Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (7/12/23)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
“All of these articles are coming up saying we had a picnic — there was no picnic,” Peter Smith, the owner of West Elk Air

Quote II
“We got our asses handed to us. Democrats in California have normalized what would be considered voter fraud in the rest of the country. If I had my way, harvesting would be illegal, but we have to win more elections if we want to change laws.” Jessica Millan Patterson, chair of California’s Republican Party

Quote III

“Yet their existence as institutions, as schools of learning, are only there today because of everything that was taken,” An Garagiola, a descendant of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa

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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Watchdog: Massachusetts Health Department Covertly Installed COVID Spyware on Phones
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people proudly sported t-shirts, caps, stickers, and other accessories with the words “I Will Not Comply,” “I Did Not Comply,” “He/She/It Did Not Comply,” or “Ze/Zim/Zhir Did Not Comply.” Actually, if you use ze/zim/zhir, you probably did comply. And many people who lived in Massachusetts probably happily complied as well.

Everyone should be mad as hell.

Speaking about being mad as hell..........

Report: Three major tax-prep companies sold the personal finance info of tens of millions of Americans to Meta
Let's check in on the depths of evil and totalitarian privacy violations being carried out by everybody's favorite social media mogul, shall we?

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Fvcking Kabuki Theater, spare me Congress critter Jordan.

Jordan Hints At Launching New Hillary Clinton Probe: ‘Nothing Is Off The Table’
During a recent interview, Jordan discussed Special Counsel John Durham’s final report into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe and suggested that investigations conducted by his committee may expand to include former President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton.
Jordan declared the alleged targeting of former President Donald Trump gives many Americans a big reason to question future elections and government agencies, adding that the Durham report made clear people need to go to jail.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

Guitarist Saw a Wife CUSSING Out Her Husband…TURNED ANGRY Rant into 70s Classic! | Professor of Rock

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Born on this day: July 12, 1947 - Wilko Johnson
English singer, guitarist, songwriter Wilko Johnson who with Dr Feelgood had the 1979 UK No.9 single 'Milk And Alcohol' and a founding member of Solid Senders. Wilko stated in early 2013 that he had terminal cancer and was given just 10 months to live, and aptly announced he was going on a farewell tour. On 22 March 2013, Wilko played what he thought would be his final show guesting with Madness on the television programme Madness Live: Goodbye Television Centre which was broadcast on BBC Four. In Oct 2014 Johnson said he has been "cured" of the terminal pancreatic cancer. Johnson died on 21 November 2022 at the age of 75. via thisdayinmusic.com

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In case you have hornets. They do sell hornet/wasp spray which works pretty well. Homemade hornet/wasp spray? Not so much. Genius Award Winner.

If you're dealing with a wasp nest, don't panic. You can use several methods to get rid of them, and none are too difficult or dangerous. However, one man decided that he would use gasoline (and some other stuff) to eliminate an entire wasp nest in his yard.

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Imagine to walk and run for the first time. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Girl Born With Feet Facing Backward Walks Again After Life-Saving Surgery, Dreams to Become a Gymnast
A “one in a million” amputee who was born with both legs bent backward is now dreaming of becoming a gymnast after undergoing a third successful surgery to save her left leg.
Seven-year-old Victoria Komada, from the city of Norwich in Norfolk, England, was born with a rare congenital deformity called bilateral tibial hemimelia, a condition that leads to deformed legs and missing bones.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Useless Microwave, I pressed 'PIZZA' and it still came out as a potato!

Posted by: Ciampino - Sprint. The water faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 10:00 PM (qfLjt)

2 Ont

Posted by: Pedo Joe at July 12, 2023 10:00 PM (zQVw+)

3 First

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 12, 2023 10:00 PM (3CCua)

4 🏰
O is for the OMGs you give us
N is for the news and nonsense too
T is for the Tech Report that interrupts the flow just when things were getting good in the wee hours

but I digress

Posted by: mindful webworker is not ready for the test at July 12, 2023 10:00 PM (3B6YO)

5 Yes ??

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (iPhone version) at July 12, 2023 10:01 PM (hOUT3)

6 Meh

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 12, 2023 10:01 PM (3CCua)

7 No!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (iPhone version) at July 12, 2023 10:01 PM (hOUT3)

8 Perfect little stream up there, MisHum. Someone could get swept away if they happened to fall into it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 12, 2023 10:02 PM (Angsy)

9 Useless Microwave, I pressed 'PIZZA' and it still came out as a potato!
Posted by: Ciampino - Sprint. The water faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 10:00 PM (qfLjt)

Maybe it's an Irish microwave?

Posted by: Dr. T at July 12, 2023 10:02 PM (jGGMD)

10 Stupid phone

Posted by: javems at July 12, 2023 10:02 PM (AmoqO)

11 8 Perfect little stream up there, MisHum. Someone could get swept away if they happened to fall into it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 12, 2023 10:02 PM (Angsy)

The scavengers have to eat to.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at July 12, 2023 10:02 PM (aA3+G)

12 Yo horde

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at July 12, 2023 10:03 PM (6I2Cp)

13 Good evening morons and I stopped to read the content mh

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2023 10:03 PM (RIvkX)

14 These shongles are hard as tits.

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at July 12, 2023 10:04 PM (iOt02)

15 1 Useless Microwave, I pressed 'PIZZA' and it still came out as a potato!

Posted by: Ciampino - Sprint. The water faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 10:00 PM (qfLjt)

--
Wait, I see the potatoless pizza conversion is broken or something, but it did spew out something labeled ONT. Is it any good? Should I put maple syrup on it after toasting?

Posted by: Ciampino - OK run then. The water faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 10:04 PM (qfLjt)

16 This concludes our ONT for tonight. Thanks for playing.

Posted by: Infiltrator Ignatz at July 12, 2023 10:06 PM (3B6YO)

17 I'm not sure when Jan 6th was.

Posted by: Mr Wray at July 12, 2023 10:06 PM (SYTee)

18 I'm not sure when Jan 6th was.

Posted by: Mr Wray at July 12, 2023 10:06 PM (SYTee)

Born right after her sister, Jan 5th.

Posted by: Marcia Marcia Marcia at July 12, 2023 10:07 PM (Angsy)

19 Report: Three major tax-prep companies sold the personal finance info of tens of millions of Americans to Meta
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureaucracy to the rescue!
-Big Chief Elizabeth Warren

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2023 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

20 I'd take that cabin in a heartbeat and probably never leave!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (iPhone version) at July 12, 2023 10:08 PM (hOUT3)

21 Good evening everyone.

Attended a historical lecture held in our small town's theater tonight. The emcee lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance before the speaker was introduced. The crowd recited it enthusiastically.

I don't think I have recited the Pledge in over 20 years before tonight.

America is not dead yet.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2023 10:09 PM (OjHyA)

22 Read the content, so I didn't get a first tonight...but it was worth it!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 12, 2023 10:09 PM (TsIpc)

23 The Solid Senders was Roy Milton's band, founded in 1933. That Brit guy is a Johnny-come-lately:

https://youtu.be/OUUD_j-M7EM

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2023 10:09 PM (pJ96T)

24 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Mis Hum!

I could spend a week at that cabin... or a year...

Great tune behind the top photo. Yet another band I'd never heard of! Where do you find such wonderful songs?

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 12, 2023 10:10 PM (vfKOf)

25 I'd take that cabin in a heartbeat and probably never leave!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (iPhone version) at July 12, 2023 10:08 PM (hOUT3)

Forget it. Cabin's probably on stolen Indian land. Though, they might take Ben and Jerry's hq in trade.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 12, 2023 10:10 PM (Angsy)

26 My dear departed father in law believed gasoline was the only thing to use against stingy things. I went into his hay shed once, it was summer and he was mad that some big black Bees (bumblebee sized) were burrowing into his stored hay. So he went in there and slung gasoline everywhere to drive them out. I was over there and went in to look for him, and between the gas and all the dry hay I realized one spark would lead to a mushroom cloud thst would be seen for miles. He was lucky that day

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2023 10:11 PM (S6gqv)

27 21
TP
Parts of America are not dead yet, but TPTB are working on that!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (iPhone version) at July 12, 2023 10:12 PM (hOUT3)

28 24 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Mis Hum!

I could spend a week at that cabin... or a year...

Great tune behind the top photo. Yet another band I'd never heard of! Where do you find such wonderful songs?
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 12, 2023 10:10 PM (vfKOf)

Thanks,
Due diligence and fortitude.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at July 12, 2023 10:13 PM (aA3+G)

29 I never thought to be thankful for feet that point in the correct direction, but guess I should be.

Posted by: Steppin' Out at July 12, 2023 10:14 PM (T0tUU)

30 My dear departed father in law believed gasoline was the only thing to use against stingy things. I went into his hay shed once, it was summer and he was mad that some big black Bees (bumblebee sized) were burrowing into his stored hay. So he went in there and slung gasoline everywhere to drive them out. I was over there and went in to look for him, and between the gas and all the dry hay I realized one spark would lead to a mushroom cloud thst would be seen for miles. He was lucky that day
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2023 10:11 PM (S6gqv)

I once blew up a football-sized paper wasp nest with a home-made firecracker about ten inches long. Waited until sunset, jammed the bomb in the hole in the bottom of the nest, lit the fuse and ran away. Kaboom! The air was filled with confetti, most of which was wasp parts. No survivors.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2023 10:14 PM (pJ96T)

31 What all these native Americans are doing is the equivalent of me trading someone a 69 Mustang for some parts to fix up my own car, then bitching and moaning when they restore it and it's worth $80k, of course there's comes with a bunch of racial blackmail. There should be a name for what they're doing....

Not to mention their idea, which they claimed during the pipeline fight, was that their tribe's land is literally anything their ancestors laid eyes on, its the dog pissing on an object view of ownership.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 12, 2023 10:15 PM (+w7uB)

32 Thanks,
Due diligence and fortitude.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at July 12, 2023 10:13 PM (aA3+G)
===
I miss you long time.

Posted by: Yoko Ono at July 12, 2023 10:15 PM (RIvkX)

33 Great tune behind the top photo. Yet another band I'd never heard of! Where do you find such wonderful songs?
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 12, 2023 10:10 PM (vfKOf)

Thanks,
Due diligence and fortitude.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at July 12, 2023 10:13 PM (aA3+G)

Never heard of that band. They are pretty good.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2023 10:16 PM (pJ96T)

34 Another nice ONT, Mis Hum. Love the top pic!

Posted by: LRob in Ok at July 12, 2023 10:17 PM (TSQkU)

35 Tonypete: I don't think I have recited the Pledge in over 20 years before tonight.

That was cool. I don't stand at my desk, hand over heart, facing the flag, and reciting the pledge every day as in my gradeschool days. I find cause to recite the pledge now and then anyway. I still mean it.

Also find myself lately frequently thinking, "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary…"

Posted by: mindful webworker - red-white-and-blue-blooded at July 12, 2023 10:17 PM (3B6YO)

36 "These sacred tribal lands of yours, who did you take them from?"

Posted by: The Question That Shall Not Be Asked at July 12, 2023 10:18 PM (SYTee)

37 THanks LRob.

Good thing that place isn't mine, you wouldn't have me around here.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at July 12, 2023 10:19 PM (aA3+G)

38 I was over there and went in to look for him, and between the gas and all the dry hay I realized one spark would lead to a mushroom cloud thst would be seen for miles. He was lucky that day
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2023 10:11 PM (S6gqv)

My wife and I walked into our house one day and her dad was squirting lighter fluid on the small fire in the fireplace insert. The guy was a retired chemical engineer and had designed and built plastic plants around the world. He had to know that it was a bad idea. Luckily, he stopped squirting right as the fire exploded.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 12, 2023 10:19 PM (zQVw+)

39 Do ya think there could be troutses in that stream?

Posted by: LRob in Ok at July 12, 2023 10:19 PM (TSQkU)

40 Please consider attending the PNW MoMee in Oregon on August 19

I will not be trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty. Remain to be blessed.

