Overnight Open Thread – Friday 04/14/2023 [Roger Ball]

”Like Sands Through The Hourglass”

Howdy, horde! I’m guessing this ONT title will bring back memories for some.

Days of Our Lives, one of the cheesy “afternoon soaps”, ran for a pretty amazing 21 years from 1972 to 1993. I admit that I did not watch one hour of any soap opera, ever, because I was more interested in…umm…other activities. But I know there were some of my generation who were loyal fans. If you remember, the opening goes like:

”Like sands through the hourglass... so are the Days of Our Lives.” - Dr. Thomas "Tom" Horton Sr.

Oh, okay, for the fans, here’s the full effect:

Uh huh. Sorry I missed it [not]. On with the show then…

JUST SAND…

I gotta work on my intros, yay? I may have degraded the atmosphere somewhat with that cheesy intro because the main subject is just sand. And we know sand and cheese definitely don’t go together. I’m talking lots of gorgeous sand, not running through the hourglass, no cheese, but piled high in spectacular dunes as God intended. And how would I embark on an investigation of the subject, you might ask? Purely random, I assure you. No hidden agenda, unlike some other famous/elite/experts that we know these days. No, this is just exploration for the fun of it. I came across a picture of the Tattori sand dunes on the coast of the Tattori Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. It looks like a beautiful, manicured park complete with walking trails, gardens and even a chair lift. And it’s free! And dogs are allowed! Sign me up! (Although I’m not sure about how camels fit in, but that’s a different question.)

I would have lost money on a bet that Japan even had sand dunes. I thought it was mostly sushi places, bullet trains, banzai gardens, and tsunamis. (Kidding, of course.) The aerial photo does not do justice to the scale of the park. You can get a better idea of the place by going to any number of travel guide websites like this one Even better, plan a tortuous 14 hour flight in a coach seat…no, wait, don’t think of it that way. You know what I mean. Maybe you can figure out the camel angle too.

Flying back and forth over our United States for many years, I always looked with fascination at the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. Nestled against the west face of the Sangre de Cristo Range, one wonders how sand dunes came to settle at 8000 feet above sea level. The Park website provides a simple answer:

The dunes were formed by the right combinations of wind, water, and sediment. Creeks and streams brought in large amounts of sediment and sand into the valley. Wind then blew the sand toward the bend in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where opposing storm winds helped squeeze the sand into the tall dunes you see today.

You will need to go to the Geology page for the rest of the story. But what a cool place! You get to enjoy sand, snow, and hypoxia all at the same time!

Now that’s just two of many sand dune parks on opposite sides of the globe. I did not purposefully leave out the many sand dune areas in the southern hemisphere, so don’t read anything into tonight’s selections. There are many more dune parks and preserves to explore. You know how to do it: just type
“famous sand dunes” and enter!

Happy exploring!

STILL TATTORI

Let’s jump back to Tattori for just a moment. Imagine sipping sake and munching wasabi Nori chippusu (seaweed chips) at the Takahama Café while gazing at the vast Tattori sand dunes. Simply magnificent. どうもありがとうございます ! (Dōmo arigatōgozaimasu!/Thank you very much!)

Once fortified with beverage and food, you might decide to head up the hill to the Dune Observatory and visitor center.

Since you are up there anyway, you really should ride the chair lift that will take you to the dunes and back. Perusing the handy photos available in the google map view, there are a couple of pictures taken on the chair lift. Looks like it would be a relaxing scenic ride to those wonderous dunes.

Being a western, U.S. kind a guy, I noticed that the chairs load on the left side of the lift. Then I remembered that Japan drives on the left. I didn’t remember Japan being a British colony, so I had to look that up. Why Does Japan Drive On the Left?

The sheath of a samurai’s sword was on their left, and they would draw them with their right hand. This meant that when walking past someone, namely another samurai, they would feel more prepared having their right hand on the side closest to the other person.

Mystery solved! I am led to believe that is why the British drive on the left too. I guess the Continent didn’t get the word. Or, more likely, if it was something the British did, they all would do something else out of spite.

BOILING!!!! (No wait, boiling? Really?)

Yikes! Japan will be wishing for the good old days of just tsunamis. Quick, somebody really needs to check Al’s meds.

The former Democratic presidential candidate said in an impassioned jeremiad at the conference that carbon emissions are raising the temperature of the troposphere, the part of the atmosphere that contains oxygen, to an unsustainable degree. He claimed that increased emissions are linked to extreme weather events and the apparent boiling of the oceans… “We’re [who’s “we”, Kemo Sabe?] still putting 162 million tons into it every single day,…”

162 million tons sounds like a lot. If you will just send him all your money in trade for carbon credits, “we” will all be ok. Well, at least he’ll be okay. Yay?

SAND BOILS

A logical progression from “sand” to “boiling” might result in “sand boil”. Ok, I’ll bite. What is a “sand boil”? I didn’t even know there was such a thing but apparently:

A sand boil occurs when the weight from the high river water pushes down (pressure) on the soil layers under the levee. If the water can find a weak spot in the soil, it will seep up to the surface on the land side of the levee. Sometimes it can look like it is bubbling or "boiling" and that is where it gets its name.

Using some of the taxpayer dollars I’ve “invested” in my government, I found a US Army Corps of Engineers website to find a little more about sand boils. Especially based on the recent experience in the 9th Ward, they know a thing or two about levees, flooding, and mud…err…sand.

THE AGE OF GLASS

I ask you, horde, does boiling sand not logically lead to melting sand? {Don’t feel you have to answer that.] And melting sand makes glass, no? We’ve always learned about the Stone Age, the Iron Age, the Bronze Age. But what about the Glass Age, eh? Obviously, glass has been around for centuries but, according to various sources, we are just now really in the GLASS AGE.

Even Myth Busters got into the act. (Video at the link.)

Watch the Mythbusters discuss the glass age, how different types of glass are produced and some of the super-cool new variants Corning is producing to meet some very specialized applications.

Oh, super cool! That’s much better than simple cool, I’m sure. Hollywood meets science or something.

Glass has been used for millennia for all manner of things but probably the greatest, most visible use was in huge, intricate stained-glass windows of the European Gothic Age cathedrals. (I’m guessing because the church had most of the money). But those windows were just evolutionary developments.

Glass had been around for millennia.

It is more likely that Egyptian or Mesopotamian potters accidentally discovered glass when firing their vessels. The earliest known manmade glass is in the form of Egyptian beads from between 2750 and 2625 BC. Artisans made these beads by winding a thin string of molten glass around a removable clay core. This glass is opaque and very precious.

Stained glass exploded in popularity during the middle ages, and by the 12th century, the practice had become much more sophisticated. Chartres in France became the leading stained glass manufacturer, and the materials they produced were of extremely high quality. Chartres Cathedral contains one of the oldest examples of a rose stained glass window; a circular type of window featuring intricate coloured glass designs. - Grassmoor Glass, Ltd, UK

In my view, modern glass art doesn’t seem to soar to the heights of the cathedrals. But it’s still an intriguing medium, mainly because it involves fire!

If you think you’d like to try it yourself, there’s plenty of instruction readily available.

Stained glass is easier than it seems. Although it does require a special set of tools and equipment, once you have access to these, you'll find that the process of turning your designs into gorgeous stained glass pieces is really quite simple!

Yeah…I’ll take her word for it. I’m whipped with all this exploring. If you’re still here, pat yourself on the back for perseverance! But get some rest! (Oyasumi, good night)

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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1 Snort

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 10:00 PM (A3uq/)

2 Yay, Friday night ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2023 10:00 PM (Bd6X8)

3 ONT YEA!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2023 10:00 PM (MdR3x)

4 white sands

Posted by: lin-duh at April 14, 2023 10:00 PM (UUBmN)

5 Top pic, White Sands National Park?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2023 10:01 PM (Bd6X8)

6 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:01 PM (qoGsy)

7 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 14, 2023 10:02 PM (+I2lh)

8 "I admit that I did not watch one hour of any soap opera, ever, because I was more interested in…umm…other activities."

Interesting. I watched soaps solely as a path to those other activities.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:02 PM (qoGsy)

9 Despite having seen a lot of its scenery, I have a hard time thinking of Japan as anything but a megacity.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 14, 2023 10:03 PM (tp+tP)

10 Hey, Tonypete.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 14, 2023 10:03 PM (+I2lh)

11 8 "I admit that I did not watch one hour of any soap opera, ever, because I was more interested in…umm…other activities."

Interesting. I watched soaps solely as a path to those other activities.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:02 PM (qoGsy)

Masterbating. He's talking about masterbating.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 10:03 PM (A3uq/)

12 General Hospital!

Posted by: SFGoth at April 14, 2023 10:04 PM (KAi1n)

13 Eight bells, and, turn the glass.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2023 10:04 PM (oLF0J)

14 14

Posted by: Theodore at April 14, 2023 10:05 PM (pGonq)

15 Sand dunes! The great sand dunes in Colorado are worth the stop and a solid day of adventure if you can hike to the heights.

Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at April 14, 2023 10:05 PM (n5l81)

16 Yeah but we gave you manned flight.

Posted by: Kill Devil Hills at April 14, 2023 10:05 PM (DhOHl)

17 When I hear "Like sands through the hourglass..." I think of my mother doing ironing and other chores while the soaps played.

I saw a Chihuli exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts many years ago. My favorite part was a walk under a glass ceiling over which was a thick blanket of his sea forms. It was like swimming through the deep ocean.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 14, 2023 10:05 PM (Dc2NZ)

18 Dale Chihuli is a famous glass artist here in Seattle. His stuff is really gorgeous. Look him up.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:06 PM (U2p+3)

19 I love glass products and art - indeed, I've taken a few classes in glass blowing and enjoyed it immensely. But for some reason, Chihuly leaves me cold.

The previous owner of our home was a stained glass artist. She did the sidelights and transom glass for our front door. Very nicely done.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:06 PM (qoGsy)

20 Watching Cochella, mostly horrible music.

There was one group, have no idea what their name was, but they were a synth, real drum, real sax ensemble, wild music but really interesting and good overall.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2023 10:06 PM (yk7js)

21 Arcane point, what we call plate glass, is actually now (since the 50's) float glass.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2023 10:06 PM (oLF0J)

22 Chihuly. Dammit

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:07 PM (U2p+3)

23 Masterbating. He's talking about masterbating.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 10:03 PM (A3uq/)

Wow, way to spoil it for the rest of us, dude.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 14, 2023 10:07 PM (tp+tP)

24 *When I hear "Like sands through the hourglass..." I think of my mother doing ironing and other chores while the soaps played.*

Yes, ironing was always saved for soap opera time.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 14, 2023 10:08 PM (DhOHl)

25 We have a glass shop on the campus where I work.

The students who use it produce some pretty amazing pieces of art.

