ONT, ONT, ONT Onward!

Welcome to the Friday ONT, home of the best clips, stills and general insanity from the previous week. What's on the docket for tonight?

A walk down memory lane

Which was your first home game system? Your favorite? Mine was pong (although I think we had a version made by Odyssey), and my favorite isn't pictured, it was the Atari 5200. That should have been a great system, but it didn't have self-centering joysticks, so people hated it. I understand why. I once played one that had been modified with little springs to make the joysticks self-centering, and it was brilliant.

How many people think the bears placed this tombstone?

I'll take “The writer's poorly disguised fetish” for $200

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 6, 2021

Friday language lesson

This guy is trolling

Chose your path, western man

Fido Friday: Hot dog edition

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 6, 2021

I'm trying to remember this quote from the book

This is cool

Bellwether image

This picture has been around for a while. Whenever I see it posted, it's interesting to read the comments, because they split in tone right down the middle. Half are like 'Cheese? Eww, that's so stupid”, and “What a hick!” while the other half are along the lines of “That's so cool!”, “A gift he made himself, awesome!” and “26lbs of cheese? Marry that man”. I suspect that which side of the fence the commenter falls on is a pretty good hint as to their political orientation, too, with libs being in the former group and conservatives the later.

What's in a name?

At last, the ending!
This clip is usually passed around as a never ending gif. The truck gets closer and closer to the bollard, but never hits. Here is the actual crash.

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 6, 2021

Spider Man, now with real AR action!

Friday night song guide

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by bed sets:

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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1 What's new, pussycat? Wooooah, woooooOOOah, woooah

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at August 06, 2021 08:58 PM (Dc2NZ)

2 So video consoles have always just been rectangles. Perhaps they will always be rectangles.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at August 06, 2021 08:58 PM (z5Vrg)

3 good evening

Posted by: wing at August 06, 2021 08:59 PM (PlW9M)

4 Content! Arf!

Posted by: Sandy at August 06, 2021 08:59 PM (VxC1e)

5 Evening everyone! Contenty!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2021 09:00 PM (mD/uy)

6

第一的 !

Posted by: Zettai at August 06, 2021 09:00 PM (OwfEQ)

7 Okay, I give up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2021 09:01 PM (VxC1e)

8 Sign me up for tonight!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:01 PM (hOUT3)

9 Good ~~morning~~ evening y'all !

Posted by: tbodie at August 06, 2021 09:02 PM (HXx+D)

10 Content! Arf!
Posted by: Sandy at August 06, 2021 08:59 PM (VxC1e)

At last, a valid comment from Sandy!

Posted by: Conor at August 06, 2021 09:02 PM (hOUT3)

11 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 06, 2021 09:03 PM (K5n5d)

12 10 Or an old dog CAN learn new tricks!

Posted by: Conor at August 06, 2021 09:03 PM (hOUT3)

13 Sign me up for tonight!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:01 PM (hOUT3)

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I'll take that as a power of attorney then.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2021 09:03 PM (VxC1e)

14 Best WD ONT ever!

I SO want to go to that Depeche Mode Pizzeria!

"Enjoy the Slicence"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at August 06, 2021 09:04 PM (Dc2NZ)

15 I'm amused that the Korean sneeze is the Japanese word for perverted things.

Posted by: junior at August 06, 2021 09:04 PM (PTw5h)

16 Texas guitar blues is conspicuously absent from the foregoing study.

SRV Forever.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2021 09:04 PM (VxC1e)

17
Someone on twitter put it very well:

The Streams Are Merging

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 09:04 PM (YLYCU)

18 Ha! That top photo was definitely me back in the day.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 06, 2021 09:05 PM (nxdel)

19 I like my steak two levels above moo, thanks. And no noisy bugs. chuckling
The treehouse has a video up that will raise the blood pressure even with a few fingers. https://tinyurl.com/txcwccuc

Posted by: Grog at August 06, 2021 09:05 PM (YFj/0)

20 So video consoles have always just been rectangles. Perhaps they will always be rectangles.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at August 06, 2021 08:58 PM (z5Vrg)

The Egyptians had filed a better pyramidal design with the patent office but those Greek Homos got there first!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:05 PM (hOUT3)

21 Apparently one guy in my office has adopted the velociraptor (Jurassic Park) honk for his sneeze. Startles the fuck out of me every time.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, not a fake x8Wzq at August 06, 2021 09:05 PM (x8Wzq)

22 Your Own. Personal. Cheeses.

*mirthful laughter!* ONT Greetings, Horde! *pours bourbon* CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 06, 2021 09:06 PM (QzJWU)

23 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

Oh you know.. just livin the dream.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 06, 2021 09:06 PM (nxdel)

24 Hello everyone!
Messy Jesse and I have gotten back from two and on-half months of vacation.We have a hay field that deer have been bedding down in.Hubby had to shoot a very large rattler in the yard.We have hail damage to the windshields and bodies of two cars.
But it's all good.
Caught many walleye and panfish in northern MN. LOTW (Lake of the Woods)
Had a great relaxing time in brothers back yard RV park.

Posted by: alamogordo at August 06, 2021 09:07 PM (Dt7YJ)

25 About that bedspread, I don't think guaranteed nightmares is a selling point.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 06, 2021 09:07 PM (AiZBA)

26 I ponged.

Remember the uhf adapter you had to screw into the back of the TV?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:07 PM (i9ZF7)

27 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by bed sets:

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NOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2021 09:07 PM (V13WU)

28 That Wahgi shield thing is pretty damn cool, if true. Of course, we should probably condemn them for cultural appropriation of a white male icon of western civilization...

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 06, 2021 09:08 PM (K5n5d)

29 I'll take that as a power of attorney then.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2021 09:03 PM (VxC1e)

I believe I can afford the finest pro bono legal services you can provide!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:08 PM (hOUT3)

30 my eyes !! my eyes!!!

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2021 09:08 PM (V13WU)

31 another something I want to unsee

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2021 09:08 PM (V13WU)

32 Top 35?

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 06, 2021 09:08 PM (4azQi)

33 Your Own. Personal. Cheeses.
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Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at August 06, 2021 09:08 PM (Dc2NZ)

34 Remember the uhf adapter you had to screw into the back of the TV?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:07 PM (i9ZF7)

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You rich guys with your "uhf adapters" and your "TV"s.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2021 09:09 PM (VxC1e)

35 i don;t know what's going on with dogs, woman and sausages, but it is hilarious !

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2021 09:09 PM (V13WU)

36 Michael was a bully. Just sayin

Posted by: Turkish Lucifer at August 06, 2021 09:09 PM (49Exr)

37 A gal I knew in college collected many varieties of living cockroaches including the hissing ones. Keep them in tupperware type containers all over the place.

Jeebus she was a weirdo. I was completely freaked out. I could stay there no longer than 30 minutes at a time and then had to git.

You do what you have to do.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2021 09:10 PM (mD/uy)

38 29 I'll take that as a power of attorney then.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2021 09:03 PM (VxC1e)

I believe I can afford the finest pro bono legal services you can provide!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:08 PM (hOUT3)

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And I promise you'll get every last dime of value.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2021 09:10 PM (VxC1e)

39 Where the fuck is metal in that music thingy?

They have a lot of opinions about things, it turns out.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, not a fake x8Wzq at August 06, 2021 09:11 PM (x8Wzq)

40 A 26-pound cheese?

Huh.

That's a lot of cheddaring, and a lot of whey.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:11 PM (xK9An)

41 Atari 2600 was good stuff. Games easy to pick up and play and they were built like tanks. Pretty sure the one in my basement still works.

Posted by: Ohio Guy at August 06, 2021 09:11 PM (h/mlN)

42 We had the Magnavox odyssey with the overlays for the tv...POS of the first order.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:11 PM (r1z5A)

43 37 A gal I knew in college collected many varieties of living cockroaches including the hissing ones. Keep them in tupperware type containers all over the place.

Jeebus she was a weirdo. I was completely freaked out. I could stay there no longer than 30 minutes at a time and then had to git.

You do what you have to do.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2021 09:10 PM (mD/uy

I'm envisioning Ross from friends when he dated that Uber hot chick who's apartment was disgusting.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:12 PM (i9ZF7)

44 >>33 Your Own. Personal. Cheeses.

Zod iPhone, ready to pair.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:12 PM (xK9An)

45 My first game system was the Atari, no clue which one, it was a wood grain looking thing. Then Nintendo NES, then Genesis, then super nintendo, then N64, then playstation 1 and 2, then x box, xbox 360, Wii, Xbox one. Asshole me still has them all.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 09:12 PM (VwHCD)

46 I never had a console when I was a kid. I started with a TRS computer of some kind, then we upgraded to an Apple IIE and I've been a PC gamer ever since...

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 06, 2021 09:13 PM (K5n5d)

47 Posted this in the previous thread, but it was a bit late.

California's got another gun control hypocrite who's been busted for arms dealing.

https://tinyurl.com/t32u2zu

Unlike Leland Yee, this one actually got convicted (iirc, Yee got a slap on the wrist for some administrative nonsense, and nothing else). Unfortunately, he won't be doing much time.

Posted by: junior at August 06, 2021 09:13 PM (PTw5h)

48 WD, I watched all of the vids on your YT channel and subscribed. I was no twelve. Today the YT algorithm is suggesting some of your videos. Not the basement ones. Did your wife forgive you for using all her towels?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ne desponderis ne dedideris at August 06, 2021 09:13 PM (LLAly)

49 I remember the Atari console. We thought it was so cool when they came out with different controller types.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 06, 2021 09:13 PM (49Exr)

50 I ponged.

Remember the uhf adapter you had to screw into the back of the TV?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Son worked at Nintendo for a number of years...they'd get back the antenna adaptors that people tried to plug into the wall socket...

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:14 PM (r1z5A)

51 Mmmm... cheese.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2021 09:14 PM (BFigT)

52 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at August 06, 2021 09:14 PM (zJ7J0)

53 But then, with metal, it's often: clean guitar (or acoustic) intro, followed by 3 or 4 minutes of crazy fast riffs, followed by one or more leads (depending on the number of gunslingers), followed by some kind of creepy bridge, followed by the outro.

So. Never mind.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, not a fake x8Wzq at August 06, 2021 09:15 PM (x8Wzq)

54 Immortal Sin, Rob Halfold

https://youtu.be/imDTS_K01os

Razorfist played this in the pre-amble to his stream just now.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 06, 2021 09:15 PM (ybIRR)

55 Son worked at Nintendo for a number of years...they'd get back the antenna adaptors that people tried to plug into the wall socket...
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:14 PM (r1z5A)

LOL!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:15 PM (i9ZF7)

56 I came here hoping that someone would be blogging from Obama's bash, but I guess I will have to wait for the MFM to cover it with slobbering tongue kisses.

Posted by: Colin at August 06, 2021 09:15 PM (bhBSF)

57 I think it was Nintendo that had that awesome 80's game "Contra." How... political.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2021 09:15 PM (BFigT)

58 If you can give a chick a wheel of cheese, and she's into it, she's a keeper.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2021 09:16 PM (QU5/8)

59 Yup.
Weatherman is accurately predicting a Drunk Front moving in. Baton down the hatches...its gonna be a serious blow!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2021 09:16 PM (axyOa)

60 And I promise you'll get every last dime of value.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2021 09:10 PM (VxC1e)

Can I have in writing and notarized?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:16 PM (hOUT3)

61 Obligatory Pachelbel humorous rant

https://tinyurl.com/vb4m6ms6

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 06, 2021 09:17 PM (49Exr)

62 42 We had the Magnavox odyssey with the overlays for the tv...POS of the first order.
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:11 PM (r1z

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Nice. We had the Winky Dink Adventure Set that let us draw on the TV screen with crayons, and we were grateful for it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2021 09:17 PM (VxC1e)

63 That comforter...

NO NO NO NO

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:17 PM (K0bra)

64

I've read that one may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese...

I rather doubt that this is true...

Posted by: Zettai at August 06, 2021 09:18 PM (OwfEQ)

65 The Wahgi listened to our friend Billy Zane. He's a cool dude. He's tryin to help them out.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 06, 2021 09:18 PM (vuisn)

66 That comforter...

NO NO NO NO
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:17 PM (K0bra)
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Yeah, it gives me the heebie-jeebies just looking at it...

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 06, 2021 09:18 PM (K5n5d)

67 Could there be anything more restful than a cockroach quilt?

And then you see one moving around...

Posted by: mindful webworker - hulk smash with extreme prejudice at August 06, 2021 09:18 PM (JtBPN)

68 64

I've read that one may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese...

I rather doubt that this is true...
Posted by: Zettai at August 06, 2021 09:18 PM (OwfEQ

Works on dogs though.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:18 PM (i9ZF7)

69 When your ten gallon hat is feeling five gallons flat,
I hanker for a hunka cheese.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 06, 2021 09:18 PM (U2p+3)

70 We had the Winky Dink Adventure Set that let us draw on the TV screen with crayons, and we were grateful for it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2021 09:17 PM (VxC1e)

You had a TV screen...
and crayons?
Luxury!