Posted by: Kindltot - click my nick to request info on the PNW MoMee in OREGON at July 12, 2023 10:20 PM (xhaym)

41 Another father in law story about gasoline - he was working on the tractor in coveralls, then used gasoline to get the grease off. Soaked 'em in gasoline - then he went into the house and just threw them into the washing machine, with a gas dryer running next to it. It was right next to the kitchen and dining room, and he and his dear old fashioned southern girl wife had just sat down to have lunch when it blew the door off the laundry room - with doorframe attached - and blew all the pictures off the walls.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2023 10:20 PM (S6gqv)

42 9 Useless Microwave, I pressed 'PIZZA' and it still came out as a potato!
Posted by: Ciampino - Sprint. The water faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 10:00 PM (qfLjt)

Maybe it's an Irish microwave?
Posted by: Dr. T
Nah. Then it would have been whiskey.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2023 10:20 PM (0Htd1)

43 Shongles? Girl band from the 60's?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2023 10:20 PM (Q4IgG)

44 I had shongles once, it was pure misery on a stick.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 12, 2023 10:20 PM (MeG8a)

45 Hello, Horde! ❤❤❤

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at July 12, 2023 10:21 PM (SRRAx)

46 Do ya think there could be troutses in that stream?
Posted by: LRob in Ok at July 12, 2023 10:19 PM (TSQkU)
* * * *
Worth checking out!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 12, 2023 10:21 PM (vfKOf)

47 Evening Horde, thx for ONT MisHum. Boom Crash Opera should have gotten more play . Never saw them but one of my college housemates had a tape we wore out. Story by Randy Bachman was funny.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 12, 2023 10:21 PM (PVx3i)

48 Fvcking Kabuki Theater, spare me Congress critter Jordan.

I like the no comma after 'me'. Hearkens back to Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

No comma really gives oomph to the concept of vote all these mouthy do-nothing fuckers out. We already had that dude with the bad haircuts from SC and his constant yapping to no actual result. Same with Jimmy Boy.

I also believe it's called 'Kabuki Failure Theater', as their failure is so well choreographed and rehearsed. Never the fucking hill to die on -- for anything, that kind of shit.

Posted by: RickZ at July 12, 2023 10:23 PM (emlEe)

49 >>>Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Dyslexic Sign Workers.

Maybe. Or maybe a friendly neighbor played a little prank.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 12, 2023 10:25 PM (klJTj)

50 So it is confirmed...that in Commiefornia..BALLOT HARVESTING is a DEMOCRATIC CONSTRUCT TO ENSURE

DEMOCRATES WIN EVERY ELECTION...

YOU GOT THAT???

EVERY ELECTION!!!!

EVERY ELECTION!!!

So ...your next play REPUBLICANS? Ya GOT ONE???

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 12, 2023 10:25 PM (UsQA1)

51 Wasps and yellowjackets and baldfaced hornets all eat garden pests. I like them but of course not close up.

I mounted my old mailbox by the garden since the wasps used to always used to build nests in it.
Still don't have a nest in it, I guess wasps like being handy to the street.

Posted by: Kindltot - click this link to request info on the PNW MoMee in OREGON at July 12, 2023 10:26 PM (xhaym)

52 I have a play....

not gonna share...

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 12, 2023 10:27 PM (UsQA1)

53 So ...your next play REPUBLICANS? Ya GOT ONE???

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 12, 2023 10:25 PM (UsQA1)

Typing letters to the editor as we speak!

Posted by: GOPe at July 12, 2023 10:27 PM (Angsy)

54 50

As Jeff Sessions would say "ZZZZZ!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (iPhone version) at July 12, 2023 10:27 PM (hOUT3)

55 I just posted a landscape painting to my website I did referenced from a beautiful photo that MH posted on the ONT awhile back. This one was done in acrylic.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 10:28 PM (MNhXM)

56 G'nite, Horde...

Just finished one Agent Pendergast novel (Two Graves). Time to start the next one (White Fire).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 12, 2023 10:29 PM (BpYfr)

57 >>>"Yet their existence as institutions, as schools of learning, are only there today because of everything that was taken," An Garagiola, a descendant of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa

Taking Indian giving to a new level?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 12, 2023 10:29 PM (klJTj)

58 55 I just posted a landscape painting to my website I did referenced from a beautiful photo that MH posted on the ONT awhile back. This one was done in acrylic.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 10:28 PM (MNhXM)

And it's a damn fine piece of work!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at July 12, 2023 10:29 PM (aA3+G)

59 In CA, there's gonna be a big tree fall down go boom.
Near total collapse of downtown office space, retail store flight, banks on shaky footing, crime completely uncontrolled.
That which can't go on...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 12, 2023 10:30 PM (MeG8a)

60 I thought that Comey was the ultimate shitweasel, but Wray is right up there with him.

Posted by: Pox On Them Both at July 12, 2023 10:31 PM (T0tUU)

61 I just posted a landscape painting to my website I did referenced from a beautiful photo that MH posted on the ONT awhile back. This one was done in acrylic.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 10:28 PM (MNhXM)

I keep forgetting the link. Can you post it, please?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 12, 2023 10:31 PM (Angsy)

62
Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 10:28 PM (MNhXM)

And it's a damn fine piece of work!
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

link?

Posted by: Infidel at July 12, 2023 10:31 PM (0zJ6Q)

63 This one is for CBD:

American Health Care

They've confiscated my B.V.D.'s
And a cold wind blows 'twixt my knees
In a hospital gown
With my balls hanging down
And my butt cheeks flapping in the breeze

Posted by: Muldoon at July 12, 2023 10:31 PM (x2qkA)

64 Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 10:28 PM (MNhXM)

Link?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (iPhone version) at July 12, 2023 10:31 PM (hOUT3)

65 >>>Girl Born With Feet Facing Backward Walks Again After Life-Saving Surgery, Dreams to Become a Gymnast

Damn. I'm glad they found a way to help that sweet little girl.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 12, 2023 10:32 PM (klJTj)

66 If you want to sell more Shongles Shit, you should probably re-name it.

Posted by: Average Guy at July 12, 2023 10:33 PM (lPHZZ)

67 Great limerick, Muldoon!

Continued prayers for you and the missus.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 12, 2023 10:34 PM (vfKOf)

68 36 "These sacred tribal lands of yours, who did you take them from?"
Posted by: The Question That Shall Not Be Asked

All land is stolen. In Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America, everywhere, national borders are entirely arbitrary. In any given country, a lot of the people living there today are probably not the descendants of the people who lived there a thousand years ago.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2023 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

69 "Kabuki" - Congressional investigations and hearings never amount to a hill of beans.

Doesn't matter which Party has the majority. Nothing ever comes of it.

They're all just posing for the cameras, to get themselves re-elected.

Posted by: Arradin at July 12, 2023 10:36 PM (5kvQv)

70 Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 10:28 PM (MNhXM)

Link?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (iPhone version) at July 12, 2023 10:31 PM (hOUT

I can somewhat paint but I can’t do links, I just put the website in the e-mail space, Stuppleart.com.

One day I will take the time to learn how to post links.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 10:37 PM (MNhXM)

71 Rbastid, re dog-pissing-on-fire-hydrant "ownership":
just the next evolution of the "smart" growth idea of "viewshed".
I see, therefore I own.

Posted by: barbarausa at July 12, 2023 10:37 PM (uAuXI)

72 untrue the vote and ex convict denish d'souza is being sued by state of georgia of their filed claim in "mules" movie that mark andrews shown in movie depositing 5 ballots of family members (allowed by georgia law) was committing fraud and a felony. d'souza is being sued by andrews but keeps running away from process server!

Posted by: raimondo at July 12, 2023 10:38 PM (DpbfL)

73 And it's a damn fine piece of work!
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at July 12, 2023 10:29 PM (aA3+G)

Thanks my friend,

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 10:38 PM (MNhXM)

74 I mounted my old mailbox by the garden since the wasps used to always used to build nests in it.
Still don't have a nest in it, I guess wasps like being handy to the street.
Posted by: Kindltot

How are we supposed to scare the piss out of the mailman from way back here?

Posted by: wasps at July 12, 2023 10:38 PM (DgGvY)

75 In any given country, a lot of the people living there today are probably not the descendants of the people who lived there a thousand years ago.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2023 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

Hey, quit lookin' look at us.

Posted by: The Roman and Byzantine Empires at July 12, 2023 10:39 PM (emlEe)

76 One day I will take the time to learn how to post links.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 10:37 PM (MNhXM)

Just put it in the URL box.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 12, 2023 10:39 PM (Angsy)

77 57 >>>"Yet their existence as institutions, as schools of learning, are only there today because of everything that was taken," An Garagiola, a descendant of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa

Taking Indian giving to a new level?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 12, 2023 10:29 PM (klJTj)

Yeah, um, sorry we dragged your sorry asses out of the stone age. Wanna go back? Give us back our gasoline powered vehicles, our firearms, our indoor plumbing and heated homes, our schools, our government paid healthcare, and every other damned thing, and then we'll talk about a land swap. Until then, FOAD.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 12, 2023 10:40 PM (LOVUx)

78 I have a nephew in California (not really close to him) who's always been a loud lib, was all in on the vaxx, got all the boosters too and sneered at anyone who didn't. He's always been into physical fitness (in his 40's) always been very healthy. He broke his leg recently in a freak home accident and needed surgery to repair it. Was supposed to happen today, but hold on - suddenly pre-op tests showed some big new heart problem that he never had before. All on hold til they figure out how bad it is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2023 10:40 PM (S6gqv)

79 Posted by: raimondo at July 12, 2023 10:38 PM (DpbfL)

Well. It is an open thread, even for retarded twits such as him.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at July 12, 2023 10:40 PM (aA3+G)

80 " I thought that Comey was the ultimate shitweasel, but Wray is right up there with him."

imo these are mafia fixers, and deserve to be treated as such. They are traitors or worse. They do not serve USA, and they knowingly serve some "greater globalist powers".

Hanging would be the best they deserve. In China, those kids beings killed ... children of the "entitled class" CCP, because the people have little other choice for "independence", or even a decent life on the edge.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2023 10:40 PM (Cus5s)

81
I guess ballot harvesting steals a few local elections in Commiefornia, but I'm going to postulate that the state is a wasteland of blue idiocy where commies will always prevail anyway. I'm not saying to give up, but the CAGOP couldn't make significant gains even if they topped the Dems in the art and science of vote-stealing. So I guess I'm saying to give up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 10:42 PM (AxmOr)

82 79 Posted by: raimondo at July 12, 2023 10:38 PM (DpbfL)

Well. It is an open thread, even for retarded twits such as him.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at July 12, 2023 10:40 PM (aA3+G)

Couldn't we get a treatment from Ortho?

I hate twits.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 12, 2023 10:42 PM (5xURv)

83 Useless Microwave, I pressed 'PIZZA' and it still came out as a potato!
Posted by: Ciampino - Sprint. The water faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 10:00 PM (qfLjt)

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See what comes out when you press CLOCK

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2023 10:42 PM (7BJ8M)

84 Polynikes, you should have painted "Canola" in oil....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 12, 2023 10:42 PM (Angsy)

85

Your mother cooks socks in hell!

Posted by: The Dyslexorcist at July 12, 2023 10:42 PM (FlLTu)

86 85

Your mother cooks socks in hell!
Posted by: The Dyslexorcist at July 12, 2023 10:42 PM (FlLTu)

Well that escalated quickly.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 12, 2023 10:43 PM (5xURv)

87 In CA, there's gonna be a big tree fall down go boom.
Near total collapse of downtown office space, retail store flight, banks on shaky footing, crime completely uncontrolled.
That which can't go on...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 12, 2023 10:30 PM (MeG8a)

On the local news tonight: Anchor Brewery (located in SF) is closing shop, after 120+ years.

