8/12/23 EMT

Here it is. Run it til the wheels come off.

Posted by: krakatoa at 07:00 AM

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1 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 06:01 AM (MOY79)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 12, 2023 06:02 AM (T4tVD)

3 Sup?

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 12, 2023 06:04 AM (ZoDbw)

4
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 12, 2023 06:04 AM (ENBF0)

5 Good morning!

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2023 06:06 AM (skX6a)

6 Good morning again morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 06:09 AM (JvZF+)

7 Flashes n thunder ⚡

Posted by: OkJohn at August 12, 2023 06:09 AM (NC/it)

8 Can't let you guys have all the fun. Good morning

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2023 06:10 AM (Q/QU7)

9 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.

-Hebrews 12:1-2

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2023 06:16 AM (4manv)

10 So, could the Delaware judge that "special counsel" David Weiss bamboozled with the secret plea bargain still hold him in contempt of her court? That would be funny!

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 12, 2023 06:18 AM (r72iY)

11 In the Left’s ideology, their “democracy” means the unchecked power of a tyranny of the majority that will delegate their sovereignty (likely in perpetuity) to empower an elite of “experts” to control the citizenry, including themselves. - Thaddeus McCotter in A.G.
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Muh Demokracee

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 06:20 AM (JvZF+)

12 https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/08/11/

remy-try-that-in-a-large-town-n570681

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 06:21 AM (BRHaw)

13 let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 06:23 AM (BRHaw)

14 Tucker's second interview with chief of Capitol police.

https://tinyurl.com/3ssk7f8z

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 06:25 AM (JvZF+)

15 That change, made in 1982, repealed the “30 percent rule” that guided the process for determining what wages would be paid on which projects. Under the 30 percent rule, the prevailing wage for any particular area would be based on the highest wages paid to at least 30 percent of workers within the same area.

As I have said many times that big govt stimulus does not actually work. As money is shifted to a site for a project that money will go to the senior or most skilled labor. As private industry does not have the resources to compete they will still spend the same money on a project but may use a lower skilled person. This does not really create a new job opening as much as it moves to skilled or senior persons around.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 06:29 AM (BRHaw)

16 Moving sux, moving three houses of people and stuff sux tripley.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 06:30 AM (up/3i)

17 Mexico's top diplomat claims the Texas buoy barrier is on Mexican side of the river

Vete a la mierda

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 06:31 AM (BRHaw)

18 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 12, 2023 06:32 AM (7vuhT)

19 16 Moving sux, moving three houses of people and stuff sux tripley.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 06:30 AM (up/3i)

bless you sir

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 06:33 AM (BRHaw)

20 https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro
Oliver Anthony-Rich Men North of Richmond
It's been posted here before. Yesterday was the first I noticed it. I like it.

radiowv - https://tinyurl.com/4znbm55j

A Youtube page that might be of some interest if you're into Appalachian music. Its where that Oliver Anthony video is at. I haven't listened to everything on there yet, but I plan to.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 12, 2023 06:36 AM (sAmhv)

21 https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/08/11/

remy-try-that-in-a-large-town-n570681

ha
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 06:21 AM

Love it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2023 06:36 AM (Wnv9h)

22 I'm seeing reports that Joe Manchin is "seriously considering" leaving the Democrat party.

Questions:
1. Again? Srsly?
2. Why bother?
3. Who cares?
4. To join the Republicans I presume? Or to join Sinema and Sanders on the Island of Misfit Toys?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 06:37 AM (JvZF+)

23 Morning, folken! 'Tis Saturday (sadder day, as Fen's Corny Joke of the Day had it earlier this week). I'm somewhat caught up on sleep for a change. The tire on the Buick I thought was leaking has not lost any air this entire week, so I will forgo the tire shop trip and maybe go out to breakfast -- nasty as the heat is even early in the morning.

The Killer Kittens? I'm entertaining thoughts of trading them for two guinea pigs. One of them, or maybe both, have torn a section of my living room blinds -- a relatively neat block of five slats on one side. Now my place looks like all the other aspiring-to-be-a-ghetto windows around here. Dammit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2023 06:38 AM (omVj0)

24 16 Amen to that. Got 2 of the daughters stuff, canines and kids included, crammed into our new "downsized" house that I'm still working on. Hard to hang drywall while dodging legos.

Posted by: Neo-Kulak at August 12, 2023 06:38 AM (QL4rx)

25 @19

** Singing **

Somebody knows the troubles I've seen, somebody knows my sorrow.

It's also trying to get a bunch of seniors to part with stuff.

OMG. I thought teenagers were bad, you have never fought a fight until you've tried to get a 75 year old person to go through their sh*t.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 06:38 AM (up/3i)

26 Whataburger, mistakenly charged me for senior coffee, caught their mistake, and gave me a large senior coffee. Should have enought to make it to 0800.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2023 06:42 AM (z3WCn)

27 Those blinds were giving me the side-eye

Posted by: Stirling at August 12, 2023 06:43 AM (JvZF+)

28 Those blinds were giving me the side-eye
Posted by: Stirling at August 12, 2023

***
Feline thug. Next I'm gonna hear you got caught in a drive-by shaving, just when you were turning your life around!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2023 06:45 AM (omVj0)

29 OMG. I thought teenagers were bad, you have never fought a fight until you've tried to get a 75 year old person to go through their sh*t.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 06:38 AM (up/3i)
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Those are my favorite pencils!

Posted by: Benders' old folks at August 12, 2023 06:45 AM (JvZF+)

30 When mom and dad relocated from FL to CA they shipped boxes filled with blank reams of copy paper.

Because they didn't have the right copy paper in California.

Posted by: Benders' old folks at August 12, 2023 06:47 AM (JvZF+)

31 Dammit

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 06:47 AM (JvZF+)

32 Not seeing much new articles out there that grab me

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 06:50 AM (MOY79)

33 @29

>>Those are my favorite pencils!

Yeah, I don't anticipate being able to park in the garages within the next several years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 06:50 AM (up/3i)

34 Prepare for the Perseids
Go out on almost any moonless night in August and you are bound to see a few “shooting stars.” Go out on the night of Aug. 12-13 and you will see lots of them. This is the night when the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak, and a single observer at a dark-sky location can expect to see between 50 to 75 meteors in an hour. The Perseids are perhaps the year’s most consistent meteor shower, and they occur under nearly ideal circumstances this year. The crescent moon won’t rise until well into the early morning hours, and the mild nights are perfect for stretching out on a comfortable beach chair and looking skyward.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 06:50 AM (JvZF+)

35 22 I'm seeing reports that Joe Manchin is "seriously considering" leaving the Democrat party.

Questions:
1. Again? Srsly?
2. Why bother?
3. Who cares?
4. To join the Republicans I presume? Or to join Sinema and Sanders on the Island of Misfit Toys?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 06:37 AM (JvZF+)

I assume that you'll hear nothing about this from Democracy leadership. That's because they know he needs to temporarily change his branding if he hopes to get reelected in WV. His even saying this much means he intends to run again instead of retiring.

Once he wins, he'll get back on the reservation, where he wants to be anyway.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 12, 2023 06:51 AM (rRZB/)

36 I thought teenagers were bad, you have never fought a fight until you've tried to get a 75 year old person to go through their sh*t.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023

***
I'm trying to get rid of clutter ahead of a possible relocation. There's a *lot* of junk I want to dump. It's just exhausting to think about carting it all to the dumpster or donating it to the thrift store. I keep seeing TV ads for a company that comes and takes your junk away: "All you have to do is point." (And write them a check, naturally.) It begins to sound pretty attractive.

There's something attractive, too, in the thought of dumping a lot of old junk and starting over: like being reborn, or like a crab shedding its old shell.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2023 06:53 AM (omVj0)

37 I can lose a pencil at work in 1 hour and never have enough of them. Cleaning out slowly my parents stuff as they are moving to a retirement community was grabbing pencils my dad had stashed away, he mentioned to my mom that.
Came away with literally 100 pencils hardly any new.

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 06:53 AM (MOY79)

38 And a snow blower, for 30 years been shoveling my driveway.
Maybe we will get snow this year now

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 06:55 AM (MOY79)

39
I was helping an elderly woman move recently. A hoarder. I told her she needed a hundred boxes. She said she had six and thought that would do it as she was going to donate stuff.

She ended up moving a hundred boxes of stuff she did not donate into a storage unit for which she now has to pay monthly rent. Some people just can't part with stuff.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 12, 2023 06:55 AM (enJYY)

40 skip

Wyoming has too many elk. No on knows what to do.

Vanna White misses Wheel for first time in 30 years…

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 06:55 AM (BRHaw)

41 Mrs. E- what's this thing?
Me- that's a flexible elbow for a windshield washer line. Don't throw it away. Might need it.'
Mrs. E- 'where would you like me to put it?'
Me- 'I don't think I like the way you said that.'

