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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (7/2/22)

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The Saturday Night Joke

Teacher arrested at JFK Airport....

A school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, an ancient wooden device called a "slide-rule," as well as a code device called an "abacus" that he claimed was a calculator.

At a morning press conference, the Attorney General said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
"Al-Gebra is a problem for us," the Attorney General said. "Al-Gebra has terrorized many young people for years. They derive solutions by means and extremes and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values”.

"They use secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns,' but we've determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.”

"As the Greek philosopher Isosceles once said, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle.’ "

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Biden said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes."

White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by a President at any time in all of history. ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC proclaimed Biden has solved yet another problem created by Trump. (H/T Captain Josepha Sabin)

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The Japanese have interesting cultural ideas.

IN 2020, UNUSUAL PUBLIC TOILETS were installed in two parks in the ever-popular Yoyogi district of Tokyo and quickly, although for a brief period, became an internet sensation.

The stalls, in particular, are quite easy to find, encased by transparent glass walls of a variety of vibrant colors, looking immaculate—and yes, you read it right: the restroom’s walls are transparent, totally see-through. You can see everything inside, from the flush toilet to the hand wash sink. Now the question is, how does one use it?

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Yes, I would be late to wherever the hell I was going. Including the TXMoMe.

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Ten thousand dollars to miss an airline flight?

That’s what some passengers flying Delta Airlines out of the Gerald R. Ford International Airport say they were offered earlier this week.

“I think the airlines are doing everything they can to make it a good experience. But $10,000 is a lot,” said passenger Jason Aten.

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Holy crap!


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Being the cynical and pessimistic individual. I'm not sure if this is going to work out well.

Drones will start responding to police calls in this South Florida city


Coral Gables police plan to use drone technology to respond to calls.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Officers in squad cars may not be the only thing showing up at police incidents in Coral Gables anymore. Instead, a drone could arrive first.

The department is using the city’s Fourth of July celebration at the Biltmore Hotel as a test run for its new drone program. Organizers expected the event to draw more than 40,000 spectators and police said they will use the drone to monitor crowds, traffic and any incidents that could occur.

After the Fourth, the two drones will be dispatched from strategic points throughout the city to specific incidents, meaning they won’t be patrolling the streets, police Chief Ed Hudak said.


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Get off my lawn. And get the hell out of my house.

A 93-year-old man has shot and critically injured a would-be burglar after a gang tried to break into his home in California.

Retired plumber Joe Howard Teague repeatedly warned the attempted robbers that he had a shotgun, but they continued to approach and throw things at him.

Teague told reporters outside his Moreno Valley home yesterday: 'I approached them to put them under citizen's arrest.


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I don't think I'll try to expense this on my expense account.

This Is What A $600 Meal For 1 At One Of The World’s Most Expensive Restaurants Looks Like

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I'm wondering........Was he humming "8 Miles High".

This South African Climber Just Made The First Legal Paraglide Flight Off Mount Everest

Instead of several days, it took Pierre Carter just 20 minutes to descend Mount Everest on his paraglider.

As dozens of climbers slowly made their way down Mount Everest last month, one mountaineer soared above them all. At noon on May 15, 55-year-old Pierre Carter took off from the South Col of Everest in a paraglider and flew to the ground, landing in just 20 minutes.

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Groovy Vibes Emporium


On July 1, 1981 - Rushton Moreve
Rushton Moreve bassist with Steppenwolf, was killed in motorcycle accident in Santa Barbara, California, aged 32. He co-wrote their hit 'Magic Carpet Ride' with lead singer John Kay; Steppenwolf also had the 1968 US No.2 single 'Born To Be Wild'. Moreve left the band in late 1968 when he refused to fly back to California at that time, fearing it would sink into the Pacific Ocean after an imminent earthquake. via thisdayinmusic.com


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On July 1, 1995 - DJ Wolfman Jack
DJ Wolfman Jack died of a heart attack. He was the master of ceremonies for the rock 'n' roll generation of the '60s on radio, and later on television during the '70s. via thisdayinmusic.com


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Born on July 1, 1945 - Deborah Harry
Deborah Harry, American singer, songwriter, and actress with Blondie who scored five UK No.1 singles including the 1979 UK & US No.1 single 'Heart Of Glass' and the 1978 world-wide No.1 album Parallel Lines. As a solo artists she scored the 1986 UK No. 8 single 'French Kissing In The USA'. A former Playboy Bunny, her acting career spans over thirty film roles and numerous television appearances. via thisdayinmusic.com


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On this day: 2 Jul 1979
Sony introduced the Walkman, the first portable audio cassette player. Over the next 30 years they sold over 385 million Walkmans in cassette, CD, mini-disc and digital file versions, and were the market leaders until the arrival of Apple's iPod and other new digital devices. via thisdayinmusic.com


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He's definitely going to need a new wardrobe assistant. Genius Award Winner.

JUNE 25--An Alabama man wearing a t-shirt proclaiming “I’m Too Good for drugs!” was arrested for possessing methamphetamine and narcotics paraphernalia, police report.

Allen Burnett, 60, was collared Thursday night near his home in Ashville, a small city about 45 miles from Birmingham.

Burnett, seen at right, was charged with a pair of drug counts and booked into the St. Clair County jail. He was released early yesterday morning after posting $3500 bond.

At the time of his arrest, Burnett was wearing a purple t-shirt that declared, “I’m Too Good for drugs!”


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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:04 PM




Comments

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1 "Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality."
~Lord Acton

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:04 PM (hOUT3)

2 Too easy? Maybe not, but I'll give it the old college try!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 02, 2022 10:04 PM (XIJ/X)

3

Први!

Posted by: Zettai at July 02, 2022 10:04 PM (Qt7Yc)

4 god evening y'all

Posted by: wing at July 02, 2022 10:05 PM (PlW9M)

5 Shazbot!

Posted by: NALNAMSAM- not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 02, 2022 10:05 PM (+ldAm)

6 ONT!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 02, 2022 10:06 PM (/jQbM)

7 I'll get em

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2022 10:07 PM (MGB5H)

8 Sweet 16?

Posted by: Lurking Cheshire Cat at July 02, 2022 10:08 PM (w3u3d)

9 Zdravstvuitse!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 02, 2022 10:08 PM (rzOL9)

10 That's acute joke, very on point.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 02, 2022 10:09 PM (/jQbM)

11 Dang, top 10

Posted by: Lurking Cheshire Cat at July 02, 2022 10:09 PM (w3u3d)

12 Commissar Hrothgar

You are on a roll, with excellent quotes, and that elusive First! -- again.

Way to go.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 02, 2022 10:09 PM (u82oZ)

13 6 ONT!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 02, 2022 10:06 PM (/jQbM


Yup

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 02, 2022 10:09 PM (aA3+G)

14 Lurve the Saturday Night Joke!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2022 10:09 PM (4I/2K)

15 Good evening everyone.

Tell me that isn't Jägermeister.

Lie to me if you have to.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2022 10:09 PM (Msys3)

16 Boobs!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 02, 2022 10:10 PM (rzOL9)

17 I think the transparent toilets in Japan are less about exhibitionism and more about making sure there are no tentacles coming up from the depths.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Analog Hipster at July 02, 2022 10:10 PM (Dc2NZ)

18 Love the joke. Woke up the cats by laughing so hard!

Posted by: pookysgirl, getting her sleeper cell into shape at July 02, 2022 10:10 PM (XKZwp)

19 My Outlook On Life At The Moment.

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Yep. That's where I'm at too

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 02, 2022 10:10 PM (/jQbM)

20 NaCly: This has been a good day!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:11 PM (hOUT3)

21 Keep your motor running
Head out on the highway

I was a college freshman when that hit the air.

Posted by: LRob in TX at July 02, 2022 10:12 PM (KTPXo)

22 The Japanese. Nuked not enough. ICUP!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2022 10:13 PM (4I/2K)

23 Dirty Harry > Debbie Harry

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 02, 2022 10:14 PM (FVME7)

24 I think the transparent toilets in Japan are less about exhibitionism and more about making sure there are no tentacles coming up from the depths.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,


I think Eris has got it. If the previous user was not attacked by tentacles it sure seems like your odds of being able to immediately use the same equipment tentacle free improve markedly!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:14 PM (hOUT3)

25 Transitioned again.

Posted by: Ciampino - hmm at July 02, 2022 10:15 PM (qfLjt)

26 A 93-year-old man has shot and critically injured a would-be burglar after a gang tried to break into his home in California.

Dumb burglar. Everyone knows that old geezers are easily pissed off.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 02, 2022 10:15 PM (+lVUW)

27 Lucky people video is exciting

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 02, 2022 10:15 PM (/jQbM)

28 Brisket is in the oven finishing to 205 degrees. The downstairs is filled with heavenly BBQ aroma.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2022 10:16 PM (4I/2K)

29 Good evening morons and thanks for the laugh mh

I like Jaegermeister and Robitussin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2022 10:16 PM (EZebt)

30 Everyone knows that old geezers are easily pissed off.
Posted by: nerdygirl


Having a lot less to lose gives old codgers far more freedom of action!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:16 PM (hOUT3)

31 California has it's own Joe the plumber.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2022 10:16 PM (63Dwl)

32 Dumb burglar. Everyone knows that old geezers are easily pissed off.
Posted by: nerdygirl

They wouldn't get off his lawn.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 02, 2022 10:16 PM (FVME7)

33 Thanks for another great ONT, Mis Hum!

I believe I would miss my flight for the princely sum of $10,000. Yes, indeedy... since I've had to do it for free a few too many times...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 02, 2022 10:16 PM (xT18z)

34 They should make Jaegertussin.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Analog Hipster at July 02, 2022 10:17 PM (Dc2NZ)

35 My accomplishments today: made my first air bnb booking - hopefully it will be ok.
Have the next 3 days of our family staycation planned.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 02, 2022 10:17 PM (/jQbM)

36 Ciampino - hmm

Wow. You are as gender-fluid as the protagonist of Steel Beach

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 02, 2022 10:17 PM (u82oZ)

37 I believe I would miss my flight for the princely sum of $10,000. Yes, indeedy... since I've had to do it for free a few too many times...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient


A 10k$ decision in ten seconds or less!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:17 PM (hOUT3)

38 Have a friend who was hit in the head with the same type of hook like in the lucky people video. Pretty banged up and lost an eye. Lucky to be alive .

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 02, 2022 10:18 PM (2NHgQ)

39 25 Transitioned again.
Posted by: Ciampino

Make up your mind, xir!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 02, 2022 10:18 PM (/jQbM)

40 I guess the would-be burglar and his accomplices done found out.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2022 10:18 PM (4I/2K)

41 Evening.
Continuing from last thread...
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Seven and Delta have always left me out in the cold because both are about Max and Miryia's family. To me that is pandering to nostalgia. And the super heavy reliance on music being the weapon also left me feeling a bit out.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2022 10:12 PM (2Gfjx)

It's goofy, for sure. It doesn't bother me. The world being saved a virginal underage pop singer performing a love song? I'll buy it.

In Macross 7 the world is saved by a heavy metal guitarist, right? Metal? Heeeeeyyyyyy, buuuuuuuuuddy! I'm down.

Posted by: Robert, the Devil on your shoulder at July 02, 2022 10:19 PM (T3auV)

42 I guess the would-be burglar and his accomplices done found out.
Posted by: Count de Monet


There's always an easy way and a hard way to learn new things...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:21 PM (hOUT3)

43 That $10,000 is potentially a tough one. It’s rare that I’m flying somewhere and don’t need to get where I’m going. Even if all I’m doing is a one-person vacation, by the time they start offering rewards, I’d be out one or more likely two hotel night charges and the price of whatever convention I’ve already signed up for. Or, worse, this is the return flight.

Which is usually not worth the amount they’re offering. At $10,000, it is. I now have to ask, what are my responsibilities? How replaceable is this experience that I’m now going to miss? Because you have to think, if they’re offering that much there are no later flights.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 02, 2022 10:21 PM (U+Oxn)

44 Debbie Harry was gorgeous.

Posted by: GWB at July 02, 2022 10:21 PM (IEo5i)

45 They'd have to pay me more than $600 to eat some of that stuff. Can't imagine paying so much for that.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 02, 2022 10:22 PM (ftFVW)

46 I guess the would-be burglar and his accomplices done found out.
Posted by: Count de Monet

There's always an easy way and a hard way to learn new things...


One would think that the proper course of action would be fairly obvious when someone holding a shotgun tells you to back off.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 02, 2022 10:22 PM (/NCI4)

47 Videodrome

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2022 10:23 PM (63Dwl)

48 From the Macross Frontier movies, May'n, Sheryl Nome, performs "Universal Bunny."

https://youtu.be/XEbmGa3_qU4

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2022 10:23 PM (2Gfjx)

49 I like Jaegermeister and Robitussin.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2022 10:16 PM (EZebt)

If I weren't too sick to get to the liquor store, I might try that tonight.

Posted by: GWB at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM (IEo5i)

50 Enjoyed the Guess Who cut. I contend that Burton Cummings had one of the best male voices in rock, and really good diction, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM (IXdAK)

51 One would think that the proper course of action would be fairly obvious when someone holding a shotgun tells you to back off.
Posted by: Archimedes


Especially since shotgun blasts have been accorded the pResidential seal of approval!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM (hOUT3)

52 I once was driving home late at night in my old dodge dart convertible and one of the hooks holding the top down snapped in half and hit me in the head, I thought I'd been shot. I consider myself lucky to be alive.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM (a4EWo)

53 Anyone ever been to a City Bites? They were a sandwich chain throughout the midwest but I think they had issues and contracted back into just Oklahoma. Anyway, there were one way mirrors into the bathrooms. If you don't know about that then after you walk in it just looks like a window and everybody's watching you. People would all wave at the mirrors when someone walked in.