Posted by: Average Guy at July 12, 2023 10:43 PM (lPHZZ)

88 looks like the river that runs underneath the end of my drive

Konkapot River

ar 22 miles long, one of the shortest rivers in the country

Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2023 10:44 PM (us2H3)

89 52 I have a play....

not gonna share...

If it's similar to the wasp ideas, at least get video.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 12, 2023 10:45 PM (roH4R)

90 Polynikes, you should have painted "Canola" in oil....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 12, 2023 10:42 PM (Angsy)

HAH I didn’t even think of that. To be honest I didn’t know what rapeweed was until after I started. I showed the photo to my neighbor and she educated me.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 10:45 PM (MNhXM)

91 Wasps and yellow-jackets are asshoe and not fit to live amongst us. Kill every one you find.

Posted by: Ortho Man at July 12, 2023 10:45 PM (T0tUU)

92 I saw Shongles Shit open for…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 10:46 PM (xTRSc)

93 HAH I didn’t even think of that. To be honest I didn’t know what rapeweed was until after I started. I showed the photo to my neighbor and she educated me.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 10:45 PM (MNhXM)

You also forgot to paint the disabled woman in the grass....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 12, 2023 10:47 PM (Angsy)

94 91 Wasps and yellow-jackets are asshoe and not fit to live amongst us. Kill every one you find.
Posted by: Ortho Man at July 12, 2023 10:45 PM (T0tUU)

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Just smack the nest with a trash can lid and call it a day.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2023 10:47 PM (7BJ8M)

95 As I was becoming a CPA mumbly mumbly decades ago, there were really only two inviolate rules: objectivity and confidentiallity. Big city Big Eight, for those who know what that means.
But already I could see change coming, in the form of business advisory services. I bailed fairly quickly for local practice.
Can't say I'm surprised the way things have gone.

Posted by: From about that Time at July 12, 2023 10:47 PM (4780s)

96 the worst bites for me are black fly bites

I have some bites scars that go back 25 years

most likely die with them

Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2023 10:47 PM (us2H3)

97 On the local news tonight: Anchor Brewery (located in SF) is closing shop, after 120+ years.

Posted by: Average Guy at July 12, 2023 10:43 PM (lPHZZ)

That sounds like pretty big news to me. Any reason(s) given for the closure besides the obvious?

Posted by: RickZ at July 12, 2023 10:47 PM (emlEe)

98
In CA, there's gonna be a big tree fall down go boom.
Near total collapse of downtown office space, retail store flight, banks on shaky footing, crime completely uncontrolled.
That which can't go on...
Posted by: gourmand du jour

=========

Pretty much what happened in Detroit as far as I can tell, and yet Michigan persists.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 10:47 PM (AxmOr)

99 That SHONGLES SHIT ?

It's photoshopped. Notice the kerning of the swapped letters. There is too much in 'shit' and too little in 'shongles'.

Posted by: Ciampino -- OK run then. The water faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 10:48 PM (qfLjt)

100 polynikes

Love the sky on the new one. The whole picture is great, but the sky looks like a photo. Nice work.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 12, 2023 10:48 PM (ebhEj)

101 Oh now we're all experts in kerning.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2023 10:49 PM (7BJ8M)

102 On the local news tonight: Anchor Brewery (located in SF) is closing shop, after 120+ years.
Posted by: Average Guy at July 12, 2023 10:43 PM (lPHZZ)

Texas ought to offer them asylum.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2023 10:49 PM (aHblV)

103
That SHONGLES SHIT ?

It's photoshopped. Notice the kerning of the swapped letters. There is too much in 'shit' and too little in 'shongles'.
Posted by: Ciampino

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Look at the bad kerning in "today." Someone just doesn't space their letters nicely.

But you could be right. If not real-life vandals then virtual ones.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 10:50 PM (AxmOr)

104 Sorry to hear about Anchor Brewery. Heard good things about there beer. Never got around to trying it myself.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 12, 2023 10:51 PM (sVfvf)

105 Anchor Wat Brewing shut down a long time ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2023 10:51 PM (S6gqv)

106 It all starts with the kerning. And then the Oxford comma...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 12, 2023 10:51 PM (MeG8a)

107 So now the feds are going to come after the helo company, with long guns and thousands of dollars of fines?

Our govt is completely out of control.

Posted by: PJ at July 12, 2023 10:51 PM (G1dq6)

108 Good evening, Muldoon.

I hope you are well. How's the ticker?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 12, 2023 10:52 PM (U2p+3)

109 Anchor Brewing, Anchor Steam Beer.
Too bad. It's good.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 12, 2023 10:53 PM (MeG8a)

110 Look at the bad kerning in "today." Someone just doesn't space their letters nicely.

But you could be right. If not real-life vandals then virtual ones.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 10:50 PM (AxmOr)

Those signs are usually changed by the lowest minimum-wage employee on the totem pole, and we expect kerning?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2023 10:53 PM (aHblV)

111 black flies are irritating, but chigger bites last a week or longer for me. Black flies, I think are what we in Midwest call buffalo gnats, usually diminish by late June.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2023 10:53 PM (Cus5s)

112 It's photoshopped. Notice the kerning of the swapped letters. There is too much in 'shit' and too little in 'shongles'.
Posted by: Ciampino -- OK run then. The water faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 10:48 PM (qfLjt)

naw

same guy that set the sign laid the bricks

Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2023 10:54 PM (us2H3)

113 🐝
Our old house is in need of much repair. Despite all patching efforts, somewhere, wasps get in, several every day. Around the house, they swarm. I have used chemical warfare in the past; haven't really gotten around to it again lately. The circuit breaker box has to be bombed annually.

Decades ago, my recently-late older brother was living here. He'd tell how he and his friends all knew, yes, wasps were flying around, so what; keep quiet. But there would be some newbie who would get up and frantic, waving his arms and, of course, sting-o!

They're all either those little blue-black wasps or mud-daubers. Peaceful, mostly. Used to have hornets and those aggressive yellowjackets and mutant killer horseflies, but rarely now; maybe the mud-daubers by weight of numbers have kept the evil stingers down.

Did get stung recently, for the first time in years. I put my elbow down on the arm of my chair, and, apparently, some stingy thingy reacted as they do, and wow did it hurt for quite some time. Long ago, I had a wasp just barely touch me with the needle as warning. This was a full-fledged dose. Poor little guy was scared.

Posted by: mindful webworker - ow at July 12, 2023 10:54 PM (3B6YO)

114 I was kerning back in the 80s when we did it on IBM Selectrics.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2023 10:54 PM (7BJ8M)

115 40 some odd years ago I did a pencil drawing of a buddy's 3rd gen Pontiac Firebird.

He still has it. Framed.

I'm concerned with his taste in art.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2023 10:55 PM (Q4IgG)

116 Those signs are usually changed by the lowest minimum-wage employee on the totem pole, and we expect kerning?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2023 10:53 PM (aHblV)
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Even if they don't know what the letters mean at least they can space the letters out consistently.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2023 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

117 Oh now we're all experts in kerning.
Posted by: Cicero

I'll need some room to process all of this.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2023 10:55 PM (OjHyA)

118 When a kid, garbage was put into buried cement cylinder cast iron cover garbage cans for twice weekly pick-up by the garbage (not trash)man, for the pig farms. Greater
Boston.
Opening up the summer house, someone had put garbage in there before pickup renewed. Swarming with bugs. My mother tells me to take care of them. We burned our trash, that was my job also.
So I poured a little gasoline into the garbage pail, then some newspaper, then some gas, paper, repeat. Pails two feet deep. Lit a wooden match, bent over the pail, and dropped it in.
Landed eight feet away across the neighbors two rut driveway. My mother looks out the kitchen window.
Did you get the ants, Fatty?

Posted by: From about that Time at July 12, 2023 10:56 PM (4780s)

119 I can kern fifty letters.

Posted by: Cool Kern Luke at July 12, 2023 10:56 PM (SYTee)

120 wasps are not so bad, the hornets (I've experienced) are smaller and more vicious/relentless.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2023 10:56 PM (Cus5s)

121 Oxford commas rule. Not kidding.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 10:57 PM (xTRSc)

122 ar 22 miles long, one of the shortest rivers in the country
Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2023 10:44 PM (us2H3)

The D river is shorter. It is about 120 feet long, depending on the tide.

Posted by: Kindltot - click this link to request info on the PNW MoMee in OREGON at July 12, 2023 10:57 PM (xhaym)

123 Kerning is easy, but it's hard to get a good job of gallowglassing done, these days.

Posted by: zombie Will Shakespeare at July 12, 2023 10:58 PM (aHblV)

124 Wasps are asshoe. Eliminate them.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 10:58 PM (xTRSc)

125 I got my shingles shit and it knocked me out for a day. At least the first round. 2nd round wasn't as bad

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 12, 2023 10:58 PM (sJHOI)

126 black flies are irritating, but chigger bites last a week or longer for me. Black flies, I think are what we in Midwest call buffalo gnats, usually diminish by late June.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2023 10:53 PM (Cus5s)

The green flies on the Outer Banks are vicious. They can bite through t-shirts and other clothing. They leave a nice painful welt.

Posted by: RickZ at July 12, 2023 10:58 PM (emlEe)

127 I'll need some room to process all of this.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2023 10:55 PM (OjHyA)
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W h y

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2023 10:59 PM (RIvkX)

128 We will have no ability to assault him as such.

He will be long gone to some European uber rich enclave...as will the rest of them.

And WE will be left to just build bunkers and bide our time.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 12, 2023 10:59 PM (UsQA1)

129 bought a new electric UTV ... nice, $11,750 with title and tax, but hey, I have no kids to take care of. So quiet ... except for some rattles that I'm trying to fix. ... still need to fix my Mule for the wetter times ... but the electric has power, and with my PV system can charge for "free".

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2023 10:59 PM (Cus5s)

130 Say what you will about spiders, but they do eat a lot of noxious insects. As do bats.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:00 PM (xTRSc)

131
Neither vandals nor minimum-wage employees are known for their kerning, so perhaps we shall never know.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 11:00 PM (AxmOr)

132 @87

>>On the local news tonight: Anchor Brewery (located in SF) is closing shop, after 120+ years.

Isn't that the brewery that makes Anchor Steam?

I thought that was a popular beer.

When I went bumming around Seattle a couple of decades ago, that beer was on tap everywhere.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 12, 2023 11:01 PM (up/3i)

133 Regarding stolen land-- the locals stole it from someone before them. They also didn't even have the f-ing wheel. Welcome to the future stone agers.

Posted by: free tibet at July 12, 2023 11:01 PM (ej/KZ)

134 Mud daubers don't bother you. They build the shit out of some nests, though.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2023 11:01 PM (TZ75n)

135 YES WASPS did so greatly EF us over.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 12, 2023 11:01 PM (UsQA1)

136 I was kerning back in the 80s when we did it on IBM Selectrics.
Posted by: Cicero

I was working a side gig for a few weeks where we were cleaning out (down to the studs) a monster office building. They had gone TU and the bankruptcy liquidator simply decided to scrap everything quickly and rebuilt to re-rent that Class A space as soon as possible.

We threw out thousands of perfectly serviceable Selectrics, and other office equipment, into 40 cu yard dumpsters. (And no liberation of said Selectrics was tolerated). Dunno why.

Sorry, didn't mean to make you cry.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2023 11:01 PM (OjHyA)

137 Neither vandals nor minimum-wage employees are known for their kerning, so perhaps we shall never know.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 11:00 PM (AxmOr)

Not to mention that signs of that nature sometimes have sloppy-fitting letters, and the wind can shift them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2023 11:02 PM (aHblV)

138 99 That SHONGLES SHIT ?