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2023 06:56 AM (z3WCn)

42 Even as a kid I disliked pencils. They broke too easily -- maybe because I bore down on them too hard. In school I loved those PaperMate pens that you refilled with a new cartridge, that thin brass tube, from the drugstore.

At one point Mom had some pens with lightly-perfumed ink. I used 'em, but scent didn't matter to me, just the darkness of the ink.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2023 06:57 AM (omVj0)

43 Lots of elders are obsessed with pencils. Not too hard to understand when 100 years ago that was the primary means of communication.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 06:57 AM (JvZF+)

44 @39

>>She ended up moving a hundred boxes of stuff she did not donate into a storage unit

It's just a death struggle now.

And I have two old people to deal with, my SIL is a breeze compared to my uncle, Holy F**king Sh*t, each and every scrap takes hours of deliberation and fight.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 06:58 AM (up/3i)

45 Yeah, getting free of the hild clutter has on me is hard

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 12, 2023 06:59 AM (M2qjg)

46 "Mexico's top diplomat claims the Texas buoy barrier is on Mexican side of the river"

Come and take it.

-Something Texas said to Mexico a while ago.

Posted by: pawn at August 12, 2023 06:59 AM (wsHtO)

47 Thursday my internet went out for 24 hrs. I was beside myself...

Posted by: sTevo at August 12, 2023 06:59 AM (e8u7e)

48
Drove by a post office yesterday with a huge green bag outside filled with stuff. My wife saw on FB that you pick up the bag at Lowe's (don't know cost info), fill it up with your junk, then call the company up and they weigh it and haul it away. You pay per pound I guess.

My guess of the bag dimensions would be ten foot by five foot by four foot high. That's a lot of room.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 12, 2023 07:00 AM (enJYY)

49 I really need to get control over my fondel slab dicksword.

Posted by: sTevo at August 12, 2023 07:00 AM (e8u7e)

50 Two Federalist Society legal scholars say Trump can't be president under the 14th amendment for inciting an insurrection and giving aid to others who also insurrected. They say this is justification for states to keep trump off their ballots.
So that os probably the play. Get Trump nominated, then boot him off the ballot in a few key states. Namely GA, PA, WI, MI, and AZ.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 12, 2023 07:01 AM (M9pYz)

51 When we emptied grandma's 1br apartment in Queens, we found 30 years of ConEd bills (from before Edison Electric became Consolidated) in date order because heaven forbid they accuse her of missing a payment.

That lesson stayed with me. Don't save ConEd bills.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:02 AM (JvZF+)

52
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayer said, dogs taken care of, now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian with Delilah watching me have coffee and a blueberry glazed donut.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 07:02 AM (MoZTd)

53 And I have two old people to deal with, my SIL is a breeze compared to my uncle, Holy F**king Sh*t, each and every scrap takes hours of deliberation and fight.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023

***
They have memories attached to those items. I still have the little stuffed Pegasus that originally belonged to Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 in girlhood, but I don't keep it because of her. Arizona the big red tabby part-Coon took it over as *his* toy. The memories of him carrying it about like a rat make it hard to give it away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2023 07:03 AM (omVj0)

54 My guess of the bag dimensions would be ten foot by five foot by four foot high. That's a lot of room.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Waste management Bagster. You are probably better off renting a dumpster.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 12, 2023 07:03 AM (M9pYz)

55 Two Federalist Society legal scholars...
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 12, 2023 07:01 AM (M9pYz)
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I do not understand those words in that order...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:04 AM (JvZF+)

56 Charlotte Pride, described on its website as "the leader in LGBTQ visibility in Charlotte and the Carolinas," recently announced that the 2023 recipient of its Harvey Milk Award would be Chad Sevearance-Turner. Turner, along with other award recipients would be honored during Charlotte's annual pride festival which is scheduled to take place later this month.

So I typed his name in NC Sex Registry:

SEVEARANCE-TURNER,CHAD EUGENE SEVEALANCE,CHAD EUGENE
SEVEARANCE,CHAD
SEVEARANCE,CHAD E
SEVEARANCE,CHAD EUGENE
SEVEARANCE,EUGENE
SEVEARANCE-TURNER,CHAD
SEVERANCE,CHAD E
SEVERANCE,CHAD EUGENE

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 07:04 AM (BRHaw)

57
Drove by a post office yesterday with a huge green bag outside filled with stuff.

Probably mail they didn't want to deal with.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 07:05 AM (MoZTd)

58 I've fed the monsters. My breakfast place doesn't open for two hours, though. And if I get myself clean, then wash the car on the way to eat, I'll be soaked in sweat. Grrrr.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2023 07:05 AM (omVj0)

59 it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
Posted by: rhennigantx

What about a Winston ?

Posted by: JT at August 12, 2023 07:05 AM (T4tVD)

60 ..lblueberry glazed donut.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 07:02 AM (MoZTd)
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Is the glaze is blueberry, the donut has blueberries and is glazed, or the donut dough itself is blueberry flavored?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:07 AM (JvZF+)

61 @50

>>Two Federalist Society legal scholars say Trump can't be president under the 14th amendment for inciting an insurrection and giving aid to others who also insurrected.

The one teeny tiny problem is that Trump and no one else has actually been charged with insurrection.

This is akin to Alvin Bragg elevating misdemeanors to felonies because Trump violated some unspecified federal law.

NeverTrumpers are just assholes, period, stop, end of story.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 07:08 AM (up/3i)

62 Not seeing much new articles out there that grab me
Posted by: Skip

"Show us on the doll where the article grabbed you"

Posted by: JT at August 12, 2023 07:08 AM (T4tVD)

63 The rules are what the Deep State says they are I guess.

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 07:08 AM (MOY79)

64 Schloss Hadrian with Delilah watching me have coffee and a blueberry glazed donut.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023

***
One of my co-workers left on Thursday to go back to graduate school, and I bought some marble cake slices at a local bakery so we could have a little goodbye gathering. Two slices were left. I scooped them up on the way out the door yesterday and they're in my fridge. Hmmmm. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2023 07:08 AM (omVj0)

65 50 Two Federalist Society legal scholars say Trump can't be president under the 14th amendment for inciting an insurrection and giving aid to others who also insurrected. They say this is justification for states to keep trump off their ballots.
So that os probably the play. Get Trump nominated, then boot him off the ballot in a few key states. Namely GA, PA, WI, MI, and AZ.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 12, 2023 07:01 AM (M9pYz)

https://tinyurl.com/kwkk8btf

Thats a list of 1136 cases.
ZERO charges of INSURECTION.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 07:09 AM (BRHaw)

66 What about a Winston ?
Posted by: JT at August 12, 2023 07:05 AM (T4tVD)

Virginia Slim would have been funnier?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 07:10 AM (BRHaw)

67 "The tire on the Buick I thought was leaking has not lost any air this entire week, so I will forgo the tire shop trip"

Maybe some eco-nut let the air out. They seem to think that will save the planet.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

68
Drove by a post office yesterday with a huge green bag outside filled with stuff.

Probably mail they didn't want to deal with.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 07:05 AM

No one needs mail.

Posted by: Newman at August 12, 2023 07:10 AM (enJYY)

69 The rules are what the Deep State says they are I guess.
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 07:08 AM (MOY79)

Calvinball

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2023 07:12 AM (skX6a)

70 As for pencils, I have a Pentel Twist Erase XP mechanical pencil that is the bomb. Pentel erasers are uniformly excellent as well.

For woodworking, I like traditional pencils.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 12, 2023 07:12 AM (DsA2n)

71 I have to go somewhere, so I'm someone else can be responsible for the corny joke for today. I did want to share what I thought was an amusing political cartoon today on Biden:

https://tinyurl.com/ycktudx8

Count some of your blessings today and tell someone you love them. It will improve their day😊

You are are blessings to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2023 07:12 AM (N3BTF)

72 I know what you mean Skip. I don't know what happens to all my pencils. I guess they are down in the table saw or something.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

73
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:07 AM (JvZF+)

Blueberry donut, glazed. It's the last one sitting in the fridge since last Sunday and Her Majesty, for whom I got them, is away this weekend. She's returning tomorrow evening, so I'll get more on the way home from Mass tomorrow.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 07:13 AM (MoZTd)

74 Steven Sund says to Tucker that his successor, who was formerly chief of Capitol police intelligence, was permitted to assume her new post as chief of UC Berkeley police before retiring from her position as chief of Capitol police. Two salaries.

