Saturday Overnight Open Thread

Saturday Overnight Open Thread – 06/19/2021

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STREET ART

I’ve done this before, but here is some more clever street art. I love that an anonymous artist puts his talent and creativity into a fleeting work of art, that for a just short while will provide smiles to those passing by.

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1

wa'Dlch!

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 09:00 PM (wlya7)

2 good evening

Posted by: wing at June 19, 2021 09:01 PM (JFzNN)

3 Is there a standing bass. Really appreciate your musical taste BT.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * mislabeled at June 19, 2021 09:04 PM (Tofb3)

4 Nice ONT you have there, Buck!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 19, 2021 09:04 PM (hOUT3)

5 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 19, 2021 09:05 PM (SchxB)

6 Interesting comment about Reynolds' Law up above. Yeah, the middle-class is the "effect" of the traits necessary to achieve it, not the "cause." Giving someone a middle-class lifestyle and hoping that they will automatically morph into a middle-class person is wishful thinking at best and more akin to cargo-cult thinking.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at June 19, 2021 09:05 PM (K5n5d)

7 I noooded

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 19, 2021 09:06 PM (VcFUs)

8 A lot of the William Tell Overture is music you've heard but don't know the origin.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2021 09:06 PM (63Dwl)

9 Thank you Sock. These is an upright bass, the camera occasionally pans around to the woman plucking at it.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 19, 2021 09:06 PM (d9Cw3)

10 Dozen?

Posted by: Half Dozen at June 19, 2021 09:07 PM (K9fJZ)

11 I noooded

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 19, 2021 09:06 PM

Good! 'Cuz I did not...

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 09:07 PM (wlya7)

12 Reynold's Law: I think diversity is another example. A meritocracy produces diversity because talent has no race. But the simple-minded sees the effect as the cause, mandating diversity and thereby destroying merit. Of course it didn't help that the Supreme Court gifted colleges with the diversity loophole, invented out of whole cloth, with which the ivory towers could racially discriminate with impunity. Big Mistake.

Posted by: Socratease at June 19, 2021 09:07 PM (nKVRQ)

13 Nice work, Buck. Loved the "Adam and Chris" meme.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2021 09:08 PM (Zo/4i)

14 Hated Flo, hated Happy Days, hated The Jeffersons, hated All in The Family.

They can take their Dy-No-Mite catch phrases and sit on em'

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 19, 2021 09:08 PM (BgMrQ)

15 I'm definitely an Adam, except I don't have debt and generally envy the Chrises of the world for having well-paying and fulfilling jobs.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 19, 2021 09:08 PM (pxDdN)

16 Up your anus, ignor-amos!

Posted by: Arthur Fonzerelli at June 19, 2021 09:09 PM (3Bi4L)

17 I always enjoy your ONTs, Buck. This one is no reception. Thank you.

Want to come to our NoVaMoMe? You're invited! That goes for the rest of you peeps, too!

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe on July 24! at June 19, 2021 09:09 PM (wyw4S)

18 Well, time to flash up the grill, and grill some smokies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2021 09:09 PM (Zo/4i)

19 Reynold's Law: I think diversity is another example. A meritocracy produces diversity because talent has no race. But the simple-minded sees the effect as the cause, mandating diversity and thereby destroying merit.
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Agreed. Another example of cargo-cult thinking, only seeing the RESULT of the steps necessary to achieve diversity, but never really understanding the CAUSE of true diversity.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at June 19, 2021 09:09 PM (K5n5d)

20 Giving someone a middle-class lifestyle and hoping that they will automatically morph into a middle-class person is wishful thinking at best and more akin to cargo-cult thinking.

A lot of that in education, too. Take a bunch of people who are really good at math and see how they do it. Then replace the way they learned math with how they do it now.

And then double down when it turns out kids don’t learn math well under that system.

Cargo cult thinking is the default for humans. It takes training to think civilized.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 19, 2021 09:10 PM (CX3cf)

21 Hello. Flo from the movie "Alice doesn't live here anymore" used stronger language. In the TV show, "kiss my grits" was as far as they could go.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at June 19, 2021 09:11 PM (xopIz)

22 14 hated Happy Days,
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 19, 2021 09:08 PM (BgMrQ)

Manson Family intervention.

Posted by: ZOD at June 19, 2021 09:12 PM (W7GZM)

23 Thank you Bluebell. I'd love to get out and meet AOS readers some time. I've also thought about someday trying to do a Nashville / Atlanta MoMe in Chattanooga or thereabouts.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 19, 2021 09:12 PM (d9Cw3)

24 re Reynolds' Law, it isn't the government trying to create more middle-class, it's politicians playing upon the envy and jealousy of the chronically lower class to buy votes.

Posted by: davidt at June 19, 2021 09:12 PM (3Bi4L)

25 Hated Flo, hated Happy Days, hated The Jeffersons, hated All in The Family.

They can take their Dy-No-Mite catch phrases and sit on em'
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 19, 2021 09:08 PM (BgMrQ)

Yeah?

Up your nose, wit' a rubber hose

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 19, 2021 09:13 PM (sJHOI)

26 Thank you Bluebell. I'd love to get out and meet AOS readers some time. I've also thought about someday trying to do a Nashville / Atlanta MoMe in Chattanooga or thereabouts.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 19, 2021 09:12 PM (d9Cw3)
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You really should! You wouldn't regret it. It's always worth meeting fellow Morons.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe on July 24! at June 19, 2021 09:14 PM (wyw4S)

27 My favorite sitcom catchphrase starts with "a fat lady walked into the shoe store..."

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 09:15 PM (3fqGc)

28 Iris DeMent has a very unique voice. Americana all the way.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at June 19, 2021 09:15 PM (AiZBA)

29 The Hill
@thehill
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Joe Biden got everything he wanted out of this trip to Europe."

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All you can eat chocolate chocolate chip ice cream?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 19, 2021 09:15 PM (d9FiS)

30 Iris Dement always sounds like she's had a stroke to me. Still, I loved her song at the end of the True Grit remake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx_JQ62s4yE

Posted by: pep at June 19, 2021 09:16 PM (v16oJ)

31 That Captcha is terrific. Will be shared.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2021 09:16 PM (9Fwwf)

32 >>20 Giving someone a middle-class lifestyle and hoping that they will automatically morph into a middle-class person

It's good sport watching the fall, though.

Posted by: ZOD at June 19, 2021 09:16 PM (W7GZM)

33 Sen. Chris Murphy: "Joe Biden got everything he wanted out of this trip to Europe."

One of those fancy French brands of paste.

Posted by: davidt at June 19, 2021 09:17 PM (3Bi4L)

34 The really amazing thing is when you realize that Happy Days ran on the concept of the amazing wonderful world of the past, which past was circa 20-15 years earlier than when the show was in first run. Imagine a show today that had the gimmick of being set in those far off wonderful days of 2001-2006 or so. They'd have to work really hard to have you notice it was even set in the past.

Posted by: azjaeger at June 19, 2021 09:17 PM (3/XaG)

35 How the heck are you, Zod? Nice you see you.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe on July 24! at June 19, 2021 09:17 PM (wyw4S)

36 To. Just put that in there somewhere.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe on July 24! at June 19, 2021 09:17 PM (wyw4S)

37 >>35 How the heck are you, Zod? Nice you see you.
Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe on July 24! at June 19, 2021 09:17 PM (wyw4S)

I'm well! How are you?

Posted by: ZOD at June 19, 2021 09:17 PM (W7GZM)

38 They can take their Dy-No-Mite catch phrases and sit on em'.
You turkey. You're the pits.

Posted by: pep at June 19, 2021 09:17 PM (v16oJ)

39 My favorite sitcom catchphrase starts with "a fat lady walked into the shoe store..."
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Ah, Married with Children, an all time American classic sit com!

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at June 19, 2021 09:18 PM (K5n5d)

40 re Reynolds' Law, it isn't the government trying to create more middle-class, it's politicians playing upon the envy and jealousy of the chronically lower class to buy votes.
Posted by: davidt
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This is true, but it is also the emotional manipulation used by the Dems to convince their voters that they care about 'the little man', 'minorities', 'the disadvantaged', etc., etc.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2021 09:19 PM (9Fwwf)

41 You kinda hit me in the feels with the question about what carryover habits from poordom still rear up in my life. I remember when young and poor I couldn't afford much meat, mostly ate canned goods, fruit and veggies. Pork and beans were a staple. I had a neighbor in the same economic zone as myself. Once a week we'd empty our two fridge's of leftovers (we were both single guys) and get the $0.99 Chef BoyRDee pizza kit and make a "Leftover Pizza"; pork & beans, green beans, lettuce, tomato, banana, you name it, it went on the pizza. No food was allowed to be wasted. These days, yes, can afford meat and sundry other 'delicacies', but wow, sometimes, just gotta clean out the leftovers.

Posted by: Robert17 at June 19, 2021 09:19 PM (fMjiM)

42 A Buck Throckmorton ONT!

Lose a bet?

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2021 09:19 PM (QFVV9)

43

Kirk's 'drill thrall' looks like Lady Gaga!

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 09:19 PM (wlya7)

44 The Hill
@thehill
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Joe Biden got everything he wanted out of this trip to Europe."

William and Kate let him sniff Princess Charlotte.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 09:20 PM (3fqGc)

45 Ah, Married with Children, an all time American classic sit com!

That could not be made today.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2021 09:20 PM (QFVV9)

46 The Hill
@thehill
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Joe Biden got everything he wanted out of this trip to Europe."

An endless supply of pudding cups?

Posted by: Dr. T at June 19, 2021 09:21 PM (pxDdN)

47 You kinda hit me in the feels with the question about what carryover habits from poordom still rear up in my life. I remember when young and poor I couldn't afford much meat, mostly ate canned goods, fruit and veggies. Pork and beans were a staple. I had a neighbor in the same economic zone as myself. Once a week we'd empty our two fridge's of leftovers (we were both single guys) and get the $0.99 Chef BoyRDee pizza kit and make a "Leftover Pizza"; pork & beans, green beans, lettuce, tomato, banana, you name it, it went on the pizza. No food was allowed to be wasted. These days, yes, can afford meat and sundry other 'delicacies', but wow, sometimes, just gotta clean out the leftovers.
Posted by: Robert17 at June 19, 2021 09:19 PM (fMjiM)

I remember the Boy R Dee pizza kit in a box. The "cheese" came in a small can and didn't need refrigeration

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 19, 2021 09:22 PM (sJHOI)

48 Kateurday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

Posted by: kbdabear at June 19, 2021 09:22 PM (qAR6u)

49 ghost of hallelujah:
yup and the sauce in that pizza kit was pure crack. OMG...

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 09:23 PM (L2ZTs)

50 >>middle-class

That's the upside to slave reparations--the Mailgram-experiment element of it. "Look. You whined at us for decades, and we finally gave each of you a check for ten thousand dollars. A year later, you have an empty crack-pipe, a prison tattoo, and five illegitimate children to show for it. We knew when we gave you the money that you'd waste it, and now we are laughing at you. Again. Resume your anger, poverty, and incompetence."

Posted by: ZOD at June 19, 2021 09:23 PM (W7GZM)

51 I don't think I've ever heard Strauss's "Thunder and Lightning." Although we did all watch Bugs Bunny in "Barber of Seville" again this week. There's just something about that one that has us all singing in unison...

Posted by: pookysgirl says you're soooo next at June 19, 2021 09:23 PM (XKZwp)

52 VA to offer gender surgery to transgender vets

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=114768

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 09:23 PM (RU4sa)

53 I buy quality booze now, but when I was young and poor, I rarely drank anything, and if I did, it was crappy wine. Good booze is better.

Interestingly, I eat better now because I know how to cook, and buy quality ingredients. I'll eat out because my wife likes too, but it's not really my thing unless it's a really good restaurant, namely one that serves better food than I can make myself. Most American restaurants don't qualify.

Posted by: pep at June 19, 2021 09:24 PM (v16oJ)

54 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 19, 2021 09:24 PM (fYTGN)

55 Milgram. Autocockumber.

Posted by: ZOD at June 19, 2021 09:24 PM (W7GZM)

56 Hey ONT! Hey Buck! Hey everybody!

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 09:24 PM (L2ZTs)

57 Only one sniper in that pic and it's Simo Hajya, White Death.

Posted by: Draki at June 19, 2021 09:24 PM (8ni2U)

58 I'm well! How are you?
Posted by: ZOD at June 19, 2021 09:17 PM (W7GZM)
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Bumbling along in my usual way, thanks. Glad you are well and glad you are back.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe on July 24! at June 19, 2021 09:24 PM (wyw4S)

59 And Chekov's Drill Thrall looks like Shrek's girlfriend.

Posted by: f'd at June 19, 2021 09:24 PM (Tnijr)

60
This I like:

FBI = Felonious Bastard Instigators.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 09:24 PM (Mzdiz)

61 I guess I must have been around 14 or so when Barney Miller started airing, it ruined all those cheesy sitcoms for me.

Posted by: lowandslow at June 19, 2021 09:25 PM (4thlk)

62 Giving someone a middle-class lifestyle and hoping that they will automatically morph into a middle-class person

cool

I think this is called sub-prime mortgages !

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 09:25 PM (bTQ72)

63 Re: Habits from Poordom - I think my main habit I've retained is the ability to live within my means. I only spend money when I *have* money, paying off my credit card every month and really trying to save money lately. Fortunately, I'm at the point in my life where I have about everything I need, so my current expenses are mortgage, car, food, and such. Very little extravagance.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at June 19, 2021 09:25 PM (K5n5d)

64 Has anyone heard anything from Duke tonight, since the chess thread earlier?

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 09:26 PM (L2ZTs)

65 VA to offer gender surgery to transgender vets

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=114768
Posted by: SMH

PTSD, tinnitus, TBIs, and back injuries to the back of the line.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 09:26 PM (3fqGc)

66 booze
I was so poor the oly thing I could afford was box wine

Franzia, i think it was

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 09:27 PM (bTQ72)

67
I thought that I recognized the director in the Strauss piece and I did. He is Mariss Jansons and he looks to me like he would be great fun to work with.

Here he is directing the Overture from Smetana's "The Bartered Bride" and he turned the tempo up to 11 for the performance (watch the strings' fingering from 1:12 to 1:1

.

Sadly, Maestro Jansons no longer is with us as he passed on in 2019.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 19, 2021 09:27 PM (+2sc/)

68 Kirk's 'drill thrall' looks like Lady Gaga!
Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 09:19 PM (wlya7)

"She who bore me died in a freestyle match on Gluteus Prime"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 19, 2021 09:27 PM (Dc2NZ)

69 lowandslow:

it seems like during the 1970s, the ABC network had two types of sitcoms, sitting cheek-by-jowl with each other:

Dreamworld/nostalgia sitcoms where no one had any real problems, like Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy; and much realer/gritter stuff, like Barney Miller and Taxi.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 09:28 PM (L2ZTs)

70
Kirk's gonna drill that thrall, all right.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 09:28 PM (Mzdiz)

71 Howdy Hordelings! Hey there, Buck - mighty fine ONT you put together for us. Thanks!

Funny thing -- my father in law STILL says "up your nose with a rubber hose".

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 09:28 PM (mZUr4)

72 Franzia, i think it was
Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 09:27 PM (bTQ72)

Ah, memories. It's not a drunken teen party without Franzia.

Posted by: She Hobbit at June 19, 2021 09:28 PM (ftFVW)

73 Prince Ludwig the Deplorable

I guess the VA suicide hotline needs more hits.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 19, 2021 09:28 PM (u82oZ)

74 >>65 VA to offer gender surgery to transgender vets

"Drop your socks and grab your...whateveryoutouchinyourspecialplace!"

Posted by: ZOD at June 19, 2021 09:29 PM (W7GZM)

75 qdpsteve

I asked for details at the end of the movie thread. No answer.

Let's BOTL.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 19, 2021 09:30 PM (u82oZ)

76 69: I read a comment here about Barney Miller. It was the most realistic cop show on TV. That amused me. Not everything is heavy drama. Barney Miller was fantastic and a great theme song.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2021 09:30 PM (QFVV9)

77 Ah Franzia! The wine for when you don't GAF no mo, you just wanna get drunk.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 09:30 PM (L2ZTs)

78 Is working in the trades working-class or middle-class?

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 09:30 PM (RU4sa)

79 NaCly, what do you need details about? :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 09:30 PM (L2ZTs)

80 Iris Dement always sounds like she's had a stroke to me. Still, I loved her song at the end of the True Grit remake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx_JQ62s4yE
Posted by: pep
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As I watch my town being wantonly destroyed by the coven of neo-Marxists that have taken over the city Council, I find that I cannot listen to Dement's 'Our Town' without strong feelings being evoked.

Vid: https://tinyurl.com/fmxknrdm

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2021 09:30 PM (AytXr)

81 Prince Ludwig the Deplorable

I guess the VA suicide hotline needs more hits.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 19, 2021 09:28 PM (u82oZ)

Where I see one of my buddies in a couple of years..... sad to see greedy doctors hurting instead of healing for cash.

Posted by: Draki at June 19, 2021 09:30 PM (8ni2U)

82
True story: My second grade teacher was Horshack's sister.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 09:31 PM (Mzdiz)

83 72 Franzia, i think it was
Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 09:27 PM (bTQ72)

Didn't he/she jump the shark?

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 19, 2021 09:31 PM (BgMrQ)

84 Thanks Buck

Posted by: rhennigantx sensational and impure at June 19, 2021 09:32 PM (yrol0)

85 NaCly, oops, now I see what you mean.
Yeah let's wait 'til Duke feels like sharing.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 09:32 PM (L2ZTs)

86 You need to change Adam and Chris to Bernie Bro and Deplorable

Posted by: Tom at June 19, 2021 09:32 PM (032La)

87 Sniper Check: All boxes except for top left?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 09:33 PM (83lwH)

88 Math is another example - people noticed that kids who take a lot of extra (voluntary) math courses in high school do better in college. Well, it can't possibly be that those kids are working harder, have more engaged parents, seek out challenge, etc. No, it must be those 50 minutes spent in Algebra II every day. So let's mandate EVERYONE take Algebra II!

...Well that didn't work so well. Okay, let's mandate everyone PASS Algebra II!

...Looks like we might need to add an Algebra III class to cover all the stuff we had to take out of Algebra II to get the kids to pass.

...Say...the kids taking Algebra III seem to do better than the kids who don't...

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 19, 2021 09:33 PM (8548M)

89

When I was poor, I would have killed for boxed wine...

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 09:34 PM (wlya7)

90 Right there on TV Sitcom acceptable work place predatory sexual assault.

Kiss my grits.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2021 09:34 PM (jyW7T)

91 There's a ton of Barney Miller episodes on YouTube. They still hold up, still funny. That tells you how much more insight and skill the people that made that show had.

Posted by: lowandslow at June 19, 2021 09:34 PM (4thlk)

92 Never saw Barney Miller, but I have heard that Hot Fuzz has one of the most realistic depictions of policing. I asked a cop about it once, and he immediately cracked up and said that was true.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 19, 2021 09:35 PM (8548M)

93
One of the local side-channels is running Barney Miller now. I end up watching a lot of them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 09:36 PM (Mzdiz)

94 Heh, when Wojo hooked up with Barney's daughter, "I'll try to get her home by Tuesday, Yuk-Yuk!"

Posted by: davidt at June 19, 2021 09:36 PM (3Bi4L)

95
Although we did all watch Bugs Bunny in "Barber of Seville" again this week. There's just something about that one that has us all singing in unison...
Posted by: pookysgirl says you're soooo next

I never fail to laugh throughout that cartoon. I especially like when Bugs ties Elmer's shotgun barrels in a bow and he is launched backward to the barber chair when he fires it. It is packed with gags. Bugs Bunny bullfighting in "Bully for Bugs" is another one.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 19, 2021 09:36 PM (+2sc/)

96 You need to change Adam and Chris to Bernie Bro and Deplorable
Posted by: Tom

Not all Bernie Bros are smug, indebted retards.
Some are mentally unbalanced incels on the verge of either a mass shooting or a career as a serial killer.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 09:36 PM (3fqGc)

97 Do you wanna smile? I dare you to not smile with this one.

Iris DeMent & John Prine - In Spite Of Ourselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8tTwXv4glY

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at June 19, 2021 09:36 PM (AiZBA)

98
It's Antenna TV.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 09:36 PM (Mzdiz)

99 Speaking of poor. We are excited because we bought new towels this week. We were given two sets of towels back when we got married, almost 11 years ago, and they finally got worn enough that we needed to replace them. The new ones were kinda expensive, but if we get 11 years use out of them, we'll get our money's worth.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 19, 2021 09:37 PM (8548M)

100 For Reynolds, I prefer his other quote:

"When the responsible authorities fail to act, other forms of authority will assert themselves. They may not behave responsibly, but they WILL act"

It's sad that he sold out to PJM. And surrendered his Free Speech principles to censor criticism of Driscoll rubbing our nose in Treacher Filth every day. If PJM needs money that bad, just sell out to China and get it over with.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 09:37 PM (83lwH)

101 You know, I'm worth just under 5 million now and still have trouble spending money.

I'm even working a second job as I type this. I grew up poor-ish, did four years in the Army, got an engineering degree after, have been a compulsive saver... all good things. But now sometimes I feel like Ebenezer Scrooge just counting my money.

So yeah, completely understand the difficulty of giving up the spendthrift habits.

Although, I made an impromptu diamond purchase (Costco) for my wife's birthday this week. But that was more because I forgot her birthday.

Posted by: Lucky McLurkface at June 19, 2021 09:38 PM (y2006)

102 I buy quality booze now, but when I was young and poor, I rarely drank anything, and if I did, it was crappy wine. Good booze is better.

Interestingly, I eat better now because I know how to cook, and buy quality ingredients. I'll eat out because my wife likes too, but it's not really my thing unless it's a really good restaurant, namely one that serves better food than I can make myself. Most American restaurants don't qualify.
Posted by: pep at June 19, 2021 09:24 PM (v16oJ)

Interesting. I entered active duty from a poverty childhood. I still drink Valuerite alcohol, not because i cannot affor better, I'm just a cheap bastard and actually like that cheap shit. Grew up on shake n bake chicken as the maybe monthly luxury meal. But won't touch that package unless i'm broke, because it has a meaning that the hard times have returned for me.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 19, 2021 09:38 PM (VcFUs)

103 Adam v. Chris

I am reliably informed that 80% of all Upper-Middle Class Karen electricity is sustainably produced from Pelotons and socially static friction

Posted by: Miklos, firing off the Gridley when ready at June 19, 2021 09:38 PM (QzkSJ)

104 Zod sighting! Woo hoo!

Posted by: Bosk at June 19, 2021 09:38 PM (yh68b)

105 Family Guy spoofs every Wes Anderson movie ever made

https://youtu.be/3tGwD-0zDso

Unrelated, Tarantino's last few movies, Django Unchained, Inglorious Basterds, and (on a small scale) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, were alternate histories of sorts. I believe he operates on the idea that painting someone as a victim is unflattering, and so he is making an antidote to this, even if it isn't real history.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 19, 2021 09:39 PM (ybIRR)

106 Lucky, you bought a Costco diamond?! Those things are made mostly of paste and wishful thinking.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 09:39 PM (L2ZTs)

107 101 I forgot her birthday.
Posted by: Lucky McLurkface

Gasp! And you are still alive?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 19, 2021 09:39 PM (u82oZ)

108 And,very good ont. Nice Saturday night reading.

Posted by: Bosk at June 19, 2021 09:40 PM (yh68b)

109
Sadly, Maestro Jansons no longer is with us as he passed on in 2019.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 19, 2021 09:27 PM (+2sc/)

That is too bad - he was a joy to watch conducting. Buck, thank you for a great ONT,

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 09:40 PM (JrN/x)

110 All In The Family - "Stifle it!"

Sanford and Son - "You big dummy!"