It's photoshopped. Notice the kerning of the swapped letters. There is too much in 'shit' and too little in 'shongles'.
Posted by: Ciampino -- OK run then. The water faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 10:48 PM (qfLjt)

Don't you have cats to blab about instead of pissing on The ONT?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at July 12, 2023 11:02 PM (aA3+G)

139
Isn't that the brewery that makes Anchor Steam?

Posted by: Thomas Bender

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Yes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 11:02 PM (AxmOr)

140 Jeffrey Epstein is alive and well in Ukraine.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2023 11:02 PM (fY84s)

141 There was a somewhat recent acquisition of a big SF brewery by a Japanese firm. Could have been Anchor, or Sierra. Or both.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 12, 2023 11:02 PM (MeG8a)

142 133 Regarding stolen land-- the locals stole it from someone before them. They also didn't even have the f-ing wheel. Welcome to the future stone agers.
Posted by: free tibet at July 12, 2023 11:01 PM (ej/KZ)

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It's called capitalism, putz.

Posted by: Phloebag Waller-Bitch at July 12, 2023 11:02 PM (7BJ8M)

143 Mud daubers are OK, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:03 PM (xTRSc)

144
Sorry, didn't mean to make you cry.
Posted by: Tonypete

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Nice machines at the time, but they're all pretty much obsolete now anyway.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 11:03 PM (AxmOr)

145 Watched American Graffiti tonight for the first time in a long while.

It's a good film but when you watch you cannot stop thinking about all of the people who would go on to be stars and their roles.

Like that's Richie Cunningham, that's Chrissy, that's Han Solo, that's Hooppr....

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 12, 2023 11:04 PM (up/3i)

146 Hey, Tonypete.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:04 PM (xTRSc)

147 Pretty much what happened in Detroit as far as I can tell, and yet Michigan persists.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Detroit never recovered from the '67 riots. Talk about a mass migration. At one time there had been some real wealth there. There were streets with large, gorgeous brick houses, and beautiful public buildings. I was looking at a book in the library that had photos of the once great buildings that are sitting empty and going to ruin, marble floors, brass fixtures, beautiful windows, woodwork, chandeliers, all turning to crap.

Setting your own city on fire has a downside. Who knew. And now we're watching the idiots on the west coast doing the same shit. Businesses will leave, middle class and working class people will leave. All that will be left will be city employees and dysfunctional people who can't afford to move.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2023 11:04 PM (0Htd1)

148 🎵
Cuando Cuando veo "publicado por: Raimondo"
No leo el comentario y nunca respondo.
🎷

Posted by: Trabajador web consciente at July 12, 2023 11:04 PM (3B6YO)

149 truck the anchor brewery equipment to a Free State (conservative) ... they could still thrive.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2023 11:04 PM (Cus5s)

150 Big B!! How's things?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2023 11:04 PM (OjHyA)

151 Raimondo es culero grande.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2023 11:05 PM (TZ75n)

152 Yellow jackets sting so fast! They seem to me to be the most aggressive; but the pain and swelling goes away in a few hours. I've been stung by a red wasp and stung by a scorpion, and the scorpion was just a little bit worse than the red wasp.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2023 11:05 PM (S6gqv)

153 Anchor Steam is not a micro brewery and is on tap widely. Its not moving, its closing down.

Because no one drinks beer anymore.
/s

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2023 11:06 PM (RIvkX)

154 What ever happened to the murder hornets?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2023 11:06 PM (63Dwl)

155 Pam Dawbers > Mud Daubers

Posted by: Mark Harmon at July 12, 2023 11:06 PM (bK1ip)

156 I always liked the Anchor Steam beer. A bit pricey when it gets east.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2023 11:07 PM (TZ75n)

157 Regarding stolen land-- the locals stole it from someone before them. They also didn't even have the f-ing wheel. Welcome to the future stone agers.

Posted by: free tibet at July 12, 2023 11:01 PM (ej/KZ)

It's just like slavery. Slavery's been around since two cultures bumped up against each other; the US is not unique and we know the practice still thrives today. Everyone has taken land from someone somewhere in the past, lost it, maybe regained a part of it, lost another piece, had a treaty or two thrown their way, ad nauseum. I really hate this woke bullshit. At this point, I DO want Ben & Jerry's to go the way of Butt Light.

Posted by: RickZ at July 12, 2023 11:07 PM (emlEe)

158 Mud daubers don't bother you. They build the shit out of some nests, though.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2023 11:01 PM (TZ75n)

I worked across the road from a pottery company where they made bisque ware. The owner mentioned that they would put old mud dauber nests into the kilns, and they would show up with stripes of the pottery clay and the clay from the potholes in the parking lot. He said that that the pottery clay came out golden from whatever the wasps did to the clay while chewing on it.

Posted by: Kindltot - click this link to request info on the PNW MoMee in OREGON at July 12, 2023 11:07 PM (xhaym)

159 150 Tonypete, I’m dealing with unemployment and the job search. Not a great time for me, but I’m hopeful for a happy outcome. How are you?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:07 PM (xTRSc)

160 Anchor Brewing, Anchor Steam Beer.
Too bad. It's good.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 12, 2023 10:53 PM (MeG8a)

good, but overpriced by a good bit. Even before the big microbrewery explosion, this was the case.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 12, 2023 11:07 PM (sJHOI)

161 Anchor Steam is not a micro brewery and is on tap widely. Its not moving, its closing down.

Because no one drinks beer anymore.
/s
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2023 11:06 PM (RIvkX)

Possibly too big to make it as a microbrew, and too small to run with the big dogs. Maybe they should hire Dylan Mulva, and seek to corner the tranny market.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2023 11:08 PM (aHblV)

162
Detroit never recovered from the '67 riots.

Coleman Young didn't help.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2023 11:09 PM (63Dwl)

163 Nice machines at the time, but they're all pretty much obsolete now anyway.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 11:03 PM (AxmOr)

My grandfather was a CPA and I have his Burroughs machine. The one that runs a tape and has the mechanical readout behind glass.
It is operated with the big lever, "kachunk"

Posted by: Kindltot - click this link to request info on the PNW MoMee in OREGON at July 12, 2023 11:10 PM (xhaym)

164 There's no kerning possible with those signs. Each letter is on the same size tile -- no way to adjust the letter spacing.

Posted by: chris+opher at July 12, 2023 11:10 PM (rxZ1Y)

165 I love beer. I used to drink a lot of it.
I also used to weigh +50lbs, with a 44inch waist, LOL.
I can't take the punishment anymore.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 12, 2023 11:11 PM (MeG8a)

166 What ever happened to the murder hornets?

They're laying low until the next panic new cycle is needed.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 12, 2023 11:12 PM (Xrfse)

167 Detroit was great as a Great Lakes port city and as a transit point to Canada. Not much else.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:12 PM (xTRSc)

168 I love beer. I used to drink a lot of it.
I also used to weigh +50lbs, with a 44inch waist, LOL.
I can't take the punishment anymore.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 12, 2023 11:11 PM (MeG8a)

It's not a beer belly

It's a fuel tank for a Love Machine

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 12, 2023 11:12 PM (sJHOI)

169 I stepped on a ground hornets nest a two day hike into the Olympic National Park. No cell reception. I was stung 12-13 times while trying to run down a dry riverbed. Every time I stopped the little fuckers swarmed and sting again.

My future ex husband was tripping his balls off and couldn't figure out why I was screaming and sprinting away.

Good thing I'm not allergic.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 12, 2023 11:12 PM (U2p+3)

170 ...news

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 12, 2023 11:12 PM (Xrfse)

171 Yet another sign-in article. Fix that shot, man.

And I still love beer- but fsck it, I only live once.

Posted by: Joe Wagner at July 12, 2023 11:12 PM (O/+Mn)

172 Reparations

"Stolen Land" "YEAH RIGHT!!! Ya LOST it because HISTORY ya numb nuts. Go get a real job...and to the rest of ya all

No Blacks be living that deserve any if anything...the Democrat's have polluted their "I want MONEY!!!" minds into
the "I deserve FREE money minds!!!"

Votes for 2024 fer Shizzle home slice...

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 12, 2023 11:12 PM (UsQA1)

173 Neither did Newark recover and Sharpe James nor Corey Booker helped.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2023 11:13 PM (RIvkX)

174 It's not a beer belly

It's a fuel tank for a Love Machine
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah

A roof for your dick.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2023 11:14 PM (TZ75n)

175 I had friends who shared a back fence with a small army post in Lagos, Nigeria years ago. The soldiers there cut down a hornets nest on their side. Hornets killed my friends two Irish Setters and two soldiers. Hornets are not to fooled with.

Posted by: Javems at July 12, 2023 11:14 PM (JUh8s)

176 Tonypete, I’m dealing with unemployment and the job search. Not a great time for me, but I’m hopeful for a happy outcome. How are you?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

We're good - loving the new area we are in. Hang in there with the job search - I do vividly remember the stress when I experienced that. The uncertainty and stress will be gone at some point but yeah, getting to that point can be a struggle. Prayers up for a quick resolution.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2023 11:15 PM (OjHyA)

177 The murder hornets are engaged in a three-way fight with the killer bees and the fire ants for control of the country.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:15 PM (xTRSc)

178
There's no kerning possible with those signs. Each letter is on the same size tile -- no way to adjust the letter spacing.
Posted by: chris+opher

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That's true about things like the letter "i," which has indecent margins around it.

But you can still fail to jam the tiles against each other, thus leaving some unseemly gaps. A closer inspection convinces me that this has not occurred, however. Pranksters switched the letters and left no trace.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 11:16 PM (AxmOr)

179 176 Thank you, Tonypete. God be with you and yours.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:17 PM (xTRSc)

180 The murder hornets are engaged in a three-way fight with the killer bees and the fire ants for control of the country.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:15 PM (xTRSc)

Gawd damn our insect overlords.

Posted by: RickZ at July 12, 2023 11:17 PM (emlEe)

181 Me likely beer too but I've been off of it for awhile because not Keto friendly.

Lost 25#s recently and working on losing some more so, drinking the hard stuff only.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2023 11:17 PM (OjHyA)

182 There's no kerning possible with those signs. Each letter is on the same size tile -- no way to adjust the letter spacing.
Posted by: chris+opher at July 12, 2023 11:10 PM (rxZ1Y)
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Gen Z?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2023 11:17 PM (RIvkX)

183 Native Americans: No one owns the land.

Also Native Americans: You stole our land!

Posted by: Wally at July 12, 2023 11:17 PM (09Gns)

184
Detroit was great as a Great Lakes port city and as a transit point to Canada. Not much else.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

==========

Didn't they have some manufacturing?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 11:18 PM (AxmOr)

185 Kerning has no home here!!! *hic*

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at July 12, 2023 11:19 PM (Xrfse)

186 The murder hornets are engaged in a three-way fight with the killer bees and the fire ants for control of the country.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:15 PM (xTRSc)
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Nominated for comment of the week

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2023 11:19 PM (RIvkX)

187 That's true about things like the letter "i," which has indecent margins around it.

But you can still fail to jam the tiles against each other, thus leaving some unseemly gaps. A closer inspection convinces me that this has not occurred, however. Pranksters switched the letters and left no trace.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 11:16 PM (AxmOr)
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Yes, you could move individual tiles apart to compensate for bad kerning, but someone who has mastered letter spacing to that degree is a journeyman sign maker or graphic designer, and would not be messing around with a plastic letter marquee.

Posted by: chris+opher at July 12, 2023 11:20 PM (rxZ1Y)

188 Detroit was great as a Great Lakes port city and as a transit point to Canada. Not much else.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

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Didn't they have some manufacturing?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 11:18 PM (AxmOr)

niche stuff, mostly

Posted by: free tibet at July 12, 2023 11:20 PM (MbWzp)

189

THEM!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2023 11:20 PM (63Dwl)

190 162 173

Hell no, Detroit nor Newark didn't recover. Young or whoever didn't get elected to make anything recover. They were elected to act out their racist resentment, not punish black criminals and loot the treasury.
And no one held them responsible because of the color of their skin.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 12, 2023 11:20 PM (roH4R)

191 Detroit was great as a Great Lakes port city and as a transit point to Canada. Not much else.

Huh?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 12, 2023 11:20 PM (Xrfse)

192 Native Americans: No one owns the land.

Also Native Americans: You stole our land!
Posted by: Wally at July 12, 2023 11:17 PM (09Gns)

And, boy howdy, did they have some nasty wars of genocide, not to mention the slave raiding parties. Noble savage, indeed. The only thing noble about humanity is we've lasted this long without killing ourselves off.