I even thought about taking the class where you get to learn how to use the glass shop.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2023 10:08 PM (BpYfr)

26 Good evening. Infusion went well today. Bloodwork looked good. He'll just keep monitoring my fatigue and back pain. If it gets worse I should call him.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at April 14, 2023 10:09 PM (wagHN)

27 Nice meandering!
Love the glass work.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2023 10:09 PM (MdR3x)

28 Oregon Dunes Park is pretty darn cool.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:09 PM (U2p+3)

29 Good evening, Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 14, 2023 10:09 PM (qpPdw)

30 My mom watched "Guiding Light"

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:10 PM (U2p+3)

31 Glad you had a positive appointment today Jewells!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:10 PM (qoGsy)

32 Top pic, White Sands National Park?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2023 10:01 PM (Bd6X

Where's POC Sands National Park??!!

Posted by: Leftist at April 14, 2023 10:10 PM (Angsy)

33 Nurse!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 14, 2023 10:10 PM (qpPdw)

34 Some nutball chick rushed the stage at a DeSantis event. Kinda feels staged. Pardon the pun.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 10:11 PM (A3uq/)

35 Infusion went well today. Bloodwork looked good. He'll just keep monitoring my fatigue and back pain. If it gets worse I should call him.
Posted by: jewells45

Glad it went well and I hope you don't have to call him!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2023 10:11 PM (MdR3x)

36 I'm watching "Emily the Criminal" starring Aubrey Plaza. Good flick about a young woman with student debt and a felony conviction who can't get ahead on her payments, so she gets involved in a credit card scam operation. You know it's going to end violently and the tension is ratcheting up.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 14, 2023 10:12 PM (Dc2NZ)

37 Some nutball chick rushed the stage at a DeSantis event. Kinda feels staged. Pardon the pun.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 10:11 PM (A3uq/)

Did she punched in the face like that Target woman? Really, our guys just need to start punching these attackers in the face. With a baseball bat.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 14, 2023 10:13 PM (Angsy)

38 Jewells!!!

So glad the treatment went well. Prayer continues.

Posted by: Ladyl at April 14, 2023 10:13 PM (qpPdw)

39 My mom watched "Guiding Light"
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:10 PM (U2p+3)
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So did my mom, along with "General Hospital."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2023 10:13 PM (BpYfr)

40 Arcane point, what we call plate glass, is actually now (since the 50's) float glass.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Is 'float glass' the stuff that they make by pouring molten glass on molten tin? The glass's melting point is above the tin's melting point so the glass solidifies and is absolutely flat. (old glass has waves in because they used a different process)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2023 10:14 PM (MdR3x)

41 Good news Jewells!!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 10:16 PM (A3uq/)

42 My mom watched "Guiding Light"
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:10 PM (U2p+3)

My great-grandma watched all the CBS soaps in order. Y&R, Bold and the Beautiful, As the World Turns, and Guiding Light. Never watched anything from the other channels, as those were out of range, but I had that schedule down pat by third grade at the latest.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 14, 2023 10:16 PM (tp+tP)

43 Bud Light tweets. It doesn't go well.

https://bit.ly/3KGOiXx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 14, 2023 10:16 PM (FVME7)

44 Congrats Jewells!!

Posted by: Dr. T at April 14, 2023 10:16 PM (tp+tP)

45 Infusion went well today. Bloodwork looked good. He'll just keep monitoring my fatigue and back pain. If it gets worse I should call him.

Go Jewells, kick that cancer's ass!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2023 10:16 PM (Bd6X8)

46 or "As the World Turns" ... one of my best friends from grade school surprised me. We used to play basketball on my little driveway court, then his dad asphalted half their back yard to put in a "half court".

So one day at noon (or whenever) we were playing and he just had to quit ... it was time for his soap. I was like, WTF, you are addicted to a soap opera? My Mom watched a couple after retirement ... but young kids watching surprised me, even then.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 14, 2023 10:17 PM (Cus5s)

47 The production operators offshore all had their favorite stories. Don't get between them and The Young and the Reckless over lunch break.

Posted by: Javems at April 14, 2023 10:18 PM (A3UvV)

48 18 Dale Chihuli is a famous glass artist here in Seattle. His stuff is really gorgeous. Look him up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:06 PM (U2p+3)

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I think the pic is of the ceiling of the Registration Desk at the Bellagio in Vegas.

He did a crapload of glass art in that hotel.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 10:19 PM (s12c9)

49

Like glans through the orifice

These are the gays of our lies

Posted by: Gabriel M. at April 14, 2023 10:20 PM (PL6Pg)

50 Weasel taught me what a "boil" is!

It's the air disturbance that one sees through a scope when shooting long range. it provides a ton of information about what is actually happening down range.

Although I do like the crawfish version a lot.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 14, 2023 10:22 PM (mMC7/)

51 Ladyl!!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:22 PM (U2p+3)

52
As the world turns and revolves around that big ol' ball of fire, tomorrow, April 15, is a zero of the Equation of Time, one of four such zeros per (tropical) year.

This means the difference between sundial time and mean time is zero -- the apparent (true) sun is aligned with the mean sun.

A high noon tomorrow, you can set a clock by a sundial without correction for EoT. That would give you local mean time, you'd have to know your longitude to adjust to standard time zone time.

Here, at roughly 82W longitude, mean noon occurs at 12:29PM EST (1:29 EDT).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 14, 2023 10:23 PM (Mzdiz)

53 Hey Jewells. Every good day is a good day.

Posted by: Javems at April 14, 2023 10:23 PM (A3UvV)

54 Dark Shadows!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 14, 2023 10:23 PM (ZSK0i)

55 I was late to the ONT because I watched this about five times.

It is probably old, but I had never seen it before.

Posted by: Theodore at April 14, 2023 10:24 PM (pGonq)

56 I grew up in the sand dunes in SW Michigan. We had the best sledding hills, of infinite variety and skill level. One was damn near suicidal, called Thunder Mountain, and was within walking distance. Some nights you could see the lights from Chicago and Waukegan from the top.

We never sledded down from the top, which is why I'm alive today, but running down the face of it in other seasons was a blast!

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2023 10:24 PM (iKBwy)

57 Is 'float glass' the stuff that they make by pouring molten glass on molten tin? The glass's melting point is above the tin's melting point so the glass solidifies and is absolutely flat. (old glass has waves in because they used a different process)
Posted by: AZ
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Yes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2023 10:25 PM (nEklA)

58 We watched "Ryan's Hope" in college. Which was, of course, immediately renamed 'Ryan's Hog".

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:25 PM (qoGsy)

59 That's some really white sand.

I suppose it thinks it's better than regular brown sand.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 10:25 PM (s12c9)

60 We watched "Days of Our Lives" in college.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:27 PM (U2p+3)

61 The US had a molasses flood.

Dublin Ireland says hold my whiskey. Dublin was the scene of a whiskey distillery fire that caused the casks of the Undiluted spirit to explode and flow through the city.

Whiskey. On. FIRE.

Sand had no effect on the flaming flood of spirits. Nor did gravel. It simply flowed through while still burning. So the fire chief, an NYC veteran, ordered his men to use horse manure to build dams to contain the volatile disaster. And that seemed to turn the trick.

The only human fatalities arose when some poor sods tried to imbibe the undiluted spirits. You guessed it, death by alcohol poisoning.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 14, 2023 10:28 PM (WVEny)

62 "ran an amazing 21 years from 1972 to 1993"

Actually, Days began in 1965 -- my mom watched it from Day 1 until she died in 2010 -- and it is STILL running on the Peacock streaming service. The clip merely shows the introduction that was used from '72 to '93. Since then the music has been remixed, and after Macdonald Carey died in 1994 they dropped the line "This is Macdonald Carey, and these are the Days of Our Lives", but otherwise it's still the same

Posted by: Secret Square at April 14, 2023 10:29 PM (9WuX0)

63 Kevin Bacon was on "Guiding Light"

Meg Ryan was on "As the World Turns."

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:29 PM (U2p+3)

64 Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes! Well, that and Silver Lake as well.

Good times.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 14, 2023 10:29 PM (ZSK0i)

65 Although I do like the crawfish version a lot.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 14, 2023 10:22 PM (mMC7/)
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That is a "bawl".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 14, 2023 10:29 PM (Dc2NZ)

66
Indiana Dunes National Park

www.nps.gov/indu

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 10:29 PM (63Dwl)

67 It's worth pointing out that the production of glass declined to almost nothing after the fall of the Roman empire. It wasn't until the 12th Century or so that things recovered.

Take a look around you. History often repeats itself.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2023 10:30 PM (8e9gw)

68 Some of the best dunes around are here in Northern Michigan. Sleeping Bear Dunes are in the northwest corner of the Lower Peninsula, tucked right alongside one of the largest lakes in the world. It’s a bizarre contrast and a beautiful journey.

Don’t forget to eat dinner at the Manitou just north of Frankfort. Get the berry pie for dessert too!

Posted by: Don Draper at April 14, 2023 10:31 PM (SXH3O)

69 Eris

At least he did not say 'crayfish'

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 14, 2023 10:31 PM (WVEny)

70 Bud Light tweets. It doesn't go well.

https://bit.ly/3KGOiXx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Awesome how much Twitter has improved. Those replies are absolutely awesome to see.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2023 10:31 PM (iKBwy)

71 For primetime soaps Dallas would be one but does anyone remember Payton Place?

Even Dr. Kildare might be in the genre.

Daytime soaps were impressively slow paced though. The tension of the longing forever stare and break for the commercial.

I move that we get Gatorade into the water systems so we can get going on the full realization of Idiocracy.