We had used dirt and sticks!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:19 PM (hOUT3)

71 Agree 100% on the Atari 5200, WD. If the controllers had been better, that system would have been huge. I wound up soldering a Lionel O scale model train switch plate into my 5200 controller to replace the orange fire button. (Which was probably cheating, but that was before the Internet, so I got away with it ...)

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy Agr8U at August 06, 2021 09:19 PM (Agr8U)

72 If you can give a chick a wheel of cheese, and she's into it, she's a keeper.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2021 09:16 PM (QU5/

You

Better yet, if she'll go to holland with you for a week, i know a great place in Edom.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2021 09:19 PM (axyOa)

73 I know some quilters who will be repulsed by that last picture.

Evening all. Summer Shandy tonight

Posted by: Zeera Hunkering down here, Boss at August 06, 2021 09:19 PM (NQxvu)

74 That comforter...

NO NO NO NO
Posted by: Jordan61

Heh, where is your sense of adventure? Besides, there's only one position where you'd be looking at it...

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:20 PM (r1z5A)

75
Christ Almighty. The Streams Have Crossed.

the state of Arkansas put up a psa for the vax featuring a black man who is obviously supposed to be a drug dealer. I shit you not.

"I sell things."

The "entrepreneur" says he needs to be "be safe" on the streets to do his "hustle" "selling things" on the streets. I shit you not.

https://youtu.be/PAXiyFBCrLI?t=83

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 09:20 PM (YLYCU)

76 We had used dirt and sticks!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:19 PM (hOUT3)

You had hands? Lucky

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:20 PM (i9ZF7)

77 I had a Colecovision when I was young. All the cool kids had the Atari.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:20 PM (K0bra)

78 Can't fall asleep. Roaches will eat me. Can't fall asleep. Roaches will eat me.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 06, 2021 09:20 PM (kTF2Z)

79 Son worked at Nintendo for a number of years...they'd get back the antenna adaptors that people tried to plug into the wall socket...
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp

A lab job I had was to collect little bottles from patients we had sent to them for 'sputum samples'. I can't begin to tell you what all the patients put into those bottles.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 06, 2021 09:20 PM (mD/uy)

80 78 Can't fall asleep. Roaches will eat me. Can't fall asleep. Roaches will eat me.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 06, 2021 09:20 PM (kTF2Z)

Tales from the crypt?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:21 PM (i9ZF7)

81 great ONT

last pic is a thing of nightmares

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 06, 2021 09:21 PM (oEn12)

82 Metallica Nothing Else Matters was in the acoustic guitar part of that jungle cruise movie soundtrack.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 06, 2021 09:21 PM (ybIRR)

83 The good news is that the "stand down" today was actually about quality management and not about the coof and mandatory vaxxing. The bad news is it lasted over an hour.

Still waiting for the Commander in Thief to declare me an extremist and make me get the jab. Good luck with that, Dementia Dork.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 06, 2021 09:22 PM (SDdx5)

84 Heh, where is your sense of adventure? Besides, there's only one position where you'd be looking at it...
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:20 PM (r1z5A)

Doesn't matter, I would KNOW it was there. I had enough experience with disgusting huge cockroaches living in TX.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:22 PM (K0bra)

85 So I guess my business plan for a spider quilt is right out then.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2021 09:22 PM (QU5/8)

86 - -
Yup.

Weatherman is accurately predicting a Drunk Front moving in. Baton down the hatches...its gonna be a serious blow!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2021 09:16 PM -
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Agreed. Beat those hatches into submission.

Posted by: irright at August 06, 2021 09:22 PM (BB7pQ)

87 We had a pocket knife and played mumbly peg.

Posted by: Braenyard, (DShoH) at August 06, 2021 09:22 PM (DShoH)

88 That cockroach quilt would give me nightmares!

Posted by: MammaB at August 06, 2021 09:23 PM (Vs+4C)

89 >>We had used dirt and sticks!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:19 PM (hOUT3)

We had GI Joe occupation of Barbie Mansion and interrogation of Ken and weeping Barbie and setting up headquarters in Barbie Mansion and Barbie falling in love with GI Joe and then liberation of Barbie Mansion and posthumous hero-medal for Ken and Barbie's head shaved as a collaborator and GI Joe tried for war crimes.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:23 PM (xK9An)

90 Metallica Nothing Else Matters was in the acoustic guitar part of that jungle cruise movie soundtrack.

==

Titanic.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2021 09:23 PM (V13WU)

91 Rode my bike to target when Donkey Kong for Intellivision came out. Got it home, plugged it in, and...WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 06, 2021 09:23 PM (kTF2Z)

92 A lab job I had was to collect little bottles from patients we had sent to them for 'sputum samples'. I can't begin to tell you what all the patients put into those bottles.
Posted by: Tonypete

They would get consoles with bullet holes and a demand it be repaired under warranty. (Son was also the voice of several characters in the Nintendo world)

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:24 PM (r1z5A)

93
I think it was Nintendo that had that awesome 80's game "Contra." How... political.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2021 09:15 PM (BFigT)

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right B, A, start. Instant 30 lives. Its burned in my brain.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 09:24 PM (VwHCD)

94 We had a pocket knife and played mumbly peg.
Posted by: Braenyard, (DShoH) at August 06, 2021 09:22 PM (DShoH)

You had pockets?
And mumbly pegs
Luxury!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:24 PM (hOUT3)

95 I never did video games, except I kinda liked the table top one where you run around and eat all the dots and don't get hit with the ghosts. A great deal of beer may have been involved. At a place called Blueberry Hill in a suburb of St. Louis. Not a lot of memories survived...

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 06, 2021 09:25 PM (SDdx5)

96 We had mold and paint chips and we were grateful!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:25 PM (i9ZF7)

97 Rode my bike to target when Donkey Kong for Intellivision came out. Got it home, plugged it in, and...WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 06, 2021 09:23 PM (kTF2Z)

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NO REFUNDS!!!

Posted by: Mattel Co. at August 06, 2021 09:25 PM (VxC1e)

98 Dementia Dork.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief
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Two old men talking

One asks: which would you rather have, Parkinson's or dementia?

The other man responds, Parkinson's. I'd rather spill a little whiskey than forget where I put the bottle.

Posted by: Braenyard, (DShoH) at August 06, 2021 09:26 PM (DShoH)

99 Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:23 PM (xK9An)

Still sorry I missed you at the MoMe!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:26 PM (hOUT3)

100 But then, with metal, it's often: clean guitar (or
acoustic) intro, followed by 3 or 4 minutes of crazy fast riffs,
followed by one or more leads (depending on the number of gunslingers),
followed by some kind of creepy bridge, followed by the outro.

So. Never mind.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, not a fake x8Wzq at August 06, 2021 09:15 PM (x8Wzq)
I would say "some" metal was like that. I guess it depends on the era. In my day it was a hammer to the forehead right out of the gate. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 09:26 PM (VwHCD)

101 Some of you old farts need to go sit on the porch in your rocking chair and shake your cane at everyone who walks by. Enough already.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 06, 2021 09:26 PM (SDdx5)

102 We had used dirt and sticks!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:19 PM (hOUT3)

We had GI Joe occupation of Barbie Mansion and interrogation of Ken and weeping Barbie and setting up headquarters in Barbie Mansion and Barbie falling in love with GI Joe and then liberation of Barbie Mansion and posthumous hero-medal for Ken and Barbie's head shaved as a collaborator and GI Joe tried for war crimes.
Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:23 PM (xK9An)

I especially liked the part where you could waterboard Ken.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2021 09:27 PM (axyOa)

103 I bought an Atari 800 back in the early 1980's. A friend had one, and collected a LOT of games, and I got some of them on disk (had a disk drive for it too).
And....I still have that Atari 800, two WICO joysticks, somewhere around here.

Have gone through a lot of PC's since then, but have kept the Atari. And although it is pretty primitive by today's standards, it was actually very well built.

And have an XBox around here somewhere that belonged to my kids (they're all growd up now). And a Wii , too .
The Wii is actually still a lot of fun to play.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....nic at night at August 06, 2021 09:27 PM (tjZg/)

104 Then, we discovered the joys of black powder. Poor Barbie.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (SDdx5)

105 We used to play "Kick the Can", but we were too poor to afford an empty can so my big brothers used me.

"Kick the Seamus" is not as much fun as it sounds.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (Xwt96)

106 Odd that the price for those controllers hasn't really changed much since 1980.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (tp+tP)

107 Some of you old farts need to go sit on the porch in your rocking chair and shake your cane at everyone who walks by. Enough already.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief

It won't be a cane lady!

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (r1z5A)

108 2 So video consoles have always just been rectangles. Perhaps they will always be rectangles.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at August 06, 2021 08:58 PM (z5Vrg)

The game cube was a cube.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (vMCab)

109 Or consoles, or whatever.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (tp+tP)

110 I have been told that Madagascan hissing cockroaches taste sort of like amaretto.

I even know why the person who told me this knew this fact, and in retrospect I am glad my life choices were different.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (0dhMv)

111 Breaking news... the island of Martha's Vineyard has just tipped over.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (a4EWo)

112 . Enough already.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 06, 2021 09:26 PM (SDdx5)
-----------------

I'm gonna throw rocks at cars.

Posted by: Braenyard, (DShoH) at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (DShoH)

113 101 Some of you old farts need to go sit on the porch in your rocking chair and shake your cane at everyone who walks by. Enough already.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 06, 2021 09:26 PM (SDdx5)

I'm spending all your social security.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (i9ZF7)

114 love the sneeze translations

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (oEn12)

115 We had GI Joe occupation of Barbie Mansion and interrogation of Ken and weeping Barbie and setting up headquarters in Barbie Mansion and Barbie falling in love with GI Joe and then liberation of Barbie Mansion and posthumous hero-medal for Ken

-----------

No Mr. Ken, I expect you to die.

Posted by: Blofeld Action Figure With Working Laser Beam Torture Table at August 06, 2021 09:29 PM (VxC1e)

116 . . . And Wally Cox reads the Weather.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2021 09:29 PM (0dhMv)

117 >>99 Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:23 PM (xK9An)
Still sorry I missed you at the MoMe!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 06, 2021 09:26 PM (hOUT3)

We'll break bread, it's in the cards. Iris and I linked up via zodimperial at gee male dot calm

Looking forward to it!

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:29 PM (xK9An)

118 Can't remember the brand for sure, but we only had one one tv-connected video game. I want to say it was Coleco, but all I really remember is it had a plastic pistol that you shot at a moving white block on the screen. That's what sold it to me. I think I was a gun nut in the womb.

Posted by: irright at August 06, 2021 09:30 PM (BB7pQ)

119 The game cube was a cube.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (vMCab)

Oh shit, I forgot that in my list. I had one until I got a Wii, which plays game cube games. I gave the cube to a friend when his fried.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 09:30 PM (VwHCD)

120 ..."Kick the Seamus" is not as much fun as it sounds.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM

It sounds like it would be a bloody riot to me!

Posted by: Zettai at August 06, 2021 09:30 PM (ByKgG)

121 The video game console infographic does not contain the Magnavox Odyssey, and as such is incomplete, as the Odyssey was clearly superior to Atari.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 06, 2021 09:31 PM (5We2S)

122 liberation of Barbie Mansion and posthumous hero-medal for Ken and Barbie's head shaved as a collaborator and GI Joe tried for war crimes.
Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:23 PM (xK9An)

who liberated them? was it the little green soldiers?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 06, 2021 09:31 PM (oEn12)

123 I never did video games, except I kinda liked the table top one where you run around and eat all the dots and don't get hit with the ghosts. A great deal of beer may have been involved. At a place called Blueberry Hill in a suburb of St. Louis. Not a lot of memories survived...
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 06, 2021 09:25 PM (SDdx5)

Hey, I've eaten at Blueberry Hill before! Don't remember anything about video games, but it has been a few years.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 06, 2021 09:31 PM (tp+tP)

124 We had mold and paint chips and we were grateful!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:25 PM (i9ZF7),

You had a house!!??
Luxury!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2021 09:31 PM (axyOa)

125 . . . And Wally Cox reads the Weather.
Posted by: Kindltot

Did you know that Wally Cox was friends with Marlon Brando when they were kids?

He told that story on Carson's Tonight Show years ago.