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 09:40 PM (mZUr4)

111
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Joe Biden got everything he wanted out of this trip to Europe."

One of those fancy French brands of paste.
Posted by: davidt

Gay Poopon

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2021 09:40 PM (63Dwl)

112 If ya wanna buy a REAL diamond, ya gotta go to the skeevy places downtown. Most of those stones still got the blood on 'em!

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 09:40 PM (L2ZTs)

113 Ah Franzia! The wine for when you don't GAF no mo, you just wanna get drunk.
Posted by: qdpsteve

What's the Word?

Oh yeah.

Thunderbird

Posted by: Miklos, not a snob regarding MD 20/20 at June 19, 2021 09:40 PM (QzkSJ)

114 Sanford and Son - "You big dummy!"
Posted by: Doof

"Fish-eyed Fool!"

Posted by: Auntie Miklos-Esther at June 19, 2021 09:41 PM (QzkSJ)

115 107 101 I forgot her birthday.
Posted by: Lucky McLurkface

Gasp! And you are still alive

I didn't tell her I forgot.

Posted by: Lucky McLurkface at June 19, 2021 09:42 PM (y2006)

116 What's the Word?

Oh yeah.

Thunderbird
Posted by: Miklos, not a snob regarding MD 20/20 at June 19, 2021 09:40 PM (QzkSJ)

"What's the price? Fifty twice!"

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at June 19, 2021 09:42 PM (K5n5d)

117 "Fish-eyed Fool!"
Posted by: Auntie Miklos-Esther at June 19, 2021 09:41 PM (QzkSJ)

I resemble that remark.

Posted by: Mayor Lightfoot at June 19, 2021 09:43 PM (AiZBA)

118 Zod sighting! Woo hoo!
Posted by: Bosk

You shall sight Zod.

Do this now.

Posted by: Miklos, familiar with the metier at June 19, 2021 09:43 PM (QzkSJ)

119 "As I watch my town being wantonly destroyed by the coven of neo-Marxists that have taken over the city Council..."

"kids who take a lot of extra (voluntary) math courses in high school do better in college. Well, it can't possibly be that those kids are working harder, have more engaged parents, seek out challenge, etc"

Interesting juxtaposition. The Right understands the benefit of working harder and being more engaged, but somehow it's the Left that is "full of passionate intensity" when it comes to politics.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 09:43 PM (83lwH)

120 went to a college party where they bought all the flavors of MD2020, there are like 7 of them back then.

tried them all, finished zero of the bottles

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 09:43 PM (bTQ72)

121 Not really catchphrases but I do recall good trash talking on The Jeffersons between George and Florence.

Also on Benson between Benson and Clayton.

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 09:44 PM (mZUr4)

122 what's the word ?
what's the price ?

Posted by: jeet at June 19, 2021 09:44 PM (OgGoB)

123

One can't go wrong with a fine bum wine...

https://is.gd/top_five_bum_wines_reviewed

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 09:44 PM (wlya7)

124 "I love that an anonymous artist puts his talent and creativity into a fleeting work of art, "

Only if he has talent, please. No graffiti or tags. Quality, not quantity. Originality, not banality.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at June 19, 2021 09:44 PM (qpX6U)

125 will choose, I love that there was an actual line of drinks in the early 1970s called Ripple.

"Ripple: for those special times when you just refuse to spend good money"

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 09:44 PM (L2ZTs)

126 Wine (except Moscato) gives me a headache.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 09:44 PM (RU4sa)

127 A dollar twice

Posted by: Lucky McLurkface at June 19, 2021 09:45 PM (y2006)

128 When I was poor, I would have killed for boxed wine...
Posted by: Zettai

Or just the fumes from the box...

Posted by: Miklos, the neglected Fifth Yorkshireman at June 19, 2021 09:45 PM (QzkSJ)

129 Meathead. Still works.

Posted by: f'd at June 19, 2021 09:45 PM (Tnijr)

130
Look up some Youtubes and listings of Fred's insults to Aunt Esther. She was ugly, you see.

One I remember was that she's so ugly, the molester in the limo gave her candy to get out of the car.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 09:46 PM (Mzdiz)

131 129 Meathead. Still works.
Posted by: f'd at June 19, 2021 09:45 PM (Tnijr)

So does DICKBREATH.

Just sayin'...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 19, 2021 09:46 PM (BgMrQ)

132 will choose, I love that there was an actual line of drinks in the early 1970s called Ripple.

"Ripple: for those special times when you just refuse to spend good money"
Posted by: qdpsteve

Mix it with some champagne and you've got champipple.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 09:46 PM (3fqGc)

133 We shop at Aldis regularly. Great deals on the basics. Plus their wine version of $2 Chuck ( Winking Owl, I believe) isn't too bad.

Posted by: Pete Seria at June 19, 2021 09:46 PM (7ZQe3)

134 How the hell can gender dysphoria be a service-connected illness? Why is this the VA's responsibility?

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 09:47 PM (M1r8K)

135 "Ripple: for those special times when you just refuse to spend good money"
Posted by: qdpsteve

We drank champagne with Ripple.

Champipple

Posted by: Fred G. Sanford, Grady, and Miklos at June 19, 2021 09:47 PM (QzkSJ)

136 "So yeah, completely understand the difficulty of giving up the spendthrift habits."

Catch 22 eh? The secret to wealth is to not spend it haha

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 09:47 PM (83lwH)

137 129 Meathead. Still works.
Posted by: f'd at June 19, 2021 09:45 PM (Tnijr)

I use..."did you cheat in differential equations? Wtf were you thinking?"

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 19, 2021 09:47 PM (VcFUs)

138 Craft supplies. I saved every bit of yarn I got growing up. Early twenties even bought mill ends from an outlet store, spent a lot of time untangling the super cheap bags of yarn. I even had a box of fabric scraps labeled "too small to use". What I meant was that they were okay for applique but not quilt patches. Was finally convinced to get rid of that box but I still feel guilty when I buy new yarn or fabric for a project.

Posted by: Lirio100 at June 19, 2021 09:47 PM (uFOGo)

139
Ripple was Fred Sanford's favorite. He would mix various other things in it and come up with new name. Ginger ale and Ripple was "champipple".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 09:48 PM (Mzdiz)

140 MD2020. When you're young and stupid.

Posted by: Bosk at June 19, 2021 09:48 PM (yh68b)

141 I saw Kirk's Drill Thrall open for the Chilli Peppers back in '88.

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at June 19, 2021 09:48 PM (QVG/X)

142 How the hell can gender dysphoria be a service-connected illness? Why is this the VA's responsibility?
Posted by: SMH

VA=vagina adjacent

Posted by: Miklosian Exegesis LLC at June 19, 2021 09:48 PM (QzkSJ)

143 Tremolo my darlin' tremolo

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2021 09:48 PM (jyW7T)

144 I watched an interesting podcast on how to make apple jack

just apple juice, the proper yeast and a little knowledge on how to do it

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 09:48 PM (bTQ72)

145 "We shop at Aldis regularly."

Thank goodness for Aldi. I hope they can keep their business model working. It's nice to be able to afford to eat.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at June 19, 2021 09:49 PM (qpX6U)

146 "How the hell can gender dysphoria be a service-connected illness?"

Worse, who would give a weapon to a delusional trans?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 09:49 PM (83lwH)

147 You had to stretch a bit for that one, Miklos.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 09:49 PM (M1r8K)

148 Worse, who would give a weapon to a delusional trans?
___

The lunatics at the five-sided nuthouse, that's who.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 09:49 PM (M1r8K)

149 I didnt celebrate Juneteenth today. Maybe I still hate time to loot an Apple store.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 19, 2021 09:50 PM (MrdaM)

150 How the hell can gender dysphoria be a service-connected illness? Why is this the VA's responsibility?
Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 09:47 PM (M1r8K)

Maybe the VA could pioneer the ultimate "gender affirmation" surgery: cut the patient's head off, and graft it onto a donor body of the opposite sex.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2021 09:50 PM (00THG)

151 You had to stretch a bit for that one, Miklos.
Posted by: SMH

It's still got marks where I stretched it.

Posted by: Rodney Miklos-Dangerfield at June 19, 2021 09:51 PM (QzkSJ)

152 I remember the Boy R Dee pizza kit in a box. The "cheese" came in a small can and didn't need refrigeration

We were an Appian Way family. Appian Way is the Kaboom of pizza kits.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 19, 2021 09:51 PM (CX3cf)

153 One thing about Alidi, it doesn't confuse one with a variety of product.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2021 09:51 PM (jyW7T)

154
Ramen was 10 for $1

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 09:52 PM (bTQ72)

155 One thing about Alidi, it doesn't confuse one with a variety of product.
Posted by: Braenyard

That's why they also own Trader Joe's.

Posted by: Smart Shopper Miklos at June 19, 2021 09:52 PM (QzkSJ)

156 "I remember the Boy R Dee pizza kit in a box."

I loved those. Good tangy sauce.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at June 19, 2021 09:52 PM (qpX6U)

157 Since we didn't get a pet thread, Ozzy Man: Cats Being Dodgy #4

https://youtu.be/_ydAtMDrrvs

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 09:53 PM (3fqGc)

158 I watched an interesting podcast on how to make apple jack

just apple juice, the proper yeast and a little knowledge on how to do it

Take a toddler's sippy cup, the kind with the ball and spring valve, half fill it with orange juice. Roll it under the rear car seat and leave it for three or four summer days. Find it while looking for something else. Open and enjoy.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 19, 2021 09:53 PM (nfrXX)

159 Want to come to our NoVaMoMe? You're invited! That goes for the rest of you peeps, too!

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe on July 24! at June 19, 2021 09:09 PM (wyw4S)
---

Oh, you should go! It's got everything: midgets on trampolines, human Valu-Rite dispensers, ewoks in cages, knife-wielding bad girls in bullet bras, and bouncers in chaps.

Posted by: Stefon at June 19, 2021 09:53 PM (Dc2NZ)

160 Ramen was 10 for $1
Posted by: will choose

Still is!

Posted by: Crazy Miklos' Dubious Ramen Discount Warehouse at June 19, 2021 09:53 PM (QzkSJ)

161 A fun and different ONT. Very cool..
Good evening all!
Happy weekend, and a very fine dad day to all of you fantastic dads!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2021 09:54 PM (colGo)

162 Quit while you're ahead Instapansy. Glenn Reynolds is a mask wearing, blue blooded ambulance chaser who cashed in early on flu panic. He refused to cover the election steal and openly supported Never Trumpers.

Posted by: IggyC at June 19, 2021 09:54 PM (GDuLl)

163 …namely one that serves better food than I can make myself.

I would like to eat out more, but I also have lots of recipes I want to make. I may have to install a vomitorium.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 19, 2021 09:54 PM (CX3cf)

164 "I remember the Boy R Dee pizza kit in a box."

I loved those. Good tangy sauce.
Posted by: Lithiated

Still around

Posted by: Chef Miklos Boiardi at June 19, 2021 09:54 PM (QzkSJ)

165 Oh, you should go! It's got everything: midgets on trampolines, human Valu-Rite dispensers, ewoks in cages, knife-wielding bad girls in bullet bras, and bouncers in chaps.
___

And then there's the TxMoMee, where there's shooting, eating, and drinking.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 09:54 PM (M1r8K)

166 133 We shop at Aldis regularly. Great deals on the basics. Plus their wine version of $2 Chuck ( Winking Owl, I believe) isn't too bad.
Posted by: Pete Seria

Yep. Just for grins, I bought the same items at Aldi and Wegmans to see the difference - flour, sugar, bread, milk, half and half, eggs, bananas, apples, broccoli, cauliflower, chicken thighs.

What was around 20 bucks at Aldi (for all of that) was $95 at Wegmans. I see no need to throw away money like that. Besides, both the customers and the employees are much, much nicer at Aldi's than our Wegmans.

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 09:55 PM (JrN/x)

167 Quit while you're ahead Instapansy. Glenn Reynolds is a mask wearing, blue blooded ambulance chaser who cashed in early on flu panic. He refused to cover the election steal and openly supported Never Trumpers.
Posted by: IggyC
___

He's an atheistic law professor.
Duh.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 09:55 PM (M1r8K)

168 162: Hi. Welcome. Who are you? Don't think I've seen your nic here before. I'm pretty sure your entire post is bullshit.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2021 09:56 PM (QFVV9)

169 Oh, you should go! It's got everything: midgets on trampolines, human Valu-Rite dispensers, ewoks in cages, knife-wielding bad girls in bullet bras, and bouncers in chaps.
Posted by: Stefon

Face collanders as a Lovely Welcoming Gift!

Posted by: Miklos, almost excited at June 19, 2021 09:56 PM (QzkSJ)

170 MD 20-20. Worst drink ever in the whole world.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2021 09:57 PM (colGo)

171 "the customers and the employees are much, much nicer at Aldi's than our Wegmans."

I often thank the Aldi's employees and let them know what an amazing job they do.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at June 19, 2021 09:57 PM (qpX6U)

172 sigh

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 09:57 PM (jaNSQ)

173 I still mostly spend money like I'm still broke, but one of my indulgences is cured meats.
Pig + Salt = Magic

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 09:57 PM (3fqGc)

174 Does anyone here enjoy Modern Drunkard magazine?

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 09:57 PM (L2ZTs)

175 If you are a Ryobi user check out the Homely Depot Father's Day specials >tools. But check everything.

You can buy two 1.5 batteries for $99 or you can buy a fan with two 4.0 batteries for $99.

You've got to check them all out for the best buy.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2021 09:57 PM (jyW7T)

176 *waves to c5*

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 09:57 PM (M1r8K)

177

I buy the 'expensive' instant ramen these days -- almost three dollars ($3) per package!

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 09:58 PM (wlya7)

178 Oh well, I'm out. Tired. Long day at work. Off tomorrow.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 19, 2021 09:58 PM (QFVV9)

179 Oh, you should go! It's got everything: midgets on trampolines, human Valu-Rite dispensers, ewoks in cages, knife-wielding bad girls in bullet bras, and bouncers in chaps.
Posted by: Stefon at June 19, 2021 09:53 PM (Dc2NZ)

Asking for a friend. These bouncers in chaps. Are birthing or impregnating bouncers in chaps?

Posted by: Don LeMon at June 19, 2021 09:58 PM (VcFUs)

180 The question about "can now afford, but do not buy",

Name brand potato chips
Fancy ice cream
Fancy wine
Take out pizza

I remember all too well when I lived on boiled potatoes with butter or, alternatively, macaroni and cheese. The store by my house would sell you one stick of butter rather than the whole pound box. That would have to last a week. If I was flush, I'd buy a small container of sour cream to liven things up or maybe a package of hot dogs.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 09:58 PM (Q8bDL)

181 I often thank the Aldi's employees and let them know what an amazing job they do.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at June 19, 2021 09:57 PM (qpX6U)

You are good people, Lithiated.

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 09:58 PM (JrN/x)

182 One way to make Ramen actually nutritious is to use bone broth instead of water. It makes a great pre-workout meal.

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at June 19, 2021 09:59 PM (QVG/X)

183 (152 - Stephen Blair)

We were an Appian Way family too! I hadn't thought about that product name in a couple of decades.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 19, 2021 09:59 PM (d9Cw3)

184 Off CNN sock

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 19, 2021 09:59 PM (VcFUs)

185 I buy the 'expensive' instant ramen these days -- almost three dollars ($3) per package!
Posted by: Zettai

"Image on package is a serving suggestion only"

Posted by: Miklos, suggesting ramen with Velveeta and those last few jalapenos at June 19, 2021 09:59 PM (QzkSJ)

186 "You are good people, Lithiated."

The meds help a lot.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at June 19, 2021 09:59 PM (qpX6U)

187
I think Kraft Mac and chees was like 8 for $1

back then, I do not remember store brands of it

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 09:59 PM (bTQ72)

188 COMM!!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 09:59 PM (mZUr4)

189 One thing about Alidi, it doesn't confuse one with a variety of product.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2021 09:51 PM (jyW7T)

Sometimes they'll have something that's obscenely cheap and way better quality than you'd find somewhere else, but whenever I go back to get more, there isn't any more. There isn't even an Aldi. Just a vacant, overgrown, cracked slab of pavement, faint traces of paint where parking spots might have once been. A gaunt three-legged stray dog growling, then whining, haunts the periphery. Wind scatters dust and litter across the ancient, untended asphalt.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:00 PM (ghoDT)

190 I do a whole lot more cooking than when I was younger.

Buying good ingredients is key, and now that I can afford to, cooking is much more fun.

Having the tools helps also.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:00 PM (M1r8K)

191 That would have to last a week. If I was flush, I'd buy a small container of sour cream to liven things up or maybe a package of hot dogs.
Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 09:58 PM (Q8bDL)

Mom?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 19, 2021 10:00 PM (VcFUs)

192
Sometimes they'll have something that's obscenely cheap and way better quality than you'd find somewhere else, but whenever I go back to get more, there isn't any more. There isn't even an Aldi. Just a vacant, overgrown, cracked slab of pavement, faint traces of paint where parking spots might have once been. A gaunt three-legged stray dog growling, then whining, haunts the periphery. Wind scatters dust and litter across the ancient, untended asphalt.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:00 PM (ghoDT)

That is some wordsmithy, hogmartin. How are you doing?

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:01 PM (JrN/x)

193 The question about "can now afford, but do not buy",

Name brand potato chips
Fancy ice cream
Fancy wine
Take out pizza

I remember all too well when I lived on boiled potatoes with butter or, alternatively, macaroni and cheese. The store by my house would sell you one stick of butter rather than the whole pound box. That would have to last a week. If I was flush, I'd buy a small container of sour cream to liven things up or maybe a package of hot dogs.
Posted by: cfo

the thing is is, if you want something and you do not have the means to afford it why would you buy some tenth rate shit that is not what you want.

Were I in a sit where I wanted fancy name brand something or other but could not afford it I would just have nothing.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:01 PM (jaNSQ)

194 And then there's the TxMoMee, where there's shooting, eating, and drinking.
Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 09:54 PM (M1r8K)

But no dancing.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:01 PM (ghoDT)

195 I wasn't aware that CO v TX tomatoe wars were still a thing. I remember this from 40+ years ago. Good to know some traditions live on...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2021 10:01 PM (colGo)

196
add rice in the chili to make it last longer

anyone do that?

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:01 PM (bTQ72)

197 How are you doing?
Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:01 PM (JrN/x)

Well, thanks, and you?

Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:02 PM (ghoDT)

198 add rice in the chili to make it last longer

anyone do that?
Posted by: w

no

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:02 PM (jaNSQ)

199 hogmartin: LOL! That's happened to me too.
Don't forget the tumblin' tumbleweed hobbling across the dirty lot...

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:03 PM (L2ZTs)

200 I'd buy a small container of sour cream to liven things up or maybe a package of hot dogs.
Posted by: cfo mom

You had sour cream or hot dogs?
Luxury!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2021 10:03 PM (J8Tc4)

201 Mad props to CamelBak.

Ordered a new reservoir (3L) Wednesday, got here today.

I still have my ACU patterned carrier, so now I'm good to go.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:03 PM (M1r8K)

202 Wind scatters dust and litter across the ancient, untended asphalt.
Posted by: hogmartin

Are you in Texas?

WE'LL BUY THIS STORY

Posted by: The New York Times at June 19, 2021 10:03 PM (QzkSJ)

203 Pot pies twenty five cents.
The one's with crust all the way around.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2021 10:03 PM (jyW7T)

204

The 'good' instant ramen has two or three flavour packets inside the wrapper...

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 10:03 PM (wlya7)

205 But no dancing.
Posted by: hogmartin
___

There was dancing last year.

Tried to get Jim and Weasel to shake their groove thang, but no can do.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:04 PM (M1r8K)

206 what ws the sooper cheep frozen pizza?

Red Barron? or was there one cheaper Toomstone?

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:05 PM (bTQ72)

207 what ws the sooper cheep frozen pizza?

Red Barron? or was there one cheaper Toomstone?
Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:05 PM (bTQ72)

Celeste

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 10:05 PM (mZUr4)

208 Also Prof. Dr. Hogmartin-

"on tap" continues to yield a combination of amusement and confusement.

Posted by: Miklos on tap (now that is a scary keeds thought) at June 19, 2021 10:05 PM (QzkSJ)

209 "And then there's the TxMoMee"

What city is it held in? We're due back to Dallas to visit our parents, in-laws, niece and nephew. And the wife needs a relaxing vacation on Galveston Beach or South Padre. Ya know, one of those 10 day sloths where the only decision you have to make is beach vs pool and where to eat that night.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 10:06 PM (83lwH)

210 Tried to get Jim and Weasel to shake their groove thang, but no can do.
Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:04 PM (M1r8K)

I'm trying to think of what you'd play to get them out on the floor, and coming up blank.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:06 PM (ghoDT)

211 I would just have nothing.
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:01 PM (jaNSQ)
------------

Good diet advice.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2021 10:06 PM (jyW7T)

212 174

Is that publication still available?
What fun was had with that...is it online?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2021 10:06 PM (colGo)

213 add rice in the chili to make it last longer
anyone do that?

We did potatoes. It was a very wrong combination of textures. I would eat the potatoes first, then the chili, so that both were better.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 19, 2021 10:06 PM (CX3cf)

214 what ws the sooper cheep frozen pizza?

Tony's

Posted by: Miklos, crusty old guy at June 19, 2021 10:06 PM (QzkSJ)

215 We were an Appian Way family. Appian Way is the Kaboom of pizza kits.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 19, 2021 09:51 PM (CX3cf)
---

Dante saw Belphegor force-feed Appian Way pizza topped with pineapple to heretics in the Sixth Circle of Hell.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 19, 2021 10:06 PM (Dc2NZ)

216 "on tap" continues to yield a combination of amusement and confusement.
Posted by: Miklos on tap (now that is a scary keeds thought) at June 19, 2021 10:05 PM (QzkSJ)

Sometimes it baffles even me. I think it's... learning.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:07 PM (ghoDT)

217 Hoyt,

The info for the TxMoMee is on the left side bar on the front page.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:07 PM (M1r8K)

218 Sometimes they'll have something that's obscenely cheap and way better quality than you'd find somewhere else, but whenever I go back to get more, there isn't any more. There isn't even an Aldi. Just a vacant, overgrown, cracked slab of pavement, faint traces of paint where parking spots might have once been. A gaunt three-legged stray dog growling, then whining, haunts the periphery. Wind scatters dust and litter across the ancient, untended asphalt.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:00 PM (ghoDT)

That is some wordsmithy, hogmartin. How are you doing?
Posted by: Moki

We need a Kaboom Award for writing like that.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 19, 2021 10:07 PM (OssQ4)

219 Tried to get Jim and Weasel to shake their groove thang, but no can do.
Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:04 PM (M1r8K)

I'm trying to think of what you'd play to get them out on the floor, and coming up blank.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:06 PM (ghoDT)

Rawhide? Like in The Blues Brothers

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 10:07 PM (mZUr4)

220 >Ripple was Fred Sanford's favorite. He would mix various other things in it and come up with new name. Ginger ale and Ripple was "champipple".

cr�me de menthe and Ripple was 'Cripple'

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 19, 2021 10:07 PM (iTXRQ)

221
Well, thanks, and you?
Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:02 PM (ghoDT)

Not too bad. We survived the cicada swarm of 2021 with no ill effects, although those little varmints could get cheeky. If they landed on you and you tried to push them off, they'd yell at you. Loudly. I'm happy to wait 17 years before I go through that again.

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:07 PM (JrN/x)

222 lol hogmartin,

So am I.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:08 PM (M1r8K)

223 Yeah, ads!

Everyone Who Believes in God Should Watch Thing. It Will Blow Your Mind.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 19, 2021 10:08 PM (nI1Kq)

224 add rice in the chili to make it last longer

anyone do that?

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:01 PM

My people call in 'chilli' and we put turnips in it...