Posted by: micky at April 14, 2023 10:31 PM (3byMq)

72 I remember "The Edge of Night" which ran from from 1956-1984. My aunt watched that while she ironed shirts (sprinkled and starched) and drank Pepsi-Cola from those tall bottles. I was a toddler and she let me have sips.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 14, 2023 10:32 PM (Mzdiz)

73 This is the pic I could find of Martin Luther nailing the 95 theses to a church door (in 1517) as he argued the original intent of the constitution ... um, I mean, the original intent of the original texts of the Bible. The pic from the Lutheran church of my youth. Lots of nice stained glass.

I don't recall anything significant from baptism through confirmation, but that stained glass of his "insurrection" stood with me.

https://tinyurl.com/2pv4e2xp

Posted by: illiniwek at April 14, 2023 10:32 PM (Cus5s)

74 Kevin Bacon was on "Guiding Light"

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He was an Omega, so it figures.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 10:32 PM (s12c9)

75 My wife was a faithful devotee of Days of our Lives. When I was in grade school and had a sick day, I remember my mother always watching "The Secret Storm".

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 10:33 PM (99A9t)

76 GH had some babes back in the day.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 14, 2023 10:33 PM (KAi1n)

77 You've seen 'The Ten Commandments?' right?
"The Ten Commandments Archaeological Site in Guadalupe, CA is located in the Nipomo dune field and contains the Egyptian set from Cecil B. DeMille’s epic movie “The Ten Commandments” which was dynamited and buried there after shooting ended in 1923"

They've been excavating the movie set for a while and finding *stuff* that wasn't blown up.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2023 10:33 PM (MdR3x)

78 Sand worms on Mars.

https://bit.ly/3GKWMf6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 14, 2023 10:33 PM (FVME7)

79 IIRC the avenue of sphinxes was found pretty much intact.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 14, 2023 10:34 PM (WVEny)

80 When I was growing up, there was a small spring near my house that "boiled" the sand at the bottom of a 3-foot pool it came up into before it drained into a small rivulet into a nearby pond. It was hypnotic to watch.

Posted by: Like Roman Ampersands Through The Hourglass at April 14, 2023 10:36 PM (zG5Xh)

81 69 Eris

At least he did not say 'crayfish'
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 14, 2023 10:31 PM (WVEny)
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Crawdads!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 14, 2023 10:36 PM (Dc2NZ)

82 If the Lutheran Church still believed what Martin Luther believed, I'd probably still be Lutheran.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 10:36 PM (99A9t)

83 Bud Light tweets. It doesn't go well.

https://bit.ly/3KGOiXx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Awesome how much Twitter has improved. Those replies are absolutely awesome to see.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus

Absolutely savage.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 14, 2023 10:36 PM (FVME7)

84 72 I remember "The Edge of Night" which ran from from 1956-1984. My aunt watched that while she ironed shirts (sprinkled and starched) and drank Pepsi-Cola from those tall bottles. I was a toddler and she let me have sips.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 14, 2023 10:32 PM (Mzdiz)

Early 80's a Bar in Norfolk, which was RIGHT next to a college, had a General Hospital Happy hour.

Yeah, bar would be FULL of College chicks... so if'n we got off work early enough... problem was you had to kinda pay attention to the show, or the girls would out ya.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 14, 2023 10:37 PM (oHd/0)

85 That's some really white sand.

I suppose it thinks it's better than regular brown sand.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 10:25 PM (s12c9)

Dang, I didn't even know sand could be racist.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 14, 2023 10:37 PM (tp+tP)

86 Thanks for the girthy and educational ONT, Roger Ball!

Arigato.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 14, 2023 10:37 PM (xS8eR)

87 IIRC the avenue of sphinxes was found pretty much intact.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Oh, you said 'sphinxes'! My bad!
-- Dylan Mulvaney

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:37 PM (qoGsy)

88 I thought Kevin Bacon was on The Edge of Night?

Posted by: Pete Seria at April 14, 2023 10:38 PM (7ZQe3)

89 Harvard has the "Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants." These are scientific glass models of plants made between 1886 and 1936 by two Czech artisans. I've seen it and the models are incredibly detailed and very beautiful.

Posted by: Lirio100 at April 14, 2023 10:38 PM (w/VHS)

90 Very nice guest ONT. Even learned something tonight.

Last night there was an undue focus on thespians and thespianism. If ladies want to do that, I won't judge, but don't need to hit over the head with it.

Posted by: Emily Litella at April 14, 2023 10:38 PM (Nn3xT)

91 75 My wife was a faithful devotee of Days of our Lives. When I was in grade school and had a sick day, I remember my mother always watching "The Secret Storm".
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 10:33 PM (99A9t)

When my Mom went back to work, when I was 6, we were watched in the afternoon by the Nanny (old Brit woman) of an Air Force Pilot who lived across the street.

Every afternoon was Dark Shadows... a Horror Soap Opera.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 14, 2023 10:39 PM (oHd/0)

92 Take a look around you. History often repeats itself.

History never repeats.

https://youtu.be/xlxs_I3oAa0

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2023 10:39 PM (Bd6X8)

93 I was wrong, Bacon was on Guiding Light.

Posted by: Pete Seria at April 14, 2023 10:40 PM (7ZQe3)

94 Dang, I didn't even know sand could be racist.
Posted by: Dr. T

Everything is racist. Noose out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2023 10:41 PM (iKBwy)

95 From the Bee.

Parents Just Relieved Teen Who Came Home Drunk Wasn't Drinking Bud Light

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 14, 2023 10:41 PM (FVME7)

96 Lori Loughlin was on Edge of Night

Posted by: Pete Seria at April 14, 2023 10:41 PM (7ZQe3)

97 Roger Ball?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 14, 2023 10:41 PM (xtKXh)

98 Has anyone else noticed the recent ad campaign against anti-Semitism on social media? It's fine and all, but I just caught the latest commercial and it ends with the words "Stand Up to Jewish Hate."

I feel like that....should be slightly reworded.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 14, 2023 10:42 PM (tp+tP)

99 Best white sands has gotta be White Sands, New Mexico - Awesome dunes. There's a smaller patch near Monahans TX which are also quite good and surprising to find, since Monahans has a map on the city limits saying "nowhere" and an arrow pointing to the middle, saying "you are here".

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 10:42 PM (99A9t)

100 Very fine, wind blown sand gets into everything near the beaches.

Posted by: CapeFear at April 14, 2023 10:42 PM (LR3Sv)

101 Lori Loughlin was on Edge of Night
Posted by: Pete Seria

A 'Very Special' episode of the Edge of Night?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:42 PM (qoGsy)

102 97 Roger Ball?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 14, 2023 10:41 PM (xtKXh)

----------

Its a nom de blog.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 10:42 PM (s12c9)

103 I hate racist sand.

Posted by: Young Anakin Skywalker at April 14, 2023 10:42 PM (KFhLj)

104 Oh Anakin...BE the sand....

//Qui-Gondola Gin

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 10:43 PM (Lzpvj)

105 Very fine, wind blown sand gets into everything near the beaches.
Posted by: CapeFear

Into Ev.ery.thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:43 PM (qoGsy)

106 I feel like that....should be slightly reworded.
Posted by: Dr. T

:facepalm:

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2023 10:43 PM (iKBwy)

107 98 Has anyone else noticed the recent ad campaign against anti-Semitism on social media? It's fine and all, but I just caught the latest commercial and it ends with the words "Stand Up to Jewish Hate."

I feel like that....should be slightly reworded.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 14, 2023 10:42 PM (tp+tP)

I hate the ones on Fox that are all 'Christians helping Holocaust survivors in Ukraine'.... like... how many are left? Then they put a blatant fraud on to tug at your heartstrings.... have not looked but I bet most of the money goes towards advertising, not actual Holocaust survivors.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 14, 2023 10:44 PM (oHd/0)

108 Its a nom de blog.
Posted by: Cicero

If my doggeh blogged he would call himself nom nom nom

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 14, 2023 10:44 PM (xtKXh)

109 Bitter's Anecdotal Bar Report:

Worked a minor league hockey playoff game tonight

Out of $3800 in sales, AB products combined accounted for just $312. Yuengling alone sold over $600.

This is a remarkable change. AB prices traditionally comprise 35% of total sales.

Keep that foot on the neck folks.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 14, 2023 10:44 PM (bGeFc)

110 99 Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 10:42 PM (99A9t)

White Sands can fool you into thinking it is snow in the winter...

I used to drive the corridor down to Loc Cruces sometimes when I missed home when we lived there.

https://youtu.be/nOhQkNxqti4

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 10:45 PM (Lzpvj)

111 I gotta work on my intros, yay? I may have degraded the atmosphere somewhat with that cheesy intro

No, it's all good.

Posted by: The Love Boat at April 14, 2023 10:46 PM (Xrfse)

112 "If the Lutheran Church still believed what Martin Luther believed, I'd probably still be Lutheran." Posted by: Tom Servo

heh ... yeah, Luther's 95 should have just been the start in reform of the "paganized" institutional church. sigh.

Kinda parallel (in a different time frame) to the destruction of USA as The Constitution was destroyed, and the federales (controlled by exogenous forces) usurped control of state power, and destroyed sovereign individual (Bill of) rights.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 14, 2023 10:47 PM (Cus5s)

113 107 Posted by: Romeo13 at April 14, 2023 10:44 PM (oHd/0)

The hatred of Jews in America like "Stop Asian hate" cannot actually address the per capita worst practitioners because current religious doctrine in the DIE Church is they are not responsible for anything they do.

Morality pets are very expensive, I hear 5 million a head.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 10:47 PM (Lzpvj)

114 Days of Our Lives, one of the cheesy “afternoon soaps”, ran for a pretty amazing 21 years from 1972 to 1993.
-
I'm sure it was longer than that as my roommate in college (a drama major) insisted on watching it late in the 90s

Posted by: Methos at April 14, 2023 10:48 PM (kOpft)

115 This is a remarkable change. AB prices traditionally comprise 35% of total sales.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

From 35% to just over 8% in a week.
Damn they certainly did a job on themselves.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2023 10:48 PM (MdR3x)

116 Scheduled college classes around General Hospital in the late 80s- I think I started watching it in 3rd or 4th grade. I adored it- had the biggest crush on Robert Scorpio - it was so entertaining and ridiculous...The movie Soapdish also captures the ridiculousness so well. A very underrated Kevin Kline is perfect as the aging Soapstar

Posted by: Goldilocks at April 14, 2023 10:48 PM (l9lYK)

117 114 Posted by: Methos at April 14, 2023 10:48 PM (kOpft)

Mom watched Guiding Light religiously.....

