Mid-Morning Art Thread

Spring at the Old House
E. Bart Gerald

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 A R T

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2024 09:30 AM (ENQN6)

2 Meh, it's no Taylor Swift.

Posted by: In before the Moron that mentions Taylor Swift at January 31, 2024 09:30 AM (vFG9F)

3 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:30 AM (9yWhg)

4 Damn. Not first.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:30 AM (9yWhg)

5 Not much left of the old house.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 31, 2024 09:31 AM (ViCCR)

6 Spring has sprung
Fall has fell
Summers here
And it hot as Hell

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2024 09:31 AM (ENQN6)

7 That was all that was left after the meth lab blew up.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2024 09:31 AM (vFG9F)

8 Top 10?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 09:31 AM (J2vNu)

9 Die, Bart, die!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 09:31 AM (Q0kLU)

10 It's like some kind of weird Soviet Realist Narnia....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2024 09:31 AM (VoAdT)

11 Don't really care for this one. Too WPF cartoony.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

12 I don't get it.

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2024 09:32 AM (geLO8)

13 WPA, I meant.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

14 " Not much left of the old house.
Posted by: olddog in mo"

It's a fixer upper.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2024 09:32 AM (vFG9F)

15 Spring beauty and dutchman's breeches flowers, appropriate for the season.

Posted by: gp Can't Even at January 31, 2024 09:32 AM (MvF+J)

16 Can those guys from This Old House save This Old House?

Posted by: morigu at January 31, 2024 09:32 AM (BkvH7)

17 The old house was on wheels? Old time mobile home?

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 31, 2024 09:33 AM (ViCCR)

18 OK, off to the crossword puzzle

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2024 09:33 AM (geLO8)

19 I can't paint broken furniture accurately, but at least I get a novelty license plate.

Posted by: Bort Gerald at January 31, 2024 09:33 AM (GM3wp)

20 Spring has sprung,
The grass is riz,
I wonder where the flowers is.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:33 AM (9yWhg)

21 Whitney Museum of American Art

Date
1942

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on linen

Dimensions
Overall: 30 × 35in. (76.2 × 88.9 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)

22 Not much left of the old house.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 31, 2024 09:31 AM (ViCCR)

You stole my post...how did that happen?

Posted by: BignJames at January 31, 2024 09:33 AM (AwYPR)

23 Located in Manhattan's Meatpacking District—steps away from the Hudson River Greenway and the West Side Highway—the Whitney is easily accessible by bicycle, car, and public transportation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)

24 For some reason this puts me in mind of scenes from Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men." Maybe it's the wagon wheel. I see George talking to Lenny about "livin' offa the fat o' the land" while they look out across the pond and watch the sun filtering through the clouds.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 09:33 AM (J2vNu)

25 Lotsa places for the sniper to hide.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:34 AM (9yWhg)

26 "You stole my post...how did that happen?
Posted by: BignJames"

Duplicate posts get stolen. Like in the painting.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2024 09:34 AM (vFG9F)

27 Ghetto.

Would Not Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 31, 2024 09:34 AM (Dc73h)

28 Just to left out o view in the burnt wagon and bones of the dead settlers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2024 09:34 AM (ENQN6)

29 Tara is now Gone With the Wind.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 31, 2024 09:35 AM (UWcG8)

30 It's a fixer upper.
Posted by: fd
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Heh. Not for me. Man has to know his limitations.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 31, 2024 09:35 AM (ViCCR)

31 Can those guys from This Old House save This Old House?

Posted by: morigu at January 31, 2024 09:32 AM (BkvH7)

@ seasons worth...at least.

Posted by: BignJames at January 31, 2024 09:35 AM (AwYPR)

32 hm, what are his other works ??

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2024 09:35 AM (V13WU)

33 Miss Garland, we're ready for your number.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:35 AM (9yWhg)

34 Maybe the young man fixing up the house drowned in that pond yonder?

Posted by: GEORGE OBAMA at January 31, 2024 09:35 AM (MSxPN)

35 the Whitney is easily accessible by bicycle, car, and public transportation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)

It's hopelessly woke, but the building itself is nice, and they have some great stuff!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 31, 2024 09:35 AM (gSZYf)

36 Where is the Rainbow Bridge? This just fucking sucks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (Hpgos)

37 "I see George talking to Lenny about "livin' offa the fat o' the land" while they look out across the pond and watch the sun filtering through the clouds.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius"

And then George bashes Lenny's head in. Nice painting.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (vFG9F)

38 That cyclone did a number on the chicken coop.

Posted by: Auntie Em at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (JCZqz)

39 The remains of one of Ace's shelving projects?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (9yWhg)

40 Looks like a Monty Python illustration.

A giant foot will squash it next.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (SSm1z)

41 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Jones at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (vgRLm)

42 There should be a mailbox there, with the name E.J. Fudd

Posted by: ET at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (K4IF9)

43 Oh -- the thing I thought was a cannon is a newel post from a staircase. I'm thinking there's really not much left of The Old House. (Tornado . . .?)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (J2vNu)

44 Huh. Not really working for me. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (RXyKO)

45 32 hm, what are his other works ??
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2024 09:35 AM (V13WU)

Autumn at the Busted Out Steel Mill

Winter at the Field What Used To Have Corn Growing In It

Summer at the Hey Where The F*ck Is My Igloo

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (VoAdT)

46 At least there's lots of firewood.

Posted by: Look on the bright side at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (NBVIP)

47 Looks like a Monty Python illustration.

A giant foot will squash it next.
Posted by: Pete Bog at January 31, 2024

***
"The . . . larch."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 09:37 AM (J2vNu)

48 Looks like book jacket art for a shelved Louis L'amour same-sex novel concept.

Posted by: red speck at January 31, 2024 09:37 AM (0Id0S)

49 Spring with no house.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 09:37 AM (R4t5M)

50 E. Bart Gerald
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Doh!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 09:37 AM (2yu8s)

51 And then George bashes Lenny's head in.

Thus setting up the sequel: "Of Mice and Men II -- Squiggy's Revenge."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:38 AM (9yWhg)

52 He certainly shows potential here. I wonder if he became an artist after he got out of school.

Posted by: t-bird at January 31, 2024 09:38 AM (B3ASk)

53 Not much left of the old house.
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 31, 2024 09:31 AM (ViCCR)

It's seen better days for sure.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 31, 2024 09:38 AM (aD39U)

54 Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:38 AM (9yWhg)

55 The flowers look like bleeding-heart. Reminds me that I want to plant some more this spring.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 31, 2024 09:38 AM (T+Iwg)

56 Depression is expressed in many ways.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 31, 2024 09:39 AM (nVJ+n)

57 I wonder if he became an artist after he got out of school.

Posted by: t-bird at January 31, 2024 09:38 AM (B3ASk)

Ouch. Cruel.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 31, 2024 09:39 AM (gSZYf)

58 And then George bashes Lenny's head in. Nice painting.
Posted by: fd at January 31, 2024

***
Well, I wasn't going to mention that part and bring everybody down. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 09:39 AM (J2vNu)

59 And then George bashes Lenny's head in.

Thus setting up the sequel: "Of Mice and Men II -- Squiggy's Revenge."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:38 AM (9yWhg)

Idea for Robot Chicken.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 09:39 AM (R4t5M)

60 Object in the middle looks like a giant chess piece.

Posted by: dantesed at January 31, 2024 09:39 AM (88xKn)

61 How odd looking. Looks like an album cover from 1971.

Posted by: BChasm Phone at January 31, 2024 09:39 AM (hHaHb)

62 The flowers look like bleeding-heart. Reminds me that I want to plant some more this spring.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

Call me.
-- Alex Soros

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:40 AM (9yWhg)

63 Autumn at the Busted Out Steel Mill

Winter at the Field What Used To Have Corn Growing In It

Summer at the Hey Where The F*ck Is My Igloo
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2024

***
No doubt inspiring the Stones to record "Hey, You, Get Offa My Newel Post"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

64 61 How odd looking. Looks like an album cover from 1971.
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Album covers, I miss them so.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 09:40 AM (Hpgos)

65 That's a pond not a spring.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 09:41 AM (2yu8s)

66 I thought George shot Lenny in the back of the head. Lenny was the type of guy you could clobber with a 2 X 4 at the base of the skull and he'd probably say "duh, what was that?"

