Mid-Morning Art Thread

King Lear Weeping Over The Dead Body Of Cordelia
James Barry

Well...that was painted in 1788. I love the look of Lear...old and stunned by events and maybe reflecting on his own role in the tragedy unfolding around him.

John Brown
John Steuart Curry

This was painted in 1939, and amazingly, the model that Barry used for Lear and Curry used for John Brown has miraculously gotten younger, and his hair isn't as gray! Or he dyed it, which is sort of embarrassing.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Sponge the 1st!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 22, 2022 09:31 AM (tPodT)

2 Not Sponge!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 22, 2022 09:31 AM (tPodT)

3 Nood Art!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 22, 2022 09:31 AM (tPodT)

4 Early Florida Man

Posted by: Roy at April 22, 2022 09:31 AM (g2pFm)

5 Meh

Posted by: Mark Rothko at April 22, 2022 09:32 AM (k4LJn)

6 Nice pants, soldier. You don't own a weed whacker, do you?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 22, 2022 09:32 AM (7bRMQ)

7 A little "Just For Men" goes a long way!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 09:32 AM (YIVH2)

8 Grempht.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 09:33 AM (ARs9M)

9 King Lear is better in the original Japanese.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:33 AM (LvTSG)

10 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

11

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 22, 2022 09:33 AM (bne12)

12 John Brown: "ALL IS WELL!!!! ALL IS WELLL!!!!!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

13 John Brown has a Charlton Heston look about him as Moses

Posted by: Skip's phone at April 22, 2022 09:33 AM (CSI1s)

14 John Brown looks like he drank too much coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at April 22, 2022 09:34 AM (88xKn)

15 I think #3 should have been in JJ's post. It's obviously Sponge's fault.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 22, 2022 09:34 AM (tPodT)

16 To be followed by King Leer, who looked at girls differently.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 22, 2022 09:34 AM (7bRMQ)

17 Yes, definitely a KANSAS album cover this time.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 09:35 AM (QzpS1)

18
1 Sponge the 1st!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 22, 2022 09:31 AM (tPodT)

*fistbump*

Was in a Teams chat and unavailable to F5 the shit out of the main page.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

19 Interesting details in the first pic.

It looks like a couple of hobbits (Merry and Pippin?) are carrying a body away on the left side of that pic.

And there's a Stonehenge-like stone circle in the background....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 09:35 AM (YIVH2)

20 "Or he dyed it, which is sort of embarrassing."

I'm ok with that and so is Trump

Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2022 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

21 I like the King Lear painting, but what's up with the Stonehenge in the corner? It almost seems like Spinal Tap.

Posted by: 496 at April 22, 2022 09:36 AM (VJsqe)

22 Cordelia had some hooters, buddy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

23 The black dude is all, "That white guy be crazy!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 09:36 AM (ARs9M)

24 1st picture: look at the face of guy next to the bald guy and then look at John Brown's face.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 22, 2022 09:36 AM (tPodT)

25 The crouching Negro in the second painting. Should this picture be Canceled???

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 09:38 AM (Vr12I)

26 It's funny if you imagine that the black dude in the corner just poked John Brown in the butt with a needle.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 09:38 AM (6FeV1)

27 The judge hit Cordelia in the noggin with yet another of his errant drives.

Posted by: klaftern at April 22, 2022 09:38 AM (taPSh)

28 It looks like a couple of hobbits (Merry and Pippin?) are carrying a body away on the left side of that pic.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 09:35 AM (YIVH2)

Let's get out of here quick. That Frankenstein will pay good money for this fresh body!

Posted by: Bodysnatchers at April 22, 2022 09:38 AM (7bRMQ)

29 Cordelia had some hooters, buddy.
Posted by: Sponge

Dead woman at solder's feet has mutant hooters.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 22, 2022 09:38 AM (tPodT)

30 The John Brown painting looks like an album cover.

Oh, wait. That one was an album cover.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:38 AM (HsAzN)

31 Climate change caused that tornado.
Save the Planet!
Happy Earth Day!!!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2022 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

32 It's funny if you imagine that the black dude in the corner just poked John Brown in the butt with a needle.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 09:38 AM (6FeV1)
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LOL! Now that you've said it, I can't unsee it...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 09:39 AM (YIVH2)

33 I like the King Lear painting, but what's up with the Stonehenge in the corner? It almost seems like Spinal Tap.
Posted by: 496 at April 22, 2022 09:36 AM (VJsqe)
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No, we're not going to fucking do "Stone'enge"!!!

Posted by: David St. Hubbins at April 22, 2022 09:39 AM (ARs9M)

34 Well, it's this one by the same painter but close enough right?:

https://tinyurl.com/currycover

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 09:39 AM (QzpS1)

35 They are all moulderin in the grave

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 22, 2022 09:39 AM (Jzz++)

36 Another double feature today

Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2022 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

37
Dead woman at solder's feet has mutant hooters.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 22, 2022 09:38 AM (tPodT)

It's why no one seems to care.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

38 What you don't see in the John Brown painting is the otter that just snuck up on him.

Posted by: fd at April 22, 2022 09:41 AM (vrz2I)

39 *piles tires for fire*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 22, 2022 09:41 AM (KFSCm)

40 King Lear gives the impression of being set in ancient Britian, before Christianity, so I assume Stonehenge is supposed to fit in with that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2022 09:41 AM (fF2aM)

41 John Brown looks like Mel Gibson

Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2022 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

42 Alternate title:

"First, Bad Bedhead and Now This!"

Posted by: naturalfake -Thought Lemming at April 22, 2022 09:41 AM (5NkmN)

43 Another double feature today

Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2022 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

Where's the cartoon?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 22, 2022 09:41 AM (7bRMQ)

44 I was wondering about the tornado in the John Brown pic, so I looked up the image.

It's supposed to be a "meteorological symbol for the conflict" between abolitionists and slavers.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 09:41 AM (YIVH2)

45 John Brown looks like Mel Gibson
Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2022 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

"....but you will blow me first."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

46 "Oii, I coulda h'd a vee-eight" - mel brooks voice

Posted by: God at April 22, 2022 09:42 AM (2waQ7)

47 Good Shakespeare tragedy. At the end there are bodies all over the place.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 22, 2022 09:42 AM (Jzz++)

48 "I once caught a fish that was THIS BIG!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

49 It was their debut album, Walsh and Livgren. Nobody remembers any of that album's songs. Only the true fans. Steinhardt on the violin of course. Steinhardt looks a lot like Manson. But that was the look back then I guess.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 09:42 AM (QzpS1)

50 I think I prefer the rest of the week's art rather than either of these pieces.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 22, 2022 09:42 AM (tPodT)

51 45 John Brown looks like Mel Gibson
Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2022 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

"....but you will blow me first."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

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Oh...is that the origin of that meme? I'd forgotten.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:42 AM (LvTSG)

52 Good Shakespeare tragedy. At the end there are bodies all over the place.
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 22, 2022 09:42 AM (Jzz++)
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Plus an on-stage blinding.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 09:43 AM (ARs9M)

53 John Brown was an insurrectionist, yeah?

And the Union marched, singing song in honor of him, no?

Therfore, all Union states are in insurrection and banned from federal government.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 22, 2022 09:43 AM (HSenK)

54 Oh yeah, the funnel cloud, pulled right out of the Bible. " Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind". Metaphor for slavery.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 09:43 AM (Vr12I)

55 The Black Guy looks like John Brown just farted. Bigly.

Posted by: naturalfake -Thought Lemming at April 22, 2022 09:43 AM (5NkmN)

56 John Brown - 2 belts, no onions.

Posted by: 496 at April 22, 2022 09:45 AM (VJsqe)

57 Thou shalt not besmirch the artwork borrowed by the hallowed Band of Kansas for their first Album in 1974 !!

P.S. The original wall art in the Kansas State Capitol, painted by John Steuart Curry.

Posted by: TxMarko at April 22, 2022 09:45 AM (1xoAm)

58 Good Shakespeare tragedy. At the end there are bodies all over the place.
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 22, 2022 09:42 AM (Jzz++)
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Act I, Scene 1:
KENT - I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall

And then the murders started...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 09:45 AM (YIVH2)

59 John Brown's body lies a-moulderin' in the grave...

Posted by: Archer at April 22, 2022 09:46 AM (gmo/4)

60 Meanwhile, the Centurion is wearing what appears to be assless chaps.

Posted by: 496 at April 22, 2022 09:46 AM (VJsqe)

61 We visited John Browns Cave when I was a kid, it's in Nebraska City NE. Also the home of Arbor Day.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 22, 2022 09:46 AM (rKze+)

62 Curry's John Brown is . . . frightening. Very much an Old Testament patriarch type. He's got a gun on one hip and a sword on the other. (No doubt the pistol was a black powder firearm; this was 1850-something, after all.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 22, 2022 09:46 AM (txdEq)

63 58 Act I, Scene 1:
KENT - I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall

And then the murders started...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 09:45 AM (YIVH2)

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I can't wait to see which side character gets to mournfully deride everyone for all the murders in the end!

*munches popcorn*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:46 AM (LvTSG)

64 The dead guy on the left is probably Edmund, that is Cordelia in Lear's arms, and on the ground are Goneril and Regan. And the two men standing in the middle? One is Edgar, but I have no idea who the other is...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (XIJ/X)

65 King Lear was the first Shakespeare play that I truly enjoyed. Had a fantastic college professor who really brought Lear to life.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (N39Ws)

66 Onstage blinding!

"Out vile jelly"

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (Jzz++)

67 The first painting looks like there are some tourists in the background hanging around Stonehenge or some ruins.

Posted by: dantesed at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (88xKn)

68 Shakespeare kept leaving too few survivors to do sequels.

Hamlet II - featuring...Horatio! Aaaaand...um, well there's Horatio.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (HsAzN)

69 The first painting looks like there are some tourists in the background hanging around Stonehenge or some ruins.
Posted by: dantesed at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (88xKn)

"I didn't vote for 'im!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 09:48 AM (6FeV1)

70 One is Edgar, but I have no idea who the other is...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (XIJ/X)
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Kent, probably. I think Gloucester is there, somewhere, too.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 09:48 AM (ARs9M)

71 Is that soldier wearing the new uniform for our troops? Yikes. Assless chaps my ass. That's a whole new level of bad.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 22, 2022 09:48 AM (Xiz4l)

72 Good Shakespeare tragedy. At the end there are bodies all over the place.
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 22, 2022
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Plus an on-stage blinding.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022

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I forget which characters were involved in that, but the one doing the blinding sneers, "Out, vile jelly!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 22, 2022 09:48 AM (txdEq)

73
Hamlet II - featuring...Horatio! Aaaaand...um, well there's Horatio.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (HsAzN)

*tilts head*

*removes sunglasses*

It's a recipe for MURDER!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

74 68 Shakespeare kept leaving too few survivors to do sequels.