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 10:08 PM (wlya7)

225 Red Baron frozen pizza is actually good. Tastes something like actual pizza.

Hoyt, I know the civic location of this year's TXMoMee but don't dare share. The last time I did, 17 innocent MoMee-ers ended up in some lefty sheriff's klink. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:08 PM (L2ZTs)

226 Moki!!

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:08 PM (M1r8K)

227 what ws the sooper cheep frozen pizza?

Celeste
Posted by: Doof

I ordered a Marie Celeste pizza for delivery once.

It showed up, but no delivery driver in the car....

Posted by: Miklos, around the campfire at June 19, 2021 10:09 PM (QzkSJ)

228 Good diet advice.
Posted by: B

it is not bad diet advice
it is similar to those that do the diet coke thing?

why the fuck would you decide that you are not going to have the real stuff that tastes great and go for the diet shit.

Do you want this her coke that is mad by scientists in a vat and is awful for you that tastes great

or

do you want this her coke that is mad by scientists in a vat and is awful for you that tastes of shit?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:09 PM (jaNSQ)

229 Not too bad. We survived the cicada swarm of 2021 with no ill effects, although those little varmints could get cheeky. If they landed on you and you tried to push them off, they'd yell at you. Loudly. I'm happy to wait 17 years before I go through that again.
Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:07 PM (JrN/x)

Ick. Sounds like june bugs with entitlement issues.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:09 PM (ghoDT)

230 frozen pot pies were cheap but they had a metal container and could not microwave so had to put in the over, so 45 or an hour ....

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:10 PM (bTQ72)

231 "Quit while you're ahead Instapansy. Glenn Reynolds is a mask wearing, blue blooded ambulance chaser who cashed in early on flu panic. He refused to cover the election steal and openly supported Never Trumpers."

New business model. PJM wants to compete for Hot Air's readers or something. SMH.

And the problem with platforming NeverTrumpers is not their viewpoint - I would read Hillary Clinton's drek if he showcased it. The problem is that Glenn Reynolds is rewarding treachery, which means we will get more of it.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 10:10 PM (83lwH)

232 anyone do that?

Posted by: will choose a nic later

I almost always have chili with rice. And Cholula.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 19, 2021 10:10 PM (OssQ4)

233 I won't lie, I'm a spoiled millennial who never really had to deal with being poor. But unlike a lot of spoiled millennials, I'm quite aware enough of history to not want to burn down a functional system cuz insecurity.

Well, okay, I ate a lot of ramen in the years after college and still tend to go for the slightly nicer boxed noodle lunches rather than a sandwich or whatever. But part of that is that I'm too lazy to waste time in the morning preparing a sandwich and ordering food every weekday would get expensive fast.

Posted by: CppThis at June 19, 2021 10:10 PM (8h1h1)

234 Doof!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2021 10:10 PM (colGo)

235 Wally's four in a box pizzas are better than Totinos or Tony's.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2021 10:11 PM (jyW7T)

236 226 Moki!!
Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:08 PM (M1r8K)

{{{SMH}}}

Hey gorgeous! how are you? Happy anniversary (a little late)!!

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:11 PM (JrN/x)

237 "on the left side bar on the front page."

Cool. I need to get an FBI hat to wear to it

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 10:11 PM (83lwH)

238 Pot pies twenty five cents.

When Banquet pot pies went drastically on sale (I think it was twenty-five cents), limit of four per person, my mom would send all us in with a buck and tell us to buy our favorites. Then into the deep freeze went 28 pot pies.

I loved them. The crust doesn’t have as nice a texture now. Or didn’t when I tried them again several years ago.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 19, 2021 10:11 PM (CX3cf)

239 Delaying gratification is highly overrated.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 19, 2021 10:11 PM (II3Gr)

240 Stop shopping at the Twilight Zone Aldi, hogmartin.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2021 10:11 PM (63Dwl)

241 Wally's four in a box pizzas are better than Totinos or Tony's.
Posted by: B

or

nothing

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:11 PM (jaNSQ)

242 How ya doing, Miklos -- Mr " I was sorta kinda in a movie with Phoebe Cates"??

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 10:12 PM (mZUr4)

243 I always make stock from roast chikkinz so when I make that cheapass ramen I get primo broth and top it with fresh cilantro and put it in my best ramen bowl. Food of the gods!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 19, 2021 10:12 PM (Dc2NZ)

244 New business model. PJM wants to compete for Hot Air's readers or something. SMH.

Also tries to copy Ace with the commenters bidnis, quite obviously.

Not very successfully, just obviously

Posted by: Miklos, seing Insty and Althouse sittin' in a tree at June 19, 2021 10:12 PM (QzkSJ)

245 Sure, see also the way that new "(blank) studies" "disciplines" have been invented so that dullwits can get the (presumed) earning power of a bachelor's degree.

It's cargo cultism on a grand scale.

In one of Heinlein's books, he had a future California where all citizens had been granted an automatic bachelor's degree at birth.

Maybe we should do that. It'd be a helluva lot cheaper than the current setup, and wouldn't have the side effect of exposing the kids to four years of communist indoctrination.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:12 PM (XGAZE)

246 Thanks, Moki.

Gonna celebrate with the g-babies and daughter tomorrow.
Two and a half hour drive, but worth it.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:13 PM (M1r8K)

247
forgot about frozen burritos do not remember the price but they cam in 10 or 12 packs for cheap

a 20yo guts can handle them, mebe not a 60yo guts

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:13 PM (bTQ72)

248 "although those little varmints could get cheeky. "

Yah my fav instance was walking out to the parking lot, passing a bush and having it "yell" at me. Startling.

Are they supposed to glow in the dark? We had a batch that glowed chemlight green. Maybe it's the radon up here.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 10:13 PM (83lwH)

249 re: Adam vs Chris

Son followed the Chris model (much to Mrs IMG's consternation). He made (and continues to make) well north of $80K (again much to Mrs IMG's consternation. She's an RN).

"You chose well, Son."

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 19, 2021 10:13 PM (8C7+r)

250 Insom!!

How ya doin?

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:13 PM (M1r8K)

251 "Also tries to copy Ace with the commenters bidnis, quite obviously."

I don't follow?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 10:14 PM (83lwH)

252 How ya doing, Miklos -- Mr " I was sorta kinda in a movie with Phoebe Cates"??
Posted by: Doof

Fine as things go.

Last Road Trip cancelled

Being a Perpetual Ben Franklin Pessimist, it just means more time for Musical Acquisitions.

Posted by: Miklos, avec un merci grand at June 19, 2021 10:14 PM (QzkSJ)

253 And that little burrito is about 450 calories.
Goes straight to the beer gut.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2021 10:14 PM (jyW7T)

254 What about you? What are some items you kept denying yourself out of habitual discipline, long after you could actually afford to enjoy them?

For me it wasn't specific items so much but rather behaviors. Eating out was an unobtainable luxury as a kid and in young adulthood. Why they'd charge me $15 for that meal and I could make it for $3 with leftovers.

Honestly, it took me decades to get comfortable with dining out.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2021 10:15 PM (Rvt88)

255 by the way, the philosophy snark above consistent and consistently wrong snark.

philosophy majors are among the highest paid undergrad degrees.

which if you think about it should not be surprising.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:15 PM (jaNSQ)

256
Ick. Sounds like june bugs with entitlement issues.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:09 PM (ghoDT)

They were cute at first. They seemed to be disoriented after their 17 year nap, most couldn't fly well and would run into stuff, fall down and land on their backs and just buzz, unable to move. If you turned them over, they would grab onto your hand and not let go. The entitlement began at that point and could get ugly. Plus my dog ate them like cheetoes, then threw up. Glad that's over.

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:15 PM (JrN/x)

257 Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 19, 2021 10:13 PM (8C7+r)
___

Hubs will start his final year as an apprentice in August/Sept.

He'll be a certified electrician next summer.

I'm so proud of him.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:15 PM (M1r8K)

258
Bingle will find you some sites with lists of all of Fred's Ripple mixes. Champipple was both Champagne and Ripple or ginger ale and Ripple. He used both.

"Stripple" was straight Ripple.

Muscatipple was muscatel and Ripple. Beaujolipple was Beaujolais and Ripple.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 10:15 PM (Mzdiz)

259 Loved the street art and the leaded glass art

Thanks for the ONT

Good evening

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 19, 2021 10:16 PM (IDhUW)

260 "Sometimes they'll have something that's obscenely cheap and way better quality than you'd find somewhere else"

Yes, like real dry salamis, and blue stilton. They show up seasonally at Aldi. They experiment with new products too, most of which don't catch on. They can never seem to get the flavors of Asian food right. Reminds me of the episode of Breaking Bad with the Madrigal HQ taste-testing.

Aldi's blue stilton is as good as any you can get anywhere else in town, IF you can find it elsewhere, and costs less than half as much. (But stay far away from Aldi's "white stilton" with fruit mixed into it!! That's puke, that is.)

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at June 19, 2021 10:16 PM (qpX6U)

261
Good day for Miss Delilah. Best in Specialty Show at the Midwest Borzoi Club - her sixth specialty win - and Best of Breed and a Group 2 at the Chicagoland Hound Club show. It was a hot day and she had to work hard but she was a trouper. Well done, that girl!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2021 10:16 PM (mht8P)

262 Ok, now I have gotten into the comments and am seeing all the disparaging comments about Franzia.

You snobs do understand that it would would be a real pain to have to uncork 5 bottles a day instead of just opening one box? I'm not drinking this wine for the great bouquet...

Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 10:16 PM (Q8bDL)

263 Stop shopping at the Twilight Zone Aldi, hogmartin.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2021 10:11 PM (63Dwl)

But they're the only ones selling pot pies made with real pot!

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:16 PM (L2ZTs)

264 eating out is not necessarily a waste of $, but it is never as healthy for you as cooking your own food.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:16 PM (jaNSQ)

265 You snobs do understand that it would would be a real pain to have to uncork 5 bottles a day instead of just opening one box? I'm not drinking this wine for the great bouquet...
Posted by: cfo mom

which is why they have night train, mad dog, and thunderbird.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:18 PM (jaNSQ)

266 CFO Mom, at least try not drinking your Franzia straight from the spigot ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:18 PM (L2ZTs)

267
Immediately recognized the conductor of the Strauss as Mariss Jansons and the orchestra as the Vienna Philharmonic.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2021 10:18 PM (mht8P)

268 Insom!!

How ya doin?
Posted by: SMH

Insom??!!

Is he awake?

Posted by: Miklos, Tire Iron master Franchisee aspirant at June 19, 2021 10:18 PM (QzkSJ)

269 "Good habits are hard to break."

LOL. I have some Aldi's fresh baby back ribs. Going to smoke them tomorrow.

I can afford to go out, but why?

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at June 19, 2021 10:18 PM (xopIz)

270 Amen, c5.

Though there's a place here called The Burnt Tip that has amazing BBQ.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:18 PM (M1r8K)

271 Plus my dog ate them like cheetoes, then threw up. Glad that's over.
Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:15 PM (JrN/x)

Speaking of things that eat bugs, guess what?

https://stoatnet.org/chickenbutt.jpg

Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:18 PM (ghoDT)

272 Good day for Miss Delilah. Best in Specialty Show at the Midwest Borzoi Club - her sixth specialty win - and Best of Breed and a Group 2 at the Chicagoland Hound Club show. It was a hot day and she had to work hard but she was a trouper. Well done, that girl!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2021 10:16 PM (mht8P)

She was robbed at Westminster. That whippet had nothing in Miss Delilah.

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:18 PM (JrN/x)

273 "but it is never as healthy for you as cooking your own food."

I'll have my wife cook for us. You'll be sorry.

I love her, but the girl can't clean or cook. Ha.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 10:19 PM (83lwH)

274 Ok, now I have gotten into the comments and am seeing all the disparaging comments about Franzia.

You snobs do understand that it would would be a real pain to have to uncork 5 bottles a day instead of just opening one box? I'm not drinking this wine for the great bouquet...
Posted by: cfo mom

I do find that Franzia and Peter Vella invariably have the best looking boxes. They rarely overpower the style of the ashtray on the card table.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2021 10:19 PM (Rvt88)

275 Seven Hells, don't tell her I said that, she's a better shot with a pistol than I am.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 10:19 PM (83lwH)

276 Aldi's sourdough bread is the real deal.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at June 19, 2021 10:19 PM (xopIz)

277 which is why they have night train, mad dog, and thunderbird.
Posted by: confederatefifth
___

Can't say that I've never had any of the above...thank God.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:20 PM (M1r8K)

278 > a 20yo guts can handle them, mebe not a 60yo guts

I can still handle 'em just fine, and I'm older than that.

They're awesome when you've been outside in an Alaska winter and need some hot fuel in your gut in a hurry.

El Monterey is the brand I usually get. I don't care for any of the ones with "cheese" (I like cheese, but not theirs). Beef and bean is my go to. The green chile ones are also pretty good.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:20 PM (XGAZE)

279 S

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:20 PM (jaNSQ)

280 M

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:20 PM (jaNSQ)

281 H

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:20 PM (jaNSQ)

282 !

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:20 PM (jaNSQ)

283 bought a house with a girl before marrying her
she moved out after few months
stuck with house and payment
2 week paycheck would not cover house payment,
never turned on AC, heat was set to 58F
box of Franzia was $6.99 or so, the white wine, left it in the fridge, tasted like cold

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:20 PM (bTQ72)

284 I spent months talking myself into buying a new car, even though I have more than enough cash in my savings account yo buy it outright.

Still haven't talked myself into it.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 19, 2021 10:20 PM (6QB1/)

285
She was robbed at Westminster. That whippet had nothing in Miss Delilah.
Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:18 PM (JrN/x)

__________

Lots of fine dogs were left standing. We knew Lila wasn't the judge's type. Had it been his squeeze we might have done better.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2021 10:20 PM (mht8P)

286 In middle school, my friends and I made "wine" by dumping yeast into extra-sugary Kool-Aid and letting it sit for #2weeks. Not our fault none of us had older brothers who would buy us beer.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 10:20 PM (3fqGc)

287 I love her, but the girl can't clean or cook. Ha.
Posted by: Hoyt's
___

My condolences.

She must be good in the sack then.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:21 PM (M1r8K)

288 257 Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 19, 2021 10:13 PM (8C7+r)
___

Hubs will start his final year as an apprentice in August/Sept.

He'll be a certified electrician next summer.

I'm so proud of him.
Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:15 PM (M1r8K)

Yay for both of you!

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 19, 2021 10:21 PM (8C7+r)

289 which is why they have night train, mad dog, and thunderbird.
Posted by: confederatefifth
___

Can't say that I've never had any of the above...thank God.
Posted by: S

the difference between us is that you never had to drink a date pretty

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:21 PM (jaNSQ)

290 bought a house with a girl . . .

will choose a nic later

I've bought lots of houses but none of them ever came with a girl. Damn the luck!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2021 10:21 PM (Rvt88)

291 Anyone here old enough to remember getting piss-drunk on Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill "wine"?

"This morning was a very good year."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:21 PM (XGAZE)

292 which is why they have night train, mad dog, and thunderbird.
Posted by: confederatefifth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF_rZrH4yBY

Posted by: Butane Miklos and the Famous Flames at June 19, 2021 10:22 PM (QzkSJ)

293 If you have a bottle of Beaujolais, you can stretch it out if you mix it with the ripple. You can call it BoozeYourLipple.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 19, 2021 10:22 PM (HnNKD)

294 Yes, like real dry salamis, and blue stilton. They show up seasonally at Aldi. They experiment with new products too, most of which don't catch on.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at June 19, 2021 10:16 PM (qpX6U)

Sometimes it's seasonal, but sometimes it's just oddball stuff. I'll keep an eye out for the Stilton; I think there's an Aldi not too far away.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:22 PM (ghoDT)

295 How are the wee chickies doing, Hogmartin?

I tried to convince him to get Silky Bantams and Brahmas.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 19, 2021 10:22 PM (Dc2NZ)

296 https://stoatnet.org/chickenbutt.jpg

Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:18 PM

Tarantula ducks!

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 10:22 PM (wlya7)

297 hogmartin, are those your baby chicks?? I love chickens! We had aracaunas growing up that would sit in your lap. They also laid the prettiest eggs - pink, blue, green, yellow. I didn't have to dye eggs for Easter, we just went to the henhouse.

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:22 PM (JrN/x)

298 256 Glad that's over.

"No kidding" says Pillow-biter D. Hogg (my phone, mommy!).

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2021 10:22 PM (colGo)

299 I saw Chili-n-Rice open for the Noxious Fumers at the Hollywood Bowl in 68.

Posted by: AceOfPhrase at June 19, 2021 10:22 PM (QhtcZ)

300 I remember an interesting analysis of wealth in America. First they showed some of the pretty standard charts you see showing income inequality - and yep you see "the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor"
But then they parsed the data to include age. And what you see is that people get wealthier as they get older - who the rich and poor are is NOT static.

So the issue isn't that we've got a permanent poor and permanent rich class (well not yet). The issue is that it takes time for people to accumulate wealth. The every decreasing number of kids people have would, amusingly, take care of even that - if we stopped importing third world peasants who have to start the cycle from scratch.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2021 10:23 PM (DpkTQ)

301 I was raised on rice, beans and tortillas. I still eat that a lot.

Posted by: jeet at June 19, 2021 10:23 PM (OgGoB)

302 > In middle school, my friends and I made "wine" by dumping yeast into extra-sugary Kool-Aid and letting it sit for #2weeks.

Ah. So you HAVE had Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:23 PM (XGAZE)

303
Ripple, Night Train, and Thunderbird were all made by Ernest and Julio Gallo. You know, they will sell no wine before its time. They did not put their name on the cheap stuff, or at least hid it very well. They did not want the Gallo name associated with the wino wine.

However, it was those that made them their fortune. They've been accused of seeding skid row with free samples of their products, such as Thunderbird. Also, dropping empty bottle in various skid rows to promote brand awareness.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 10:24 PM (Mzdiz)

304 there are bunches of guys that are born rich but do not finish rich.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:24 PM (jaNSQ)

305 Marie, you know how to make Hoggy run away now don'tcha? Just point somewhere and say "oh no, a cicada!!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:24 PM (L2ZTs)

306 love her, but the girl can't clean or cook.
In my experience women under a certain age take pride in that.

Yay feminism!

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2021 10:24 PM (DpkTQ)

307
I don't love money, but it calms my nerves.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2021 10:25 PM (mht8P)

308
I'm so proud of him.
Posted by: SMH

Now see?

I can study at any kollidge or university in SC for free (to me) starting August.

Law School?

Even I might not be devious enough for that.

Posted by: Earl "Miklos" Scheib, will take any case for $99.95 at June 19, 2021 10:25 PM (QzkSJ)

309 I spent months talking myself into buying a new car, even though I have more than enough cash in my savings account yo buy it outright.

Still haven't talked myself into it.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
___

We have one working vehicle, which my hubs uses as his primary vic, for mainly work purposes.

I'd like another vehicle, but since I live in a small town, and everything is in walking distance, it's no biggie for me. Plus, I'm losing weight.

We can now afford another vehicle, but we're leery of taking on any debt, especially when it seems unnecessary.
YMMV, of course.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:25 PM (M1r8K)

310 an old saying

take a rich mans money and he will probably be rich again

give a poor man money, he will probably be poor again

average lottery winner is back where they started in 5 years, reguardless of what the payout is

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:25 PM (bTQ72)

311 Moki -- 1st experience with the cicadas?? What part of the country are you in?

This go round was my 3rd time here in central MD. I think they're awesome!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 10:25 PM (mZUr4)

312 Stephen Price Blair at June 19, 2021 10:11 PM (CX3cf)

That brings back memories! I used to love pot pies.

I'm not sure I qualify as a tightwad anymore from my frugal days but there was a time when I packed cheese so that I could get a $1 happy meal for each girl (only available with a hamburger) and make them into cheeseburgers (which the girls preferred) so they could eat before CCD.

Posted by: Iris at June 19, 2021 10:26 PM (6lKe4)

313 Fred Sanford had a drink that was half mint julep, half Ripple.

He called it a "mint jipple".

I think he had one involving champagne and Ripple, too. A "champipple".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:26 PM (XGAZE)

314 love her, but the girl can't clean or cook.
In my experience women under a certain age take pride in that.

Posted by: 18-1

Words heard on the first date - I can't cook, but I do set a nice table. Come to think of it, that was the last date too.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2021 10:26 PM (Rvt88)

315 Money is a tool.

It does nothing for my nerves, but being able to help your kids is a big plus.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:26 PM (M1r8K)

316 However, it was those that made them their fortune. They've been accused of seeding skid row with free samples of their products, such as Thunderbird. Also, dropping empty bottle in various skid rows to promote brand awareness.
Posted by: publius,

Despicable

Posted by: Miklos from the Highly Ethical Valu-Rite Marketing Team at June 19, 2021 10:26 PM (QzkSJ)

317 Double Black Diamond skier here... lived in Colorado with a season pass for 15 years.

Two groups were total assholes on the slopes... Teenager snowboarders... and Texans (especially if they were in a group).

Keep your Texas 'swagger' on the Bunny hills where it belongs.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2021 10:27 PM (oHd/0)

318 One thing I'll say in defense of the more douchebaggy millennials though is that a lot of them never had much in the way of role models or parent figures outside the education system, so the late unpleasantness is simply the world they know writ large.

Not saying it's right, only that it's what happened.

Posted by: CppThis at June 19, 2021 10:27 PM (8h1h1)

319
I'm not a tightwad, I just suffer from a poverty of desire. My hobby costs me about $100 a year. My wife's hobby is another story altogether.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 19, 2021 10:28 PM (mht8P)

320 Double Black Diamond skier here

___

What does this even mean?

I've lived in warm/hot climates, so please explain.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:28 PM (M1r8K)

321 Still haven't talked myself into it.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

same here

still want an EOS

Posted by: Miklos with First Miklosian World Problems at June 19, 2021 10:28 PM (QzkSJ)

322 286 In middle school, my friends and I made "wine" by dumping yeast into extra-sugary Kool-Aid and letting it sit for #2weeks. Not our fault none of us had older brothers who would buy us beer.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 10:20 PM (3fqGc)

Good preparatory experience.

As a contractor in KSA, I (and others) made Sid (short version of Arabic Siddique, which means "Friend").

Water, sugar, bakers yeast, then distilled on the stove top. Very crude and rough rum. Got the job done though.

One guy had a real M&M Enterprises thing going on. Cleared $10K a month. 75% of the houseboys were his labor force and he had every rooftop in the housing compound cooking mash. Over there, the sun does just fine for the cooking.

My supervisor and I (both with engineering education) ginned up a filtration unit using aquarium filters. Our hooch carried a premium. Decent ersatz kahlua and some berry-ized cordials for the contract nurses.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 19, 2021 10:28 PM (8C7+r)

323 qdpsteve, - get that camera out of my kitchen or I am gonna have to hurt you.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 10:28 PM (Q8bDL)

324 -had much in the way of role models or parent figures outside the education system

this may be part of the prob, the education system has been broken since the 60s or 70s

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:29 PM (bTQ72)

325 My hobby is buying books for the grandbabies.

And it is thriving.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:29 PM (M1r8K)

326 Double Black Diamond skier here

___

What does this even mean?

I've lived in warm/hot climates, so please explain.
Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:28 PM (M1r8K)

It means Romeo13 is a bad ass skier!!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 10:29 PM (mZUr4)

327 Ben Had, bless her wonderful heart, is helping on that front also.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:29 PM (M1r8K)

328 How are the wee chickies doing, Hogmartin?

I tried to convince him to get Silky Bantams and Brahmas.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 19, 2021 10:22 PM (Dc2NZ)

They're doing fine. Cheeping at the moment. That's generally their go-to; scratch, back up, look at the spot they were just standing in, cheep, repeat.