Posted by: RickZ at July 12, 2023 11:21 PM (emlEe)

193 That Guess Who video was fabulous, what a story!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 12, 2023 11:21 PM (CCSxw)

194 184 Henry Ford was born in the Detroit area, but specifically founded his auto company in the Detroit area so as to make for easier export of his cars to Canada, IIRC.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:22 PM (xTRSc)

195 Anchor Steam never caught on in the southeast, though I saw it occasionally.

Sierra Nevada surprisingly did, though.

Man I used to love me a SN Porter back in the day.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 12, 2023 11:23 PM (/11g9)

196 Detroit never recovered from the '67 riots.

Coleman Young didn't help.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Some of the decisions that he made were so stupid that it boggles the mind. At some point he decided not to spend money on snowplows, in Michigan. Geez. I remember seeing news footage of old men shoveling snow off the roads. And the people of Detroit continued to vote for him.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2023 11:24 PM (0Htd1)

197 193 That Guess Who video was fabulous, what a story!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 12, 2023 11:21 PM (CCSxw)

Thanks for watchin'.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at July 12, 2023 11:24 PM (aA3+G)

198 193
'what a story'
I highly recommend the 'Professor of Rock' videos. All I've seen are at least of that quality for those interested in rock history.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 12, 2023 11:25 PM (roH4R)

199 Detroit was great as a Great Lakes port city and as a transit point to Canada. Not much else.

Huh?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 12, 2023 11:20 PM (Xrfse)

One day they will finish the St. Lawrence Seaway, and then shipping will turn around.

Posted by: Kindltot - click this link to request info on the PNW MoMee in OREGON at July 12, 2023 11:25 PM (xhaym)

200 And the people of Detroit continued to vote for him.

racism, FTW. and stupidity

Posted by: free tibet at July 12, 2023 11:25 PM (MbWzp)

201 That Sierra Nevada brewery in Asheville is pretty nice. Has good food, too. Shame it's in Asheville.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2023 11:25 PM (TZ75n)

202 Yellow Jackets are terrible this year. I have 3 nests, all quite large for this time of the year. Two got the gas treatment tonight, but one is inside the porch roof. I am having a bad time getting to the nest.

Too bad about Anchor Steam, it was always a Brickskeller favorite in my misspent youth.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 12, 2023 11:25 PM (y2cRQ)

203 189

"Indeed."

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 12, 2023 11:26 PM (UsQA1)

204 And my butt cheeks flapping in the breeze
Posted by: Muldoon at July 12, 2023 10:31 PM (x2qkA)

And then, in the awkward silence that followed, was heard the snap of a glove being put on.
Then another.
He knew what was coming.
Doctor Knuckles had arrived.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2023 11:26 PM (e4fEA)

205 That Sierra Nevada brewery in Asheville is pretty nice. Has good food, too. Shame it's in Asheville.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2023 11:25 PM (TZ75n)

Yeah, Asheville is hotbed for grooming in the schools. They aren't alone, of course.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 12, 2023 11:27 PM (sJHOI)

206 I have a copy of the Kwame Sutra, an anthology of the sayings of Kwame Kilpatrick. I brought it to one of the early MoMees.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 12, 2023 11:28 PM (y2cRQ)

207 Ah, the snap, crackle, pop of burning the yellowjacket nests.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2023 11:28 PM (TZ75n)

208
Yes, you could move individual tiles apart to compensate for bad kerning, but someone who has mastered letter spacing to that degree is a journeyman sign maker or graphic designer, and would not be messing around with a plastic letter marquee.
Posted by: chris+opher

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I wonder what the prankster would think of us having this discussion.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 11:28 PM (AxmOr)

209 I love that SAG members are having an internal fight because the SAG President, Fran Drescher went to Italy for a Dolce promotion during strike negotiations.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 11:29 PM (MNhXM)

210 I love beer. I used to drink a lot of it.
I also used to weigh +50lbs, with a 44inch waist, LOL.
I can't take the punishment anymore.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 12, 2023 11:11 PM (MeG8a)

I'm a bier snob. I only drink German Hells style bier. Fortunately there is a local source for Hofbrau and Pauliner. As a fallback, there is a local microbrew if my German source fails me.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2023 11:32 PM (e4fEA)

211 Detroit never recovered from the '67 riots.

Coleman Young didn't help.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Coleman Young was a consequence of the '67 riots, as the white exodus began, and Coleman Young, elected with the new black "majority", who quite publicly discussed his hatred of white people, just sped it up some. And then, the beginning of the exodus of the auto company factories (GM and Chrysler, who relocated to Warren and Sterling Heights, Ford was out in Dearborn), the disappearance of the tax base, the grift to get money out of the suburbs and on, and on, and on.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 12, 2023 11:33 PM (tjZg/)

212 The little girl who played the catatonic moppet in the original Them! was a great little actress.

And as for Joan Weldon, who played the lady scientist: Hubba, hubba. Mmmmmmm…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:33 PM (xTRSc)

213 I still have a beer, maybe 24oz in a month.
Special occasions.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 12, 2023 11:34 PM (MeG8a)

214 198 193
'what a story'
I highly recommend the 'Professor of Rock' videos. All I've seen are at least of that quality for those interested in rock history.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 12, 2023 11:25 PM (roH4R)

Yeah, I just went back and subscribed to his channel.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 12, 2023 11:34 PM (CCSxw)

215 Anyone have an Ultra Right beer yet?

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 11:34 PM (MNhXM)

216 That Sierra Nevada brewery in Asheville is pretty nice. Has good food, too. Shame it's in Asheville.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2023 11:25 PM (TZ75n)

Some time back in the early 90s, I'm gonna guess around 1994, I was somewhat confused as to why I could get SN Porter and Pale Ale, but not their Stout.

So I wrote an email to the company and explained that I was a bartender in Tennessee that always promoted their beer, but wondered why we couldn't get their stout.

To my surprise, a package containing a Sierra Nevada sign showed up to the bar about two weeks later with a handwritten letter from one of the owners explaining that the stout couldn't be sold here because it was small batch brewed and occasionally the ABV exceeded TN's maximum of 6% for products sold as beer.

He thanked me for promoting his beer and for complimenting his product and sent me a sign for the bar. Very cool.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 12, 2023 11:34 PM (/11g9)

217 210 I’m a beer snob.

Tell me more.

Posted by: Count Dracula at July 12, 2023 11:35 PM (xTRSc)

218 Dammit, auto cucumber ruined my “bier snob” joke.

This is why AI must be outlawed. It doesn’t get puns.

Posted by: Count Dracula at July 12, 2023 11:37 PM (xTRSc)

219 206 I have a copy of the Kwame Sutra, an anthology of the sayings of Kwame Kilpatrick. I brought it to one of the early MoMees.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat

Last I heard, he was in jail. I'm guessing he's out now. This was a few years ago.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 12, 2023 11:37 PM (Hudry)

220 While I lived in the Bay Area...before it's propulsion into the depth's of hell...Anchor Steam Beer was a very fine brew and I enjoyed it muchly at the local fish and oyster bars like Swan Oyster Depot which had been around for like forever.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 12, 2023 11:37 PM (UsQA1)

221 Some thug just killed a top hand surgeon in his office in Memphis. Local news.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 11:38 PM (MNhXM)

222 I’m a beer snob.

Tell me more.

Posted by: Count Dracula at July 12, 2023 11:35 PM (xTRSc)

Outta the way, Bub!

Posted by: Count Drunkula at July 12, 2023 11:38 PM (emlEe)

223 Kerning? Pffft.

Don't make me throw a 44mb SyQuest cartridge at you people.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2023 11:38 PM (k1Qly)

224 221 Some thug just killed a top hand surgeon in his office in Memphis. Local news.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 11:38 PM (MNhXM)

Have they fingered the shooter yet?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 12, 2023 11:39 PM (/11g9)

225 Sierra Nevada surprisingly did, though.

Man I used to love me a SN Porter back in the day.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Sierra and BBQ is heavenly match.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 12, 2023 11:39 PM (jzzG8)

226 Some thug just killed a top hand surgeon in his office in Memphis. Local news.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 11:38 PM (MNhXM)

Have they fingered the shooter yet?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 12, 2023 11:39 PM (/11g9

He knuckled under

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 11:40 PM (MNhXM)

227 I think that I may have hung out with a few Count Drunkulas in my time.

Or maybe that was just me, drinking alone…

Posted by: Count Dracula at July 12, 2023 11:40 PM (xTRSc)

228 Didn't they have some manufacturing?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Ford's River Rouge plant was amazing. I visited there (with my parents, etc) in the 1960's. Sand, Iron ore, rubber, etc went in on one end. Finished cars came out on the other.
It covered hundreds of acres. Or more. Huge.
Glass, steel, tires, everything to make a car from scratch was made there.
There are still some big steel mills on the lower Detroit River, and the big Speedway oil refinery off of I-75 before you get into downtown Detroit.
Still a lot of GM plants in Warren and Sterling Heights, and Ford is out in Dearborn, still.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 12, 2023 11:40 PM (tjZg/)

229 Dammit, auto cucumber ruined my “bier snob” joke.

This is why AI must be outlawed. It doesn’t get puns.
Posted by: Count Dracula at July 12, 2023 11:37 PM (xTRSc)

Heh.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2023 11:44 PM (e4fEA)

230 @229: "It doesn’t get puns."

To be fair, many people don't either.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2023 11:45 PM (k1Qly)

231 228 Dearbornistan, you mean.

I don’t care what his factories did, Henry Ford was a bastard. Desecrated my entire native state with his shit.

Posted by: Count Dracula at July 12, 2023 11:46 PM (xTRSc)

232 180 The murder hornets are engaged in a three-way fight with the killer bees and the fire ants for control of the country.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:15 PM (xTRSc)

Gawd damn our insect overlords.

Posted by: RickZ at July 12, 2023 11:17 PM (emlEe)
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I thought we were supposed to eat them ...?

Posted by: Ciampino --- OK run then. The water faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 11:46 PM (qfLjt)

233 @229: "It doesn’t get puns."

To be fair, many people don't either.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2023 11:45 PM (k1Qly)

They should be punished.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 11:46 PM (MNhXM)

234 Beaver Bite IPA by Paradox Brewery...or

Spider Bite Do Double IPA...or

Flying Dog Snake Bite IPA or

Grandma's folded pessary IPA with added foam suction...yeah horde you know you love this one!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 12, 2023 11:48 PM (UsQA1)

235 233 @229: "It doesn’t get puns."

To be fair, many people don't either.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2023 11:45 PM (k1Qly)

They should be punished.
Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 11:46 PM (MNhXM)
***

Some beer puns are lager than life.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2023 11:48 PM (e4fEA)

236 Some beer puns are lager than life.
Posted by: Diogenes

It cures what ales you.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2023 11:49 PM (TZ75n)

237 Out at the beach for sunset and just saw a couple or three humpback whales!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 12, 2023 11:50 PM (r6f6k)

238 Some thug just killed a top hand surgeon in his office in Memphis. Local news.

Posted by: polynikes

Have they fingered the shooter yet?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

No, but he was armed, that's for sure.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2023 11:50 PM (OjHyA)

239 233 They should be punished.