Hamlet II - featuring...Horatio! Aaaaand...um, well there's Horatio.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (HsAzN)

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Oh, there's a Hamlet 2...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCQr7x9WtJ0

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (LvTSG)

75 67 The first painting looks like there are some tourists in the background hanging around Stonehenge or some ruins.
Posted by: dantesed at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (88xKn)

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Yeah, but John Brown... in the second painting... He goes to eleven.

Posted by: 496 at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (VJsqe)

76 Good timing! I watched "The Santa Fe Trail" last night and Raymond Massey portrayed John Brown's crazy-eyed fanaticism brilliantly.

I've always loved this mural.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (zWOPO)

77 72 Plus an on-stage blinding.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022

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I forget which characters were involved in that, but the one doing the blinding sneers, "Out, vile jelly!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 22, 2022 09:48 AM (txdEq)

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From Titus Andronicus, no?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (LvTSG)

78 That Stonehenge is in serious danger of being toppled by dwarves.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (HsAzN)

79 John Brown, ask me again I'll knock you down

Posted by: Kaiju66 at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (OuFlM)

80 I forget which characters were involved in that, but the one doing the blinding sneers, "Out, vile jelly!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 22, 2022 09:48 AM (txdEq)
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Albany, IIRR.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (ARs9M)

81 There is a dead woman and you focus in on exposed, hairy perhaps buttocks.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (J8LnB)

82 Twister in the background.

I didn't know John Brown was in the Wizard of OZ.

Posted by: Archer at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (gmo/4)

83 Terrific choices CBD. Would hang either.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (Msys3)

84 Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (HsAzN)

Guy that was funny.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (Jzz++)

85
"Out vile jelly"
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (Jzz++)

C'mon now, Smucker's isn't that bad!

Posted by: naturalfake -Thought Lemming at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (5NkmN)

86 83 Terrific choices CBD. Would hang either.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (Msys3)

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John Brown goes in the Mother-in-law suite.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (LvTSG)

87 Titus Andronicus is the Death Metal of Shakespeare.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (HsAzN)

88 87 Titus Andronicus is the Death Metal of Shakespeare.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (HsAzN)

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Christopher Marlowe wrote it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (LvTSG)

89 From Titus Andronicus, no?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (LvTSG)
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Nope. TA has rape, mutilation and burial alive, though.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 09:51 AM (ARs9M)

90 Somebody is in Brown's parking space again.

Posted by: klaftern at April 22, 2022 09:51 AM (taPSh)

91 88 Christopher Marlowe wrote it!

If he didn't, he should have.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:51 AM (HsAzN)

92 I love that painting of John Brown. I find it riveting. It's John Brown. It could be the prophet Jeremiah.
Having said that I'm not sure if I would hang it.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at April 22, 2022 09:51 AM (eGTCV)

93 89 From Titus Andronicus, no?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (LvTSG)
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Nope. TA has rape, mutilation and burial alive, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 09:51 AM (ARs9M)

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Also the feeding of sons to a mother in meatpies.

Can't forget the meatpies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:51 AM (LvTSG)

94 I don't remember too much of King Lear.
Only thing I can recall he's on a ship in a storm or something like that.

Posted by: dantesed at April 22, 2022 09:51 AM (88xKn)

95 ======

Oh, there's a Hamlet 2...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCQr7x9WtJ0
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (LvTSG)

I'm now dumber for having watched 1/2 of that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

96 John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 09:52 AM (J7wri)

97 Fuck's sakes, Krut, that was the worst attempt at a welsh accent I've ever heard.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 09:52 AM (6FeV1)

98 Nope. TA has rape, mutilation and burial alive, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 09:51 AM (ARs9M)

And two bad guys baked into a pie and fed to their mother.

Peak Marlovian.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:52 AM (HsAzN)

99 88 87 Titus Andronicus is the Death Metal of Shakespeare.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (HsAzN)

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Christopher Marlowe wrote it!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (LvTSG)

Nah. He was too busy drunk and tavern brawling.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 09:52 AM (Vr12I)

100 Shakespeare kept leaving too few survivors to do sequels.

Hamlet II - featuring...Horatio! Aaaaand...um, well there's Horatio.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (HsAzN)
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Yeah, too bad Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were killed off...They could have made a great duo, making snarky remarks about the world they inhabit...Oh, wait.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 09:52 AM (YIVH2)

101 From Titus Andronicus, no?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (LvTSG)

Lear.

Gloucester is blinded by Cornwall (I think). That's why I don't think he is in the painting, because he would be obvious...blind in one eye.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 09:53 AM (XIJ/X)

102 Terrific choices CBD. Would hang either.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM (Msys3)

So would we!!

Posted by: Old Virginny at April 22, 2022 09:53 AM (7bRMQ)

103 In elementary school in Kansas, we took a trip to the State capital, and I still vividly remember the mural with John Brown. Pretty awesome. He's certainly a controversial figure, that both left and right appreciate in different ways. Over the years, I've grown to like him more as a true imbodiment of the original American Revolutionary spirit...when inalienable human rights are violated by government, and peaceful, legal attempts at redress have failed, more extreme measures are required.

Posted by: Anon Moron at April 22, 2022 09:53 AM (oKIzl)

104 Also the feeding of sons to a mother in meatpies.

Can't forget the meatpies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:51 AM (LvTSG)

Like so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-AEmNLkbk

Posted by: naturalfake -Thought Lemming at April 22, 2022 09:54 AM (5NkmN)

105 Strange Brew (Bob & Doug) is a modern retelling of Hamlet. That pisses my wife off since she considers them stupid (she is correct) whereas I find that movie hilarious.

Posted by: 496 at April 22, 2022 09:54 AM (VJsqe)

106 A tragedy in words

"''Twas in a restaurant that they met,
Romeo and Juliet,
He had no cash to pay the debt,
So Rome he owed, what Julie et "

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 22, 2022 09:54 AM (Jzz++)

107 A good alteration of the John Brown painting would be substituting Kevin Bacon in uniform while he's shouting REMAIN CALM!

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 09:55 AM (QzpS1)

108 Did Mel Brooks ever do Shakespeare ripoffs? If not, he should have. I am sure there are some Brooks experts here.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 09:55 AM (Vr12I)

109 Nope...I was wrong. Just checked...Gloucester is blinded in both eyes.

Anyone see a blind guy in the painting?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 09:55 AM (XIJ/X)

110 TWO artworks today, the common theme of which is the lack of happy bushes.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at April 22, 2022 09:55 AM (a3Q+t)

111 108 Did Mel Brooks ever do Shakespeare ripoffs? If not, he should have. I am sure there are some Brooks experts here.
Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 09:55 AM (Vr12I)

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Highlights from Hamlet!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:55 AM (LvTSG)

112 Meatwad > Meatpies

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

113 Strange Brew (Bob & Doug) is a modern retelling of Hamlet. That pisses my wife off since she considers them stupid (she is correct) whereas I find that movie hilarious.
Posted by: 496 at April 22, 2022 09:54 AM (VJsqe)
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"The Northman" is a retelling of "Hamlet", going back to Bill's source material.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 09:55 AM (ARs9M)

114 Lots of stories about people leaving Kamalaho but not many about the replacements. My guess is she is building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. She has our gratitude.

I'd love to know the extent of the radicals who have been brought in as replacements. If these people were added to her staff from the beginning it may have had a lot more notice.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 09:56 AM (sNUKh)

115 109 Nope...I was wrong. Just checked...Gloucester is blinded in both eyes.

Anyone see a blind guy in the painting?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 09:55 AM (XIJ/X)

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There's a bald guy in the back row covering his face.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:56 AM (LvTSG)

116 I love that Curry painting, one of my favorites! I've seen the original in the Kansas state house, John Brown is 8 feet tall at least - very impressive.

and I have to admit that I fell in love with that painting the day I bought that album.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 09:56 AM (trdmm)

117 Russia Unleashes New Sanctions, Bans Kamala Harris, Mark Zuckerberg & Others from Entry

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Can we get a piece of that action?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 09:56 AM (GoFsO)

118 Gloucester lost both eyes.

Double Gloucester, his eyes and his nuts.

Posted by: naturalfake -Thought Lemming at April 22, 2022 09:57 AM (5NkmN)

119 Double art

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 22, 2022 09:58 AM (EGSGm)

120 Shakespeare -- Why'd it have to be that dude?

At least with Homer and the Sirens, you get boobs*.

*consulting the Style Guide, it is 'bewbs'.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 22, 2022 09:58 AM (F0YaR)

121 My least favorite part of Lear was the ending where Lear walks out and say "Guys, three major characters died and here's how it happened." I know the phrase 'show don't tell' wasn't a thing then, but it should have been.

Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 22, 2022 09:58 AM (44ww/)

122 Robert E. Lee and John Wilkes Booth were both present and witnesses at the execution of John Brown.

Posted by: Archer at April 22, 2022 09:59 AM (gmo/4)

123 Btw, wasn't that second piece of art the cover of a Kansas album?

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 22, 2022 09:59 AM (F0YaR)

124 Off with his head! So much for Gloucester.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:59 AM (HsAzN)

125 There is a dead woman and you focus in on exposed, hairy perhaps buttocks.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 22, 2022 09:50 AM

It appears that chaps you.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 22, 2022 09:59 AM (a3Q+t)

126 >>> I was wondering about the tornado in the John Brown pic, so I looked up the image.