Posted by: PabloD at January 31, 2024 09:41 AM (x96/P)

67 My first thought on seeing this was "FDR". I was right.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2024 09:41 AM (CsUN+)

68 Alternative title:

"Feeling that He Might've Gone Just a Little Too Far By Blowing Up Elmer Fudd's Home With 600 Lbs of Dynamite Killing Elmer And His Whole Family, Bugs Disappeared and Was Never Seen Again"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 31, 2024 09:41 AM (nFnyb)

69 The old Ramrod Lounge was located in the Meatpacking District and I wouldn't go there either.

Posted by: Straight and Proud-Say It Loud! at January 31, 2024 09:42 AM (V5BDR)

70 So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel

Posted by: Darius Rucker at January 31, 2024 09:42 AM (NBVIP)

71 President Biden to visit East Palestine toxic train wreck site
President Joe Biden visited the site on the one-year anniversary of the incident

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2024 09:42 AM (RHGPo)

72 I like the colors on this one. This could be an illustration in a classic book of some kind.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at January 31, 2024 09:42 AM (fjssf)

73 You Call that a House? Starring Liam Neesom

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2024 09:42 AM (hB1mF)

74 It's hard for me to elaborate on why, but...

...the way the colors are used takes away from the "seriousness" of the piece.

Where's the oppressive gloom? Where's the darkness and solemnity? Where's the existential dread?

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2024 09:43 AM (UnA8+)

75 70 So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Posted by: Darius Rucker at January 31, 2024 09:42 AM (NBVIP)

Whatever Hootie

Posted by: Taggart at January 31, 2024 09:43 AM (og5mY)

76 Not much left of the old house.
Posted by: olddog in mo

***********

Ouch! - a limerick

I had to call old Doctor Libow
To have him prescribe a placebo
I made a wreck of my life
In a fight with my wife
She kicked me right in the gazebo!

Posted by: Muldoon at January 31, 2024 09:43 AM (991eG)

77 The Border Wall, by J. Biden.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2024 09:43 AM (CsUN+)

78 That's a pond not a spring.
Posted by: andycanuck

Yes, it lakes that way.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:44 AM (9yWhg)

79 I find this weird and vaguely unsettling.

Would not hang.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2024 09:44 AM (B2vkr)

80 I thought George shot Lenny in the back of the head. Lenny was the type of guy you could clobber with a 2 X 4 at the base of the skull and he'd probably say "duh, what was that?"
Posted by: PabloD at January 31, 2024

***
Despite it being one of my favorite pieces of fiction, it's been a while since I reread it. I'm thinking "gun" as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 09:44 AM (J2vNu)

81 The Teletubbies Sun-Baby would look cool in the upper left quadrant of this "work of art".

Posted by: Tinky Winky at January 31, 2024 09:45 AM (V5BDR)

82 Old house fall down.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 31, 2024 09:45 AM (pohLc)

83 And this where the pickleball court will be...

Posted by: The Over 55 Community at January 31, 2024 09:45 AM (NBVIP)

84 I saw Existential Dread open for UFO at the LA Convention Center 1978.

Posted by: ET at January 31, 2024 09:45 AM (K4IF9)

85 Why does ace hate Mister Trump so much, George??

Posted by: Lennie at January 31, 2024 09:45 AM (2yu8s)

86 Steinbeck was no John D. MacDonald.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 09:46 AM (Hpgos)

87 Shaka, when the walls fell.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 31, 2024 09:46 AM (aD39U)

88 And then George bashes Lenny's head in. Nice painting.
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Spoiler alert, dude!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 09:47 AM (2yu8s)

89 81 The Teletubbies Sun-Baby would look cool in the upper left quadrant of this "work of art".
Posted by: Tinky Winky at January 31, 2024 09:45 AM (V5BDR)

The Raisin Bran sun, actually dumping his scoops of raisins onto the ground below.

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2024 09:47 AM (UnA8+)

90 87 Shaka, when the walls fell.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 31, 2024 09:46 AM (aD39U)

Temba, his arms wide.

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2024 09:48 AM (UnA8+)

91 The Raisin Bran sun, actually dumping his scoops of raisins onto the ground below.
Posted by: XTC

Two scoops of raisins, my ass!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:48 AM (9yWhg)

92 Duplicate posts get stolen. Like in the painting.

Posted by: amy schumer at January 31, 2024 09:48 AM (2yu8s)

93 I wonder how much Mescaline ole Bart took afore painting this. It looks like a Carlos Castaneda paperback cover. Anyway, sure as hell beats a nekkid lardass on an ottoman.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 31, 2024 09:48 AM (pohLc)

94 Nice artwork today, CBD. But why is it that every time you post a painting with a depiction of an orphanage in ruins, some yahoo has to make a reference to Cap'n Ned, a well-known raging queen, "comforting" the cabin boys when it is obvious that "comforting" should be in scare quotes because...well... do I really have to spell it out?

Why is it?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 31, 2024 09:48 AM (991eG)

95 The Raisin Bran sun, actually dumping his scoops of raisins onto the ground below.
Posted by: XTC

Actually looks more like Jolly Green Giant country to me.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:49 AM (9yWhg)

96 Old house will be sold-as is- and is an opportunity for the handyman to get in on the ground floor of real estate investment. Bring your hammer and paint brush!

Posted by: Insufferably Cheerful, Smiling, Real Estate Lady at January 31, 2024 09:49 AM (V5BDR)

97 Nice artwork today, CBD. But why is it that every time you post a painting with a depiction of an orphanage in ruins, some yahoo has to make a reference to Cap'n Ned, a well-known raging queen, "comforting" the cabin boys when it is obvious that "comforting" should be in scare quotes because...well... do I really have to spell it out?

Why is it?
Posted by: Muldoon

Because we like to bitch.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:49 AM (9yWhg)

98 The Raisin Bran sun, actually dumping his scoops of raisins onto the ground below.
Posted by: XTC

Two scoops of raisins, my ass!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Raisins!? I clearly asked for ice cream.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at January 31, 2024 09:50 AM (AGIgH)

99 Hey, XTC. How're you doing?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:50 AM (9yWhg)

100 Why is it?
Posted by: Muldoon

Because we like to bitch.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at

Why is Muldoon acting like he's new here?

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 31, 2024 09:50 AM (CIS44)

101 This all never happened ... Mandela Effect

Posted by: ET at January 31, 2024 09:50 AM (K4IF9)

102 Cap'n Ned and the Raging Queen recorded Brandy, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 09:51 AM (Hpgos)

103 " I thought George shot Lenny in the back of the head. "

Maybe. It's been a long time. Same end result.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2024 09:51 AM (vFG9F)

104 It looks like a Carlos Castaneda paperback cover.

I once picked up a Castaneda book shelved under fantasy. Nice cover. May be the most disappointing book I’ve ever read.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 31, 2024 09:51 AM (6fom9)

105 Why is it?
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Because we want to comfort you.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 09:51 AM (2yu8s)

106 In spite of the title, I'm not sure what the point is of the painting. The artist includes items from early spring like the clouds, the emerging flowers, and the greening of the area. All very pleasant. But the discarded and broken wooden items seem incongruous.

If the painting was just a landscape I would enjoy it more.

Posted by: JTB at January 31, 2024 09:52 AM (zudum)

107 I once picked up a Castaneda book shelved under fantasy. Nice cover. May be the most disappointing book I’ve ever read.
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Yeah. I read it and couldn't even begin to describe what I read.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 09:52 AM (Hpgos)

108 Oops, the E. is for Elizabeth Bart Gerald. One ref in Wikidata says she's American, the other says she's British.

Posted by: t-bird at January 31, 2024 09:52 AM (B3ASk)

109 "I thought George shot Lenny in the back of the head."
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Maybe. It's been a long time. Same end result.
=====
Had to; he had rabies.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 09:52 AM (2yu8s)

110
George shot Lenny in the back of the head
Lenny shouted "Gadzooks" and fell down dead
The bullet killed Len's retarded
His rewired brain upsmarted
"Tis murder most foul, you bastard!", Len said.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 31, 2024 09:53 AM (nFnyb)

111 The Teletubbies Sun-Baby would look cool in the upper left quadrant of this "work of art".
Posted by: Tinky Winky at January 31, 2024 09:45 AM (V5BDR)

"Billions will fry."

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 09:53 AM (R4t5M)

112 Oh yeah, I remember. It felt like MY head had been bashed in after reading Of Mice and Men.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2024 09:53 AM (vFG9F)

113 Other paintings by Elizabeth Bart Gerald-

http://tinyurl.com/396aaxm3

http://tinyurl.com/a725tkfk

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2024 09:53 AM (NpAcC)

114 Back story for this art:

Shewas sick of his sh!t, so she shouted and shattered his shutters with her shoulder. Shoot, she should be shuddering.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 31, 2024 09:53 AM (991eG)

115 Looks like East Bart Gerald is the "hidden gem" side of town and real estate developers see big potential there now that the latin gangs have taken over West Bart Gerald.