I wouldn't mind a few Polish, but the faux-Ameraucanas should look suitably ridiculous. Still have the opportunity to pick up a pair of &Eth;êthlåyers, which would be metal as hell.

https://tinyl.io/4JQr

Posted by: hogmartin at June 19, 2021 10:29 PM (ghoDT)

329 Hey Doof! Yeah, this is our first Brood X. We're in NoVA, but missed previous broods due to overseas assignments. I grew up with regular cicadas in Texas, but they are nothing like these sideways-flying screamers.

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:30 PM (JrN/x)

330 Boone's Farm is still around, and also a Gallo brand now. I don't remember if it was then.

Apparently it's now classified as a "malt beverage" rather than a "wine", which means it's probably even nastier today.

Sort of like Spam, which, when I was a kid, was marginally edible, but now is not. Same with cheap hot dogs. We probably don't even want to know the sort of things that were done to cheapen hot dogs.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:30 PM (XGAZE)

331 Doof,

Oh.

I grew up surfing.

Can kinda relate.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:30 PM (M1r8K)

332 305

I'm guessing a picture of a cicada would make the poor little one pass out

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2021 10:31 PM (colGo)

333 Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:20 PM (bTQ72)

Lesson I learned when I was suddenly divorced and a full time parent of twins.

Never live beyond YOUR means... not your and HER means... but YOUR means.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2021 10:31 PM (oHd/0)

334 A lot of states will tell you after CA, the big wine production states in order are WA, OR, NY, VA and TX I think these days. I might not have the list exactly right because it does change a bit. And then also states will argue over production vs the number of Vineyards. I think VA is way up there if you are counting vineyards. With all that said, I mention this because I read long ago that Gallo Vineyards alone produce more wine than any other state.
Also, I used to invest in a company called Constellation Brands, ticker symbol STZ. They kicked butt for years to be honest. They are mostly known today for owning Corona distribution in the USA. That is not a bad gig to be honest. But before that they were known for low rent wines, ripples, MD, that kind of stuff. Maybe it was low end, but they made a killing on it.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 10:31 PM (gJfTA)

335 Double Black Diamond skier here

___

What does this even mean?

generally really steep + obstacles and perhaps narrow

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:32 PM (bTQ72)

336 My supervisor and I (both with engineering education) ginned up a filtration unit using aquarium filters. Our hooch carried a premium. Decent ersatz kahlua and some berry-ized cordials for the contract nurses.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf

I knew some Hungarians who made similar hooch on oil platforms in the Gulf (not Mexico, the other one).

They called it "Helicopter" because it would get you up, before it let you down.

Posted by: Miklos did not attempt to recreate this at June 19, 2021 10:32 PM (QzkSJ)

337 I like Raisinets, but always found Goobers to be the superior chocolate coveraged candy.

Though Snow Caps are the best of the three. I enjoy a good non-parallel.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 10:33 PM (dq5Kl)

338 "Keep your Texas 'swagger' on the Bunny hills where it belongs."

Where is Colorado? Is that the atoll near the Marina Islands?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 10:33 PM (83lwH)

339 Quint, my parents used to love Carlo Rossi jug wine.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:33 PM (L2ZTs)

340 There's a vineyard in my little town in IL, and it's not bad at all.

They have a very nice area where you can taste-test their wines and order local delicacies.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:33 PM (M1r8K)

341 The Ozarks were a big wine production region before Prohibition. Very similar climate to parts of France.

I think the industry is coming back to some degree now, though it has to fight past the association of the region with moonshine (which is of course a completely different thing).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:33 PM (XGAZE)

342 So, the momes are going to have to start spending more for vendors

The person who recorded the video and gave it to KPRC said: "I couldn't believe what I was seeing. This guy is taking a dump. There's no doubt about it. What sane person could possibly think, yeah this is a good idea. I'll just put the food that I'm about to sell on the floor."

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:34 PM (jaNSQ)

343 I remember about ten or so years ago the Gallo heirs decided to make some high priced wines with the Gallo name. These were wines in the $15 range. That only lasted a year or so, people refused to accept Gallo as a premium brand. Of course the reality is Gallo makes wines at all levels and wines way more expensive than that. But the name is mostly used for jug wines these days and that is what people expect.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 10:34 PM (gJfTA)

344 What does this even mean?

I've lived in warm/hot climates, so please explain.
Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:28 PM (M1r8K)

Beginner slopes are marked with Blue... Greens are intermediate... Black Diamonds are Hard.

Double black are Expert slopes...

But you still have to be careful because the standard do change State to State... like a Tahoe Black Diamond... would be a Colorado Intermediate.

Just means I've done a lot of skiing over the years... sometimes as much as 30 days a year.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2021 10:34 PM (oHd/0)

345 Rodrigo, what's the difference between moonshine and everclear?

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:34 PM (L2ZTs)

346 colorado is utah without the religin

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:34 PM (jaNSQ)

347 Hey Doof! Yeah, this is our first Brood X. We're in NoVA, but missed previous broods due to overseas assignments. I grew up with regular cicadas in Texas, but they are nothing like these sideways-flying screamers.
Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:30 PM (JrN/x)

Got ya. A Brood X emergence is quite an experience for 4-6 weeks. I already miss the noise. Their weird fluttering style of flying is funny to watch. And they seem to really enjoy kamikaze flights into car windshields and front grills!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 10:35 PM (mZUr4)

348 COMMarie, my youngest g-baby is named Cicada.

Used to be anyway.

Now, her mom allowed her to change her name.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:35 PM (M1r8K)

349 345 Rodrigo, what's the difference between moonshine and everclear?
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:34 PM (L2ZTs)

I know Jorge's in Austin makes everclear margaritas, but I don't think they have moonshine ones.

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:35 PM (JrN/x)

350 c5, yup.

Also INXS was U2 without the Christianity.
(Today, Coldplay is U2 without the Christianity.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:35 PM (L2ZTs)

351 Thanks, romeo.

Pity you can't mark waves the same.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:36 PM (M1r8K)

352 lso INXS was U2 without the Christianity.
(Today, Coldplay is U2 without the Christianity.)
Posted by: q

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:36 PM (jaNSQ)

353 I'm here.
Good Evening everyone. Had a fabulous afternoon at the gun show with a bunch of blog friends. Huge show with lots of stuff to look at and interesting people to talk to. Day capped off with dinner and conversation. Wonderful to go an entire day without having to even think about wearing a mask. Restaurant was packed with normal people doing normal things.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 19, 2021 10:36 PM (sd8p8)

354 >>>Double Black Diamond skier here<
>My buddy used to take me up to those runs. Never had a lesson in my life. Didn't even learn how to snow plow. Went skiing twice. Never again.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 19, 2021 10:36 PM (HnNKD)

355 > Rodrigo, what's the difference between moonshine and everclear?

Sometimes, not much.

There are "craft" moonshiners who do distill for flavor rather than pure alcohol, but they're thin on the ground nowadays.

I've seen home distillation kits on the market. Buying one probably gets you on some kind of list.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:36 PM (XGAZE)

356 Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2021 10:34 PM (oHd/0)

And Yup... Romeo has had a few beers tonight...

Green are Easy... Blue is intermediate... /facepalm

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2021 10:36 PM (oHd/0)

357 Like I would've known.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:37 PM (M1r8K)

358 Quint, my parents used to love Carlo Rossi jug wine.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:33 PM (L2ZTs)

It is very popular. i think you get the equivalent of 5 bottles for about $15. Box wine is usually the equivalent of four bottles.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 10:37 PM (gJfTA)

359 Yay Finnish Snipers.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at June 19, 2021 10:37 PM (Clxcy)

360 I haz seen Texans on skis in the CO.

I grew up skiing and it was painfull to watch

never saw texans in those quantities in OR, WY, ID, UT

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:37 PM (bTQ72)

361 334 Also, I used to invest in a company called Constellation Brands, ticker symbol STZ. They kicked butt for years to be honest. They are mostly known today for owning Corona distribution in the USA. That is not a bad gig to be honest. But before that they were known for low rent wines, ripples, MD, that kind of stuff. Maybe it was low end, but they made a killing on it.
Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 10:31 PM (gJfTA)

They own Mondavi these days, maybe a bit hoi polloi for the wine snobs but not really low-rent and definitely a yuge(tm) presence in the wine world.

Posted by: CppThis at June 19, 2021 10:37 PM (8h1h1)

362 I also only recently learned that "denatured" alcohol?
Is alcohol that's been made inedible.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:37 PM (L2ZTs)

363 "colorado is utah without the religion"

I was lucky, I got to ski some Colorado slopes in the 80s before they became tourist magnets.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 10:37 PM (83lwH)

364 Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:36 PM (M1r8K)

Yup.... surfed a bit when I was in Hawaii... never got really good...

And then... Northshore of Oahu when the big waves were running. Almost killed myself.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2021 10:37 PM (oHd/0)

365 ***I was raised on rice, beans and tortillas. I still eat that a lot.
Posted by: jeet at June 19, 2021 10:23 PM (OgGoB)***

Your nic. Is it a play on words? The first time I met my (very) hillbilly MIL, she said "Jeet?" I had no idea, at the time, what she said or if was even English.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 10:38 PM (Q8bDL)

366 Gnight yall. Sleep well, live well tomorrow.

Posted by: Moki at June 19, 2021 10:38 PM (JrN/x)

367 The Rossi Paisano is very popular.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 10:38 PM (gJfTA)

368 Niters, Moki. : )

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:38 PM (M1r8K)

369 Today my mom is mostly into coffee in the morning.

She loves, loves, loves Creme Brulee-flavored creamer, to the point where I've had to pick up three bottles for her. (My sister also loves it.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:38 PM (L2ZTs)

370 Yay Finnish Snipers.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain

*perfect silence*

Posted by: Finnish Snipers at June 19, 2021 10:38 PM (QzkSJ)

371 I was lucky, I got to ski some Colorado slopes in the 80s before they became tourist magnets.
Posted by: H

nice

have you skiied utah?

my favorite in utah is alta, if you stay at Snowbird.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:39 PM (jaNSQ)

372 Beginner slopes are marked with Blue... Greens are intermediate... Black Diamonds are Hard...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2021 10:34 PM

Green is easiest, blue is intermediate level...

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 10:39 PM (wlya7)

373 I was reading about KFC and wiki said that Col. Sanders began the franchise from his roadside chicken restaurant during the Great Depression. That surprised me. I did not think Kentucky had roads that long ago.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 19, 2021 10:39 PM (KAi1n)

374 *perfect silence*

That's how you know they are there. Even the insects have bugged out.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 10:39 PM (83lwH)

375 Giving someone a middle-class lifestyle and hoping
that they will automatically morph into a middle-class person is wishful
thinking at best and more akin to cargo-cult thinking. Posted by: Lord Squirrel at June 19, 2021 09:05 PM (K5n5d)

Hey, look. We've done the rites wrong a bit, we had it almost but now we have it zeroed in. John Frum will come, soon, with his cargo.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2021 10:39 PM (ySM85)

376 > Your nic. Is it a play on words? The first time I met my (very) hillbilly MIL, she said "Jeet?"

"Yoncher all chicked?" -- something you'd hear at a full-service gas station in Appalachia or the Ozarks.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:40 PM (XGAZE)

377 Green is easiest, blue is intermediate level...
Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 10:39 PM (wlya7)

Yeah.... caught meself...

Mea Culpa... mea culpa

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2021 10:40 PM (oHd/0)

378 Giving someone a middle-class lifestyle and hoping
that they will automatically morph into a middle-class person is wishful
thinking at best and more akin to cargo-cult thinking

this is true

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:40 PM (jaNSQ)

379 And Yup... Romeo has had a few beers tonight...

Green are Easy... Blue is intermediate... /facepalm
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2021 10:36 PM (oHd/0)

LOL! I thought about pointing out your mistake but chose not to. I figured it had just been so long since you were on a blue or green trail that you just forgot which was which!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 10:40 PM (mZUr4)

380 um
one of the INXS guys would wear a
Jesus Rocks t shirt

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:40 PM (bTQ72)

381 Howdy, Horde!

Just watched a What Culture video on YT -- 10 Blatant Paycheck Movie Roles. One was Max von Sydow in "Flash Gordon." (I love that movie).

von Sydow had a blast making the movie. Per a commenter, he'd stay in costume, hide behind stuff, then jump out and scare cast or crew for a laugh.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 19, 2021 10:40 PM (njAaQ)

382 "have you skiied utah?"

Nope never been. For some reason our Church Youth Group thought snow only fell in Colorado.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 19, 2021 10:41 PM (83lwH)

383 Things I have denied myself long after I could get a better one.
A Grill, as a single and shortly after getting married, I bought a cheap table top grill. About 10 years ago I bought a standard webber kettle grill and it has fallen apart. Currently is is being held up by two saw horses since the legs fell off (more like rusted off) of it. About 5 or 6 years ago I looked up and downloaded plans for a UDS (Ugly Drum Smoker). It literally is a 55 gallon drum that is an upright smoker, but I absolutely love and cherish them both. I made Bacon Wrapped Chicken Kabobs tonight on the Webber, And I will be smoking a pork shoulder this week in the smoker and I have made Turkeys for Thanksgiving in it, and I was told if I make it next year my sister inlaw will skip going to the other family to have the turkey.
I have seen the Smokey Joe Bronco smoker for 250.00 but I am like, nah to much I will think about getting one when my drum smoker collapses, but that will take another 10 to 20 years before the metal fatigues enough because the temps never really get above 300 degrees.

Posted by: Picric at June 19, 2021 10:41 PM (3QnyK)

384 SFGoth, hmmm/LOL. :-)

I remember reading once that Harlan Sanders became a cook, mainly because his mother was either divorced or widowed, had to work, and couldn't have dinner on the table at a regular time. So Harlan taught himself and ended up becoming the family chef.

I've also heard that Sanders claimed his mother was a terrible cook.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:41 PM (L2ZTs)

385 They own Mondavi these days, maybe a bit hoi polloi
for the wine snobs but not really low-rent and definitely a yuge(tm)
presence in the wine world.

Posted by: CppThis at June 19, 2021 10:37 PM (8h1h1)

they have made a lot of changes over the last few years. I think they got rid of some of their low end brands for some reason. They have even invested in pot as I recall. But the key for them is Modelo and Corona. It used to be the very low end wines, not Mondavi, but more Wild Irish Rose and such.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 10:41 PM (gJfTA)

386 Whatchu talkin about?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 19, 2021 10:41 PM (vuisn)

387 I'm not sure I qualify as a tightwad anymore…

I’m a very ineffective tightwad. I will go on long, roundabout drives specifically to stop off at bookstores and antique stores along the way. And then not buy a $5 item because it should only cost $2.50.

Gets me out of the house occasionally and keeps me from filling it with (too much) junk at the same time.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 19, 2021 10:41 PM (CX3cf)

388 Green is easiest, blue is intermediate level...
Posted by: Zettai

Like Daywalking, Cafe, ONT...?

Posted by: Innocent lil' Miklos at June 19, 2021 10:41 PM (QzkSJ)

389 I have been watching videos of people building and using electric discharge machines to do engraving and CNC work.
This is magic.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2021 10:42 PM (ySM85)

390 Sniper Check: All boxes except for top left?
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur

Nicely done! But look closer; the really obvious one in the bottom-left is a decoy.

Posted by: mikeski at June 19, 2021 10:42 PM (P1f+c)

391 Nope never been. For some reason our Church Youth Group thought snow only fell in Colorado.
Posted by: H

give it a chance some time.

I have a group of friends that goes to Alta for an annual trip, that nobody has made for years now.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:42 PM (jaNSQ)

392 #322
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 19, 2021 10:28 PM (8C7+r)

this is so bad ass

'MURICA

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:42 PM (bTQ72)

393 Are there any finiish snipers in the picture? Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 19, 2021 10:42 PM (sd8p8)

394 My dad spent almost 20 years in the Navy by the time I was watching 70s sitcoms, and I grew up hearing much, much worse between my mom and dad when they fought than anything shown on TV at the time.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:42 PM (M1r8K)

395 will choose, really? Didn't know that.

I've also read that of the four regular members of U2, Bono, The Edge and another are Christians, and the last one (drummer?) is an atheist.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:42 PM (L2ZTs)

396 Posted by: jeet at June 19, 2021 10:23 PM (OgGoB)***

Your nic. Is it a play on words? The first time I met my (very) hillbilly MIL, she said "Jeet?" I had no idea, at the time, what she said or if was even English.
Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 10:38 PM (Q8bDL)

Person 1: Jeet yet?
Person 2: No Jew?

Translation -- Did you eat yet? No, did you?

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 10:43 PM (mZUr4)

397 348

I guess I'd be curious as to why someone would name a kid that.
At least she got to change it.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2021 10:43 PM (colGo)

398 > John Frum will come, soon, with his cargo.

I haven't heard yet what the cargo cultists have made of the death of Prince Philip. If I remember right, he was considered a messianic figure by at least some of them.

(checks Wikipedia) Apparently the Prince Philip cultists are different from the John Frum cultists. John From was John From America.

Probably depends on whether the Americans or the Brits/Aussies/New Zealanders started unloading that sweet, sweet cargo first.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:43 PM (XGAZE)

399 -someone a middle-class lifestyle and hoping
that they will automatically morph into a middle-class person is wishful
thinking at best and more akin to cargo-cult thinking

the movie verson of this is called
Pain and Gain

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:43 PM (bTQ72)

400 Today my mom is mostly into coffee in the morning.

She loves, loves, loves Creme Brulee-flavored creamer, to the point
where I've had to pick up three bottles for her. (My sister also loves
it.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:38 PM (L2ZTs)

you had me at creme brulee. I used to make that quite often. People would get a kick out of it because I didn't have a kitchen torch. I got the torch from the garage because what else are you going to do?

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 10:43 PM (gJfTA)

401 Whatchu talkin about?
Posted by: Dr. Varno

Willis.

Liz Willis from Right Side (RSBN)

Posted by: Innocent lil' MiklosMiklos can answer tis question at June 19, 2021 10:43 PM (QzkSJ)

402 Seeing the Dow futures down 622 after the 500 down on Friday had indicated to retired me that it may be back to those early poverty days and my clever ways to stretch a buck.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at June 19, 2021 10:44 PM (cRbt7)

403 Translation -- Did you eat yet? No, did you?

.....

No. Yantoo?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 10:44 PM (dq5Kl)

404 green ski slopes: "also suitable for inner-tubing with the kids"

blue ski slopes: "might not be a bad idea to make sure you've made your health insurance payment"

black diamond ski slopes: "Don't end up like Sonny Bono"

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:44 PM (L2ZTs)

405 Quint, oh yeah. That sugar glass on top is da bomb. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:45 PM (L2ZTs)

406 My granddaughter is five years old.

I still call her Cicada, and it's fitting for her.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:45 PM (M1r8K)

407 Translation -- Did you eat yet? No, did you?

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 10:43 PM (mZUr4)

Jeet yet? Yontu?

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 10:45 PM (gJfTA)

408 The 70's certainly did not lack for hair.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 19, 2021 10:45 PM (KAi1n)

409 is there a new thing with kids that do some kind of rage hulk thing?

there were some kids running around and playing the other day and there was some kid about 5 standing off by his ownself, doing some kind of bodybuilder thing and just rage screaming.

my thought is he might have some issues

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:45 PM (jaNSQ)

410 Are there any finiish snipers in the picture? Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

The picture is entirely made up of Finnish snipers in remarkable camouflage.

Posted by: Miklos, getting to the pointilisme at June 19, 2021 10:45 PM (QzkSJ)

411 In lieu of pet thread I found a black snake in my front yard.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 19, 2021 10:46 PM (vuisn)

412 Since neither of my granddaughters have BCs, point is moot.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:46 PM (M1r8K)

413 330 ...Sort of like Spam, which, when I was a kid, was marginally edible, but now is not...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:30 PM (XGAZE)

You just gotta cook it non-CBD style:
1. Smoked, not sous vide
2. Drizzle with maple syrup and let it get candied.

No comment on carrots.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 19, 2021 10:46 PM (8C7+r)

414
I think Gallo has about 25% market share of wine in the US, under a shit-ton of various brand names. Barefoot is owned by Gallo.

Boone's Farm replaced Ripple, according to what I was reading. They changed it today to "malt based" because of state tax laws or something.

Ripple was only about 11% alcohol by volume, compared to Night Train which is 18%. Thunderbird varied from 13 - 18%.

Ripple was popular amongst underaged drinkers, high school and college students at the peak of its run. They are accusations that Gallo sort of helped this along with its "marketing".

Ernest Gallo was the marketing man, and he was proud of his success. Story was he was in Atlanta, and to prove his point, drove out into one of low end sections, saw some bum on the street, and shouted, "What's the word?"

The bum immediately replied, "Thunderbird". Gallo was very proud of that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 10:46 PM (Mzdiz)

415 Rodrigo - full service gas station?!! Yeah I remember those.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 10:47 PM (Q8bDL)

416 > About 10 years ago I bought a standard webber kettle grill and it has fallen apart.

Something else that's been crapped up, apparently.

The Weber kettle here is easily 40 years old, and it's just fine. The legs have surface rust, but are still sturdy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:47 PM (XGAZE)

417 there were some kids running around and playing the other day and there was some kid about 5 standing off by his ownself, doing some kind of bodybuilder thing and just rage screaming.

my thought is he might have some issues
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:45 PM (jaNSQ)

Remember the women who were literally screaming when Trump won?

Yeah... one of them is his Mom.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2021 10:47 PM (oHd/0)

418 Bacon Spam is delicious.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 10:47 PM (dq5Kl)

419 Miklos, if anyone else had said that I'd probably believe them.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 19, 2021 10:47 PM (sd8p8)

420 INXS was also a bunch of brothers plus the singer, methinks,

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:47 PM (bTQ72)

421 The 70's certainly did not lack for hair.
Posted by: SFGoth
___

Oh, I had hair back then, living in the East Bay.

Unfortunately, I wanted an Afro at the time, but the lil black kids teased me that I had "white pepo's hair"

Fights would ensure, and my dad would have to teach me fighting techniques.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:48 PM (M1r8K)

422 390 It's a trick question. Simho Hayha is behind the viewer.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 19, 2021 10:48 PM (njAaQ)

423 I guess I'd be curious as to why someone would name a kid that.
At least she got to change it.
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Apparently some kids get named 'Mountain".

*shrugs*

Posted by: Miklos, inclusively non-judgemental, and diverse too, have to say that at June 19, 2021 10:48 PM (QzkSJ)

424 Doof - I coulda used you as a translator. I swear it was a year before I understood most of what my MIL said.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 10:48 PM (Q8bDL)

425 Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 10:46 PM (Mzdiz)

Strawberry Hill... Apple Annie. There were a couple of others I can't remember...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2021 10:48 PM (oHd/0)

426 Boone's Farm replaced Ripple,

not old enough for Ripple, but have had Boons Farms

the taste was interesting .......

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:49 PM (bTQ72)

427 we had a restaurant that would deliver to us.

we were good customers and new we were always going to order again so they would bring us creme brul in the crockry dishes.

we would wash the dishes and when the next order was brought to us we would swp for new creme brul.

it was kind of a not for the homlss recyclint thing.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:49 PM (jaNSQ)

428 I was reading about KFC and wiki said that Col. Sanders began the franchise from his roadside chicken restaurant during the Great Depression. That surprised me. I did not think Kentucky had roads that long ago.
Posted by: SFGoth at June 19, 2021 10:39 PM (KAi1n)

Fun Fact: the Colonel shot a bitch dead, in some sort of dispute (male bitch, not female)

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 19, 2021 10:49 PM (sJHOI)

429 > Rodrigo - full service gas station?!! Yeah I remember those.

We still have two in town, I think. I know of one for sure because that's where my family members who've converted to the propane grill heresy buy propane.

They still have service bays with actual mechanics, too.