The character of Reba pissed me off.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 10:49 PM (Lzpvj)

118 As the world turns and revolves around that big ol' ball of fire, tomorrow, April 15, is a zero of the Equation of Time, one of four such zeros per (tropical) year.

This means the difference between sundial time and mean time is zero -- the apparent (true) sun is aligned with the mean sun.

Does it mean the earth's gonna blow up too? I

Posted by: If not then...meh at April 14, 2023 10:49 PM (V6LRK)

119 The glass beads from Egypt are faience. It was considered valuable because it was mostly made by accident.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 10:49 PM (s12c9)

120 Other well known actors who were on soaps:

Demi Moore, Mark Hamill, John Stamos (General Hospital)
Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman (Another World)
Julianne Moore (As the World Turns)
Kathleen Turner, Alec Baldwin (The Doctors)
Sarah Michelle Gellar (All My Children)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Santa Barbara)

Posted by: Secret Square at April 14, 2023 10:50 PM (9WuX0)

121 I think I'm turning Japanese. I really think so.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 14, 2023 10:51 PM (Xrfse)

122 I used to drive the corridor down to Loc Cruces sometimes when I missed home when we lived there.

Went out there with family one time, kids brought along cardboard boxes for "sledding." Niece crashed and did a faceplant into a dune. Came up with a mouth, nose, and two eyes full of gypsum sand.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2023 10:51 PM (Bd6X8)

123 Riding a sand rail around the dunes south of Florence, OR is a lot of fun.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 14, 2023 10:51 PM (TIcXN)

124 120 Posted by: Secret Square at April 14, 2023 10:50 PM (9WuX0)

Arec Borwin being on the "doctors" is called "irony."

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 10:51 PM (Lzpvj)

125 Stand Up to Jewish Hate

Yeah! Tell the ADL to fuck right off!

Posted by: Shofar sho good at April 14, 2023 10:51 PM (V6LRK)

126 Keep that foot on the neck folks.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 14, 2023 10:44 PM (bGeFc)

I meant to say earlier, I had a Yuengling lager for the first time at lunch today, having heard everyone here talking about it. I'm not a beer guy, so I can't say I enjoyed it, but it was fine.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 14, 2023 10:52 PM (tp+tP)

127 As a kid, I remember hot footing it across the sandy beach to actually get to the ocean. That was a lot of hot, hot beach. Then, when it was time to go home, you had to hustle back across all that sand that had been baking under the sun all day.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at April 14, 2023 10:52 PM (k5jR3)

128 122 Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2023 10:51 PM (Bd6X

Nice, if you hike it in the summer you can get "snow blind" by the sand...

I hadn't had my vision that screwy since northern Alberta.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 10:52 PM (Lzpvj)

129 That is such great news Bitter...

Posted by: Sassy at April 14, 2023 10:53 PM (xSICi)

130 Other well known actors who were on soaps:

Demi Moore, Mark Hamill, John Stamos (General Hospital)
Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman (Another World)
Julianne Moore (As the World Turns)
Kathleen Turner, Alec Baldwin (The Doctors)
Sarah Michelle Gellar (All My Children)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Santa Barbara)
Posted by: Secret Square

You forgot Lawrence Fishburne (Pee Wee's Playhouse)

What?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:53 PM (qoGsy)

131 Soap, the TV show, with the black ventriloquist dummy.

Posted by: davidt at April 14, 2023 10:54 PM (SYTee)

132 Mom watched Guiding Light religiously.....

The character of Reba pissed me off.
Posted by: sven

I think it was Reva. And Josh.

I thought Philip Spaulding was dreamy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:55 PM (U2p+3)

133 {{Ladyl}}!!!

Posted by: Theodore at April 14, 2023 10:55 PM (pGonq)

134 Brian Dennehy had an uncredited role on General Hospital too. He played the hospital.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 14, 2023 10:56 PM (KFhLj)

135 You forgot Lawrence Fishburne (Pee Wee's Playhouse)

What?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:53 PM (qoGsy)

Sure. He was Cowboy Curtis.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 14, 2023 10:56 PM (ZSK0i)

136 Nice, if you hike it in the summer you can get "snow blind" by the sand...

Oh, all I see turns to brown
As the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand
As I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find, where I've been

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 14, 2023 10:56 PM (Xrfse)

137 Mom watched The Days of the Week.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 10:56 PM (63Dwl)

138 Can't believe no one's made a reference to Bill & Ted yet. "All we are is dust in the wind."

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 14, 2023 10:56 PM (7B5FA)

139 132 Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:55 PM (U2p+3)

Reva that is right she married HB and bother her sons and half of Springfield or wherever the hell it was....

I used to piss mom off by using analytics to figure out where the idiocy was headed so eventually I always had chores until 4.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 10:57 PM (Lzpvj)

140 Days of Our Lives, one of the cheesy “afternoon soaps”, ran for a pretty amazing 21 years from 1972 to 1993

Days ran on NBC until 2022 and is now on Peacock.

Posted by: Chuck C at April 14, 2023 10:57 PM (Lo80G)

141 Dennehy played Rampart General on Emergency, too.

Posted by: Joint Commission at April 14, 2023 10:57 PM (Nn3xT)

142 Soap operas
Hmmmm
Luke and Laura
That's all I got

Posted by: Diogenes at April 14, 2023 10:58 PM (anj39)

143 The desert of Maine is cool. Twenty acres or so of sand dunes in the middle of a forest. Created by glaciers.

Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at April 14, 2023 10:58 PM (tM5h4)

144 Dennehy played Rampart General on Emergency, too.
Posted by: Joint Commission

Julie London - two hubbas please!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:58 PM (qoGsy)

145 We have an excess of white sand now that they don't use it in ashtrays.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 10:58 PM (63Dwl)

146 Ok, ive finally finished setting up a linux minecraft server with forge and BiomesOplenty.

The kiddos are going to love it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2023 10:59 PM (yk7js)

147
Julie London - two hubbas please!!
Posted by: Tonypete

Jack Webb and Bobby Troup.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 10:59 PM (63Dwl)

148 141 Dennehy played Rampart General on Emergency, too.

Posted by: Joint Commission at April 14, 2023 10:57 PM (Nn3xT)

And the fire station. Dual roles.

You never saw both buildings in the same shot.

Posted by: davidt at April 14, 2023 11:00 PM (SYTee)

149 Jewells, it is great to hear some good news!

Posted by: Theodore at April 14, 2023 11:00 PM (pGonq)

150 Kate Mulgrew, of ST Voyager, was on Ryan's Hope, a soap I watched in the mid-70's.

Also, the mom from "Seventh Heaven".

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at April 14, 2023 11:00 PM (wE246)

151 Soap operas
Hmmmm
Luke and Laura
That's all I got

General VD Clinic?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2023 11:00 PM (Bd6X8)

152 145 We have an excess of white sand now that they don't use it in ashtrays.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 10:58 PM (63Dwl)

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Put the federal government in charge of it and you'll have shortages in a week.

Posted by: Milton Friedman at April 14, 2023 11:00 PM (s12c9)

153 146 Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2023 10:59 PM (yk7js)

The new thing in the intel world is saying online gaming clans are a disloyalty indicator.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:00 PM (Lzpvj)

154 The desert of Maine is cool. Twenty acres or so of sand dunes in the middle of a forest. Created by glaciers.
Posted by: JuJuBee

Speaking of geological wonders - in NE PA, there is a monster field of boulders named, ironically enough "Boulder Field". It's in Hickory Run State Park. Very cool.

https://youtu.be/TfGNqdafC3c

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 11:00 PM (qoGsy)

155 The desert of Maine is cool. Twenty acres or so of sand dunes in the middle of a forest. Created by glaciers.
Posted by: JuJuBee

Heard rumors about that when I lived in Boston, always wanted to see it firsthand. Certainly an oddity for those parts.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2023 11:00 PM (iKBwy)

156 I love watching glass blowers taking a lump of red hot glass and turning it Ingo a functional utensil or just a pretty ornament. I work with glass beads, and I've seen stories about how the factories pull these huge globs of glass into long, uniformly thick rods of glass, then cut them to an exact length. Not to mention leaving a hole in the center of the bead for fiber or wire.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at April 14, 2023 11:02 PM (k5jR3)

157 The new thing in the intel world is saying online gaming clans are a disloyalty indicator.
Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:00 PM (Lzpvj)

Well, if they mean disloyalty to the Deep State, there might be something to that.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 14, 2023 11:02 PM (ZSK0i)

158 26 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at April 14, 2023 10:09 PM (wagHN)

Good news, the wife is getting her lumpectomy this week.

She will be thrilled to read the news.

All the best ma'am.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:02 PM (Lzpvj)

159 Other well known actors who were on soaps:

Demi Moore, Mark Hamill, John Stamos (General Hospital)
Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman (Another World)
Julianne Moore (As the World Turns)
Kathleen Turner, Alec Baldwin (The Doctors)
Sarah Michelle Gellar (All My Children)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Santa Barbara)
Posted by: Secret Square

You forgot Lawrence Fishburne (Pee Wee's Playhouse)

What?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2023 10:53 PM (qoGsy)

Gawd. I soooo don't give a sh*t.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 14, 2023 11:03 PM (anj39)

160 @153

>>The new thing in the intel world is saying online gaming clans are a disloyalty indicator.

Nerds have always been outliers.

I am pretty much late to the Minecraft game, but the kiddos love it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2023 11:06 PM (yk7js)

161 159 Posted by: Diogenes at April 14, 2023 11:03 PM (anj39)

Dear sir, you earn your living through professional identity issues and aping other people's words....

how do you achieve this wonderfully useful state of mental illness and what are your views on quantum mechanics?

//Idiot Media to Idiot Thespian

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:06 PM (Lzpvj)

162 The tranny groomer reboot of the soap operas is awful.

Maul My Children
Genital Hospital
The Young and the Breastless

Disgusting.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 14, 2023 11:07 PM (bGeFc)

163 160 Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2023 11:06 PM (yk7js)

Wasn't being accusatory and I hope you like it, my son was questioned pretty aggressively on his gaming patterns a while back.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:07 PM (Lzpvj)

164 Could you get a gun into heaven?

If you think through that question, you'll figure out why we need them in this dirty earth.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2023 11:07 PM (oINRc)

165 >>> 37 Some nutball chick rushed the stage at a DeSantis event. Kinda feels staged. Pardon the pun.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 10:11 PM (A3uq/)

Did she punched in the face like that Target woman? Really, our guys just need to start punching these attackers in the face. With a ~~baseball bat~~ tire iron.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 14, 2023 10:13 PM (Angsy)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 14, 2023 11:08 PM (llON8)

166 164 Could you get a gun into heaven?