He was never interviewed by the J6 committee.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:13 AM (JvZF+)

75 No more Federalist Society judges. Fuck them. Most of them are disappoint anyway.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 12, 2023 07:13 AM (M9pYz)

76 Sounds very good, enjoy. Love blueberries just not in bagels.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:14 AM (JvZF+)

77 The J6 "insurrection" was a Reichstag fire.

Total BS used to declare an "emergency" so the challenges to the EC votes could not be made.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 12, 2023 07:16 AM (jgJfd)

78 at the BEE

Garland Appoints Special Counsel To Cover Up Biden’s Crimes. “We must conduct a thorough investigation so we can know which crimes to sweep under the rug.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 07:19 AM (BRHaw)

79 Considering I have a carpenter and a writing pencil all the time in my work pouch
Happy I have pencils to burn now.

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 07:21 AM (MOY79)

80
No more Federalist Society judges. Fuck them. Most of them are disappoint anyway.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 12, 2023 07:13 AM (M9pYz)

They read the law on the matter to come to decisions about cases. Sometimes they favors the Right, sometimes the Left. Whereas judges appointed by Democrats start with the decision favoring the Left and/or hammering the Right and then find whatever law they need to justify it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 07:22 AM (MoZTd)

81 Retractions of peer-reviewed scientific papers has risen 13,750% in this century.

liars gonna lie

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 07:23 AM (BRHaw)

82
But you remember this... when you control the mail, you control information.

Posted by: Newman at August 12, 2023 07:23 AM (enJYY)

83 *Looks in frig*

*Spies bowl of peaches and blueberries right next to lemon meringue pie.*

Decisions.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 12, 2023 07:23 AM (7vuhT)

84 Boker Tov Patriots

49 days

This corrupt doj is out of control

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 12, 2023 07:24 AM (pmmLi)

85 Mornin' Horde. Don't get me started on my mom's stuff and house. My mother is probably the sweetest person I know but her house drives me round the bend.

I've probably picked up at least 3000 clothespins off the floor. There are multiple cloth bins filled to the brim with knee high stockings. 40+ years of church bulletins. I think she printed off every single email she ever received.

But there are often treasures like a special letter or card buried in a pile of 12 year old bills.

Best find so far is the ventriloquist dummy (of color) that belonged to her favorite uncle. Also letters from her British penpal from grade school days.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 12, 2023 07:24 AM (aBJcM)

86 Robbie Robertson died. I'm getting old.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 12, 2023 07:25 AM (ebrc7)

87 We had grilled peaches with dinner last night. They were off-the-hook!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:25 AM (JvZF+)

88 Wrote yesterday on Ace's thread that I still think someone or a small group had to orchestrated Jan6. It's not possible many groups coordinating all the pieces that fell in place without some higher direction.

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 07:25 AM (MOY79)

89 *Spies bowl of peaches and blueberries right next to lemon meringue pie.*
......

Meringue is made from eggs.

Eggs are breakfast food.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 12, 2023 07:26 AM (4manv)

90 The mail never stops!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:26 AM (JvZF+)

91 G'morning, all.

Article on Vanna White absence

https://tinyurl.com/3xz9k3hj

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:26 AM (isNL8)

92
Decisions.
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 12, 2023 07:23 AM (7vuhT)

You mean, which one first? Start with the peaches and blueberries (with whipped cream!), then the pie.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 07:26 AM (MoZTd)

93 Oh, and I threw away a whole garbage bag full of those little return address labels that charities send to old people...

Off to run before we hit 90 degrees, see y'all for the covfefe prayer meeting!

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 12, 2023 07:27 AM (aBJcM)

94 Been awhile since I've had grilled peaches. We had grilled pineapple rings with pork steaks two nights ago. So good.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 12, 2023 07:27 AM (7vuhT)

95 Almost forgot...

Doof, Salty....

I've seen your greetings throughout the morning threads, butty actual presence at those times has been sporadic.

So......Hey, back at y'all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:28 AM (isNL8)

96 The J6 "insurrection" was a Reichstag fire.

Total BS used to declare an "emergency" so the challenges to the EC votes could not be made.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse

-

Related, I'd suggest that it was also intended to effectively end all conversation about the massive election fraud.

Because you're not one of them sympathizers of Nazi insurrectionists that kill capitol police officers, are you?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 07:30 AM (BMWRT)

97 75 No more Federalist Society judges. Fuck them. Most of them are disappoint anyway.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 12, 2023 07:13 AM (M9pYz)

More Roy Beans.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2023 07:30 AM (lkfcP)

98 Total BS used to declare an "emergency" so the challenges to the EC votes could not be made.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse

And it worked. Of course it doesn't take much to spook the GOP into compliant silence and, finally, empty bluster.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2023 07:31 AM (lkfcP)

99 VIA, how was your eye procedure?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:32 AM (JvZF+)

100 One Ray Epps didn't decide own his own the day before Jan6 to scream to get people the idea the Capital had to be invaded.
The Bomb Plot, that was probably supposed to be something that fizzled ( remember a bit The Ho was in the building so it was a big deal) was the day before plan.
All the Feds coming out they were to " play Antifa, or Trunpers"
Pelosi coming out against extra security being called days before.

Just too many parts of this puzzle to magically fall in place together

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 07:33 AM (MOY79)

101 Almost forgot...

Doof, Salty....

I've seen your greetings throughout the morning threads, butty actual presence at those times has been sporadic.

So......Hey, back at y'all.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:28 AM (isNL

Howdy VIA! How goes it?

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2023 07:33 AM (skX6a)

102 Fun fact: Every J6 death was immediately cremated. Cops, Rosanne Boyland, all of them. Immediate.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 07:34 AM (BMWRT)

103 "how was your eye procedure?"

Doing well.

Right around 20/20 for distant vision.

More redness than the other eye, so I'm on a 2x daily steroid drop for a bit, bit it's progressing.

Overall very satisfied.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:35 AM (isNL8)

104 Coyotes are out in the driveway baying.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:35 AM (JvZF+)

105 Good morning horde! Happy Saturday.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 12, 2023 07:36 AM (5iFFd)

106 Overall very satisfied.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:35 AM (isNL

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PTL!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:36 AM (JvZF+)

107 Just too many parts of this puzzle to magically fall in place together
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 07:33 AM (MOY79)
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While Pelosi's daughter is filming a hagiography.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:38 AM (JvZF+)

108 Fun fact: Every J6 death was immediately cremated. Cops, Rosanne Boyland, all of them. Immediate.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 07:34 AM (BMWRT)

Dominant media narrative from then will likely never be supplanted among a yuuuge portion of the public.

"It’s Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled."
– Mark Twain

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2023 07:38 AM (skX6a)

109 Doof!

Trying to hang wallpaper with one arm.

Dad is still in rehab from the UTI, with the insurance saying 'You been heah fooh hour.....you go now!'. So I'm in the middle of appeals with trying to keep him in for a few days to improve.

Other distraction just keep pulling me in about eleventy directions at once.

Trying to figure a Doof-and-Us playdate, but looking iffy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:39 AM (isNL8)

110 "PTL!"

Yes, in the hustle of life and it's challenges, we sometimes forget to take the moment to do that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:41 AM (isNL8)

111 How are you feeling today jewells?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:41 AM (JvZF+)

112 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2023 07:41 AM (u82oZ)

113 Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:42 AM (isNL8)

114 17 Mexico's top diplomat claims the Texas buoy barrier is on Mexican side of the river“

There are 30,000,000 Mexican foreign nationals on the American side of the river.

Posted by: 13times at August 12, 2023 07:42 AM (AC0Ja)

115 Mornin’, All.

I can never have enough pencils. Or index cards to scribble notes on.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 07:42 AM (xTRSc)

116 Man, thank goodness for our benevolent gatekeepers.

Search for

January 6 deaths all cremated

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 07:43 AM (BMWRT)

117 "It’s Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled."
– Mark Twain
Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2023 07:38 AM (skX6a)
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Or "San Franpsycho and His Lib Idiot Friends"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:43 AM (JvZF+)

118 Biden is spending 1.2 billion on a scam to remove CO2 from the air and store it beneath the ocean. Why does Joe Biden hate plants?

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

119 Trying to figure a Doof-and-Us playdate, but looking iffy.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:39 AM (isNL

Doof-and-Us could also be Doof/Us. Or just Doofus!

Keep doing what ya gotta do. I'll see you and Mrs VIA at some point when everything aligns the way it needs to. Please send her my best!

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2023 07:43 AM (skX6a)

120 Maui fire. Go back and re-read State of Fear by Dr. Michael Crichton.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2023 07:44 AM (z3WCn)

121 Mornin’, All.

I can never have enough pencils. Or index cards to scribble notes on.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 07:42 AM (xTRSc)

Or draw boobs?

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2023 07:45 AM (skX6a)

122 "Mexico's top diplomat claims the Texas buoy barrier is on Mexican side of the river“

There are 30,000,000 Mexican foreign nationals on the American side of the river."

A trade, just begging to be made.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:45 AM (isNL8)

123 I can never have enough pencils. Or index cards to scribble notes on.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 07:42 AM (xTRSc)
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What is an index card?