It's supposed to be a "meteorological symbol for the conflict" between abolitionists and slavers.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 09:41 AM (YIVH2)

It's Kansas, there are always tornados.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 09:59 AM (QzpS1)

127 It's KRUGMAN!

Posted by: klaftern at April 22, 2022 10:00 AM (taPSh)

128 My least favorite part of Lear was the ending where Lear walks out and say "Guys, three major characters died and here's how it happened." I know the phrase 'show don't tell' wasn't a thing then, but it should have been.
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 22, 2022 09:58 AM (44ww/)
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Perhaps there was an Elizabethan law on how many murders you could show onstage, and they'd hit the limit.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:00 AM (ARs9M)

129 49 It was their debut album, Walsh and Livgren. Nobody remembers any of that album's songs. Only the true fans.

Well I guess the way I remember Lonely Wind and Journey from Mariabronn kind of labels me.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:00 AM (trdmm)

130 Posted by: Archer at April 22, 2022 09:59 AM (gmo/4)

I believe Stonewall Jackson as well.

Posted by: dantesed at April 22, 2022 10:00 AM (88xKn)

131 122 Robert E. Lee and John Wilkes Booth were both present and witnesses at the execution of John Brown.
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John W. Booth was run by my great, great, great cousin, a confederate spy covering southern Maryland.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:01 AM (J7wri)

132 New COVID panic thread over at DU, due to the newest variant, surge in infection rates, whatever. These people will never let it go, and I hope it bites the left in the ass.

Covid infections are up by 68%, over the past two weeks, in my county Genesee County, MI. I see no end to this. I'm SO glad I bought those boxes of masks. Despite what people say of the effectiveness of wearing a mask when others aren't, wearing one does keep my from touching my face until I can hand sanitize and/or wash my hands.

Masks are quite effective even if only one person wearing one Depending upon the type of mask & whether it has a tight fit! Not giving up my N-95's anytime soon!

I have a small stash... About six weeks ago the grocery store had boxes of N95 masks at the entrance and asked that you only take three at a time. I grab three each time I went over a two week period so I have those plus a package I bought earlier in the paint dept. at the True Value. I find that the absolutely best way to avoid Covid is to become a hermit.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 22, 2022 10:01 AM (oKIzl)

133 Journey from Mariabronn

The live version on Two for the Show is the tits.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 10:01 AM (HsAzN)

134 132 Masks are quite effective even if only one person wearing one Depending upon the type of mask & whether it has a tight fit! Not giving up my N-95's anytime soon!
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 22, 2022 10:01 AM (oKIzl)

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Then they shouldn't care when other people aren't wearing them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:02 AM (LvTSG)

135 John Brown is howling in outrage becuz he knows that-

he'll be forever associated with the lame ass songs, "Dust in the Wind" and "Carry on, My Wayward Son".

Posted by: naturalfake -Thought Lemming at April 22, 2022 10:02 AM (5NkmN)

136 Tornadic activity in the background.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 22, 2022 10:02 AM (nxdel)

137 this is a photo of Sam Brownback standing in front of the original, which gives you a good look at just how huge the original artwork is.

https://tinyurl.com/583987fh

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:02 AM (trdmm)

138 126

It's Kansas, there are always tornados.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 09:59 AM (QzpS1)

Commonplace, even here next door in Missouri. We had one last night, passed 10 or 15 miles from the house. You get used to it.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:02 AM (Vr12I)

139 I find that the absolutely best way to avoid Covid is to become a hermit.

Aside from all those trips to the grocery store, and the hardware store...

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 10:02 AM (HsAzN)

140 >>> Btw, wasn't that second piece of art the cover of a Kansas album?
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 22, 2022 09:59 AM (F0YaR)

The album cover is slightly different:

https://tinyurl.com/currycover

Same painter though

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:03 AM (QzpS1)

141 Then they shouldn't care when other people aren't wearing them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:02 AM (LvTSG)

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Well yeah but...

Posted by: 496 at April 22, 2022 10:03 AM (VJsqe)

142
I have a small stash... About six weeks ago the grocery store had boxes of N95 masks at the entrance and asked that you only take three at a time. I grab three each time I went over a two week period so I have those plus a package I bought earlier in the paint dept. at the True Value. I find that the absolutely best way to avoid Covid is to become a hermit.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 22, 2022 10:01 AM (oKIzl)

Good. Die at home, alone. More room on Earth for me.

But he's so important, he must horde masks so no one else can have them so he can survive, alone, locked in his house.

What a selfish prick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

143 "Up by 68%" sounds scary doesn't tell you much on its own.

Could be there was 10 last week and 17 this week.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 10:03 AM (5RyM3)

144 122 Robert E. Lee and John Wilkes Booth were both present and witnesses at the execution of John Brown.

Posted by: Archer at April 22, 2022 09:59 AM

As I recall, Lee led the detachment of soldiers that attacked and captured Brown and his rebels.

Posted by: Military Moron at April 22, 2022 10:04 AM (JCZqz)

145 "I grab three each time I went over a two week period..."

Typical lefty, stealing shit that's not his.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 10:04 AM (HsAzN)

146 Filming Suspended After "Inappropriate Behavior" Complaint Filed Against Bill Murray: Report

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We all know that if there's one thing Hollywood won't put up with, it's shenanigans.

(I always suspected that Murray might be one of the good guys and I'm more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for the time being. Alec Baldwin? Not so much.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 10:04 AM (GoFsO)

147 143 "Up by 68%" sounds scary doesn't tell you much on its own.

Could be there was 10 last week and 17 this week.
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 10:03 AM (5RyM3)

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And they went from 0 hospitalizations to 1.

That's an infinity increase. Panic!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:04 AM (LvTSG)

148 Commonplace, even here next door in Missouri. We had one last night, passed 10 or 15 miles from the house. You get used to it.

Where?

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 22, 2022 10:05 AM (nxdel)

149 Are they still going on about the RONA?? Sheesh, people, get a life!!!

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:05 AM (Vr12I)

150 King Lear > Joey Bidet

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 22, 2022 10:05 AM (8BmLM)

151 Commonplace, even here next door in Missouri. We had one last night, passed 10 or 15 miles from the house. You get used to it.
Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:02 AM (Vr12I)
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Where I live, we have weird geography such that tornadoes have rarely touched down inside the city limits. They will almost always go either north or south around the town. It's still a bit nerve-wracking when the tornado sirens go off, though...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 10:05 AM (YIVH2)

152 148 Commonplace, even here next door in Missouri. We had one last night, passed 10 or 15 miles from the house. You get used to it.

Where?
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 22, 2022 10:05 AM (nxdel)

Down here in Laclede county.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:05 AM (Vr12I)

153 149 Are they still going on about the RONA?? Sheesh, people, get a life!!!
Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:05 AM (Vr12I)

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5% of the population will never, ever let go. They will hoard masks. They will track covid dashboards hourly. They will rub their vegetables with hand sanitizer. They will unfriend anyone who doesn't wear a mask alone in their car.

They will vote vociferously for anyone who insists on covid theater.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:06 AM (LvTSG)

154 As I recall, Lee led the detachment of soldiers that attacked and captured Brown and his rebels.
Posted by: Military Moron at April 22, 2022 10:04 AM (JCZqz)
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That is correct. It was a detachment of U. S. Marines, and LT J. E. B. Stuart was also present.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:06 AM (ARs9M)

155 149 Are they still going on about the RONA??

There are millions of permanently damaged people in this country.

I go back and forth between raging at the MFM/Political complex for scaring the wits out of these people, and raging at those people themselves for being soft-headed and weak-willed enough to let their wits be scared out of them.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 10:06 AM (HsAzN)

156 100 Shakespeare kept leaving too few survivors to do sequels.

Hamlet II - featuring...Horatio! Aaaaand...um, well there's Horatio.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 09:47 AM (HsAzN)

Nobody, and I repeat, nobody sets out to do anything less than a trilogy these days. Movies, books, girlfriends...

I should of tried a girlfriend trilogy. Sigh. It was the Age of Aquarius, and all I got was a few small solo fish.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 22, 2022 10:06 AM (F0YaR)

157 John W. Booth was run by my great, great, great cousin, a confederate spy covering southern Maryland.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:01 AM (J7wri)

My Great-Great Grandfather served in Company H 110th Regiment New York Volunteers.

Posted by: Archer at April 22, 2022 10:07 AM (gmo/4)

158 the wonderful thing about this artwork is that Curry managed to capture the essence of John Brown - the Good, the Bad, and the Crazy - all together in this piece of art.

What John Brown did was necessary, it was horrible, and it was insane. And he did it because, as he said constantly, God Told him To Do It.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:07 AM (trdmm)

159 When we finished reading Hamlet, my kids said That was depressing. I said, Read King Lear.

Posted by: Jmel at April 22, 2022 10:07 AM (RWHIh)

160 5% of the population will never, ever let go. They will hoard masks. They will track covid dashboards hourly. They will rub their vegetables with hand sanitizer. They will unfriend anyone who doesn't wear a mask alone in their car.

They will vote vociferously for anyone who insists on covid theater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:06 AM (LvTSG)
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As I said yesterday, I can only pity them for being a slave to their fears. Their lives are forever drenched in misery because they *cannot* let go.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 10:07 AM (YIVH2)

161 It's cover album from classic rock bands week on the art thread. Had a Tom Petty/Heartbreakers album cover a day or so ago.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 22, 2022 10:08 AM (4eKPg)

162 *pauses*

Remake the Burgess Meredith episode of Twilight Zone. Instead of a nuclear war, this one person who sealed themselves away from a disease. And when they finally emerges they finds Disneyland has moved in.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 22, 2022 10:08 AM (8BmLM)

163 155 There are millions of permanently damaged people in this country.