They had a cameo in a video game franchise. I don't remember but it's funny when you see their sign in game. Deus Ex, or Duke Nukem, a city sim or something else I can't remember.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM (0fVbu)

54 If they're offering $10K, they'll surely pay $15K.

Posted by: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Reference at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM (oTZbj)

55 "Drones will start responding to police calls in this South Florida city"

Will they be armed with flame throwers, or perhaps 9mm lung extractors?

Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM (AmoqO)

56 One would think that the proper course of action would be fairly obvious when someone holding a shotgun tells you to back off.
Posted by: Archimedes
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I had a detective tell me, 'You'd be surprised how seldom we find a MENSA card in criminal's wallets.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM (PoAMp)

57 The most Portland example of road rage you'll ever see!

Uber-woke white Karen decides to berate someone for some imagined traffic offense, only to discover to her horror that her belligerent, equally uber-woke opponent has far, far, more intersectionality points than she does.

Watch until the end, so you can check out the bumper stickers on the Karen's car.

http://tinyurl.com/2p8788s5

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM (I2/tG)

58 I like Jaegermeister and Robitussin.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2022 10:16 PM (EZebt)


Isn't that a "Flaming Mo"?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2022 10:25 PM (xhaym)

59 If they're offering $10K, they'll surely pay $15K.

Right. That’s something else the article didn’t mention. Had they started at a lower number?

If their opening bid was $10,000, what the hell was going on?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 02, 2022 10:26 PM (U+Oxn)

60 Uber-woke white Karen decides to berate someone for some imagined traffic offense

That's awesome.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 02, 2022 10:29 PM (ESjRY)

61 Right. That’s something else the article didn’t mention. Had they started at a lower number?

If their opening bid was $10,000, what the hell was going on?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Pelosi was on the flight also and the flight attendants discovered, to their horror, that there wasn't enough room for her ego.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2022 10:29 PM (Msys3)

62 Right. That’s something else the article didn’t mention. Had they started at a lower number?

If their opening bid was $10,000, what the hell was going on?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 02, 2022 10:26 PM (U+Oxn)

Who wanted a seat so badly that Delta felt it worth their while to offer 10 grand for one?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2022 10:29 PM (IXdAK)

63 I contend that Burton Cummings had one of the best male voices in rock, and really good diction, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM

Not to mention quite the mustache.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 02, 2022 10:29 PM (ftFVW)

64 Damn DDS! That's scary!!

Posted by: jewells45 at July 02, 2022 10:30 PM (nxdel)

65 Having a lot less to lose gives old codgers far more freedom of action!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar


And the advanced age makes it less likely that the stupid, liberal DA will consider the shooting not justified. Aww, isn't that old man who blew a gang bangers brains out cute?!

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 02, 2022 10:30 PM (+lVUW)

66 Hooooorde!

*pulls up couch*

Posted by: Piercello at July 02, 2022 10:31 PM (ajoh7)

67 48 From the Macross Frontier movies, May'n, Sheryl Nome, performs "Universal Bunny."

https://youtu.be/XEbmGa3_qU4
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2022 10:23 PM (2Gfjx)

Mmmmmm, legs!

Posted by: Robert, the Devil on your shoulder at July 02, 2022 10:31 PM (CUR+x)

68 17 I think the transparent toilets in Japan are less about exhibitionism and more about making sure there are no tentacles coming up from the depths.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Analog Hipster at July 02, 2022 10:10 PM (Dc2NZ)

++++

According to the info at the link, the walls go opaque as soon as you lock the door.

Unless you "accidentally" forget.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 02, 2022 10:31 PM (hVqGz)

69 Anyone ever been to a City Bites?...
Posted by: banana Dream at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM

A friend and I used to go so much they knew our orders. Great sandwiches, and yes, the bathroom one way mirror is trippy. Never seen them out in the digital realm, so I'll have to watch out for that.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 02, 2022 10:32 PM (ftFVW)

70 Who wanted a seat so badly that Delta felt it worth their while to offer 10 grand for one?

If they started at lower numbers, then everyone on the flight.

At that point, you have to wonder when they end the policy of overselling flights.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 02, 2022 10:32 PM (U+Oxn)

71 like Jaegermeister

Paregoric. Better than Jaeger, plus morphine.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at July 02, 2022 10:32 PM (jRQbu)

72 That Saturday Night Joke, I've seen variations minus the Biden appendix but it's still funny, thanks. I'll sine on the dotted line.

Posted by: Ciampino - is a Cosecant a cutting instrument? at July 02, 2022 10:33 PM (qfLjt)

73 The Guess Who...


http://tinyurl.com/566dz9zy

Posted by: davidt at July 02, 2022 10:34 PM (oTZbj)

74 Anyone ever been to a City Bites?...
Posted by: banana Dream at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM

A friend and I used to go so much they knew our orders. Great sandwiches, and yes, the bathroom one way mirror is trippy. Never seen them out in the digital realm, so I'll have to watch out for that.
Posted by: She Hobbit

I like their cookies. Nom nom nom nom

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2022 10:34 PM (MGB5H)

75 I'll sine on the dotted line.
Posted by: Ciampino - is a Cosecant a cutting instrument

Let's not go off on a tangent here!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:34 PM (hOUT3)

76 What a delightful ONT! All over the place!
Would love to hear CBD's take on the $600 'meal'...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 02, 2022 10:35 PM (bTpeC)

77 I like their cookies. Nom nom nom nom
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2022 10:34 PM

Right-o, and they were early adopters of Diet Dr. Pepper on the fountain. Winning!

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 02, 2022 10:35 PM (ftFVW)

78 This week, Casa Piercello is minting a new American citizen.

My dear imported wife! She's already more American than most, and has been for a long time. But now we'll have the swearing in to prove it.

I had to brag.

Posted by: Piercello at July 02, 2022 10:36 PM (ajoh7)

79 What about the Disney cruise ship with the $5000 cocktail?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2022 10:36 PM (63Dwl)

80 Right-o, and they were early adopters of Diet Dr. Pepper on the fountain. Winning!
Posted by: She Hobbit

That's cause okies love them some Dr Pepper

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2022 10:37 PM (MGB5H)

81 What happens to the transparent bathroom walls when there is a power failure?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2022 10:37 PM (4I/2K)

82 I had to brag.
Posted by: Piercello


As you should, and sincere congratulations to the both of you!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:38 PM (hOUT3)

83 Clap For the Wolf man reminds me of American Graffiti. Loved that movie. Pirate Radio with Philip Seymour Hoffman was also a hoot.

Thanks for the hat tip, MisHum.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at July 02, 2022 10:38 PM (H31K8)

84 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10

Exactly
No math

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 02, 2022 10:38 PM (aA3+G)

85 What about the Disney cruise ship with the $5000 cocktail?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Isn't that at the Star Wars hotel?

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2022 10:38 PM (MGB5H)

86 This week, Casa Piercello is minting a new American citizen.

My dear imported wife! She's already more American than most, and has been for a long time. But now we'll have the swearing in to prove it.

I had to brag.
Posted by: Piercello at July 02, 2022 10:36 PM (ajoh7)

Awesome!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2022 10:38 PM (4I/2K)

87 Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at July 02, 2022 10:38

You bet!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 02, 2022 10:38 PM (aA3+G)

88 Let's not go off on a tangent here!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:34 PM

Don't be obtuse, there will be plenty of intersections in the comments section.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 02, 2022 10:39 PM (ftFVW)

89 36 Ciampino - hmm

Wow. You are as gender-fluid as the protagonist of Steel Beach

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 02, 2022 10:17 PM (u82oZ)
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As a good aromatic chemist I don't go cis or trans but only meta.
(1 & 2 is no fun, 1 & 4 is too many, but 1 & 3 is just right -- only for chemists)

Posted by: Ciampino - is a Secant a cutting instrument? at July 02, 2022 10:39 PM (qfLjt)

90 This week, Casa Piercello is minting a new American citizen.

My dear imported wife! She's already more American than most, and has been for a long time. But now we'll have the swearing in to prove it.

I had to brag.

Posted by: Piercello at July 02, 2022 10:36 PM



This is awesome!

*tips pith helmet to Piercello and Mrs P

Posted by: Zettai at July 02, 2022 10:39 PM (De+S8)

91 Exactly
No math
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


After all, what is an ONT without rules of conduct...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:39 PM (hOUT3)

92 I had to brag.
Posted by: Piercello at July 02, 2022 10:36 PM (ajoh7)

Congrats, Piercello!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2022 10:40 PM (IXdAK)

93
What happens to the transparent bathroom walls when there is a power failure?
Posted by: Count de Monet


They go to plaid.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2022 10:40 PM (63Dwl)

94 I had to brag.
Posted by: Piercello at July 02, 2022 10:36 PM

Congratulations!

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 02, 2022 10:40 PM (ftFVW)

95 I seem to recall an episode of the Simpsons where they went to Japan and discovered a camera in the toilet.

Or, rather, Homer missed it and the Bart discovered the TV channel it was connected to.

Posted by: Methos at July 02, 2022 10:40 PM (kOpft)

96 Drone responding to a police call? If it is labelled ED209, you might want to un-ass the area.

Posted by: butch at July 02, 2022 10:41 PM (jQbiw)

97 Don't be obtuse, there will be plenty of intersections in the comments section.
Posted by: She Hobbit


But will they be countable?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:41 PM (hOUT3)

98 Jewells, it may explain my personality, I'm quite sure that I had been drinking at the time, which made it quite confusing. I was probably concussed, at least that's what I was going to tell the police officer. I carried that sheared off hook in my car for a long time. In the wintertime that side of the roof got a four inch ice wedge from November through April, I loved that car, named it the Ratmobile (with no offense intended to Some Rat or other rats the frequent the ONT).

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 02, 2022 10:41 PM (a4EWo)

99 Wow, awful job editing on my part there.

Posted by: Methos at July 02, 2022 10:41 PM (kOpft)

100 I had to brag.
Posted by: Piercello at July 02, 2022 10:36 PM (ajoh7)

Awesome!
Congratulations

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 02, 2022 10:42 PM (aA3+G)

101 There is very little correlation between the math puns and humor.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at July 02, 2022 10:42 PM (ZTJjv)

102 Exactly
No math
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


that is what the lisping Nicaraguan mozo said . . .

"no math, porfavor. Thiento mal, y queiro thalir"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2022 10:42 PM (xhaym)

103 Thank you all, from the bottom of our hearts.

Gonna be a great week!

Posted by: Piercello at July 02, 2022 10:44 PM (ajoh7)

104 There is very little correlation between the math puns and humor.
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at July 02, 2022 10:42 PM

Unless you're a nerd, then there is quite a bit of breathy laugh snorting.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 02, 2022 10:44 PM (ftFVW)

105 Remember, round is a shape.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 02, 2022 10:44 PM (5pTK/)

106 And now, for all of you teenagers...a cherry bomb!

Posted by: Get off of my lawn at July 02, 2022 10:46 PM (Xrfse)

107 What happens to the transparent bathroom walls when there is a power failure?
Posted by: Count de Monet


Power applied, transparent. No power: opaque.

Posted by: mikeski at July 02, 2022 10:46 PM (P1f+c)

108 Congratulations, Piercello.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 02, 2022 10:46 PM (5pTK/)

109 After all, what is an ONT without rules of conduct...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:39 PM (hOUT3)
* * * *
A Weirddave ONT?

(grin)

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 02, 2022 10:47 PM (xT18z)

110 The most Portland example of road rage you'll ever see!

Uber-woke white Karen decides to berate someone for some imagined traffic offense, only to discover to her horror that her belligerent, equally uber-woke opponent has far, far, more intersectionality points than she does.

Watch until the end, so you can check out the bumper stickers on the Karen's car.

http://tinyurl.com/2p8788s5
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM (I2/tG)

This is worth a watch. It *could* be performance art

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 02, 2022 10:47 PM (sJHOI)

111 75 I'll sine on the dotted line.
Posted by: Ciampino - is a Cosecant a cutting instrument

Let's not go off on a tangent here!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:34 PM (hOUT3)
----
The parking lot is full but Hilbert has some spaces.

Posted by: Ciampino - Biden is in the 12th dimension at July 02, 2022 10:48 PM (qfLjt)

112 105 Remember, round is a shape.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 02, 2022 10:44 PM (5pTK/)

What about pear shaped?

Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2022 10:48 PM (AmoqO)

113 At a morning press conference, the Attorney General said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement.


I worked near a government facility in East Tennessee for many years.

The running joke post 9-11, was that they had been trying to ferret out any terrorist threats inside the government facilities, and had searched in vain for a terrorist leader, Bin Workin.

But to date they had only located his chief lieutenants, Bin Slackin and Bin Nappin.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 02, 2022 10:49 PM (NSWcw)

114 No Maths!

Posted by: Roberto Duran at July 02, 2022 10:50 PM (oTZbj)

115 I don’t see anything funny about the menace of Al-Gebra. It’s a malign force, led by opisthotonos terroristic leader Cal Q. Lus.