Posted by: Millennials at August 12, 2023 07:45 AM (JvZF+)

124 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, guv'nor.

Gonna pick up my bus today. Yeah to Yellow Honking Death being parked on my RV pad yet again. I find driving it so relaxing.

The kids do not bother me at all. After being a division officer and department head, it is a peace of cake. I rule by fear and the occasional lame Dad joke.
Got plenty of stories.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2023 07:45 AM (u82oZ)

125 "Spider with erection-inducing bite shuts down supermarket."

https://tinyurl.com/bdfv2apw

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2023 07:45 AM (Dm8we)

126 Judge warns Trump. I would love for Trump to tell this black robed POS to FOAD. Another leftist scrunt. Link goes to USA Today.

https://tinyurl.com/yeaf6chs

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at August 12, 2023 07:46 AM (Zvtjl)

127 Doof, sure will.

She is SOOOOO ready get get back home.

Just in time for the return trip up here in September for the oncology follow-up, coupled with final cataract evaluation for any necessary corrective/reading lenses.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:47 AM (isNL8)

128 San Fran I'm much better! I think the combo of chemo and IV antibiotics really messed me up and before I could recover from that I caught a nasty stomach bug that kept me down for almost all of this past week. But yesterday I was almost 100% and today so far so good. Thanks for asking

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 12, 2023 07:48 AM (5iFFd)

129 Glad you are doing well,jewells!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 12, 2023 07:49 AM (vHIgi)

130 Millennial

An index card is where we write out our OP Plans, in cursives, to keep OPSEC preserved.

Wouldn't our secret police want to know our real OP Plans? Terms with me can be arranged, but "they" should be prepared to eliminate my Google file. Plus bring plenty of negotiable items like gold, Val-U-Rite kegs, and my wife's life-sustaining prescribed and legal drugs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2023 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

131
Yes, in the hustle of life and it's challenges, we sometimes forget to take the moment to do that.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:41 AM (isNL

One of our curates is a very intelligent fellow. In one of his sermons, he said that our prayers should be structured in four parts, in descending order:

1) Praise to the Lord
2) Thanksgiving for blessings received
3) Remorse for failings
4) Petitions for intercession

In a church bulletin, he even had a sample structure for a prayer following this outline. Losers like me who were badly catechized when young and then lapsed for too many years simply have no idea how to pray, so this was by far the most useful sermon I've heard.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 07:49 AM (MoZTd)

132 "Got plenty of stories."

Looking forward to them.

So what happens if first day of school, you drive up wearing those senior citizen wrap around sun glasses, with a long white cane clipped to the dashboard.
Just stick the cane out the drivers window and begin to wave it around before you pull out from each stop.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:49 AM (isNL8)

133 102 Fun fact: Every J6 death was immediately cremated. Cops, Rosanne Boyland, all of them. Immediate.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 07:34 AM (BMWRT)

No cops died until late on the 7th or early AM 8th. From a stroke.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 07:50 AM (BRHaw)

134 I used standard carpenter's pencils for years. Then, I switched to HB3's. A very good line for trim but they dull. So, I use .5mm gel pens. They hold up well and I can mark a 1/32" consistently.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 12, 2023 07:50 AM (Eeb9P)

135
** follows trail of discarded wheels **

Oh, there you guys are! Lost a few wheels already, have we?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2023 07:50 AM (xG4kz)

136 The kids do not bother me at all. After being a division officer and department head, it is a peace of cake. I rule by fear and the occasional lame Dad joke.
Got plenty of stories.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2023 07:45 AM (u82oZ)
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SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP OR THE BUNNY GETS IT!

Posted by: Mrs. Crabtree at August 12, 2023 07:51 AM (JvZF+)

137 {{{ jewells45}}}

This is excellent news, cherished one. My prayers are being answered. I can testify!

The real question is: Is the world ready for a 100% and more jewells45? I hope we find out. I will practice girding my loins, in private..

Fuck cancer!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2023 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

138 Omg intruder alert!
Unauthorized strange dogh peeing on vdoggeh's grass!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 12, 2023 07:52 AM (vHIgi)

139 I once suggested to a friend to pray to the Lord for an issue in his life.

He said "I don't know how to pray, or what to say".

I just told him that God loves him, and..go ahead and talk to him. He's missed hearing from you.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:52 AM (isNL8)

140 I thought it was the walls that were coming off, not the wheels. The wheels are just closing in.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 07:52 AM (xTRSc)

141 No cops died until late on the 7th or early AM 8th. From a stroke.

-

Yep. IIRC there's even a text from Sicknic (sp?) of him joking around with his brother after the day was over.

None of it matters, though. The board was set and the game won.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 07:53 AM (BMWRT)

142 Doof, sure will.

She is SOOOOO ready get get back home.

Just in time for the return trip up here in September for the oncology follow-up, coupled with final cataract evaluation for any necessary corrective/reading lenses.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:47 AM (isNL

Continued prayers for all of that. Stay safe!

Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2023 07:53 AM (skX6a)

143
"Spider with erection-inducing bite shuts down supermarket."

* begins biting guys trapped in the supermarket *

"You get an erection! And you get an erection! And you ..."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2023 07:53 AM (xG4kz)

144 He said "I don't know how to pray, or what to say".

***

Can't go wrong with Our Father

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 12, 2023 07:54 AM (vHIgi)

145 Pilot makes a .38mm that I will try after my vacay. Magnificent morning in Queens, blue sky, a little JFK rumble and zephyrs

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 12, 2023 07:54 AM (Eeb9P)

146 I just told him that God loves him, and..go ahead and talk to him. He's missed hearing from you.

--

"You know how you like getting a phone call from your son and wish he'd call more often than when he needs something?"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 07:54 AM (BMWRT)

147 Village Idiot's Apprentice

It's the Rastafarian wig with long dreadlocks, and the Jar Jar Binks dialog they should worry about.

"Yo man, haw was yours summe?"

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2023 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

148 Good prayer plan, Hadrian.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2023 07:55 AM (z3WCn)

149 Not surprised antibiotics would screw up your tummy while doing chemo. My auntie in Maine's got bad c.diff. right now from antibiotics.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:55 AM (JvZF+)

150 @122 Abbott gets the Texas dream, being able to say to Mexico, "come and take it."

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 12, 2023 07:56 AM (ebrc7)

151 ""You know how you like getting a phone call from your son and wish he'd call more often than when he needs something ?"

Sort of exactly like that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:56 AM (isNL8)

152 Having helped with three or four relatives' estate stuff,
we are religious about keeping our possessions in bounds.

Or, in the case of someone's Texanna library, leaving detailed instructions on how to handle it.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 12, 2023 07:56 AM (hAfUZ)

153 I knew maybe by Jan 9 Sicknick died of a stroke, it was announced by family on news radio.

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 07:56 AM (MOY79)

154 If any of you mechanical pencil types haven't discovered the Kuru Toga yet, pick one up or ask for one for Christmas. They're only $7-$10 or so depending on what you want (there are plastic and metal options).

There's a mechanism in the pencil that rotates the lead so it stays sharp. It doesn't sound that special until you use one, but it really is a great invention if you use a pencil often.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 07:57 AM (BMWRT)

155 134 I was running short on pens. I just buy the cheapos, and I go through a lot writing notes to my self, shopping lists, tomorrow's plan that usually gets scrapped. Bought a 4 pack of gel pens and they are great. The worst writing instrument ever invented was the mechanical pencil.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2023 07:57 AM (0EOe9)

156
The kids do not bother me at all. After being a division officer and department head, it is a peace of cake. I rule by fear and the occasional lame Dad joke.
Got plenty of stories.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2023 07:45 AM (u82oZ)

When my stepdaughter was in HS band, Her Majesty and I would be chaperones on one of the buses going to cmpetitions. They'd give us the bus with the most unruly band members.

One kid started acting up just after we set off. Her Majesty got up, turned around and in that whipcrack voice that's been intimidating recalcitrant dogs for 50 years roared, "Sit down, that boy!" Church-like quiet reigned for the rest of the trip.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 07:57 AM (MoZTd)

157 lol thanks Salty but I think you should gird your loins in front of everyone

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 12, 2023 07:58 AM (5iFFd)

158 Sharpies pens of color, in packs.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2023 07:58 AM (z3WCn)

159 Kura Toga looks interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/2uxyc7fj

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 07:59 AM (isNL8)

160 Astronaut Pen.

Posted by: davidt at August 12, 2023 07:59 AM (SYTee)

161 Give me a nice, yellow Ticonderoga No. 2 wooden pencil anytime.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 08:00 AM (xTRSc)

162 Please get me out of this and I'll never do it again!

(does it again next week)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:00 AM (BMWRT)

163 jewells45 fuck cancer

Need to overcome my shyness first.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2023 08:00 AM (u82oZ)

164 In case, I fouled this up before here in the link again for the Steve Kelly political cartoon on Biden. I liked it! ;

https://tinyurl.com/ycktudx8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2023 08:01 AM (jNXSb)

165 154 After cursing the mechanical pencil right below you, I might try one of those you described, just for grins. There's a local office supply that probably has them.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2023 08:01 AM (0EOe9)

166 154 If any of you mechanical pencil types haven't discovered the Kuru Toga yet, pick one up or ask for one for Christmas. They're only $7-$10 or so depending on what you want (there are plastic and metal options).