I go back and forth between raging at the MFM/Political complex for scaring the wits out of these people, and raging at those people themselves for being soft-headed and weak-willed enough to let their wits be scared out of them.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 10:06 AM (HsAzN)

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They took an emotionally fragile population, designed to be fragile by the left as to be easily controlled, and they destroyed them psychologically. They will never be as close to whole as they had been before the covids.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:08 AM (LvTSG)

164 What a selfish prick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

I hope his glasses break!!

Posted by: Henry Bemis at April 22, 2022 10:08 AM (7bRMQ)

165 The Kansas cover was just a section of the mural Tragic Prelude which is hung in the State House in Topeka. This one is just of John Brown and I think is held at The Met.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:08 AM (QzpS1)

166 My great-great-grandfathers were probably all fucking about somewhere in Europe trying not to starve or get bayonetted by a Prussian.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:09 AM (6FeV1)

167 What John Brown did was necessary, it was horrible, and it was insane. And he did it because, as he said constantly, God Told him To Do It.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:07 AM (trdmm)
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If you look at the photo of John Brown on his Wikipedia page, you can clearly see his "crazy eyes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 10:09 AM (YIVH2)

168

What a wretched hive of scum and villainy...

Posted by: Phlogiston Pundit at April 22, 2022 10:09 AM (7DYli)

169 Could be grouped under the theme of Bad Hair Day.

Posted by: m at April 22, 2022 10:09 AM (nIvvp)

170 Ethan Hawke played John Brown on an ?HBO? series. I've only seen a few clips, but Hawke seems to be terrific. I remember deciding that the show must be woke garbage, but I don't remember what the clue was.

Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 22, 2022 10:09 AM (44ww/)

171 As I recall, Lee led the detachment of soldiers that attacked and captured Brown and his rebels.
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Col Lee lead a company of U.S. Marines.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:09 AM (J7wri)

172 140 >>> Btw, wasn't that second piece of art the cover of a Kansas album?
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 22, 2022 09:59 AM (F0YaR)

The album cover is slightly different:
https://tinyurl.com/currycover

Same painter though
Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:03 AM (QzpS1)

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"At the age of 55, Brown moved with his sons to Kansas Territory. In response to the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, John Brown led a small band of men to Pottawatomie Creek on May 24, 1856. The men dragged five unarmed men and boys, believed to be slavery proponents, from their homes and brutally murdered them. Afterwards, Brown raided Missouri – freeing eleven slaves and killing the slave owner."

What followed in Kansas, pro- and anti-slavery townspeople and farmers fighting each other, made Kansas known as "Bloody Kansas."

Posted by: Gref at April 22, 2022 10:10 AM (AMIL/)

173 From Titus Andronicus, no?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:49 AM (LvTSG)
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Nope. TA has rape, mutilation and burial alive, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 09:51 AM (ARs9M)

And cannibalism. Don't forget the cannibalism!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 10:10 AM (GoFsO)

174 This one is just of John Brown and I think is held at The Met.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:08 AM (QzpS1)

This is a closeup of the Kansas State House mural...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 10:10 AM (XIJ/X)

175 Shakespeare did do a trilogy - Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:10 AM (trdmm)

176 175 Shakespeare did do a trilogy - Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:10 AM (trdmm)

Henry. Henrier. Henriest.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:12 AM (6FeV1)

177 175 Shakespeare did do a trilogy - Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:10 AM (trdmm)

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Preceded by Richard II.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:12 AM (LvTSG)

178 Their lives are forever drenched in misery because they *cannot* let go.

Personally, I think that as opposed to being miserable, many of them revel in the drama. Gives them some bizarre sense of purpose.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 22, 2022 10:12 AM (Xrfse)

179 Preceded by Richard II.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:12 AM (LvTSG)

Everyone knows the prequels suck.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:12 AM (6FeV1)

180 Shakespeare did do a trilogy - Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V.
Posted by: Tom Servo

He never did get to the prequels Henry I-III.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 22, 2022 10:12 AM (t3/qz)

181 He also wrote three Henry VI's.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:12 AM (LvTSG)

182 >>> This is a closeup of the Kansas State House mural...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 10:10 AM (XIJ/X)

No, look at it again. Pay attention to where the tornado is with respect to the fire arm. I found this one and it is a separate work kept at The Met. Same painter.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:13 AM (QzpS1)

183 165 The Kansas cover was just a section of the mural Tragic Prelude which is hung in the State House in Topeka. This one is just of John Brown and I think is held at The Met.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:08 AM (QzpS1)

tiny quibble - not hung, I'm reasonably sure the original is a fresco - painted directly onto the plaster.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:13 AM (trdmm)

184 I think that as opposed to being miserable, many of them revel in the drama. Gives them some bizarre sense of purpose.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 22, 2022 10:12 AM (Xrfse)

And imagined superiority over those who don't adhere to their brand of insanity.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 10:13 AM (XIJ/X)

185 Also different figures in the forground. It is a different painting from the mural at the State House.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:13 AM (QzpS1)

186 In the Vincent Price movie Theatre of Blood, a theater critic gets a modified version of Titus Andronicus[i/] treatment. He gets served up as dinner his little dogs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 22, 2022 10:13 AM (8BmLM)

187 Henry VI, Hank Strikes Back.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 22, 2022 10:14 AM (t3/qz)

188 Shakespeare did do a trilogy - Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:10 AM (trdmm)

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Preceded by Richard II.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:12 AM (LvTSG)
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Don't forget Henry VI 1, 2, 3 + Richard III.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:14 AM (ARs9M)

189 172
What followed in Kansas, pro- and anti-slavery townspeople and farmers fighting each other, made Kansas known as "Bloody Kansas."
Posted by: Gref at April 22, 2022 10:10 AM (AMIL/)

Bloody Kansas - Bleeding Kansas. Oh yeah, big time.My family, back then, was divided on the issue. They went different directions when the Unpleasantness of 1861 kicked off. They never really got over it.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:14 AM (Vr12I)

190 Herman's Hermits did Henry VIII.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 10:14 AM (GoFsO)

191 >>> 155 149 Are they still going on about the RONA??

There are millions of permanently damaged people in this country.

I go back and forth between raging at the MFM/Political complex for scaring the wits out of these people, and raging at those people themselves for being soft-headed and weak-willed enough to let their wits be scared out of them.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 10:06 AM (HsAzN)

Here we can *definitely* embrace the power of "and".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 22, 2022 10:14 AM (llON8)

192 188 Preceded by Richard II.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:12 AM (LvTSG)
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Don't forget Henry VI 1, 2, 3 + Richard III.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:14 AM (ARs9M)

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"Make all the people that didn't lead to Elizabeth look terrible!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:14 AM (LvTSG)

193

My great great grandfather repaired whorehouse pianos.

Posted by: Fortified Whine at April 22, 2022 10:14 AM (ECD1Z)

194 Meh.

Posted by: Urizen at April 22, 2022 10:15 AM (awXyV)

195
He also wrote three Henry VI's.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:12 AM (LvTSG)

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mp7pf

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

196 *piles tires for fire*
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 22, 2022 09:41 AM (KFSCm)

Got to go take inventory of the tire collection. I tend to keep the ones that can be used, but I ought to be able to find one that's worthy of cremation for the cause.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2022 10:15 AM (jiDsy)

197 Ok, I just noted that the linked painting is slightly different than the Kansas fresco. In the fresco, the tornado is about 6 feet to the left of John Brown, in the linked version above, it is directly behind his arm.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:15 AM (trdmm)

198 *dodges the Barrel*

Perhaps should go do things.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 22, 2022 10:15 AM (8BmLM)

199 197 Ok, I just noted that the linked painting is slightly different than the Kansas fresco. In the fresco, the tornado is about 6 feet to the left of John Brown, in the linked version above, it is directly behind his arm.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:15 AM (trdmm)

Time lapse?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:16 AM (6FeV1)

200 In the Vincent Price movie Theatre of Blood, a theater critic gets a modified version of Titus Andronicus[i/] treatment. He gets served up as dinner his little dogs.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 22, 2022 10:13 AM (8BmLM)

Check out comment #104 for the scene.

Posted by: naturalfake -Thought Lemming at April 22, 2022 10:16 AM (5NkmN)

201 Remember, only you can prevent forest fires.

Posted by: zombie Smokey the Bear at April 22, 2022 10:16 AM (a3Q+t)

202 >Remake the Burgess Meredith episode of Twilight Zone. Instead of a nuclear war, this one person who sealed themselves away from a disease. And when they finally emerges they finds Disneyland has moved in.

"Finally all the time for dirty magazines, all the time in the world to look at boobies all day every day."

Boom!

*lisp* Hey stranger! It's Disney world gay day!

*camera rises and pulls away dramatically*
"That's not fair! THAT'S NOT FAIR!"

Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 22, 2022 10:16 AM (44ww/)

203 171 As I recall, Lee led the detachment of soldiers that attacked and captured Brown and his rebels.
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Col Lee lead a company of U.S. Marines.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:09 AM

Marines, soldiers, Navy corpsemen...they're all the same, right?

Posted by: Former President Barky Obammers at April 22, 2022 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

204 Tire fires. Great way to ingratiate yourself with the neighbors.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:16 AM (Vr12I)

205 No, look at it again.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:13 AM (QzpS1)

Son of a bitch! You are correct!

It was a study for the one in Kansas!

Nice catch.

https://tinyurl.com/48rnksjk

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 10:17 AM (XIJ/X)

206 John Brown, by John Curry at the Met:
https://tinyurl.com/jbthemet

Tragic Preluede, by John Brown Topeka State House:
https://tinyurl.com/jbtopeka

See the difference?