Posted by: The Over 55 Community at January 31, 2024 09:53 AM (NBVIP)

116 Why is it?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 31, 2024 09:48 AM (991eG)

Because deep down inside of all Morons are hyper-sexualized maniacs who drool over Joe Mannix's scantily clad hussies and fantasize about rum, sodomy and the lash!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (gSZYf)

117 If the painting was just a landscape I would enjoy it more.

It is just a landscape. The discarded shells of mankind are but one part of the ecosystem, equal to all of the other parts.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (6fom9)

118 Had to; he had rabies.

... from bunnies.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (2yu8s)

119 All Lenny had to fight back with in the movie was a long chainey.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (9yWhg)

120 So now we know that CBD hangs out in the Meatpacking District. You can observe a lot just by watching around here.

Posted by: Insert Random Holland Tunnel Comment Here at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (V5BDR)

121 99 Hey, XTC. How're you doing?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:50 AM (9yWhg)

Another day of not living up to expectations.

You?

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (UnA8+)

122 Shazam!

Posted by: Gomer at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (NBVIP)

123 George shot Lenny in the back of the head
Lenny shouted "Gadzooks" and fell down dead
The bullet killed Len's retarded
His rewired brain upsmarted
"Tis murder most foul, you bastard!", Len said.

Posted by: naturalfake

Oh, so Fetterman is just a modern adaptation of an old classic.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (AGIgH)

124 Had to; he had rabies.

... from bunnies.
Posted by: andycanuck

*shudder*

Posted by: Jimmah at January 31, 2024 09:55 AM (9yWhg)

125 116 Because deep down inside of all Morons are hyper-sexualized maniacs who drool over Joe Mannix's scantily clad hussies and fantasize about rum, sodomy and the lash!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (gSZYf)

========

I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

126 Because deep down inside of all Morons are hyper-sexualized maniacs who drool over Joe Mannix's scantily clad hussies and fantasize about rum, sodomy and the lash!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (gSZYf)

Damn. Is it that obvious?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 31, 2024 09:55 AM (pohLc)

127 If this is what spring looks like, they must have had a brutal fall and winter...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2024 09:55 AM (7fElN)

128 Steinbeck was no John D. MacDonald.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024

***
They worked in different genres, though each was a master in his own. JMcD could have written "Of Mice and Men," but I doubt Steinbeck could or would have wanted to pen a crime story or thriller about a "salvage consultant" living on a houseboat (in Monterey, in his case).

I love them both. If you'd said to me when I was seventeen that I would someday love Steinbeck's work, I'd have looked at you like you had a pelican growing out of your head. But here I am.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

129 Another day of not living up to expectations.

You?
Posted by: XTC

OK. Still job-searching.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:56 AM (9yWhg)

130 ice cream and dog poop for lunch today!

Posted by: Paul banned at January 31, 2024 09:56 AM (UzBIE)

131 There should be a mailbox there, with the name E.J. Fudd

Why would he live here? He's a millionaire. He owns a mansion and a yacht.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 09:56 AM (Q0kLU)

132 It looks like a Carlos Castaneda paperback cover.

I'm thinking Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 31, 2024 09:56 AM (Gf82x)

133 Had to; he had rabies.

... from bunnies.
Posted by: andycanuck

*shudder*
Posted by: Jimmah
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AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! RUN!!!!!!!

Posted by: joey biden at January 31, 2024 09:56 AM (2yu8s)

134 Not even Bob Villa could help this Old House

Posted by: Doof at January 31, 2024 09:56 AM (KkPXD)

135 Because deep down inside of all Morons are hyper-sexualized maniacs

==

not that deep down at all !

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2024 09:56 AM (V13WU)

136 104 I once picked up a Castaneda book shelved under fantasy. Nice cover. May be the most disappointing book I’ve ever read.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 31, 2024 09:51 AM (6fom9)

You didn't feel like you were a Luminous Being doing mescaline with Don Juan?

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (UnA8+)

137 If this is what spring looks like, they must have had a brutal fall and winter...

It's like one of those After Humanity shows. What you're looking at used to be Manhattan.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (CsUN+)

138 Posted by: Paul banned at January 31, 2024 09:56 AM (UzBIE)

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Was he on psychotropic medications from Pfizer who saved you from the flu?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

139 My Dad and brother loved the Travis McGee stories.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (9yWhg)

140 I'm shocked! Shocked to hear there are scantily clad hussies hanging out in here!

Posted by: Claude Rains at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (NBVIP)

141 I read Castaneda's A Separate Reality a long time ago

what a crock of shit

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (geLO8)

142 George shot Lenny in the back of the head
Lenny shouted "Gadzooks" and fell down dead
The bullet killed Len's retarded
His rewired brain upsmarted
"Tis murder most foul, you bastard!", Len said.

Posted by: naturalfake

I know this story! After George fled, Lenny rose up, controlled by the lump on his neck/shoulder, and started referring to himself as "John Fetterman"!

Posted by: Confused Moron at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (JCZqz)

143 I don't recognize the artist or the style and I can't tell what's going on bu I find it oddly compelllng.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (CnLzB)

144 TJM

LEGO Ornithopter drops tomorrow!

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (CIS44)

145 Oh yeah, I remember. It felt like MY head had been bashed in after reading Of Mice and Men.
Posted by: fd at January 31, 2024

***
In a good way, or . . .?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (J2vNu)

146 Because deep down inside of all Morons are hyper-sexualized maniacs who drool over Joe Mannix's scantily clad hussies and fantasize about rum, sodomy and the lash!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (gSZYf)

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (Q0kLU)

147 >>>Spring at the Old House

They'd be needing to do some spring cleaning.
Also:
Snipers everywhere.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2024 09:58 AM (weK7N)

148 I invite Paul to dine on feces and expire.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 31, 2024 09:58 AM (pohLc)

149 Don't yacht girls need comforting just as much as cabin boys?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:58 AM (9yWhg)

150 So now we know that CBD hangs out in the Meatpacking District.

Posted by: Insert Random Holland Tunnel Comment Here at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (V5BDR)

There used to be some good restaurants there...Pastis and Barbuto. But Pastis is gone, and Barbuto moved, so except for The Whitney, there isn't much in the neighborhood.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 31, 2024 09:58 AM (gSZYf)

151 Other paintings by Elizabeth Bart Gerald-

http://tinyurl.com/396aaxm3

http://tinyurl.com/a725tkfk

Great job on the flowers in Spring Still Life.

Posted by: t-bird at January 31, 2024 09:58 AM (B3ASk)

152 1 A R T
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2024 09:30 AM (ENQN6)

Why?

Posted by: m at January 31, 2024 09:58 AM (weK7N)

153 son decapitating head of his father

How does one decapitate a head? Get a haircut?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2024 09:58 AM (CsUN+)

154 I love them both. If you'd said to me when I was seventeen that I would someday love Steinbeck's work, I'd have looked at you like you had a pelican growing out of your head. But here I am.
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I groked Steinbeck's novellas and Hemingway's short stories and really liked them. I just found their novels lacking and overly simmered in treacle.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 09:58 AM (Hpgos)

155 Yeah. I read it and couldn't even begin to describe what I read.

It’s been a long time, but what I remember is that it never really became obvious that it wasn’t meant to be read as fiction. I kept expecting something to happen.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 31, 2024 09:59 AM (8QIU8)

156 I bet most if not all hussies are AI, or mostly altered. no self respecting hussy would put up her real unadulterated image ! because who the hell would look at it ???

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2024 09:59 AM (V13WU)

157 LEGO Ornithopter drops tomorrow!
Posted by: BruceWayne at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (CIS44)
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Hmmm. Maybe they should check the engines more frequently. Was it built by Boeing?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2024 09:59 AM (7fElN)

158 I read Castaneda's A Separate Reality a long time ago

what a crock of shit
Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (geLO

Somewhere in the house I have a book about literary hoaxes, where the author goes into great detail about just how much of a fraud Castaneda was.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 09:59 AM (Q0kLU)

159 I'm shocked! Shocked to hear there are scantily clad hussies hanging out in here!
Posted by: Claude Rains

That dude was married, like, 8 times.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:59 AM (9yWhg)

160 Everyone hating on Castaneda does my heart good.

My father loved that shit, so maybe he wouldn't be your kind of people after all.