There's a mechanism in the pencil that rotates the lead so it stays sharp. It doesn't sound that special until you use one, but it really is a great invention if you use a pencil often.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 07:57 AM (BMWRT)

I need this!!!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 12, 2023 08:01 AM (vHIgi)

167 Astronaut Pen.

Interesting old story about how when sending man into space, the US had the technology to invent the space pen.

Soviets simply took a pencil with them.

Not sure who was smarter.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:01 AM (isNL8)

168 I just got an email about a hot new EV charger. I think they may need to work on their marketing.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:02 AM (vFG9F)

169 So, I use .5mm gel pens. They hold up well and I can mark a 1/32" consistently.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 12, 2023 07:50 AM (Eeb9P)

I volunteer in the tagging section of our thrift store and buy/hoard medium point gel pens, because they are more easily read than ordinary ballpoints, imo.
They're like my red stapler.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 12, 2023 08:02 AM (hAfUZ)

170 I do love back to school sales.to browse for stuff I never knew I needed
Like a mini owl eraser

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 12, 2023 08:02 AM (vHIgi)

171 Ticonderogas are my favorite wooden pencils. You can find black slightly triangular ones in the hand tool section of your local hardware store. They're my absolute favorites.

Staedtler makes a nice #2 pencil, too, but they're not easy to find.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:02 AM (BMWRT)

172 "Like a mini owl eraser"

Why you trying to erase your owl?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:03 AM (isNL8)

173 Why you trying to erase your owl?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Lol

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 12, 2023 08:04 AM (vHIgi)

174 The refrain of "Try That in a Small Town" is sort of addictive.

Posted by: m at August 12, 2023 08:04 AM (LdYi7)

175 My idiot friends and I rode the school bus K-6. It was a "Lord of the Flies" type of situation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 08:04 AM (JvZF+)

176 Mini-owls are an endangered species, almost completely rubbed out.

Posted by: davidt at August 12, 2023 08:04 AM (SYTee)

177 Heh. My ex FiL was career civil service, working his way up from GS1 to GS13 or 14 when he died. My ex and her sisters thought all school supplies said Skillcraft Industries, US Government Property.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2023 08:04 AM (0EOe9)

178 Hadrian the Seventh

I just say "Join me in the front." "So, how has your day been so far? What classes do you like this year? Do you have a class you hate? Oh, by the way, the reason you are up here is ... I want you to tell me you will not do ... again. Okay. Go on back and have a seat. And have a magnificent day."

They do not want to have another conversation with me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2023 08:04 AM (u82oZ)

179 Into fountain pens. Pilot's retractable nib is my favorite. Don't have to cap it to keep from drying out.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2023 08:05 AM (Dm8we)

180 "almost completely rubbed out."

* Golf clap *

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:05 AM (isNL8)

181 25

try convincing an 87 year old to just cut the bolt on his 58 year old tractor seat.

took a couple of hours of trying everything else first.

Posted by: firecubed at August 12, 2023 08:05 AM (eHr3Z)

182 I need this!!!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at

-

They really are great. The 0.3 is my favorite.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:05 AM (BMWRT)

183 bill in arkansas

I still have some Skilcraft pens, and they work.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2023 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

184 Any email that starts

"Dear Manager,
Wish you everything goes well."

usually gets a pass, but the this one sounds promising. They are even offering "some pieces of samples or a trail order"

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

185 So, that one time on the band bus…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 08:05 AM (xTRSc)

186
Soviets simply took a pencil with them.

Not sure who was smarter.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:01 AM (isNL

*polite cough*

The Soviets used pens too. Neither them nor the US used pencils over concerns that fragments of graphite would break off and float around. A pen in space has to be different because of zero-G conditions but the pens that were developed were actually inexpensive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:06 AM (MoZTd)

187 Pencils are for framing and scribbling. When you're serious, pens.
My kid wanted to use my pen for her homework. She made a mistake and tried to cross it out but, that made a mess her autism wouldn't accept. Shit show for an hour.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 12, 2023 08:06 AM (Eeb9P)

188 Other than for signing my name, I only use pens for crossword puzzles and sudoku.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 08:08 AM (xTRSc)

189 I see that you can get a 12 pack of the triangular soft-grip Ticonderogas from Amazon for $10. That's much cheaper than you'll find at the hardware store.

https://tinyurl.com/2a3cbzdz

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:08 AM (BMWRT)

190 183 We'll probably find out that Skilcraft Industries for the Blind has become a Hunter Biden shell company, with 10% to the Big Guy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2023 08:09 AM (0EOe9)

191 Have a wonderful day, everyone.

May light rain be followed by zephyrs and rainbows. May deer mow your lawn. Cheaper than sheep, and a lot less upkeep.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2023 08:09 AM (u82oZ)

192 "I still have some Skilcraft pens, and they work."

When they went from the simple brown cardboard box with 'pen, retractible, ball, med, black' to the glossy stylized red white blue label, it took some of the joy out of it.

And ~~grease pencils~~ Marker, China, remember those?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:09 AM (isNL8)

193 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 12, 2023 08:09 AM (NBVIP)

194 I've got a box of pencils from grandparents that have passed on with pencils going back to the 50s and probably earlier. I used to have a bunch of red L&M Railroad pencils from a great uncle who worked for them for years, but I think most of those are down in the table saw now.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:09 AM (vFG9F)

195 Drive it like you stole it.

G'morning, Horde. Got a housefull of company but they're still sacked out. Just dropped in to say "Hi" and may your day be as happy as mine.

Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2023 08:09 AM (cTCuP)

196 JInteresting old story about how when sending man into space, the US had the technology to invent the space pen.

Soviets simply took a pencil with them.

Not sure who was smarter.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:01 AM (isNL

Yeah, but they forgot to bring a pencil sharpener.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at August 12, 2023 08:10 AM (Zvtjl)

197 Another good pen to try is the Sharpie Roller (I use 0.5)

They're pricey, though. I found a four pack for $2 and tried them. I'd maybe pay the full $7 price if I lose all of these. They're pretty great. Remind me of the old Uniballs from the 90s.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:10 AM (BMWRT)

198 192 Used to carry grease pencils for map overlay stuff. They will melt in your pocket.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2023 08:11 AM (0EOe9)

199 "*polite cough*

How dare you question 'My Truth!!'

*Storms off in a huff*

J/K

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:11 AM (isNL8)

200 This needs to be a musical interlude on some thread.

https://youtu.be/svG575tm05s

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2023 08:12 AM (Wnv9h)

201 Knowing the Russians, they probably sharpen pencils with their teeth.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 08:12 AM (xTRSc)

202 "They will melt in your pocket."

But not in your hand...

No, wait

That's not it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:13 AM (isNL8)

203 I don't know why everyone is so upset about a 2 acre tree getting burned up. Around here that are clear cutting hundreds of acres of trees so they can put up ugly ass solar farms.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

204 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Still got those, for when I need to mark incoming raids on the threat status board in the glass-enclosed nerve centre. *aka CIC*

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 12, 2023 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

205
I use the finest point black pen (Pilot) I can find. Also use 4 X 6 index cards daily - from the dollar store. I write the day and date at the top, then the weather forecast for the day and the next day - as a choice between two days may make me wait a day. I write things to the right side I want to get done, or as the day progresses stuff I have done. It's nice to be able to pick up the cards and search for last date grass was cut or when I ordered something. Occasionally I'll put my weight or waist size in the upper right.

I think in retirement some daily semblance of discipline is good.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 12, 2023 08:13 AM (enJYY)

206 Someone gave me a Staedtler highlighter pencil recently that I really like. I never knew they existed and now I suddenly don't like using the pens any longer.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:14 AM (BMWRT)

207 Morning peeps.

Grandson has some of the strangest sleep habits I've ever seen. Usually not up until noon. Yesterday and today he's up at 5AM. Bouncing off the walls.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2023 08:14 AM (Q4IgG)

208 I just remembered that when I streamlined the tools to a small bag I kept a couple flat carpenters pencils and the magic sharpener for them. A utility knife does the job but the weird little sharpener is kinda cool.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2023 08:14 AM (0EOe9)

209 in 1994,the Special Division, headed by Judge David Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, decided to replace Fiske, the Special prosecutor for Whitewater and the Clintons. He replaced him with Ken Starr to the objection of Janet Reno

maybe this could happen again

Weiss is a lot more crooked than Fiske, who was just incurious

Weiss can't continue

Posted by: REDACTED at August 12, 2023 08:15 AM (us2H3)

210 https www amazon com/Gel-Ink-Pen-Ballpoint-Stationery/dp/B07TBHWJ8Z

This .35 Chinese writing stick is the one I use. Love these things. I will hate it when the overlords decide we can't have Chinese things anymore.