Posted by: Chuck Moss at July 02, 2022 10:51 PM (SzJD4)

116 At that point, you have to wonder when they end the policy of overselling flights.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 02, 2022 10:32 PM (U+Oxn)
* * * *
From what I am hearing, this began with stimulus money that was conditioned on not "firing" airline employees. So the airlines figured out a way to use vaccine mandates and furloughs as a way to reduce the number of employees while still getting Uncle Sugar's money. Employee numbers are way down, and the airlines are still selling seats on flights that they know will not fly because they have no pilots or adequate crew.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 02, 2022 10:51 PM (xT18z)

117 I think if that idiot burglar dies, they should give that old man the skull to put on his front porch to give fair warning to the other natives.

Posted by: Roy at July 02, 2022 10:51 PM (Ti+Tv)

118 I don’t see anything funny about the menace of Al-Gebra. It’s a malign force, led by opisthotonos terroristic leader Cal Q. Lus.
Posted by: Chuck Moss at July 02, 2022 10:51 PM

Surely we're approaching the limit of the math puns now.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 02, 2022 10:52 PM (ftFVW)

119 every south african > every austialian, new zealander, and canadian

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 10:53 PM (d8+wO)

120 Surely we're approaching the limit of the math puns now.
Posted by: She Hobbit

A great sock would have been: Ass M. Tote

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2022 10:54 PM (Msys3)

121 https://youtu.be/xDCIcdD74ro

'night


Posted by: Puddleglum at July 02, 2022 10:54 PM (sAmhv)

122 if somebody is doing that much jaegar they are getting ready for a fattie or over a hottie

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 10:54 PM (d8+wO)

123 >>> 15 Good evening everyone.

Tell me that isn't Jägermeister.

Lie to me if you have to.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2022 10:09 PM (Msys3)

It's Jagdfürst.
https://is.gd/P7Uk9T

Posted by: totally not a knockoff at July 02, 2022 10:55 PM (llON8)

124 in fairness, get back to me when somebody is doing a wingsuit off everest

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 10:55 PM (d8+wO)

125 110 The most Portland example of road rage you'll ever see!

Uber-woke white Karen decides to berate someone for some imagined traffic offense, only to discover to her horror that her belligerent, equally uber-woke opponent has far, far, more intersectionality points than she does.

Watch until the end, so you can check out the bumper stickers on the Karen's car.

http://tinyurl.com/2p8788s5
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 02, 2022 10:24 PM (I2/tG)

This is worth a watch. It *could* be performance art
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 02, 2022 10:47 PM (sJHOI)

Karen is a 1, except it's Rule #1.

Posted by: Roy at July 02, 2022 10:55 PM (Ti+Tv)

126 A great sock would have been: Ass M. Tote
Posted by: Tonypete


Dim N. Sional

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 02, 2022 10:56 PM (hOUT3)

127 Posted by: Roberto Duran at July 02, 2022 10:50 PM (oTZbj)

You were World Champion in four weigh classes dude. That's some math.

Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2022 10:56 PM (AmoqO)

128 We're not making a Western here.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 02, 2022 10:57 PM (vuisn)

129 I believe I would miss my flight for the princely sum of $10,000. Yes, indeedy... since I've had to do it for free a few too many times...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 02, 2022 10:16 PM (xT18z)

Well, since these days I never have to fly anywhere uber important I would jump on the 10K, rent a nice car, drive to where I'm going, get some nice hotel 1 or 2 nights, and a few nice diners, and maybe buy another harley when I got back with the leftover cash. If it were a wedding or funeral (same shit really), I guess it would depend on who died and who is getting married. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 02, 2022 10:58 PM (VwHCD)

130 Hrothgar, How is Conor? I am already looking for some Frenchie Christmas gifts for my grand dog.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 02, 2022 10:59 PM (a4EWo)

131 We're not making a Western here.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 02, 2022 10:57 PM (vuisn)

Why not?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2022 11:00 PM (7bRMQ)

132 Bers, That is so true, getting a death certificate could be tricky though.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 02, 2022 11:01 PM (a4EWo)

133 just another saturday and another thread homer from mh

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 11:02 PM (d8+wO)

134 105 Remember, round is a shape.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 02, 2022 10:44 PM (5pTK/)
----
Back in the 1980s it was fashionable to send someone a round tuit, or similar, if they were procrastinators who always said "I'll get a round to it".
http://tinyurl.com/5n6czckn

Posted by: Ciampino - my slide rule is made from plastic at July 02, 2022 11:02 PM (qfLjt)

135
Quiet day. Mama and the three girls are doing well. Her Majesty is having her zizz until midnight.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2022 11:02 PM (6Mlq5)

136 Why not?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2022 11:00 PM

And then they circled the wagons, pulled out the antique firearms, and began shooting what would become known as the most westerny western of them all: Horde on the Range.

Posted by: Narrator's Voice at July 02, 2022 11:03 PM (ftFVW)

137 In the movie thread we got to mentioning hawt women. Debbie Harry was hawt.

Posted by: Ciampino - I'll get to it Ma at July 02, 2022 11:05 PM (qfLjt)

138 Is this an open thread?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 02, 2022 11:05 PM (DNB4D)

139 Open and shut

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 02, 2022 11:06 PM (63Dwl)

140 In the movie thread we got to mentioning hawt women. Debbie Harry was hawt.

Posted by: Ciampino - I'll get to it Ma at July 02, 2022 11:05 PM (qfLjt)

She's 77 now.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2022 11:06 PM (7bRMQ)

141 139 Open and shut
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. a
=============

You don't know how right your are.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 02, 2022 11:06 PM (DNB4D)

142 Yeah, braenyard. But don't pull on it it it might unravel.

Posted by: RI Red at July 02, 2022 11:07 PM (0tIq3)

143 Matt Christiansen's co-host looks like Debbie Harry.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 02, 2022 11:07 PM (ybIRR)

144 Surely we're approaching the limit of the math puns now.
Posted by: She Hobbit

They'll haul a few more. Ass in tote.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 02, 2022 11:09 PM (ybIRR)

145 136 Why not?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2022 11:00 PM

And then they circled the wagons,

Posted by: Narrator's Voice at July 02, 2022 11:03 PM (ftFVW)
----
Maybe they should have squared the wagons into a circle. (Let's see them do that on television, Folks.)

Posted by: Ciampino - can we triangulate the wagons? at July 02, 2022 11:09 PM (qfLjt)

146 In the movie thread we got to mentioning hawt women. Debbie Harry was hawt.
Posted by: Ciampino - I'll get to it Ma at July 02, 2022 11:05 PM (qfLjt)


Debbie Harry is 77

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2022 11:11 PM (xhaym)

147 Maybe they should have squared the wagons into a circle. (Let's see them do that on television, Folks.)

Posted by: Ciampino - can we triangulate the wagons? at July 02, 2022 11:09 PM (qfLjt)

They darker than us!

Posted by: Indian at July 02, 2022 11:11 PM (7bRMQ)

148 Great content tonight, Mis Hum! Never thought that paragliding off of Mount Everest would be a thing, yet here we are. Good Saturday eve to the 'ettes and 'rons!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at July 02, 2022 11:11 PM (v23vE)

149 Better call skip, it looks like a dead thread.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 02, 2022 11:11 PM (DNB4D)

150 Better call skip, it looks like a dead thread.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 02, 2022 11:11 PM (DNB4D)

Miklos. Miklos. Miklos!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2022 11:13 PM (7bRMQ)

151 I'm going to clean up a little, company coming on Monday, I'll be back later. Wake up people!!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 02, 2022 11:14 PM (a4EWo)

152 The level of the humor is going up and down, up and down, It's a sine I tell you.
In summation we can derive more strength if we integrate the womenfolk with the menfolk. There's no limit what we can achieve.

Posted by: Ciampino - wsa Carter's period Cartesian? at July 02, 2022 11:14 PM (qfLjt)

153 Is this an open thread?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 02, 2022 11:05 PM (DNB4D)

It's closed at 10:10, open on the other end.

Posted by: Methos at July 02, 2022 11:14 PM (kOpft)

154 I like Jaegermeister and Robitussin

Then you might enjoy Fernet Branca.

It tastes, IMO, like Jaeger with a hint of Chloraseptic.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 02, 2022 11:14 PM (NSWcw)

155 Surely we're approaching the limit of the math puns now.
Posted by: She Hobbit

They'll haul a few more. Ass in tote.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 02, 2022 11:09 PM (ybIRR)

We have not yet found the azimuth!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2022 11:14 PM (4I/2K)

156 In the movie thread we got to mentioning hawt women. Debbie Harry was hawt.

Posted by: Ciampino - I'll get to it Ma at July 02, 2022 11:05 PM (qfLjt)

She's 77 now.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2022 11:06 PM (7bRMQ)

I remember when this came on TV. Her wardrobe and generous mid boob was seared in my memory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12w5wykucgk

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 02, 2022 11:15 PM (VwHCD)

157 WTF, closed at 10:04, ugh

Posted by: Methos at July 02, 2022 11:15 PM (kOpft)

158 Debby Harry just didn't do it for me.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2022 11:16 PM (4I/2K)

159 39 25 Transitioned again.
Posted by: Ciampino

Make up your mind, xir!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 02, 2022 10:18 PM (/jQbM)
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Did you just assume my gender?
/s

Posted by: Ciampino - wsa Carter's period Cartesian? at July 02, 2022 11:17 PM (qfLjt)

160 Debby Harry

never a hottie

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 11:20 PM (qXciB)

161 Miklosbot is offline for regularly scheduled maintenance and downgrades

Posted by: Mystislav from Macedonian Maintenance team at July 02, 2022 11:21 PM (thbCK)

162 She's 77 now.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2022 11:06 PM (7bRMQ)

And?

Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2022 11:22 PM (AmoqO)

163 61
Pelosi was on the flight also and the flight attendants discovered, to their horror, that there wasn't enough room for her ego.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2022 10:29 PM (Msys3)
----
More likely not enough booze.

Posted by: Ciampino - was Carter's period Cartesian? at July 02, 2022 11:22 PM (qfLjt)

164 flight also and the flight attendants discovered, to their horror, that there wasn't enough room for her ego

in fairness, she flys private

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 11:22 PM (qXciB)

165 154 I like Jaegermeister and Robitussin

Then you might enjoy Fernet Branca.

It tastes, IMO, like Jaeger with a hint of Chloraseptic.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 02, 2022 11:14 PM (NSWcw)


I like all of those. I also can stomach Malort, but won't drive out of my way for it.

Posted by: Roy at July 02, 2022 11:23 PM (Ti+Tv)

166 I am already looking for some Frenchie Christmas gifts for my grand dog.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz


DDS: Conor is recovering from some unknown liver ailment, and on meds, but his numbers are trending in the right directions, and he is pretty much back to the Conor of old. He mastered the art of convincing me he needs extra attention during this illness.

Conor feels that chew toys with ears are an abomination and enjoys attacking the ears of every stuffed toy I have ever gotten for him. I would bet that your grand dog would appreciate a really sturdy toy with big ears (just got a really nice and well made rabbit for him and he has not been able to de-ear it yet).

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at July 02, 2022 11:23 PM (hOUT3)

167 my freshman year a guy down the hall got everybody's free robitussin and used it to get hammered when he did not have $

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 11:24 PM (qXciB)

168 162 She's 77 now.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2022 11:06 PM (7bRMQ)
And?
Posted by: Javems


I fail to see the problem here!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at July 02, 2022 11:24 PM (hOUT3)

169 I drank one of those the last time I was down at Captain Teebs.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 02, 2022 11:25 PM (Dik5f)

170
Good boy, Conor!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2022 11:25 PM (6Mlq5)

171 73 The Guess Who...


http://tinyurl.com/566dz9zy

Posted by: davidt at July 02, 2022 10:34 PM (oTZbj)
----
Okay, is this like 'whose on First'? because I'm not playing that.

Posted by: Ciampino - Lou was on first at July 02, 2022 11:25 PM (qfLjt)

172 164 flight also and the flight attendants discovered, to their horror, that there wasn't enough room for her ego

in fairness, she flys private

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 11:22 PM (qXciB)

MAC

Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2022 11:26 PM (AmoqO)

173 120 A great sock would have been: Ass M. Tote

i thought they were called fanny packs

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 02, 2022 11:27 PM (I38CQ)

174 And?

Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2022 11:22 PM (AmoqO)

It seemed when New Wave and stuff started in what, late 70s, early 80s, that the bands were younger. Debbie was born when WW2 technically wasn't over. I didn't know she was that old until a few years ago.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2022 11:27 PM (7bRMQ)

175 Debbie Harry is not the apogee of female attractiveness. She is above the geometric mean, granted.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 02, 2022 11:27 PM (4I/2K)

176 my freshman year a guy down the hall got everybody's free robitussin and used it to get hammered when he did not have $
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 11:24 PM

At a party when I was a little, ahem, younger than the drinking age someone gave me something they called an Alabama Slammer (is that legit?). It had cough syrup in it and tasted like shit. But it was free, so there was that.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 02, 2022 11:27 PM (ftFVW)

177 Always liked the Guess Who.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 02, 2022 11:29 PM (DNB4D)

178 Someone actually paid $600 for that compendium of undersized portions of whatever the hell it was?

Was this a parody?

Posted by: irongrampa at July 02, 2022 11:29 PM (KATBx)

179 El Gato Malo's look at the Swedish Birth Rate Data


http://tinyurl.com/mryrejf8

Posted by: Kindltot at July 02, 2022 11:29 PM (xhaym)

180 It seemed when New Wave and stuff started in what, late 70s, early 80s, that the bands were younger. Debbie was born when WW2 technically wasn't over. I didn't know she was that old until a few years ago.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2022 11:27 PM (7bRMQ)

Just messing with you. Dad was home from the war in May of 44.

Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2022 11:30 PM (AmoqO)

181 Blondie's early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Autoamerican came out in '80, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 02, 2022 11:30 PM (Dik5f)

182 106 And now, for all of you teenagers...a cherry bomb!

Posted by: Get off of my lawn at July 02, 2022 10:46 PM (Xrfse)
----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EBvXpjudf8

Posted by: Ciampino - Lou was on first at July 02, 2022 11:31 PM (qfLjt)

183 Evening Horde!!!

just went out and looked at some purple lighting. Pretty cool. worked on revamping my children's book all day. Managed to make MRs. Squirrel mad at me cause I had one or three drinks. Huzzah!

Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of the military SCI FI series Outward Frontier on AMAZON at July 02, 2022 11:34 PM (9mW6C)

184 I'm glad Conor is feel___ better!

Hadrian, I am sorry to hear about the little guy who didn't make it. I hope the girl pups are thriving.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 02, 2022 11:34 PM (/jQbM)

185 Just messing with you. Dad was home from the war in May of 44.

Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2022 11:30 PM (AmoqO)

Either way, she's a product of wartime America, not postwar. Just seemed strange, that's all

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 02, 2022 11:34 PM (7bRMQ)

186 Does anyone ever see red lightning at the beach?
Maybe it's just particular to northeast FL.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 02, 2022 11:35 PM (Dik5f)

187 MAC
Posted by: J


757 baby

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 11:37 PM (S/Jhh)

188 184
vmom: Conor says thanks!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at July 02, 2022 11:37 PM (hOUT3)

189 Take care good people, Hrothgar is out for the night

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at July 02, 2022 11:38 PM (hOUT3)

190 I have dusted, glass surfaces are next, I really like Blondie, if only I looked like Debbie Harry. Back after the glass.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 02, 2022 11:38 PM (a4EWo)

191
I like all of those. I also can stomach Malort, but won't drive out of my way for it.
Posted by: Roy at July 02, 2022 11:23 PM (Ti+Tv)

Same here. I cn stomach it but it's pretty disgusting

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2022 11:38 PM (WF/xn)

192 if only I looked like Debbie Harry


what the hell man, have you seen her?

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 11:39 PM (S/Jhh)

193 I assume it was a Dirac flight?!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 02, 2022 11:40 PM (peWy1)

194 ...The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 02, 2022 11:30 PM



And one could actually hear that Harry was as smooth as a frog down there...

Posted by: Zettai at July 02, 2022 11:40 PM (Qt7Yc)

195 Problem is, those gangbangers will be back. Revenge is part of the "respect" code. Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: esquincle at July 02, 2022 11:41 PM (3Yj85)

196
hope the girl pups are thriving.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

_________

They're fat and happy, thank you. Lined up at the milk bar right now.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 02, 2022 11:41 PM (6Mlq5)

197 186 Does anyone ever see red lightning at the beach?
Maybe it's just particular to northeast FL.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 02, 2022 11:35 PM (Dik5f)

never heard of it. know about white lightning, though.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2022 11:41 PM (r46W7)

198 I was in college and got dumped by my first girlfriend. In the depths of my despair, I wrote the Deborah Harry via the Blondie Fan Club.

She wrote back. Just a postcard, but it was enough.

She may be insane, lately, but I am a fan forever.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 02, 2022 11:41 PM (m0zqP)

199 I was in college and got dumped by my first girlfriend. In the depths of my despair, I wrote the Deborah Harry via the Blondie Fan Club.

She wrote back. Just a postcard, but it was enough.



no she didn't

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 11:42 PM (S/Jhh)

200 US birth rate is dumping. Per WSJ via Musk:
Chart shows we've been below replacement rate since 2008

https://is.gd/yLd6RR


Posted by: Braenyard at July 02, 2022 11:43 PM (DNB4D)

201 no she didn't
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 11:42 PM

Harsh

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 02, 2022 11:44 PM (ftFVW)

202 She did. Trust me, I could tell.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 02, 2022 11:44 PM (m0zqP)

203 Harsh
Posted by: S



somebody has to do it

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 11:45 PM (S/Jhh)

204 Does anyone ever see red lightning at the beach?
Maybe it's just particular to northeast FL.

Posted by: Dr. Varno
--
White lightening is fairly common in N. FL.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2022 11:45 PM (pKbwb)

205 Aged Lhasa Apso
Very sick this morning but
Doing better now

Posted by: Captain Haiku at July 02, 2022 11:47 PM (0pOPf)

206 So, tonight, I decided to do some graphics stuff. I took my Wacom tablet out from where the cat couldn't get to it, and took the pen from the holder. Something distracted me, and when I turned back to my workstation, the pen was gone.

Didn't seem to be anywhere. Certainly nowhere in the last few places I existed.

Fortunately, I have a lot of Wacom tablets and thus a lot of Wacom pens, so I was able to work.

But it made me wonder: Is God a cat?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 02, 2022 11:47 PM (m0zqP)

207 I really like Blondie, if only I looked like Debbie Harry.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

DDS, you are a babe in your own right.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 02, 2022 11:48 PM (Msys3)

208 White lightening is fairly common in N. FL.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 02, 2022 11:45 PM (pKbwb)

Pretty sure I saw a sprite once. Sprites are discharges going straight up from a thundercloud. Was driving, and watching a storm on the horizon. There was a bright downstroke, and a reddish upstroke from the cloud at the exact same moment.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2022 11:49 PM (ftr1N)

209 I guess I liked blondie herself more than the music. Yeah she wasn't a total smoke show, but she oooozed chick. I never met her, but I do have one of her old guitar player's speaker cab. I would like to think she sat her ass on it every so often. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 02, 2022 11:49 PM (VwHCD)

210 Looks like the birth rate dropped precipitously about the same time birth control pills came out.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 02, 2022 11:49 PM (DNB4D)

211 Blondie's early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Autoamerican came out in '80

I have since come to enjoy some of their earlier work, but Autoamerican was so different, to me at least, I didn’t even have anything to compare it to.

It was a lot like my best friend bringing his Walkman to Catholic grade school, telling me “you have to listen to this” and my hearing KISS’s Destroyer for the first time, when I hadn’t yet even heard then-modern rock. No radio of my own, my parents’ was stuck on the country station.

In both cases I was hooked.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 02, 2022 11:50 PM (U+Oxn)

212 Surely we're approaching the limit of the math puns now.
Posted by: She Hobbit

They'll haul a few more. Ass in tote.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 02, 2022 11:09 PM (ybIRR)

The limit does not exist!

Posted by: LASue at July 02, 2022 11:51 PM (Ed8Zd)

213 I guess I liked blondie herself more than the music. Yeah she wasn't a total smoke show, but she oooozed chick. I never met her, but I do have one of her old guitar player's speaker cab. I would like to think she sat her ass on it every so often. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Sometimes there is just something about them. Karen O is like that for me, I don't think she is like insanely hot but she just oozes sexuality charisma and confidence on stage.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2022 11:51 PM (MGB5H)

214 Rapture was the first rap song that went to number one on the charts

No sharts

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2022 11:51 PM (WF/xn)

215 I had a creative writing course in collage. One assignment was to write a letter to a celebrity. You were graded on the letter and whether you got a response. I wrote to Jill St. John (this was probably around 1964 or 5). My letter was full of double entendres, which my youngish female professor liked. Got a good grade on the letter but since I never mailed it, not so much on the response. Just too lazy to go to the post office.

Posted by: Javems at July 02, 2022 11:52 PM (AmoqO)

216 214 Rapture was the first rap song that went to number one on the charts

No sharts
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2022 11:51 PM (WF/xn)

it was the first rap song that went to number one on the charts.

it was the last rap song that was any damn good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2022 11:53 PM (r46W7)

217 Once had a love and it was a gas

Berzerkers speaker smells like my ass

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2022 11:54 PM (WF/xn)

218 El Gato Malo's look at the Swedish Birth Rate Data


http://tinyurl.com/mryrejf8

Progressives: The planet is overpopulated and can really only sustain a couple hundred million people in the long term even though there's 7 or 8 billion now.

Also progressives: Here take this free shot that will protect you from the cold virus that you've got a 99.7% of surviving anyway. Don't worry, it's safe. Government said so.

Posted by: Methos at July 02, 2022 11:54 PM (kOpft)

219 Sometimes there is just something about them. Karen O is like that for me, I don't think she is like insanely hot but she just oozes sexuality charisma and confidence on stage.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2022 11:51 PM (MGB5H)

I had kinda of a thing for Chrissie Hynde, back in the day. You always thought "oh yeah, she'd do it."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 02, 2022 11:55 PM (r46W7)

220

The head of security at SCOTUS calls on the governators of MD and VA to stop the protests outside the justices' homes, and the governators then call on the unrelenting pheggit Garland to do his job -- if I understand the sitch correctly!

I'm surmising that the regime does not want to be seen hindering the mob for some reason...

Posted by: Zettai at July 02, 2022 11:55 PM (o06DH)

221 or clem burke pissed on that cabinet? who knows.

Posted by: esquincle at July 02, 2022 11:55 PM (3Yj85)

222 I had kinda of a thing for Chrissie Hynde, back in the day. You always thought "oh yeah, she'd do it."
Posted by: Tom Servo

I never realized she was so involved with the rise of the Sex Pistols

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 02, 2022 11:57 PM (MGB5H)

223 I should get out my wacom.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 02, 2022 11:57 PM (ybIRR)

224 Always had a crush on Ann Wilson from Heart. Also Terri Nunn

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2022 11:57 PM (WF/xn)

225 had a creative writing course in collage. One assignment was to write a letter to a celebrity. You were graded on the letter and whether you got a response. I wrote to Jill St. John (this was probably around 1964 or 5). My letter was full of double entendres, which my youngish female professor liked. Got a good grade on the letter but since I never mailed it, not so much on the response. Just too lazy to go to the post office.



there was a comeidannette doing a bit about how she was an english teacher, assigned the students to write something romantic, then some student wrote about doing her

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 02, 2022 11:58 PM (qXciB)

226 Once had a love and it was a gas

Berzerkers speaker smells like my ass

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2022 11:54 PM (WF/xn)

Well not any more. I owned it for a while so her ass print unfortunately had been definitely over sprayed a few times. I got a pretty graphic story of that cab, a chick, and my old bass player. In that instance it didn't involve me, but just damn...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 02, 2022 11:59 PM (VwHCD)

227 Looks like the birth rate dropped precipitously about the same time birth control pills came out.

Thank goodness for that.

It allowed women to leave the fulfilling, enriching exercise of having and raising children so that they could focus on working for soulless corporations doing unrewarding and meaningless work whilst putting downward pressure on their husbands' salary requirements to the point of necessitating a two income household.

It's really worked out well.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 03, 2022 12:01 AM (NSWcw)

228 Always had a crush on Ann Wilson from Heart. Also Terri Nunn

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 02, 2022 11:57 PM (WF/xn)

Terri Nunn back in the day was special.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 03, 2022 12:01 AM (VwHCD)

229 Okay:

Pants off!
Underwear off!
PJ's on!
Time for a plate of pizza rolls and Mark Felton youtube videos.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 03, 2022 12:01 AM (P7EjO)

230 Well, I had a busy workshop day today. Cloudy and a little cool, good day to work outside. I am rendering out my '98 Dodge Dakota pickup, with a plan to possibly put a Studebaker pickup cab and box on the chassis. The Dodge box and front fenders and cab are all rusted out.

Pickup box is off, and is now placed in a convenient place to act as my scrap iron bin. Front fenders are off, as is the hood. Doors are off, seats out, and the dash is mostly out. Found about 40 cents in change.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2022 12:03 AM (ftr1N)

231 I noticed something, but it could be my imagination:

Looks like the pro-choice demonstrators are now purposefully putting a few normal looking women in front.

The ones who fit the conservative, pro-life stereotype of them-- green hair; 50 lbs overweight; lots of tats & body piercing-- have been displaced from leading their street theatre.

Like I say, it could be my imagination.

Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2022 12:03 AM (NLIak)

232 >>> 227 Looks like the birth rate dropped precipitously about the same time birth control pills came out.

Thank goodness for that.

It allowed women to leave the fulfilling, enriching exercise of having and raising children so that they could focus on working for soulless corporations doing unrewarding and meaningless work whilst putting downward pressure on their husbands' salary requirements to the point of necessitating a two income household.

It's really worked out well.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 03, 2022 12:01 AM (NSWcw)

Think of the income tax revenue!

Posted by: leftists at July 03, 2022 12:04 AM (llON8)

233 >>> [birth control pills] It allowed women to leave the fulfilling, enriching exercise of having and raising children so that they could focus on working for soulless corporations doing unrewarding and meaningless work whilst putting downward pressure on their husbands' salary requirements to the point of necessitating a two income household.

It's really worked out well.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
------------------------------

Conspiratorial it is.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2022 12:06 AM (DNB4D)

234 231 I noticed something, but it could be my imagination:

Looks like the pro-choice demonstrators are now purposefully putting a few normal looking women in front.

The ones who fit the conservative, pro-life stereotype of them-- green hair; 50 lbs overweight; lots of tats & body piercing-- have been displaced from leading their street theatre.

Like I say, it could be my imagination.
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2022 12:03 AM (NLIak)

Even they can take that sight for only so long.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 03, 2022 12:06 AM (P7EjO)

235 Before Blondie, Deborah Harry did a LOT of modeling for punk rock 'Zines.

She was really all tarted up for those shoots.

Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2022 12:07 AM (NLIak)

236
Those creepy Georgia Guidestones (look that up if not familiar) lay out the plans of the elites nicely. They want to reduce the earth's human population to 500 million and maintain that through controlled breeding. Eugenics.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 12:08 AM (Mzdiz)

237 Like I say, it could be my imagination.
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2022 12:03 AM (NLIak)

Even they can take that sight for only so long.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 03, 2022 12:06 AM

Maybe Karen just got tired of being in back. You can't speak to the manager from way back there.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 03, 2022 12:08 AM (ftFVW)

238 Found about 40 cents in change.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
------

Save the copper pennies...if there are any.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 03, 2022 12:08 AM (BlQBM)

239 Tonypete, You sweet talker, you, glass surfaces are cleaned I am on to vacuuming. I used to go to a lot of clubs in the late seventies early eighties, Blondie was mandatory for having a good time. I thought Debby Harry was quite beautiful at that time, like I said, wish that I looked like her.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 03, 2022 12:09 AM (a4EWo)

240 "My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril.

Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now."
- Brandon

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 03, 2022 12:09 AM (BQwGr)

241 237 Like I say, it could be my imagination.
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2022 12:03 AM (NLIak)

Even they can take that sight for only so long.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 03, 2022 12:06 AM

Maybe Karen just got tired of being in back. You can't speak to the manager from way back there.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 03, 2022 12:08 AM (ftFVW)

The view from the back cannot be pretty.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 03, 2022 12:09 AM (P7EjO)

242 Think of the income tax revenue!

Posted by: leftists at July 03, 2022 12:04 AM (llON


Psst. Here's the plan:

We'll tell them that their men are having fun roofing houses, digging ditches and plumbing sewer lines and that it's unfair they are stuck at home.

We'll call it "Focusing on your career" instead of what it really is, doing the bidding of corporatists.

It'll work I tell ya.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 03, 2022 12:10 AM (NSWcw)

243 Save the copper pennies...if there are any.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 03, 2022 12:08 AM (BlQBM)

There are a few. Don't know how many are pure or mostly pure copper; have to check the dates.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2022 12:10 AM (ftr1N)

244 The view from the back cannot be pretty.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 03, 2022 12:09 AM

Hadn't crossed my mind... until now.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 03, 2022 12:11 AM (ftFVW)

245 Those creepy Georgia Guidestones (look that up if not familiar) lay out the plans of the elites nicely. They want to reduce the earth's human population to 500 million and maintain that through controlled breeding. Eugenics.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 12:08 AM (Mzdiz)

I am surprised that somebody has not "fixed" those with a case or two of dynamite.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2022 12:12 AM (ftr1N)

246 I kinda had a thing about Pat Benatar when a young man. She had a bad girl look that I liked.

Posted by: Javems at July 03, 2022 12:12 AM (AmoqO)

247 Well, I had a busy workshop day today. Cloudy and a little cool, good day to work outside. I am rendering out my '98 Dodge Dakota pickup, with a plan to possibly put a Studebaker pickup cab and box on the chassis. The Dodge box and front fenders and cab are all rusted out.


Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2022 12:03 AM (ftr1N)

I'm sensing something Mad Max Fury Road here. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 03, 2022 12:12 AM (VwHCD)

248 Jaeger shots? No thanks.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2022 12:13 AM (dNqv+)

249 >> I am surprised that somebody has not "fixed" those

There have been a few attempted fixes. Defacing, etc. I imagine they are as protected now as Area 51.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 12:13 AM (Mzdiz)

250 When I was a young man, not her. Obviously.

Posted by: Javems at July 03, 2022 12:13 AM (AmoqO)

251 I kinda had a thing about Pat Benatar when a young man. She had a bad girl look that I liked.

Posted by: Javems at July 03, 2022 12:12 AM (AmoqO)

Yes she did.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 03, 2022 12:13 AM (VwHCD)

252 Trump: USA energy independent. Gas
Biden: $6.00 gas and rising.

Fuck you Biden!

Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 03, 2022 12:13 AM (P7EjO)

253 You could make a case that The Who are now The Guess Who. Daltrey and Townsend and guess who?
And nobody knew Debbie Harry was as old as she was, just like nobody knew Ric Ocasek was as old as he was. New bands at that time were expected to be 25 or younger. The Stones were considered amazing cause they could still rock at the advanced age of 35.

Posted by: azjaeger at July 03, 2022 12:14 AM (3/XaG)

254 Those creepy Georgia Guidestones (look that up if not familiar) lay out the plans of the elites nicely. They want to reduce the earth's human population to 500 million and maintain that through controlled breeding. Eugenics.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 12:08 AM (Mzdiz)

I heard it was Ted Turner who had those put up. Is that true?

You and I aren't breeders, but I plan on surviving. Which is why I want to get in shape

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 12:14 AM (Mzdiz)

255 AOP, when you get busy you get it done.

It took the plumber 4 1/2 hrs. to install a dishwasher that was prepped and waiting plus a new kitchen faucet.

Giving him his due, every valve, water line and connector had to be replaced. And they were all corroded into one piece. One of the nipples he replaced had about a 1/4" id.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2022 12:15 AM (DNB4D)

256 It'll work I tell ya.


"It's not working. They are still breeding like rabbits. The appeal of sex is too strong."

"Tell them sex will kill you! They'll be too petrified to have sex!"


Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 03, 2022 12:16 AM (NSWcw)

257 *waves to Miley*

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 03, 2022 12:16 AM (BQwGr)

258 I'm sensing something Mad Max Fury Road here. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 03, 2022 12:12 AM (VwHCD)

Naw, more like donor chassis for a resto-mod. Leave the patina on the Stude cab and box, set them on the Dakota frame and running gear. It's a 4 cylinder with 5-speed, and would get about 20 miles per gallon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2022 12:16 AM (ftr1N)

259 >>> You and I aren't breeders, but I plan on surviving. Which is why I want to get in shape
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess
-------------------

Been thinking about ways to encourage youngsters to get married and have babies.
'

Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2022 12:16 AM (DNB4D)

260 Hey SMH!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 12:19 AM (Mzdiz)

261
The Guidestones were set up by a "mysterious man" using the pseudonym "Robert C. Christian". That name was sarcastic mockery. Because the group he represented was sort of the opposite of Christian. In line the Adversary of Christianity you might surmise.

When they unveiled them in 1980, they had a ceremony there of a few hundred people. Who they were and and all that is secret, of course.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 12:19 AM (Mzdiz)

262 Past 2200 here; time for me to get some shuteye. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2022 12:19 AM (ftr1N)

263 "Sir, we still have reports of rampant breeding in younger generations where the urge is strongest."

"Start younger. Tell the parents to put them on birth control in high school.

And start promoting homosexual stuff, that should shave off a few percentage points.

Also, tell the boys to lay off of meat and load up on sugar, it'll lower their testosterone levels."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 03, 2022 12:19 AM (NSWcw)

264 Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now."
- Brandon
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 03, 2022 12:09 AM (BQwGr)

We'll take the same size cut you get, Big Guy. Gas will be $9 a gallon.

Posted by: The Oil Companies at July 03, 2022 12:19 AM (cupoy)

265 'Night, Horde, hugs to SMH and Miley, too tired to hang around anymore.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 03, 2022 12:19 AM (a4EWo)

266 Like I say, it could be my imagination.
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2022 12:03 AM (NLIak)

Running away with you?

Posted by: The Temptations at July 03, 2022 12:20 AM (4I/2K)

267 Been thinking about ways to encourage youngsters to get married and have babies.
'
Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2022 12:16 AM

Encourage situations that cause young women to hold babies. Having a little squishy in their arms will convince many of them.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 03, 2022 12:20 AM (ftFVW)

268 Been thinking about ways to encourage youngsters to get married and have babies.
'

Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2022 12:16 AM (DNB4D)

After they're forced to flee the cities, a lot will change.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 12:20 AM (Mzdiz)

269 Good night, Debby!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 12:20 AM (Mzdiz)

270 Niters, DDS.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 03, 2022 12:20 AM (BQwGr)

271 ...When they unveiled them in 1980, they had a ceremony there of a few hundred people. Who they were and and all that is secret, of course.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 12:19 AM



Why Georgia? Why not some place more significant?

Sounds like the stones belong in Turtle Bay...

Posted by: Zettai at July 03, 2022 12:21 AM (FadSd)

272 So I'm learning about canning. Any canners here?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 12:22 AM (Mzdiz)

273 Watched the video of 1979's top 70 hits. I did not recognize or have any memory of 29 of the songs. Don't know what to make of that. Would have thought I had at least heard all of them.

Posted by: cfo mom at July 03, 2022 12:22 AM (Q8bDL)

274 "We're seeing progress, sir. We have them below replacement levels."

"Not good enough, Number 2. We must drive rates lower. Focus the males on computers and video games.

And let's start the All Men Are Rapists campaign, that'll make them think twice.

And where is that file on the Transgenderism? Has our research department made any headway?"

"People still think it's weird, sir."

"Get me the head of Disney on the phone."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 03, 2022 12:22 AM (NSWcw)

275 You math terrorists, I hate you. Like I hate my neighbor right now whose little Jack Russel is going to have a heart attack over the local fireworks madness.

Damn it, give me peace!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 03, 2022 12:23 AM (0ocXn)

276 One of the weirdest things about the last few years is that if I was running a giant society wide campaign to make regular people hate the establishment, experts, and elites and their political spokespeople and visible ideology I would have them do pretty much exactly what they have done. None of this makes any sense by historical standards of how tyrannical systems have taken over countries.

Posted by: azjaeger at July 03, 2022 12:24 AM (3/XaG)

277 Damn it, give me peace!
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 03, 2022 12:23 AM

If you go on and on about people will think you're irrational.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 03, 2022 12:26 AM (ftFVW)

278 Suzi Quatro was sorta cute way back when

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 03, 2022 12:26 AM (WF/xn)

279 276 One of the weirdest things about the last few years is that if I was running a giant society wide campaign to make regular people hate the establishment, experts, and elites and their political spokespeople and visible ideology I would have them do pretty much exactly what they have done. None of this makes any sense by historical standards of how tyrannical systems have taken over countries.
Posted by: azjaeger at July 03, 2022 12:24 AM (3/XaG)

it's a pretty good match for how the French Aristo's lost their heads.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2022 12:26 AM (r46W7)

280 Evening.
Went to Safeway, bought a large package of ground beef on sale for $4/pound. Sadly, when I opened it up, quite a bit of brown inside. Great....

Posted by: SFGoth at July 03, 2022 12:26 AM (KAi1n)

281 Also progressives: Here take this free shot that will protect you from the cold virus that you've got a 99.7% of surviving anyway. Don't worry, it's safe. Government said so.
Posted by: Methos at July 02, 2022 11:54 PM (kOpft)


Dr Mattias Desmet has said that a mass formation tends to go from crisis to crisis to find a way of reacting to them, until the panic burns itself out, or the people in it turn on each other
I would worry if I were someone driving the panic for my own goals to suddenly see the next target is logically me

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2022 12:26 AM (xhaym)

282 Monkey Pox!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 03, 2022 12:27 AM (63Dwl)

283 280 Evening.
Went to Safeway, bought a large package of ground beef on sale for $4/pound. Sadly, when I opened it up, quite a bit of brown inside. Great....
Posted by: SFGoth at July 03, 2022 12:26 AM (KAi1n)

Hey! They browned it for you!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2022 12:28 AM (dNqv+)

284

Maybe it's not beef...

Posted by: Zettai at July 03, 2022 12:28 AM (FadSd)

285 *It allowed women to leave the fulfilling, enriching exercise of having and raising children so that they could focus on working for soulless corporations doing unrewarding and meaningless work whilst putting downward pressure on their husbands' salary requirements to the point of necessitating a two income household.*

^^^This.

Well put BC.

Posted by: cfo mom at July 03, 2022 12:30 AM (Q8bDL)

286 None of this makes any sense by historical standards of how tyrannical systems have taken over countries.

Posted by: azjaeger at July 03, 2022 12:24 AM (3/XaG)

They got technology this time, and seduced us with it. The only way to save the world is to destroy the technology. Read "A Canticle For Leibowitz."

In the book, the people who survived killed the scientists and anyone who could be blamed for the nukes. In our time, it'll probably be the medical establishment, pharma folks and the gummint.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 12:30 AM (Mzdiz)

287 Just thought of something. Anyone seen the Cuomo brothers ?

Hahhahahah

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 03, 2022 12:30 AM (WF/xn)

288 it's a pretty good match for how the French Aristo's lost their heads.

Agree. And I don't know how much things implode before it happens, but wokies\"intellectuals are a pretty good match for the French revolutionaries, who didn't remain in control for very long before Napoleon stepped up and made himself Emperor.

Posted by: azjaeger at July 03, 2022 12:30 AM (3/XaG)

289 "Sir, I think we've done it. Replacement levels have plummeted. People largely think of sex as pleasurable and not reproductive. Parents are chemically castrating their children and permanently destroying their reproductive organs with puberty blockers and reconstructive surgery."

"Excellent."

"But sir, if I may ask, who will roof the houses, plumb the sewer lines and dig the ditches?"

"Don't worry, Number 2. We already thought of that. We have replaced the higher IQ American population with foreigners who don't speak the language, understand the government or understand the culture or their rights."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 03, 2022 12:31 AM (NSWcw)

290

Freddo's been seen in Ukistan recently...

Posted by: Zettai at July 03, 2022 12:31 AM (FadSd)

291 >> Why Georgia? Why not some place more significant?

Elberton is sometimes called the Granite capital of the world. It's home to the Elberton Granite Finishing Co., which does granite monuments and stuff.