It's like stepping into a time warp to go into that place and have the guy come out, wash your windows and check your oil and coolant while you're filling up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:49 PM (XGAZE)

430 Remember the women who were literally screaming when Trump won?

Yeah... one of them is his Mom.
Posted by: R

it was very weird

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:50 PM (jaNSQ)

431 shouted, "What's the word?"

The bum immediately replied, "Thunderbird". Gallo was very proud of that.
Posted by: publius

Everybody knows that the thunderbird is a word.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 19, 2021 10:50 PM (KAi1n)

432 actually I think it was Gallo produces more than all other states combined. that was the big reveal. I think that is right or was right at one point.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 10:51 PM (gJfTA)

433 INXS was also a bunch of brothers plus the singer, methinks,
Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 10:47 PM (bTQ72)

3 brothers (Last name Farris). Plus 3 other guys. Michael Hutchence, Gary Gary Beers, Kirk Pengilly. I'm a YUUUUUGE fan!

Great 2 part biopic available on Amazon Prime called "Never Year Us Apart". Was originally on Australian TV. Mrs Doof and I have watched it multiple times.

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 10:51 PM (mZUr4)

434 410 The picture is entirely made up of Finnish snipers in remarkable camouflage.
Posted by: Miklos, getting to the pointilisme at June 19, 2021 10:45 PM (QzkSJ)
No. Just no.
It is a single scene. At most:
1 Sniper
1 observer
2 man team for local security

Tall, skinny pine trees. All personnel in the bottom row. Palm trees in the S Pacific? Different matter, but no Finns.

"Smart Mil blog". Be better.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 19, 2021 10:51 PM (8C7+r)

435 The term for female is "bitch". The term for male is "asshole".

Posted by: SFGoth at June 19, 2021 10:51 PM (KAi1n)

436 "Never Year Us Apart"

you using my computer?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:51 PM (jaNSQ)

437 Everybody knows that the thunderbird is a word.
Posted by: SFGoth

We...we can work with that.

Posted by: Miklos, chanelling the Trashmen with Surfin' Bird at June 19, 2021 10:51 PM (QzkSJ)

438 KFC's history is interesting. They were nationwide while McDonalds was still a tiny group of stores.

Also, Sanders didn't start off franchising whole restaurants; he just licensed his recipe. It wasn't until 1959 or so that he and others had the idea to open up whole restaurants.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:52 PM (L2ZTs)

439 lol IMG

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:52 PM (M1r8K)

440 MD 20/20 is what hate tastes like. I was in a fraternity in college in the '80s and this was part of their tradition. It is godawful

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 19, 2021 10:52 PM (sJHOI)

441 When we got married my husband had 1 pair of shoes and I had 2. It was years and years before I figured out I could afford a second pair of shoes. He got his very first pair of dress shoes that he went to the store and purchased, not hand me downs from his older 4 brothers or bought through his dad's workplace special (Hush Puppy steel toed shoes in drab gray) the year after we married. We still have that pair of shoes. 43 years old they are.

Posted by: tecumsehtea at June 19, 2021 10:52 PM (skoMC)

442 Doof, I've always had the impression Michael Hutchence was obsessed with Jim Morrison, to the point that it's one of the reasons he died/suicided young.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:52 PM (L2ZTs)

443 Doof - I coulda used you as a translator. I swear it was a year before I understood most of what my MIL said.
Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 10:48 PM (Q8bDL)

I also speak Jive - but not as well as Barbara Billingsley

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 10:53 PM (mZUr4)

444 The term for female is "bitch". The term for male is "asshole".
Posted by: SFGoth
___

What if you're a female that's been called an asshole more than a bitch?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:53 PM (M1r8K)

445 MD 20/20 is what hate tastes like. I was in a fraternity in college in the '80s and this was part of their tradition. It is godawful
Posted by: g

If you had kissed my old girlfriend you would know mad dog tastes nothing of hate.

she was kind of angry. as angry goes

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:53 PM (jaNSQ)

446 Seeing the Dow futures down 622 after the 500 down on Friday had
indicated to retired me that it may be back to those early poverty days
and my clever ways to stretch a buck.

Posted by: Stellastwocent
Where are you seeing this? I just checked and the Nikkei is down but Dow and SP show green. You rarely see accurate futures on a Saturday anyways. Don;t panic people for no reason.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 19, 2021 10:53 PM (sd8p8)

447 Bacon Spam is delicious.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 10:47 PM (dq5Kl)

I didn't know until a few years ago that Spam is the most cherished food in Hawaii. It is like grits in the Deep South. Even high end chefs will make their own version of Spam and use it in dishes because it is a major Hawaii comfort food. We never ate it growing up.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 10:54 PM (gJfTA)

448 MRS Peel, judicious shopping at thrift shops can get you decent if unmatched towels. I have so many towels I don't have room for them.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2021 10:54 PM (ySM85)

449 shot a asshole doesn't sound as good as shot a bitch

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 19, 2021 10:54 PM (sJHOI)

450 Bacon Spam is delicious.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger
___

Portagee spam mo' bettah.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:54 PM (M1r8K)

451 acon Spam is delicious.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 10:47 PM (dq5Kl)

especially when you are used to chitlins

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:54 PM (jaNSQ)

452 A genius put "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" to video of North Koreans marching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsz-_fgWspo

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 19, 2021 10:54 PM (Dc2NZ)

453 Ugh. I did my senior ad campaigns class on Gallo wine.
Will never drink it.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 19, 2021 10:55 PM (vuisn)

454 Happy Impregnating Parent Day tomorrow everyone!

Posted by: buzzion at June 19, 2021 10:56 PM (vMCab)

455 shot a asshole doesn't sound as good as shot a bitch
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah

___

Said assholes/bitches sometimes shoot back.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:56 PM (M1r8K)

456 There's a rumor that Spam is so popular in the Pacific Islands because it is the closest available substitute for human meat in the traditional recipes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:56 PM (XGAZE)

457 >>>MD 20/20 is what hate tastes like. I was in a
fraternity in college in the '80s and this was part of their tradition.
It is godawful

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah<
>Could have been worse, or equal. Get yourself a bottle of Jeremiah Weed.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 19, 2021 10:56 PM (HnNKD)

458
There was fellow around here, named "Mookie". He did odd jobs, you might say. I hired him occasionally. One of his conditions was to be paid money of course (he preferred $1 bills, or as small as you could manage. It made his wallet fatter. I kid you not).

But also, he wanted to be paid in liquor. At quitting time, you had to run to the ABC store, and buy him his choice.

He was a fan of the "fortified wines". I was warned under no circumstances let him have any Mad Dog 20/20. He'll get wild and want to fight. Anything else if fine, but no MD 20/20.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 10:57 PM (Mzdiz)

459 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsz-_fgWspo
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 19, 2021 10:54 PM (Dc2NZ)

what is a nice lady lik you doing here at this hour?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:57 PM (jaNSQ)

460 We never ate it growing up.
Posted by: Quint
___

I grew up in Hawaii in the 80s.

Yeah, it's a big deal there.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:57 PM (M1r8K)

461 414
Great story.
'Whats the word? Thunderbird!'

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2021 10:57 PM (colGo)

462 MD 20/20 is what hate tastes like. I was in a fraternity in college in the '80s and this was part of their tradition. It is godawful
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah

What does not kill me makes me stronger

Posted by: Miklos, Nitzschean Alternative Healer for all Modalities at June 19, 2021 10:58 PM (QzkSJ)

463 Doof, I've always had the impression Michael Hutchence was obsessed with Jim Morrison, to the point that it's one of the reasons he died/suicided young.
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 10:52 PM (L2ZTs)

Watch the biopic I mentioned. Or any documentary about INXS / Michael Hutchence.

There was an incident in the early 90s when he was dating Helena Christensen (lucky man, he was!) -- I think involving a cab driver. MH fell and suffered some serious head trauma. It affected his demeanor significantly. Then he got involved with the wacko Paula Yates. There was a lot of drama involving custody of her kids - who were from her time with Bob Geldof. She was supposed to visit him with the kids (including the daughter they had together) the day he died. Sad story - and an incredible talent gone too soon

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 10:59 PM (mZUr4)

464 What does not kill me makes me stronger
Posted by: Miklos, N

this does not always go as expected

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 10:59 PM (jaNSQ)

465 462 MD 20/20 is what hate tastes like. I was in a fraternity in college in the '80s and this was part of their tradition. It is godawful
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah

What does not kill me makes me stronger
Posted by: Miklos, Nitzschean Alternative Healer for all Modalities at June 19, 2021 10:58 PM (QzkSJ)

In this case I think it makes you wish you were dead the next morning.

Posted by: buzzion at June 19, 2021 10:59 PM (vMCab)

466 Making butterscotch cookies.

I love the smell of butterscotch.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:59 PM (M1r8K)

467 He was a fan of the "fortified wines". I was warned under no circumstances let him have any Mad Dog 20/20. He'll get wild and want to fight. Anything else if fine, but no MD 20/20.
Posted by: publius

Was "Mookie" an electrician by chance?

Posted by: Miklos, just wondrin' at June 19, 2021 11:00 PM (QzkSJ)

468 Lol lol lol

Colorado passed a law that any company with at least 1 employee in the state has to reveal all salaries of all employees. So companies have started saying Nobody From Colorado need Apply on job ads for remote positions.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 19, 2021 11:00 PM (/RHL4)

469 I keep reading how hot Death Valley has become lately.

Uh, duh??!! It's called DEATH VALLEY, dummy!

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 11:00 PM (L2ZTs)

470 I still hit the clearance meat section at Albertsons before I decide what I'm cooking for dinner. We almost never go out to eat. We have the money to because we don't do it. It isn't sacrifice if it is habit.

Posted by: BSKB at June 19, 2021 11:00 PM (yh8/W)

471

R'uh r'oh, R'eorge...

An individual driving a pickup truck has killed one homosexual, and maimed two more after ramming the participants at the Fort Likkerdale homosexual parade in what is being called a "terrorist attack"...

Congresswymyn Debbie Wasserman-Schultz who was in attendance was almost struck!

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 11:00 PM (wlya7)

472 totally off topic observation - at about 8pm this evening, the lady next door had some girlfriends drop by. They were out riding their bicycles. It is now midnight and they are back, having fun, laughing, not being obnoxious or anything.

I can't help but wonder why 6 thirty-ish women, whoi are not totally unattractive, do not have better options for a Saturday night.

I've been dateless before on a Saturday, but I never had 5 also dateless friends to hang out with.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 11:01 PM (Q8bDL)

473 Doof, I'll check it out thanks!

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 11:01 PM (L2ZTs)

474 SMH, I love butterscotch cookies. Can you please being some to the MoMe?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 19, 2021 11:01 PM (sd8p8)

475 He was a fan of the "fortified wines". I was warned under no circumstances let him have any Mad Dog 20/20. He'll get wild and want to fight. Anything else if fine, but no MD 20/20.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear

My mom had a friend like that, except it was shots of Hot Damn. Every bartender in town knew not to give her any.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 11:01 PM (3fqGc)

476 433 "Don't Change" plus other early INXS are a lot of fun, too.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 19, 2021 11:01 PM (njAaQ)

477 439 lol IMG
Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:52 PM (M1r8K)

Not sure which one post to bow for.

Not that I would.

1SG Callabero would disapprove and might track me down and take me to ask. Not worth the risk.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 19, 2021 11:01 PM (8C7+r)

478 lol sharon,

just remind me.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:01 PM (M1r8K)

479 Purchase a can of Bacon Spam.

Slice it off in about 1/4" thick slices.

Heat a cast iron pan to medium heat. Sear both sides of the Spam until a golden crust forms. Eat the bacon Spam.

You will first say, this isn't bacon, but then you will eat it all and enjoy it. Then you'll cook the rest and eat it too. Then you'll know that even though bacon is better, Spam is good. Just like Steak-umms.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 11:01 PM (dq5Kl)

480 I grew up in Hawaii in the 80s.

Yeah, it's a big deal there.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 10:57 PM (M1r8K)

that seems like a cool place to grow up. I went once but was too young too remember it.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 11:01 PM (gJfTA)

481 You know that "close out" music bars crank after last call to chase out the stragglers?
Bartender buddy of mine says playing Slayer will make fights break out every time.

Go figure.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 19, 2021 11:02 PM (vuisn)

482 For years I've wanted to get INXS's earliest albums, Shabooh Shoobah and The Swing.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 11:02 PM (L2ZTs)

483 472 totally off topic observation - at about 8pm this evening, the lady next door had some girlfriends drop by. They were out riding their bicycles. It is now midnight and they are back, having fun, laughing, not being obnoxious or anything.

I can't help but wonder why 6 thirty-ish women, whoi are not totally unattractive, do not have better options for a Saturday night.

I've been dateless before on a Saturday, but I never had 5 also dateless friends to hang out with.
Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 11:01 PM (Q8bDL)

Are you certain you're not witnessing three dates?

Posted by: buzzion at June 19, 2021 11:02 PM (vMCab)

484 You know that "close out" music bars crank after last call to chase out the stragglers?
Bartender buddy of mine says playing Slayer will make fights break out every time.

Go figure.
Posted by: Dr. Varno

At the bar I closed at 4AM, it was John Wayne "America-That's Why I Love Her"

Posted by: Miklos, also with bright lights, ergo sunglasses for staff at June 19, 2021 11:04 PM (QzkSJ)

485 just remind me.

Posted by: SMH
I won;t forget. (-:

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 19, 2021 11:04 PM (sd8p8)

486
I saw INXS in Seattle in 91 or 92

they were fun

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 11:04 PM (bTQ72)

487 >> Was "Mookie" an electrician by chance?

Mookie has been dead for maybe 15 years, I think, the way time is flying. I'm trying to remember the details. He was up here, living in a shack of a trailer owned by his sister and her husband. From what I was told, he was actually making good money as a bulldozer operator downstate, but suffered some sort of head injury, and he wasn't right in the head since.

His sister "took care of him", which included taking all of his disability and other govt. assistance checks, from what I gathered.

He was actually a very good worker, quite jovial. You needed to be there with him all the time, but that's how he made spending money.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 11:04 PM (Mzdiz)

488 472 totally off topic observation - at about 8pm this evening, the lady next door had some girlfriends drop by. They were out riding their bicycles. It is now midnight and they are back, having fun, laughing, not being obnoxious or anything.

I can't help but wonder why 6 thirty-ish women, whoi are not totally unattractive, do not have better options for a Saturday night.

I've been dateless before on a Saturday, but I never had 5 also dateless friends to hang out with.
Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 11:01 PM (Q8bDL)

Sounds like a group date to me. Kids these days...

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 19, 2021 11:05 PM (8C7+r)

489 "Don't Change" plus other early INXS are a lot of fun, too.
Posted by: callsign claymore at June 19, 2021 11:01 PM (njAaQ)

"Don't Change" is one of my favorite INXS songs! It's in regular rotation on a few of my playlists. Also "Shine Like It Does" from their incredible 1985 album LISTEN LIKE THIEVES.

Did I mention that I'm a YUUUUUGE fan?!?

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:05 PM (mZUr4)

490 you ever have a night where the wife is in thing about her sister.

you decide to go out for sushi

and just say, "just bring me the fugu"

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:05 PM (jaNSQ)

491 The msm is going apeshit that it was 117 or whatever in Las Vegas. Global warming!!! We all gonna die.

I was in LV once when it was 112. I mean yeah maybe it is a bit warmer but fuck by the time you cross the 110 mark, it really makes little difference iYet the media is making it seem like everyone is about to drop dead cuz the heat.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 19, 2021 11:05 PM (/RHL4)

492 the yutes go for Four Loko now I think. They should have tried Cisco. Now that stuff will light you up. It was pretty much banned in most places but I think it still exists.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 11:05 PM (gJfTA)

493 Are you certain you're not witnessing three dates?
Posted by: buzzion

Now see?

We can have nice things.

*telephoto lens required*

Posted by: Miklos, on the Bright Side at June 19, 2021 11:05 PM (QzkSJ)

494 I started making bread when the cost of a loaf went up to 50 cents. I taught myself to cook about the same time because it was cheaper.

Nowadays I still get a roasted chicken, eat the meat, and cook the bones down for broth. The broth goes to make the homemade refried beans.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2021 11:05 PM (ySM85)

495 416. Yes I remember putting it together, thinking these do not seem to sturdy and several years later I drilled holes where the spot weld failed and used small screws to give it some more life. When the legs finally did give out one day grilling, I put it on the saw horses to get me through the season. I am on my second season of that.

Posted by: Picric at June 19, 2021 11:06 PM (3QnyK)

496 Doof, is it just me or does the Listen Like Thieves album have a kind of Led Zeppelin vibe?

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 11:06 PM (L2ZTs)

497 For years I've wanted to get INXS's earliest albums, Shabooh Shoobah and The Swing.
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 11:02 PM (L2ZTs)

They actually had 2 or 3 before those. But those albums are really good!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:06 PM (mZUr4)

498 Time for bed.
Have a good night.Sweet dreams.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 19, 2021 11:07 PM (sd8p8)

499 why 6 thirty-ish women, whoi are not totally unattractive, do not have better options for a Saturday night.

I've been dateless before on a Saturday, but I never had 5 also dateless friends to hang out with.
Posted by: cfo mom

my thought is that you are using the woman's defnitin of attractive and not the men's

either that or they are doing each other.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:07 PM (jaNSQ)

500 472

Having a date on a Saturday night, or any night, is not really a thing anymore. Especially not in an era of swipe left to get laid in 20 mins.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 19, 2021 11:07 PM (/RHL4)

501 Doof, is it just me or does the Listen Like Thieves album have a kind of Led Zeppelin vibe?
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 19, 2021 11:06 PM (L2ZTs)

I never noticed that vibe. Gives me a good reason to listen to the album another time! I'll let you know tomorrow night if I agree!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:09 PM (mZUr4)

502 why 6 thirty-ish women, whoi are not totally unattractive, do not have better options for a Saturday night.

I've been dateless before on a Saturday, but I never had 5 also dateless friends to hang out with.
Posted by: cfo mom

just because there is no screaming and crying does not mean they are not having sex.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:09 PM (jaNSQ)

503 I have/had
Underneath the colors
Shaboo Shabah
The Swing
Listen like theives
Kick
X
Welcome to wherever you are

after that, I still like the old stuff, new not so much

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 11:09 PM (bTQ72)

504 by the way, for fun go into your favorite average sushi restaurant and order the fugu

hilarity ensues

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:10 PM (jaNSQ)

505 I was married in my 30s with kids...getting deployed.

I have nothing in common with 30-somethings now.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:10 PM (M1r8K)

506 Good night, all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 11:11 PM (XGAZE)

507 484 You know that "close out" music bars crank after last call to chase out the stragglers?
Bartender buddy of mine says playing Slayer will make fights break out every time.

Go figure.
Posted by: Dr. Varno
.....
I worked at a bar where the owner would play that stupid song "Closing Time" for about the first three years after it hit the radio charts.

I hated it. I grew to hate the owner. I hated my job and my life because of that song. I sometimes fantasized about my boss getting shot in the chest by a robber.

Now ask me about "I Love This Bar" by Toby Keith. Ask me about playing it back to back on the jukebox with "Red Solo Cup".

ASK ME MOTHERF^CKER.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 11:11 PM (dq5Kl)

508 How come I can't stop eating Honey Vanilla Bourbon Candied Pecans?

I thought I'd have "just a few."

The can is almost empty.

Posted by: Dan at June 19, 2021 11:11 PM (+NG5U)

509 buzzion, a good point that I had not considered.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 11:12 PM (Q8bDL)

510 >>>Bartender buddy of mine says playing Slayer will make fights break out every time.<

>You're kidding me? You're supposed to play Barry Manilow and Neil Sedaka.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 19, 2021 11:12 PM (HnNKD)

511 How come I can't stop eating Honey Vanilla Bourbon Candied Pecans?
___

Oooh.

The only thing I need is the bourbon.

Will make that next week.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:12 PM (M1r8K)

512 Hub's mom sent us a metric fuckton of pecans, currently chilling in the freezer.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:13 PM (M1r8K)

513

Everyone's run off to try and hack into cfo mom's security cameras, I suppose...

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 11:13 PM (wlya7)

514 I have/had
Underneath the colors, Shaboo Shabah, The Swing, Listen like theives, Kick, X
Welcome to wherever you are

after that, I still like the old stuff, new not so much
Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 11:09 PM (bTQ72)

You have all the ones that matter.

I also have quite a few, shall we say, "unofficial" live recordings. One of them is from Nov 1985 -- an incredible performance of pre-Kick material. Show opens with a really good performance of "Johnson's Aeroplane". I listen to that show quite often.

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:14 PM (mZUr4)

515 489 Doof, "The One Thing" hoovered up the air play on MTV.

Then boom! In comes this exuberant tune, "Don't Change."

Kind of reminds me of early U2 -- youth, loads of energy, a new band that has massive potential.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 19, 2021 11:14 PM (njAaQ)

516 by the way, for fun go into your favorite average sushi restaurant and order the fugu

hilarity ensues
Posted by: confederatefifth

fugugettaboutit

Posted by: Miklos, the New Jersey mobbed-up sushi front operation guy at June 19, 2021 11:14 PM (QzkSJ)

517 Now ask me about "I Love This Bar" by Toby Keith. Ask me about playing it back to back on the jukebox with "Red Solo Cup".

ASK ME MOTHERF^CKER.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 11:11 PM (dq5Kl)

I feel that way about most country music. Previous job the only station that came on in the radio was country. I swear they played "cowboys and angels" 3 times in an 8 hour shift. Also way too many country music songs about country music.

Posted by: buzzion at June 19, 2021 11:15 PM (vMCab)

518 472 qdpsteve, "The Swing" is a good album.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 19, 2021 11:15 PM (njAaQ)

519 Everyone's run off to try and hack into cfo mom's security cameras, I suppose...
Posted by: Zettai

Drones

Posted by: Miklosov, Russian teenage hacker at June 19, 2021 11:15 PM (QzkSJ)

520 There are "craft" moonshiners who do distill for flavor rather than pure alcohol, but they're thin on the ground nowadays.

I've seen home distillation kits on the market. Buying one probably gets you on some kind of list.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 19, 2021 10:36 PM (XGAZE)

there is really good moonshie. Like the stuff Uncle Jesse made. They usually flavor it like the famous apple pie version.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 11:15 PM (gJfTA)

521 Everyone's run off to try and hack into cfo mom's security cameras, I suppose...
Posted by: Zettai
___

I'm baking cookies.

No cookies for you.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:15 PM (M1r8K)

522 An individual driving a pickup truck has killed one homosexual, and maimed two more after ramming the participants at the Fort Likkerdale homosexual parade in what is being called a "terrorist attack"...

Congresswymyn Debbie Wasserman-Schultz who was in attendance was almost struck!
Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 11:00 PM (wlya7)

Truck driver is lucky he did not hit DWS. He might have gotten bogged down in the mayonnaise, and been unable to make good his escape.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 19, 2021 11:16 PM (ZxIjg)

523 legally I think you can make something like 5 gallons of spirits per year

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 11:16 PM (bTQ72)

524 I was in LV once when it was 112. I mean yeah maybe it is a bit warmer but fuck by the time you cross the 110 mark, it really makes little difference iYet the media is making it seem like everyone is about to drop dead cuz the heat.

When living in Phoenix metro I was driving home one day and the thermometer in the truck read 124 F. I told myself if that goes up one more degree, I'm putting the house on the market.

Didn't move until three years later, won't be going back.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 19, 2021 11:16 PM (SchxB)

525 OK

I did play "Happy Hour" by the Housemartins at 5 PM every day when I worked in That Particular Bar.

So kill me retroactively.