ISWYDT

Posted by: Count Dracula at July 12, 2023 11:50 PM (xTRSc)

240 Some beer puns are lager than life.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2023 11:48 PM (e4fEA)

That was barley a pun.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 11:50 PM (MNhXM)

241
Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 12, 2023 11:40 PM (tjZg/)

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Sounds incredible. I suppose the out-migration of such industries was inevitable, but good leadership could have kept the city productive and prosperous with other industries. People who keep voting American cities into shithole status have got to be animals, satisfied to live like that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 12, 2023 11:51 PM (AxmOr)

242
Anyone have an Ultra Right beer yet?
Posted by: polynikes

Is that one with twice the calories?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2023 11:51 PM (63Dwl)

243 Muldoon, You are in our thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at July 12, 2023 11:52 PM (7EjX1)

244 238 No, but he was armed, that’s for sure.

*sobs*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 12, 2023 11:52 PM (xTRSc)

245 What happened to Muldoon?

Posted by: Infidel at July 12, 2023 11:53 PM (0zJ6Q)

246 Some beer puns are lager than life.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2023 11:48 PM (e4fEA)

That was barley a pun.
Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 11:50 PM (MNhXM)

The ale it wasn't!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2023 11:53 PM (e4fEA)

247 230 @229: "It doesn’t get puns."

To be fair, many people don't either.
Posted by: Walter Freeman

The weekly pun ration has been raised from 14 to 12 …

Posted by: Adriane the Dystopian Critic . . . at July 12, 2023 11:54 PM (jonTH)

248 Muldoon, You are in our thoughts and prayers.
Posted by: Mrs JTB at July 12, 2023 11:52 PM (7EjX1)

Ditto here amigo!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2023 11:54 PM (e4fEA)

249 TonyPete, if you're still up, didn't you move recently? Sounds like you picked a nice little town.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 12, 2023 11:54 PM (4780s)

250 I’m getting hopped up on these beer puns.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:55 PM (xTRSc)

251 I’m getting hopped up on these beer puns.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:

Might have fizzled out

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 12, 2023 11:55 PM (WF/xn)

252 TikTok Plastic surgeon gets her medical license stripped:

As I stand here today, I see how many of those silly videos seemed unprofessional," Grawe told the board. "I understand how my actions at times seemed careless and offended my patients and colleagues."

Her actions were not unprofessional and careless, they just seemed that way.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 12, 2023 11:56 PM (1MDmS)

253 TonyPete, if you're still up, didn't you move recently? Sounds like you picked a nice little town.
Posted by: From about That Time

Yes, we are in rural central Tennessee. Absolutely love it.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2023 11:56 PM (OjHyA)

254 Oh no, what happened to Muldoon?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 11:56 PM (xTRSc)

255 242
Sierra Nevada is one of those breweries...

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 12, 2023 11:57 PM (UsQA1)

256 The beer puns malt keep going

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 12, 2023 11:57 PM (WF/xn)

257 I must have been absent - what's going on with Muldoon?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at July 12, 2023 11:57 PM (SRRAx)

258 We got our asses handed to us. Democrats in California have normalized what would be considered voter fraud in the rest of the country.

You have three choices

Arrest the fraudsters.
Use the same fraud, but more to win elections again.
Secession

Pick one. VOTE HARDERER isn't going to work. They produced 20M votes for Biden in 2020 and stole dozens of elections in 2022.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 12, 2023 11:58 PM (lc5cP)

259 There should be a Little Rascals beer made from Alfalfa and Buckwheat.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 11:58 PM (MNhXM)

260 The beer puns malt keep going

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 12, 2023 11:57 PM (WF/xn)

Don't want to keep them bottled up.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 12, 2023 11:58 PM (Angsy)

261 Some thug just killed a top hand surgeon in his office in Memphis. Local news.

Its white supremacist to expect to be safe from crime.

Posted by: The Democrats at July 12, 2023 11:58 PM (lc5cP)

262 138 99 That SHONGLES SHIT ?

It's photoshopped. Notice the kerning of the swapped letters. There is too much in 'shit' and too little in 'shongles'.
Posted by: Ciampino -- OK run then. The water faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 10:48 PM (qfLjt)

Don't you have cats to blab about instead of pissing on The ONT?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at July 12, 2023 11:02 PM (aA3+G)

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MisHum,
Not sure where you got 'pissing on the ONT' from. Or is that tongue in cheek?
I am currently suffering from a bad case of the shongles just when my doctor decided to take a vacation overseas, so appropriate.
I've been known to alter existing signs in precisely that manner, in print and not the actual physical signs. That Walgreens sign is actually very humorous and will be shared.
Thanks for the white space to talk about the kitties.

Posted by: Ciampino - OK run then. The faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 11:59 PM (qfLjt)

263 TikTok Plastic surgeon gets her medical license stripped:

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Pride goeth before the fall.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2023 11:59 PM (OjHyA)

264 Don't want to keep them bottled up.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 12, 2023 11:58 PM (Angsy)

Stout pun

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:00 AM (WF/xn)

265 Anheuser-Busch broadcasts its verbal humor using a transpunster.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2023 12:00 AM (xTRSc)

266 I can beerly keep up with this puns.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 13, 2023 12:00 AM (lc5cP)

267 The Lager this goes on the harder it will get

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:00 AM (WF/xn)

268 Just on my computer, or is something going on when refreshing the page? It looks like someone's blown the margins. Or is Kamala here?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 13, 2023 12:00 AM (Angsy)

269 Pretty sure Kamala prefers a ale with a creamy head

Posted by: 18-1 at July 13, 2023 12:01 AM (lc5cP)

270 A good beer is always served with a little head.

Posted by: Beer guy at July 13, 2023 12:02 AM (e4fEA)

271 Pick one. VOTE HARDERER isn't going to work. They produced 20M votes for Biden in 2020 and stole dozens of elections in 2022.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 12, 2023 11:58 PM (lc5cP)

Of all the losses of confidence in various parts of government, I think the worst is the loss of trust in fair elections. That one's going to bite people in the ass. If there's no consent of the governed, . . . .

Posted by: RickZ at July 13, 2023 12:02 AM (emlEe)

272 Brew you want to keep it going ?

This beer tastes like Schlitz

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:02 AM (WF/xn)

273 269 Willy Brewn will be the judge of that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2023 12:03 AM (xTRSc)

274 Anchor had been in and out of business several times all through the XX cent. It was the involvement of Fritz Maytag, starting in 65, that gave it a cult following, since he was a zany guy and a big booster of odd beer and home brewing. For instance, he sponsored the reconstruction of the recipe for an Egyptian beer found as residue in a pyramid amphora and brewed up a batch. He sold out around 2010 to a consortium, who sold out to Sapporo in 2017. The "steam" part involves shallow tuns and non-chilled fermentation, so the process can't be plugged in to other breweries' equipment as many other beers could. Too bad.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 13, 2023 12:04 AM (4PZHB)

275 Brew you want to keep it going ?

This beer tastes like Schlitz

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:02 AM (WF/xn)

That's because, It's the Water, and A Lot More....

Posted by: Oly at July 13, 2023 12:04 AM (Angsy)

276 The girl from Ipanema likes craft beers.

Posted by: polynikes at July 13, 2023 12:06 AM (MNhXM)

277 That's because, It's the Water, and A Lot More....
Posted by: Oly at July 13, 2023 12:04 AM (Angsy)

Ahhhh....Oly. The gateway beer for teenagers everywhere.
Well it used to be.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 13, 2023 12:06 AM (e4fEA)

278 A beer is just a beer unless it's -

Old Dutch!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2023 12:06 AM (OjHyA)

279 Ya Know...

At the end of the day...when WE who work our asses of for the daily paycheck and drag our asses home EVERY DAY to what we work for (Home and Family) and after saying hi to the wife and kids...

we reach inside our refrigerators and grab the beer the we WANT to be in our refrigerators...

BECAUSE we can.

God Bless America.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 13, 2023 12:06 AM (UsQA1)

280 "harvesting would be illegal, but we have to win more elections if we want to change law"

uh huh. It's too bad you guys don't want it hard enough to cheat. The Democrats will endure any indignity or shame in pursuit of power. But our side? We're about to sideline our starting quarterback because...

....he talks about grabbing celebrity gold diggers by the p-word. If I have to walk through the faculty longue one more time and defend - yesterday he was picking his nose in public. Day before that he was talking about the S-t--e-a-l in open comms. I might very well get banned from social media, lose my facebook account, MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT. Why...I can't even. How am I supposed to lament the Fall of the Republic on Powerline without my Facebook to log in from?

Anyways, I would rather condemn 10 generations to enslavement and starvation under Marxism than violate my sacred principles - picking his nose SMH. Reminds me of that Patton guy was always cussing up a storm, we got rid of him too right?

Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 13, 2023 12:06 AM (+LcMo)

281 Some years ago some idiot murdered my Urologist. Shot him in the head at the doctors office. The idiot patient thought he got prostrate cancer form a digital exam. The nurse, bless her heart, chased the guy to a nearby restaurant where he offed his-self.

The Dr was a really good guy, ex Marine. His wake was monumental.

Posted by: Javems at July 13, 2023 12:07 AM (JUh8s)

282 These puns are falling flat

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:07 AM (WF/xn)

283 It just so hops that I know a lot of beer puns.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2023 12:07 AM (xTRSc)

284 Shongles shit...

Well, you could try some pee donuts:
https://is.gd/h4hl2e

Or maybe something worth $20, but on sale for 99¢:
https://is.gd/7DIFBi

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 13, 2023 12:08 AM (ynpvh)

285 Ahhhh....Oly. The gateway beer for teenagers everywhere.
Well it used to be.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 13, 2023 12:06 AM (e4fEA)

Went on their brewery tour in '72 when we were at the Spokane World's Fair. Course, I wasn't old enough to drink.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 13, 2023 12:08 AM (Angsy)

286 281 Some years ago some idiot murdered my Urologist. Shot him in the head at the doctors office. The idiot patient thought he got prostrate cancer form a digital exam. The nurse, bless her heart, chased the guy to a nearby restaurant where he offed his-self.

The Dr was a really good guy, ex Marine. His wake was monumental.

Posted by: Javems at July 13, 2023 12:07 AM (JUh8s)

I know someone who's lawyer was murdered in a seedy hotel.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 13, 2023 12:09 AM (ynpvh)

287 The girl from IPAnema…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2023 12:09 AM (xTRSc)

288 282 These puns are falling flat
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:07 AM (WF/xn)

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You all have been a Modelo taste and discretion so far.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 13, 2023 12:10 AM (s12c9)

289 Budweiser glass still full ? No balls ?

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:10 AM (WF/xn)

290 The girl from IPAnema…
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2023 12:09 AM (xTRSc)

Aaaahhhhhhhhh......

Posted by: Diogenes at July 13, 2023 12:10 AM (e4fEA)

291 OK, I guess I’ll stop foamenting beer puns.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2023 12:11 AM (xTRSc)

292 I got a shongles shit about three months ago and my shoulder still hurts like a mofo.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 13, 2023 12:11 AM (s12c9)

293 That SHONGLES SHIT ?

It's photoshopped. Notice the kerning of the swapped letters. There is too much in 'shit' and too little in 'shongles'.
Posted by: Ciampino -- OK run then. The water faucet is running! at July 12, 2023 10:48 PM (qfLjt)

I doubt it. The plastic card system used in signs like that has some rudimentary "kerning" built in, where a wider letter (like an "O") gets a wider card, and a narrower letter (like an "I") does not. The person swapping the two letters, being in a hurry to not get caught, didn't have time to adjust all of the letters on that line to make the kerning/spacing work properly, so the narrower card just got placed in the wider space, while the wider card got stuck in the narrower space with the white overlapping the two adjacent cards. Ask me why I think that, but I'll never rat me out, copper.

Posted by: HTL at July 13, 2023 12:11 AM (5gGGe)

294 Ok folks, I have a bit of a moral dilemma on my hands. The local Y that my daughter and I have been going to for the last 12 years, 3 times a week, allegedly kicked a girl off its swim team for protesting the presence of a tranny in the girl's locker room. They claim that they cannot legally do anything about the tranny (biological male) in the locker room due to anti-discrimination laws. The girl is now going public with her story and she's gotten the attention of none other than Riley Gaines.