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2024 09:59 AM (UnA8+)

161 "In a good way, or . . .?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius"

It was a forced reading in HS and then we talked about it in class. I wish I knew then what I know now.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2024 10:00 AM (vFG9F)

162 139 My Dad and brother loved the Travis McGee stories.
----------------
Your Dad was a man of taste and refinement.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:00 AM (Hpgos)

163 My Dad and brother loved the Travis McGee stories.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024

***
I lucked across them when I was sixteen (along with Hamilton's Matt Helm stories). Since then I've read nearly everything John D. wrote and have a slew of his non-McGees on my shelf. Blurbs in those days said he was "the John O'Hara of the crime story," so I tried O'Hara's work. Nah, not my speed. But I can see some resemblances.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:00 AM (J2vNu)

164 I groked Steinbeck's novellas and Hemingway's short stories and really liked them. I just found their novels lacking and overly simmered in treacle.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 09:58 AM (Hpgos)

Especially as they got older and more full of themselves...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 31, 2024 10:01 AM (gSZYf)

165 I read ALL of Castaneda's books. They are out there alright.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 31, 2024 10:01 AM (pohLc)

166 Not a major or unusual story but it begins and ends...

"Florida man gets 30 months in prison for stealing sports camp tuition for gambling, vacations, and plastic surgery."

Related to Alyssa Milano??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 10:01 AM (2yu8s)

167 96 >>>Old house will be sold-as is- and is an opportunity for the handyman to get in on the ground floor of real estate investment. Bring your hammer and paint brush!

If this post is till up, its available No low-ballers! I know what I've got!

Posted by: red speck at January 31, 2024 10:01 AM (0Id0S)

168 The part of The Grapes of Wrath I liked the best was the chapter devoted to a box turtle trying to cross a road.

Most of the rest of that novel sucked.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:01 AM (9yWhg)

169 I missed Paul again? Shucks.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 31, 2024 10:02 AM (Gf82x)

170 "In a good way, or . . .?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius"
*
It was a forced reading in HS and then we talked about it in class. I wish I knew then what I know now.
Posted by: fd at January 31, 2024

***
For those who don't like OMaM, it has the blessing of being short. I was and am no big fan of Grapes of Wrath, and can understand why somebody would be dead tired after finishing it. But then I love East of Eden, just as big a book. Go figure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:02 AM (J2vNu)

171 I read a lot of Tony Robbins' books. I enjoyed them but in retrospect I think the only one of merit was Another Roadside Attraction.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:02 AM (Hpgos)

172 Saw the funniest ad for a car. First couple of sentences is how it’s in great shape, runs strong, etc. last sentence: may need new transmission and rebuilt title. lol.

Talk about burying the lede.

Posted by: Montec at January 31, 2024 10:02 AM (bWsRe)

173 Tossing soup might actually improve this one. Well, it might taste better anyway.

Posted by: Soupy Sales at January 31, 2024 10:02 AM (GM3wp)

174 One of my uncles drove a Casteneda in the 80s. Thing was junk.

Posted by: Back in the day at January 31, 2024 10:02 AM (NBVIP)

175 Castaneda's books are for the "Experienced", I do believe.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2024 10:03 AM (QB+5g)

176 166 Not a major or unusual story but it begins and ends...

"Florida man gets 30 months in prison for stealing sports camp tuition for gambling, vacations, and plastic surgery."
--------------

If he told them it was for transition surgery it would have been time-served.

Posted by: ET at January 31, 2024 10:03 AM (K4IF9)

177 I missed Paul again? Shucks.
Posted by: Northernlurker

He took a dump in the front hall. It's still there, if you miss him.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:03 AM (9yWhg)

178 Castaneda was full of crap and a boring writer. Anybody who followed this mystical silliness deserved the disappointment they got

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2024 10:03 AM (hB1mF)

179 🎶 Ain't gonna need this house no longer
Ain't gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the shingles
Ain't got time to fix the floor
Ain't got time to oil the hinges
Nor to mend the window-pane
Ain't gonna need this house no longer
I'm gettin' ready to meet the saints 🎶

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2024 10:03 AM (Ifu6F)

180 168 The part of The Grapes of Wrath I liked the best was the chapter devoted to a box turtle trying to cross a road.

Most of the rest of that novel sucked.
---------------
I even hated that chapter. Truck drivers aren't psychos. Their truck drivers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:03 AM (Hpgos)

181 I don't recognize the artist or the style and I can't tell what's going on bu I find it oddly compelllng.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (CnLzB)

It reminds me a bit of Curry. Not the food...the artist.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 31, 2024 10:03 AM (gSZYf)

182 Cartoonish but interesting

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:04 AM (n2vyf)

183 PayPal lays off 2,500 workers one week after CEO announces 'new chapter'

The payment company's CEO Alex Chriss told staff on Tuesday that another 9% of the workforce — about 2,500 positions — will be slashed.

.. the last time I was "let go" they never mentioned layoffs. Instead, I was told that I didn't fit into the "profit plan".

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2024 10:04 AM (RHGPo)

184 One of my uncles drove a Casteneda in the 80s. Thing was junk.
Posted by: Back in the day at January 31, 2024 10:02 AM (NBVIP)

The only redeeming feature was that you could get six bodies in the trunk.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 31, 2024 10:04 AM (aD39U)

185 Don’t take Castenada if you’re allergic to Castenada.

Posted by: Montec at January 31, 2024 10:04 AM (bWsRe)

186 Only an illegitimate bastard would use a redundancy like "decapitating head".

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 10:05 AM (2yu8s)

187 It reminds me a bit of Curry. Not the food...the artist.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

He didn't do anything good after Red October.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:05 AM (9yWhg)

188 Alternate title:

"Never Let Ace Put Up Your Shelves"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 31, 2024 10:05 AM (nFnyb)

189 I found Grapes of Wrath to be one long trip down depression lane.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 31, 2024 10:05 AM (pohLc)

190 169 I missed Paul again? Shucks.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 31, 2024 10:02 AM (Gf82x)

=======

33 year old man in PA (that the NY Post calls QAnon-aligned) decapitates father (that the man's YouTube video of the head and a rambling speech said) who was apparently a 20 year veteran of the federal government.

Therefore, it's proof that MAGA is violent and Biden has every right to illegalize conservatives from politics, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

191 I groked Steinbeck's novellas and Hemingway's short stories and really liked them. I just found their novels lacking and overly simmered in treacle.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 0

***
The only long Hemingway I've liked, and that with reservations, is for Whom the Bell Tolls. It's got a long slow section in the middle like a sagging hammock where all they do is talk about "blowing the bridge" and refer to "In the milk of thy fathers." But as the story approaches the climax, it really picks up. The final scene is one of the greatest in literature.

The movie with Gary Cooper is *exactly* the same way. It even had an intermission in the middle when it was new in theatres.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

192 > Castaneda was full of crap and a boring writer. Anybody who followed this mystical silliness deserved the disappointment they got
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well, I was young and curious and smoking weed regularly

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2024 10:05 AM (geLO8)

193 Money laundering 101 - They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

North Texas receives hefty grant for EV charging stations in rural, disadvantaged communities

NORTH TEXAS - North Texas is getting $100 million in funding to build and expand EV charging stations in rural and disadvantaged communities.
A team effort between local agencies made this possible.
It was a small, but jubilant crowd that gathered in Dallas today to get official word from the Department of Transportation Under Secretary Carlos Monje that North Texas is the recipient of a hefty government grant.

http://tinyurl.com/yc2k2zxr

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2024 10:05 AM (Ifu6F)

194 Castaneda was full of crap and a boring writer. Anybody who followed this mystical silliness deserved the disappointment they got

This, too, is the story of Barack Obama.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 10:06 AM (Q0kLU)

195 A 6-person trunk is a Burning Times hearse.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:06 AM (R4t5M)

196 >>I thought George shot Lenny in the back of the head.

Be fair. He told Lenny about the Rabbits. One last time.

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2024 10:06 AM (yfepr)

197 And, really, a grown guy's gonna suck milk from a new mother's breasts without playing with them first? Come on.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:06 AM (9yWhg)

198 Castaneda's books are for the "Experienced", I do believe.
Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2024

***
Experienced in self-torture?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

199 PayPal lays off 2,500 workers one week after CEO announces 'new chapter'

The payment company's CEO Alex Chriss told staff on Tuesday that another 9% of the workforce — about 2,500 positions — will be slashed.

Yeah. Our new chapter doesn't have you in it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2024 10:07 AM (Ifu6F)

200 I found Grapes of Wrath to be one long trip down depression lane.
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But the Political Commissar saves them all in the end!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 10:07 AM (2yu8s)

201 34 Maybe the young man fixing up the house drowned in that pond yonder?
Posted by: GEORGE OBAMA at January 31, 2024 09:35 AM (MSxPN)

Or jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2024 10:07 AM (weK7N)

202 We used to double date with Lenny and Squiggy.

Posted by: Laverne and Shirley at January 31, 2024 10:07 AM (NBVIP)

203 Therefore, it's proof that MAGA is violent and Biden has every right to illegalize conservatives from politics, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

Well according to the DU

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:08 AM (n2vyf)

204 I found Castaneda's writing other worldly, difficult to understand, yet consistent in direction.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 31, 2024 10:08 AM (pohLc)

205 33 year old man in PA (that the NY Post calls QAnon-aligned)

..