Posted by: Miklos, unapologetic at June 19, 2021 11:17 PM (QzkSJ)

526 lol AOP.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:17 PM (M1r8K)

527 I think there is some law that says you can distill a gallon or so. OF course that pretty much negates any reason to try to have a legal still unless you are licensed. And even though I am saying it is basically illegal, still, don't listen to me on any legal matters whatsoever.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 11:17 PM (gJfTA)

528

Did someone mention "Swing"??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKxtiF3Fs6c

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 11:18 PM (wlya7)

529 Fresh pecans are like crack.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 19, 2021 11:18 PM (42fuS)

530 No cookies for you.
Posted by: SMH

My Privacy Preferences are set to "Do not accept cookies" anyway.

Posted by: Miklos, got food here anyway at June 19, 2021 11:19 PM (QzkSJ)

531 The bar I worked at when closing time happened, the lights all went on
the music stopped
and the staff yelled 'get the F out' until everyone left.

nobody got mad at it, they all came back next week

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 11:19 PM (bTQ72)

532 Doof, "The One Thing" hoovered up the air play on MTV.

Then boom! In comes this exuberant tune, "Don't Change."

Kind of reminds me of early U2 -- youth, loads of energy, a new band that has massive potential.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 19, 2021 11:14 PM (njAaQ)

Bono and MH were good friends. Bono was also friends with Bob Geldof - which complicated things because of Paula Yates (see my comment upthread).

I have a digital video recording of INXS on MTV in 1983. It's really cool

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:19 PM (mZUr4)

533 Iris Dement was terrific and then she became political. Unlistenable at that point.

Posted by: leber at June 19, 2021 11:20 PM (MxeFh)

534 Fresh pecans are like crack.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
___

The ones from south GA?

Yes, yes they are.

We demolished 5 lbs thus far.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:20 PM (M1r8K)

535 An individual driving a pickup truck has killed one homosexual, and maimed two more after ramming the participants at the Fort Likkerdale homosexual parade in what is being called a "terrorist attack"...

We had a guy in pickup plow into a bicycle race today a bit east of here and put a bunch of people in the hospital. None have died that I know of. He took off. Don't know what he did when the cops caught up to him, but they shot him.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 19, 2021 11:20 PM (SchxB)

536 My old house on Papal Street had a big pecan tree in the backyard. When Mom would visit she'd collect as many pecans off the ground as she could in a paper sack.
Can't for the life of me remember what she baked with them.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 19, 2021 11:20 PM (vuisn)

537 you can make wine beer and cider of course for personal use. Still, check with your state to be sure. I have made cider many times It is hit or miss for me. Sometimes it is great, sometimes is sucks, even if I do the same thing. It is fun to try but I am pretty much over it.

Posted by: Quint at June 19, 2021 11:21 PM (gJfTA)

538
Seeing the Dow futures down 622 after the 500 down on Friday had indicated to retired me that it may be back to those early poverty days and my clever ways to stretch a buck.
Posted by: Stellastwocents

Transitory

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2021 11:21 PM (63Dwl)

539 Did someone mention "Swing"??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKxtiF3Fs6c

Posted by: Zettai

OK

Japan-Nuked JUST ENOUGH

Posted by: Miklos, sailor suit chicks and saxes gotta be a WINNAH at June 19, 2021 11:21 PM (QzkSJ)

540 Hub's mom sent us a metric fuckton of pecans, currently chilling in the freezer.
Posted by: SMH
-------

One word: Pie

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2021 11:22 PM (DMQdU)

541 I did play "Happy Hour" by the Housemartins at 5 PM every day when I worked in That Particular Bar.

So kill me retroactively.
Posted by: Miklos, unapologetic at June 19, 2021 11:17 PM (QzkSJ)

"What a good place to be!"

Miklos, you are among a small group of folks I've interacted with who are familiar with The Housemartins. Our musical tastes are very similar.

Darlene at WH is lucky to have you!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:22 PM (mZUr4)

542 Pecans? Meh. A bag of shelled, lightly-salted pistachios, that's dope.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 19, 2021 11:22 PM (KAi1n)

543 ***Having a date on a Saturday night, or any night, is not really a thing anymore. Especially not in an era of swipe left to get laid in 20 mins.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 19, 2021 11:07 PM (/RHL4)***

Ok, I just gotta ask. Do people REALLY do this? Yeah, I'm sure some folks do, but do most kids these days really go websites and hook up with total strangers?

I don't know what the young'uns are up to these days. Seems dangerous.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 11:22 PM (Q8bDL)

544 No cookies for you.
Posted by: SMH

My Privacy Preferences are set to "Do not accept cookies" anyway.
Posted by: Miklos, got food here anyway
___

Haha.

More for me, the hubs, and the grandbabies.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:23 PM (M1r8K)

545
An individual driving a pickup truck has killed one homosexual, and maimed two more after ramming the participants at the Fort Likkerdale homosexual parade in what is being called a "terrorist attack"...

Licker Dale?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2021 11:23 PM (63Dwl)

546 How many homos can a homo homo if a homo homos homos?

Posted by: Snizzwit at June 19, 2021 11:23 PM (5Q0Iu)

547 Hub's mom sent us a metric fuckton of pecans, currently chilling in the freezer.
Posted by: SMH

Do you have a bag of pretzels and Rolos?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 11:23 PM (3fqGc)

548 We had a guy in pickup plow into a bicycle race today a bit east of here and put a bunch of people in the hospital. None have died that I know of. He took off. Don't know what he did when the cops caught up to him, but they shot him.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 19, 2021 11:20 PM (SchxB)

Well I'm betting he had a low melanin count in his skin since we haven't heard anything about it nationally.

Posted by: buzzion at June 19, 2021 11:24 PM (vMCab)

549 cfo mom,

Unfortunately, on sites like Tindr and others, yeah.

Fortunately for me, my kids missed that.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:24 PM (M1r8K)

550 the best 75 I ever spent was for this dog here

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:24 PM (jaNSQ)

551 Well I'm betting he had a low melanin count in his skin since we haven't heard anything about it nationally.

Considering the demographics of the area, you're most likely correct.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 19, 2021 11:25 PM (SchxB)

552 Hub's mom sent us a metric fuckton of pecans, currently chilling in the freezer.
Posted by: SMH

Do you have a bag of pretzels and Rolos?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 11:23 PM (3fqGc)

That combo is a Christmas time staple at Chez Doof!!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:25 PM (mZUr4)

553 I did play "Happy Hour" by the Housemartins at 5 PM every day when I worked in That Particular Bar.

So kill me retroactively.
Posted by: Miklos
---------

My all-time favorite pub played Tom Waits "Ol' 55" at last call.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2021 11:25 PM (pbStR)

554 they are called Tinder dates,

Grinder meet ups on the otherhand pass Tinder in that , when I paid attention Grinder was big on the gay side, that may have changed

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 11:26 PM (bTQ72)

555 >>>He might have gotten bogged down in the mayonnaise, and been unable to make good his escape.<
>Can you imagine what a tanker-truck spill of mayonnaise would look like? All of the rednecks would be dipping their hotdogs in the shit.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 19, 2021 11:26 PM (HnNKD)

556 Unfortunately, on sites like Tindr and others, yeah.

Fortunately for me, my kids missed that.
Posted by: SMH

According to my sources, Tindr is mostly prostitutes. Bumble is were the real action is at.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 11:26 PM (3fqGc)

557 Darlene at WH is lucky to have you!
Posted by: Doof

SSHHH

Marleen and/or Charleen might see that

Posted by: Miklos, managing as best a man can at June 19, 2021 11:26 PM (QzkSJ)

558 I deny myself a bigger and better apartment to live in and a newer car. I continue to live below my means so I can save some money that I will pass on to friends and family when I kick the bucket. None of them, nor I, ever made it big. But I am the only one who has been able to save money (I'm single).

It isn't so much denying myself something. A bigger place would just mean more expenses, more cleaning and I would fill it up with so much "junk" that it would feel small.

A newer car wouldn't get me somewhere faster than my 17 year old car.

Posted by: brio at June 19, 2021 11:27 PM (Mdh66)

559 What kids lack nowadays:

Sense Of Purpose - Third World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFfvDkAl0CI

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:27 PM (M1r8K)

560

Wait! Tindr and the like are for the young??

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 11:27 PM (wlya7)

561
there is old peeps Tinder, do not remember what it is called

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 11:28 PM (bTQ72)

562 My all-time favorite pub played Tom Waits "Ol' 55" at last call.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

If you sing along and sound like Tom Waits, it's definitely time to go home.

Posted by: Miklos, but you can't stay here at June 19, 2021 11:28 PM (QzkSJ)

563 Great ONT tonight!

Howdy y'all.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 19, 2021 11:29 PM (jvt6t)

564
I'm trying to remember about ol' Mookie. They managed to get him out of the clutches of his sorry sister and her husband and put him in an assisted living facility, IIRC.

The wife of one of the guys around here who hired him for the odd jobs got to trying to do something about Mookie's situation. She didn't have much luck, but may have succeeded after Mookie's health went down there at the last.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 11:29 PM (Mzdiz)

565
instagram has pro-ho's too

when you see it , you know it

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 19, 2021 11:29 PM (bTQ72)

566 Great ONT tonight!

Howdy y'all.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 19, 2021 11:29 PM (jvt6t)

Hey there, Jak! Haven't seen you in a while

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:30 PM (mZUr4)

567 instagram has pro-ho's too

when you see it , you know it

Aftermarket paint that doesn't match factory?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 19, 2021 11:30 PM (SchxB)

568 >>According to my sources, Tindr is mostly prostitutes. Bumble is were the real action is at.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 11:26 PM (3fqGc)

Isn't Bumble the one where the women have to make the first move?

How could that not be prostitutes?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 19, 2021 11:31 PM (vuisn)

569 Wait! Tindr and the like are for the young??

Posted by: Zettai

Got an eye on you young feller

Gonna take my teeth out and ROCK YOUR WORLD

Posted by: 85 year old lady who only asks for an Admiral's Feast at the Red Lobster at June 19, 2021 11:31 PM (QzkSJ)

570 Hey there, Jak! Haven't seen you in a while
Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:30 PM (mZUr4)

I'm back in the office again. Lurking a lot these days.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 19, 2021 11:31 PM (jvt6t)

571

I suppose everyone's run off to upload some manner of "dating" app to his mobile...

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 11:32 PM (wlya7)

572 Miklos - on your road trips, do you stream music, or do you load digital files onto a phone / ipod? Or some other method?

Just curious cuz I've got a bunch of stuff I'd like to share with you

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:32 PM (mZUr4)

573 when you see it , you know it
Posted by: will choose a nic later

Staring decisis

Posted by: Justice Potter Stewart at June 19, 2021 11:32 PM (QzkSJ)

574 The Brits in WWII were at their zenith for guile, audacity, and smarts. The Monty impersonator was one example, but it was constant. Their skill intersected with an adversary (Germany) afflicted with amateurism and traitors, thus the results were spectacular.

"Double Cross" by Ben MacIntyre is a nice accessible look at some of their most amazing successes.

They were so successful, their double agents so good, that Ike actually OK'd having a star double send accurate info about D-Day (yes) to his handlers in Spain - but too late for it to matter (they had an intimate understanding of the mechanics and operations of German intelligence). All in order to further legitimate their double agent - he had access to the actual invasion plan!

Turns out the (characteristically) sloppy German handlers in Madrid failed to receive and forward his bombshell message in a timely way - but his legitimacy was confirmed anyway. So much so that he continued to feed misleading "intel" to the krauts for a few weeks after the landings, possibly material to keeping the 15th Panzer Army in Pas de Calais so long.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 19, 2021 11:32 PM (OTzUX)

575 I guess I'd be curious as to why someone would name a kid that.

At least she got to change it.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 19, 2021 10:43 PM (colGo)

Something to do with scars, right?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2021 11:33 PM (ySM85)

576
If you sing along and sound like Tom Waits, it's definitely time to go home.
Posted by: Miklos
-------

And now the sun's coming up
I'm riding with Lady Luck, freeway cars and trucks
Stars beginning to fade, and I lead the parade
Just a-wishing I'd stayed a little longer
Lord, let me tell you that the feeling's getting stronger

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2021 11:33 PM (CTJwJ)

577 561 Fire Extinguisher

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 19, 2021 11:33 PM (njAaQ)

578

Or download, or whatever the kids are calling it these days...

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 11:33 PM (wlya7)

579 A newer car wouldn't get me somewhere faster than my 17 year old car.
Posted by: b

how is driving a bugatti?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:34 PM (jaNSQ)

580 Rufus & Chaka - Do You Love What You Feel 1979 Disco Purrfection Version

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

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:34 PM (M1r8K)

581 I'm back in the office again. Lurking a lot these days.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 19, 2021 11:31 PM (jvt6t)

Got ya. I'm still on telework. Set go back in Sep. Not happy about that

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:34 PM (mZUr4)

582 *waves to Jak*

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:35 PM (M1r8K)

583 An individual driving a pickup truck has killed one homosexual, and maimed two more after ramming the participants at the Fort Likkerdale homosexual parade

They're down on Maimstreet.
Ohh, down on Maimstreet,
Down on Maaaaaaaim-Streeeeeeet
Down on Maimstreeeet.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 11:35 PM (dq5Kl)

584 on your road trips, do you stream music, or do you load digital files onto a phone / ipod? Or some other method?

RT convertible is 2001, no modern-type audio system.

Got a plug-in that broadcasts FM into the radio from any kind of input-thumb drive, Bluetooth, whatever.

The thumb drive is getting toward full, so IPad as well.

Posted by: Moderately technically competent Miklos at June 19, 2021 11:35 PM (QzkSJ)

585 The Brits in WWII were at their zenith for guile, audacity, and smarts.

which some refer to as desperatin

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:35 PM (jaNSQ)

586
I'm now having fond memories of Mookie. Me and Mookie, out loading bales of straw. He wasn't right in the head, of course. He would just go on with you in conversation, and make commentary that was just funny as hell.

We noticed the mail lady went by one time when we were close to the road. Mookie said, that was a woman. I said yep, there's a lot of female mail carriers out there, my other was one.

He thought a minute, and said, "Yeah, dey had to gets women, dem mens wuz messin' up!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 11:36 PM (Mzdiz)

587 Down on Maimstreeeet.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Sick

And Sweet

Posted by: Chef Miklos needs to create a "sick and sweet sauce" at June 19, 2021 11:37 PM (QzkSJ)

588 which some refer to as desperatin

Ask your doctor if desperatin is right for you.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 19, 2021 11:37 PM (SchxB)

589 c5,

You come to the TxMoMee, I'll show you how to dance.

Promise.

Cross my heart.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:37 PM (M1r8K)

590 Use as directed.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 19, 2021 11:37 PM (vuisn)

591 The Brits in WWII were at their zenith for guile, audacity, and smarts.
---------

I've always wanted one of those inflatable tanks.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2021 11:37 PM (CTJwJ)

592 The ultimate last call song
https://youtu.be/vJj-ED-y-5k

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 19, 2021 11:38 PM (3fqGc)

593

I think the Brits spoofed the gerries into believing the coming invasion of Italy would start in Sardinia instead of Sicily...

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 11:38 PM (wlya7)

594 You come to the TxMoMee, I'll show you how to dance.

Promise.

Cross my heart.
Posted by: S

couldn't I just pay you the way I usually do?

/

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:38 PM (jaNSQ)

595 *waves at SMH*

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 19, 2021 11:38 PM (jvt6t)

596 Got a plug-in that broadcasts FM into the radio from any kind of input-thumb drive, Bluetooth, whatever.

The thumb drive is getting toward full, so IPad as well.
Posted by: Moderately technically competent Miklos at June 19, 2021 11:35 PM (QzkSJ)

OK cool. I use a thumb drive in my car to play music. I'll hit you up on email to see about sending you a thumb drive. I'll think you'll enjoy it - over MANY road trips!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:38 PM (mZUr4)

597 c5,

Only in your dreams.

Since I see you as a lil bro, I'll just *smacksmacksmack*
you upside the head.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:39 PM (M1r8K)

598 I've always wanted one of those inflatable tanks.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

They were repurposed for civilian use in the 50s, as Brassiere Enhancements

Posted by: Miklos has seen the pictures at June 19, 2021 11:39 PM (QzkSJ)

599 I've got a song stuck in my head.

S - A - TUR - DAY....NIGHT!

S - A - TUR - DAY....NIGHT!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 11:39 PM (dq5Kl)

600 Only in your dreams.

Since I see you as a lil bro, I'll just *smacksmacksmack*
you upside the head.
Posted by: S

I think you are younger than me

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:40 PM (jaNSQ)

601 BC!

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:40 PM (M1r8K)

602 OK cool. I use a thumb drive in my car to play music. I'll hit you up on email to see about sending you a thumb drive. I'll think you'll enjoy it - over MANY road trips!
Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:38 PM (mZUr4)

Those are jammin' words......

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 19, 2021 11:40 PM (jvt6t)

603 Fine.

The *smacksmacksmack* still applies.

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:40 PM (M1r8K)

604 Since I see you as a lil bro, I'll just *smacksmacksmack*
you upside the head.
Posted by: SMH

smacksmacksmack

smacksmacksmack

smack his head up

smack his head up

Posted by: KC Miklos and the Sunshine Band at June 19, 2021 11:40 PM (QzkSJ)

605 I've got a song stuck in my head.

S - A - TUR - DAY....NIGHT!

S - A - TUR - DAY....NIGHT!
Posted by: B

which sng?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:40 PM (jaNSQ)

606 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 11:39 PM (dq5Kl)

Great. Now I do as well. Thanks. Really.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 19, 2021 11:41 PM (jvt6t)

607 Zettai, they tried (spoofing the krauts into thinking it was Sardinia, not Sicily), but the German leadership had long since correctly figured out that Sicily was the only sensible option for the Allies. Well - the *top* of the leadership still expected Greece or the Balkans, but the operational leadership was focused on Sicily. Just reading a book about it now ("Sicily '43"). The very first version of the Special Boat Service, did, I think, do a diversionary attack on Sardinia.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 19, 2021 11:41 PM (OTzUX)

608 Foreplay sure has gotten complicated...

Posted by: Snizzwit at June 19, 2021 11:41 PM (5Q0Iu)

609 worked at a bar where the owner would play that stupid song "Closing Time" for about the first three years after it hit the radio charts.

I hated it. I grew to hate the owner. I hated my job and my life...

Now ask me about "I Love This Bar" by Toby Keith. Ask me about playing it back to back on the jukebox with "Red Solo Cup".

ASK ME MOTHERF^CKER.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 11:11

As an ex-bartender you f'ing crack me up. Much shorter term served than you I'm sure. Think I tended from 1978-89. My first boss loved to play some older folk tunes and I came to appreciate them.

Posted by: Farmer at June 19, 2021 11:42 PM (55Qr6)

610 593 Sardinia? How are soldiers gonna fit in those tiny cans?

Posted by: Derek Zoolander at June 19, 2021 11:42 PM (njAaQ)

611 *sharpen knives*

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:42 PM (M1r8K)

612 Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:38 PM (mZUr4)

Those are jammin' words......
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 19, 2021 11:40 PM (jvt6t)

Indeed! ONT folks don't pick fights with me like TJM does during weekdays

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:42 PM (mZUr4)

613

Anybody here ever see the movie "36 Hours" ?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057809

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2021 11:42 PM (63Dwl)

614 S.F. hit 106 Labor Day weekend in 2016. It was dry, but man was it hot. Ironically, that may be the hottest I've been in. I've been in the 100-105 range, but that would've been humid.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 19, 2021 11:43 PM (KAi1n)

615 I'll think you'll enjoy it - over MANY road trips!
Posted by: Doof

Nagyon szépen köszönöm!

Posted by: Miklos, top down (but being a guy, not so interesting) at June 19, 2021 11:43 PM (QzkSJ)

616 Anybody here ever see the movie "36 Hours" ?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057809
Posted by: Bertram Cabot,

Hell no

Just the trailer took two hours

Posted by: Miklos, time a-wastin' at June 19, 2021 11:44 PM (QzkSJ)

617 Soul Train Line - Let It Whip - Dazz Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWVxLTnkx7c

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:44 PM (M1r8K)

618
Ask your doctor if desperatin is right for you.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
-------

If you experience nosebleed, ringing in your ears, blurred vision, diarrhea, constipation, rapid heartbeat, low blood pressure, high blood pressure, breathlessness, tremors, hallucinations, weakness, , or dizziness, stop taking Desperatin.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2021 11:45 PM (CTJwJ)

619 when I was in school the school rented the movie midnight express to show that weeknd, they thought the rented midnight run.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:45 PM (jaNSQ)

620 you can make wine beer and cider of course for personal use. Still, check with your state to be sure.
~~~
I think I can make anything that I have the ingredients and skill to make. Freedom, right?

Also, mmmm, pecan pie with black coffee in the morning or heated with vanilla ice cream in the evening.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 19, 2021 11:46 PM (IDhUW)

621 *sharpen knives*
Posted by: SMH

Shonen Knife?

You meant to say Shonen Knife.

Posted by: Miklos, would that the Japanese pop-punk? at June 19, 2021 11:46 PM (QzkSJ)

622 Itnit Father's Day now?

Happy Fathers Day to the horde fathers still awake at this hour.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 11:46 PM (dq5Kl)

623 >>>The Brits in WWII were at their zenith for guile, audacity, and smarts.<
>When the nazis occupy concentration camps on you home soil, it time to step up you game.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 19, 2021 11:46 PM (HnNKD)

624 If you experience nosebleed, ringing in your ears, blurred vision, diarrhea, constipation, rapid heartbeat, low blood pressure, high blood pressure, breathlessness, tremors, hallucinations, weakness, , or dizziness, stop taking Desperatin.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Or just get divorced.

Posted by: Miklos, or so he has been advised at June 19, 2021 11:47 PM (QzkSJ)

625 Nagyon sz�pen k�sz�n�m!
Posted by: Miklos, top down (but being a guy, not so interesting) at June 19, 2021 11:43 PM (QzkSJ)

Ummmmmm

Posted by: Doof, who only speaks English at June 19, 2021 11:47 PM (mZUr4)

626 The thread-bare situation of many German and Italian forces in Sicily was quite something. Favorite is the German fighter squadron that had gone full M*A*S*H/Catch-22. Clothing was varied, but not Luftwaffe uniforms. Sandals instead of boots. Beards. Commander made insulting jokes about Goring - *to Kesselring, commander of Italian front*, when he visited.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 19, 2021 11:48 PM (OTzUX)

627 617 Soul Train Line - Let It Whip - Dazz Band

I'd throw something out if I tried any of that.......

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 19, 2021 11:48 PM (jvt6t)

628

It's also the Summer Solstice...

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 11:48 PM (wlya7)

629 Happy Fathers Day to the horde fathers still awake at this hour.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 19, 2021 11:46 PM (dq5Kl)

Thanks! And seconded!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:49 PM (mZUr4)

630 Thanks BC and back to all the Dad's out there.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 19, 2021 11:49 PM (jvt6t)

631 Dr Bone - I'm confusulated. Which camps on British soil?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 19, 2021 11:49 PM (OTzUX)

632
It's also the Summer Solstice...
Posted by: Zettai
-----

It's gonna be a long day.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 19, 2021 11:50 PM (CTJwJ)

633 Happy Fathers Day to the horde fathers still awake at this hour.
Posted by: B

in the junteenth law they changed mother's day and father's day to babby momma day and baby daddy day.

fyi

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:50 PM (jaNSQ)

634 Ummmmmm
Posted by: Doof, who only speaks English

In Hungarian, ummmmmmm means "yes, refill my glass please with more of this excellent beverage"

Posted by: Helpful Miklos at June 19, 2021 11:51 PM (QzkSJ)

635 in the junteenth law they changed mother's day and father's day to babby momma day and baby daddy day.

fyi
Posted by: confederatefifth

Which is why Postal Service employees get the day off

Posted by: Helpful MiklosMiklos, having read the entrails and fine print at June 19, 2021 11:52 PM (QzkSJ)

636 Soul Train Line 85' - Eddie Murphy feat. Rick James

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wbWIHRasKo

Posted by: SMH at June 19, 2021 11:52 PM (M1r8K)

637 Just wait until Octeenth.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 19, 2021 11:52 PM (63Dwl)

638 It's gonna be a long day.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

June 6 was The Longest Day

Posted by: Reasonably Historically Accurate Miklos at June 19, 2021 11:53 PM (QzkSJ)

639 ***The bar I worked at when closing time happened, the lights all went on
the music stopped
and the staff yelled 'get the F out' until everyone left.***

I been there! Like the direct approach. No nuance, no chance of misunderstanding.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 19, 2021 11:53 PM (Q8bDL)

640
It's gonna be a long day.
~~~

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 19, 2021 11:53 PM (IDhUW)

641 Ummmmmm
Posted by: Doof, who only speaks English

In Hungarian, ummmmmmm means "yes, refill my glass please with more of this excellent beverage"
Posted by: Helpful Miklos at June 19, 2021 11:51 PM (QzkSJ)

Now I know some Hungarian -- nice!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:53 PM (mZUr4)

642 >>>Dr Bone - I'm confusulated. Which camps on British soil?<
>Start with Channel Islands, Lager Sylt.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 19, 2021 11:54 PM (HnNKD)

643 Just wait until Octeenth.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot

Only one-eighth as much fun.