So the logical and moral thing for us to do is cancel our Y membership in protest, right? I would if it were just me, but, my autistic daughter loves going there, has gotten used to it, and would be heartbroken if we gave it up. It's one of the only outside activities she has. (We typically use the family/special needs changing rooms and not the regular locker rooms so we've never personally encountered a tranny ourselves.)

To top it all off, my fire breathing conservative husband who wouldn't drink Bud Light if he were dying of thirst in the desert, insists that we NOT quit and that I'm making too big a deal of the issue! What ought we to do?

Posted by: Secret Square at July 13, 2023 12:11 AM (9WuX0)

295
You all have been a Modelo taste and discretion so far.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 13, 2023 12:10 AM (s12c9)

That's because there's a vats amount of class here.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 13, 2023 12:11 AM (Angsy)

296 Foamy, there are still more ?

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:12 AM (WF/xn)

297 We are at lager heads.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 13, 2023 12:13 AM (63Dwl)

298 Foamy, there are still more ?

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:12 AM (WF/xn)

Getting to the dregs.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 13, 2023 12:14 AM (Angsy)

299 What ought we to do?
Posted by: Secret Square at July 13, 2023 12:11 AM (9WuX0)

My opinion...your daughter comes first.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 13, 2023 12:14 AM (e4fEA)

300 It’s the gallowglassing, not the kerning, that bothers me.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2023 12:16 AM (xTRSc)

301 My experience with the Y is they have a lot of rules and they don't enforce many of them.
I got expelled years ago. The rules said no cell phones in the entire facility. Then guys started talking on the cell phones in the locker room. Then I caught a guy taking pictures in the locker room, with the cell phone, supposedly illegal, which I took from the offender and threw his cell phone into the pool.
I was expelled.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 13, 2023 12:16 AM (MeG8a)

302 What ought we to do?
Posted by: Secret Square

Oi! Well, your daughter's well-being is of paramount importance. Some battles have heart breaking consequences so, in my very humble opinion - continue on Mom as you were and try to fight the madness in other ways that do not impact your dear daughter. Good luck.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2023 12:16 AM (OjHyA)

303 Secret square, your kid comes first. Easy Peasy.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 13, 2023 12:16 AM (4780s)

304 Per Pabst we should let it go.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:17 AM (WF/xn)

305 Ale your beers are belong to us.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2023 12:17 AM (xTRSc)

306 )
260 The beer puns malt keep going

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 12, 2023 11:57 PM (WF/xn)

Don't want to keep them bottled up.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 12, 2023 11:58 PM (Angsy)
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You know Moses had to cope with running out of beer so He-brewed some more.
Now the Germans, when they run out of beer, they wine.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Beer. It's pitcher-perfect at July 13, 2023 12:18 AM (qfLjt)

307 So the logical and moral thing for us to do is cancel our Y membership in protest, right? I would if it were just me, but, my autistic daughter loves going there, has gotten used to it, and would be heartbroken if we gave it up. It's one of the only outside activities she has. (We typically use the family/special needs changing rooms and not the regular locker rooms so we've never personally encountered a tranny ourselves.) [/i

Instead of canceling, maybe petition for more family rooms …]

Posted by: Adriane the Dystopian Critic . . . at July 13, 2023 12:18 AM (jonTH)

308 Ale your beers are belong to us.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2023 12:17

Winner

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:18 AM (WF/xn)

309 You know Moses had to cope with running out of beer so He-brewed some more.
Now the Germans, when they run out of beer, they wine.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Beer. It's pitcher-perfect at July 13, 2023 12:18 AM (qfLjt)

As they must.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 13, 2023 12:18 AM (Angsy)

310 America is not dead yet
*********
I'm in Silicon Valley, and my kids are on swim teams. Despite the Lia Thompson's in the NCAA, I have not seen any of it at the lower levels. And every swim meet is still begun with the national anthem, no one is kneeling or making a stink. So no, America is not dead yet.

Posted by: Sassy at July 13, 2023 12:18 AM (xSICi)

311 260 The beer puns malt keep going

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 12, 2023 11:57 PM (WF/xn)

Don't want to keep them bottled up.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 12, 2023 11:58 PM (Angsy)

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All this beer talk? Just can it will you before it all comes up to a head.

Posted by: Ciampino --- Beer. It's pitcher-perfect at July 13, 2023 12:19 AM (qfLjt)

312 Posted by: Secret Square at July 13, 2023 12:11 AM (9WuX0)

The excuse that they are legally required to allow the transgender has nothing to do with kicking the girl off the swim team. The law doesn’t say that people aren’t allowed to complain and are required to be punished for complaining.

Posted by: polynikes at July 13, 2023 12:20 AM (MNhXM)

313 The local Y that my daughter and I have been going to for the last 12 years, 3 times a week, allegedly kicked a girl off its swim team for protesting the presence of a tranny in the girl's locker room.

Anybody remember what the C in YMCA / YWCA meant?

Hint: "an international organization that promotes the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical welfare originally of young women"

Yeah. They might have to change it. Now they promote Sodomy and things hostile to God.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2023 12:20 AM (p8A+W)

314 Old English is the language we speak

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:20 AM (WF/xn)

315 314 Old English is the language we speak

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You got Chaucer in your pocket?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 13, 2023 12:22 AM (s12c9)

316 Old English is the language we speak

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:20 AM (WF/xn)

Can't stop Hamm'sing it up, can we?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 13, 2023 12:22 AM (Angsy)

317 Detroit was whatever you guys rave it was until it burned to the ground in 1805. In the 19th century it was important in support of the logging and farming of the northern half of the southern peninsula. Ferry Morse Seed was the biggest company. Logging got over with, northern farming totally collapsed (they had misjudged the climate), and Henry Ford came up with the idea of the mill towns, where off-season farmers would work in shops part time making sub-assemblies and parts to feed into the Rouge. Doesn't anybody know about this? I heard we were all industrial engineers here.

When Detroit was one of the wealthiest cities, Detroiters were absolutely insufferable. Nothing anywhere was up to the standard of the art, zoo, symphony, theater, shopping they had in Detroit, and just like our staff here, if they drove past your town, like Chicago or Cleveland, it was a shithole. There was widespread glee (still echoing among the over 29 crowd) at their discomfiture when the wheels came off. But very few Detroiters left Michigan. They went to the townships and filled them right up.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 13, 2023 12:22 AM (4PZHB)

318 My team is 2-9 and.they don't have a single foul all season. Not even traveling.

The Dems superstar fouls out every game. Usually after putting 30 points on the board.

Our team just doesn't want the ball, they don't want to go for the ball. It would be unseemly to wrestle the other team in public.

The Left is willing to kill and die for their cause. I can't get our guys to even defend a United States Marine from Sarah Hoyt's little witchhunt. I have to ASK for help.

Looks like the Left found an exploit in the system, golly gee. I guess we'll just have try again next season.

I don't understand how you can run a highbrow blog when Minnesota is burning to the ground around you.. Do you really need to explore the minutia of a ruling by Court of Appeals? Call me crazy but if people thought we would put up a fight they might come in with us. They're certainly not going to rally around this impotence that is Republican party

Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 13, 2023 12:22 AM (+LcMo)

319 Don't get the Corona, you might have to drink a shot

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 13, 2023 12:25 AM (WF/xn)

320 "your kid comes first. Easy peasy"

That's what I thought, and I'm glad you all confirmed that, I was just afraid that maybe I was going soft on a "hill to die on" culture war issue.

Posted by: Secret Square at July 13, 2023 12:25 AM (9WuX0)

321 “Hams the beer refreshing,
Hams the beer refreshing,
Hams…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2023 12:25 AM (xTRSc)

322 Somebody set up us the beer.

Ale your beers are belong to us.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2023 12:17

Posted by: Ciampino - Beer. It's what it is at July 13, 2023 12:26 AM (qfLjt)

323 “Hams the beer refreshing,
Hams the beer refreshing,
Hams…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2023 12:25 AM (xTRSc)

Por k?

Posted by: OrangeoEnto at July 13, 2023 12:28 AM (Angsy)

324 "have a bit of a moral dilemma on my hands"

I don't agree with your husband but I am not going to step in between you two. This is situation where the The winning side is going to be "mostly" right. and you've already mentioned your daughter would be impacted unfairly. so I advise you roll with it and maybe consider this an opportunity to be on the front line where you can report on or even fight the indignities vice boycotting.

honestly in all my life boycotting hasn't accomplished anything except deprive me of something

on a positive note though I would find that girl and do what I can do to support her, help her.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 13, 2023 12:31 AM (+LcMo)

325 I remember as a child, my Father was a fan of BREW 102

Tall can black with a yellow Pilsner Glass

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 13, 2023 12:32 AM (UsQA1)

326
I remember as a child, my Father was a fan of BREW 102

Sounds like a radio station.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 13, 2023 12:34 AM (63Dwl)

327 Re Muldoon, I believe he is having a medical procedure perhaps surgery. Not sure of particulars just that it is this week.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at July 13, 2023 12:35 AM (7EjX1)

328 Dad took us as kids to the "BUSH GARDENS" for the tour of the "Gardens" in Van Nuys.

Actually pretty cool back in the day.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 13, 2023 12:37 AM (UsQA1)

329 can you get me the name of the trans who's using the girl's locker room?

Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 13, 2023 12:38 AM (+LcMo)

330 Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 13, 2023 12:31 AM (+LcMo)

What's the story with Sarah Hoyt?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 13, 2023 12:38 AM (Angsy)

331 Secret Square, perhaps some of the Dads at the Y need to meet this nice transgender fella in the parking lot one evening and convince him that he should go home to change, rather than shower in the locker room with their daughters, if he knows what's good for him....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at July 13, 2023 12:42 AM (SRRAx)

332 259 There should be a Little Rascals beer made from Alfalfa and Buckwheat.
Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2023 11:58 PM (MNhXM)

It was tried. The effort was Stymied..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 13, 2023 12:42 AM (bUGMk)

333 Better yet, have the moms at the Y follow this fella into the locker room and dog his every step - if he has a problem with it, tell him they are protecting their daughters. There are ways to make it clear to this pervert that you are wise to his shtick and you are having none of it where your children are concerned.

NOTHING is more important than our children's safety.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at July 13, 2023 12:52 AM (SRRAx)

334 David Sinclair's group at Harvard Medical School has a new publication claiming they can reverse aging with small-molecule drugs.

This trick has been done before, but only with gene therapy.

https://is.gd/oB0C2l

Human trials are apparently starting in September.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 13, 2023 12:52 AM (Y6AXb)

335 Ciampino's Rescue kitties

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Posted by: Ciampino - A tree's favorite drink is Root Beer at July 13, 2023 12:53 AM (qfLjt)

336 333
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at July 13, 2023 12:52 AM (SRRAx)
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Excellent idea and when/if he undresses in front of the girls, have everyone point at his schlong and laugh. Do this enough times and he may stop using the change room. Also take names of whoever came up with the expulsion ruling and who supported it. When TSHTF we'll take some action and teach some basic Biology the hard way.

Posted by: Ciampino -- A tree's favorite drink is Root Beer at July 13, 2023 12:58 AM (qfLjt)

337 So my son who be working a Navy island off the coast (he not be military but a contractor) did go out diving and speared himself some very fine Halibut and a couple of Sheepsheads during his off time.

He fly's out tomorrow and hopefully will bring them here for a cook out.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 13, 2023 01:00 AM (UsQA1)

338 WE MUST stay strong Horde.

night.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 13, 2023 01:02 AM (UsQA1)

339 The Y isn't the least bit Christian. They admit anyone. Step up and pay your money, you're in.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 13, 2023 01:04 AM (MeG8a)

340 I don't have two hours to watch Tucker. Give me the short version.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 13, 2023 01:11 AM (DhOHl)

341 This trick has been done before, but only with gene therapy.

https://is.gd/oB0C2l

Human trials are apparently starting in September.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 13, 2023 12:52 AM (Y6AXb)

Could be Yuge...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 01:11 AM (oHd/0)

342 >What ought we to do?