The only thing more absurd than his fiction book, "King of Earth: Second Messiah", is the fact that it is loosely based on the life of author and musician Justin Mohn, whose four year stay in Colorado caused multiple lawsuits and changed the possible outcomes of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election by exposing 3 Presidential candidates as corrupt which forced them to drop out of the race.

.. Who knew this guy was SO POWERFUL ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2024 10:08 AM (RHGPo)

206 45 32 hm, what are his other works ??
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2024 09:35 AM (V13WU)

Autumn at the Busted Out Steel Mill

Winter at the Field What Used To Have Corn Growing In It

Summer at the Hey Where The F*ck Is My Igloo
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (VoAdT)

LOL very poetic

Posted by: m at January 31, 2024 10:09 AM (weK7N)

207 I was laid off in the .com implosion. It was meh. I knew it would come eventually and when it did it was a relief. Went on FUNemployment for a couple of months annd a decent severance package and got a new, better paying job.

Overall it was a net positive.

Posted by: Montec at January 31, 2024 10:09 AM (bWsRe)

208 A 6-person trunk is a Burning Times hearse.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

'59 Cadillac Coupe de Ville.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2024 10:09 AM (Ifu6F)

209 SCTV's Movie of the Week: The Grapes of Mud -- oddly enough looks alot like this painting.

http://tinyurl.com/96h8vc96
10:17 minutes.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 10:09 AM (2yu8s)

210 Ain't gonna need this house no longer
I'm gettin' ready to meet the saints 🎶
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2024

***
"Just moved in my new house today!
Movin' was hard but I got squared away.
Bells started ringin' and chains rattled loud --
I knew I'd moved in a haunted house!"

Posted by: Jumpin' Gene Simmons at January 31, 2024 10:09 AM (J2vNu)

211 PayPal lays off 2,500 workers one week after CEO announces 'new chapter'

That new chapter is Chapter 11.

Posted by: t-bird at January 31, 2024 10:09 AM (D5SRX)

212 Buncha broken shit on the lawn. Redneck art.

Posted by: Yee Haw at January 31, 2024 10:10 AM (pjs7m)

213 @192 Don Black, doesn't make you a bad guy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2024 10:10 AM (hB1mF)

214 *I knew I'd moved in a haunted house*

I like the GEICO commercial about the aunts.

Posted by: But that's just me at January 31, 2024 10:10 AM (NBVIP)

215 The best part of The Grapes of Wrath is the movie being given to the Soviets and then shown to the people whose big reaction was 'even poor people in America have cars.' They didn't see that coming and yanked the film out of circulation quickly. The other twist is all the Oakies reaching California didn't become 'True Believers' but instead made money and created the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:11 AM (Hpgos)

216
I saw Overly Simmered in Treacle open for the 1910 Fruit Gum Company at Fair Park in '67.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 31, 2024 10:11 AM (nFnyb)

217 Tara is now Gone With the Wind.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 31, 2024 09:35 AM (UWcG

Tara-ra-BOOM de ay ?

Posted by: JT at January 31, 2024 10:11 AM (T4tVD)

218 I found Grapes of Wrath to be one long trip down depression lane.

*******

"Portnoy's Complaint" should haave ben titled "The Gripes of Roth"

Posted by: Muldoon at January 31, 2024 10:12 AM (991eG)

219 We used to double date with Lenny and Squiggy.
Posted by: Laverne and Shirley

Lenny and Squiggy had to draw straws before every date to determine who got to have Laverne that evening.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:12 AM (9yWhg)

220 Morning.

When it comes to art I sometimes have a thought. It's a kind of obscene, silly thought. Is this artist better than Hitler? Cuz, let's face it, lots of famous arteests out there were probably on par or worse than Hitler.

Is this art better than a Hitler?

Eh...Maybe a little.

Would not hang.

Posted by: Robert at January 31, 2024 10:12 AM (preKe)

221 Arab-American leaders in Michigan reject Biden visit over Gaza. Can anything be done between now and November?

By November, this will be old news and they will support him again.

Sitting out the vote could be a problem. Trump won Wisconsin by only 23,000 votes in 2016. Joe took Michigan back in 2020 by 154,188 but that less than 3%.

Michigan is a problem area for Biden. The polls are bad - he's barely competitive vs Trump (last poll had Biden down .

If he loses Michigan, unless he wins Georgia/Arizona, he isn't winning, and that's with winning Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Surprising, because Michigan was the strongest of the three rustbelt states Biden flipped in 2020.

many Americans don't understand our basic democratic political system. it’s a binary choice. They think Trump will treat Palestine better? what they are holding against Joe is he embraced Netanyahu the day after the attack. Joe just naturally shows sympathy to somebody. A two state solution by Biden and Blinken would solve everything...and if they can't do it, nobody can.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

222 78 That's a pond not a spring.
Posted by: andycanuck

Yes, it lakes that way.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 09:44 AM (9yWhg)

It's an asp'ring rapper.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2024 10:13 AM (weK7N)

223 Steinbeck was no John D. MacDonald.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 09:46 AM (Hpgos)

He was no Elmore Leonard neither !

Posted by: JT at January 31, 2024 10:13 AM (T4tVD)

224 I wouldn't nail Penny Marshall with a stolen dick.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:13 AM (R4t5M)

225 let's face it, lots of famous arteests out there were probably on par or worse than Hitler.

Not true. He could paint an entire apartment in an afternoon. Two coats!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:13 AM (9yWhg)

226 ...pond is good for you.

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2024 10:14 AM (yfepr)

227 221 many Americans don't understand our basic democratic political system. it’s a binary choice. They think Trump will treat Palestine better? what they are holding against Joe is he embraced Netanyahu the day after the attack. Joe just naturally shows sympathy to somebody. A two state solution by Biden and Blinken would solve everything...and if they can't do it, nobody can.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

=======

Gosh...taking sides with Iranian proxies was a bad idea politically? It put you in a box in American politics that are best served in tiny enclaves without competing on a national level?

We're ruled by the best, remember.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

228 Youtube Video: Mohn's Militia and a 'Call to arms'

“He is now in hell for eternity as a traitor to his country,” Justin Mohn says of his father on the video, which appeared to be filmed in a bedroom.

In the video, Mohn describes himself as the "Commander" of America's national network of milita, which he called Mohn's Milita — also the title of his YouTube channel — which had 15 subscribers and eight videos as of Tuesday night.

The video had more than 5,000 views before YouTube took it down, citing violations of the platform’s policy on violent and graphic content.

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2024 10:14 AM (RHGPo)

229 Posted by: Laverne and Shirley

Hmm. Laverne or Shirley?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 10:14 AM (Q0kLU)

230 Because deep down inside of all Morons are hyper-sexualized maniacs who drool over Joe Mannix's scantily clad hussies and fantasize about rum, sodomy and the lash!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

********

Nonsense!

(hehhehheh He said "deep down inside" hehheh)

Posted by: Muldoon at January 31, 2024 10:14 AM (991eG)

231 You know how we asked the other day if the artist knew what a baby looked like?

Here I have to ask does the artist know what a house looks like?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:14 AM (ibTVg)

232 “now and November?

By November, this will be old news and they will support him again.

—-

I agree. 9 months is an eternity in politics.

Posted by: Montec at January 31, 2024 10:14 AM (bWsRe)

233 Posted by: Laverne and Shirley

Hmm. Laverne or Shirley?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 10:14 AM (Q0kLU)

Hint: Not Laverne

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:14 AM (R4t5M)

234 223 Steinbeck was no John D. MacDonald.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 09:46 AM (Hpgos)

He was no Elmore Leonard neither !
---------------
So true. My Dad got me hooked on Elmore.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:14 AM (Hpgos)

235 Joe just naturally shows sympathy to somebody.

It should physically hurt to be this stupid.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 10:15 AM (Q0kLU)

236 Hitler was good with architecture, but was rejected from art school in Vienna because he couldn't draw people. That right there is a big tell as to his character.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 31, 2024 10:15 AM (pohLc)

237 Posted by: Laverne and Shirley
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Hmm. Laverne or Shirley?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024

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Shirley, any time and twice on Sunday. (To this day I have trouble thinking of Penny Marshall as anything other than Oscar Madison's secretary on The Odd Couple.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:16 AM (J2vNu)

238 Reading the DU posts, if you must, is best done while listening to the Twilight Zone theme on repeat.

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2024 10:16 AM (UnA8+)

239 Hmm. Laverne or Shirley?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 10:14 AM (Q0kLU)

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Thelma or Louise?