Posted by: Octaroons need Love and Respect and Reparations too at June 19, 2021 11:54 PM (QzkSJ)

644

My postman was on the road today...

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 11:54 PM (wlya7)

645 My hovercraft is full of eels!

Posted by: Snizzwit at June 19, 2021 11:55 PM (5Q0Iu)

646 Rhomboid - everyone made jokes about Goering, and if you can't tell a joke to Smiling Albert, to who can you?

Posted by: SFGoth at June 19, 2021 11:56 PM (KAi1n)

647
It's soon going to be "Birthing Persons Day".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 11:56 PM (Mzdiz)

648 baseball been berry, berry good to me.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 19, 2021 11:56 PM (fYTGN)

649 G'night Hordelings - thanks for another fun time!

Posted by: Doof at June 19, 2021 11:56 PM (mZUr4)

650

I always thought 'Ummmmmm' meant "Let's twist again like we did last summer!" in the Magyar tongue...

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 11:56 PM (wlya7)

651 Uncle Buck!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2021 11:57 PM (fLVm1)

652 My hovercraft is full of eels!
Posted by: Snizzwit

Bouncy-bouncy

Yu fergot the bouncy-bouncy part

Posted by: Miklos, with colloquial Magyar for your dining and dancing pleasure (if I said that rite) at June 19, 2021 11:57 PM (QzkSJ)

653

Did someone mention 'dancing'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpjk848XfPk

Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 11:59 PM (wlya7)

654 Happy Fathers Day to the horde fathers still awake at this hour.
~~~
May you have a wonderful day and may your interactions with your children be blessed.

I plan on calling my father tomorrow.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 19, 2021 11:59 PM (IDhUW)

655 My hovercraft is full of eels!
Posted by: Snizzwit

Bouncy-bouncy

Yu fergot the bouncy-bouncy part

My nipples explode with delight!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 19, 2021 11:59 PM (SchxB)

656 Somehow, "up your ass with a shard of glass" never made the pantheon of classic '80s sitcom insults.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2021 11:59 PM (fLVm1)

657 Uncle Buck!
Posted by: Cicero

Uncle Buck got likker that ain't been drunk

Uncle Buck got corn that ain't been shucked

Uncle Buck got daughters that ain't been WHOA

Uncle Buck

Posted by: Miklos, of the Cajun/Zydeco persuasion at June 20, 2021 12:00 AM (QzkSJ)

658 We shop at Aldis regularly. Great deals on the
basics. Plus their wine version of $2 Chuck ( Winking Owl, I believe)
isn't too bad.

Posted by: Pete Seria at June 19, 2021 09:46 PM (7ZQe3)

We buy the cheap-ass Aldi red wine for our sangria mix. Can't beat it at liek 2 bucks a bottle.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 20, 2021 12:00 AM (ufFY8)

659 SMH - what did I just watch? Damn, I'm glad that decade is just a blur anymore.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 20, 2021 12:00 AM (Q8bDL)

660 Listening to some music tonight, and my headphones are driving me crazy.

Some songs sound bright, clear and loud, and others sound muddy, soft and tinny. Can't help but wonder if I have a cranky plug-in cable.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:01 AM (L2ZTs)

661 My nipples explode with delight!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com

As intended.

Posted by: Miklos, all is well it seems at June 20, 2021 12:01 AM (QzkSJ)

662 Nice plot of the shifting Summer Solstice date, over 400 years:

https://tinyurl.com/auhaepb5

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2021 12:02 AM (AytXr)

663 OMG! There's nipple in my eye!

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:02 AM (L2ZTs)

664 and if you can't tell a joke to Smiling Albert, to who can you?
Posted by: SFGoth

*glare? glare*

Posted by: Albert Gore Jr. at June 20, 2021 12:03 AM (QzkSJ)

665 Some songs sound bright, clear and loud, and others sound muddy, soft and tinny. Can't help but wonder if I have a cranky plug-in cable.
Posted by: qdpsteve

Damned tinny songs.
You need some nice, woody songs.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 20, 2021 12:03 AM (3fqGc)

666 Some songs sound bright, clear and loud, and others sound muddy, soft and tinny. Can't help but wonder if I have a cranky plug-in cable.
Posted by: qdpsteve
--------

Heh. I would ask how old you are, but...29.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2021 12:03 AM (AytXr)

667 Prince, yes I do.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:03 AM (L2ZTs)

668 Nice plot of the shifting Summer Solstice date, over 400 years:

---------

Damn. The Druids would have paid big geld for this kind of data.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2021 12:03 AM (fLVm1)

669 cfo...Soul Train.

What a lot of us kids, especially in the 70s/80s grew up watching. Along with American Bandstand.

By the 90s, it was starting to go downhill, and by the aughts, it was no more.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:03 AM (M1r8K)

670 Mike: turning 29 plus 26 this year.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:04 AM (L2ZTs)

671 watching INXS at the US festival in 1983

can anyone imaging peeps wearing masks outside in 83?

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 20, 2021 12:04 AM (bTQ72)

672 will choose,
I'd bet that in 1983 all you would have had to do is say "I'm worried about AIDS."

People would have thought you a bit weird, but understood.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:05 AM (L2ZTs)

673 whoa!

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 12:05 AM (fYTGN)

674 Those of us that came of age in the the mid-late 80s kinda knew where music was heading.

Hell, by the time I was in my 30s in the 2000s, I was listening to 80s music on Sirius sat radio and on the interwebs.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:06 AM (M1r8K)

675 Damn. The Druids would have paid big geld for this kind of data.
Posted by: Cicero
--------

Resetting those henge stones every year must have been a PIA.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2021 12:06 AM (AytXr)

676 ...turning 29 plus 26 this year.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:04 AM

*counts on fingers...

The dread Double Nickel?

Posted by: Zettai at June 20, 2021 12:06 AM (wlya7)

677 I always thought 'Ummmmmm' meant "Let's twist again like we did last summer!" in the Magyar tongue...
Posted by: Zettai

FUN FACT

Chubby Checker's "The Twist" never really made it to Hungary. But in the 80s, "Let's Twist Again (like we did last summer) was an almost universal song everywhere.

I even danced to that one, and was a Temporarily Popular Kid because I knew the lyrics.

Posted by: Miklos does so solemnly swear at June 20, 2021 12:07 AM (QzkSJ)

678 I was 14 in 1983.

I was more concerned about getting my batting average up and breakdancing at that time.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:07 AM (M1r8K)

679 was AIDS even identified or labled in 83?

plus they had the straight, non IV drug using population cowering in un necessary fear, cuz Faucci .....

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 20, 2021 12:07 AM (bTQ72)

680 647
It's soon going to be "Birthing Persons Day".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 19, 2021 11:56 PM (Mzdiz)

You may have meant "impregnators" day.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2021 12:07 AM (SDdx5)

681 Mike: turning 29 plus 26 this year.
Posted by: qdpsteve
------

I'm sure your ears are okay.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2021 12:08 AM (1vynn)

682 Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:07 AM (M1r8K)

I was on my way here. Would take another year for arrival.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 20, 2021 12:08 AM (IYHxL)

683 And getting into fights with Samoan chicks...

1983 was not a good year for me.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:08 AM (M1r8K)

684 whoa!
Posted by: redc1c4

Hold on there, Sonny

Posted by: Old Man Miklos, on his bi-monthly visit to town at June 20, 2021 12:08 AM (QzkSJ)

685 679 was AIDS even identified or labled in 83?

plus they had the straight, non IV drug using population cowering in un necessary fear, cuz Faucci .....
Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 20, 2021 12:07 AM (bTQ72)

----------

But there was no urgent need to close the bathhouses or even require mandatory dick masking.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 20, 2021 12:09 AM (fLVm1)

686

I think the "let's twist again" lyrics were from "Ahab The A-rab"...

Posted by: Zettai at June 20, 2021 12:09 AM (wlya7)

687 Zettai, ding ding. :-)

SMH, I turned 17.
I was part of a "media occupations" class at Lakewood High School, where among other things, we'd take out our then brand-new ENG (electronic news gathering) videotape cameras, hook 'em up to these huge U-matic format VCRs with an extremely thick cable, hit 'record' and walk around video-ing daily life around the campus.

It was always guaranteed that at least a few kids would start breakdancing right in front of us.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:09 AM (L2ZTs)

688 I'm sure your ears are okay.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Ear hair is a Sign of Health and Vitality.

Posted by: Prof. Dr. Miklos, with Healing Spells for All Modalities at June 20, 2021 12:10 AM (QzkSJ)

689 1983 was when my dad retired from the Navy, we moved to Nanakuli in my freshman year in HS, got bullied and almost ass-whupped by some dumb-ass Samoan bitches, though I did go to the beach every day, since we lived just across the street from the beach.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:11 AM (M1r8K)

690 Mike, thanks. :-)

will choose, I believe the term 'AIDS' first started getting traction in 1983.

I personally remember hearing "Tainted Love" on the radio, then a current hit, and thinking, "that song sounds as if it could be about AIDS."

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:11 AM (L2ZTs)

691 ah yes... the "Us Festival".

i was on a charter bus, coming back from Planet Irwin, from my 1st AT with my CA ARNG unit after graduating Infantry school a few weeks earlier.

had a ~48 hour old major burn on my right hand, that turned into a coast to coast shit show about how i was going to get medical care, where, and who was paying for it.

took hours to get past Devore, where the gig was, and, to this day, the VA denies that the issues with said hand are service related... bastards.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 12:11 AM (fYTGN)

692 And getting into fights with Samoan chicks...

1983 was not a good year for me.
Posted by: SMH

Those sumo chicks will lei you out

Posted by: Miklos, still bearing the emotional scars at June 20, 2021 12:11 AM (QzkSJ)

693 1984, we moved to Aiea, in my sophmore year.

Graduated in 1987, then off to the Army, just to be sent back to Hawaii.

To say I was upset would be an understatement.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:13 AM (M1r8K)

694 I like to note the Summer and Winter Soltice. I mark the rising and the setting sun on the landscape of the horizon. It is enjoyable to see the distance the sun travels between the two Soltices, Solticii?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 12:13 AM (IDhUW)

695 My dad taught me how to defend myself, so there's that.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:13 AM (M1r8K)

696 SMH, nah, I knew it was ST. Just that particular "episode" was strange to me. I think that was probably past my time. The clothes and the dancing was too weird. I was way past trying to be hip by then.

I had a couple babies in diapers and a mortgage and all other sort of uncool stuff going on by 1985 :-D

Posted by: cfo mom at June 20, 2021 12:13 AM (Q8bDL)

697
Well, let's see this whole idea of "mother" vs "father", or "birthing person" vs "impregnator" is just outdated, too binary.

The actual birthing person might identify more as an impregnator, and vice versa.

We'll have to one day for both, or two days, but you can identify with either one you wish, or both.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 20, 2021 12:14 AM (Mzdiz)

698 645 My hovercraft is full of eels!

Posted by: Snizzwit at June 19, 2021 11:55 PM (5Q0Iu)

Crap. And here I thought I was the only one with this problem.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 20, 2021 12:14 AM (F0YaR)

699 But I guess even my dad got tired of seeing his eldest child constantly come home with shiners.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:14 AM (M1r8K)

700 I think the "let's twist again" lyrics were from "Ahab The A-rab"...
Posted by: Zettai

"Don't look, Ethel!"

Posted by: Miklos-Ray Stevens at June 20, 2021 12:14 AM (QzkSJ)

701 My hovercraft is full of eels!

Posted by: Snizzwit at June 19, 2021 11:55 PM (5Q0Iu)

Crap. And here I thought I was the only one with this problem.
Posted by: GnuBreed

Eel-B-Gon

They sell it at Ace Hardware (in Hungary at least).

Posted by: Perpetually Helpful Miklos at June 20, 2021 12:16 AM (QzkSJ)

702 But I guess even my dad got tired of seeing his eldest child constantly come home with shiners.
Posted by: SMH

You were supposed to bring Shiner Bock

Posted by: Miklos in Dad-role at June 20, 2021 12:17 AM (QzkSJ)

703 Ear hair is a Sign of Health and Vitality.

Posted by: Prof. Dr. Miklos, with Healing Spells for All Modalities at June 20, 2021 12:10 AM (QzkSJ)

I can lift a car with just my ear hairs.

I have to cut them with a diamond tipped razor.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 20, 2021 12:17 AM (F0YaR)

704 Note:
For the TxMoMe participants without the prescience to have bail money set aside...
One can substantially accelerate the fermentation process for pruno. You can produce a product with a suitable alcohol content in three to four days instead of ten days to two weeks.
The secret is to first chew your base ingredient and spit it into the Ziplock used as your fermentation vessel.
The enzymes in your saliva greatly aid in fermentation.
The High Desert version uses raisins as the base.

Posted by: waepenedmann at June 20, 2021 12:18 AM (EI572)

705 I had a couple babies in diapers and a mortgage and all other sort of uncool stuff going on by 1985 :-D
Posted by: cfo mom
__

Yeah, I was 16 in '85, and already plotting my escape.

In '87, I joined the Army.
In '88, I was back in Hawaii.

God works in mysterious ways, indeed.
I met my future ex-ex at Schofield, and had my girls there.
So no complaints now, but, boy, did I back then.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:18 AM (M1r8K)

706 osted by: confederatefifth at June 19, 2021 11:45

TY for the voodoo doll the other night but it didn't help w/ any EMB this morn. Tell them to focus on f#$%^&*() my @#$%^ tomorrow morn.

Posted by: Farmer at June 20, 2021 12:18 AM (55Qr6)

707 Eel-B-Gon

They sell it at Ace Hardware (in Hungary at least).
Posted by: Perpetually Helpful Miklos at June 20, 2021 12:16 AM (QzkSJ)

Anguilla anguilla!

Woot! Woot!

Posted by: Kindltot at June 20, 2021 12:18 AM (ySM85)

708 wow

Shaboo Shabah is really good

kinda forgat about it

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 20, 2021 12:19 AM (bTQ72)

709 Miklos: In Hungary, eel is the special at Denny's

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:19 AM (L2ZTs)

710 Well, I am going to hit the sack. Night, horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2021 12:19 AM (bbPEl)

711 My dad taught me how to defend myself, so there's that.
~~~
My dad was a boxer and taught me a few things.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 12:19 AM (IDhUW)

712 You were supposed to bring Shiner Bock
Posted by: Miklos in Dad-role
__

*just stares at Miklos*

The drinking age at the time was 21.

I was a tad below that.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:20 AM (M1r8K)

713 My bad, 18.

Still below that.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:20 AM (M1r8K)

714 1983 I graduated from college, found out there was no job market, and went back to grad school. 1985, I moved to Chicago for a job, but was back in AK by 1986, working for the Corps. Now, here I am, back at same damned job I left in 1991, and it hasn't appreciably changed, except that with computers you can now do twice as much worthless paperwork.

Huh.

If I knew I was still gonna be doing this, I would have just stayed and done it, and would be retired by now.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2021 12:20 AM (SDdx5)

715 for Miklos, especially, and any of the rest of you who have never heard "Dragostea Din Tei" by "O-Zone"

https://tinyurl.com/23mpjk9r

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 12:20 AM (fYTGN)

716 my state was one of the last to up the drinking age to 21

so I could drink at 19, but went in Air Force at 18 and in CO could drink 3.2 beer at 18

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 20, 2021 12:21 AM (bTQ72)

717 tcn!

How ya doin, girl?

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:21 AM (M1r8K)

718 My dad was a boxer and taught me a few things.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 12:19 AM (IDhUW)

AK, obligatory:

https://youtu.be/l3LFML_pxlY

(Simon & Garfunkel were singing U2 songs *12 years* before the band was even a thing.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:21 AM (L2ZTs)

719 Good night AOP

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 12:22 AM (IDhUW)

720 Anguilla anguilla!

Woot! Woot!
Posted by: Kindltot

Thank you for your kind attention.

Please live here.

https://remoteworkvisas.com/anguilla

Posted by: Miklos, Honoroary Consul Of Anguilla, Barbuda, and participating Eel at June 20, 2021 12:22 AM (QzkSJ)

721 When I joined the Army in 1987, the drinking age was 21.

To be fair, the bases in Hawaii at the time were a bit lax.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:23 AM (M1r8K)

722 My dad was a boxer and taught me a few things.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
___

My dad grew up in southside Chicago in the 40s and 50s.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:24 AM (M1r8K)

723 "Dragostea Din Tei" by "O-Zone"

https://tinyurl.com/23mpjk9r

Posted by: redc1c4

Pretty cool how they got into a prop-job, but took off on a jet.

The Nips are clever, gotta give 'em that.

Posted by: Miklos, having observed at June 20, 2021 12:25 AM (QzkSJ)

724 I like to note the Summer and Winter Soltice. I mark the rising and the setting sun on the landscape of the horizon. It is enjoyable to see the distance the sun travels between the two Soltices, Solticii?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 12:13

I'm being lazy and tarred, what is the exact time of the summer solstice?

Posted by: Farmer at June 20, 2021 12:26 AM (55Qr6)

725 I remember being in line at the grocery store buying hot dogs and boxes of Mac and cheese standing behind a lady buying ribeyes, French bread and a gallon of OJ and paying with food stamps.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 20, 2021 12:27 AM (2DOZq)

726 When I joined the Army in 1987, the drinking age was 21.

To be fair, the bases in Hawaii at the time were a bit lax.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:23 AM (M1r8K)

---
at Ft Benning in '83, i'm not sure they carded anyone... i was over 21 by then, so it wasn't an issue for me, but my company was full of HS graduates, and they all came back from pass blasted. no idea what the drinking age was in GA then either.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 12:27 AM (fYTGN)

727 SMH - my younger niece was born at out Schofield. I used to love getting to visit my sister every summer. They lived on base the first couple years I visited and then they lived off base and I remember the street that ran behind their house 'cause it was such a fun name - Kalanianahole Highway. Spent an entire summer learning how to pronounce that.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 20, 2021 12:28 AM (Q8bDL)

728 Night before basic grad, july 1989, a handful of us of-agers went to the FLW bowling alley and had a few beers. I had not gone 9 weeks w/o alcohol since i graduated high school. That was the tastiest swill.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 20, 2021 12:29 AM (KAi1n)

729 Quickie Quiz time for the Horde!

Question: which of the following would you most like to see roasted on a spit in your backyard for July 4?

a) baby back ribs
b) whole pig Hawaiian-style
c) Nancy Pelosi

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:29 AM (L2ZTs)

730 Kalanianahole Highway
___

heh.

I learned Hawaiian as a kid, due to my mom enrolling me in hula in the early 80s.

I was not happy, but I did enjoy learning the language.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:30 AM (M1r8K)

731 Kalanianahole Highway. Spent an entire summer learning how to pronounce that.
Posted by: cfo mom

Mekka-lekka-hi-lekka-hiney-ho

Posted by: Disembodied head of Miklos at June 20, 2021 12:30 AM (QzkSJ)

732 https://www.almanac.com/content/
first-day-summer-summer-solstice

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 12:30 AM (fYTGN)

733 Evening.

Thank you for the ONT, Mr. Throckmorton. It's yer best one yet!

Does the conductor of an orchestra actually perform any real function at a live performance besides looking like a giant dork? Rehearsals, okay, I get it, but not a single musician in the orchestra is paying the slightest bit of attention to him at the actual performance. For the live show he's superfluous. Get that asshole off the stage.

Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2021 12:31 AM (1Yy3c)

734 aren't b & c the same?

Posted by: cfo mom at June 20, 2021 12:31 AM (Q8bDL)

735 Thanks qdp.
That song fits my mood tonight.

I have a newer device that allows me to follow links, I couldn't on my older device.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 12:32 AM (IDhUW)

736 a) baby back ribs
b) whole pig Hawaiian-style
c) Nancy Pelosi
Posted by: qdpsteve

d) all of the above, with Pelosi as Long Pig

Posted by: Miklos, solver of conundra at June 20, 2021 12:32 AM (QzkSJ)

737 Lbby Dole got the drinking age upped to 21 in 1984, I do not think it went into effect till 1986 or 87

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 20, 2021 12:32 AM (bTQ72)

738 Question: which of the following would you most like to see roasted on a spit in your backyard for July 4?

a) baby back ribs
b) whole pig Hawaiian-style
c) Nancy Pelosi
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:29 AM (L2ZTs)

d) All of the above.

Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2021 12:32 AM (1Yy3c)

739 Libby Dole is fucking Republican as well

so down with states rights and all

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 20, 2021 12:33 AM (bTQ72)

740 Pretty cool how they got into a prop-job, but took off on a jet.

The Nips are clever, gotta give 'em that.

Posted by: Miklos, having observed at June 20, 2021 12:25 AM (QzkSJ)

---
Romanians, not Nips... but is that a catchy tune or what?

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 12:33 AM (fYTGN)

741 CFO Mom, by jove you're correct

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:33 AM (L2ZTs)

742 AK, you are welcome.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:33 AM (L2ZTs)

743 d) All of the above.

Posted by: Robert at June 20, 2021 12:32 AM (1Yy3c)

---
on separate grills, with the last one well down wind.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 12:34 AM (fYTGN)

744 Mmmmm, nips...

Posted by: Robert's mind wanders at June 20, 2021 12:34 AM (1Yy3c)

745 f I knew I was still gonna be doing this, I would have just stayed and done it, and would be retired by now.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 20, 2021 12:20

Don't know if you heard my saga...I was forced on disability in Dec., they sent me a certified letter 4/5 saying my job was being eliminated, they rethinking things and since I was gone so long this was a good time. WTeverlovingF, after 32 yrs!?

I don't think this is right and I'm pursuing some justice.

Posted by: Farmer at June 20, 2021 12:34 AM (55Qr6)

746 It was still 18 in late 87 at Ft. Gordon.

By the time I got to Schofield in early '88, on the mainland, the drinking age was 21.

In Hawaii, that was not the case, and if it was, it was disregarded in places like Waikiki and Ft deRussy in 1988.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:34 AM (M1r8K)

747 I was 19 at the time, and could still buy booze on or off post.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:35 AM (M1r8K)

748 Lbby Dole got the drinking age upped to 21 in 1984, I do not think it went into effect till 1986 or 87
Posted by: will choose a nic later

95 in La Louisiane, due to "quirks" in the state law

Posted by: Miklos, who has always been old enough to drink at June 20, 2021 12:35 AM (QzkSJ)

749 I gotta call it a night.
May The Lord bless and keep thee, Horde.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at June 20, 2021 12:35 AM (3fqGc)

750 South Dakota sued about the fed hwy funds witheld over the raising the drinking age to 21 and lost

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 20, 2021 12:36 AM (bTQ72)

751 An interesting aside: The longest (or shortest) day of the year do not coincide with the dates of earliest and latest sunrise and sunset.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2021 12:37 AM (9Fwwf)

752

I've heard one is supposed to watch the hula dancers hands for some reason...