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:17 AM (QzpS1)

207 John Brown, insurrectionist. Not nearly as violent as Jan 6.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 22, 2022 10:18 AM (t3/qz)

208 James Brown > John Brown

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:18 AM (6FeV1)

209 I think that as opposed to being miserable, many of them revel in the drama. Gives them some bizarre sense of purpose.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 22, 2022 10:12 AM (Xrfse)

And imagined superiority over those who don't adhere to their brand of insanity.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 10:13 AM (XIJ/X)
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You are both right, but it's the same twisted activation of the pleasure centers of the brain that "cutters" experience when they dig into their own flesh. It's an inversion of a "normal" human who rightly sees this as aberrant and even harmful behavior.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 10:18 AM (YIVH2)

210 💩 🛏

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

211 I thought it was the same one myself and then noticed where the tornado was. At first I thought that was just something Kansas did on the album art and then found The Met one. Yeah, it looks like it was a study.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (QzpS1)

212 186 In the Vincent Price movie Theatre of Blood, a theater critic gets a modified version of Titus Andronicus[i/] treatment. He gets served up as dinner his little dogs.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 22, 2022 10:13 AM (8BmLM)

As gruesome as that is, I also think that scene is one of the most hilarious bits of dark comedy ever done. Remember how in TA it was the "Queens Children" who were killed? In Theater of Blood, a very over-the-top gay character played by Robert Morley is the "queen".

I've long thought that Vincent Price must have loved making that movie more than any other - a disrespected actor gets to kill all of his critics in the most horrible (and literary!) ways possible. What actor wouldn't love that?

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (trdmm)

213 Richard III was the best one of its trilogy.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (LkeiN)

214 Can't forget the meatpies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:51 AM (LvTSG)

With nice flaky crust?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (jiDsy)

215 They went different directions when the Unpleasantness of 1861 kicked off.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:14 AM (Vr12I)

Unacceptable waffling. Check the style guide.

1. The War of The Southern Rebellion
b. The War Of Northern Aggression

YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (XIJ/X)

216 James Brown > John Brown

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:18 AM (6FeV1)

YeeeeeeeeOWWWWWW

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 10:20 AM (LkeiN)

217 it's the same twisted activation of the pleasure centers of the brain that "cutters" experience when they dig into their own flesh

A good analogy.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 22, 2022 10:20 AM (Xrfse)

218 193

My great great grandfather repaired whorehouse pianos.
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Bet he got some well deserved tips.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:21 AM (J7wri)

219 Hot tub! Heeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 22, 2022 10:21 AM (KFSCm)

220 214 Can't forget the meatpies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 09:51 AM (LvTSG)

With nice flaky crust?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (jiDsy)

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Have a little priest. Sir, it's too good, at least! Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh, so it's pretty fresh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:21 AM (LvTSG)

221 Unacceptable waffling. Check the style guide.

1. The War of The Southern Rebellion
b. The War Of Northern Aggression

YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (XIJ/X)
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The War Between the States?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:21 AM (ARs9M)

222 You can have Watergate, but gimme some bucks and I'll be straight.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 10:21 AM (LkeiN)

223 216 James Brown > John Brown
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This!

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:21 AM (J7wri)

224 215 Unacceptable waffling. Check the style guide.

1. The War of The Southern Rebellion
b. The War Of Northern Aggression

YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (XIJ/X)

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The War of Northern Rebellion, it is then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:21 AM (LvTSG)

225 Have a little priest. Sir, it's too good, at least! Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh, so it's pretty fresh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:21 AM (LvTSG)
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Awful lot of fat.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:22 AM (ARs9M)

226 Can't forget the meatpies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora

Now we're on to Sweeney Todd?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 10:22 AM (GoFsO)

227 The War Between the States?
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The Cain Slays His Brother Abel War.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:22 AM (J7wri)

228 1. The War of The Southern Rebellion
b. The War Of Northern Aggression

YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (XIJ/X)

III. The War of Welcome to Being A Country, Assholes, Now Excuse Me While I Pull This Prussian Bayonet Out Of My Pancreas

Posted by: Warai-otoko, none of whose ancestors were here then at April 22, 2022 10:22 AM (6FeV1)

229 225 Have a little priest. Sir, it's too good, at least! Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh, so it's pretty fresh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:21 AM (LvTSG)
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Awful lot of fat.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:22 AM (ARs9M)

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Only wear it sat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:22 AM (LvTSG)

230 Whorehouse pianos

Why are these keys all sticky???

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 22, 2022 10:23 AM (HsAzN)

231 "Theater of Blood" is one of those campy early 70's movies that I think is very entertaining, and that also is NEVER shown by anyone, and is fairly difficult to find. Don't know why.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:23 AM (trdmm)

232 John Brown looks like he is telling the kids to get off his lawn.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 22, 2022 10:23 AM (+3ARs)

233 208 James Brown > John Brown
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:18 AM

Why don't you come say that to my face?

Posted by: John Brown, with crazy eyes, cutlass and flintlock pistol at April 22, 2022 10:23 AM (JCZqz)

234 231 "Theater of Blood" is one of those campy early 70's movies that I think is very entertaining, and that also is NEVER shown by anyone, and is fairly difficult to find. Don't know why.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:23 AM (trdmm)

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Kino Lorber put out a Blu-ray last year.

https://tinyurl.com/3hhx9xa8

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:23 AM (LvTSG)

235 228 1. The War of The Southern Rebellion
b. The War Of Northern Aggression

YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (XIJ/X)

III. The War of Welcome to Being A Country, Assholes, Now Excuse Me While I Pull This Prussian Bayonet Out Of My Pancreas
Posted by: Warai-otoko, none of whose ancestors were here then at April 22, 2022 10:22 AM (6FeV1)

I prefer "The Recent Unpleasantness."
(said in a thick Loozyanna accent)

(dsof

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:24 AM (trdmm)

236 Shakespeare, he was that literary dude, right?

He wrote some stuff. Weak lyrics.

Posted by: Bill and Ted, or possibly Spicoli at April 22, 2022 10:24 AM (F0YaR)

237 YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Lincoln's war?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 22, 2022 10:24 AM (t3/qz)

238 Only wear it sat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:22 AM (LvTSG)
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Haven't you got poet, or something like that?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:24 AM (ARs9M)

239 You remember that humongous vampire in Blade 1?, he watches CNN+.

Then that same actor got hired by the Capital Police and bowling league.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 22, 2022 10:24 AM (J8LnB)

240 210 💩 🛏
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM

Bitch! That's my line!

Posted by: Amber Heard at April 22, 2022 10:25 AM (JCZqz)

241
Kino Lorber put out a Blu-ray last year.

https://tinyurl.com/3hhx9xa8
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:23 AM (LvTSG)

$33.49 for Death Wish II? That's insane......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

242 238 Only wear it sat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:22 AM (LvTSG)
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Haven't you got poet, or something like that?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:24 AM (ARs9M)

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No, y'see, the trouble with poet is how do you know it's deceased? Try the priest!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:25 AM (LvTSG)

243 Kino Lorber put out a Blu-ray last year.

https://tinyurl.com/3hhx9xa8
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:23 AM (LvTSG)

thx, didn't know that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:25 AM (trdmm)

244 Did Joe Biden shit himself again? The one up day this week on NASDAQ has reversed itself.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:25 AM (J7wri)

245 241 $33.49 for Death Wish II? That's insane......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

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Vinegar Syndrome, man. They expensive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:25 AM (LvTSG)

246 Lincoln's war?
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Well said.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:26 AM (J7wri)

247 I like Curry. His art wasn't that great, or that bad... From an aesthetic standpoint it was just sorta "there."

But he was one of the last people in America to stand up for art as an idea. He was adamant that art should be for normals, not art people. He didn't like modernism for similar reasons to why I despise it. And he opposed the use of art as political propaganda.

Of course he lost that argument, and the human-hating Satan-artists and their butt-ugly dreck won forever, but he tried.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 22, 2022 10:28 AM (UGDPW)

248 Lot of good BluRays for sale on Amazon for 5-10 bucks.I am loading up, especially since movie rentals run around 4-6 bucks now.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:28 AM (Vr12I)

249 Greetings:

There's a neat painting of John Brown on his way to his execution in a Washington DC museum. If you stand at a certain spot it looks like he is coming right out of the wall.

Posted by: 11B40 at April 22, 2022 10:29 AM (uuklp)

250 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

Shouldn't the bat emojis PRECEDE the shit emoji? I'm a bit of a purist.

215 Unacceptable waffling. Check the style guide.

1. The War of The Southern Rebellion
b. The War Of Northern Aggression

YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (XIJ/X)

'Suck my Rebel dick' is an unacceptable answer?

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 22, 2022 10:29 AM (F0YaR)

251 I prefer "The Recent Unpleasantness."

Heh. Like someone farted in the parlor.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 22, 2022 10:29 AM (Xrfse)

252 Local Theatre Grope - a couplet

In Shakespearean times through the mire and the muck
King Lear was mourning Cordelia
Meanwhile in Denmark, (more bang for his buck)
Hamlet was copping Ophelia

Posted by: Muldoon at April 22, 2022 10:30 AM (kXYt5)

253 Rhode Island was reported as 'leading the nation' in Covid infection rates several times. I have continued listening to live music in small bars with unmasked patrons four or five nights a week. This mysterious plague somehow is not noticeable. I just don't understand.

Posted by: From about that time at April 22, 2022 10:31 AM (4780s)

254 246 Lincoln's war?
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Well said.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:26 AM (J7wri)

Hmmm. Because of family history, we are kinda conflicted about it, to this day. The joys of being a Border Stater.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:31 AM (Vr12I)

255 253 Rhode Island was reported as 'leading the nation' in Covid infection rates several times. I have continued listening to live music in small bars with unmasked patrons four or five nights a week. This mysterious plague somehow is not noticeable. I just don't understand.
Posted by: From about that time at April 22, 2022 10:31 AM (4780s)

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Wait...you're not testing yourself every day just in case?!

What kind of monster are you?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:31 AM (LvTSG)

256 The War of Northern Rebellion, it is then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville

"Northern Usurpation". Gotta max that propaganda value, yo.

Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at April 22, 2022 10:31 AM (OUMaO)

257 That first painting is from an era so old that Stonehenge was still waiting for its occupancy permit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2022 10:32 AM (XG2Fi)

258 Posted by: MOLESTER UNIVERSE MITT ROMNEY at April 22, 2022 10:31 AM (1IJnB)
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Pretty sure Spicoli thinks you're a dick.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:32 AM (ARs9M)

259 Though technically perhaps it should be called "The War of the Democrat Insurrection"...

Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at April 22, 2022 10:33 AM (OUMaO)

260 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:06 AM (LvTSG)

Pre-covid I estimated that 5% of the population was mentally ill (I was talking in terms of *literally* crazy drivers at the time). Do you think these are newly insane or, for the most part, those who already had issues and just got a new focus?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 22, 2022 10:33 AM (nC+QA)

261 Hmmm. Because of family history, we are kinda conflicted about it, to this day. The joys of being a Border Stater.
Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:31 AM (Vr12I)
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Yeah, really. My dad told me last year that there are some slaveowners in our family history. I was like, "So? Go back far enough and you'll probably find both slaves and slave-owners in *anyone's* past." I haven't lost any sleep over that fact.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 10:34 AM (YIVH2)

262 137 "this is a photo of Sam Brownback standing in front of the original, which gives you a good look at just how huge the original artwork is."

that marble in the statehouse does not photograph well. It looks like cracked terra cotta. Be better Kansas statehouse!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 22, 2022 10:34 AM (MCVM5)

263 253 Rhode Island was reported as 'leading the nation' in Covid infection rates several times. I have continued listening to live music in small bars with unmasked patrons four or five nights a week. This mysterious plague somehow is not noticeable. I just don't understand.
Posted by: From about that time at April 22, 2022 10:31 AM

That's your white privilege talking! Women, children, BIPOCs and LGBTQIA2+ are most at risk, bigot!

Posted by: Insane SJW Covidian at April 22, 2022 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

264 212 186 In the Vincent Price movie Theatre of Blood, a theater critic gets a modified version of Titus Andronicus[i/] treatment. He gets served up as dinner his little dogs.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 22, 2022 10:13 AM (8BmLM)

As gruesome as that is, I also think that scene is one of the most hilarious bits of dark comedy ever done. Remember how in TA it was the "Queens Children" who were killed? In Theater of Blood, a very over-the-top gay character played by Robert Morley is the "queen".

I've long thought that Vincent Price must have loved making that movie more than any other - a disrespected actor gets to kill all of his critics in the most horrible (and literary!) ways possible. What actor wouldn't love that?
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:19 AM (trdmm)

Vincent Price worked on the Yale Record, Yale's version of the Harvard Lampoon, while he was in college. He did have a sense of humor, which seemingly merged with his dark side while making ToB.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 22, 2022 10:35 AM (wbFOg)

265 260 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:06 AM (LvTSG)

Pre-covid I estimated that 5% of the population was mentally ill (I was talking in terms of *literally* crazy drivers at the time). Do you think these are newly insane or, for the most part, those who already had issues and just got a new focus?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 22, 2022 10:33 AM (nC+QA)

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Probably new focus. They're now part of a religion that gives them purpose and directs their energies into something specific that provides them some kind of meaning.

In the past, they would have been zealots in a traditional religion.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:35 AM (LvTSG)

266 Post 100 comments. Is anybody in the media interested in our survival as a nation? What will it take to question our presidents ability to function at a reasonable level? Set policy or political calculation aside. Biden is obviously impaired! Does he need to piss himself on live tv? What will it take?

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at April 22, 2022 10:35 AM (0OmEj)

267 Pre-covid I estimated that 5% of the population was mentally ill (I was talking in terms of *literally* crazy drivers at the time). Do you think these are newly insane or, for the most part, those who already had issues and just got a new focus?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 22, 2022 10:33 AM (nC+QA)

I believe our sick society has driven large numbers of people barking mad, and COVID hysteria is a symptom not a cause.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 22, 2022 10:35 AM (UGDPW)

268 In 100 years we'll have people "finding out" that some of their ancestors were.... *gasp*.... Car Owners.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:36 AM (6FeV1)

269 261 Yeah, really. My dad told me last year that there are some slaveowners in our family history. I was like, "So? Go back far enough and you'll probably find both slaves and slave-owners in *anyone's* past." I haven't lost any sleep over that fact.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2022 10:34 AM (YIVH2)

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I found a will from one of my ancestors in the early 19th century that gave away slaves to his children. I flogged myself for hours.

I gave my next three paychecks to BLM.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:36 AM (LvTSG)

270 Post 100 comments. Is anybody in the media interested in our survival as a nation? What will it take to question our presidents ability to function at a reasonable level? Set policy or political calculation aside. Biden is obviously impaired! Does he need to piss himself on live tv? What will it take?
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at April 22, 2022 10:35 AM (0OmEj)

They're fine with it because they think they'll be part of the controlling party when the smoke clears.

They won't be, but they think they will.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

271 Scratch one flattop!

https://youtu.be/8gq_2a8lOnA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 10:37 AM (GoFsO)

272 IIRC, Bruce Catton put a lot of the blame for the Civil War on a guy named Yancey.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 22, 2022 10:37 AM (JVCkA)

273 Top painting: "Yondah lies the castle of my foddah!"

Lower: "Fire at will!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 22, 2022 10:38 AM (5pTK/)

274 'Suck my Rebel dick' is an unacceptable answer?
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Have them suck your balls. They are very good at it.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:38 AM (J7wri)

275 They're fine with it because they think they'll be part of the controlling party when the smoke clears.

They won't be, but they think they will.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)
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Yep.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 22, 2022 10:38 AM (5pTK/)

276 274 'Suck my Rebel dick' is an unacceptable answer?
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Have them suck your balls. They are very good at it.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:38 AM (J7wri)

Yank my doodle.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:39 AM (6FeV1)

277 Scratch one flattop!

https://youtu.be/8gq_2a8lOnA
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 10:37 AM (GoFsO)

I want that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

278 I forget which characters were involved in that, but the one doing the blinding sneers, "Out, vile jelly!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 22, 2022
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From Titus Andronicus, no?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022

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I've read Lear but never Titus. If it's from the latter and not the former, I must have picked it up reading *about* the play.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 22, 2022 10:39 AM (txdEq)

279 I have summed up the Civil War as an Upper- Lower East Coast argument that spread to the rest of the country.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:40 AM (Vr12I)

280 Yank my doodle, you dandy!

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at April 22, 2022 10:40 AM (0OmEj)

281 I fear Covid will disappoint us again and Cobert will survive the deadliest virus in history with ease.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 22, 2022 10:41 AM (6puGs)

282 I fear Covid will disappoint us again and Cobert will survive the deadliest virus in history with ease.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 22, 2022 10:41 AM (6puGs)

Because he's vax'd and boosted, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

283 CBD if you are there could you do me a favor and see if prolific and esteemed commenter Lizzy's last known hash was accidentally banned?

MmndN

She was on briefly and said her wifi was banned but I don't know if it's that one or a new one. I appreciate it.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 10:42 AM (hLiaa)

284 Yank my doodle.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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So your weiner is the size of a macaroni noodle? We ride hogs down south.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:42 AM (J7wri)

285 I don’t give a fuck what happens to media during the coup. Drag them behind pick ups, beat them with tire irons, stake them to ant hills, etc. couldn’t care less.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 22, 2022 10:42 AM (KFSCm)

286 Ringer champions are usually well-marbled.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 22, 2022 10:43 AM (a3Q+t)

287 255
Wait...you're not testing yourself every day just in case?!

What kind of monster are you?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:31 AM

Make sure to have a friend or family member help you use the new Chinese anal swab test. It's 08% more accurate, but more importantly, it helps with other allyship. Get the kids involved, too...they're never too young!

Posted by: Insane SJW Covidian, totally not a groomer at April 22, 2022 10:43 AM (JCZqz)

288 >>> tiny quibble - not hung, I'm reasonably sure the original is a fresco - painted directly onto the plaster.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:13 AM (trdmm)

No, there's a whole ordeal around it. The state politicos refused to put it up because of the John Brown part, also there may have been arguments over pay, they stopped work, Curry stormed off, and the murals were put away. Only later, after Curry's death did the KS gov come back, take the mural parts out of storage, and put them up.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:43 AM (QzpS1)

289 Recalcitrant oligarchs perverted the levers of power to maintain their position and impose their will, leaving the opposition no choice but to go scorched earth to end an intolerable system.

Wait...

I can't actually tell which side is which in this framing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:43 AM (6FeV1)

290
You know what I found in my family tree?

Bastards! Male bastards! Female bastards!

All y'all got 'em, too!

What else, you ask?

Suicides! Murdered folks! Bigamists!

Folks sentenced to prisons! Folks instrumental in the founding of a local church!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2022 10:44 AM (pNxlR)

291 Gotta love it when workplaces take time away from real work to make us do personality tests.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:45 AM (LvTSG)

292 I fear Covid will disappoint us again and Cobert will survive the deadliest virus in history with ease.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 22, 2022 10:41 AM (6puGs)

Because he's vax'd and boosted, silly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

And he performed a ritual dance, in keeping with his religion of Branch Covidian.

Posted by: Amber Heard at April 22, 2022 10:45 AM (FJYfm)

293 285 I don’t give a fuck what happens to media during the coup. Drag them behind pick ups, beat them with tire irons, stake them to ant hills, etc. couldn’t care less.
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Please start a News Letter. I would be happy to subscribe.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:45 AM (J7wri)

294 I found a will from one of my ancestors in the early 19th century that gave away slaves to his children. I flogged myself for hours.

I gave my next three paychecks to BLM.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:36 AM

Meh. When we get your Prometheus laser discs we'll know you're serious.