/I denounce my man card ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 10:16 AM (W4CVQ)

240 North Texas receives hefty grant for EV charging stations in rural, disadvantaged communities
____

Huge number of EVs are owned by people in rural and disadvantaged communities.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:16 AM (fs1hN)

241 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. House has seen better days.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2024 10:16 AM (W/lyH)

242 Reading the DU posts, if you must, is best done while listening to the Twilight Zone theme on repeat.

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2024 10:16 AM (UnA8+)

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I always do it to the shower scene tune in "Psycho."

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 10:17 AM (W4CVQ)

243 240 North Texas receives hefty grant for EV charging stations in rural, disadvantaged communities
____

Huge number of EVs are owned by people in rural and disadvantaged communities.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:16 AM (fs1hN)

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I hope North Texas runs through the cash by buying time with hookers and booze.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

244 Hmm. Laverne or Shirley?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Shirley was right up there in my pantheon of 70s TV cuties.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:17 AM (9yWhg)

245 A two state solution by Biden and Blinken would solve everything...and if they can't do it, nobody can.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

sure

Posted by: BignJames at January 31, 2024 10:17 AM (AwYPR)

246 Huge number of EVs are owned by people in rural and disadvantaged communities.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:16 AM (fs1hN)

It’s science!

Posted by: Montec at January 31, 2024 10:17 AM (bWsRe)

247 I always do it to the shower scene tune in "Psycho."

Not the scariest shower scene that comes to mind when you think about Joe biden

Posted by: Ashley biden at January 31, 2024 10:17 AM (ibTVg)

248 143 I don't recognize the artist or the style and I can't tell what's going on bu I find it oddly compelllng.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2024 09:57 AM (CnLzB)

It's affecting your spelllng.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2024 10:17 AM (weK7N)

249 229 Posted by: Laverne and Shirley

Hmm. Laverne or Shirley?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Unlike the Ginger/Mary Anne debate, this one is a guaranteed loser. Sometimes, the only way to win is not to play.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 31, 2024 10:18 AM (JCZqz)

250 245 A two state solution by Biden and Blinken would solve everything...and if they can't do it, nobody can.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

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It's really too bad that Gaza was refused it's own government and lived under an Israeli dictatorship for the past 15 years or so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

251 243 I hope North Texas runs through the cash by buying time with hookers and booze.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

That's every year at the Dallas St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2024 10:18 AM (UnA8+)

252 Cindy Williams was alright. Boo-boo Kitty would get a show.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:18 AM (R4t5M)

253 Betty or Wilma?

Posted by: Here we go at January 31, 2024 10:18 AM (NBVIP)

254 Steinbeck was no John D. MacDonald.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024
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He was no Elmore Leonard neither !
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So true. My Dad got me hooked on Elmore.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024

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Leonard reproduced the way criminals and everyday people talk so closely that sometimes I don't know what they're talking about. That kind of dialog works better in a movie, as you can see the actors' facial expressions and gestures. That said, I like Leonard's Westerns and more than a few of his crime stories.

There is a short Steinbeck story called "The Snake" that is creepy and suspenseful, though. Go find it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

255 North Texas receives hefty grant for EV charging stations in rural, disadvantaged communities
____

Huge number of EVs are owned by people in rural and disadvantaged communities.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:16 AM (fs1hN)

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Is there no greater White Privilege Status Symbol than a Tesla?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 10:18 AM (W4CVQ)

256 A two state solution? Wow. What an original and bold idea. Nobody has ever thought of it before.

Posted by: Montec at January 31, 2024 10:18 AM (bWsRe)

257 236 Hitler was good with architecture, but was rejected from art school in Vienna because he couldn't draw people. That right there is a big tell as to his character.
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Artists that can't paint people end up doing landscapes. The other side is artist that paint people like shrubbery. The impressionists did this a lot.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:19 AM (Hpgos)

258 A two state solution by Biden and Blinken would solve everything...and if they can't do it, nobody can.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

Biden will give the west bank to Pennsylvania, and the east bank to Ohio.

Posted by: t-bird at January 31, 2024 10:19 AM (D5SRX)

259 Reading the DU posts, if you must, is best done while listening to the Twilight Zone theme on repeat.

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2024 10:16 AM (UnA8+)

Not "Yakety Sax?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 10:19 AM (Q0kLU)

260 A two state solution by Biden and Blinken would solve everything...and if they can't do it, nobody can.

Actually, this isn't completely wrong. Except the Muzzie state the Palis get to run as to be outside of Israel in an area currently within the Muslim world.

I've suggested Socotra on this board but in all seriousness these people can't live next to Jews in the Jew's homeland because they want to kill Jews...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:19 AM (ibTVg)

261
[cues up Tennessee Ernie Ford]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2024 10:19 AM (XeU6L)

262 I was not fooled by Castaneda. A junior instructor called it "A Yaqui Way of Knowledge," I heard it as "yacky," and this proved out as advertised.

If you cross northern Ohio on the I-80 turnpike, there is a farmhouse about three miles west of the Fulton-Lucas county line, north side of the road next to an overpass, that was walked-away-from when the road was built in the 50's. It has literally been falling down for 65 years, and not all the way down yet. Pretty good ad for late 19th cent. frame construction techniques.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 31, 2024 10:20 AM (zdLoL)

263 Thelma or Louise?

/I denounce my man card ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024

***
Personally I'd prefer their Thunderbird.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:20 AM (J2vNu)

264 *peeks in*

Posted by: Bob Ross at January 31, 2024 10:20 AM (R4t5M)

265 Hmm. Laverne or Shirley?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Unlike the Ginger/Mary Anne debate, this one is a guaranteed loser. Sometimes, the only way to win is not to play.
Posted by: Moron Analyst

MP4 is probably picturing Laverne in Edwardian dress, versus Shirley in 50s dress. Narrows the gap considerably in his opinion.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:20 AM (9yWhg)

266 260 I've suggested Socotra on this board but in all seriousness these people can't live next to Jews in the Jew's homeland because they want to kill Jews...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:19 AM (ibTVg)

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Listen, that's not what they say.

Okay, it's what they say, but they don't mean it.

Okay, they back up their words with actions by killing Jews indiscriminately and then cheering about it, but that doesn't mean that they aren't justified.

Okay, they should just be allowed to continue because they're oppressed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

267 Shirley was right up there in my pantheon of 70s TV cuties.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:17 AM (9yWhg)

Cindy Williams never did much for me. Now, Kate Jackson, Suzanne Pleshette and Joyce DeWitt? Screen door and hurricane.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 10:21 AM (Q0kLU)

268 256 A two state solution? Wow. What an original and bold idea. Nobody has ever thought of it before.
Posted by: Montec at January 31, 2024 10:18 AM (bWsRe)

The "Palestinians" had a" State". It was called Gaza. They trashed it and attacked Israel from it and starved their own people by using relief funds for weapons and tunnel building

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:21 AM (n2vyf)

269 255 Is there no greater White Privilege Status Symbol than a Tesla?

/rhetorical
Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 10:18 AM (W4CVQ)

An adopted child from the third world that they're trooning out.

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2024 10:21 AM (UnA8+)

270 Artists that can't paint people end up doing landscapes. The other side is artist that paint people like shrubbery. The impressionists did this a lot.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:19 AM (Hpgos)
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Fun fact: Gainsborough liked doing landscapes, but the real money was in portraiture. That's a reason he included complex landscapes in the backgrounds of his protraits (cf. "The Blue Boy").

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 10:21 AM (0gvpA)

271 Head Chopper Militia Guy seems to be on to something.

Might see a lot of copycats down the road. Kinda like the ice bucket challenge. YouTube could use a few new videos.

Idi Amin used to keep the heads of his enemies in his freezer.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 31, 2024 10:21 AM (Dc73h)

272 I tought her name was Lavoine.

Posted by: Straight Outta Bayonne at January 31, 2024 10:22 AM (GM3wp)

273 242 Reading the DU posts, if you must, is best done while listening to the Twilight Zone theme on repeat.
Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2024 10:16 AM (UnA8+)
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I always do it to the shower scene tune in "Psycho."
Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo

There are many good, mood setting options. Captain Beefheart's "Frownland" to embrace the insanity, the stereotypical "Circus Theme" to enhance the clown world nature of what you're reading, or anything by Yoko to synergize with the psychic pain you'll experience.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2024 10:22 AM (JCZqz)

274 Now, Kate Jackson, Suzanne Pleshette and Joyce DeWitt? Screen door and hurricane.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I should've liked Kate Jackson, because she played the "smart" Angel and I like smart girls. But she just never did it for me. Jaclyn Smith, however...

Suzanne Pleschette also. DeWitt never did it for me, either.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:23 AM (9yWhg)

275 In a Rivian.

Posted by: Just the punchline at January 31, 2024 10:23 AM (NBVIP)

276 Betty > Wilma
Veronica > Betty
Janet > Chrissie
Monica > Rachel > Phoebe
Ellie May > Miss Hathaway

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2024 10:23 AM (geLO8)

277 "Hmm. Laverne or Shirley?"