If you think through that question, you'll figure out why we need them in this dirty earth.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2023 11:07 PM (oINRc)

Only if it's Glock perfection.

Posted by: Pot status: stirred at April 14, 2023 11:08 PM (V6LRK)

167 >>> 164 Could you get a gun into heaven?

If you think through that question, you'll figure out why we need them in this dirty earth.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2023 11:07 PM (oINRc)

Silly YD, leftists don't do that.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 14, 2023 11:10 PM (llON8)

168
The new thing in the intel world is saying online gaming clans are a disloyalty indicator.

Disloyalty to whom? Or what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 11:12 PM (63Dwl)

169 Posted by: Diogenes at April 14, 2023 11:03 PM (anj39)

Dear sir, you earn your living through professional identity issues and aping other people's words....

how do you achieve this wonderfully useful state of mental illness and what are your views on quantum mechanics?

//Idiot Media to Idiot Thespian
Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:06 PM (Lzpvj)

Sir.
You presume this is a normal state of mental illness. I assure you. This is an exceptional level of mental illness.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 14, 2023 11:12 PM (anj39)

170
Could you get a gun into heaven?

Does God need a starship?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 11:13 PM (63Dwl)

171 Japanese author Kobo Abe wrote a novel, later a movie, titled "Woman of the Dunes", set in Japan.

Posted by: Noam Sayen at April 14, 2023 11:14 PM (Qh+gE)

172 168 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 11:12 PM (63Dwl)

Was reading some blurb on the MSN feed where an unnamed government source alleged online clans are a hotbed of intelligence leakage....

I am to the point I take nothing in the business at its word, we'll wind up having it added to the briefings for our computer access. Right now we have a section that explains how unclassified but sensitive information can be collated into compromising material when they brief on derivative classification.... turns out hiring a catering truck can expose operations according to the film.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:15 PM (Lzpvj)

173 Hey Luftwaffe fans, guess what they recently unearthed on Malta.

Bf 109F-4/Trop Werke Nr 8668. Black 11 of JG3.

https://tinyurl.com/Black11Malta

This aircraft was built by Erla. People are saying this is a /Z aircraft but the fuel triangle has been salvaged by a souvenir hunter and there are no photos of the prop which was a more paddle design than standard for a Friedrich. The Z mod was intended to give better high altitude performance and required 100 octane fuel for the GM-1 boost system.

Beaman and Kitchens in their research have never found documentation for any Z machine going to North Africa since most of the combat was at low to medium altitude and the Z option was intended to counter American bombers.

But in this Erla production batch 55 were modified to Z. So the only way to be sure is to find the GM-1 system in the plane or if the data plate states it. So being conservative I am going to call it a Bf 109F-4/Trop.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 14, 2023 11:15 PM (WVEny)

174 169 Posted by: Diogenes at April 14, 2023 11:12 PM (anj39)

Nay I say, I am not some common deviant I am an EXCEPTIONAL one.

//T.H. Espian Esq

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:16 PM (Lzpvj)

175 Ok, ive finally finished setting up a linux minecraft server with forge and BiomesOplenty.
The kiddos are going to love it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2023 10:59 PM (yk7js)

Can it mine bitcoin too?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 11:16 PM (xhaym)

176 speaking of the derivative information, they say intell lessons are written in wangst...I'd almost like to know the catering story....

It is like this Marty fella in one of the briefings who "saves the global economy in 2032 or 5" by teaching you to change your passwords.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:18 PM (Lzpvj)

177 The UK PM evidently is not a fan of FUTAs.

https://tinyurl.com/UK-PM-no-Chicks-have-Ducks

Glad to see the lunatic labour is finding out the "newer better Britons" they imported are SoCons.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:21 PM (Lzpvj)

178 Right now we have a section that explains how unclassified but sensitive information can be collated into compromising material when they brief on derivative classification.... turns out hiring a catering truck can expose operations according to the film.
Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:15 PM (Lzpvj)

My personal favorite part of the annual derivative classifier (re) training was the section dealing with the "outside world", re: wingnuts claiming fantastic things like national labs implanting microchips and so on and how security still had to deal with it, no matter how crazy or time wasting.

Regrettably, I can't cough up the rest of that anecdote but I will say the trainer had a wonderful sense of humor.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 14, 2023 11:21 PM (ZSK0i)

179 Dave?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 14, 2023 11:23 PM (ZSK0i)

180 speaking of the derivative information, they say intell lessons are written in wangst...I'd almost like to know the catering story....

It is like this Marty fella in one of the briefings who "saves the global economy in 2032 or 5" by teaching you to change your passwords.
Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:18 PM (Lzpvj)

I used to write "identifying and sensitive ID information" on a magnadoodle to record it during calls, so I wouldn''t have to deal with dumping my shred basket every evening.

it pissed off all the right people and I never got a promotion.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 11:23 PM (xhaym)

181 How refreshing to see a Friday ONT that isn't grade school bullshit.
Hopefully Dave stays away.
Posted by: Fat Jack at April 14, 2023 11:22 PM
(BBpZ

How about you go fuck yourself.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 14, 2023 11:25 PM (n1JsZ)

182 BBpZ8

How about you go French-kiss a Nile crocodile

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 14, 2023 11:26 PM (WVEny)

183 Earlier tonight I was dusting in the man cave and did the several pieces of carved cork (the ones sandwiched between glass) and was struck again by the awesome detail in the scenes.

What complex works, they must have taken an enormous amount of time.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2023 11:27 PM (KATBx)

184 I've come to appreciate the light hearted ONTs on Thursday and Friday. I tire of the politics and the anger and I don't want to be mad when I'm going to bed.

If you don't like it, you're free to leave.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 11:27 PM (U2p+3)

185 180 Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 14, 2023 11:23 PM (ZSK0i)

WeirdDave I would assume....

we have an edge lord in the house who thinks picking on cobs is cool.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:28 PM (Lzpvj)

186 Hey! Don't forget about me!

Posted by: Soap at April 14, 2023 11:30 PM (89TYj)

187 184 Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2023 11:27 PM (KATBx)

The patience skill and craftsmanship from yore at its best was humbling and inspiring....

I recall the intricate details on a genuine Victorian house on the Bannisters and kickboards...

Just amazing.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:31 PM (Lzpvj)

188 Anyway... Of course you could. Who would your gun be able to harm in heaven? It would just be a toy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2023 11:32 PM (oINRc)

189 https://youtu.be/foAW4WDAb68

Stalker puts GPS device on a lass' car....

Ah Dizzy Desi wants let go.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:32 PM (Lzpvj)

190 Evening horde. ONT - made me think of Bandon Dunes, grandpa & his stained glass. Thanks for the interesting topics & content

Posted by: scampydog at April 14, 2023 11:33 PM (LVaYG)

191 Dave's not here, man.
Kinda miss him. Good dude.

Posted by: free tibet at April 14, 2023 11:33 PM (iNp3L)

192 Could you get a gun into heaven?

It would have the be one of those Holy Ghost guns.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 14, 2023 11:34 PM (Gf3mx)

193 Could you get a gun into heaven?

Well, it would have to be a .45

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 11:36 PM (U2p+3)

194 194 Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 11:36 PM (U2p+3)

.455 in a pinch....

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:37 PM (Lzpvj)

195 Maybe one of those shotguns like Constantine used in the movie of the same name.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 14, 2023 11:41 PM (ZSK0i)

196 Hearing the Days of Our Lives theme (or TPIR) meant I was home sick from school.

Years later hearing those same themes meant I had overslept my motel checkout time.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 14, 2023 11:42 PM (X+Ku8)

197 So, if we enter Heaven as our naked selves, unarmed, then why do we need these guns in this cursed earth? Why do they exist?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2023 11:43 PM (oINRc)

198 @ 188 Sven

I live in the Adirondacks, near Saratoga Springs. The houses in the city proper are replete with "fiddly works" that had to have taken immense effort to craft.

It's a kick just to drive around and admire, along with marveling over the porches these houses sport.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2023 11:43 PM (KATBx)

199 .303 I think

https://youtu.be/8GQBJ-kXD5w

Why stick to magazines when you can use a drum

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 11:44 PM (xhaym)

200 199 Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2023 11:43 PM (KATBx)

Yup, some of the houses along the Ohio river south of the old Iron mines are just resplendent, the difference in size of the doorways is pretty stark too.

Average male height in 1880 was about 5'7".

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:45 PM (Lzpvj)

201 198 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2023 11:43 PM (oINRc)

because unfortunately, I lack David's skill with a sling?

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:45 PM (Lzpvj)

202 I've got a work trip coming up that will involve some public transit...what are some good apps/books to pass the time?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2023 11:49 PM (lc5cP)

203 >>> 203 I've got a work trip coming up that will involve some public transit...what are some good apps/books to pass the time?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2023 11:49 PM (lc5cP)

What sort of answers are you expecting from an ONT?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 14, 2023 11:51 PM (llON8)

204 203 Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2023 11:49 PM (lc5cP)

I would definitely have an E-reader, if you want an all in one Barnes and Noble's Nook now has both audiobooks and e-books in one spot.

Depending on your phone the game Uncharted Waters Origins may be your thing.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:51 PM (Lzpvj)

205 Just came back from weekly movie night with my friends. Tonight we watched two Randolph Scott westerns, The Tall T (1957) with Richard Boone and Maureen O'Sullivan; and The Desperadoes (1943), with Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, and Evelyn Keyes (it was also Columbia's first Technicolor production). Scott is a perennial favorite -- we've watched many of his movies over the years, and he never fails to please.

