by: pep at May 05, 2021 09:54 AM (v16oJ)

In your best Ahnuld voice, say "Remember when I said "No" when you asked if your clothes made you look fat? I lied."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 05, 2021 09:57 AM (PiwSw)

362 Being a socialist would have helped too.
He'd also have to avoid thinking too small, too local. He should think about the entire country. A National Socialist if you will.

Posted by: pep at May 05, 2021 09:57 AM (v16oJ)

363 Maybe I'll stick to an elaborate dinner out, and a getaway weekend, for the Anniversary....

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:57 AM (0KKyI)

364 Hitler finds out he's been accepted to his second choice art school.
Posted by: klaftern

Earl Scheib's Painting School.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:57 AM (OCTRt)

365 What was the name of the SF alternate-history novel with Adolf emigrating to the US and becoming an SF pulp writer? It was by Norman Spinrad, the writer of Trek's "Doomsday Machine."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 09:58 AM (/XOcP)

366 How many treadmill accidents or deaths were caused by people being dumbasses using them or parents not supervising children? You could sustain a serious injury by cranking them up faster than good sense dictates.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 05, 2021 09:58 AM (y7DUB)

367 That is pretty great. "In light of what has been happening in this country...." "Irrelevant."
Posted by: m at May 05, 2021 09:56 AM (ya129)

Wanna bet the lawyers appeal on those grounds is met with less derision than Chauvin's appeal?

Posted by: Bete at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (Ojki1)

368 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:51 AM (0KKyI)
++++
Has she expressed interest or dropped hints? Unsolicited, I'd go with "nay" but solicited, it's a luxurious and generous gift that shows you're paying attention.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (Jsjd7)

369 Maybe I'll stick to an elaborate dinner out, and a getaway weekend, for the Anniversary....
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:57 AM (0KKyI)

That's a sure winner! Hubs & I are still trying to figure out what to do for ours, coming up in a couple of weeks. The big 3-0.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (+FlgS)

370 Hitler finds out he's been accepted to his second choice art school.

Then again, there are no grades, so why wouldn't we accept him?

Posted by: Evergreen State College at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (9Fwwf)

371 Hitler should've been a math teacher. "The answer is nine. Nine! NINE!!!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (VVEnO)

372 How many treadmill accidents or deaths were caused by people being dumbasses using them or parents not supervising children?
Heh. That's funny.

Posted by: Trial Lawyers at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (v16oJ)

373 >A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
Posted by: kraken

if you want a divorce, sure
might as well get her a mop and bucket

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (iTXRQ)

374 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:51 AM (0KKyI)

Well for damned sure don't get her the effing bread maker.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (axyOa)

375 You could sustain a serious injury by cranking them up faster than good sense dictates.
Posted by: Captain Hate

Videos on Fb where people do just that and jump on at a dead run like Usain Bolt.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (OCTRt)

376 Wolfus Aurelius

The Iron Dream.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2021 10:00 AM (u82oZ)

377 369 Maybe I'll stick to an elaborate dinner out, and a getaway weekend, for the Anniversary....
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:57 AM (0KKyI)

That's a sure winner! Hubs & I are still trying to figure out what to do for ours, coming up in a couple of weeks. The big 3-0.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (+FlgS)

Congrats, Jordan. We are approaching that.. time goes fast ( which may indicate something)...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 10:00 AM (0KKyI)

378 What was the name of the SF alternate-history novel with Adolf emigrating to the US and becoming an SF pulp writer? It was by Norman Spinrad, the writer of Trek's "Doomsday Machine."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

The Iron Dream IIRC.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 05, 2021 10:00 AM (VVEnO)

379 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:51 AM (0KKyI)

========

Go with the vacuum instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 09:52 AM (LvTSG)

Save a few bucks and get a new mop.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 05, 2021 10:01 AM (ljLyG)

380 Wolfus Aurelius

The Iron Dream.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2021

***

That's it. I've been trying to find it in the libraries, and no luck.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 10:01 AM (/XOcP)

381 375 Videos on Fb where people do just that and jump on at a dead run like Usain Bolt.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (OCTRt)

=========

Remember the Bird Box challenge?

Social media encourages stupidity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 10:01 AM (LvTSG)

382 Peloton's recall is for it's Tread+Tread treadmills. The US Consumer Safety board warned consumer last month that th treadmill has reported to have caused injuries to 39 children and one pet, and includes one death due to kids being pulled under the back roller. Peloton instead of recalling it last month, started negotiating with the Board, but has now recalled the products and has apologized for not taking the warning more seriously. Their CEO sounds like a real idiot.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2021 10:01 AM (u4g4n)

383 365 What was the name of the SF alternate-history novel with Adolf emigrating to the US and becoming an SF pulp writer? It was by Norman Spinrad, the writer of Trek's "Doomsday Machine."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 09:58 AM (/XOcP)

Wikipedia say "The Iron Dream."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 05, 2021 10:01 AM (PiwSw)

384 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:51 AM (0KKyI)

Well for damned sure don't get her the effing bread maker.
Posted by: Diogenes

Voice of experience there.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 10:01 AM (OCTRt)

385 374 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:51 AM (0KKyI)

Well for damned sure don't get her the effing bread maker.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (axyOa)

The voice of experience?