It was kind of hilarious.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....nic at night at August 06, 2021 09:31 PM (tjZg/)

126 It won't be a cane lady!
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (r1z5A)

At your age, you should be grateful the cane is still stiff.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 06, 2021 09:31 PM (SDdx5)

127 Hubs found some 70's Vevo channel on Pluto. Rock Me Tonight is the gayest video in the history of video. And gay.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:32 PM (K0bra)

128 "go sit on the porch in your rocking chair and shake your cane at everyone who walks by."

https://tinyurl.com/vr956384

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 06, 2021 09:32 PM (49Exr)

129 First video game was the Atari. B'Boy^2 luved the Journey band game. That song is seared, I say SEARED into my hippocampus.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 06, 2021 09:32 PM (HaL55)

130 Magnavox Odyssey catered to the Indeterminate Gender Gamer Demographic.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 06, 2021 09:32 PM (VxC1e)

131 Hey, I've eaten at Blueberry Hill before! Don't remember anything about video games, but it has been a few years.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 06, 2021 09:31 PM (tp+tP)

I believe they had all you can eat spaghetti on Tuesday, which was my downfall.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 06, 2021 09:32 PM (SDdx5)

132 Had a field artillery piece that would shoot a 3" projectile from one end of the den to the other.

Posted by: Braenyard, (DShoH) at August 06, 2021 09:33 PM (DShoH)

133 80's channel I mean.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:33 PM (K0bra)

134 124 We had mold and paint chips and we were grateful!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:25 PM (i9ZF7),

You had a house!!??
Luxury!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2021 09:31 PM (axyOa)

Uh, no. This was the overpass on I-90.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:33 PM (i9ZF7)

135 The "entrepreneur" says he needs to be "be safe" on the streets to do his "hustle" "selling things" on the streets. I shit you not.

https://youtu.be/PAXiyFBCrLI?t=83
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 09:20 PM (YLYCU)

You left out the best part.

His name is Dick Johnson.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 06, 2021 09:33 PM (tp+tP)

136 Oh shit, I forgot that in my list. I had one until I got a Wii, which plays game cube games. I gave the cube to a friend when his fried.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 09:30 PM (VwHCD)

Only the first gen did. Later ones didn't have the cord connections for the game cube controllers. My parents got one of those for my nieces and nephews to play on at their house. The reason it could play Gamecube games is because it was originally designed to be just a gamecube peripheral. Oh I still have a wavebird controller.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 09:33 PM (vMCab)

137 Pitfall for the win.

Loved that game.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:34 PM (i9ZF7)

138 The Sega Dreamcast was something of a leap forward in performance but it never seemed to catch on.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 06, 2021 09:34 PM (II3Gr)

139 The private parts of Joe, Ken, and Barbie were the same.

Flat molded plastic.

(Holds stiff plastic dolls in hands, shakes them at the cruel, impassive sky, weeps as clouds gather and thunder tumbles)

I blame Hasbro for EVERYTHING!!!

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:34 PM (xK9An)

140 I believe they had all you can eat spaghetti on Tuesday, which was my downfall.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 06, 2021 09:32 PM (SDdx5)

As it would be mine.

And now I'm hungry. Dang it.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 06, 2021 09:35 PM (tp+tP)

141 Pitfall for the win.

Loved that game.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:34 PM (i9ZF7)

Adventure, with the dragons that looked like ducks.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:35 PM (K0bra)

142 I didn't own Pong, a relative did, so that's the first one I played. I think the first I owned may have been the 2600. But a friend had the TRS 80, and we played games on that. I played a bunch of text games on the Commodore 64 too.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2021 09:35 PM (QU5/8)

143 127 Hubs found some 70's Vevo channel on Pluto. Rock Me Tonight is the gayest video in the history of video. And gay.
Posted by: Jordan61

And just like that, Billy Squire's career ended. Damn shame. Dude rocked.

Posted by: Puddleglum, golfing in Amish Country at August 06, 2021 09:35 PM (LUyqH)

144 Do the pillows hiss when you lay your head on them?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 06, 2021 09:36 PM (ZJ4XO)

145 Second Hand Lions is probably the second best movie ever made.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 06, 2021 09:36 PM (SDdx5)

146 -
The private parts of Joe, Ken, and Barbie were the same.

Flat molded plastic. -
-
And this, also, is the story of Obama.

Posted by: irright at August 06, 2021 09:36 PM (BB7pQ)

147 121 The video game console infographic does not contain the Magnavox Odyssey, and as such is incomplete, as the Odyssey was clearly superior to Atari.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 06, 2021 09:31 PM (5We2S)

Yeah that's not nearly a comprehensive list. It skips Sega's first console, N64, Sega Saturn and Dreamcast, the uh PS2, etc.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 09:36 PM (vMCab)

148 >>But a friend had the TRS 80, and we played games on that. I played a bunch of text games on the Commodore 64 too.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2021 09:35 PM (QU5/

Talkin bout my generation.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:37 PM (xK9An)

149 Most of my action figures died in the napalm strike of '82.

Poor villagers.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:37 PM (i9ZF7)

150 I bought an Atari 800 back in the early 1980's. A friend had one, and collected a LOT of games, and I got some of them on disk (had a disk drive for it too).
And....I still have that Atari 800, two WICO joysticks, somewhere around here.

Have gone through a lot of PC's since then, but have kept the Atari. And although it is pretty primitive by today's standards, it was actually very well built.

I had one of those too, and then upgraded to the ST series. I believe I first went online using a 1040 STE. Man, I'm old.

Posted by: Weirddave at August 06, 2021 09:37 PM (GtpEB)

151 The chicken feeding dogs to dogs is really fuggn sick. She is fattening the up with other dogs that did not sell in time. Cannibalism China style, commies suck!

Posted by: MantuaBill at August 06, 2021 09:37 PM (0vYqC)

152 Watched that truck crash video. It not only hit the pole, it decabitated itself.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 06, 2021 09:37 PM (SchxB)

153 Second Hand Lions is probably the second best movie ever made.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief

Duval is a god.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:38 PM (r1z5A)

154 But a friend had the TRS 80, and we played games on that. I played a bunch of text games on the Commodore 64 too.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2021 09:35 PM (QU5/

I remember playing a text game called Bedlam on a TRS 80 (which we called Trash-80 for some reason).

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:38 PM (K0bra)

155 Second Hand Lions is probably the second best movie ever made.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief

*** crouches behind car ***

**** waves white flag ****

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic ... at August 06, 2021 09:38 PM (okV1R)

156 Adventure, with the dragons that looked like ducks.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:35 PM (K0bra)

Did you ever find the hidden room?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:39 PM (i9ZF7)

157 The private parts of Joe, Ken, and Barbie were the same.

So they were vampires in "The Strain"?

Posted by: Puddleglum, golfing in Amish Country at August 06, 2021 09:39 PM (LUyqH)

158 Rode my bike to target when Donkey Kong for Intellivision came out. Got it home, plugged it in, and...WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?
Posted by: Duke Lowell

The Atari 2600 port of Pac Man was infamously bad.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 06, 2021 09:40 PM (OssQ4)

159 >>149 Most of my action figures died in the napalm strike of '82. Poor villagers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:37 PM (i9ZF7)

Putting the ladyfinger under the 1/72 Panzer model: Good.
Building the 1/72 Panzer model around the ladyfinger with the fuse sticking out of the hatch: Better.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:40 PM (xK9An)

160 You had a house!!??
Luxury!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2021 09:31 PM (axyOa)

Uh, no. This was the overpass on I-90.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:33 PM (i9ZF7)

I was on I-5. Had to share my shopping cart with my brother and the town derelict.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2021 09:40 PM (axyOa)

161 Did you ever find the hidden room?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:39 PM (i9ZF7)

No, my cousin did though.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:40 PM (K0bra)

162 Video game consoles? Luxury! I had to ride my bike to the car wash and forage for quarters so I could get a video game at the arcade.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 06, 2021 09:40 PM (bCkNL)

163 I found the Adventure hidden room, but only after watching a friend do it on his Atari.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 06, 2021 09:41 PM (vuisn)

164 The Magnavox Odyssey allowed you to program levels on games and had a voice modulator that you could program to talk in a robotic voice.

We Odyssey players made fun of the ghetto children playing their crude Atari football with three lineman all clumped together moving in unison. We knew they were incapable of coding, the only technical abilities they possessed was blowing on the cartridges.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 06, 2021 09:41 PM (5We2S)

165 Putting the ladyfinger under the 1/72 Panzer model: Good.
Building the 1/72 Panzer model around the ladyfinger with the fuse sticking out of the hatch: Better.
Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:40 PM (xK9An

Putting an m-80 in your sisters Barbie Mansion.

I'm still grounded.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:41 PM (i9ZF7)

166 Centipede was my favorite arcade game.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:42 PM (K0bra)

167 I'm gonna throw rocks at cars.
Posted by: Braenyard, (DShoH) at August 06, 2021 09:28 PM (DShoH)

That used to be one of my catch phrases: I'm so pissed I want to go down on the highway and throw rocks at cars.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2021 09:42 PM (0dhMv)

168 Did the TV get permanent pong lines?

Posted by: davidt at August 06, 2021 09:42 PM (Wmke/)

169 80's memories: ASCII pr0n on a Trash-80.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 06, 2021 09:42 PM (vuisn)

170 Only the first gen did. Later ones didn't have the
cord connections for the game cube controllers. My parents got one of
those for my nieces and nephews to play on at their house. The reason
it could play Gamecube games is because it was originally designed to be
just a gamecube peripheral. Oh I still have a wavebird controller.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 09:33 PM (vMCab)

Was that the WiiU? I don't have that one. I just have a Wii.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 09:42 PM (VwHCD)

171 I was on I-5. Had to share my shopping cart with my brother and the town derelict.
Posted by: Diogenes

One of the few good things about Seattle, the choice of living under 1-90 OR I-5!

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:42 PM (r1z5A)

172 Some of you old farts need to go sit on the porch in your rocking chair and shake your cane at everyone who walks by. Enough already.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief

Cane? I got my 870 loaded with .00.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ne desponderis ne dedideris at August 06, 2021 09:42 PM (LLAly)

173 Putting an m-80 in your sisters Barbie Mansion.

I'm still grounded.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:41 PM (i9ZF7)

That...is..fucking...awesome. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 09:43 PM (VwHCD)

174 Putting an m-80 in your sisters Barbie Mansion.

I'm still grounded.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:41 PM (i9ZF7)

LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:43 PM (K0bra)

175 148 >>But a friend had the TRS 80, and we played games on that. I played a bunch of text games on the Commodore 64 too.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2021 09:35 PM (QU5/

Talkin bout my generation.
Posted by: ZOD

West of House
There is an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
A rubber mat saying 'Welcome to Zork!' lies by the door.

I must have wiled away many many hours playing Zork.

Posted by: Puddleglum, golfing in Amish Country at August 06, 2021 09:43 PM (LUyqH)

176 Waves at Alamogordo! Hope you and Jesse can figure out a way to get here

Good ONT! Thanks WD!

Colorado Morondezvous
Saturday August 21st
6:30pm til....
Central Denver (not downtown)

wds dot aoshq at proton mail dot com

You only have until the 13th to register!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 06, 2021 09:44 PM (/UQ/R)

177 Uh, no. This was the overpass on I-90.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:33 PM (i9ZF7)

I was on I-5. Had to share my shopping cart with my brother and the town derelict.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2021 09:40 PM (axyOa

You had a shopping cart??

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:44 PM (i9ZF7)

178
Of course:

Fake fact-checking misinformation website Snopes says biden didn't say "my butt's been wiped."

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 09:44 PM (YLYCU)

179 I was rolling doobies instead of playing Pong.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ne desponderis ne dedideris at August 06, 2021 09:44 PM (LLAly)

180 Another Friday, another hash. About 6 weeks in a row now.

Posted by: davidt at August 06, 2021 09:44 PM (Wmke/)

181 Leisure Suit Larry...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2021 09:44 PM (BFigT)

182 Putting an m-80 in your sisters Barbie Mansion.

I'm still grounded.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:41 PM (i9ZF7)

In Barbie world, I believe that qualifies as domestic terrorism.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 06, 2021 09:44 PM (tp+tP)

183 So, how is everyone?

I've spent the evening animating a monster-thing.

Also, I'm not Rich Evans.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 06, 2021 09:44 PM (OU+8W)

184 @162 wow you triggered a memory. I used to do that because the arcade was next to the car wash.

Posted by: Rusty at August 06, 2021 09:45 PM (gtWiK)

185 Hunt the Wumpus on TI 80.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2021 09:45 PM (uifUW)

186 I must have wiled away many many hours playing Zork.

Posted by: Puddleglum, golfing in Amish Country at August 06, 2021 09:43 PM (LUyqH)

There was a PC game called Zork nemesis. I remember playing that. I didn't do too many PC games, but that was one of them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 09:45 PM (VwHCD)

187 Anyone seen the Atari ET game documentary about the landfill?
Glad I never was duped into buying that, even as a kid.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 06, 2021 09:45 PM (vuisn)

188 Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ne desponderis ne dedideris at August 06, 2021 09:42 PM (LLAly)

Sock Monkey! The Spokesman-Review sucks. They have an article crowing about elective surgeries being cancelled because Covid. MEANWHILE I just read on krem.com it's actually because there are more accidents in the summer plus they are backlogged with surgeries from last year.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:46 PM (K0bra)

189 Putting an m-80 in your sisters Barbie Mansion.

I'm still grounded.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Heh, when is your sentence up?