Posted by: DynamiteDan at April 14, 2023 11:52 PM (YzJxG)

206
I've got a work trip coming up that will involve some public transit...what are some good apps/books to pass the time?
Posted by: 18-1

Call me Ismael

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 11:52 PM (63Dwl)

207 I need to go to bed I think, been reading Lucifer's Hammer a pretty good comedy.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:53 PM (Lzpvj)

208
Scott is a perennial favorite -- we've watched many of his movies over the years, and he never fails to please.
Posted by: DynamiteDan

Ride Lonesome is my favorite.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 11:53 PM (63Dwl)

209 I have it on good authority that heaven is a gun-free zone.

But if you can make one look like a harp, you may have a chance.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 11:54 PM (s12c9)

210 I don't know who Roger Ball is, though I suspect he was a member of the Average White Band. Anyway, thanks for this ONT, it's one of the few entries here lately where the main message is NOT "Kill yourself. It will be over then. Soon. Soon."

And I appreciate that. It's a struggle every day.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 14, 2023 11:54 PM (CHHv1)

211 What? the H

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 11:54 PM (63Dwl)

212 206 Here's the Statler Brothers singing "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h30MPb62eXE

Posted by: Secret Square at April 14, 2023 11:54 PM (9WuX0)

213 203 I've got a work trip coming up that will involve some public transit...what are some good apps/books to pass the time?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2023 11:49 PM (lc5cP)

I just plowed through all the Flashman books, they are entertaining and light reading.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 14, 2023 11:58 PM (Gf3mx)

214 If Yuengling beer is The One that went for Trump ( or some higher up did), and they have a decent product that is not outrageously expensive .. Then they MUST become the KING of conservative beers, demanded to be on tap at every bar by every patron.

This is How we do it baby ... but really, why drink commie queer beer? This strange Bug move could be a turning point for the conservatives ... BigCorp dies ... Trump Corps WIN. We have to do it to defeat cancel culture.

I will but a case a week, even if I don't drink it (keto) ... but it seems I have to go across state lines to get it ... So Be It.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 15, 2023 12:02 AM (Cus5s)

215 {137} Mom watched The Days of the Week.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 10:56 PM (63Dwl)

Thursdays at 9 on SCTV ?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 15, 2023 12:04 AM (nRMeC)

216 212 206 Here's the Statler Brothers singing "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott":

Randolph Scott! Removes hat and covers heart

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 15, 2023 12:04 AM (V5qyk)

217 Good evening morons and thanks Roger

My junior year in college I made lunch alone in my apartment every day and got completely obsessed with Guiding Light

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2023 12:04 AM (EZebt)

218 I keep thinking of Raymond Scott, which makes me think of "Powerhouse," but I guess there are worse earworms out there.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 15, 2023 12:04 AM (X+Ku8)

219 One summer I got hooked on Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and the Young and the Restless in the early 80's. Great story lines.

Posted by: The FBI at April 15, 2023 12:05 AM (PWI4f)

220 I always loved "The Edge of Wetness".

Posted by: gourmand du jour, a literal ray of sunshine at April 15, 2023 12:12 AM (jTmQV)

221 One summer I got hooked on Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and the Young and the Restless in the early 80's. Great story lines.
Posted by: The FBI at April 15, 2023 12:05 AM (PWI4f)

Sometimes the inadvertent socks are the most revealing.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 15, 2023 12:13 AM (V5qyk)

222 All this beer talk makes me want a beer. I haven't had one in months. I remember it was an IPA I had with some fish and chips back in February.
I'm not a regular beer drinker, but I love it draft and at a bar, so I don't keep any at the house.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, a literal ray of sunshine at April 15, 2023 12:18 AM (jTmQV)

223 I bet that trapezoidal cafe in Japan have some beers. Hmm.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, a literal ray of sunshine at April 15, 2023 12:21 AM (jTmQV)

224 "Invitation to Love"

A soap opera within a soap opera.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 15, 2023 12:22 AM (ZSK0i)

225

Former Vice President Mike Pence told attendees at the NRA convention Friday that America needs to go back to institutionalized mental health care.

Pence helped spearhead the construction of a new mental health hospital while he was governor of Indiana. He said there is connection between the crime rate and the closure of large mental hospitals.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2023 12:22 AM (63Dwl)

226 Former Vice President Mike Pence told attendees at the NRA convention Friday that America needs to go back to institutionalized mental health care.

Pence helped spearhead the construction of a new mental health hospital while he was governor of Indiana. He said there is connection between the crime rate and the closure of large mental hospitals.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2023 12:22 AM (63Dwl)

He's not wrong, I think.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 15, 2023 12:26 AM (Angsy)

227 One summer I got hooked on Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and the Young and the Restless in the early 80's. Great story lines.
Posted by: The FBI at April 15, 2023 12:05 AM (PWI4f)

To be replaced these days by Gays of our lives, Genital hospital,and the Young and the Breastless.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 15, 2023 12:26 AM (VwHCD)

228 220 I always loved "The Edge of Wetness".
Posted by: gourmand du jour, a literal ray of sunshine at April 15, 2023 12:12 AM (jTmQV)

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Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2023 12:28 AM (s12c9)

229 223 Bertram Cabot,

It is imoortant as a politician to alienate the people who gave your old boss more votes than Obama got.

Pence could havebtge cure for cancer and Ibwould not vote for him,

Posted by: Sven at April 15, 2023 12:29 AM (Lzpvj)

230 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 15, 2023 12:26 AM (VwHCD)

......

Ahem....162.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 15, 2023 12:31 AM (Gf3mx)

231 226 OrangeEnt,

I'd be a lot more enthusiastic if the psychology and psychiatric fields were not communist.

Posted by: Sven at April 15, 2023 12:31 AM (Lzpvj)

232 Oregon Dunes Park is pretty darn cool.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 10:09 PM (U2p+3)

We have sand dunes in Alberta. Not hard to get to, but I have never gone there. There is a metric fuckton of sand in the Alberta subsurface. Some of it contains oil and gas. Aeolian (wind-blown) sand grains are distinctive as Hell under the microscope, being very well rounded (nearly spheres) with a frosted surface. Quite common to see the odd one in a sample of drill cuttings, but when they make up the majority of the grains, they can make one amazingly good oil/gas reservoir.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2023 12:35 AM (tkR6S)

233 I'd be a lot more enthusiastic if the psychology and psychiatric fields were not communist.

Posted by: Sven at April 15, 2023 12:31 AM (Lzpvj)

Aye, there's the rub.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 15, 2023 12:35 AM (Angsy)

234 Dang, I didn't even know sand could be racist.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 14, 2023 10:37 PM (tp+tP)

I have seen purple sand, and green sand, and black sand. And I don't mean "---ish" sand, but full-on purple, green, or black.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2023 12:44 AM (tkR6S)

235 Best white sands has gotta be White Sands, New Mexico - Awesome dunes. There's a smaller patch near Monahans TX which are also quite good and surprising to find, since Monahans has a map on the city limits saying "nowhere" and an arrow pointing to the middle, saying "you are here".
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 10:42 PM (99A9t)

White Sands, NM is gypsum sand, not quartz.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2023 12:46 AM (tkR6S)

236 I don't like sand.

Posted by: exdem13 at April 15, 2023 12:52 AM (W+kMI)

237 We have sand dunes in Alberta. Not hard to get to, but I have never gone there. There is a metric fuckton of sand in the Alberta subsurface. Some of it contains oil and gas. Aeolian (wind-blown) sand grains are distinctive as Hell under the microscope, being very well rounded (nearly spheres) with a frosted surface. Quite common to see the odd one in a sample of drill cuttings, but when they make up the majority of the grains, they can make one amazingly good oil/gas reservoir.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2023 12:35 AM (tkR6S)

There is an area in south jersey that has the nickname "the moon", because it really looks like the frigging moon. Pretty vast area. Great for dirt bikes. Don't get lost though in the surrounding woods. Lots of trails to what seems like nowhere.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 15, 2023 12:52 AM (VwHCD)

238
Where's POC Sands National Park??!!
Posted by: Leftist at April 14, 2023 10:10 PM (Angsy

Barking Sands, HI, is, I believe, lack volcanic sand. So is Iwo Jima. .

Posted by: Fox2! at April 15, 2023 12:52 AM (0kjWS)

239 WeirdDave I would assume....

we have an edge lord in the house who thinks picking on cobs is cool.
Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 11:28 PM (Lzpvj)

I have met Weird Dave, and he is a fine gentleman.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2023 12:54 AM (tkR6S)

240 I've got a work trip coming up that will involve some public transit...what are some good apps/books to pass the time?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2023 11:49 PM (lc5cP)

A large-format book, entitled "How to Kill Transit Thugs With Your Bare Hands"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2023 12:57 AM (tkR6S)

241 In 95,

I did happen upon the Chartes Cathedral in France. My family and I arrived just after mid day with the sun at just the right angle to illuminate the windows...utterly breathtaking.
My impression was that this Cathedral held it's own to Notre Dame and maybe better on a number of levels due to the extraordinary sandstone carvings within the vestibule.

1995 in France...and if you know me...you know damn well I walked the beaches of Normandy ... EVERY ONE!

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2023 12:58 AM (J00IM)

242 I might be missed it but no one mentioned the Luke and Laura on GH in the 80’s. It was huge

Posted by: Big Alfredo at April 15, 2023 01:00 AM (8cPKb)

243 I remember the Luke and Laura saga. My wife was all into it, and it did rise to a level above the usual daytime dreck.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2023 01:03 AM (q3gwH)

244 And I appreciate that. It's a struggle every day.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 14, 2023 11:54

Be well BC. I think I understand where you are coming from.

On another topic I saw 2 interesting yard signs this week. On the way down IL 40, from Sterling to Peoria to see ZZ Top...a sign in a small town, maybe Buda, "Biden Sucks"...next line "Kamala Swallows".

Then today in Sterling a sign that said "Pro Choice". Now seriously IMHO how sick are you that you choose to post a yard sign about being gungho for killing innocents in the womb?

Posted by: Farmer at April 15, 2023 01:06 AM (55Qr6)

245 Yes,
Soap Operas were big in our country back then.

That is because we as a country were secure in our faith of our country and thus could endear ourselves with trivial entertainment because we were the BIG superpower on the block back in the day.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2023 01:07 AM (J00IM)

246 When you think of Laura, laugh don't cry.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 15, 2023 01:09 AM (KAi1n)

247 That is because we as a country were secure in our faith of our country and thus could endear ourselves with trivial entertainment because we were the BIG superpower on the block back in the day.
Posted by: Nightwatch
-------

Same with the Romans.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 15, 2023 01:10 AM (YSC0W)

248 247

Oh Fuck Mike...serious?