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 10:01 AM (0KKyI)

386 if you want a divorce, sure
might as well get her a mop and bucket
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (iTXRQ)
++++
My dad once got my mom a very fancy, expensive canister vacuum cleaner for Christmas. She was thrilled - she'd been bitching about her old vacuum cleaner for months - but it can be a bit of a dice roll...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 05, 2021 10:01 AM (Jsjd7)

387 Horde Mind..

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 10:02 AM (0KKyI)

388 283 281 277 Embrace the genius of weaves. I shouldn't bust your balls. I proposed to my wife on Christmas morning by putting an engagement ring in a HO Boxcar I gave her cuz I gave myself an HO Train Set for Christmas.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:31 AM (/MaDp)

==========

Heh. That's almost Homer buying Marge a bowling ball for her birthday.
--------------------
Pretty much.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:33 AM (/MaDp

You've only got half a train there (H0. -> Half- 0).

Let the scale wars commence!

Posted by: Fox2!! at May 05, 2021 10:02 AM (E67Aw)

389 This is a really beautiful painting, and it goes beyond mere technique to display beauty and wonder more than Monday's art class copy job. But I am a big fan of Hudson's Bay school of realistic epic scenery art. Usually the canvas is enormous for those.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2021 10:02 AM (KZzsI)

390 Peloton's recall is for it's Tread+Tread treadmills. The US Consumer Safety board warned consumer last month that th treadmill has reported to have caused injuries to 39 children and one pet. . . .
Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2021

***

Musta been a dog. No self-respecting cat would go near something that makes noise like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 10:02 AM (/XOcP)

391 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:51 AM (0KKyI)

========

Go with the vacuum instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 05, 2021 09:52 AM (LvTSG)

Save a few bucks and get a new mop.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Long johns.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 10:02 AM (OCTRt)

392 Well for damned sure don't get her the effing bread maker.
Posted by: Diogenes

Voice of experience there.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 10:01 AM (OCTRt)

After all these years you'd think a guy would learn. Hell, she loved her brothers and said she wanted one.
Sheesh.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2021 10:04 AM (axyOa)

393 A Peleton for your wife on an anniversary???? yea, nay?
Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:51 AM (0KKyI)

Well for damned sure don't get her the effing bread maker.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2021 09:59 AM (axyOa)

A breadmaker and a panini press. Endless sammiches.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at May 05, 2021 10:04 AM (4I/2K)

394 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 10:04 AM (OCTRt)

395 Noodus simianus -- in this case, literally a monkey thread

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 10:04 AM (/XOcP)

396 The Jungfrau - refreshing

Posted by: Braenyard at May 05, 2021 10:04 AM (Q3Qf4)

397 You did that, Peleton.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 05, 2021 10:04 AM (ufFY8)

398 392 Well for damned sure don't get her the effing bread maker.
Posted by: Diogenes

Voice of experience there.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2021 10:01 AM (OCTRt)

After all these years you'd think a guy would learn. Hell, she loved her brothers and said she wanted one.
Sheesh.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2021 10:04 AM (axyOa)

Women!!!! Cain't live with 'em, cain't live without 'em!!!

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 10:05 AM (0KKyI)

399 New this fall, as a free upgrade for our treadmill owners, the Peloton Running Harness. Suspend yourself safely and securely from a doorframe as you move your legs as quickly or slowly as you want!

Posted by: Peloton at May 05, 2021 10:05 AM (vOGqy)

400 333 Imagine Hitler as Bob Ross.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 05, 2021 09:43 AM (/MaDp)

Or Bob Fosse...

Posted by: kraken at May 05, 2021 09:45 AM (0KKyI)

Or Apollo Ono
or yoko ono

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at May 05, 2021 10:05 AM (v3pYe)

401 Peloton's recall is for it's Tread+Tread treadmills

I'd love to see Aviation Gin do another ad with the actress from the early Peleton ad.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2021 10:05 AM (axyOa)

402 Musta been a dog. No self-respecting cat would go near something that makes noise like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 05, 2021 10:02 AM (/XOcP)

The company is telling consumers to make sure that only adults use the treadmill, it is turned off when not in use and the safety key is removed.....

I have to include the famous commercial of Taylor Swift on a treadmill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7odP_vSF5b0

Posted by: Jen the original at May 05, 2021 10:08 AM (u4g4n)

403 New this fall, as a free upgrade for our treadmill owners, the Peloton
Running Harness. Suspend yourself safely and securely from a doorframe
as you move your legs as quickly or slowly as you want!
Do it right, and you'd have a VR unidirectional treadmill. You'd make a fortune.

Posted by: pep at May 05, 2021 10:08 AM (v16oJ)

404 Great picture; Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2021 10:09 AM (k39e/)

405 also do not get your wife lingerie as a gift ever

odds are she'll open that present when family is visiting

ask me how I know

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 05, 2021 10:26 AM (iTXRQ)

406 I know the thread is dying, but great job, Kris

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 05, 2021 10:28 AM (uxJPn)

407 Peloton - Buy an expensive workout machine, then pay a monthly subscription to Peloton to have a fit, perky lady scream at you on the video link to work harder, maggot.

Posted by: Archer at May 05, 2021 10:28 AM (gmo/4)

408 Thank you for explaining this painting. I have been there (many years ago) and this refreshed my memory of the Jungfrau.

Posted by: Roland F Hirsch at May 05, 2021 01:15 PM (oMkPq)

409 Reminds me of our own Mt Shasta

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 05, 2021 05:10 PM (FLiOE)

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