Posted by: sTevo at August 12, 2023 08:15 AM (e8u7e)

211 I don't know why everyone is so upset about a 2 acre tree getting burned up.

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I guarantee that if we were allowed to examine and discuss the topic we'd find it was entirely preventable and caused entirely because of poor management of government resources.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:15 AM (BMWRT)

212 There's a mechanism in the pencil that rotates the lead so it stays sharp. It doesn't sound that special until you use one, but it really is a great invention if you use a pencil often.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 07:57 AM (BMWRT)

Why can't they make eyeliner like that?

Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2023 08:16 AM (cTCuP)

213 This .35 Chinese writing stick is the one I use. Love these things. I will hate it when the overlords decide we can't have Chinese things anymore.
Posted by: sTevo

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Thank you for posting that. Those are exactly the types of pens / sizes I look for. I'll try those.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:16 AM (BMWRT)

214 Now that the whole town has burned down, they can put up a solar farm there too.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

215 "I think in retirement some daily semblance of discipline is good."

Sounds like the old shipboard Plan of the Day (POD)

In the old days it said ' All hands are required to read' at the top.

Ask Salty, he'll back me up on this.

Nowdays, nobody reads them

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:17 AM (isNL8)

216 Why can't they make eyeliner like that?

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That's how you can make your fortune.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:17 AM (BMWRT)

217
Her Majesty has a Day Timer that I swear is her auxiliary brain center. Everything is penciled in: show calendar, address book, show results, AKC registration number, dates the girls came into season, etc. She refuses to digitize any of it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:18 AM (MoZTd)

218 Sounds like the old shipboard Plan of the Day (POD)

In the old days it said ' All hands are required to read' at the top.

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(ponders how to incorporate this onto the refrigerator magnet area)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:18 AM (BMWRT)

219 "Sounds like the old shipboard Plan of the Day (POD)"

I set some goals daily. Sometimes I even achieve them.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

220 When I was in sixth grade they had some historical society people come in for a little show on life in the Connecticut Western Reserve, which my area in Ohio was part of. All kinds of neat stuff to look at and try. Writing with a quill was a real pain in the ass. Then you look at the penmanship of the Declaration of Independence.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2023 08:19 AM (0EOe9)

221 they have already caught several postal workers in MA stealing mail and now I think it's hit home

my last 2 plate stickers and now my renewed DL were never delivered

it's too easy, the postal workers see RMV and grab the mail

Posted by: REDACTED at August 12, 2023 08:19 AM (us2H3)

222 I can never have enough pencils. Or index cards to scribble notes on.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 07:42 AM (xTRSc)

Or draw boobs?
Posted by: Doof at August 12, 2023 07:45 AM

That's probably why the shortage.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2023 08:19 AM (Wnv9h)

223 It's Middle Child Day. The traditional gift is no gift, and don't talk about it, either.

Posted by: Editor at August 12, 2023 08:19 AM (4DcbE)

224
Knowing the Russians, they probably sharpen pencils with their teeth.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 08:12 AM (xTRSc)

I was thinking exactly the same thing, but didn't comment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:20 AM (MoZTd)

225 Thank you for posting that. Those are exactly the types of pens / sizes I look for. I'll try those.
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My daughter gave me one to try about a year ago. I give them to people who like this sort of thing. On my 2nd box. I have red ones too but they will dry out before I even use up one.

Posted by: sTevo at August 12, 2023 08:20 AM (e8u7e)

226 I set some goals daily. Sometimes I even achieve them.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

We're supposed to have goals? What's next - wearing pants?

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at August 12, 2023 08:20 AM (45fpk)

227 "What's next - wearing pants?"

Just consider it...a goal.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:22 AM (isNL8)

228
I set some goals daily. Sometimes I even achieve them.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

Now that I'm more or less retired, I wake up every day with nothing to do and by the time I go to bed I haven't achieved half of it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:22 AM (MoZTd)

229 223 It's Middle Child Day. The traditional gift is no gift, and don't talk about it, either.

^^^ it’s funny because it’s true!

Posted by: 13times at August 12, 2023 08:23 AM (hjCSw)

230 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Awaiting customers.....

Posted by: JT at August 12, 2023 08:23 AM (T4tVD)

231 214 Now that the whole town has burned down, they can put up a solar farm there too.
Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

Chinese just dropped the core into their mini reactor

these gadgets are going to make solar and wing obsolete

the size of a warehouse, powers almost 600K homes

24/7, no wind, no sun, no problem

Posted by: REDACTED at August 12, 2023 08:23 AM (us2H3)

232 215 The POD and the weekly mess hall menu kind of made life simpler. "Well, utilities it is, and it looks like liver and onions at the chow hall".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2023 08:23 AM (0EOe9)

233 wind ^^

Posted by: REDACTED at August 12, 2023 08:24 AM (us2H3)

234
We're supposed to have goals? What's next - wearing pants?
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at August 12, 2023 08:20

The heck you say!

Posted by: rEmote pAntless wOrker at August 12, 2023 08:24 AM (e8u7e)

235
When is National Fifth of Six Children Day?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:24 AM (MoZTd)

236 Knowing the Russians, they probably sharpen pencils with their teeth.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 08:12 AM (xTRSc)

a Ukrainian butthole

Posted by: REDACTED at August 12, 2023 08:25 AM (us2H3)

237 Pens and pencils, eh? Okay. Pencil: old timey yellow #2. Pen: BIC Cristal black medium point.

Posted by: DB - at August 12, 2023 08:25 AM (geLO8)

238 Goals?

Beyond waking up?

None. I'm on an endless vacation.

Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2023 08:25 AM (cTCuP)

239 Birdbath status?

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That reminds me:

If any of you are birdfeeder types, try a fly-through feeder. We've just used them this season but have retired our traditional feeders as they've failed and replaced them with the fly-through type.

We don't have squirrel problems which might be a concern for some, though. The fly-through style is fantastic for cleaning and refilling, though. And larger birds can land on them, too. We've had a pileated woodpecker come and see what all the fuss is about once.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:26 AM (BMWRT)

240 No cops died until late on the 7th or early AM 8th. From a stroke.

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Yep. IIRC there's even a text from Sicknic (sp?) of him joking around with his brother after the day was over.

None of it matters, though. The board was set and the game won.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 07:53 AM

And they laid him in State in the House for a week like a friggin saint. They milked his death for as much as they could and then refused to release his autopsy to the family.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2023 08:26 AM (QNSds)

241 Park Service wants to kill off the cats at old San Juan. Please read and comment:

https://tinyurl.com/2e3vzbpk

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 08:26 AM (ouTlx)

242 "We're supposed to have goals? What's next - wearing pants?
Posted by: grammie winger"

Sometimes the goal is no goal.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:26 AM (vFG9F)

243 "my last 2 plate stickers and now my renewed DL were never delivered
"

My MiL always has mail simply fail to show up.

Even mail that her USPS app has a digital image with 'Arrriving soon!' on her laptop. So we know officially that this item is within the USPS system and has been scanned by their sorters to generate the image.

It's so bad that the Baltimore USPS Main Office has been audited and investigated numerous times for stuff like this.
It's so bad the the local USPS official stance is that if it's important, send it either FedEx or UPS, or minimum of insured USPS to have a tracking number.

USPS supports Mail-In-Voting as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:27 AM (isNL8)

244
"Well, utilities it is, and it looks like liver and onions at the chow hall".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2023 08:23 AM (0EOe9)

Question for the 29-year-old veterans. Was the food that bad or was it that service members understandably bitch about everything?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:28 AM (MoZTd)

245 Like most things designed (with stolen blueprints and tech) and built (with crappy Chinese tools and craftsmanship) I would not want a Chinese "mini-nuclear power plant" anywhere within 1000 miles of me.

Works fine for the first two weeks, then either melts down or blows up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2023 08:28 AM (Q4IgG)

246 Goals should be achievable. For example, my goal today is to pickup sticks in the yard. Notice I did not say "ALL of the sticks in the yard".