Posted by: BLM at April 22, 2022 10:45 AM (a3Q+t)

295 Folks sentenced to prisons! Folks instrumental in the founding of a local church!
-----------
Snort.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:46 AM (J7wri)

296 My ancestors come from the highest moral stature of tomorrow's standards.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at April 22, 2022 10:47 AM (0OmEj)

297 291 Gotta love it when workplaces take time away from real work to make us do personality tests.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:45 AM (LvTSG)

My Myers-Briggs type is STFU.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:47 AM (6FeV1)

298 297 My Myers-Briggs type is STFU.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:47 AM (6FeV1)

========

Dolley loves that shit, and she'll occasionally drop one of the letters into a conversation like I'm supposed to know what it means. I never do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:48 AM (LvTSG)

299 Whorehouse pianos

Why are these keys all sticky???
Posted by: Guy Smiley

They did a bang up job on them.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 22, 2022 10:48 AM (tPodT)

300 My Myers-Briggs type is STFU.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:47 AM (6FeV1)

"You are outgoing, gregarious and enjoy deep conversation with like minded people."

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 10:48 AM (jvckj)

301 My Myers-Briggs type is STFU.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:47 AM (6FeV1)

My Birkman colors are plaid and black.

Posted by: Wally at April 22, 2022 10:48 AM (FJYfm)

302

My Birkman colors are plaid and black.
Posted by: Wally at April 22, 2022 10:48 AM (FJYfm)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

303 295 Folks sentenced to prisons! Folks instrumental in the founding of a local church!
-----------
Snort.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:46 AM (J7wri)

First Baptist Second Baptist Third Baptist Freewill Baptist Bill's Baptist Joe's Holy Spirit Baptist Ed's Dairy Farm and Produce Market Baptist

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:49 AM (Vr12I)

304 You know what I found in my family tree?
ntenced to prisons! Folks instrumental in the founding of a local church!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

Dogs and cats living together ?

Posted by: JT at April 22, 2022 10:49 AM (arJlL)

305
My Myers-Briggs type is STFU.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I used to say BOZO, but I'm stealing yours, W-o!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2022 10:49 AM (pNxlR)

306 First Baptist Second Baptist Third Baptist Freewill Baptist Bill's Baptist Joe's Holy Spirit Baptist Ed's Dairy Farm and Produce Market Baptist
Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:49 AM (Vr12I)
--------
The Church of St. Bruno the Enforcer.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:50 AM (ARs9M)

307 >>> Gotta love it when workplaces take time away from real work to make us do personality tests.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:45 AM (LvTSG)

My Myers-Briggs type is STFU.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:47 AM (6FeV1)

We did that. Found out I am type: nerd. That's not what they named the category but that's what it was. They probably spent $10K on the friggin test. I'd tell 'em I'm a nerd for $9999.98 easy

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:50 AM (QzpS1)

308 303 295 Folks sentenced to prisons! Folks instrumental in the founding of a local church!
-----------
Snort.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:46 AM (J7wri)

First Baptist Second Baptist Third Baptist Freewill Baptist Bill's Baptist Joe's Holy Spirit Baptist Ed's Dairy Farm and Produce Market Baptist
--------------
I guess I'll never bump into your people at the ABC store.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:50 AM (J7wri)

309 AP has some election advice for Biden.

https://bit.ly/39bV08T

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 10:50 AM (FVME7)

310 --------
The Church of St. Bruno the Enforcer.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:50 AM (ARs9M)

Holy Trinity of the Fuck You Pay Me

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

311 268 In 100 years we'll have people "finding out" that some of their ancestors were.... *gasp*.... Car Owners.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:36 AM (6FeV1)

-------

Worse than that, Meat Eaters!

Posted by: ShainS at April 22, 2022 10:51 AM (HM+TB)

312
First Baptist Second Baptist Third Baptist Freewill Baptist Bill's Baptist Joe's Holy Spirit Baptist Ed's Dairy Farm and Produce Market Baptist
Posted by: kraken

Nah, they were Catholics from Baden-Wurttenburg.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2022 10:51 AM (pNxlR)

313 Worse than that, Meat Eaters!

Posted by: ShainS at April 22, 2022 10:51 AM (HM+TB)

Free speakers.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 10:51 AM (HXTjN)

314 309 AP has some election advice for Biden.

https://bit.ly/39bV08T
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 10:50 AM (FVME7)

=========

"Cheat like your life depends on it!"
-AP News Article, October 30, 2022

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:52 AM (LvTSG)

315
I guess I'll never bump into your people at the ABC store.
Posted by: Puddihead

But you'll bump into them coming and going through the back door of the ABC store!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2022 10:52 AM (pNxlR)

316
Free speakers.
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 10:51 AM (HXTjN)

Hey everybody!!!! FREE TV'S!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

317 309 AP has some election advice for Biden.

https://bit.ly/39bV08T

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 10:50 AM (FVME7)

------

Blame Trump!

Posted by: ShainS at April 22, 2022 10:52 AM (HM+TB)

318 308
First Baptist Second Baptist Third Baptist Freewill Baptist Bill's Baptist Joe's Holy Spirit Baptist Ed's Dairy Farm and Produce Market Baptist
--------------
I guess I'll never bump into your people at the ABC store.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 10:50 AM (J7wri)

Heh. Probly not.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:52 AM (Vr12I)

319 Nah, they were Catholics from Baden-Wurttenburg.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2022 10:51 AM (pNxlR)
------
If they were from Baden-Baden-Baden, they might have know PDQ Bach.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:52 AM (ARs9M)

320 Mr. S's maternal great-greats served in the same small Texas regiment. They each had a leg blown off- the right for one and the left for the other.
They hobbled home, shared pairs for shoes for the rest of their lives and one's son married the other's daughter.

Posted by: sal at April 22, 2022 10:52 AM (bJKUl)

321 depends on it!"
-AP News Article, October 30, 2022

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 22, 2022 10:52 AM (LvTSG)

ISWYD

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 10:53 AM (Hbm+5)

322 Hey, baden baden baden baden baden SWING!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:53 AM (6FeV1)

323 My Birkman colors are plaid and black.
Posted by: Wally at April 22, 2022 10:48 AM (FJYfm)

That is an actual test they give you at work-Birkman colors?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2022 10:53 AM (fF2aM)

324 Something my grandfather used to say:

Each new day earns a very odd reward. This offers people easily remembered stories, every version entailing required efforts.

He often spoke cryptically

Posted by: Muldoon at April 22, 2022 10:53 AM (kXYt5)

325

Hmm, I wonder if Meyer Briggs has the appropriate "Get off my lawn" and "Curmudgeon" categories?

If not, the test is sadly lacking real world application.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 22, 2022 10:53 AM (5pTK/)

326 Good morning, Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 22, 2022 10:54 AM (TdMsT)

327 {{{{Ladyl}}}}

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)

328 Free speakers.
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 10:51 AM (HXTjN)

Hey everybody!!!! FREE TV'S!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

Poor Crazy Eddie.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 22, 2022 10:54 AM (KFSCm)

329 324 Something my grandfather used to say:

Each new day earns a very odd reward. This offers people easily remembered stories, every version entailing required efforts.

He often spoke cryptically
Posted by: Muldoon at April 22, 2022 10:53 AM (kXYt5)

Did he consume peyote by anymchance?

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (Vr12I)

330 Darling {{{SPONGE}}}!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (TdMsT)

331 Razorfist went full-retard on Lincoln hate, and made at least three really awful unconvincing points about it. I clowned on him and then he left a snide comment on my twitter account. I wasn't used to him being unpersuasive.

"Lincoln voiced his support for a bill that would make slavery legal everywhere forever" EI not even against it. I can't even be bothered to look up what he said when I know what his actions did.

"The Atlantic trade was illegal in 1808, slavery would have gone away on it's own" Yeah no, slaves having children is a thing, genius.

These "checkmate Lincolnite" points come out of a bubble he is in, I assume.

Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (44ww/)

332 didn't Robert E Lee hang Brown on the spot ?

or was that a movie

Posted by: REDACTED at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (us2H3)

333 The odds are good, but the goods are odd.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (6FeV1)

334 He often spoke cryptically

Posted by: Muldoon at April 22, 2022 10:53 AM (kXYt5

Bitcoin guy?

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (sd3nz)

335 Into the Wayback Machine to June 2020!

Joe Biden
@JoeBiden

United States government official
It's hard to believe this has to be said, but unlike this president, I'll do my job and take responsibility. I won't blame others. And I'll never forget that the job isn't about me - it's about you.

-
I mean there's fiction and there's fantasy but woah!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (FVME7)

336 If you are going to take a Baptist fishing, take two. That way they won't drink your beer.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (Zr15t)

337 Mr. S's maternal great-greats served in the same small Texas regiment. They each had a leg blown off- the right for one and the left for the other.
They hobbled home, shared pairs for shoes for the rest of their lives and one's son married the other's daughter.
Posted by: sal at April 22, 2022 10:52 AM (bJKUl)
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That's the same story Joe Galloway tells. Related?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (ARs9M)

338 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022

***
"You need some of my famous java. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (txdEq)

339
Church of St. SloJo the Tither

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (pNxlR)

340 In the John Brown debate I find myself on the John Brown side.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (nZ3UH)

341
"The Atlantic trade was illegal in 1808, slavery would have gone away on it's own" Yeah no, slaves having children is a thing, genius.

These "checkmate Lincolnite" points come out of a bubble he is in, I assume.
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (44ww/)

But he uses profanity.........so he's GOT to be right, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

342 That is an actual test they give you at work-Birkman colors?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2022 10:53 AM (fF2aM)

Birkman is some sort of personality test, and you get grouped into different colors - Blue, Red, Green, maybe Yellow. I wasn't paying much attention. I think mine pretty much revealed that I like to be left alone, and I like to leave others alone. But no one seemed to take the hint from what the test revealed.

Posted by: Wally at April 22, 2022 10:56 AM (FJYfm)

343
didn't Robert E Lee hang Brown on the spot ?

or was that a movie
Posted by: REDACTED

No, he was tried in a court and then hung.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2022 10:56 AM (pNxlR)

344 339
Church of St. SloJo the Tither
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (pNxlR)

Right 10%.