Both, at the same time.

Posted by: The correct answer at January 31, 2024 10:23 AM (vFG9F)

278 So a MAGA QAnon white supremacist beheaded his Father on the orders of Trump ? That's what the media is saying... Maybe not the Trump orders but they are implying as much

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:23 AM (n2vyf)

279 Shirley was hawt-ish, in a girl next door kind of way, in American Graffitti.

Posted by: Montec at January 31, 2024 10:24 AM (bWsRe)

280 I tought her name was Lavoine.
Posted by: Straight Outta Bayonne at January 31, 2024

***
I guess a female habitue of the HQ who hails from that town in Jersey would be a Bayonne-'ette!

"I told you she was sharp!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:24 AM (J2vNu)

281 Fun fact: Gainsborough liked doing landscapes, but the real money was in portraiture. That's a reason he included complex landscapes in the backgrounds of his protraits (cf. "The Blue Boy").
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Probably true of Da Vinci, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:24 AM (Hpgos)

282 An adopted child from the third world that they're trooning out.

I suspect a great way for an actress aging out of interest for the Weinsteins in hollywood to keep their interest and get new roles is to have a kid to offer up instead.

Remember the people that Weinstein actually did "help" in return for sexual favors largely are still on his side (looking at you Gwen)

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:24 AM (ibTVg)

283 Suzanne Pleschette also. DeWitt never did it for me, either.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024

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Never could understand Rod Taylor's Mitch in The Birds, overlooking Suzanne in favor of Tippi. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:25 AM (J2vNu)

284 278 So a MAGA QAnon white supremacist beheaded his Father on the orders of Trump ? That's what the media is saying... Maybe not the Trump orders but they are implying as much
Posted by: It's me donna

I'm sure Putin had something to do with it, too.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 31, 2024 10:25 AM (JCZqz)

285 Not the scariest shower scene that comes to mind when you think about Joe biden

Posted by: Ashley biden at January 31, 2024 10:17 AM (ibTVg)

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* snort *

Well-played, 18-1.

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 10:25 AM (lgDr6)

286 278 So a MAGA QAnon white supremacist beheaded his Father on the orders of Trump ? That's what the media is saying... Maybe not the Trump orders but they are implying as much
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This is grounds for removal from the ballot under the penumbranations clause of the 14th amendment.
-Soros Sec's of State everywhere

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:25 AM (fs1hN)

287 So rock me momma like a wagon wheel

I've been hearing that everywhere lately. I'm not the most abstract thinker so maybe I'm missing something but WTF is that supposed to mean?

Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2024 10:25 AM (sNc8Y)

288 they already had a state, in Gaza. look how well that turned out. problem is US operatives continuing with the color revolution in Israel, trying to put pressure on Netanyahu to accept the unacceptable

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2024 10:25 AM (V13WU)

289 Never could understand Rod Taylor's Mitch in The Birds, overlooking Suzanne in favor of Tippi. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:25 AM (J2vNu)
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Hitchcock. Blonde.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 10:26 AM (0gvpA)

290 Shauna Malwae-Tweep > April Ludgate

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2024 10:26 AM (geLO8)

291 This is nice. The artful draping of the scrap of curtain reminds me of the artful draping of reclining nudes that always just manages to cover the naughty bits.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2024 10:26 AM (tkR6S)

292 Winter at the Field What Used To Have Corn Growing In It

Summer at the Hey Where The F*ck Is My Igloo

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2024 09:36 AM (VoAdT)

I LOL'd.

Posted by: Just sayin at January 31, 2024 10:26 AM (OIFPS)

293 Oh, so Fetterman is just a modern adaptation of an old classic.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at January 31, 2024 09:54 AM (AGIgH)

Report on Twitter yesterday that Giselle has marked herself as '"single " on all social media and scrubbed all pictures that included Fetterman.

I still think she was poisoning him and his stay at the facility brought that out. Or else they gave him ekectro-shock therapy and it worked beyond all expectations.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 31, 2024 10:26 AM (nC+QA)

294 So a MAGA QAnon white supremacist beheaded his Father on the orders of Trump ? That's what the media is saying... Maybe not the Trump orders but they are implying as much
Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:23 AM (n2vyf)

President Trump decapitated me in the Circus Circus casino men's room in La Vegas in 1978.

Where's my check?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 31, 2024 10:26 AM (Dc73h)

295 I always do it to the shower scene tune in "Psycho."
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The trunk on the 57 Ford Janet Leigh was driving in Psycho could easily hold 5 to 6 bodies. Easily. It was yuge.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:26 AM (Hpgos)

296 Hitchcock. Blonde.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea,

Yep. Hitch was always looking for the next Grace.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:27 AM (9yWhg)

297 So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
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I've been hearing that everywhere lately. I'm not the most abstract thinker so maybe I'm missing something but WTF is that supposed to mean?
Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2024

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The "wagon wheel" imagery is supposed to suggest rural life and make the song country music instead of pop. (I guess.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:27 AM (J2vNu)

298 So rock me momma like a wagon wheel

I've been hearing that everywhere lately. I'm not the most abstract thinker so maybe I'm missing something but WTF is that supposed to mean?
Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2024 10:25 AM (sNc8Y)
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Ask Neil Diamond about that apparently sensate chair.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 10:27 AM (0gvpA)

299 DeWitt never did it for me, either.

The way the characters were written, Chrissy Snow couldn't tell an orgasm from a sneeze. Janet Wood simply oozed suppressed lust.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 10:27 AM (Q0kLU)

300 Fetterman found out that his wife does not particularly like Jews ?

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2024 10:28 AM (V13WU)

301 "So rock me momma like a wagon wheel"

If the vans a rockin, don't come nockin.

Posted by: Just sayin at January 31, 2024 10:28 AM (OIFPS)

302 I think I would've liked Joyce DeWitt better had she worn her hair longer.

With that short hair, she looked a little too much like Liza Minnelli.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:29 AM (9yWhg)

303 My ex (half Swedish, half Portuguese) looked like Kate Jackson.

Damn, good times ... more than bad.

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 10:29 AM (lgDr6)

304 If the vans a rockin, don't come nockin.
Posted by: Just sayin at January 31, 2024 10:28 AM (OIFPS)

You're not the boss of me.

Posted by: Albert J. Nock at January 31, 2024 10:29 AM (VoAdT)

305 "Hmm. Laverne or Shirley?"

As an amusing point to consider, in the 70s you could be a successful actress even if you were very average looking.

Now a Weinstein isn't going to cast you generally unless you are connected, attractive, underaged, or have a kid to offer up

Penny Marshall was obviously connected but I don't think Cindy Williams was?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:29 AM (ibTVg)

306 277 "Hmm. Laverne or Shirley?"

Both, at the same time.
Posted by: The correct answer

Actually, after a quick Google search of the cast, someone named Rhonda Lee, played by Leslie Easterbrook, seems like the best option.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (JCZqz)

307 Multiple chicken farms have been set ablaze in Texas in the last 24 hours.

Posted by: Just sayin at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (OIFPS)

308 A woman goes to the doctor. “Please help. Every time I sneeze I have an orgasm.”
The doctor says “are you taking anything for it?”

The woman says “Yes. Pepper.”

Posted by: From the archives at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (NBVIP)

309 So...ETA until E Jean Carroll announces Trump beheaded her as well?

PS: I got better!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (ibTVg)

310 Liza Minelli is the living definition of 'never stick your dick in crazy.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (Q0kLU)

311 My ex (half Swedish, half Portuguese)

So, Port wine Lutefisk?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (9yWhg)

312 218 I found Grapes of Wrath to be one long trip down depression lane.

*******

"Portnoy's Complaint" should haave ben titled "The Gripes of Roth"
Posted by: Muldoon at January 31, 2024 10:12 AM (991eG)

I found Grapes of Wrath to be boring as Hell. Closed it in middle of 2nd chapter.

Posted by: vic at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (A5THL)

313 I was always irrationally attracted to Rhoda Morgenstern.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (VoAdT)

314 It never ceases to amaze me that a bunch of ex Trump administration come out with the "You can't elect Trump because he will destroy the World" while we are literally living under a President right now that is doing just that.

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:31 AM (n2vyf)

315 The lump has assumed control of Shrek Fetterman. All bets are off.

Posted by: Bob Ross at January 31, 2024 10:31 AM (R4t5M)

316 Liza Minelli is the living definition of 'never stick your dick in crazy.'
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Yep. As was her mother.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:31 AM (9yWhg)

317 310 Liza Minelli is the living definition of 'never stick your dick in crazy.'
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (Q0kLU)

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"YOU CAN'T DENY TRUE LOVE, MOTHER!"
-Buster Bluth

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

318 A woman goes to the doctor. “Please help. Every time I sneeze I have an orgasm.”

There is some drug, I forget the name, that makes about half the women that take it orgasm when they yawn.