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:46 PM (r1z5A)

190 Bozo, I first knew of Wally Cox as Mr Peepers, and only because I was reading a book by Betty MacDonald. It was in a side note about some dogs, and Mrs MacDonald had some odd dogs.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2021 09:46 PM (0dhMv)

191 143 127 Hubs found some 70's Vevo channel on Pluto. Rock Me Tonight is the gayest video in the history of video. And gay.
Posted by: Jordan61
-----------------------

Tom Cruise redux

Posted by: Braenyard, (DShoH) at August 06, 2021 09:46 PM (DShoH)

192 >>Putting an m-80 in your sisters Barbie Mansion.
I'm still grounded.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:41 PM (i9ZF7)

"The fuse on an M-80 is waterproof, so if you flush a toilet in school, light it, and drop it in while it's swirling, it'll go down and you'll hear a kinda 'thommmp' noise. And then we get the next day off."

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:46 PM (xK9An)

193 Fairchild Channel-F is what we had. Papa Basura thought the Atari 2600 was crap.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 06, 2021 09:47 PM (SchxB)

194 189 Putting an m-80 in your sisters Barbie Mansion.

I'm still grounded.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Heh, when is your sentence up?
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:46 PM (r1z5A

One year I got my sister a Barbie birthday card. She was 37. Laughs were had.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:47 PM (i9ZF7)

195 The first video game console we had was an RCA Studio II. Number pads on either side, and about the lowest res graphics you can imagine. Bowling was sending a block across the screen at slightly smaller blocks.

I think that "quote" from Paradise lost is actually a Bender B. Rodriguez original.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 06, 2021 09:47 PM (CAJOC)

196 Why do you think I'm spam? Post my mindless missive!
I had that Pong.The one with no individual controllers.
Both players had to lean into the console. I had the Atari 2600. I bought it with the money from the sale of the cow my grandfather gave me. I had the Super Nintendo. Pilot wings was a great game for a bunch of geeks who didn't care how geeky they looked.

I have the PS3. Some friends and I still play Battlefield Bad Company 2 a few times a month and you should too. See you there. My family has the Wii, it was my kids first tea game console and it doesn't get played as much as our PS3 but it's still awesome.

Posted by: Rihar at August 06, 2021 09:50 PM (+PABY)

197 I think that "quote" from Paradise lost is actually a Bender B. Rodriguez original.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 06, 2021 09:47 PM (CAJOC)

On second thought, screw the blackjack!

Posted by: Lucifer at August 06, 2021 09:50 PM (tp+tP)

198 One of the few good things about Seattle, the choice of living under 1-90 OR I-5!
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:42 PM (r1z5A),

Dang. I always wanted a summer home.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2021 09:50 PM (axyOa)

199 Was that the WiiU? I don't have that one. I just have a Wii.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 09:42 PM (VwHCD)

No just later iterations of the console. I think it was once they went to making them in different colors.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 09:50 PM (vMCab)

200 198 One of the few good things about Seattle, the choice of living under 1-90 OR I-5!
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:42 PM (r1z5A),

Dang. I always wanted a summer home.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2021 09:50 PM (axyOa

You had summers? Lucky.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:51 PM (i9ZF7)

201 Star Raiders on an Atari 800.

It was pretty impressive for the technology of the time.

Posted by: junior at August 06, 2021 09:52 PM (PTw5h)

202 "The fuse on an M-80 is waterproof, so if you flush a toilet in school, light it, and drop it in while it's swirling, it'll go down and you'll hear a kinda 'thommmp' noise. And then we get the next day off."

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:46 PM (xK9An)

In high school, some idiot (or not) combined a couple of mystery substances and flushed it down the drain in the chemistry lab. The smell was so awful people were puking in the hallway. They finally relented and sent us home at lunch. I have no idea what that was, but it was awful.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 06, 2021 09:52 PM (SDdx5)

203 I'll probably be here all night, because that cockroach quilt thing will give me nightmares if I try to go to bed.

Thanks a lot.

Posted by: a.moron at August 06, 2021 09:52 PM (I5FZ1)

204 Sock Monkey! The Spokesman-Review sucks. They have an article crowing about elective surgeries being cancelled because Covid. MEANWHILE I just read on krem.com it's actually because there are more accidents in the summer plus they are backlogged with surgeries from last year.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:46 PM (K0bra)

You mean the media is lying about how serious Covid II: Electric Boogaloo is?

As Ace says, I shan't believe it. I simply shannot.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 06, 2021 09:53 PM (tp+tP)

205 Hydrogen Sulfide probably. Rotten eggs.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:54 PM (i9ZF7)

206 Star Raiders on an Atari 800.

It was pretty impressive for the technology of the time.
Posted by: junior

Is that the one where it turns out the fuel one mines is actually sentient life?

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:54 PM (r1z5A)

207 One of the finest video games of the 70s and 80s was the Mattel handheld Football 2 game.

I spent countless childhood hours dodging those tiny little red blips.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 06, 2021 09:54 PM (5We2S)

208 Casual Friday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at August 06, 2021 09:55 PM (qAR6u)

209 207 One of the finest video games of the 70s and 80s was the Mattel handheld Football 2 game.

I spent countless childhood hours dodging those tiny little red blips.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 06, 2021 09:54 PM (5We2S

Yissssss!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:56 PM (i9ZF7)

210 Hungry, but too lazy to build a sammich. Wife too tired.
"Can we just have a live-in woman to make the late-night sammiches?"
"Will she also unload the dishwasher? I hate unloading the dishwasher."
"Sure. And she has to be ugly."
"OK, but not so ugly that she gets it on the sammiches."
"And she sleeps on Sadie's old bed."
"What about Sadie?"
"She sleeps on the floor anyway."
(Sleepless, hungry, staring at the ceiling)
"Buying. Renting is a waste."
"But ugly. And she does the dishwasher."
"And sammiches. Deal?"
"Deal."

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:56 PM (xK9An)

211 One of the finest video games of the 70s and 80s was the Mattel handheld Football 2 game.

I spent countless childhood hours dodging those tiny little red blips.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 06, 2021 09:54 PM (5We2S)

I actually have one of those. The baseball one, too.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:56 PM (K0bra)

212 Sock Monkey! The Spokesman-Review sucks.

Ninja kitty thinks it gives her litter box the appropriate touch. She won't use it if I don't put the paper in. I haven't read it in years. Wife occasionally makes me read a husband related comic.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ne desponderis ne dedideris at August 06, 2021 09:56 PM (LLAly)

213 One of the finest video games of the 70s and 80s was the Mattel handheld Football 2 game.

I have one of those, right here with me. Just need to pop a 9 volt battery in it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 06, 2021 09:58 PM (SchxB)

214 >>> Why do you think I'm spam? Post my mindless missive!
Posted by: Rihar at August 06, 2021 09:50 PM (+PABY)

It catches everyone. It's mostly based on the total number of carriage returns in the text entry box. It was implemented because at the beginning of the year trolls were screwing with every page by posting 1000 line trash all over as entertainment. They're why we can't have nice things.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 06, 2021 09:58 PM (0ti1x)

215 That Mattel football game was great. Primitive but a ton of fun. Played it every chance I got for a long time.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2021 09:58 PM (QU5/8)

216 @207 I actually scored on of those in a junk store a couple weeks ago, along with the baseball one. Work perfect. I had the baseball as a kid. I remember those being the one thing we were sure to take to school on rainy days.

Posted by: Rusty at August 06, 2021 09:59 PM (gtWiK)

217 The subtitle for the Spider-Man figure says "Come and enjoy the pleasure together"

It winds up.

There is more there than meets the eye.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 06, 2021 09:59 PM (a3Q+t)

218 Pinball >>>> video games

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ne desponderis ne dedideris at August 06, 2021 09:59 PM (LLAly)

219 215 That Mattel football game was great. Primitive but a ton of fun. Played it every chance I got for a long time.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2021 09:58 PM (QU5/8

That game is the reason my thumbs go like this.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 09:59 PM (i9ZF7)

220 *hands ZOD stick*

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 06, 2021 10:00 PM (U2p+3)

221 They're why we can't have nice things.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 06, 2021 09:58 PM (0ti1x)
--------

But we do have a free and open society.
No Other Place On The Web Has That

Posted by: Braenyard, (DShoH) at August 06, 2021 10:00 PM (DShoH)

222 "the Mattel handheld Football 2 game."

I think they had a two-player version my little brother and I played on all those long car trips. Annoyingly, the Flea Flicker play was programmed to score about 50% of the time, so we both got tired of being "robbed" by the other in the last few seconds of most games.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 06, 2021 10:01 PM (49Exr)

223 I've still got an Atari knock-off from Sears, with a slew of cartridges I swiped from my mom's house (including the infamous E.T. game, which, honestly, wasn't that bad of a game).

Later we got an NES. Bought far fewer cartridges. At that time, video stores were getting into game rental, so we mostly rented games.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 06, 2021 10:01 PM (CAJOC)

224 There was a PC game called Zork nemesis. I remember playing that. I didn't do too many PC games, but that was one of them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 09:45 PM (VwHCD)

You are in a forest.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:02 PM (vMCab)

225 I think that our local paper still runs The Phantom comic strip, except it is in the sports pages and not with the rest of the comics.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 06, 2021 10:02 PM (a4EWo)

226 Ok Hordelings, it's bedtime for Bonzo. Have two drumming gigs in next two days so early night. Y'all don't burn the place down, 'k?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 06, 2021 10:03 PM (HaL55)

227 *hands ZOD stick*
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 06, 2021 10:00 PM (U2p+3)

What???!!!
You don't just hand off the stick. You pass the baton.
There needs to be flags flying, bands playing, troops in formation. There should be a flyover of jets and a pass in review that includes tanks.
Sheesh.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2021 10:03 PM (axyOa)

228 The Coleco electric football game was not great. Two players out of 22 with magnets under them so you could, umm 'move' them around the field with an armature under the playing field, a cotton 'football,' and the other 20 players shivering spastically around the field until they all ended up clustered in a corner.

THIS fucking 'game':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMyaWCroBg8

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 10:03 PM (xK9An)

229 Tecmo Super Bowl also robbed a lot of my youth.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 10:04 PM (i9ZF7)

230 I SO want to go to that Depeche Mode Pizzeria!

"Enjoy the Slicence"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at August 06, 2021 09:04 PM (Dc2NZ)

Me too! Weird Dave, do you know where that is??? I know that you'll be able to tell us because you "Never Let Me Down"!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:04 PM (mZUr4)

231 >>> "Buying. Renting is a waste."
Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 09:56 PM (xK9An)

I'd check first on leasing's amortization vs buying depreciation. Although, the ugly ones probably hold their value better than the hot ones.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 06, 2021 10:04 PM (0ti1x)

232 They're why we can't have nice things.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 06, 2021 09:58 PM

Well, them and the people who mention Y*k*.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 06, 2021 10:05 PM (a3Q+t)

233 We did the GI Joe - Barbie rescue games too, but we used cowboys instead of GI Joe. I forget the name of the protag, but one of the bad guys was named Black Bart. They had a ranch set and everything.

Barbie sure did get kidnapped by Indians a lot. Looking back, I think she was playing us.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 06, 2021 10:05 PM (49Exr)

234 Y'all don't burn the place down, 'k?

There goes my plan for the evening.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 06, 2021 10:05 PM (SchxB)

235 Or Oregon Trail.

So much dysentery

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 10:05 PM (i9ZF7)

236 That Vietnamese woman isn't feeding hungry dogs. She's just chumming the water. What you don't see is the net being hauled in. Hukilau style.

No, I don't know if she's Vietnamese. I would denounce myself, but what's the point, really?

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 06, 2021 10:06 PM (//1Wu)

237 @229 there is a group online that maintains a downloadable rom of Tecmo with the current teams rosters and stats. Playable with MAME and other emulators.

Posted by: Rusty at August 06, 2021 10:06 PM (gtWiK)

238 Sons dog has been sprayed 3 times so far this summer, has killed seven whistle pigs and now is enjoying his second trip to the emergency vets

Life is never dull with him around.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 06, 2021 10:06 PM (U67az)

239 >>Barbie sure did get kidnapped by Indians a lot. Looking back, I think she was playing us.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 06, 2021 10:05 PM (49Exr)

Barbie: Non-articulated knees.

You will draw the obvious conclusions.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 10:07 PM (xK9An)

240 >>> There was a PC game called Zork nemesis. I remember playing that. I didn't do too many PC games, but that was one of them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 09:45 PM (VwHCD)

You are in a forest.
Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:02 PM (vMCab)

That one was something like the tenth in the series. The first Zork preceded it by more than a decade.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 06, 2021 10:07 PM (0ti1x)

241 Butyric acid.

Posted by: davidt at August 06, 2021 10:07 PM (Wmke/)

242 Love the video game time line. I still have my original Atari 2600 from the 80s. About 50 games - and WORKING paddles!!!