Posted by: Secret Square

find another venue

Posted by: DB - but wait, there's more at July 13, 2023 01:19 AM (geLO8)

343 Surprised no-one is commenting on the Indian named Garagiola. Lost tribe from Italy? Mad because the White Man stole their baseball skills?

Posted by: azjaeger at July 13, 2023 01:19 AM (3/XaG)

344 I still have a beer, maybe 24oz in a month.
Special occasions.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

I had an Anchor earlier tonight. Now out drinking Becks NA.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 13, 2023 01:21 AM (drRjW)

345 I would drink a beer with the other 2 of you any time. Even at lunch.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 13, 2023 01:25 AM (MeG8a)

346 "the story with Sarah Hoyt?"

she's a witch hunter, burns people at the stake with false accusations, no due diligence no attempt to correct the record, no concern that she's burning innocent people. I've been trying to get my information (DL and DD214) to her to prove my I'm not a Fed narc or ac"Turkish provocateur" ( whatever the f that is). Casually accusing people of being narcs can get the guy killed on some streets.

I think the real issue is I got too close to her "patriot" scam. she doesn't want us to "rescue the girls" because then she couldn't make bank blogging "bring back our girls". it's the only thing that makes sense to me because her reaction was way out of proportion.

Im not a 100% certain she's a grifter, but I know that people that love America don't spit on Marines.

Don't worry about it though, I'm going haunt her for years. apparently she's never read "Message to Garcia". I have purpose in my life again yay

Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 13, 2023 01:31 AM (+LcMo)

347 Biden now admits he is considering giving Ukraine long-range missiles capable of reaching Russia AND Crimea on top of cluster bombs: President promises to get more artillery shells to Zelenksy as quickly as possible

https://mol.im/a/12293075

Posted by: Ciampino --- A tree's favorite drink is Root Beer at July 13, 2023 01:37 AM (qfLjt)

348
As I stand here today, I see how many of those silly videos seemed unprofessional," Grawe told the board.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

==========

Shoot, I was hoping it was that Irish butcher Sidhbh Gallagher.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 13, 2023 01:37 AM (AxmOr)

349 Well, time for me to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 13, 2023 01:48 AM (iAZie)

350 Hey , I am late, I went down way too many rabbit holes tonight. Nice ONT MisHum. Stuff going on in my life that is different, my daily routine is upended, it is a bit discombobulating. I am fine though, and happy to be amongst the Horde.

I got the teensiest bit of hope from Director Wray's testimony today, he really smelled up the joint. Chris Wray farted loudly before the house today. We must remember that this is OUR house. Kudos to Matt Gaetz for illustrating that for all of us.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2023 01:51 AM (a4EWo)

351 Just to add to the earlier discussion about Detroit.

In 2020, James Craig did pretty good job putting a lid on festivities. However, it likely helped that there was not a whole lot of commerce within the city limits to take down as much of it left after the 1967 riots and Coleman Young’s actions post riots. So, there was very little ‘low fruit’ to plunder. Example, Target stores are nowhere within the city.

I always thought that American cities were only catching down to Detroit in 2020.

Posted by: Ranger Gord at July 13, 2023 02:06 AM (Gy1ph)

352 To top it all off, my fire breathing conservative husband who wouldn't drink Bud Light if he were dying of thirst in the desert, insists that we NOT quit and that I'm making too big a deal of the issue! What ought we to do?
Posted by: Secret Square at July 13, 2023 12:11 AM (9WuX0)

Next time the bastard whips it out in the ladies, shoot it off. Or do what I did when I was a kid, point and laugh. Either way, it's a win win.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 13, 2023 02:08 AM (LOVUx)

353 Anchor Steam is good, San Francisco is shit.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 13, 2023 02:09 AM (LOVUx)

354 Ranger Gord, I hail from the Northeast, all that I know of Detroit is from what I read, fiction, in the form of Elmore Leonard and Loren D. Estleman. It is not all that I read, but that is some damn good fiction.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2023 02:17 AM (a4EWo)

355
Well, I am a corn shucking/processing fool. I've cut off and processed (for freezing) so much corn it's ridiculous. I'm dreaming about shucking corn. Well, they always said I was corny.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2023 02:18 AM (Mzdiz)

356 publius, I wish that I was working in the fields with you and Miss Miley. Do you plant white and yellow corn? I do like a blend of those two. If you don't mind explaining, how do you process these in terms of freezing and how do you freeze it, do you have a vacuum food sealing system?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2023 02:30 AM (a4EWo)

357 Debby Doberman Shultz, 1967 was the Summer of Love in Detroit if one enjoyed the plumes of smoke over the city with the National Guard and their tanks patrolling streets while I tried to sleep over random gun fire.

I doubt both Leonard and Estleman were in that time zone.

Posted by: Ranger Gord at July 13, 2023 02:34 AM (Gy1ph)

358 Acknowledged Ranger Gord., but both authors paint with words and I am most appreciative of their illustrative prose. If you want the most accurate picture of Boston in prose you should read Dennis Lehane, modern reality but a whole lot of history behind it, quite authentic actually.

Need to sleep, Horde, see you tomorrow.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2023 02:48 AM (a4EWo)

359 The Shongles were a motown group, no?

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 13, 2023 02:48 AM (15Elt)

360 Night DDS.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 13, 2023 02:49 AM (15Elt)

361 That wasp...Gasoline? No need for the glass, just toss up the gas, from a jar, or a cup...they drop dead instantly, one big clump, all dead.
Was painting houses as a teen and some old dude that hired me on one of my first jobs told me about it, showed me on the first nest, down low....the rest that needed ladders I did. Then had to wait a day for the gas to dry completely before I could paint over that spot.

Posted by: birddog at July 13, 2023 02:51 AM (uAI4S)

362 A parting note, spoke with my out of state son tonight. I am to treat his future in-laws to lunch soon, all by my onesie, I asked for some tips for success. He told me two things, don't talk politics and don't swear. I told him that I fucking understood, and Trump 2024. He laughed, there is some common ground there, I think.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2023 03:02 AM (a4EWo)

363 Slow night in Blogland....

Posted by: JT at July 13, 2023 03:17 AM (T4tVD)

364 Hiya, JT! How you?

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2023 03:18 AM (Gkog9)

365
Debby, sorry I got distracted with something else. Corn, I do "cut-off corn", old-timey way. You can call it cream corn, but no milk or cream. There's many variations how to do this, but I do it the way my grandmothers and mother did it.

Take an ear. With a (sharp) knife, just cut off the top of the kernels. Just a smidge to cut off the tops into a pan. Now, take the back of the knife and scrape all the "goody" out that has been cut open. I like corn in a little later maturity stage for this as opposed to corn on the cob stage. More starch, and it makes a thicker "cream".

Now, add water -- it varies depending on how much starch is in there. Bring to a simmer, and you have to stir. Too much heat, and it will start sticking on the bottom of the pan. You have to watch this carefully. High heat requires a lot of stirring, but it heats up faster. Low heat, and not so much stirring, but it takes longer.

Now, about 12 - 15 minutes simmering. Cool down, then freeze. Now for eatin' immediately, add bacon grease, salt and pepper. That's how we like it. When freezing it, you add the salt, pepper, and fat when you warm it back it to eat.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2023 03:22 AM (Mzdiz)

366 Hiya JQ !

Me good !

Posted by: JT at July 13, 2023 03:25 AM (T4tVD)

367
We freeze it regular freezer plastic bags. It works well. Fill up a bag, but not too much, so you can keep the bag sort of flat.

It works out about 4 cups per gallon freezer bag, volume bad. Weight wise, it's about 40 oz per gallon bag.

Roughly 4 dozen ears will make about 3 gallon bags, but it varies depending on size of the ears and how mature and how much "goody" content is in the kernels.

I grow both white and yellow. And I do like a mix of both. I'll do pure white, pure yellow, and a 50/50 mix, or whatever ratio happens to be convenient at the time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2023 03:25 AM (Mzdiz)

368 Me good !
Posted by: JT

That was my Tarzan impersonation.

Posted by: JT at July 13, 2023 03:29 AM (T4tVD)

369
There are other variations on cutting off corn. One other common one i is multiple cutting pass. Skim off the tops of the kernels, then make another pass or two, with a final scrape of the cob.

These get more "husk", kernel skin the mixture. The method I use minimizes that skin/husk and just gets the max "goody" inside the kernels.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2023 03:34 AM (Mzdiz)

370
Another freezing method for cut-off corn is just to "blanch it". Cut it off into the pan, and then just get it to simmer for only a couple minutes. Then cool and freeze. This kills the enzymes for longer term freezer storage, but you have to complete cooking when you're reading to eat it.

Me, I think fully cooking before freezing does the best. When ready to eat, just warm it up to a simmer, then add the fat and flavor.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2023 03:38 AM (Mzdiz)

371 Can it be Friday yet?

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2023 03:41 AM (xhxe8)

372
You can also do a whole kernel cut. That is more tricky. You have to make a deep cut to try to get most of the kernel cut off whole. But that's hard with a round ear, and a flat knife. They make tools to do this, of course, and commerical equipment has got it down to a science, but doing it by hand with a regular knife, and it gets tricky.

For cut-off corn, freezing is the best. You can can it, but that's tricky. They now recommend canning only in pint jars. For quart jars, canning is problematic, due to density variations.

With whole kernel, canning is not a problem.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2023 03:41 AM (Mzdiz)

373
Story of my maternal grandmother, back in the '30s. They had a nice crop of sweet corn, and she canned a bunch of it, cut off. In quart jars.

A ton of hard work over the season. Every last bit of it spoiled. My grandmother cried her eyes out for a week over that, the story goes. But she was one tough woman, and endeavored to persevere, and got over it. But it was a terrible thing. All that work and food wasted.

Anyway, in pint jars, things are more consistent. Don't do quarts.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2023 03:45 AM (Mzdiz)

374 Heh. No offense intended, publius! But I can't *not* think of this:

https://youtu.be/RxcWiEP_MpA

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2023 03:50 AM (Gkog9)

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The gulf between store-bought canned/frozen "creamed corn" and the real stuff you grown and cut off of yourself is light-years.

Commerical canned cream corn is abomination. Awful. The frozen "chub" stuff it not much better, although a cousin of mine claims he can doctor it up to close to the real thing, but I'm doubtful.

The store bought shit puts a lot of people off. They don't know anything about fresh cut-off corn right out of the garden.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2023 03:55 AM (Mzdiz)

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As Miley will attest, fresh cut off corn, larded up with bacon grease and salt and pepper is like crack to us.

I can stuff myself with it until I just explode. My Daddy is the same.

Speaking of 95 yr old Daddy, in "cognitive decline" of late and getting sort of hard to deal with, he lost blood sugar control over the last couple of months.

Blood sugar hitting 400. We are taking steps. No more corn for him for a while. But hell, he'd eat that stuff until he exploded.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2023 04:00 AM (Mzdiz)

377 PIXY NOOD UPSTAIRS

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2023 04:02 AM (xhxe8)

378 *anything* with bacon grease, salt and pepper... will be awesome!

But yeah, cream corn is good when it's fresh.

Again, didn't mean any insult w/the Ren & Stimpy thing, publius! Just had to have a chuckle.

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2023 04:07 AM (Gkog9)

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No offense take at all, JQ!

It's like the Okra Wars. I'm just having fun. People like what they like. It's all good.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2023 04:36 AM (Mzdiz)

380 The Professor of Rock is proof that headline writing dead and that I am king. Can you imagine what would happen if “this” was banned from headlines?

Posted by: Clickbait at July 13, 2023 05:31 AM (M/Pkm)

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