"Robert Christian" approached the company with some specifications and requirements for this thing. They thought he was some kind of a nut, and so quoted him some ridiculous price many times higher than they most expensive projects they'd ever done.

To their surprise, their offer was accepted quickly.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 12:32 AM (Mzdiz)

292 There were engineers before there was electricity.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 12:33 AM (Mzdiz)

293 So I'm learning about canning. Any canners here?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 12:22 AM (Mzdiz)


Whatis your question, Miley

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2022 12:34 AM (xhaym)

294 Maybe it's not beef...
Posted by: Zettai

They wouldn't advertise 80/20 if it weren't beef. I'll take it back tomorrow, but I was hoping for a legit good deal. Yeah, yeah.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 03, 2022 12:35 AM (KAi1n)

295 273 Watched the video of 1979's top 70 hits. I did not recognize or have any memory of 29 of the songs. Don't know what to make of that. Would have thought I had at least heard all of them.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 03, 2022 12:22 AM (Q8bDL)

I obviously wasted a lot more time and money on music. Most of those albums - especially The Ramones, the Police, the B-52's, the Pretenders - I bought the day the albums were released. Just scanned it, and only ones I didn't know were a couple of obscure disco songs. Other than those, that was the soundtrack to my life.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2022 12:36 AM (r46W7)

296 They got technology this time, and seduced us with it.
I keep thinking about the sheer ridiculous crap coming out of the establishment now and remembering the Nazis sitting in Berlin in early April 45, who published a newspaper to be handed out all about how the people of Berlin were going to rise up and defeat the Russians and win the war, while the people could see the Americans and British were bombing every day and the Russians were beginning to shell the city with artillery.

Posted by: azjaeger at July 03, 2022 12:36 AM (3/XaG)

297 Portland vid was funny.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 03, 2022 12:36 AM (KAi1n)

298 SFGoth, it is not unusual for ground beef, especially that "inside" or away from the surface, to appear brown due to metmyoglobin. Myoglobin in the meat, in contact with oxygen, becomes oxymyoglobin, which accounts for the red color of meat. Insufficient partial pressure of oxygen, as inside a volume of ground beef, can produce metmyoglobin, which is brown.

Nothing necessarily wrong, or "old", about that beef.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 03, 2022 12:37 AM (OTzUX)

299 Agree. And I don't know how much things implode before it happens, but wokies\"intellectuals are a pretty good match for the French revolutionaries, who didn't remain in control for very long before Napoleon stepped up and made himself Emperor.
Posted by: azjaeger at July 03, 2022 12:30 AM (3/XaG)

So were the original Bolsheviks. I now understand that although Stalin was evil incarnate, he wasn't completely wrong in his plan to execute all of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2022 12:38 AM (r46W7)

300 There were engineers before there was electricity.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 12:33 AM (Mzdiz)

Are you in league with The James Madison to promote Prometheus now?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2022 12:38 AM (4I/2K)

301 212 Surely we're approaching the limit of the math puns now.
Posted by: She Hobbit

They'll haul a few more. Ass in tote.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 02, 2022 11:09 PM (ybIRR)

The limit does not exist!

Posted by: LASue at July 02, 2022 11:51 PM (Ed8Zd)
----
It may exist but go form -∞ to +∞

Posted by: Ciampino - outer limits? at July 03, 2022 12:38 AM (qfLjt)

302 Does it smell bad?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2022 12:38 AM (dNqv+)

303 I do a lot of canning Miley. Meats, veggies, pickles. Don't do jams and jellies.

Posted by: cfo mom at July 03, 2022 12:38 AM (Q8bDL)

304

One just never knows with mince -- it's always a risky proposition...

Cook it and eat it because history favours the bold!

Posted by: Zettai at July 03, 2022 12:39 AM (FadSd)

305 I kinda had a thing about Pat Benatar when a young man. She had a bad girl look that I liked.

Posted by: Javems

Pat Benatar was never a young man.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 03, 2022 12:39 AM (KAi1n)

306 I bought a keyboard at a yard sale today, it has the click and feel of the old IBM keyboards which is why I bought it, but it is a gamers' keyboard, a Razer Black Widow.
The keys have green LEDs under them that wink on and off randomly.
It is a good quick keyboard, but the LEDs are distracting me

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2022 12:39 AM (xhaym)

307 Aetius with the correct follow-up I forgot. Aroma is usually a better guide to meat condition than red/brown.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 03, 2022 12:39 AM (OTzUX)

308 One just never knows with mince -- it's always a risky proposition...

Cook it and eat it because history favours the bold!
Posted by: Zettai at July 03, 2022 12:39 AM (FadSd)

Mmmm. Beef Stroganoff.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2022 12:40 AM (dNqv+)

309 Here is my lucky to be alive story: My mom, my sister and I were going in our Thunderbird along a straight two-lane stretch of highway in the Florida panhandle. My mom was driving at her usual 80-90+ mph. I was in the passenger seat, and my sister was in the back seat. We were behind a truck and my mom decided to pass it, even though we could see a car in the distance coming the other way. When we were passing the truck, it became apparent that the other car was coming at us also at a high speed. My sister started screaming from the back seat. We had almost made it past the truck when the other car (which happened to also be a Thunderbird) skidded sideways in front of us and in front of the truck, and somehow ended up backwards in a ditch. When we we got out of our car, we found that the other car had made a dent the size of a softball in our right front when it skidded by us. That was close.

Posted by: Theodore at July 03, 2022 12:40 AM (GJnvT)

310 cfo Mom, do you know anything about pulling pectin out of green apples?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2022 12:40 AM (xhaym)

311 Should have socked that as Julius Caesar. Or Attila the Hun. Either would have fit the métier.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2022 12:42 AM (dNqv+)

312 Hrothgar, congrats on another first.

Posted by: Theodore at July 03, 2022 12:42 AM (GJnvT)

313 307 Aetius with the correct follow-up I forgot. Aroma is usually a better guide to meat condition than red/brown.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 03, 2022 12:39 AM (OTzUX)

it works with people too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2022 12:43 AM (r46W7)

314 it works with people too.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2022 12:43 AM (r46W7)

Hah!

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2022 12:43 AM (dNqv+)

315 Kindltot - I don't can fruit. Usually dehydrate. Sorry I am no help.

Posted by: cfo mom at July 03, 2022 12:43 AM (Q8bDL)

316
Miley was looking up canning squash. How incompetent is the US govt. now? They don't have recommendations for canning squash, and advise against it. "It's unsafe".

In the '80s the USDA started reviewing and revising all the guidelines. The squash procedure didn't reproduce well under testing. Too many failures. They then tried to find the previous records and documentation for that procedure. They couldn't find it -- they had lost it.

So they gave up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 12:43 AM (Mzdiz)

317 Kindltot,
Google the keyboard to see how to turn the leds off or to a steady on. I have similar style keyboard and I can adjust the lights by hitting function plus the keys that show brightness or a different key to change the light colors/flashing feature.

Posted by: lin-duh at July 03, 2022 12:45 AM (UUBmN)

318 >>>If you go on and on about people will think you're irrational.

Posted by: She Hobbit

>It could be all imaginary in which case, I think and therefore I am a figment of your wife's sexual desires.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 03, 2022 12:45 AM (0ocXn)

319 http://tinyurl.com/3mry89fs

Extract Your Own PECTIN From APPLES! (Homemade Pectin Recipe) | Kitchen Instruments

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2022 12:47 AM (dNqv+)

320 Nothing necessarily wrong, or "old", about that beef.
Posted by: rhomboid

Ok, but you're not getting any of my stuff if I die.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 03, 2022 12:48 AM (KAi1n)

321 Have you seen the Terri Nunn audition clips for Star Wars?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 03, 2022 12:49 AM (Dik5f)

322 The USDA has not been granted any funds to conduct any "safe canning" tests since sometime in the 1950's. That is why there are so many foods that they say are unsafe to can. It is because they have not been able to do scientific trials and do not want to say "yeah, go ahead".

I have canned many items they have not cleared - bacon, sausage, butter and yes, squash.

Posted by: cfo mom at July 03, 2022 12:52 AM (Q8bDL)

323 Tis time.
Goodnite, good people. Be safe and sleep well.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 03, 2022 12:54 AM (KATBx)

324 First of the month, public benefits paid, long holiday weekend, junkies looking for smack, and some dealer dropped a new package nearby. You can see the product spread throughout the hobo community, and it's strangely fascinating how everyone searches for "safe" places to shoot up; apartment vestibules, narrow alleys behind garages, under bushes by fences, etc. Very territorial and repetitive. Just because you've chased people off private property two weeks ago doesn't mean they won't try again and again.

Good thing Minneapolis has so many permanent bike and bus lanes though, and our transit stations are safe and clean.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 03, 2022 12:55 AM (4NlP1)

325
So, all the trillions and trillions borrowed and printed, and they can't even do some basic canning research.

I suspect there's a reason why. May be as simple as Big Food doesn't want people doing their preservation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 12:56 AM (Mzdiz)

326 Night IGP.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2022 12:57 AM (dNqv+)

327 Walter, I am left wondering how much of that is real, how much is hyperbole, and how much is sarc.

Posted by: cfo mom at July 03, 2022 12:58 AM (Q8bDL)

328 The USDA has not been granted any funds to conduct any "safe canning" tests since sometime in the 1950's. That is why there are so many foods that they say are unsafe to can. It is because they have not been able to do scientific trials and do not want to say "yeah, go ahead".

I have canned many items they have not cleared - bacon, sausage, butter and yes, squash.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 03, 2022 12:52 AM (Q8bDL)

Send the Bobs in to ask the USDA honchos what is it that they do there.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2022 12:58 AM (4I/2K)

329 per my ball blue book, puree your winter squash, leave an inch headspace in the jar, add 1 tsp salt to each quart, and pressure can: Pints one hour and five minutes, quarts one hour and 15 minutes at 10 lbs pressure

try online for extension services, Mississippi has a PDF for canning online
https://extension.msstate.edu/blog/
home-canning-where-do-i-start

Oregon State University only has a phone app which is . . . My tax dollars at work

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2022 12:58 AM (xhaym)

330

I will ltry that Lin-duh, I was mostly just glad I don't have epilepsy

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2022 01:01 AM (xhaym)

331 Unsatisfactory sirloin outcome this evening.

Edible but not what we wanted.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 03, 2022 01:02 AM (Jzz++)

332 I bought a keyboard at a yard sale today, it has the click and feel of the old IBM keyboards which is why I bought it, but it is a gamers' keyboard
Posted by: Kindltot

At first I'm thinking along the lines of Casio (what I have), Korg, Roland, Yamaha.

Then when I read "click and feel of the old", I started thinking that it's more of an organ or organ emulator

But "IBM keyboards" threw me for a loop (since when did IBM make keyboards?)

And "gamers' keyboard" finally informed me that I was thinking of something else.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 03, 2022 01:05 AM (KAi1n)

333 Sadly real, cfo mom. I haven't been particularly nice or patient today either. My stare silenced a few people before they could finish their first sentence. Not buying anyone's jive bullshit. One guy tried kicking a fence gate open in panic since I blocked the only way out. Funny 'cause I wasn't threatening him and was happy to bounce him without a fight. I guess maybe I'm developing a reputation.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 03, 2022 01:08 AM (4NlP1)

334 Wow, Walter, that was really cool what you wrote (about the dope). It could totally be the narration to a film noir movie.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 03, 2022 01:09 AM (KAi1n)

335
Modern keyboards are basically crap, now. I've looked at some of those trying to recreate the old IBM models. If anyone knows of a good one, let me know.

I got my mother a new system a few months ago. The keyboard was a piece of shit. Tiny little thing that was unusable. Got a USB to PS/2 adapter and used the old one she was used to.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 01:09 AM (Mzdiz)

336 Whatis your question, Miley

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2022 12:34 AM (xhaym)

Sorry, I got distracted. I was wondering why you couldn't pressure can mashed squash. Actually, 3 parts squash, 1 part zucchini, and some chopped onion.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 01:09 AM (Mzdiz)

337 SFGoth, the old IBM computer keyboards used an extra long spring that would compress and the buckle under pressure giving the feel of a Selectric keyboard. It has a very noticeable feel and sound when each key 'breaks'
The modern keyboards are soggy and soapy in comparison

It is not an organ emulator, but it has a very sensual feel to those of us who started out typing on them

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2022 01:10 AM (xhaym)

338
This is summer squash, btw, not winter.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 01:11 AM (Mzdiz)

339 I do a lot of canning Miley. Meats, veggies, pickles. Don't do jams and jellies.

Posted by: cfo mom at July 03, 2022 12:38 AM (Q8bDL)

I would love to have a canning guru! Write to me! Email in nick.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 01:12 AM (Mzdiz)

340 Sorry, I got distracted. I was wondering why you couldn't pressure can mashed squash. Actually, 3 parts squash, 1 part zucchini, and some chopped onion.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 01:09 AM (Mzdiz)


Why would you want to? To each their own but mashed squash? Yeech. Reminds me of my mom making squash when I was a kid. Thinking about it makes my stomach churn 50 years later.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 03, 2022 01:14 AM (Jzz++)

341 miley I posted something above for pureed squash. The rule of thumb to be totally safe, is to can to the specs of the component with the highest pressure or longest time.