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2023 01:11 AM (J00IM)

249 Former Vice President Mike Pence told attendees at the NRA convention Friday that America needs to go back to institutionalized mental health care.

Pence helped spearhead the construction of a new mental health hospital while he was governor of Indiana. He said there is connection between the crime rate and the closure of large mental hospitals.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

A 20 year old graph here, but he is correct. "Peeps in prison" plus "Peeps in sanitariums" tends towards a constant.

https://tinyurl.com/5n84twdc

You can put crazies in a funny farm, or leave them out and wait for them to assault/rape/kill somebody and then put them in jail.

Posted by: mikeski at April 15, 2023 01:14 AM (DgGvY)

250 I've noticed the ONT is bleeding posts...

When was the last time we hit a grander?

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2023 01:16 AM (J00IM)

251 Did time at Holloman but grew up on the Gulf coast. I’ll take the white sands of Pensacola over New Mexico any day

Posted by: Drewbicle at April 15, 2023 01:16 AM (6hnye)

252 Oh Fuck Mike...serious?
Posted by: Nightwatch
-------

Nah. Just a little societal collapse humor.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 15, 2023 01:16 AM (YSC0W)

253 I've noticed the ONT is bleeding posts...

When was the last time we hit a grander?

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2023 01:16 AM (J00IM)

No Miklos, no grander.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 15, 2023 01:18 AM (Angsy)

254 And on the subject of soaps, somehow in the 70s I got hooked on Dark Shadows, it came on when I got home from HS. Yes that led to watching General Hospital in college.
A bunch of us would watch after classes, including Jules. We will now be md 42 yrs in June.

Posted by: Farmer at April 15, 2023 01:21 AM (55Qr6)

255 Posted by: mikeski at April 15, 2023 01:14 AM (DgGvY)\

Pence may be right on this subject, but after he absolute betrayal of his President? Trump?.... F em.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2023 01:21 AM (oHd/0)

256 I have seen purple sand, and green sand, and black sand. And I don't mean "---ish" sand, but full-on purple, green, or black.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I think the white and yellow sand is the smartest, though.

At least it's what we use in the "we tamed lightning, and used it to make sand think" sense.

Posted by: mikeski is sooo raciss at April 15, 2023 01:22 AM (DgGvY)

257 Went to a birthday party this evening. More or less straight up the hill from me. Good food, good friends, a fine evening. Got another glimpse of Mercury on the western horizon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2023 01:22 AM (tkR6S)

258 Former Vice President Mike Pence told attendees at the NRA convention Friday that America needs to go back to institutionalized mental health care.

He is wrong.

There's bipartisan sentiment in this direction, which should be your first clue it's a terrible idea. The second is that Mike Pence is for it.

The only way institutionalization could proceed today is by rolling back existing constitutional protections that make involuntary commitment hard. In plain English, that means easing limits on state power and decreasing individual rights.

Maybe in heritage America, where the social contract was intact, that would make sense. But I am not signing onto anything that makes the state more powerful at this point.

Mainstream media frequently pushes "studies" purporting to show conservatives are antisocial misfits, lack empathy, are sociopaths etc. You should take them at their word, because they believe these things. And they will institutionalize you if you give them the ability to do so.

Who here r

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 15, 2023 01:22 AM (KFhLj)

259 What's good for the grouse
Is good for the grander.

Posted by: Lame dad jokes at April 15, 2023 01:22 AM (DhOHl)

260 I think I'm turning Japanese. I really think so.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Better than that:

https://youtu.be/lJxhRaPGvEA

And how can a Moron not like a guy who calls his backing band "Beer For Dolphins?"

Posted by: mikeski is not this Mike at April 15, 2023 01:26 AM (DgGvY)

261 Ah... just rewatched John Carter of Mars.... my opinion of the movie is that it is much better than the critics say....

But then, I've actually read the books... more than once.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2023 01:28 AM (oHd/0)

262 Same with the Romans.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 15, 2023 01:10

Good observation MH.

Posted by: Farmer at April 15, 2023 01:29 AM (55Qr6)

263 Where has Miklos been?

Posted by: Akua Makana at April 15, 2023 01:30 AM (YkUJb)

264 I think he burned his trailer down cooking meth or goulash.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 15, 2023 01:31 AM (KFhLj)

265 261 Ah... just rewatched John Carter of Mars.... my opinion of the movie is that it is much better than the critics say....

But then, I've actually read the books... more than once.
Posted by: Romeo13

I liked it. Lynn Collins was a sultry minx.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 15, 2023 01:32 AM (g/54t)

266 Where has Miklos been?

Posted by: Akua Makana at April 15, 2023 01:30 AM (YkUJb)

Doesn't seem to be here every night. He was here a couple of nights ago.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 15, 2023 01:33 AM (Angsy)

267
Days of Our Lives? Hah! Try Days of the Week ...

https://youtu.be/GQvHwuTB4JU

Here all DotW episodes are strung together -- nearly two hours' worth!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 15, 2023 01:34 AM (pNxlR)

268 What's good for the grouse
Is good for the grander.
Posted by: Lame dad jokes

What about the Famous Grouse?

Posted by: SFGoth at April 15, 2023 01:34 AM (KAi1n)

269 Charlene torched his trailer.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 15, 2023 01:35 AM (+Wcyp)

270 197 So, if we enter Heaven as our naked selves,
---

Having been allowed a glimpse of the entry to the Next World, clothing exists there. But if ya want to be naked, I don't think there is a dress code... ;-)

Posted by: formerly known as at April 15, 2023 01:36 AM (lBhce)

271 What about the Famous Grouse?

Posted by: SFGoth at April 15, 2023 01:34 AM (KAi1n)

Hillary or Tank?

Posted by: RickZ at April 15, 2023 01:37 AM (emlEe)

272 I think the white and yellow sand is the smartest, though.

At least it's what we use in the "we tamed lightning, and used it to make sand think" sense.
Posted by: mikeski is sooo raciss at April 15, 2023 01:22 AM (DgGvY)

The purple sands I saw at Marie lake in Alberta, are due to pyrope and almandine garnet, which are considered to be "kimberlite indicator minerals" and indeed there are known kimberlite pipes with some indications of diamond content in the vicinity. So, definitely of great economic interest.

The green sand is olivine, common in volcanic terranes, and I saw that in Greenland.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2023 01:38 AM (tkR6S)

273
I think he burned his trailer down cooking meth or goulash.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority

Why not both? Meth AND goulash!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 15, 2023 01:39 AM (pNxlR)

274 256 I think the white and yellow sand is the smartest, though
---

Don't eat the yellow sand!

Posted by: formerly known as at April 15, 2023 01:39 AM (lBhce)

275 249

With the closing down of "Mental Health Hospitals" in the 90's via Govt "Fiat" (read a planned commie doctrine) we were left to try and deal with the mental health issue on the streets of our communities. Then came METH, and recently Fentanyl and the situation has exploded across our nation (not by chance but as a form of asymmetrical warfare by the CHICOMS (You think I Kid?)

We are being taken down from within folks.

And Biden is just a placeholder.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2023 01:40 AM (J00IM)

276 Well, I am going to hit the sack. Getting very sleepy here. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2023 01:41 AM (tkR6S)

277
kimberlite pipes

Smoking crack in a kimberlite pipe is a stone groove, man!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 15, 2023 01:41 AM (pNxlR)

278 Speaking of the Statler's.. I love their song "Flowers on the Wall".

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at April 15, 2023 01:44 AM (gWwVJ)

279 Many mental hospitals were shut down in California in the late 60's/early 70's. Meth has also been around since long before the 90's. "Mother's Little Helper"? But we've also had unlimited access to alcohol since Repeal. Any kid who can't get alcohol has issues and many people who dove into drink when they got into college never recovered and alcohol is a pernicious, and often vicious, drug, particularly since not only is it legal, it's often socially encouraged.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 15, 2023 01:46 AM (KAi1n)

280 If you believe that the same Soros-backed figures who won't prosecute Antifa and violent offenders, and who insist on no cash bail for criminals, but stick the screws to law-abiding normies who color outside the lines once are going to use expanded mental health powers to clean up street trash and not hassle you, you do not know the hour in this country.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 15, 2023 01:48 AM (KFhLj)

281 Maybe you can figure out the camel angle too.

* digs around in bottom desk drawer for slide rule and trig tables *

Posted by: Sock Monkey * invictus maneo at April 15, 2023 01:50 AM (mDXyw)

282 Thanks Roger . I respect anyone who has the chutzpah to take the wheel and sail an ONT through the grey box mists

Posted by: Sock Monkey * invictus maneo at April 15, 2023 01:53 AM (mDXyw)

283
I've got a work trip coming up that will involve some public transit...what are some good apps/books to pass the time?
Posted by: 18-1

I found Tony Hillerman's Southwestern detective series made for excellent on the road reading. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are Navajo tribal police officers in the southwest USA. The series has been taken over by author's daughter, Anne Hillerman, after his death.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 15, 2023 01:56 AM (pNxlR)

284
"Mother's little helper" was pills, not meth.

"Mother's Little Helper" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. A product of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' songwriting partnership, it is a folk rock song with Eastern influences. Its lyrics deal with the popularity of prescribed tranquilisers like Valium among housewives and the potential hazards of overdose or addiction.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 15, 2023 01:58 AM (pNxlR)

285 I found Tony Hillerman's Southwestern detective series made for excellent on the road reading.

Those were pretty good though I haven't read them in years.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 15, 2023 01:59 AM (g/54t)

286 Julie London - two hubbas please!!
Posted by: Tonypete

Jack Webb and Bobby Troup.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 10:59 PM (63Dwl)

Emergency! Webb produced, Troup was part of the ensemble, along with London (Dixie McCall).

Troupe co-wrote the iconic Route 66.

Posted by: Fox 2! at April 15, 2023 02:02 AM (4GxJn)

287 "Mother's little helper" was pills, not meth.

I stand corrected. However, amphetamine and methamphetamine were easily available, and commonly used, for decades before the 90s. It's not like fentanyl, which is a relatively modern drug.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 15, 2023 02:06 AM (KAi1n)

288 279
Point taken. Yet the current scourge of METH and FENTANYL have done more to degrade the very fabric of our CIVIL society and created far more mental health issues than booze ever did. Sure go state some stats pre-prohibition if you will
but for the history of booze well...what is occurring at present is BEYOND EPIC.