Wrong Big Guy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:57 AM (6FeV1)

345 Joe Biden
@JoeBiden

United States government official
It's hard to believe this has to be said, but unlike this president, I'll do my job and take responsibility. I won't blame others. And I'll never forget that the job isn't about me - it's about you.
--
I mean there's fiction and there's fantasy but woah!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022

***
Nah. Unlike Biden's noises, fiction and fantasy have to make internal sense.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 22, 2022 10:57 AM (txdEq)

346 Stonehenge on the side of a mountain beside a Mediterranean cypress?

I mean, OK, It is art but it is very silly art.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at April 22, 2022 10:57 AM (mZOHK)

347 didn't Robert E Lee hang Brown on the spot ?

or was that a movie
Posted by: REDACTED at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (us2H3)
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Brown was tried for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2022 10:57 AM (ARs9M)

348 Joe Biden
@JoeBiden

United States government official
It's hard to believe this has to be said, but unlike this president, I'll do my job and take responsibility. I won't blame others. And I'll never forget that the job isn't about me - it's about you.

-
I mean there's fiction and there's fantasy but woah!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 10:55 AM (FVME7)

Projection and congenital lying is the way of the Left.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 22, 2022 10:57 AM (nZ3UH)

349 Whorehouse pianos
Why are these keys all sticky???
Posted by: Guy Smiley

******

Ragtime?

(sorry, Grandma!)

Posted by: Muldoon at April 22, 2022 10:58 AM (kXYt5)

350 I never did get any of that java.

Posted by: Swede at April 22, 2022 10:58 AM (QtdY7)

351 You Gov continues with their "keep giving money to the dims cuz they aren't out of it" polls

generic preference poll Dim +5

a point not even graphable

seems legit tho

Posted by: REDACTED at April 22, 2022 10:58 AM (us2H3)

352 Baptist hospital, doctor prescribed 5% alcohol drips for all his Baptist patients. The doctor was called on the carpet for these orders. When asked why he was prescribing alcohol he replied "I'm tired of all my Baptist patients going into the DTs. after 5 days here".

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 22, 2022 10:58 AM (tPodT)

353 ******

Ragtime?

(sorry, Grandma!)
Posted by: Muldoon at April 22, 2022 10:58 AM (kXYt5)

RED WINGS! It's THAT time of the month! GET yer RED WINGS HERE!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

354

Holy skid marks Batman, you were pretty rough on the beaver last night!

Posted by: Ghost of Robin's Past at April 22, 2022 10:59 AM (ECD1Z)

355 I don't know the story in any detail, but my hunch is that Brown would have been less "yeah but yeah but you can't convict me waaaah i want a lawyer", and more "BRING ME THE ROPE AND I SHALL TIE IT MYSELF, YOU HELL-BOUND LOVERS OF INIQUITY!!!!!!!!"

(sorry. I just imagine that everything he ever said was in ALL CAPS.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 10:59 AM (6FeV1)

356 I never did get any of that java.

It's a mouse click away.

Posted by: King Harv at April 22, 2022 10:59 AM (Xrfse)

357 Church of St. SloJo the Tither
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

The TITHEE !

Posted by: JT at April 22, 2022 10:59 AM (arJlL)

358 Hmm, I wonder if Meyer Briggs has the appropriate "Get off my lawn" and "Curmudgeon" categories?

If not, the test is sadly lacking real world application.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 22, 2022 10:53 AM (5pTK/)

I aspire to Curmudgeon status. But my membership in the Procrastination Society keeps getting in my way.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 22, 2022 11:00 AM (F0YaR)

359 >>> That is an actual test they give you at work-Birkman colors?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2022 10:53 AM (fF2aM)

Birkman is some sort of personality test, and you get grouped into different colors - Blue, Red, Green, maybe Yellow. I wasn't paying much attention. I think mine pretty much revealed that I like to be left alone, and I like to leave others alone. But no one seemed to take the hint from what the test revealed.
Posted by: Wally at April 22, 2022 10:56 AM (FJYfm)

I also took that one at great expense to the dummies at work. I'm nerdy blue. Shocker!

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 11:00 AM (QzpS1)

360 "Lincoln voiced his support for a bill that would make slavery legal everywhere forever"

-
I imagine that he is referencing:

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.

https://bit.ly/36BzysQ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 22, 2022 11:00 AM (FVME7)

361
Right 10%.

Wrong Big Guy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

The irony was the point!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2022 11:00 AM (pNxlR)

362 My Myers-Briggs type is STFU.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022
*
"You are outgoing, gregarious and enjoy deep conversation with like minded people."
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2022

***
Mine: "You are outgoing yet curmudgeonly, and enjoy seeing people fall into sinkholes."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 22, 2022 11:00 AM (txdEq)

363 Morning.

Oh! A twofer!

John Brown, standing in front of the disaster unfolding behind him. "Nothing to see here, folks, move along.

Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2022 11:00 AM (1Yy3c)

364 didn't Robert E Lee hang Brown on the spot ?

or was that a movie
Posted by: REDACTED

No, he was tried in a court and then hung.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

Well, all righty then.

Posted by: JT at April 22, 2022 11:00 AM (arJlL)

365 I watched a surveillance scene on Tucker's last night. It was Atlanta and black dude gets out of nice GMC or Caddy SUV. Locks it up and another black teenager walks up and shoots in the back at point blank range. The 'Teen' then rifles his pockets and makes off. Another black dude drinking Value Rite gets up, shakes his head and wanders off. Then two more teens show up to rifle the dead mans pockets. At no time did any of these guys think about stealing the nice, new, shing SUV. Amazing.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 11:01 AM (J7wri)

366 NOOD.

Mul.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

367 Lum.

Damn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 22, 2022 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

368 364 didn't Robert E Lee hang Brown on the spot ?

or was that a movie
Posted by: REDACTED

No, he was tried in a court and then hung.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

Well, all righty then.
-----------------
Hanged not hung.

Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 11:01 AM (J7wri)

369 FWIW, MY Baptist church ( 1st Church of the Holy Cephalopods) has no prohibition on alcohol. Each SBC church has autonomy on such matters. That last part is serious - the first part is, of course, bullshit.

Posted by: kraken at April 22, 2022 11:01 AM (Vr12I)

370 Church of St. SloJo the Tither
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

The TITHEE !
Posted by: JT at April 22, 2022

***
I volunteer for the Order of St. ScarJo the Sensual.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 22, 2022 11:01 AM (txdEq)

371
King Lear found employment by performing in Flowbe commercials, did he not?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2022 11:02 AM (pNxlR)

372 The irony was the point!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 22, 2022 11:00 AM (pNxlR)

Heh... i thought it was more of a dig at him being a "collection plate catholic".

Show up on Christmas and Easter, ostentatiously drop a check in the dish, and spend the rest of the year making Satan blush.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2022 11:02 AM (6FeV1)

373 If the same model was used in 1788 and 1939 we are dealing with a very dangerous vampire. One so old it can walk in daylight unharmed.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at April 22, 2022 11:02 AM (4TZI4)

374 Hanged not hung.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 22, 2022 11:01 AM (J7wri)

Speak for yourself.

Posted by: Sheriff of Rock Ridge at April 22, 2022 11:03 AM (FJYfm)

375 Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 11:00 AM (QzpS1)

The only tests I recall taking for a job was as part of being examined for ministry. I recall Myers-Briggs and an intelligence test, and a couple of others too, but not a color test-which seems like an odd sort of test for a job-more like one you'd find in a Woman's Magazine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2022 11:03 AM (fF2aM)

376 165 The Kansas cover was just a section of the mural Tragic Prelude which is hung in the State House in Topeka. This one is just of John Brown and I think is held at The Met.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2022 10:08 AM (QzpS1)

tiny quibble - not hung, I'm reasonably sure the original is a fresco - painted directly onto the plaster.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2022 10:13 AM (trdmm)

So they're both murals? I was only aware of Tragic Prelude (and the album cover).

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at April 22, 2022 11:05 AM (wAnMi)

377 The only tests I recall taking for a job was as part of being examined for ministry. I recall Myers-Briggs and an intelligence test, and a couple of others too, but not a color test-which seems like an odd sort of test for a job-more like one you'd find in a Woman's Magazine.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2022 11:03 AM (fF2aM)

Sorry, I didn't explain it well. The Birkman is a standard personality test, but unlike Meyers-Briggs with letters (INTJ, or whatever the heck they are), they use colors instead. The test itself has nothing to do with colors. It asks you stuff like "Do you like group projects, or would you rather slit your own throat?" but at the end of it, they assign you a color based on your results. Same shit, different marketing tool.

Posted by: Sheriff of Rock Ridge at April 22, 2022 11:06 AM (FJYfm)

378 Posted by: Sheriff of Rock Ridge at April 22, 2022 11:06 AM (FJYfm)

Thanks for the explanation. I had not heard of that What color would you get assigned if you preferred to slit other peoples' throats rather than your own-Sociopathic Scarlet? j/k

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2022 11:15 AM (fF2aM)

379 What color would you get assigned if you preferred to slit other peoples' throats rather than your own-Sociopathic Scarlet? j/k
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2022 11:15 AM (fF2aM

The AOSHQ color style guide says "Pirate Flag Black"

Posted by: Boswell at April 22, 2022 11:24 AM (5iUNf)

380 King Lear is better in the original Japanese. TJM

TJM ran with that. I'm sticking with the original.

Posted by: mrp at April 22, 2022 11:34 AM (6eRlp)

381 Drugs are a hell of a drug. Just ask Brown John.

Posted by: Ray at April 22, 2022 11:51 AM (sw3xv)

382 Could someone explain why bonds Disney took out would now be on the hook of the municipalities that Disney is being folded into?

And the towns could simply levy taxes on Disney to pay for Disney's bonds.

This leftist talking point seems silly to me.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 22, 2022 11:52 AM (/k3qv)

383

They are getting their boosters,like it or not.

Posted by: safristi at April 22, 2022 02:16 PM (PgqFp)

384 John Brown the Trayvon of yesterday. Or the St' Floyd, can't figure out how drugged up and crazy Johnny was.

Posted by: Harry at April 22, 2022 07:51 PM (EcD5Y)

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