New Year's Eve tradition in the Doof house. Air mattress set up in the family room (used to be the basement before we moved 9 years ago). Retro video games on the TV. My older son is 22 now - we still do that every New Year's Eve.

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:08 PM (mZUr4)

243 I started the book Yoga for Men, on the idea that yoga is for women and hippies, and it has been terrific. My neck pain is almost completely gone.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 06, 2021 10:08 PM (ybIRR)

244 230 Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:04 PM (mZUr4)

Depeche Mode Pizzeria-Have a Black Celebration in your Sea of Sin

Posted by: sven at August 06, 2021 10:08 PM (Lzpvj)

245 Everyone be good.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 06, 2021 10:09 PM (OU+8W)

246 235 Or Oregon Trail.

So much dysentery
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 10:05 PM (i9ZF7)

Would you like to play it again?

https://classicreload.com/oregon-trail.html/

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:10 PM (vMCab)

247 Good night, BC.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 06, 2021 10:10 PM (a4EWo)

248 Blanco is it still possible to get a moronhorde email address?

Posted by: Slash Buzz at August 06, 2021 10:11 PM (tjGJt)

249 Nope, nope, nope to the bedspread.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at August 06, 2021 10:11 PM (u82oZ)

250 One of the finest video games of the 70s and 80s was the Mattel handheld Football 2 game.

I spent countless childhood hours dodging those tiny little red blips.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 06, 2021 09:54 PM (5We2S)

Oh Hell yeah!! Still have my original Football 1 (white case). Bought the reissue versions of Football 2, baseball, hockey, and basketball about 15 years ago when they came back out for us kids of the 70s and 80s. My kids (ages 22 and almost 1

actually still enjoy them.

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:12 PM (mZUr4)

251 Would you like to play it again?

https://classicreload.com/oregon-trail.html/
Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:10 PM (vMCab

You bastard.

Fine. I'll see you all in ten years.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 10:12 PM (i9ZF7)

252
Not a good night. Peanut is staying at the emergency vet. The diagnosis is not clear but the prognosis is poor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2021 10:12 PM (/U27+)

253 Two arcade games that ate lots of my money:

Joust and Arch Rivals.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 06, 2021 10:13 PM (5We2S)

254 I had a choose-your-own-adventure book called Zork: The Forces of Krill. As I recall, on one page, there was a fake option. Choose it, and you were immediately called out as a cheater, and killed.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 06, 2021 10:13 PM (CAJOC)

255 Sorry to hear of that Hadrian.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 06, 2021 10:13 PM (U67az)

256 @206 Is that the one where it turns out the fuel one mines is actually sentient life?

----------

That was Starflight.

Star Raiders was quite possibly the very first space combat sim, beating out games like Wing Commander by over a decade.

Posted by: junior at August 06, 2021 10:13 PM (PTw5h)

257 Sorry to hear that Hadrian. Prayers up for comfort for your puppy.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ne desponderis ne dedideris at August 06, 2021 10:14 PM (LLAly)

258 245 Everyone be good.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 06, 2021 10:09 PM (OU+8W)

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

Spoil-sport!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 06, 2021 10:14 PM (CAJOC)

259 Joust ate all my quarters.

Posted by: davidt at August 06, 2021 10:14 PM (Wmke/)

260 Oh Hadrian, I am sorry about Peanut.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 06, 2021 10:15 PM (a4EWo)

261 Depeche Mode Pizzeria-Have a Black Celebration in your Sea of Sin
Posted by: sven at August 06, 2021 10:08 PM (Lzpvj)

I'll find that place - it's just A QUESTION OF TIME. It will happen at some point, BUT NOT TONIGHT. When I do find it, it will be a PLEASURE LITTLE TREASURE.

(I could go on for a looooong time)

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:15 PM (mZUr4)

262 No, wait...

THIS fucking game. This is the game that Zod had, the very one. Cruel world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8y0_XVnCII

Still can't hear a blender without PTSD.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 10:16 PM (xK9An)

263 There are four of those Zork books. Treasured possessions in my youth. And yes, I think that series did the cheater trick more than once. Awesome!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2021 10:16 PM (QU5/8)

264 The tombstone is the inspiration for the Johnny Cash song about Tiger Whitehead. Good listen, if you've not heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjcegbdjH5g

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 10:16 PM (U1eOr)

265 The ultimate arcade quarter guzzler was Atari's Gauntlet. Knew a guy who owned an arcade back in the day who told me his entire arcade expenses could be paid for with that one machine.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 06, 2021 10:17 PM (//1Wu)

266 253 Two arcade games that ate lots of my money:

Joust and Arch Rivals.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 06, 2021 10:13 PM (5We2S)

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

Used to love to go to Showbiz Pizza, before it was bought out by Chuck E Cheese, and it shifted more towards kiddie games and rides.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 06, 2021 10:17 PM (CAJOC)

267 Rock Me Tonight is the gayest video in the history of video. And gay.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:32 PM (K0bra)

Pretty sure this is canon everywhere

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2021 10:18 PM (9AWuc)

268 Great music image, but I gotta take issue with some of the song lengths. No classic rock track worth caring about is over in less than about 4.5 minutes. Blues and especially metal (which is when blues goes to the opera) is often twice that.

The whole 3 minute thing basically died with The Beatles, but maybe it lives on in pop music or something.

Posted by: CppThis at August 06, 2021 10:18 PM (UewuT)

269 Always good to see you around Beckoning.

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2021 10:19 PM (9AWuc)

270 for people who live near Seattle and are fans of the bivalve mollusk

there is a purty nice clam gun coming up in an auction in Renton next Thursday

Posted by: REDACTED at August 06, 2021 10:19 PM (YK4Qh)

271 Not a good night. Peanut is staying at the emergency vet. The diagnosis is not clear but the prognosis is poor.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2021 10:12 PM (/U27+)

Oh hell Hadrian, I'm sorry. I lost my boy Buck last Saturday.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 10:19 PM (K0bra)

272 @240 That one was something like the tenth in the series. The first Zork preceded it by more than a decade.

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Yeah.

Zork Nemesis was the odd-ball of the bunch. It was full-on FMV (though I don't think it was the first Zork game like that, and it wasn't the last), and it didn't have any of the silliness that the other Zork games had. Also, the other Zork games had a semi-continuity that sort of tied them together (though only if you didn't look too closely). Zork Nemesis didn't bother with any of that.

It was also *extremely* difficult.

Posted by: junior at August 06, 2021 10:19 PM (PTw5h)

273 The ps3 was $600 when it came out. One web site said you were crazy if you bought it when it came out.

I don't know about the prices for the other consoles but the ps3 sure wasn't $299 when it came out.

Posted by: Brian at August 06, 2021 10:20 PM (DE7Lc)

274 265 The ultimate arcade quarter guzzler was Atari's Gauntlet. Knew a guy who owned an arcade back in the day who told me his entire arcade expenses could be paid for with that one machine.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 06, 2021 10:17 PM (//1Wu)

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

Well, it was a four player game, so probably earned four times as much as most games (I didn't know anyone who played it solo).

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 06, 2021 10:20 PM (CAJOC)

275 Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 10:16 PM

That's one of the games that Bill and Ted challenge Death to. Battleship and Twister were two of the others.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 06, 2021 10:21 PM (//1Wu)

276 Blanco is it still possible to get a moronhorde email address?

Yes. Send me an email at Blanco dot Basura at moronhorde dot com. This is so I have somewhere to send your initial password. If I were to drop it here at least 20 people would try to grab the account before you could log in. And that's just the lurkers.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 06, 2021 10:21 PM (SchxB)

277 273 The ps3 was $600 when it came out. One web site said you were crazy if you bought it when it came out.

I don't know about the prices for the other consoles but the ps3 sure wasn't $299 when it came out.

Posted by: Brian at August 06, 2021 10:20 PM (DE7Lc)

20 GB model was $499

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:22 PM (vMCab)

278 267 Rock Me Tonight is the gayest video in the history of video. And gay.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 09:32 PM (K0bra)

Pretty sure this is canon everywhere
Posted by: ... at August 06, 2021 10:18 PM (9AWuc)

The YouTube comments are hilarious

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 10:22 PM (i9ZF7)

279 Fairchild Channel F for the win

Seriously, go check out the games. Rectangles. Lots of rectangles. And beeping.

All the games were the same game. You didn't know if you're playing Hockey, Space Destroyer, Baseball or Bowling. Somehow it still captured the imagination.

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2021 10:22 PM (9AWuc)

280 If anyone here has a Facebook account, go to today's The Dilley Show - at about 40 minutes in, you see a 6'4" tranny arguing with an old man about why he's a woman. It's hilarious! The old guy finally asks him if he's got a dick, and the tranny is outraged that he would be so rude.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, #SuperStraight #EnemyOfTheState (Mzdiz) at August 06, 2021 10:23 PM (Mzdiz)

281 Hadrian, prayers for Peanut

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicu (oEn12) at August 06, 2021 10:24 PM (oEn12)

282 Gauntlet: Elf shot the food!

Red label Joust was my game (the one where you could hunt pterodactyls). I think my high score was in the 7-8 million point range. It took me like 6 hours, and another hour just to burn through all the extra lives.

Posted by: Weirddave at August 06, 2021 10:24 PM (GtpEB)

283 The first-gen PS3 was kind of interesting. It runs BSD on a high throughput IBM CPU and was somewhat unlockable, so hardware hackers figured out that it could be turned into a ghetto number cruncher. Unfortunately Sony "fixed" this with the first cost-reduction redesign.

Posted by: CppThis at August 06, 2021 10:25 PM (UewuT)

284 Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 06, 2021 10:20 PM

It wasn't just the four player aspect (though that helped), but the way that you could keep the same game going indefinitely by quarter-feeding it. Yes, plenty of games had a contine function, but when questing with your buddies, this was more seamless.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 06, 2021 10:25 PM (//1Wu)

285 I think when Sony released the price of the PS3 they had some criticism and the response was "Just get a second job." Microsoft got to announce the 360 price and I think they might have done a mic drop announcing it's price.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:26 PM (vMCab)

286 BTW, Zork (and Zork II and Zork III) were made by a MA company named Infocom. I had a friend who worked there in high school. I was extremely jealous.

I've gone back and tried to play them (you can play it free on your phone) but I really don't find it as fun as I used to.

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 10:26 PM (U1eOr)

287 284 Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 06, 2021 10:20 PM

It wasn't just the four player aspect (though that helped), but the way that you could keep the same game going indefinitely by quarter-feeding it. Yes, plenty of games had a contine function, but when questing with your buddies, this was more seamless.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 06, 2021 10:25 PM (//1Wu)

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True. As long as one of you could stay alive, the others could respawn.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 06, 2021 10:28 PM (CAJOC)

288 The YouTube comments are hilarious
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 10:22 PM (i9ZF7)

LOL. "Was Richard Simmons not available?"

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 10:29 PM (K0bra)

289 Posted by: Brian at August 06, 2021 10:20 PM

1st gen PS3s are sought out by some audiophiles because the optical drive in it was the only SACD-Rom drive ever produced, meaning it's the only device that can be used to rip a DSD stream from an SACD disc.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 06, 2021 10:29 PM (//1Wu)

290 Red label Joust was my game (the one where you could hunt pterodactyls). I think my high score was in the 7-8 million point range. It took me like 6 hours, and another hour just to burn through all the extra lives.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 06, 2021 10:24 PM (GtpEB)

Were you playing at Time Out in Golden Ring Mall?? Next to Farrell's (yup - I'm bringing up Farrell's again!)

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:29 PM (mZUr4)

291 If only Hillary had been propped up on that bollard.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, #SuperStraight #EnemyOfTheState (Mzdiz) at August 06, 2021 10:31 PM (Mzdiz)

292 280 If anyone here has a Facebook account, go to today's The Dilley Show - at about 40 minutes in, you see a 6'4" tranny arguing with an old man about why he's a woman. It's hilarious! The old guy finally asks him if he's got a dick, and the tranny is outraged that he would be so rude.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, #SuperStraight #EnemyOfTheState (Mzdiz) at August 06, 2021 10:23 PM (Mzdiz)

Ace linked a tweet with it in the quick hits. The tranny is on the city council and it was basically a set up. They were planning to harrass the store tomorrow but they cancelled that once it sounded like there were going to be more counter protesters there. Oh they also attempted to review bomb the store and it backfired and it had like a 4.8 out of 5 rating.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:31 PM (vMCab)

293 I played all the Monkey Island games.

A script was written, but the story was reconstructed as Pirates of the Carribean. "You are the worst pirate I have ever heard of" is a line that could apply to Guybrush Threepwood.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 06, 2021 10:31 PM (ybIRR)

294 Blue Valkyrie needs food badly. Gauntlet was great. The second one was better. Inevitably, one of your fool coplayers would go full Leroy Jenkins and bust open a wall unleashing 50 fireball-hurling demons. I could play that right now.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2021 10:33 PM (QU5/8)

295 I used to work with a muscle-head body builder-type who worked as a bouncer/security at the Newport theater concert venue here in Columbus.