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:29 AM (vFG9F)

247 Biden knows this Ukrainian adventure is gonna blow next year

so he wants the GOP to stop the funding so he can blame it on them

but the tricky GOP will continue to fund it

we are led by idiots

Posted by: REDACTED at August 12, 2023 08:29 AM (us2H3)

248 Like most things designed (with stolen blueprints and tech)

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We sold that to them fair and square!!!
- U.S. politicians and C.E.O.s

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:29 AM (BMWRT)

249 One of our curates is a very intelligent fellow. In one of his sermons, he said that our prayers should be structured in four parts, in descending order:

1) Praise to the Lord
2) Thanksgiving for blessings received
3) Remorse for failings
4) Petitions for intercession

As a Protestant, that is actually much preferred over what is typical in public prayers:

1) "Thank you for your mercy"
2)
3) "We pray for those who need Your help"
4) "Keep us Safe"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2023 08:30 AM (p8A+W)

250 I will sometimes ask Mrs VIA what her plans are for the day.

And I usually hear 'nothing'

And I respond with, 'well, we'll probably accomplish that'.

And.....
That's when the fight started.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:30 AM (isNL8)

251 2) should have read:

rambling sermon with biblical symbols disguised as prayer

(shouldn't use < and >

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2023 08:31 AM (p8A+W)

252 Question for the 29-year-old veterans. Was the food that bad or was it that service members understandably bitch about everything?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:28 AM

Army liver and onions? Yeah...really that bad.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2023 08:31 AM (Wnv9h)

253 243 There was an area letter carrier caught stealing VA prescriptions. If she saw the white bag she was just stealing them, hoping to score some painkillers. Anyway, I go for my annual and have to return the stool sample in the postage paid bag, which looks just like incoming from the VA. They never got it. Always wonder if she got it and opened it during her oxy search.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2023 08:31 AM (0EOe9)

254 >Question for the 29-year-old veterans. Was the food that bad or was it that service members understandably bitch about everything?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Food was good. The cooks want to do a good job. Of course, when they truck hot food out to the boonies when you're on alert in winter in Germany, that food is the best you ever had.

Posted by: DB - at August 12, 2023 08:31 AM (geLO8)

255
Like most things designed (with stolen blueprints and tech) and built (with crappy Chinese tools and craftsmanship) I would not want a Chinese "mini-nuclear power plant" anywhere within 1000 miles of me.

Works fine for the first two weeks, then either melts down or blows up.

Old: China Syndrome
New: USA Syndrome

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 12, 2023 08:32 AM (enJYY)

256 Read in Post Offices undeliverable vote ballots would get put in 1 box which then after a period of time would vanish

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 08:32 AM (MOY79)

257
I will sometimes ask Mrs VIA what her plans are for the day.

Her Majesty will ask, "What are your plans for the day?" If I respond, "Reading, working on my playlist, taking a nap," I will find out quickly that those are not my plans for the day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:32 AM (MoZTd)

258 Good morning, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 12, 2023 08:33 AM (OX9vb)

259 Her Majesty will ask, "What are your plans for the day?" If I respond, "Reading, working on my playlist, taking a nap," I will find out quickly that those are not my plans for the day.

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"Work on the garage" is always my go-to.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:34 AM (BMWRT)

260 Fun fact: Every J6 death was immediately cremated. Cops, Rosanne Boyland, all of them. Immediate.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

So was devout Catholic Antonin Scalia...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 12, 2023 08:34 AM (IkzaL)

261 "Question for the 29-year-old veterans. Was the food that bad or was it that service members understandably bitch about everything? "

Did much of my time as a junior sailor on the old Knox class frigates.

Small crew, small mess decks. Limited amount of storage for Fresh Fruit and Vegetables (FF&V).

But, the galley did the best they could with what they had. Sometimes it was not the best, but it was always edible. And the underway Sunday brunch was a sight to behold.

And there was always Navy Chili-Mac.
Still love that stuff.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:34 AM (isNL8)

262 252 I always say I never had a bad meal in a mess hall. The Marine Corps used the Navy cook book, and they're noted for good food, especially afloat. The field mess could be a little sketchy what with food sometimes getting cold.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2023 08:35 AM (0EOe9)

263 Good morning creeper! May you enjoy a lovely day with your company.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 12, 2023 08:35 AM (5iFFd)

264 261 Every Navy and USMC chow hall always served a spice cake that I loved, and that's coming from a baker's kid.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 12, 2023 08:36 AM (0EOe9)

265 "Works fine for the first two weeks, then either melts down or blows up."

Dear Manager,

Wish you everything goes well. We are manufacturers of hot new mini nuclear power plant. May we interest you in some pieces of samples or a trail order?

Small cracks to be forming is normal. Pleas contact tect support for replacement.

Posted by: This email I got at August 12, 2023 08:38 AM (vFG9F)

266 Chinese just dropped the core into their mini reactor these gadgets are going to make solar and wing obsolete the size of a warehouse, powers almost 600K homes 24/7, no wind, no sun, no problem

What is infuriating is We The People get all the worst of Chinese style Communism, and none of the "Lets grow our economy and make sure people are fed" aspects of it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2023 08:39 AM (p8A+W)

267 Scammers are getting aggressive. In the mail yesterday, I received an "official notice" that my vehicle's warranty was about to expire. On a 13 year old vehicle. In big bold letters, it informed me that I am REQUIRED to respond to the notice.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 12, 2023 08:39 AM (LBNd1)

268 "Every Navy and USMC chow hall always served a spice cake that I loved, and that's coming from a baker's kid."

Sheet cake type pineapple upside-down cake, serves 32 people.

I would grab four-five of the little dishes that had a slice in them.

Just to eat the pineapple and glaze, then throw out the left behind cake.

And bowls of Creamed Chipped Beef on Sundays. Right next to the half pound of bacon, and three eggs over easy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:39 AM (isNL8)

269 So was devout Catholic Antonin Scalia...

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Wow. I knew law enforcement wasn't called and asked to examine the scene like what happens everywhere everyday all the time with any death of anyone, but I hadn't heard that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:39 AM (BMWRT)

270 USPS....... here most of the letter carriers are contractors. There's only one USPS delivery vehicle, the rest are private vehicles modified with the steering wheel on the right side. Magnetic signs and a flashing yellow strobelight on the roof.

IIRC the staff inside the actual PO is all USPS tho'.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2023 08:39 AM (Q4IgG)

271 Works fine for the first two weeks, then either melts down or blows up.

Old: China Syndrome
New: USA Syndrome
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 12, 2023 08:32 AM (enJYY)

But you will be able to get a coupon for 1 at Harbor Freight

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at August 12, 2023 08:40 AM (SQmE5)

272 "But you will be able to get a coupon for 1 at Harbor Freight"

And a free bucket!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:41 AM (isNL8)

273 Catholics aren’t supposed to be cremated?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 08:41 AM (xTRSc)

274 I have a Pentel mechanical pencil that is awesome. Writing pressure loads a spring, and each time you lift the lead off of the page, it advances the lead a few fractions of a millimeter. Never have to advance the lead.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 12, 2023 08:42 AM (Il142)

275 In USAF never said anything about our chow, only mentioned when we were being fes by the German Air Force and even then only one surprise dish I didn't care for.

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 08:42 AM (MOY79)

276 Abolish The USPS.

More coffee…

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 12, 2023 08:43 AM (R/m4+)

277 Oh oh
Saw this on fb (lost the link) from a museum
Ben Franklin used to sell imported field "notebooks" which where little, maybe index card sized, flat pieces of ivory clipped together at one end.
Pencil marks could be rubbed off.
So cool

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 12, 2023 08:43 AM (vHIgi)

278 I have vintage mechanical pencils. They used thick lead which seems to last forever. Can get replacements at Pendemonium.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 08:43 AM (ouTlx)

279 "here most of the letter carriers are contractors. "

Down home, the folks who deliver at our community, which is considered Rural Route are all contractors.

And the horror stories I hear from them are crazy about the actual USPS system and employees.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:43 AM (isNL8)

280 I do enjoy browsing the local Harbor Freight store. Got two packs of microfiber shop towels for $5 a couple months ago. Not even worth the time and effort to wash if they get too dirty. But last a lot longer than a roll of those blue paper shop towels.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2023 08:43 AM (Q4IgG)

281 School's out for summer! Dunkin County, Missouri in 1942. Guess shoes were a luxury.

Link goes to shorpy dot com.

https://tinyurl.com/bdhe33av

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at August 12, 2023 08:43 AM (Zvtjl)

282
Why not turn graveyards into solar farms? Solar panel above each coffin.

Posted by: Wasted and can't find way home at August 12, 2023 08:44 AM (enJYY)

283 > Down home, the folks who deliver at our community, which is considered Rural Route are all contractors.