Posted by: Zettai at June 20, 2021 12:37 AM (wlya7)

753 Romanians, not Nips... but is that a catchy tune or what?
Posted by: redc1c4

I was being kind.

Hungarians and Romanians officially no likee each other.

This is mainly not true, but useful for politicians.

Posted by: Miklosescu at June 20, 2021 12:37 AM (QzkSJ)

754 my state was one of the last to up the drinking age to 21

so I could drink at 19, but went in Air Force at 18 and in CO could drink 3.2 beer at 18
Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 20, 2021 12:21 AM (bTQ72)

You must be from Wyoming. Technically you were the last state but my state of Louisiana had a loophole that allowed bars and stores to sell to people under 21 though it was illegal to buy. The loophole was closed in 1996.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 20, 2021 12:37 AM (2DOZq)

755 South Dakota sued about the fed hwy funds witheld over the raising the drinking age to 21 and lost
Posted by: will choose a nic
------

It's a tax!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2021 12:37 AM (9Fwwf)

756 Zettai,

That is true.

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:37 AM (M1r8K)

757

Yet my eyes are drawn to their bellies!

Posted by: Zettai at June 20, 2021 12:39 AM (wlya7)

758 Is it me or are the wive's of a lot of powerful Republicans kind of...I'm not sure how to put it.

Like they'd better serve the public if they were tied up in a chair, mouths duct taped shut and left to rot in a dank basement or cellar somewhere.

Except Melania. Never Melania.

Posted by: Robert needs more Melania at June 20, 2021 12:39 AM (1Yy3c)

759 I've heard one is supposed to watch the hula dancers hands for some reason...
Posted by: Zettai

Son, that's a joke, son

Now stand back, I say stand back while I OBSERVE

Posted by: Foghorn Miklos-Leghorn at June 20, 2021 12:39 AM (QzkSJ)

760 An interesting aside: The longest (or shortest) day of the year do not coincide with the dates of earliest and latest sunrise and sunset.

This planet is a bit weird at times.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 20, 2021 12:39 AM (SchxB)

761 This planet is a bit weird at times.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 20, 2021 12:39 AM (SchxB)

*Grabs crotch*

Blow me!

Posted by: Gaia at June 20, 2021 12:41 AM (1Yy3c)

762 We're gonna need more charcoal.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 20, 2021 12:42 AM (HnNKD)

763 Yet my eyes are drawn to their bellies!
Posted by: Zettai

___

You're thinking Tahitian.

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

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:42 AM (M1r8K)

764 @760: "This planet is a bit weird at times."

Wobbly! And don't get me started about all those silly calendar makers throughout history thinking they've got things figured out.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 20, 2021 12:42 AM (+WWsf)

765 Mike Hammer - I have noticed that and found it interesting. The amount of daylight is one thing, but when it begins and ends is entirely another.

I want to read and understand more about this, but so much is written in language a lay person (like me) can't follow. I find the concept of time quite fascinating.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 20, 2021 12:42 AM (Q8bDL)

766 May The Lord bless and keep thee, Horde.
~~~
Thank you Prince Ludwig. And you as well.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 12:43 AM (IDhUW)

767 Away, back, for a bit.

Channel Islands, yes knew they were occupied, didn't think of camps there as a particular issue vs. just, you know, invaded and occupied.

As to insulting Goring, this was May 1943, not February 1945. Yes, Sicily, so the emperor was far away. But, Kesselring. In any case, Kesselring had just heard the squadron commander describe how abandoned, worn out, and poorly supported his unit was, and Smiling Albert just grunted something about carrying on, and maybe he should invite the Reichsfuhrer Goring to visit, to restore standards.

The squadron commander replied that they didn't have any chairs that could handle Goring's weight.

This was not an easy or routine kind of insolence, in context.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 20, 2021 12:43 AM (OTzUX)

768 And don't get me started about all those silly calendar makers throughout history thinking they've got things figured out.
Posted by: Walter Freeman
-----

Heh. The French.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2021 12:44 AM (vOGqy)

769 Well.

I have returned to my Regularly Scheduled Programme of finishing these crab legs.

Posted by: Miklos even had to re-melt some butter at June 20, 2021 12:44 AM (QzkSJ)

770
I want to read and understand more about this, but so much is written in language a lay person (like me) can't follow. I find the concept of time quite fascinating.
~~~
Red's link is a good read about the solstice.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 12:46 AM (IDhUW)

771 Miklos, hope they were tasty. I love crab.

Goodnight all, thanks for the fun chat tonight!

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 20, 2021 12:46 AM (L2ZTs)

772 Posted by: rhomboid at June 20, 2021 12:43 AM (OTzU

Hitler was obsessed with the Channel Islands and spent a lot of resources fortifying it against any attempt to retake it.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 20, 2021 12:46 AM (2DOZq)

773 Good night qdp

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 12:48 AM (IDhUW)

774 Just a side note - was responding to a comment much earlier about concentration camps on home territory motivating the Brits. Think they were well motivated, regardless.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 20, 2021 12:48 AM (OTzUX)

775 Nice sunny day here today. Windows open now with a nice breeze coming in.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 12:50 AM (IDhUW)

776 Tahitian Dance - Otea - Vahine Toa - by Tunui's Royal Polynesians *Tuamotu Api

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U45fSXKE9I

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:51 AM (M1r8K)

777 You're thinking Tahitian.

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

Posted by: SMH at June 20, 2021 12:42 AM

Well, at least everyone should be clear on what the infamous mutiny on the HMS Bounty was all about now!

Posted by: Zettai at June 20, 2021 12:52 AM (wlya7)

778 cfomom - Want to see an interesting plot? Go here: https://tinyurl.com/2fnhxwue

Enter you address, then scroll down past the length of day plot, and look at the sunrise/sunset times plot.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2021 12:53 AM (ELgVT)

779 Tahiti

Noumea

Hmm.

Might have to re-think this whole Armoured Train project.

Posted by: Miklos, but how to re-purpose at June 20, 2021 12:54 AM (QzkSJ)

780 AmericanKestrel - "Red's link".

Can you elaborate on who's link this is? I did a cursory look and don't understand who you mean.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 20, 2021 12:54 AM (Q8bDL)

781 thank you Mike Hammer. Bookmarked that for later.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 20, 2021 12:55 AM (Q8bDL)

782 Might have to re-think this whole Armoured Train project.
Posted by: Miklos
---------

Armored outrigger canoe.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2021 12:56 AM (l0Lgi)

783 I have just decided that I would like to be the "Doc" character in Donovan's Reef.

I'll leave the brawling to you low-lifes.

Posted by: Doc Miklos, for all native lady modalities at June 20, 2021 12:56 AM (QzkSJ)

784 An interesting aside: The longest (or shortest) day of the year do not coincide with the dates of earliest and latest sunrise and sunset.

This planet is a bit weird at times.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 20, 2021 12:39

What? Can someone splain this?

Posted by: Farmer at June 20, 2021 12:57 AM (55Qr6)

785 732 https://www.almanac.com/content/
first-day-summer-summer-solstice
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 12:30 AM (fYTGN)
~~~
Here you go.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 12:57 AM (IDhUW)

786 Armored outrigger canoe.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Needs Torx?

Posted by: Miklos, thinking submersible U-Boat Canoe with deck gun at June 20, 2021 12:58 AM (QzkSJ)

787 Later all. Thanks for the fun and info.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 20, 2021 12:58 AM (Q8bDL)

788 AmericanKestral - thanks. will look at that tomorrow.

Posted by: cfo mom at June 20, 2021 01:00 AM (Q8bDL)

789

I've also read that everything we think we know about Hawaiian history and culture is fabrication...

Posted by: Zettai at June 20, 2021 01:00 AM (wlya7)

790 @784: "What? Can someone splain this?"

Wobbly planet, slightly elliptical orbit (not perfectly circular), average day length roughly 24 hours and 30 seconds, etc. Earliest sunrise is roughly a week before summer solstice, and the latest sunset is reflected all mirror image like one week after solstice.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 20, 2021 01:01 AM (+WWsf)

791 Good night cfo mom

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 01:01 AM (IDhUW)

792 https://www.almanac.com/content/
first-day-summer-summer-solstice

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated we all know it. at June 20, 2021 12:30 AM (fYTGN)

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 01:03 AM (fYTGN)

793 aka "red's link"... HTH!

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 01:04 AM (fYTGN)

794 Earliest sunrise is roughly a week before summer solstice, and the latest sunset is reflected all mirror image like one week after solstice.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 20, 2021 01:01 AM

Sidereal vs tropical year...

Posted by: Zettai at June 20, 2021 01:05 AM (wlya7)

795 thank you Mike Hammer. Bookmarked that for later.
Posted by: cfo mom at June 20, 2021 12:55

Ditto here. Like when I'm sober.

Posted by: Farmer at June 20, 2021 01:05 AM (55Qr6)

796 Might have to re-think this whole Armoured Train project.

Posted by: Miklos, but how to re-purpose at June 20, 2021 12:54 AM (QzkSJ)

---
you could start by spelling "Armored" correctly, for one thing.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 01:06 AM (fYTGN)

797

Armoured > "armored"!

Posted by: Zettai at June 20, 2021 01:07 AM (wlya7)

798 you could start by spelling "Armored" correctly, for one thing.

Posted by: redc1c4

As established by Uncle Palp.

Please try to keep up.

Posted by: Miklos, Canal Commisar and Armoured Train Boyar Third Class at June 20, 2021 01:09 AM (QzkSJ)

799

Dyedye...

Orda krichit!

Posted by: Zettai at June 20, 2021 01:10 AM (wlya7)

800
armed>armoured > "armored"

~that girl that thought she lost an arm, sobbing.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 01:12 AM (IDhUW)

801

Just one so I'd like to have dinner with a celebrity that isn't bound and gagged...

Posted by: Bender Rodriguez at June 20, 2021 01:15 AM (O4Lwe)

802 Fireworks warehouse fire in Russia, tourist influx overwhelming airlines and Black Sea resorts, and Portugal lost to Germany 4-2 in the Euroweenie kickball tournament.

And I'll even watch soccer coverage if Moscow 24's African-Russian anchorette is providing it. Or she could read the phonebook.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 20, 2021 01:16 AM (OTzUX)

803 Orda krichit!
Posted by: Zettai

If it krichits, scratch it.

Posted by: What Old Grandma Miklos used to say at June 20, 2021 01:18 AM (QzkSJ)

804
Yes, the notions of seasons and the definition of a "day" and a "year" get quite complex. If the earth were in a perfectly circular orbit, and her axis of rotation were constant/fixed and not precessing, things would be very simple.

However, they are not, and things are complicated. The Earth's orbit is very close to circular. Mars is eliptical enough that things are "obvious". We're sort of in the bad spot were were close enough to circular to mask the problems at first blush, but yet different from circular enough that problems cause errors to add up quickly enough to notice.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 20, 2021 01:22 AM (Mzdiz)

805

WNBA star Shoni Schimmel arrested for beating her bottom bitch and generally being a dick.

Posted by: Snizzwit at June 20, 2021 01:24 AM (O4Lwe)

806 Please try to keep up.

Posted by: Miklos, Canal Commisar and Armoured Train Boyar Third Class at June 20, 2021 01:09 AM (QzkSJ)

---
your team is behind in its canal digging quotas... i suggest you get motivated, before we have to motivate the survivors ourselves.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 01:26 AM (fYTGN)

807 and her axis of rotation were constant/fixed and not precessing, things would be very simple.

This is why every fourth year on Feb. 29th, the entire world's population must leap simultaneously, in order to correct the Earth's orbit around the moon, otherwise the Gods will curse us and the rains will fail.

Also plagues and such. Should have mentioned that.

Posted by: Science! according to the Dept. of Perpetual Fauci at June 20, 2021 01:27 AM (QzkSJ)

808 WNBA star Shoni Schimmel arrested for beating her bottom bitch and generally being a dick.

Posted by: Snizzwit at June 20, 2021 01:24 AM (O4Lwe)

---
never heard of him, and don't want to: pro sportsball can go die in a fire.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 01:28 AM (fYTGN)

809 Also plagues and such. Should have mentioned that.

And don't forget the ritual deflowering of red-headed virgins!

Posted by: Snizzwit at June 20, 2021 01:29 AM (O4Lwe)

810 your team is behind in its canal digging quotas... i suggest you get motivated, before we have to motivate the survivors ourselves.
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated

You are nominated as Diversity and Inclusion Commissar.

(Have to have this to keep 501 (c)4 status)

Posted by: Miklos, asst. Commisar of Compliance at June 20, 2021 01:30 AM (QzkSJ)

811 "Nicely done! But look closer; the really obvious one in the bottom-left is a decoy."

You made me look LOL

So.. what? Now I pony up $1, like for the Swear Jar? haha

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 20, 2021 01:30 AM (83lwH)

812 Good night all

Peace

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 01:32 AM (IDhUW)

813 "Think they were well motivated, regardless."

Yah I bet nothing better centers the mind than hunkering down in the subway during an air raid.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 20, 2021 01:33 AM (83lwH)

814 Peace
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

What she said

Posted by: Miklos, just a few crab legs to go at June 20, 2021 01:33 AM (QzkSJ)

815 Yah I bet nothing better centers the mind than hunkering down in the subway during an air raid.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur

Wait until the trannies start using "mind the gap"

Posted by: Miklos, what ho old chaps at June 20, 2021 01:35 AM (QzkSJ)

816 This is why every fourth year on Feb. 29th, the
entire world's population must leap simultaneously, in order to correct
the Earth's orbit around the moon, otherwise the Gods will curse us and
the rains will fail.

Also plagues and such. Should have mentioned that.

Posted by: Science! according to the Dept. of Perpetual Fauci at June 20, 2021 01:27 AM (QzkSJ)

---so stupid i didn't click on it, but naow i have to do find it: some congress critter allegedly wants to alter the moon's orbit to "fight" "climate change"... FMR. WASTF!

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 01:36 AM (fYTGN)

817
The leap year cycle of the Gregorian calendar has 100 and 400 year cycles as well.

The 4 yr cycle overcorrects and about every 100 years, that's close to another day overshoot. So every 100 year multiple, we skip a leap year. As in 2000. But that overcorrects itself in the opposite direction. So every 400 year multiple, we must not skip the 100 year leap year.

But that still overcorrects. But they didn't define any longer cycles, so the Gregorian will get out sync with the seasons on the order of the 10K year scale.

We'll deal with that when we get there I assume. We won't have to worry for a long time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 20, 2021 01:36 AM (Mzdiz)

818 Good night all
Peace
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 20, 2021 01:32

Same from here. Off to snooze, be well.

Posted by: Farmer at June 20, 2021 01:37 AM (55Qr6)

819 >> some congress critter allegedly wants to alter the moon's orbit to "fight" "climate change"... FMR.

That was Louie Gohmert. He was making a joke, but idiot lefties assumed he was serious. The joke was, if'n we want to stop climate change, which depends on all sorts of YUGE celestial factors we can't control, then well we'd better change the Moon's orbit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 20, 2021 01:38 AM (Mzdiz)

820 Could you Earthlings keep it down?

We're tryina sleep over here.

Sheesh.

Posted by: Miklosian Extraterrestrials on the dark side of the Moon at June 20, 2021 01:42 AM (QzkSJ)

821 "Is it me or are the wive's of a lot of powerful Republicans kind of...I'm not sure how to put it.

Like they'd better serve the public if they were tied up in a chair, mouths duct taped shut and left to rot in a dank basement or cellar somewhere."

Yah back at my church, we had a lady who chaired the church's outreach program to needy families. She was awesome at is. Then a GOP Banker donated a bunch on money to build the new chapel, (Lovers Lane United Methodist Church, in Dallas) and suddenly his trophy wife replaced her.

She had no idea how to run the show, and poor families suffered for it. But apparently it was more important to get that "Chairwoman, LLUMC Outreach" on her letterhead for the social hierarchy points. Make me sick.

It was more like a country club than a church anyway. But that's the stereotype I remember when you say "wives of powerful Republicans".

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 20, 2021 01:43 AM (83lwH)

822 I often wonder if the GOPe is punishment for our sins, for enabling all those exclusive rich people clubs. You know the ones, where membership is closed unless you know a guy who knew your father or somesuch. I think the Establishment Wing is the same flavor of that corruption.

Funny what comes back to bite you in the ass. Who would have guessed it would be Biff Francis Jr.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 20, 2021 01:45 AM (83lwH)

823
Louie Gohmert does not think we can change the Moon's orbit. His point was that much of this climate change shit is well beyond anything we control. So, say you want to change things, well why don't you alter the Moon's orbit.

It was a joke. But idiot left wing lunatics are trying to say he was serious. The joke is obvious, if you watched it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 20, 2021 01:45 AM (Mzdiz)

824

I'm glad the moving-the-moon thing is a joke! I'm quite certain the idea of seeding the atmosphere with dust to cool the earth is serious, though...

Posted by: Zettai at June 20, 2021 01:45 AM (wlya7)

825 Yah I bet nothing better centers the mind than hunkering down in the subway during an air raid.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur
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“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

― Samuel Johnson

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 20, 2021 01:45 AM (l0Lgi)

826 "This is why every fourth year on Feb. 29th, the entire world's population must leap simultaneously, in order to correct
the Earth's orbit around the moon, otherwise the Gods will curse us and the rains will fail."

I laugh but in 400 years that will be what "historians" claim.

"New study on how nuclear civilizations still clung to superstition"

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 20, 2021 01:47 AM (83lwH)

827 "wives of powerful Republicans".
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish

Wine Mom wives of Powerful Republicans"

Posted by: Miklosian copyedit, gratis at June 20, 2021 01:52 AM (QzkSJ)

828 Just got a covid notification set up request on my phone. Little late in the game, eh?

Posted by: SFGoth at June 20, 2021 01:52 AM (KAi1n)

829

Robert, you bet they are paying attention to him, they just aren't looking at him. And he is hearing everything.
Everything.

Posted by: pawn at June 20, 2021 01:53 AM (nZP+D)

830 “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

― Samuel Johnson
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I nominate J. Biden as a possible exception.

Posted by: Miklos, unsweetened and not from concentrate at June 20, 2021 01:55 AM (QzkSJ)

831 a) baby back ribs
b) whole pig Hawaiian-style
c) Nancy Pelosi

Can we get the pig to eat Pelosi and then BBQ the pig?

Hang on...

Botox; Fire Fighting Measures: "The material is non-flammable. There are no known unusual fire or explosion hazards."

Okay we're good. May need to hang her first to let the botox drain out though, just sayin

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 20, 2021 01:56 AM (83lwH)

832

I'd pay good money to doink Tinkerbell...

Posted by: Snizzwit at June 20, 2021 02:00 AM (npaoe)

833 Hey red were you the one saying that ar kits you mailordered had been experiencing funky shipping delay issues?

Posted by: MAxIE at June 20, 2021 02:04 AM (dVkJu)

834 ''What if you're a female that's been called an asshole more than a bitch?"

One of my fav Facebook trolls was before the 2000 election. An "enlightened" liberal was trying to have a civil debate on his page, when some guy called Hillary a cunt.

Enlightened Lib caught so much flack from the Karens that he just deleted the entire thread of about 100 comments LOL. He made the mistake of writing "An Apology About The C Word" post.

Same guy came back and quipped "what good is the word Cunt if you can't use it to describe Hillary Clinton" haha

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 20, 2021 02:06 AM (83lwH)

835 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at June 20, 2021 02:09 AM (Zsfob)

836 That is, the tech thread is the new thread on the AoSHq blog. You may go there, now.

Posted by: m at June 20, 2021 02:10 AM (Zsfob)

837 Hey red were you the one saying that ar kits you mailordered had been experiencing funky shipping delay issues?

Posted by: MAxIE at June 20, 2021 02:04 AM (dVkJu)

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no issues here, other than wants exceeding Maling-Nancy monies... some folks are faster than others, but everyone is catching up, now that initial "OMG RUSH!!!!" is more or less over.

found a few bargains as well, just shopping for stock on hand.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 02:12 AM (fYTGN)

838 1 wa'Dlch!
Posted by: Zettai at June 19, 2021 09:00 PM (wlya7)

wut

Posted by: m at June 20, 2021 02:14 AM (Zsfob)

839 for instance: an AR-10 upper, complete, assembled, w/charging handle, for the same price as a stripped one. DPMS low profile, BTW.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 20, 2021 02:16 AM (fYTGN)

840 Posted by: SFGoth at June 20, 2021 01:52

Could you be so kind as to shoot me an email? I've got a question you might have some knowledge about.
T

Posted by: Farmer at June 20, 2021 02:29 AM (55Qr6)

841 839 thx red musta bin someone else intrepid reporter mebbe

Posted by: MAxIE at June 20, 2021 02:32 AM (dVkJu)

842 Does the conductor of an orchestra actually perform any real function at a live performance besides looking like a giant dork? Rehearsals, okay, I get it, but not a single musician in the orchestra is paying the slightest bit of attention to him at the actual performance. For the live show he's superfluous. Get that asshole off the stage.
Posted by: Robert

He's conducting the audience. So they don't start clapping in-between movements. "Clap when he puts the baton down."

Posted by: mikeski at June 20, 2021 02:48 AM (P1f+c)

843 #133 and 166! Winking Owl Pinot Grigio is the Cat's Ass!

Posted by: AnnaS at June 20, 2021 03:07 AM (l4l/z)

844 One thing I was thinking way back up thread was that having ads be 85% black and the other 15% interracial couples doesn't make it normal either.

Posted by: AnnaS at June 20, 2021 03:10 AM (l4l/z)

845 Nice ONT, Mr. Buck.

Posted by: m at June 20, 2021 03:20 AM (Zsfob)

846 Had to at least see what's going on here

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2021 03:33 AM (Cxk7w)

847 Nothing here or upstairs

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2021 03:41 AM (Cxk7w)

848 Wonderful ONT, thank you Buck.

Posted by: Jeannie at June 20, 2021 03:51 AM (dYrVA)

849 Global warming is such a farce. Money would be better spent on desalination plants and eliminating ethanol.

Posted by: Jeannie at June 20, 2021 04:02 AM (dYrVA)

850 Convinced global warming is a money scam, look at the massive payouts in Barky years to " Green companies " that never made a thing that worked , received billions and went under.

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2021 04:05 AM (Cxk7w)

851 Money laundering from us to them.

Posted by: Jeannie at June 20, 2021 04:09 AM (dYrVA)

852 He's conducting the audience. So they don't start clapping in-between movements. "Clap when he puts the baton down."
Posted by: mikeski

*kindly not-glare*

Posted by: The Fat Lady at June 20, 2021 04:17 AM (QzkSJ)

853 Convinced global warming is a money scam, look at the massive payouts in Barky years to " Green companies " that never made a thing that worked , received billions and went under.
Posted by: Skip

I could do that for a few lousy million.

Posted by: Clean, Green Miklos at June 20, 2021 04:18 AM (QzkSJ)

854

Posted by: Vic at June 20, 2021 04:41 AM (mpXpK)

855 The Tomato War? Original one was NYC vs Boston, organized by the Rugby teams and held in Stowe VT every fall. If I remember, Columbus Day weekend. Everyone has a band on, and when you get hit, you have to report to the Medical tent, aka a beer truck. After being "Cured" you can resume the fight.

It gets pretty wild, one year the NYers flew over in a small plane and bombed the Boston team. Of course, there is a lot of drunks and sex!

Posted by: kemp at June 20, 2021 07:45 AM (ViXC/)

856 It's Simo H�yh� he is in all of them

Posted by: By Gone at June 20, 2021 06:58 PM (tRZX9)

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