He told me Billy Squier grabbed his crank backstage after a show in the '80s

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah, carrying ZOMG variant at August 06, 2021 10:33 PM (sJHOI)

296 "Blue Warrior has shot the food" is a regular joke between me and old high-school friend.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 06, 2021 10:34 PM (ybIRR)

297 288 The YouTube comments are hilarious
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 10:22 PM (i9ZF7)

LOL. "Was Richard Simmons not available?"
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 10:29 PM (K0bra)

Wham: we've made the gayest video ever!

Billy Squire: Hold my AppleTini

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 06, 2021 10:34 PM (i9ZF7)

298 Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 10:26 PM (U1eOr)

Yo, 496! Enjoyed reading your comments a day or 2 ago where you explained how you chose your nic.

Along the same lines, are you a fan of the album 90125 from the band Yes?

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:34 PM (mZUr4)

299 DSD is the best audio format that has ever been invented by mankind. I'll fight anyone who disagrees.
So, dsd is a relatively new format when the ps3 comes out and Sony barely even mentions it's existence.
The ps3 was such a scam. Remember the Killzone and Motorstorm videos?They were "target renderings" done on pc but Sony wanted people to think the ps3 was powering them.

The the real ps3 games came out and they were nothing like that. The cell was supposed to be amazing, I don't know what happened to it.

Posted by: Brian at August 06, 2021 10:35 PM (DE7Lc)

300 Rock Me Tonight is the gayest video in the history of video. And gay.

Posted by: J

was it a bad prom night thing?

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 06, 2021 10:35 PM (4Jold)

301 Regarding the Mattel handheld football game, what I remember most about that game is the fourth-down turnover sound being featured in Supertramp's "The Logical Song".

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 06, 2021 10:35 PM (//1Wu)

302 Ace linked a tweet with it in the quick hits. The
tranny is on the city council and it was basically a set up. They were
planning to harrass the store tomorrow but they cancelled that once it
sounded like there were going to be more counter protesters there. Oh
they also attempted to review bomb the store and it backfired and it had
like a 4.8 out of 5 rating.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:31 PM (vMCab)
LOL! Can't go head-to-head with Ace!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, #SuperStraight #EnemyOfTheState (Mzdiz) at August 06, 2021 10:35 PM (Mzdiz)

303 Billy Squire

if eltn john and olivia newtn john had a baby

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 06, 2021 10:36 PM (4Jold)

304 "Do you have a wiener sir?"

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 06, 2021 10:37 PM (ybIRR)

305 There is a rumor that Josh Barro is AllahPundit - if that is true, I don't think he's trolling here - Allah would readily believe that grilling is death, like catching the Achoo Flu-han.

Allah would definitely cook his guests' entire BBQ meal inside his 1970's Barbie Easybake Oven as a lesson to them about eating Vegan and then, after serving this raw shit up, say "what? not hungry?"

Posted by: Boswell at August 06, 2021 10:38 PM (5iUNf)

306 Along the same lines, are you a fan of the album 90125 from the band Yes?
Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:34 PM (mZUr4)

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Growing up I heard a lot of Yes played by my older brothers & sisters. I've not paid much attention to them since though. The closest I've gotten to a numbers-based album in "recent" years was 'This Right Here is Buck-65' - a Nova Scotia rap group. great stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjxfF7T97z0

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 10:38 PM (U1eOr)

307 The the real ps3 games came out and they were nothing like that. The cell was supposed to be amazing, I don't know what happened to it.
Posted by: Brian at August 06, 2021 10:35 PM (DE7Lc)

It was incredibly difficult to work on. I think that is actually one of the biggest reasons Sony isn't as interested in pursuing backwards compatibility to the extent Xbox has. Because they've looked at the cost of getting those game to work on PS4 and PS5 that did not use that crap processor and don't see it as financially profitable.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:38 PM (vMCab)

308 Trevor Rabin YES is not Steve Howe YES by any stretch, but it's not bad for MTV-era rock.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 06, 2021 10:40 PM (//1Wu)

309 Rock Me Tonight is the gayest video in the history of video. And gay.

Wow. I enjoy a lot of Billy Squier's songs. Especially Lonely is the Night and Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You.

However - I just watched the Rock Me Tonite video and I got back to back phone calls from the great beyond. It was Paul Lynde followed by Liberace -- telling me to stop being a fag

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:41 PM (mZUr4)

310 John Devorak of pc mag said back when the ps3 came out that the cell proc was the next huge thing in cpus. It was part of the hype train.
I know it was hard to program for, but what was supposed to be so great about it?

Posted by: Brian at August 06, 2021 10:42 PM (DE7Lc)

311 Growing up I heard a lot of Yes played by my older brothers & sisters. I've not paid much attention to them since though.

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 10:38 PM (U1eOr)

Their album 90125 is named as such because it is the catalog / bar code number from the record label. The band couldn't think of a title, so they went with the next number in the album catalog sequence.

Your choice of nic reminded me of that

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:43 PM (mZUr4)

312 310 John Devorak of pc mag said back when the ps3 came out that the cell proc was the next huge thing in cpus. It was part of the hype train.
I know it was hard to program for, but what was supposed to be so great about it?
Posted by: Brian at August 06, 2021 10:42 PM (DE7Lc)

Everything is always supposed to be the most amazing next great thing in gaming.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:44 PM (vMCab)

313 Buck 65's Centaur is pretty damn funny too. Almost NSFW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93g2z003vHs

"Of course it's larger than yours, I'm a man, but I'm built like a horse from the waist down."

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 10:45 PM (U1eOr)

314 The ps3 was the enterprise platform for the DDI system, which was glitchy until Ceres was coded into the ASCII-modeled analogue. It wasn't pretty, but it sure mainframed the brony.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 10:45 PM (xK9An)

315 I did the 7 million + at an arcade in Towson off Orchard Tree Lane, behind where Mo's seafood is today.

Posted by: Weirddave at August 06, 2021 10:45 PM (GtpEB)

316 Trevor Rabin YES is not Steve Howe YES by any stretch, but it's not bad for MTV-era rock.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 06, 2021 10:40 PM (//1Wu)

I'm a fan of both. Very different bands. Kind of like Van Halen with Roth vs Van Halen with Hagar. I'm like them both.

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:45 PM (mZUr4)

317
Billy Squire

if eltn john and olivia newtn john had a baby

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 06, 2021 10:36 PM (4Jold)

Gru (despicable me)
If barbra streisand and biden had a baby

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 10:46 PM (VwHCD)

318
I downloaded the DOS program to play Curse of Monkey Island and Full Throttle games.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 10:46 PM (YLYCU)

319 The "entrepreneur" says he needs to be "be safe" on the streets to do his "hustle" "selling things" on the streets. I shit you not.

https://youtu.be/PAXiyFBCrLI?t=83
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 09:20 PM (YLYCU)

Good way to kill off pushers, eh?

Anyone heard of the Pfizer vax causing problems to those with Crohn's Disease?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2021 10:46 PM (PJcoY)

320 @310 the Cell chip itself was supposed to be designed with multi-cpu parallel connectivity built in. You just keep adding CPUs, and you could scale up in parallel.

Posted by: Rusty at August 06, 2021 10:46 PM (gtWiK)

321 Sammy Hagar can't drive 55.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 10:46 PM (xK9An)

322 We need a scoop on that Obama party because Big Mitch is going to get naked, radical and hurt somebody in a rear naked choke hold.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 06, 2021 10:47 PM (bCkNL)

323 We have a seven year old grandson that is heavy into minecraft. Makes our hearts sad

He doesn't know how to ride a bike or catch a baseball. We had him over here for a week long hockey camp and he did great. Unfortunately we know his parents won't continue with him. My stepdaughter and sil are too freaking lazy.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 06, 2021 10:47 PM (/UQ/R)

324 Your choice of nic reminded me of that
Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:43 PM (mZUr4)

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Hadn't heard that - they're brilliant! Funny story, and very much how I chose mine. I'd change mine - I have one I'd like better - but it's so easy to type and I'm pretty darn lazy.

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 10:48 PM (U1eOr)

325 318
I downloaded the DOS program to play Curse of Monkey Island and Full Throttle games.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 10:46 PM (YLYCU)

Monkey Island bundle available on steam for $25
Full Throttle Remastered $14.99

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:49 PM (vMCab)

326 Remember when PowerPC was supposed to take over the world?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2021 10:49 PM (63Dwl)

327 I did the 7 million + at an arcade in Towson off Orchard Tree Lane, behind where Mo's seafood is today.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 06, 2021 10:45 PM (GtpEB)

Was just near there today. Picked up the beltway from Cromwell Bridge Road. I used to frequent a music store (instruments - not records) near there. I think it was called Gordon Miller??

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:49 PM (mZUr4)

328 Speaking of Sammy Hagar, I heard DLR's 'Just a Gigolo' for the first time in years today. It's actually pretty good. I was digging the 'nobody' parts.

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 10:50 PM (U1eOr)

329
Anyone heard of the Pfizer vax causing problems to those with Crohn's Disease?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Not that I know.

But biden said today "no one died" from the vaccines. Not a one.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 10:50 PM (YLYCU)

330 >>He doesn't know how to ride a bike or catch a baseball. Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 06, 2021 10:47 PM (/UQ/R)

Start with baseball. Take him out front, put a glove on his hand, and throw a baseball at his head. Repeat.
Eventually he'll learn to catch it.

Then with the bike.

Baby steps.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 10:51 PM (xK9An)

331 323 We have a seven year old grandson that is heavy into minecraft. Makes our hearts sad He doesn't know how to ride a bike or catch a baseball. We had him over here for a week long hockey camp and he did great. Unfortunately we know his parents won't continue with him. My stepdaughter and sil are too freaking lazy.
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 06, 2021 10:47 PM (/UQ/R)

Yeah that sucks. There is nothing wrong with kids liking video games. But you should definitely get them into other things

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:51 PM (vMCab)

332 throw a baseball at his head. Repeat.
Eventually he'll learn to catch it.

Then with the bike.

Baby steps.
Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 10:51 PM (xK9An)

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You throw the bike?

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 10:51 PM (U1eOr)

333 Gru (despicable me)
If barbra streisand and biden had a baby
Posted by: B

you would be the expert in this field

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 06, 2021 10:52 PM (4Jold)

334 ARM has fulfilled the dreams that PowerPC and the Cell processor promised.

Turns out RISC was a good idea, after all.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 06, 2021 10:52 PM (//1Wu)

335 Start with baseball. Take him out front, put a glove on his hand, and throw a baseball at his head. Repeat.
Eventually he'll learn to catch it.
Then with the bike.
Baby steps.
Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 10:51 PM (xK9An)

You're gonna throw a bike at the kid's head?

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:52 PM (vMCab)

336 >>You throw the bike?
Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 10:51 PM (U1eOr)

Well, no.

Or, whatever, yeah. Sure.

Yeah. Then throw the bike.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 10:53 PM (xK9An)

337
Monkey Island bundle available on steam for $25
Full Throttle Remastered $14.99
Posted by: buzzion

How do you play them?
They set up for Windows 10?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 10:53 PM (YLYCU)

338 you would be the expert in this field
Posted by: confederatefifth

I misread that

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 06, 2021 10:53 PM (4Jold)

339 you throw the wrenches

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 06, 2021 10:53 PM (4Jold)

340 How do you play them?
They set up for Windows 10?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 10:53 PM (YLYCU)

They're on Steam. Yes.

Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:54 PM (vMCab)

341 Apparently Salon has seen fit to hire a 12 year old school girl named Brett Bachman to write childish hit pieces on Tucker Carlson - when I say childish, every 12 year old around the world ought to be offended - because that's how completely infantile this piece is:

https://tinyurl.com/a5wmsrxu

It basically quotes Carlson's show without any rebuttable. I guess that is because being mentally sub-12 years old means that anyone intellectually older by, oh, 30 years or so, means you only have to just point and snicker and every elementary school kid that reads Salon will get it.

Brett needs to probably start over in life...preferably as teenage counter help at his local Mall's Orange Julius...

Posted by: Boswell at August 06, 2021 10:54 PM (5iUNf)

342 Remember when PowerPC was supposed to take over the world?

Sure, and the Alpha chip, Itanium, etc, etc.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 06, 2021 10:56 PM (SchxB)

343 you throw the wrenches
Posted by: confederatefifth at August 06, 2021 10:53 PM (4Jold)

As Patches O'Hoolihan would say, "if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a a ball "

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 10:56 PM (mZUr4)

344 So finally went through today's mail and found a letter from the VA. All about the COVID and moving the goalposts while pushing fear.