However, cold process canning for beans or raw pork is 10 lbs for an hour and fifteen minutes for pints, and that should put paid to any botulism

There are old ball canning books PDF online that have the old recipes in them, and some of the extension services like Mississippi have them as well

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2022 01:15 AM (xhaym)

342 Why would you want to? To each their own but mashed squash? Yeech. Reminds me of my mom making squash when I was a kid. Thinking about it makes my stomach churn 50 years later.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 03, 2022 01:14 AM (Jzz++)

Excuse me, but this is what my man and his people eat. It's quite good, with garden squash.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 01:17 AM (Mzdiz)

343 316 That canning question, you can try
https://extension.illinois.edu/search

Posted by: Ciampino -- at July 03, 2022 01:17 AM (qfLjt)

344 Excuse me, but this is what my man and his people eat. It's quite good, with garden squash.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 01:17 AM (Mzdiz)

No offense intended.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 03, 2022 01:18 AM (Jzz++)

345
This is yellow summer squash. There's all kinds of squash. Cook it in slices with chopped onion, then add bacon grease, salt and pepper to taste.

Fresh out of the garden is no comparison to the low grade crap sold in the grocery stores now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 01:19 AM (Mzdiz)

346 Publius, the Razer Black Widow Ultimate gaming keyboard.
Logitech makes a decent one too, but it is kind of sodden in how it types.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2022 01:20 AM (xhaym)

347 No offense taken, Pete Bog. I was feigning outrage.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 01:20 AM (Mzdiz)

348 Jack Benny used to refer to old Milton Berle films in archive as "Canned Ham."

Hey.. no pressure there! *rimshot*


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 03, 2022 01:22 AM (tkOps)

349 337 SFGoth, the old IBM computer keyboards used an extra long spring that would compress and the buckle under pressure giving the feel of a Selectric keyboard. It has a very noticeable feel and sound when each key 'breaks'
The modern keyboards are soggy and soapy in comparison

It is not an organ emulator, but it has a very sensual feel to those of us who started out typing on them
Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2022 01:10 AM (xhaym)

Razer gaming keyboards, still have that feel.

Expensive, but the only ones I use on my desktop.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 03, 2022 01:22 AM (oHd/0)

350
Thanks. I will look. I've never really paid attention to "gaming keyboards" or gaming-anything, figuring it was about features specific to that or something.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 01:25 AM (Mzdiz)

351 In retrospect probably a greater reflection on the creamed squash recipe than the vegetables themselves.

That and Lima beans. Horrific. Otherwise Mom could cook.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 03, 2022 01:25 AM (Jzz++)

352 Miley, will shoot you an email tomorrow. I need to get in the sack. I would be happy to help you. no guru here, but I've been canning a long time and haven't killed anyone, yet. ;-D

Posted by: cfo mom at July 03, 2022 01:26 AM (Q8bDL)

353
Jack Benny. One of the funniest of the greats of the old era, when America was still America.

He had just about the best comedic timing of anyone.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 01:26 AM (Mzdiz)

354 Good night, Horde.

Posted by: Theodore at July 03, 2022 01:28 AM (GJnvT)

355 Fresh out of the garden is no comparison to the low grade crap sold in the grocery stores now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 01:19 AM (Mzdiz)


Pretty much applies to all produce in grocery store aisles today. I've never grown them, but I've noticed bananas have a metallic taste to them now which is very off-putting. Also very little actual banana flavor.

Creating veggies for shipping/shelf life stability has definitely had an impact in the taste area -- as in no taste.

Posted by: RickZ at July 03, 2022 01:29 AM (ldL4g)

356 Pete Bog. Condolences on your Sirloin. It happens.

That said, I'll daresay that as far as the skillet arena for cooking a perfect Sirloin, I'm pretty sure to come up with the Gold Medal on that one.

No, not skillet/oven or other variations thereof.

Skillet. Stovetop. Beginning to end. I can grill a nice Sirloin, to be sure. But I can cook one in a skillet that'll be even better.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 03, 2022 01:29 AM (tkOps)

357 Razer gaming keyboards, still have that feel.
Expensive, but the only ones I use on my desktop.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 03, 2022 01:22 AM (oHd/0)


I bought one today at a garage sale for $5

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2022 01:31 AM (xhaym)

358 Moreve left the band in late 1968 when he refused to fly back to California at that time, fearing it would sink into the Pacific Ocean after an imminent earthquake. via thisdayinmusic.com

There's a big difference between wishing and fearing. Actually, I wish Sacramento would fall onto DC. I mean, it's raining anchovies in San Fran, and that's sad for the anchovies.
*****
Disco Debbie? I don't think I've heard that song before. Former Playboy bunny? *cracks knuckles, prepares to use my search-fu*

Evening, y'all. Nice musical selections tonight, Mis Hum.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 03, 2022 01:31 AM (F0YaR)

359 Little has a Cherry MX keyboard on his system. Probably about four years old now. Great feel and takes a pounding. I bought it because he could change the LED color to match his system. He liked the demo mode out of the box, which strobes from green, to blue, to red, and never bothered to lock in a color. I curse him everytime I have to use it...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 03, 2022 01:34 AM (bUGMk)

360 Keychron has some affordable clicky keyboards with and without colored gamer backlighting, and a variety of layout and click intensity options. Mac keycaps available too. Would recommend.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 03, 2022 01:35 AM (4NlP1)

361
Come to think of it, bacon grease is an ingredient in just about everything I eat. I put that shit in everything, as the saying goes, looks like.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 01:36 AM (Mzdiz)

362 Jim SND,

Thanks for the condolences. I'll keep trying.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 03, 2022 01:36 AM (Jzz++)

363 355
Pretty much applies to all produce in grocery store aisles today. I've never grown them, but I've noticed bananas have a metallic taste to them now which is very off-putting. Also very little actual banana flavor.
Posted by: RickZ at July 03, 2022 01:29 AM (ldL4g
----
The bananas I buy at Walmart obviously don't compare with bananas I ate in Africa, those ripened on the tree but are pretty good if eaten soon after ripening and before they get mushy. The mushy ones make excellent banana bread or can be mashed with peanut butter and spread on bread.

Posted by: Ciampino -- try bananas and ice-cream at July 03, 2022 01:36 AM (qfLjt)

364 Miley, will shoot you an email tomorrow. I need to get in the sack. I would be happy to help you. no guru here, but I've been canning a long time and haven't killed anyone, yet. ;-D

Posted by: cfo mom at July 03, 2022 01:26 AM (Q8bDL)

I think that's the prime directive, and also a commandment.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 01:37 AM (Mzdiz)

365 >> Creating veggies for shipping/shelf life stability has definitely had an impact in the taste area -- as in no taste.

Early case in point: tomatoes. We were talking about that last night. At one point, Rutgers variety was the most popular, and peaked at 60% market share.

But they were no good for commercial processing. Mechanical picking and handling would ruin them, and the shelf life was too short.

So, the breeding prime directive became shelf-life and mechanical handling capability. Taste was somewhere down the list.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 01:39 AM (Mzdiz)

366 The mushy ones make excellent banana bread or can be mashed with peanut butter and spread on bread.

Posted by: Ciampino -- try bananas and ice-cream at July 03, 2022 01:36 AM (qfLjt)

Or ice cream. Peanut butter and banana swirl.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 01:40 AM (Mzdiz)

367 This is a leisurely ONT.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 01:43 AM (Mzdiz)

368
Now, we still have Rutgers locally, and Miley and I have some planted. But this is not the original, but what became of it over the years, and with the local breeding stock here.

They are my favorite tomato. Still more acidic, with a nice bite.

Interestingly, there was an effort to recreate the original Rutgers variety done by Rutgers U and Campbell's Soup -- they were the original collaborators on the original Rutgers tomato. They succeeded, they say.

The product is Rutgers 250, and you can buy seeds. We're gonna get some for next year.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 01:43 AM (Mzdiz)

369 Disagreement over Covid diagnosis leads to family disturbance call at Houston Police Department Chief's residence.

People have lost their damned minds.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2022 01:44 AM (4I/2K)

370
Rutgers 250 was part of the Rutgers U 250th anniversary celebration. The effort to recreate started in 2009. There wasn't any commercial interest, but for old time's sake Campbells joined in, still have some genetic material from the original.

They had the records of the breeding, and they recreated that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 01:45 AM (Mzdiz)

371 Tell me more about this family disturbance.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 01:45 AM (Mzdiz)

372 Pete Bog. On the Sirloin thing.

Have you ever set out to cook a slab of beef, that soon as you started working with it, you knew it would be either bad or good?

I've experienced that, but haven't mastered it. One thing I do for herself is to pan-cook her onions. I can't cook 'em in with the steaks, it'll tear me up. So, she doesn't like fat, so I trim HER steaks, and pre-cook the fat in her pan (seasoned same as the steaks), with a bit of red-meat left on. Cook that fat till done, set aside to cool.

When I put the steaks on in the main pan, the onions go on into her "prepped" pan, 5 min. later. Kinda "stir fry" the onions in unsalted butter, never let the pan cook dry. Primary steaks pan runs the same, both get a splash of beer about 90 sec before done. Carmelizes the onion in an instant.

Here's the thing. That pre-cooked fat, set aside? Nibble bites of it. If it's sweet n' good, the steaks will be, too. Tough and gristly? Steaks might NOT be, but they won't be as good as the steaks that gave off good, sweetly cooked fats.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 03, 2022 01:46 AM (tkOps)

373 Thanks, SFGoth. Another three hours sitting in my lawn chair defending the parking lot. Bored and slightly poetic, I guess. Club down the street has exploded in the last three months, weekends are noticeably more chaotic, and it's a bit unsettling to experience the shift. I half expect a major shooting and permanent closure before winter too.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 03, 2022 01:47 AM (4NlP1)

374 I think I grew Rutgers tomatoes years back, but dad was a devout Beefsteak guy, so that was our standard. Couple thick slices on an onion roll, would do me until dinner...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 03, 2022 01:48 AM (bUGMk)

375
Why Georgia? Why not some place more significant?

Sounds like the stones belong in Turtle Bay...
Posted by: Zettai
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One reason, Elberton, GA (where the stones are) is 'The Granite Capital of the World'. So, plenty of granite, plenty of stone cutters. The 'Stones' are, of course, made of granite. So, there is a 'resource' reason for them being there.

I've seen them. Meh. I didn't come away with an altered view of life. I perceived it to be the work of a person or people a bit weird, like, say, the Rosicrucians, or Zoroastrianism

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 03, 2022 01:51 AM (ITEMS)

376 City of Orlando council sparks fury with email promoting July 4 fireworks that said people 'probably don't want to celebrate our nation... and we can't blame them'
https://mol.im/a/10977229

Posted by: Ciampino - How about the People fire the council at July 03, 2022 01:53 AM (qfLjt)

377 Georgia Guidestones, a monument to the hubris of evil elites.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 01:53 AM (Mzdiz)

378 >Modern keyboards are basically crap, now. I've looked at some of those trying to recreate the old IBM models. If anyone knows of a good one, let me know.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 01:09 AM (Mzdiz)

Unicomp makes what they claim is a modern version of the IBM Model M. I can't personally vouch for them, but might be worth a try. At least look at the reviews, I would say.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/SFNT

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at July 03, 2022 01:53 AM (1MoVM)

379 Joe Kidd. Restaurant I worked at as an H.S. kid, made a tomato bisque soup, 60 qt. pot.

Straight up, from stewed, Beefsteak 'maters. They bought about 200 cases per week. Prep cooks (me), had to blanch' em, skin 'em, crush 'em and have the 5 gal. bain-marie buckets full of 'em ready for the cooks to use.

That was an easy soup. Seafood Chowder (of any variety). That shit was Rocket Science in a Pot. The owner guarded is family's recipe cabinet like a National Secret, too. He'd come out and "cook" at key, elemental times and for special ingredients. He had it figured out, too. Nobody could figure out the secrets, but OMG, they were the Enigma of recipes to be sure!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 03, 2022 01:56 AM (tkOps)

380 CBP officers seize more than $1.1 million in narcotics hidden in a car at California border crossing
http://tinyurl.com/4d6xn8y6

Posted by: Ciampino - I didn't get my 10% at July 03, 2022 01:56 AM (qfLjt)

381 Tell me more about this family disturbance.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 03, 2022 01:45 AM (Mzdiz)

From news reports: Somebody from the home, not the Chief of HPD, called HPD about a family disturbance over the Chief's recent diagnosis of Covid 19. A supervisor was dispatched to run the service call.

We are told that nothing criminal happened, no violation on department policy occurred, and there was no physical contact between the Chief and any other family member. Mayor Turner has been informed, so you can rest easy now.

Move along, nothing to see here.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2022 01:57 AM (4I/2K)

382
There's a local joint here that makes the best damn green beans I've every had. I'd kill for the recipe. But neither love nor money will divulge it, apparently.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 01:59 AM (Mzdiz)

383 This week, Casa Piercello is minting a new American citizen.

My dear imported wife! She's already more American than most, and has been for a long time. But now we'll have the swearing in to prove it.

I had to brag.
Posted by: Piercello

Nice ! Congrats !

Posted by: JT at July 03, 2022 01:59 AM (arJlL)

384 My keyboard was made by IBM in (checks plate on the underside) 1990.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2022 02:00 AM (dNqv+)

385
I'm trying to remember the old IBM keyboards. There was the old old one, and then a new old model. I'm gonna look that up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 02:00 AM (Mzdiz)

386 Just caught the radio show in Russia with two older retired colonels answering callers' questions ("Military Review"). Sunday morning their time. Hilarious at points, as usual.