And you should at least be honest and acknowledge that.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2023 02:09 AM (J00IM)

289 Sure go state some stats pre-prohibition if you will
but for the history of booze well...what is occurring at present is BEYOND EPIC.

And you should at least be honest and acknowledge that.
Posted by: Nightwatch

I saw BEYOND EPIC open for NO DOUBT in the Tenderloin in S.F. One of my "favorite" photos I've taken is from January, 2018 at around 8 a.m. in the Civic Center MUNI underground station on my way to work. A couple (man and woman) are sitting on the platform shooting up totally casually. Not too far away the train is coming on. I should send it into the HQ and see if they post it one thread. Sure, the hard stuff today, especially with the IV delivery system, has made everything much worse.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 15, 2023 02:18 AM (KAi1n)

290 I stand corrected. However, amphetamine and methamphetamine were easily available, and commonly used, for decades before the 90s.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 15, 2023 02:06 AM (KAi1n)

Diet pills. George Carlin did a bit about Mom and her 'diet pills' on an early '70s album.

'Vacuuming the house, Mom, at three a.m.?'

'Well, you know, it's dirty and I'm up . . .'

Posted by: RickZ at April 15, 2023 02:18 AM (emlEe)

291 At the end of the day...I stand with my observation that this is nothing more than "BIO-WARFARE from the CHICOMS.

Just like COVID... or as TRUMP correctly stated "The CHINA FLU."

Wake up people.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2023 02:20 AM (J00IM)

292 Black Sands Beach by the Ventures …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwWKA9wA3_0

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic. . . at April 15, 2023 02:26 AM (jonTH)

293 289

So, you deliver actual proof.

I'm impressed.

Sadly...

We are kinda fucked as a nation...don't ya think?

But please...keep voting Democrate...oh yes.

Night Horde.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2023 02:27 AM (J00IM)

294 Japanese woodblock print of the sand dunes …

https://www.invaluable.com/v2/auction-lot/
okiie-hashimoto-1899-1993-
travellers-riding-acros-636-c-3eb4f799ff

Remove 2 returns …

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic. . . at April 15, 2023 02:30 AM (jonTH)

295 I've watched opiate ODs be revived mere yards away. I've seen bodies taken out on stretchers, sheets over them. I've seen all the human detritus. Hell, S.F. spends more $ growing the hard drug scene than it does actually doing stuff a city is supposed to do. But it's only in degree. We have had substance abuse problems for a long time. A guy I knew on the UC/Berkeley debate team OD'd on heroin back in the mid-90's. Most of the Rat Pack and many other Hollywood bigwigs from the Golden Era drank and smoked themselves into terrible deaths from cancer, etc. OTOH, Willie Nelson's still kickin' it.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 15, 2023 02:33 AM (KAi1n)

296 Cleaning up after the fktard(s) what broke in at Dad's...

Found some syringes in the sh!t that got dragged into the house/ discarded in the yard. Lowlife druggy a$$holes

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 02:39 AM (o0Fxd)

297 JQ - wear hard soled shoes for awhile.

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic. . . at April 15, 2023 02:41 AM (jonTH)

298 Definitely, Adriane!

All the *unfamiliar* stuff got bagged & trashed first thing. Yard has been scanned and rescanned; I think it's clean now.

Been sorting through the family stuff that's been ransacked. Slow going. Entitled MFer just tossed stuff every which way. Drugparaphernalia was concentrated in 2 places (so far?) and I think that was all of it...

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 02:48 AM (o0Fxd)

299 Narcan should be banned.

Let them sumb!tches die.

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 02:52 AM (o0Fxd)

300 Not very Christian of me to say that (@299), and I will answer for it 'when my time comes.'

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 03:00 AM (o0Fxd)

301 Like Infidels through an hourglass, so are the Sands of Passion

Posted by: Bring Stabity at April 15, 2023 03:06 AM (kFmVp)

302 Peeking in to see what's going on

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2023 03:06 AM (xhxe8)

303
Reading some of the latest from Berenson. It was clear by June of 2021 that "pandemic of the unvaccinated" was a lie.

By then, it was clear from the data the vaccines were failing. By June of 2021. But a few months later they started the pandemic of the unvaccinated bullshit. Their own damned data was showing that wasn't true.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 15, 2023 03:10 AM (Mzdiz)

304 They don't like you to get sleep around here

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2023 03:17 AM (xhxe8)

305 There are sand dunes in Japan, it's a island after all.

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2023 03:19 AM (xhxe8)

306 https://tinyurl.com/2p888b4a
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2023 03:20 AM (xhxe8)

307 Hi, Skip. I've been mostly lurking today. Tonight. Whatever.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 15, 2023 03:21 AM (g/54t)

308 By then, it was clear from the data the vaccines were failing. By June of 2021. But a few months later they started the pandemic of the unvaccinated bullshit. Their own damned data was showing that wasn't true.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 15, 2023 03:10 AM (Mzdiz)

Their own original data showed it was not a vaccine, in the classic sense. It was a Gene Therapy to help relive symptoms.... nothing more.

But... they all lied.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2023 03:25 AM (oHd/0)

309 Oh, but but if you get the vaks, your symptoms won't be as bad compared to if you don't...

And, and and, it's SaFe aNd EfFeCtIvE! See, because we know a couple and he got it and she didn't and he only got a little sick and SHE DIED!!111!!!!

/s

So sayeth my BIL.

*rawk!* .Safe and effective. *whistle*

*rawk* .Symptoms won't be as bad!. *Rawk!!*

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 03:34 AM (o0Fxd)

310 Thanks for the girthy and educational ONT, Roger Ball!

Arigato.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

I remember him ; he's the guy that Ace grabbed off the street one night.

"Hey YOU ! You ain't doin' nuthin' ! Do an ONT !"

Posted by: JT at April 15, 2023 03:36 AM (T4tVD)

311 From Bad Blue, Elon will be on Tucker Monday

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2023 03:42 AM (xhxe8)

312 20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip

Thanks, Skip,

Informative as always.

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic. . . at April 15, 2023 03:43 AM (jonTH)

313 From Bad Blue, Elon will be on Tucker Monday

Very, highly, likely, probably Tucker will be better prepared than the BBC …

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic. . . at April 15, 2023 03:44 AM (jonTH)

314 Hiya JT!

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 03:46 AM (o0Fxd)

315 Very, highly, likely, probably Tucker will be better prepared than the BBC …
------------

And, probably, Tucker won't simply harass Musk with typical leftarded "gotcha" bullsh!t, but will conduct a proper interview.

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 03:48 AM (o0Fxd)

316 I dedicate this song to: The Year 2021

youtu.be/7j2GQqu18J0

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 03:50 AM (o0Fxd)

317 Hiya JQ !

Posted by: JT at April 15, 2023 03:51 AM (T4tVD)

318 20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip

Thanks, Skip,

Informative as always.
Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic. . .

Must require a secret password.....

Posted by: JT at April 15, 2023 03:53 AM (T4tVD)

319 Disclaimer:

I do not know anyone personally, who 'died of covid'

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 03:57 AM (o0Fxd)

320
*rawk* .Symptoms won't be as bad!. *Rawk!!*

Posted by: JQ

An unprovable assertion without evidence that should be called out every time it is uttered

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 15, 2023 04:00 AM (pNxlR)

321 PIXY NOOD

maybe I will try and go back to sleep

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2023 04:01 AM (xhxe8)

322 An unprovable assertion without evidence that should be called out every time it is uttered
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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Exactly.

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 04:02 AM (o0Fxd)

323 I asked BIL: "How do you know? What could *prove* this?"

He didn't know. NPC

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 04:04 AM (o0Fxd)

324
I had a neighbor who contracted covid and died of a brain aneurysm. He was in pretty bad mental shape before that, though. I was thinking it was time for him to lose his driving privileges before he killed someone. Mentioned that to his son, to wash my hands of the responsibility.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 15, 2023 04:06 AM (enJYY)

325
I do not know anyone personally, who 'died of covid'
Posted by: JQ

I do know of a casual acquaintance, unmarried, from the nearby dog park whose animal passed away during the pandemic and, isolated by the diktats, committed suicide several months later.

Died from coof? No. Died from inhumane and unforgivable restrictions drawn up and enforced by controlling assholes? Yes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 15, 2023 04:06 AM (pNxlR)

326 BIL can only use his 'neighbor couple' as "evidence"

Riiiiight, bro. TWO people. Out of millions... and there's your "proof"?

Bwhahahahaha. Whatever.

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 04:07 AM (o0Fxd)

327 I totally 'get it', Krebs v Carnot.

The guv reaction was waayyy worse than the, uh, disease in question here. Fkers.

It's evil. Pure evil!

Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2023 04:10 AM (o0Fxd)

328 You missed the Missouri sand geysers.

Posted by: lonetown at April 15, 2023 04:42 AM (bzuXB)

329 I did the Senior High School Gradumation speech.

Like sands through an hourglass, so are the Days of our Lives.

I expected to get beat up, but I was complimented with tears in their eyes.

Posted by: Miklos was about the same then as now at April 15, 2023 05:50 AM (EJKJr)

330 For those Stateside:
Jockey's Ridge State Park
https://www.ncparks.gov/state-parks/jockeys-ridge-state-park

Located in Dare County in the Outer Banks, Jockey's Ridge State Park is home to the tallest living sand dune system on the Atlantic coast and provides an ideal location for flying kites and watching sunsets.

Go climb it! Your calf's will thank you

Posted by: Paul at April 15, 2023 09:22 AM (y4bN1)

331 I'm making $90 an hour working from home. i was greatly surprised at the same time as my neighbour advised me she changed into averaging $100 however I see the way it works now. I experience mass freedom now that I'm my non-public boss.
Everybody must try this job now by just using this website.. www.Payathome7.com

Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at April 15, 2023 09:07 PM (Pih6g)

332 Between a mother in law who watched Days of Our Lives and glass, which has fascinated me since a child on a trip to the Corning Glass Works, when you saw the actual factory workers blowing and making handles for pitchers, this is my ONT of the Year.
And Jockey Ridge is a wonder, along with Great Sand Dunes and Sand Dunes National Park near Alamogordo, where we learned we could turn a desert into glass, if we want.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at April 15, 2023 09:54 PM (BJgzI)

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