Studies show that if you are vaccinated, it is less likely that you will become severely ill, require hospitalization or become at risk of dying. In fact, a recent Cleveland Clinic study showed that over 99% of those hospitalized due to COVID-19 were not fully vaccinated.

And to prove how efficient the VA is, the letter is dated June 21, 2021. And today is August 6, 2021. Blazing response there VA.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2021 10:56 PM (KO1+R)

345 >>You're gonna throw a bike at the kid's head?
Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2021 10:52 PM (vMCab)

No, of course not. I'm gonna put a ribbon on it, walk it over to him, jingle the bell, show him the kick-stand, and then pin a baseball card to tic-tic-tic on the spokes. Like the they.

OF COURSE I'M GONNA THROW THE BIKE AT THE KID'S HEAD.

Mac, another beer. And a milk for Nancy at the end of the bar.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 10:57 PM (xK9An)

346 Welp, the good news is that Newsom does not have access to the same fraud machine that was used in 2020.

The bad news is that he's got a brand new bag:

http://alturl.com/keyfb

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 06, 2021 10:57 PM (mbFEM)

347 All Lucasfilm games similar to Maniac Mansion (Monkey Island, Full Throttle, etc) use basically the same game engine. There are some modern ports of the engine which let you play those games on virtually anything, provided you have access to the original game files.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 06, 2021 10:58 PM (//1Wu)

348 Oh ZOD! We wish......we are four hours away from him

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 06, 2021 10:58 PM (/UQ/R)

349 Remember when PowerPC was supposed to take over the world?

Pretty sure the Mars Rovers are running them.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 06, 2021 10:58 PM (mbFEM)

350 Weatherman finally nails it. No-pressure front rolling though this guy's house tonight *points fonzie thumbs at self*

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 06, 2021 10:59 PM (ieIdN)

351 Gru (despicable me)
If barbra streisand and biden had a baby
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2021 10:46 PM (VwHCD)

Gru's accent is Portuguese. Listen to it, just listen.

When I realized that my mind was blown. I couldn't decide, Portugal or Brazil?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2021 11:00 PM (0dhMv)

352
OF COURSE I'M GONNA THROW THE BIKE AT THE KID'S HEAD.
Mac, another beer. And a milk for Nancy at the end of the bar.
Posted by: ZOD

Oh ZOD! We wish......we are four hours away from him
Posted by: w

that might be a good thing? no?

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 06, 2021 11:00 PM (4Jold)

353 Speaking of Sammy Hagar, I heard DLR's 'Just a Gigolo' for the first time in years today. It's actually pretty good. I was digging the 'nobody' parts.
Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 10:50 PM (U1eOr)

DLR's best performing days are way behind him. Sammy, on the other hand, is still rocking and performing well to this day. And he's 73!!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 11:00 PM (mZUr4)

354 C5!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 06, 2021 11:00 PM (/UQ/R)

355 Where does the time go? I wanna go there too.

Posted by: DynamiteDan at August 06, 2021 11:01 PM (355sA)

356
Maniac Mansion is cute, but it doesn't hold up today. It's like Pong compared to Monkey Island.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 11:01 PM (YLYCU)

357 Gone Jackals, Legacy

https://youtu.be/2OY5sUGxweM

I carried that riff around in my head since I played that game in 1995.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 06, 2021 11:01 PM (ybIRR)

358 Not a good night. Peanut is staying at the emergency vet. The diagnosis is not clear but the prognosis is poor.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2021 10:12 PM (/U27+)

Hoping for the best for Peanut, Hadrian.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2021 11:01 PM (PJcoY)

359 >>> Remember when PowerPC was supposed to take over the world?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2021 10:49 PM (63Dwl)

It mostly just took over gaming consoles. Microsoft went PowerPC for xbox, so did the PlayStation 3, wii and wiiu. But AIM breaking up was the end of it mostly

Posted by: banana Dream at August 06, 2021 11:01 PM (0ti1x)

360 Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 11:00 PM (mZUr4)

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I was digging on it because I saw Nobody a couple weeks ago and that old Nobody song is in the trailer. Real fun movie.

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 11:02 PM (U1eOr)

361
And to prove how efficient the VA is, the letter is dated June 21, 2021. And today is August 6, 2021. Blazing response there VA.
Posted by: Anna Puma

The paterfamilias received the same or similar letter Monday. He died in 2019. Letter is complete bullshit.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ne desponderis ne dedideris at August 06, 2021 11:02 PM (LLAly)

362 >>348 Oh ZOD! We wish......we are four hours away from him Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 06, 2021 10:58 PM (/UQ/R)

You could enroll him at Zod Imperial Institute For Preparation Of Men-Leaders With Weapon-Skills And Fortitude But Lacking Compassion And Homosexual
Confusion.

Tuition is steep; demand is high. Exceptions can be considered.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 11:02 PM (xK9An)

363 When I realized that my mind was blown. I couldn't decide, Portugal or Brazil?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2021 11:00 PM (0dhMv)

Speaking of Portugal, hubs told me earlier that a couple of the Texas fleebaggers are vacationing in Portugal. WTF, shouldn't they be quarantining?

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 11:02 PM (K0bra)

364 C5.....it's a good thing? You have met the little one.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 06, 2021 11:03 PM (/UQ/R)

365 My DOS port of Masters of Orion 2 is not the best.

Sometimes Good Old Games has a better version than the Steam version.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 06, 2021 11:03 PM (ybIRR)

366 The Portuguese should quarantine the TX Fleabaggers in a dog kennel for 30 days.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2021 11:04 PM (KO1+R)

367 I was digging on it because I saw Nobody a couple weeks ago and that old Nobody song is in the trailer. Real fun movie.
Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 11:02 PM (U1eOr)

Several Hordelings have said good things about that Nobody movie. I'm a fan of Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman. I'll check out the movie. It's a rental at this point, correct? Not free anywhere yet?

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 11:05 PM (mZUr4)

368 C5.....it's a good thing? You have met the little one.
Posted by: w

I though he was great, I just do not get why you and zod "THROW THE BIKE AT THE KID'S HEAD."

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 06, 2021 11:05 PM (4Jold)

369 WDS!

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 06, 2021 11:06 PM (4Jold)

370 Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 11:05 PM (mZUr4)

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We went to rent it on Prime a couple months ago and it was $20 to rent it. We checked in a few weeks ago and it was $5. Definitely worth the price.

Oddly enough, the writing is real lazy. The entire back-story is just implied and never fleshed out. Still, it was an absolute blast.

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 11:07 PM (U1eOr)

371
Speaking of Texas...

Supposedly tomorrow (in a few hours) the TX legislature is "in session." Supposedly. It should be interesting to watch the Democrats outwit Abbott again.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 11:07 PM (YLYCU)

372 Soothsayer - wasn't Abbott going to arrest them? I shan't believe he chickened out. I simply shannot.

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 11:08 PM (U1eOr)

373 I heard DLR's 'Just a Gigolo' for the first time in years today. It's actually pretty good. I was digging the 'nobody' parts.

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 10:50 PM (U1eOr)

If you've seen the video as well, it's pretty funny as well as listenable. Makes fun of a lot of "contemporary" (well, contemporary for the day) singers as well. It's a good song so that covers a lot of sins. My favorite version is with Louis Prima and Keely Smith, who I believe were the first pair the two songs, meaning "Just a Gigolo" and "I Ain't Got Nobody".

Posted by: HTL at August 06, 2021 11:09 PM (6ksl0)

374
Arrest them?

Abbott is playing Wil E. Coyote in this Farce.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 11:10 PM (YLYCU)

375 Nobody was a combination of John Wick, The Accountant and the Equalizer. It was okay but I think the hype clouded my opinion.

Posted by: Vinny Barbarino at August 06, 2021 11:11 PM (2DOZq)

376 HTL - agreed on the Prima version. I will have to check out DLR's video - I've not seen it.

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 11:11 PM (U1eOr)

377 496 - I appreciate the info. Will definitely check it out. Not tomorrow tho. Got my nieces coming over. My sister's daughter just turned 7, and my wife's brother's girls are 5 and 9. All three are coming over to watch movies and celebrate the birthday.

What are we thinking?!?!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 11:12 PM (mZUr4)

378 Anyone heard of the Pfizer vax causing problems to those with Crohn's Disease?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Check out A PATHOLOGIST SUMMARY OF WHAT THESE JABS DO TO THE BRAIN AND OTHER ORGANS by Dr Ryan Cole at bitchute. Pixy won't let me post the link. He doesn't mention Crohn's disease but it's informative as hell.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ne desponderis ne dedideris at August 06, 2021 11:12 PM (LLAly)

379 Vinny - I've not seen the others, but I totally believe it. Still, I had a great time watching it despite the lazy screenplay. I'll have to check out the Accountant and John Wick - I hear great things.

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 11:13 PM (U1eOr)

380 I was digging on it because I saw Nobody a couple weeks ago and that old Nobody song is in the trailer. Real fun movie.
Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 11:02 PM

Well your nobody called today
She hung up when I asked her name
Well I wonder does she think, she's being clever?

Posted by: Sylvia at August 06, 2021 11:14 PM (EughT)

381 Vinny - I've not seen the others, but I totally believe it. Still, I had a great time watching it despite the lazy screenplay. I'll have to check out the Accountant and John Wick - I hear great things.
Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 11:13 PM (U1eOr)

Yes -- those are great movies!!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 11:15 PM (mZUr4)

382 What are we thinking?!?!
Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 11:12 PM (mZUr4)

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Kids that age... I wish I had half their energy and I wish I slept half as well as they do.

And with that, bon soir. Enjoy the kids!

Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 11:15 PM (U1eOr)

383
Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

biden: No one has died from the vaccines.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 11:16 PM (YLYCU)

384 PowerPC and VxWorks

Posted by: Jean at August 06, 2021 11:16 PM (U/0zO)

385
Orwell: "The past was alterable."

Democrats: So is the Present.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 11:17 PM (YLYCU)

386 Not a good night. Peanut is staying at the emergency vet. The diagnosis is not clear but the prognosis is poor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2021 10:12 PM (/U27+)

Sorry to hear that. My wife and I are 17 dogs into our own extended (30 year +) adoption program, so we know what you're going through. Best wishes for Peanut.

Posted by: HTL at August 06, 2021 11:18 PM (6ksl0)

387 Blanco, left you email at your moronhorde addy - thx!

Posted by: Slash Buzz at August 06, 2021 11:19 PM (tjGJt)

388 And with that, bon soir. Enjoy the kids!
Posted by: 496 at August 06, 2021 11:15 PM (U1eOr)

Good night, 496

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 11:20 PM (mZUr4)

389
Next week is "tax free weekend" for MA. No sales tax on anything. Unfortunately I don't need to buy anything.

I live 6 miles from sales-tax-free New Hampshire, anyway. But if I need anything off ebay or amazon, these tax-free weekends are nice.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 06, 2021 11:20 PM (YLYCU)

390 What are we thinking?!?!
Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 11:12 PM (mZUr4)

Aw, it'll be fun! My nieces and nephews are far away, I don't get to see them that often.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 11:21 PM (K0bra)

391 I didn't see any of the Klan at the Obama birthday party, so I'm guessing race relations are back to normal.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 06, 2021 11:23 PM (bCkNL)

392 We had the Magnavox odyssey with the overlays for the tv...POS of the first order.
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 06, 2021 09:11 PM (r1z5A)

We had one of those! I liked the haunted house the best and making the poison or the band light up with one of the squares on the screen.

Posted by: InCali at August 06, 2021 11:24 PM (ov5G+)

393 My stepdaughter and sil are too freaking lazy.
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 06, 2021 10:47 PM (/UQ/R

It depends a lot on the child...and when he or she was born relative to their mother's age. As women get older, their eggs are not genetically the equivalent of a woman's eggs from 5 or 10 years before, obviously - there can be incomplete genic coding. You can get spontaneous chromosomal abnormalities, micro-deletions or additions on certain pairs of chromosomes at conception.

How does this play out when learning to riding bikes or just acquiring skills that kids do without parental assistance? Because these abnormalities almost all come with some autistic spectrum issues. Kids typically don't need parents to show them how to ride bikes or dive off into a pool - other kids and just natural curiosity do the trick. But kids with chromosomal abnormalities don't pick up these skills, not even with parental guidance - guidance that 99.99% of all kids find completely unnecessary. I know - and I wish I didn't know what I know.