And have heard it enough times now to say that certain questions are on peoples' minds, and they're not afraid to ask about them (and the hosts generally endorse the misgivings of the callers on these key points). Top one seems to be why Russia has not been able to stop Ukrainian attacks on the city of Belgorod, and towns in Kursk and Bryansk oblasts.

Related, why the clear Russian threat to strike at "the center of decision-making" on the other side, if such attacks continued, has so far been empty.

Months ago, when the russki MOD spokesman made a special statement to this effect after one of the first attacks on Belgorod, I mentioned it here in the comments a few times, and wondered if we'd see some excitement. Nope. And Russians are wondering the same thing, but of course with a lot of frustration and impatience.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 03, 2022 02:05 AM (OTzUX)

387
It's model M vs. Model F. F came out with the AT. M was the XT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 02:06 AM (Mzdiz)

388 The best tactile keyboard I ever used was in the 1970s, that on a Varian T60 NMR Spectrometer. A very close second were the IBM PC KB with the big round DIN connector and its successor with the purple PS2 connector used on IBM PS/2 PCs.

Posted by: Ciampino - input devices a la Scotty at July 03, 2022 02:07 AM (qfLjt)

389
Just looking. Unicomp is the ticket, I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 02:10 AM (Mzdiz)

390 🇺🇸

78 This week, Casa Piercello is minting a new American citizen.

My dear imported wife! She's already more American than most, and has been for a long time. But now we'll have the swearing in to prove it.

I had to brag.
Posted by: Piercello at July 02, 2022 10:36 PM (ajoh7)

Posted by: m at July 03, 2022 02:16 AM (rnYgr)

391 Tablet update, had to see if it still works

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2022 02:18 AM (2JoB8)

392 As good as the tactile feel was from the classic IBM XT & AT keyboards, they also featured an ergonomic advantage long lost to time.

The Convex Keyboard Tray. Viewed from the side, those keyboards were not a simple, inclined plane, but rather, a nearly airfoil shaped curve holding the keys in separate rows on unique parts of the arc, right where an average human finger would descend to hit THAT key on THAT stroke, every time.

Love my HP laptop, here. My ideal keyboard would be the IBM curved tray, but with the key-feel of this here HP. I don't need the clicky-clicky of the old Selectric based IBM, though I excelled with it. For me, quiet typing is better typing, thankyouverymuch.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 03, 2022 02:22 AM (tkOps)

393 Peircello.

Two of my neighbors here. One, his wife, like yours, too The Oath. One, it was both he and his wife.

They could not invite us, due to Covid restrictions. I so wanted to come and honor, take pictures, celebrate and render tribute.

I'll have to walk selected bottles over to their houses, instead.

Bring your bride to the TxMoMeet. I'll hold a select bottle in her honor!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 03, 2022 02:29 AM (tkOps)

394 392
The Convex Keyboard Tray. Viewed from the side, those keyboards were not a simple, inclined plane, but rather, a nearly airfoil shaped curve holding the keys in separate rows on unique parts of the arc, right where an average human finger would descend to hit THAT key on THAT stroke, every time.
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Those are still available - ergonomic keyboard layout is the name. I have one here on my daughter's gaming PC. Since I'm a hunt and peck, never having been taught how to type, I hate that KB.

Posted by: Ciampino - IBM Golfball, ultimate typewriter at July 03, 2022 02:30 AM (qfLjt)

395 Convex keyboard tray? Nowadays, kids call that keycap profile, and there are a bunch of different styles. Staggered heights and angles depending on the row number, and different top surfaces on keys; some flat, some concave.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 03, 2022 02:32 AM (4NlP1)

396 This week, Casa Piercello is minting a new American citizen.

My dear imported wife! She's already more American than most, and has been for a long time. But now we'll have the swearing in to prove it.

I had to brag.
Posted by: Piercello


Most excellent. Congrats to you both, and welcome to America as a citizen.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 03, 2022 02:33 AM (F0YaR)

397 Google image search for "keycap profile comparison" and you'll get some nice diagrams and photos demonstrating style differences.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 03, 2022 02:35 AM (4NlP1)

398 Ciampino.

I first took one semester of typing in the 7th grade, on a Royal 440 fully manual typewriter. Beast that it was, it's keyboards was on a curved tray, same at the IBM's, fully a decade later.

That Royal 440 was a nearly 40 lb. machine to move, though. Hell, the carriage and return assembly was easily 20 lbs of that! (and you'll never, ever find a smoother manual typewriter than that one. You never will.) Maximum tested speed at end of that semester? 68 wpm, mistake free. MANUAL machine. 7th grade.

I got better, after that.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 03, 2022 02:37 AM (tkOps)

399 It used to be that IBM invented everything computer/type and others may have improved some.
Core memory, Winchester hard disk, 8" floppy disc, IBM Selectric, Golfball (my Chem thesis would have been really hard to type with all the Greek letters - with the Golfball just changed the ball). Remember the end of the movie 'Z' with the closeup of the golfball typing all the indictments? Shades of J6?

Posted by: Ciampino - IBM Golfball was magic, ultimate typewriter at July 03, 2022 02:39 AM (qfLjt)

400
The two good keyboards I have, well one my mother is using, have that convex profile. They are very old Microsoft "internet keyboards", PS/2. The keys make a clacky sound, but they're not model M or F style.

I've had them for a long time.

Microsoft keyboards and mice are all garbage now, from what I can see. It's getting harder to find a decent mouse now, too. All crap. Logitech had some that I have now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 02:40 AM (Mzdiz)

401 Ergonomic usually refers to more extreme keyboards with separate halves or non-traditional layouts. I hate to go all geek about this stuff, but I actually did a custom keyboard a few months ago, swapped clicky switch mechanisms for something custom, lubed internal springs, etc. Keycap profile is something different.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 03, 2022 02:42 AM (4NlP1)

402
My mother learned to type on older mechanical typewriters. You had to hit those keys hard. The first time, back in the early '90s, I turned her loose on a keyboard, she made my butthole wince.

She BANGED THE HELL OUT IT. It took a while to break her of that, but even now, when she gets to going fast, she'll start really hammering.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 02:42 AM (Mzdiz)

403 Ciampino. Mucho experience with the IBM Selectric "Ball".

Want some sport? Later Selectrics with RS232 ports, able to interface with XP or later IBMs, and type at serial port speeds from the Word Star files.

Yee HAH!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

/former Brother wheelwriter owner with same serial port prowess.

Posted by: Jim at July 03, 2022 02:42 AM (tkOps)

404 Good examples here:

https://bit.ly/3nxKnkz

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 03, 2022 02:45 AM (4NlP1)

405 publius. I just paid bux to have a Microsoft Trackball fully restored.

Best ergonomic trackball yet made. But they stopped making them 20 something years ago.

Musk could land a Falcon with one of these.

/hasta la nite nite, Horde!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 03, 2022 02:46 AM (tkOps)

406
I never learned formal typing, but over the years, my brain has learned where all the keys are from rote, and I can type pretty fast using multiple fingers, including the little finger.

Now, if my fingers get shifted, I'll make a mess, but when I'm aligned, I can tear it up. Just pure muscle memory developed over the years.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 02:46 AM (Mzdiz)

407 308
Jim, I don't know what they do in school nowdays in the UK and South Africa but when I was at school there were no computers and only people that contemplated office jobs, secretaries for instance, did shorthand and typing. So I never had formal typing. After years of typing my fingers know where to go but inefficiently because I don't use all of them. Since I almost never need the speed, it's of no consequence.

Posted by: Ciampino - IBM Golfball was magic, ultimate typewriter at July 03, 2022 02:47 AM (qfLjt)

408 Also; for you 29 year olds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 03, 2022 02:49 AM (4NlP1)

409
It's amazing how the brain works. I couldn't draw out a standard keyboard layout. But my finger-brain circuits know where they are.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 02:52 AM (Mzdiz)

410 403 Ciampino. Mucho experience with the IBM Selectric "Ball".

Want some sport? Later Selectrics with RS232 ports, able to interface with XP or later IBMs, and type at serial port speeds from the Word Star files.

Yee HAH!

Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX

/former Brother wheelwriter owner with same serial port prowess.

Posted by: Jim at July 03, 2022 02:42 AM (tkOps)
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Funny that you should mention that as myself and the Campus Electronics Expert in the process of designing an RS-232 port for a typewriter in order to get letter-quality printing cheap. Unfortunately he left for Europe after working us for 14 years or so and then I left too.

Posted by: Ciampino - the elusive letter-quality printing cheaply done at July 03, 2022 02:54 AM (qfLjt)

411 Jim,
Pixy's filter really hates your 3 line sign off. It thinks it's spam.

Posted by: Ciampino - not spam at July 03, 2022 02:56 AM (qfLjt)

412 That is a weird joke.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 03, 2022 02:57 AM (+XJ17)

413 409
It's amazing how the brain works. I couldn't draw out a standard keyboard layout. But my finger-brain circuits know where they are.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 02:52 AM (Mzdiz)

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That's me to a 'T'

Posted by: Ciampino - untinking but not unwittingly at July 03, 2022 02:59 AM (qfLjt)

414 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 03, 2022 03:03 AM (arJlL)

415 publius: I use a couple of twelve and sixteen character random alphanumeric passwords, and every now or then, my brain blanks on the physical repetition, and I have to try to remember the actual password; kinda panic inducing.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 03, 2022 03:03 AM (4NlP1)

416 400
The two good keyboards I have, well one my mother is using, have that convex profile. They are very old Microsoft "internet keyboards", PS/2. The keys make a clacky sound, but they're not model M or F style.

I've had them for a long time.

Microsoft keyboards and mice are all garbage now, from what I can see. It's getting harder to find a decent mouse now, too. All crap. Logitech had some that I have now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 02:40 AM (Mzdiz)
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Many years ago I somehow got onto a mailing list of OEMs and used to receive this enormous catalog of computer parts, etc. At the time, when one paid
$40 - $60 for a basic KB and about the same for a mouse, the OEM prices were $2.00 for KB and $3.00 for mouse. Less material for a mouse but more expensive, go figure.

Posted by: Ciampino - unthinking but not unwitting at July 03, 2022 03:06 AM (qfLjt)

417
Visual feedback is important for my brain-finger typing routine. I can easily type short passwords, no more than 10 characters or so "blind", but any more than that, and I'll start shifting.

When I mess up and shit, my brain immediately knows which way to shift my hands back to get on track. Again, all low level stuff that has no conscious calculating to it all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 03:12 AM (Mzdiz)

418
It's an automatic correction process. When I get to going really fast, mgfldfuuvncnd

my fingers will shift, and I'll see the error, hit backspace and realign. All automatic.

Above, I forced myself to shit a little bit, so it won't be natural, really. But that's about how it goes. Type fast, error, correct, repeat.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 03:13 AM (Mzdiz)

419 Well now,

Such a week in this country.

Roe v Wade, 2A reaffirmation (though I will be flying the Stars & Stripes behind enemy lines in Commiefornia this 4th)

still...

Night Horde.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 03, 2022 03:16 AM (J00IM)

420 Comment earlier about Jagermeister - when I was stationed "over there" the locals told me it was never intended to be drank as a standalone or anything like that, it was sort of viewed like we would MD2020 maybe. Drunks.

Good as an aperitif maybe a shot after dinner to help settle the stomach, that's what it is for.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 03, 2022 03:29 AM (I8Xka)

421
And finally, before I go, some more about the Georgia Guidestone thing. The elites, the oligarchs, the WEF crowd, and the Deep State -- well, the Deep State are more minions of this crowd -- are sort of an "ancient mystery cult" type of thing.

In ancient times, you had a ruling elite, and they were sort of a priestly class. They horded advanced knowledge, tricks of the trade, for themselves, and kept the peasants in the dark. The idea was to wow the peasants, making them think you were somehow gods, and keep them in check.

The current oligarch elite are of the same mentality. The Guidestones are part of that "mystery cult" thing. They tell you what they believe and are about with shit like that, then call you a kook if you take them seriously.

It's all part of a very ancient playbook.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 03:47 AM (Mzdiz)

422
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, which led to the founding of this country and the US constitution was the revolution against the ancient way of doing business by the elites. It was about freedom for the individual, to live their own lives and pursue happiness as they saw fit. It led to the most prosperity every witnessed in human history. The rise of the middle class.

This is anathema to the elites. They have been slowly fighting back. The Evil Empire strikes back. The current NWO/WEF elite are that very old ancient empire.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 03, 2022 03:49 AM (Mzdiz)

423 Such a week in this country.

Roe v Wade, 2A reaffirmation (though I will be flying the Stars & Stripes behind enemy lines in Commiefornia this 4th)

still...

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 03, 2022 03:16 AM (J00IM)


Then there's West Virginia v. EPA where the Court ruled the Federal bureaucracy does not have the power to create law.

Things happen in threes and each of the three is equally important across different issues, all telling the Feds to fuck off in legalese.

So, yes, it was a good week or two.

Posted by: RickZ at July 03, 2022 03:51 AM (ldL4g)

424 They also believe in numbers/dates, and a kind of "resonance" with same.

Aldous Huxley committed suicide within hours of Kennedy's murder. He was dying anyway - but viewed in the belief of concurrent events or resonance in makes more sense, in the occult ways.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 03, 2022 04:00 AM (I8Xka)

425 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at July 03, 2022 04:43 AM (rnYgr)

426 @423 the same flag you fly will soon be flying over the re-education camp your in. Time is on my side. As paul newman said to richard boone in the movie hondo " Hey I got a question supreme court how are you going to get back down the hill?" As Stalin says no man no problem!

Posted by: raimondo at July 03, 2022 05:30 AM (s+sBO)

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