And the horror stories I hear from them are crazy about the actual USPS system and employees.
_________

We're a rural route too. Probably some of the same horror stories.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2023 08:44 AM (Q4IgG)

284 winter in Germany, that food is the best you ever had.
Posted by: DB - at August 12, 2023 08:31 AM (geLO

Green eggs and grits from mermite cans in South Korea was some of the best food ever in the winter. It was HOT.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)) at August 12, 2023 08:45 AM (l7Kbv)

285
Catholics aren’t supposed to be cremated?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 08:41 AM

They can be but the church is a little fussy about the ashes. Sprinkling them around is a big no no. Ask your priest if cremation is right for you.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 12, 2023 08:46 AM (enJYY)

286 Stack of index cards with a binder clip was called "Hipster PDA" at one point. Used for todo lists

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 08:47 AM (ouTlx)

287 Puddleglum, thanks for the Oliver Anthony links. Had never heard of him, but I like.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 12, 2023 08:47 AM (OX9vb)

288 "Probably some of the same horror stories."

More than likely.

Back in the day, when I was still the holder of a valid FFL Class 3 (C&R) license, USPS could legally deliver qualified small weapons in small boxes with no reference to content of box to my front door.

Now...perish the thought.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:48 AM (isNL8)

289 286 Stack of index cards with a binder clip was called "Hipster PDA" at one point. Used for todo lists
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 08:47 AM (ouTlx)

Haha, there's a name for that? That's the notepad on my desk.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 12, 2023 08:48 AM (OX9vb)

290 "Green eggs "

I still have a somewhat odd love of dehydrated scrambled eggs to this day.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:49 AM (isNL8)

291 WS telling mom yesterday got mechanical lead drawing pencil lead that was my uncles and haven't found the holder in a few art stores. The carry the company just not what holds the lead I have lots of.

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 08:49 AM (MOY79)

292 Question for the 29-year-old veterans. Was the food that bad or was it that service members understandably bitch about everything?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:28 AM (MoZTd)

I pretty much lived on breakfast when I was in.
I did however overcome that whole I won't eat it if I don't like it thing I had going on.

Posted by: Reforger at August 12, 2023 08:50 AM (B705c)

293 > Back in the day, when I was still the holder of a valid FFL Class 3 (C&R) license, USPS could legally deliver qualified small weapons in small boxes with no reference to content of box to my front door.
__________

I'm surprised ammo can still be shipped to my front door.

Not that I ever do that...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2023 08:50 AM (Q4IgG)

294 "I'm surprised ammo can still be shipped to my front door. "\

Remember back when Classic Firearms would sell the crate with two spam cans of 7.62x54R (880 rds total)?

My UPS guy hated those.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 12, 2023 08:52 AM (isNL8)

295 Ford CEO says of getting people to like EVs:

"It’s actually not much different than the Model T, when we had to teach people to drive because they’re coming off a horse. I think the industry has a huge education to do"

This guy doesn't have a clue. The entire industry is deluded by the climate change scam.

Posted by: This email I got at August 12, 2023 08:54 AM (vFG9F)

296 In the first place, people already know how to drive. Mostly. Dumbass.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:55 AM (vFG9F)

297 we are led by idiots
Posted by: REDACTED at August 12, 2023 08:29 AM (us2H3)

Craven idiots.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2023 08:55 AM (lkfcP)

298 Was back in the day when the book "Getting Things Done" was a big deal. Lots of folks used digital planners like the Palm. Some prefered paper and pen, which they called "analog". Very happy I don't have that much stuff to track now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 08:56 AM (ouTlx)

299 Ask your priest if cremation is right for you.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 12, 2023 08:46 AM (enJYY)

Do not use cremation if you are allergic to cremation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 08:56 AM (BRHaw)

300 17: what is Mexico doing about people from third countries entering their country illegally to stroll across our border?

Close the border for 10 days to build the wall AND additional facilities for having people get exit visas before they leave the country so we can catch people who overstay their visas. If I Were King For A Day anyway.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 12, 2023 08:56 AM (jKUtf)

301 The industry has to teach people to put up with crappy EVs because that's all you are getting and you better be happy with it.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:57 AM (vFG9F)

302
Get Trump nominated, then boot him off the ballot in a few key states. Namely GA, PA, WI, MI, and AZ.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 12, 2023 07:01 AM (M9pYz)

Yup. This is how you stay in charge while still saying there was an election. The cheat is so safe in these states that they don't need to pull this, though.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2023 08:58 AM (j4U/Z)

303 I am not a goal-setter, which probably explains my haphazard life of mediocrity.

I'm probably not going to change that, but I'm ok with it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 12, 2023 08:59 AM (OX9vb)

304 If your cremation lasts more than four hours…

Oh, wait a minute…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 08:59 AM (xTRSc)

305 I even thought it was a hoot having K- rations a few times here or there

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 08:59 AM (MOY79)

306 295: “we made lots of EVs!!!”

(Market rejects them)

“What do we do now?”
“LET’S MAKE MORE EVs!!!”

It amazes me that the market rejected the Chevy Volt and the response by many auto manufacturers is simply to make more of what people don’t want.

Oh, and if the U.S. auto industry is destroyed by this, you can’t blame free trade for this.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 12, 2023 09:00 AM (jKUtf)

307 Oh, I'm sorry. That music means we're all out of time. Tune in next week for another exciting episode of "Pencil Talk" here on PBS.

Posted by: Friendly Announcer Voice at August 12, 2023 09:00 AM (NBVIP)

308 COFFEE

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2023 09:00 AM (BRHaw)

309 The few MREs I had in the Navy I thought tasted pretty good.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 09:00 AM (xTRSc)

310 307 Oh, I'm sorry. That music means we're all out of time. Tune in next week for another exciting episode of "Pencil Talk" here on PBS.
Posted by: Friendly Announcer Voice at August 12, 2023 09:00 AM (NBVIP)

; )

Posted by: m at August 12, 2023 09:02 AM (30MvH)

311 It’s actually not much different than the Model T

The Model T’s hand-crank never spontaneously combusted. Though shoulder muscles might burn.

Posted by: 13times at August 12, 2023 09:02 AM (gzplO)

312 292: I never complained about the food. And as for MREs: I had to buy my own, being an officer. So I always bought vegetarian MREs. (That’s “plant-based MREs from the food provider” for illiterates.) Why get the vegetarian MREs? Simple. They were the best ones with the best goodies.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 12, 2023 09:03 AM (jKUtf)

313 USMC here.

Mess-hall food was good. At San Diego we ate a lot of rabbit. That was my favorite, along with chipped beef on toast. On-board ship, we traveled in a typhoon for several days and got no food. On Okinawa (Camp Schwab) the food was fantastic. In Viet Nam, had to eat at a Seabee camp. Breakfast was a slice of fried bologna, lunch was a cube of jello with a slice of carrot in it. Gave up on that and lived on MREs. Back in the USA (Weymouth, MA), food was decent.

Posted by: French Jeton at August 12, 2023 09:04 AM (NXBpJ)

314 I like pencils!

Pencil skirts, that is. On the right chick.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 12, 2023 09:05 AM (jKUtf)

315 295 Ford CEO says of getting people to like EVs:

"It’s actually not much different than the Model T, when we had to teach people to drive because they’re coming off a horse. I think the industry has a huge education to do"

This guy doesn't have a clue. The entire industry is deluded by the climate change scam.
Posted by: This email I got at August 12, 2023 08:54 AM (vFG9F)

Much easier to ignore your customers than to fight CARB and EPA.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at August 12, 2023 09:09 AM (8C7+r)

316 {{{Jewells}}}

I sent 'em off to kayak the river. Peace and quiet reign.

How are you feeling?

Posted by: creeper at August 12, 2023 10:14 AM (cTCuP)

317 20 https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro
Oliver Anthony-Rich Men North of Richmond
It's been posted here before. Yesterday was the first I noticed it. I like it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 12, 2023 06:36 AM (sAmhv)

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I don't really like country music but this is great!

Posted by: Oglebay at August 12, 2023 10:46 AM (ogTiX)

318 the blog is gone

I thought ace was taking a few days off

Posted by: REDACTED at August 12, 2023 11:51 AM (us2H3)

319 273 Catholics aren’t supposed to be cremated?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2023 08:41 AM (xTRSc)

There was a perception that cremation was associated with denying the Resurrection of the Body. It’s allowed now, but there are certain restrictions, such has not scattering the ashes, as noted above.

Posted by: Fox 2! at August 12, 2023 12:07 PM (P1UfG)

320 Well, well, well! What have we here?

Posted by: The Barrel at August 12, 2023 12:13 PM (wu87C)

321 Does this mean we can go back to Pencil Talk?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 12, 2023 12:21 PM (NBVIP)

322 OK, who talked so much and made the wheels come off?

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at August 12, 2023 12:26 PM (8C7+r)

323 Henry oils have a thing or two to say.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 12, 2023 12:29 PM (lCWOD)

324 It was the best of blogs, it was the worst of blogs.

Posted by: The Dickens U Say at August 12, 2023 12:36 PM (NBVIP)

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