Posted by: Boswell at August 06, 2021 11:24 PM (5iUNf)

394 I didn't see any of the Klan at the Obama birthday party, so I'm guessing race relations are back to normal.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 06, 2021 11:23 PM (bCkNL)

I wonder if Talcum X was there?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2021 11:25 PM (PJcoY)

395 What are we thinking?!?!
Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 11:12 PM (mZUr4)

Aw, it'll be fun! My nieces and nephews are far away, I don't get to see them that often.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 06, 2021 11:21 PM (K0bra)

Jordan-Kai!! Yes, we will have fun. Fortunately they live close so we can do this kind of stuff. And our boys are grown - 22 and almost 18 - so it's nice to have time with little ones again. It's especially nice being able to give them back!!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 06, 2021 11:26 PM (mZUr4)

396 this is something

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

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 06, 2021 11:27 PM (3sfj0)

397 "I didn't see any of the Klan at the Obama birthday party, so I'm guessing race relations are back to normal.
Posted by: Dr. Bone"

Am guessing since they're the putative "Christian" democrats, they don't do bukkake.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 06, 2021 11:44 PM (ieIdN)

398 >> Anyone heard of the Pfizer vax causing problems to those with Crohn's Disease?

Autoimmune exacerbation and even triggering is one of the potential problems. There are many reports of the various jabs triggering flares of lupus and others (I have RA, and that's one of the first things I was worried about, very early on in this).

None of these things are being investigated honestly -- it's like they don't want to know.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 06, 2021 11:47 PM (Mzdiz)

399 None of these things are being investigated honestly -- it's like they don't want to know.

Any negative information might cut into the cash flow, so it must be suppressed.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 06, 2021 11:51 PM (SchxB)

400 Warhead:
W66 thermonuclear warhead (a low kiloton range neutron

Posted by: Braenyard, (DShoH) at August 06, 2021 11:52 PM (DShoH)

401 >>None of these things are being investigated honestly -- it's like they don't want to know.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 06, 2021 11:47 PM (Mzdiz)

One would think that if legitimate, trending complications arose from vaccination, we'd be seeing evidence of them. Such things don't really require much investigation--they percolate up. We're not seeing that.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 11:52 PM (xK9An)

402 As tensions increase after an Iran-linked attack on an Israeli tanker killed two people, Benny Gantz was asked by Ynet news on Thursday whether Israel was ready to strike Iran. He answered 'Yes.'_RT

They fired artillery into S Lebanon today.
If they go after Iran it'll be a buzz saw.

Posted by: Braenyard, (DShoH) at August 06, 2021 11:56 PM (DShoH)

403 One would think that if legitimate, trending complications arose from vaccination, we'd be seeing evidence of them. Such things don't really require much investigation--they percolate up. We're not seeing that.
Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 11:52 PM (xK9An)

That assumes media willing to report such things.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2021 12:01 AM (PJcoY)

404 I wish I still had my Atari 130 XE (800 compatible). No hard drive, just a tape deck. Found Bruce Lee on cassette in the bargain bin at Egghead and played the hell out of it. Loved it so much I'd wait 15 minutes just to load it off that tape.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 07, 2021 12:01 AM (uhPTO)

405 >>That assumes media willing to report such things.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2021 12:01 AM (PJcoY)

It assumes plaintiffs seeking damages.

Posted by: ZOD at August 07, 2021 12:02 AM (xK9An)

406 Blanco, left you email at your moronhorde addy - thx!

I responded but I got a bounce. My cheap ass provider apparently doesn't do a damn thing about spammers, so the IP range is on a spamhaus blacklist that your provider subscribes to.

I'll resend from a different address that your provider should find more acceptable.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 07, 2021 12:02 AM (SchxB)

407 load *.*,8,1

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 07, 2021 12:03 AM (+I6Y/)

408
You could enroll him at Zod Imperial Institute For Preparation Of Men-Leaders With Weapon-Skills And Fortitude But Lacking Compassion And Homosexual
Confusion.

The letterman's jackets weigh 5 lbs each.

Posted by: Weirddave at August 07, 2021 12:03 AM (GtpEB)

409 load *.*,8,1

Older: 173000g

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 07, 2021 12:06 AM (SchxB)

410 load *.*,8,1
Posted by: a dude in MI at August 07, 2021 12:03 AM (+I6Y/)

press play on tape

Posted by: hogmartin at August 07, 2021 12:18 AM (ghoDT)

411 Don't see any problem with the cheese.

Posted by: Wallace at August 07, 2021 12:19 AM (DMQdU)

412 Never had a game console of any kind. Much preferred pinball and beer. You know, 3D games, with real physical objects.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2021 12:21 AM (DMQdU)

413 Took my chemical cocktail, so I'm off to bed.

Good Night, Horde!

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 07, 2021 12:23 AM (SchxB)

414 damned insomnia.

Posted by: ZOD at August 07, 2021 12:23 AM (xK9An)

415 Never had a game console of any kind. Much preferred pinball and beer. You know, 3D games, with real physical objects.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2021 12:21 AM (DMQdU)

Ever play against a deaf, dumb, and blind kid?

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 07, 2021 12:28 AM (mZUr4)

416 Not a good night. Peanut is staying at the emergency vet. The diagnosis is not clear but the prognosis is poor.

Posted by: Hadrian
--------
Thoughts are with you and Peanut.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2021 12:30 AM (l0Lgi)

417 Ever play against a deaf, dumb, and blind kid?
Posted by: Doof
-------

That guy never suffered from distractions.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2021 12:32 AM (vOGqy)

418 Ever play against a deaf, dumb, and blind kid?
Posted by: Doof
-------

That guy never suffered from distractions.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2021 12:32 AM (vOGqy)

He probably played by sense of smell

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 07, 2021 12:33 AM (mZUr4)

419 Well, I am out for the night, too. Be well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2021 12:34 AM (PJcoY)

420 418 Ever play against a deaf, dumb, and blind kid?
Posted by: Doof

----

It's hard.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 07, 2021 12:34 AM (vuisn)

421 "He probably played by sense of smell"

Bet he always got a replay, too!

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 07, 2021 12:36 AM (dB4Iz)

422 Looks like I'm hours behind on comments. Having a strange sense of deja vu reading all the game machine and vidgaming comments. Like it's all been said before. Including my own thoughts.

1970, at college, my roomie let slip his password, and I snuck off to teletype terminals and played text-based "Hamurabi" or whatever it was called on his account. Saved & retrieved games on hole-punch paper tape. Space-age!

IBM 1620, I think...
https://www.beloit.edu/live/news/
1666-fridays-with-fred-calculating-data-at-a-snails

Of course, that was a few years after I went around messing up all the terminals at the IBM exhibit at the NY World's Fair in 1964...

Posted by: mindful webworker - and so it began... at August 07, 2021 12:36 AM (JtBPN)

423 I am sure you guys saw this, and talked about it. But I missed that, so the unopened Super Mario 64 sold for $1.56 Million?
https://tinyurl.com/9as3xpk9

My interest in walking through garage sales just ticked up a notch, from zero.

Posted by: MikeM at August 07, 2021 12:39 AM (tA/XW)

424 Ever play against a deaf, dumb, and blind kid?
Posted by: Doof

It's hard.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 07, 2021 12:34 AM (vuisn)

Who's next?

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 07, 2021 12:39 AM (mZUr4)

425 Bet he always got a replay, too!
Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 07, 2021 12:36 AM (dB4Iz)

It's those supple wrists

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 07, 2021 12:41 AM (mZUr4)

426 * wanders around the ONT house quietly trying not to disturb those passed out *

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 07, 2021 12:51 AM (mZUr4)

427 Thanks for the ONT.

WTF is wrong with people?! re the quilt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2021 12:51 AM (csEWM)

428 That's horrifying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2021 12:51 AM (csEWM)

429 I am pretty sure there were times when Spiderman wished he had a gun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2021 12:52 AM (csEWM)

430 That horrible, horrible sidebar blurb about Gates is just too much to bear. Imagine if you were hanging out with Charlie Manson and someone questioned your motives?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 07, 2021 12:52 AM (bCkNL)

431 unopened Super Mario 64 sold for $1.56 Million?
https://tinyurl.com/9as3xpk9

My interest in walking through garage sales just ticked up a notch, from zero.
Posted by: MikeM at August 07, 2021 12:39 AM (tA/XW)

Why? Fool and money....

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 07, 2021 12:54 AM (+I6Y/)

432 >That assumes media willing to report such things.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2021 12:01 AM (PJcoY)

It assumes plaintiffs seeking damages.

Posted by: ZOD at August 07, 2021 12:02 AM (xK9An)

Are not the Covid-19 "vaccine" Pharma companies indemnified againgst injuries from their "vaccines?"

Posted by: fly gal at August 07, 2021 12:58 AM (1biAv)

433 One would think that if legitimate, trending complications arose from vaccination, we'd be seeing evidence of them. Such things don't really require much investigation--they percolate up. We're not seeing that.

Posted by: ZOD at August 06, 2021 11:52 PM (xK9An)

Hard disagree. If I get a Crohn's flare at any time, doctor doesn't tell me why it happened. I can suspect what caused it - but that's all it is - my suspicion. And I might sound like a kook.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2021 01:05 AM (9AWuc)

434 Actually, it's:
LOAD "*",8,1

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 07, 2021 01:07 AM (//1Wu)

435 I am pretty sure there were times when Spiderman wished he had a gun.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
---
The Phantom carried a 1911.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2021 01:07 AM (l0Lgi)

436 Question for those who share a bed: Is your partner's sleep breathing at regular intervals, or is it all over the place? I think I could stand the CPAP mask slippage better if the exhalations were at regular intervals.

Posted by: pookysgirl, very very tired at August 07, 2021 01:07 AM (XKZwp)

437 Definitely not regular intervals, pg.

Posted by: ... at August 07, 2021 01:10 AM (9AWuc)

438 Went into an Academy store in Katy on Wednesday. They had shelves full of ammo, .22lr, 223/5.56, 308, 300 Win Mag, etc. were prominently displayed. Of course I had to fill out a financial statement before I could buy any of it, but you can't have everything.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 07, 2021 01:18 AM (ql54b)

439 Normally, vaccine manufacturers are immune from lawsuits since the 1980s or maybe 1990s. You have to sue the taxpayer (gubbmint), they haz a "special" fund set aside with IOUs of IOUs in it. This version of "Choose Your Own Adventure" injectables is a different deal altogether, because it's based on a bioweapon law or virus jiggery-pokery that Shrub signed? Something along those lines. You can sue, but it has to be filed in a D.C. Court or somesuch.

Short Answer: Forget It.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2021 01:29 AM (Aa1qS)

440 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 07, 2021 01:33 AM (6dJKT)

441 I'm watching "The American," with George Clooney.

I'm surprised they could screen this in theatres... The projectionists must have all died of boredom halfway through the first showing, but not before the projectors burst into flame because they must have printed this shit on cheese-based filmstock.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2021 01:45 AM (JN3xP)

442 Clooney drives a Fiat and a Vespa and carries Mini-14. He's like the Dollar Tree Assassin.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2021 01:53 AM (JN3xP)

443 This is maybe the stupidest big budget movie I've ever seen.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2021 02:18 AM (JN3xP)

444 I was really confused by "kjjiji," but it's a Canadian classified ad service. They're trying to illustrate what the consoles sell for today.

Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at August 07, 2021 02:30 AM (6n5j+)

445 Well old habits are hard to break

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2021 02:49 AM (znIQ9)

446 Saw Pixy's post, but I'm not a techie... anybody left here on the good ol' ONT?

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 07, 2021 03:14 AM (dB4Iz)

447 446 Saw Pixy's post, but I'm not a techie... anybody left here on the good ol' ONT?
Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 07, 2021 03:14 AM (dB4Iz)

The tech thread comments aren't all tech.

Posted by: m at August 07, 2021 03:17 AM (cME97)

448 Thanks, m!

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 07, 2021 03:32 AM (dB4Iz)

449 >> You have to sue the taxpayer (gubbmint), they haz a "special" fund set aside with IOUs of IOUs in it.

The "normal" vaccine injury fund is the VICP, Vaccine INjury Compensation Fund. It is "funded" as it were by an excise tax of 75 cents per vaccine administered. Of late it pays out around $200M per year, give or take, and has paid out a total of $4B over the entire run. The bar for proof to win a claim is fairly high.

Now, the special one, based on a law indeed signed by the Shrub in 2005, is the CICP, or Countermeasures Injury Compensation Fund. It is not funded by an direct mechanism. The bar is much higher than the VICP, and indeed one has to file suit in the DC district courts. Very high bar.

"Countermeasures" are anything the HHS Secretary designates as a countermeasure against a bioweapon attack, pandemic, or other public health emergency.

Covid is so defined, and thus all the clot-shots fall under the CICP. No claim has every yet been filed. It wouldn't get very far. Some may try, but they won't get anywhere.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 07, 2021 04:30 AM (Mzdiz)

450 Lucifer quote sounds more like the Lucifer Morningstar in the Fox-now-Netflix series "Lucifer" (starring Tom Ellis). Where he decides to leave Hell and move to Los Angeles and owns a raunchy nightclub.

Posted by: Tall Cool Gentleman in a Black Suit at August 07, 2021 07:35 AM (Do5/p)

451 I give up. What is ONT?

Posted by: Mac Siccar at August 09, 2021 11:21 AM (bHhba)

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