It does the same thing to men but at a much lower rate (I think below 10%).

That must be a wild condition to have. "No, boss, really I can't pull a late shift you just don't understand"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:32 AM (ibTVg)

319 314 It never ceases to amaze me that a bunch of ex Trump administration come out with the "You can't elect Trump because he will destroy the World" while we are literally living under a President right now that is doing just that.
Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:31 AM (n2vyf)

A stable economy, a wealthy nation, and peace amongst neighbors, for them, is a failure condition.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2024 10:32 AM (VoAdT)

320 Fetterman found out that his wife does not particularly like Jews ?

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2024 10:28 AM (V13WU)

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As another moron suggested a couple days ago, we're gonna need MOAR love letters ghost-written by Ace between Fettermonster and Giselle to be sure ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 10:32 AM (lgDr6)

321 Penny Marshall was obviously connected but I don't think Cindy Williams was?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024

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Penny was related (sister?) to Garry Marshall, the writer/producer who masterminded Odd Couple, Happy Days, L & S, and many others. His family was everywhere on his productions. I recall Cindy saying some years after L & S wrapped that she felt overwhelmed on that show: Everywhere she looked on the set, there was another Marshall.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

322 314 It never ceases to amaze me that a bunch of ex Trump administration come out with the "You can't elect Trump because he will destroy the World" while we are literally living under a President right now that is doing just that.
Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:31 AM (n2vyf)

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Let's not get hyperbolic. It's really only like 1/3000 of the world. There's a lot more ruin to be had.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

323 I was always irrationally attracted to Rhoda Morgenstern.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I can see that. Not better looking than Mary, but definitely more so than Phyllis. And sassy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:32 AM (9yWhg)

324 time to get going

Posted by: DanMan at January 31, 2024 10:33 AM (8uzBS)

325 Beau Biden used to date Liza Minnelli.

Posted by: Not a joke at January 31, 2024 10:33 AM (NBVIP)

326 The woman says “Yes. Pepper.”

Posted by: From the archives at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (NBVIP)

Haven't heard that one in awhile. It still works, Lol.

Posted by: Just sayin at January 31, 2024 10:33 AM (OIFPS)

327 Yep. As was her mother.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:31 AM (9yWhg)

At least, she had actual talent.

Posted by: dantesed at January 31, 2024 10:33 AM (88xKn)

328 A stable economy, a wealthy nation, and peace amongst neighbors, for them, is a failure condition.
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Reduced opportunities for power mongering and grift. Tough times indeed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:33 AM (fs1hN)

329 Multiple chicken farms have been set ablaze in Texas in the last 24 hours.

Posted by: Just sayin at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (OIFPS)

Any black churches?

Posted by: BignJames at January 31, 2024 10:33 AM (AwYPR)

330 The Grapes of Wrath shows the Communism isn't just an economic failure; its also preachy and boring, right before it gets all murder-y.

Posted by: Wally at January 31, 2024 10:33 AM (hqVaF)

331 320 Fetterman found out that his wife does not particularly like Jews ?

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2024 10:28 AM (V13WU)

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I think he found out his wife doesn't particularly like him.The give away was when he was in the looney bin for months and she went on vacation.

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:34 AM (n2vyf)

332 I can see that. Not better looking than Mary, but definitely more so than Phyllis. And sassy.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:32 AM (9yWhg)

Obviously MTM was gorgeous, but too... conventional? Too model-y? You know what I mean.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2024 10:34 AM (VoAdT)

333 It never ceases to amaze me that a bunch of ex Trump administration come out with the "You can't elect Trump because he will destroy the World" while we are literally living under a President right now that is doing just that.

Remember in the 2016 campaign the GOPe/FNM argued we couldn't elect Trump because he would start WWIII.

Then the Democrats impeached Trump because he did *NOT* start WWIII over the Russian collusion hoax.

These people shouldn't be treated as serious....

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:34 AM (ibTVg)

334 Church's, but no churches

Posted by: Wally at January 31, 2024 10:34 AM (hqVaF)

335 interesting deconstruction going on, in the painting I mean

Posted by: kallisto at January 31, 2024 10:35 AM (dCxaZ)

336 Yep. As was her mother.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:31 AM (9yWhg)

At least, she had actual talent.
Posted by: dantesed

Yes, she did. I still listen to her "Over the Rainbow" on YouTube on a regular basis. And the "Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe," which she apparently did in one take. What a set of pipes she had.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:35 AM (9yWhg)

337 I was always irrationally attracted to Rhoda Morgenstern.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (VoAdT)

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Heh. I find funny women nearly irresistible.

* cue Robert Palmer video *

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 10:35 AM (lgDr6)

338 I think he found out his wife doesn't particularly like him.The give away was when he was in the looney bin for months and she went on vacation.

Those Brazilian beachguy penises weren't going to suck themselves you know.

Posted by: Gisele Fetterman at January 31, 2024 10:35 AM (ibTVg)

339 They're burning fried chicken restaurants?

Posted by: Oh, the humanity! at January 31, 2024 10:35 AM (NBVIP)

340 The Grapes of Wrath shows the Communism isn't just an economic failure; its also preachy and boring, right before it gets all murder-y.
Posted by: Wally at January 31, 2024 10:33 AM (hqVaF)
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This is why Commies didn't work as enemies of Indiana Jones. Sure, they're evil, but they're all "rise of the proletariat" this and "dialectical materialism" that - and their uniforms suck.

Nazis just say, "Yeah, we're evil. Live with it. And so stylish, too!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 10:36 AM (0gvpA)

341 329 Multiple chicken farms have been set ablaze in Texas in the last 24 hours.

Posted by: Just sayin at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (OIFPS)

Probably PETA

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:36 AM (n2vyf)

342 And now we have a pipeline explosion in the Oklahoma panhandle. Funny that. Maybe Mudpants has released the NGO's.

Posted by: Bob Ross at January 31, 2024 10:36 AM (R4t5M)

343 I also find funny women irresistible. I can't stop stealing from them.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at January 31, 2024 10:36 AM (hqVaF)

344 312 I found Grapes of Wrath to be boring as Hell. Closed it in middle of 2nd chapter.
Posted by: vic at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (A5THL)

I was compelled to read it during a summer vacation in high school. I made it about 1/3 of the way through, gave up, and bought the CliffsNotes.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 31, 2024 10:37 AM (DTX3h)

345 off sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:37 AM (R4t5M)

346 That yawning condition puts a whole new twist on
"You bore me."

I knew a guy (disclosure, employer-boyfriend of an easy-virtued relative) who got framed for tax evasion in a syndicate deal, and had to go to a Club Fed prison. That gave him a PhD, and when he came out he taught "Business English" at a community college. Wrote a nice historical study of the Battle of Lake Erie. His name was Rath, and friends used to tease him about writing a life-ending expose called The Gripes of Rath.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 31, 2024 10:37 AM (zdLoL)

347 I was always irrationally attracted to Rhoda Morgenstern.
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She played a high-end call-girl in the Columbo I watched just last week! [Valerie Harper that is!]

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 10:37 AM (2yu8s)

348 The way the characters were written, Chrissy Snow couldn't tell an orgasm from a sneeze.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 10:27 AM (Q0kLU)

This is the impression I get from Sandy Cortez too.

Posted by: spindrift at January 31, 2024 10:37 AM (MqhXY)

349 Multiple chicken farms have been set ablaze in Texas in the last 24 hours.

Posted by: Just sayin at January 31, 2024 10:30 AM (OIFPS)

Any black churches?
Posted by: BignJames at January 31, 2024 10:33 AM (AwYPR)

The black folks have been milling about for the barbque. *I denounce myself*

Posted by: Just sayin at January 31, 2024 10:38 AM (OIFPS)

350 This is the impression I get from Sandy Cortez too.
Posted by: spindrift at January 31, 2024 10:37 AM (MqhXY)

She couldn't tell an orgasm from four second burrito fart.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2024 10:38 AM (VoAdT)

351 This is the impression I get from Sandy Cortez too.
Posted by: spindrift at January 31, 2024 10:37 AM (MqhXY)

I look at her as more of a frigid bitch

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:38 AM (n2vyf)

352 I wonder if I'd get kicked off campus if I climbed over the 'dead' faculty to get to the entrance. I would like to try though.
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Penn faculty ‘die-in’ blocks building entrance in ‘solidarity with civilians in Gaza’

A fledgling University of Pennsylvania faculty group blocked the entrance to a campus building for an hour on Monday, a so-called “die-in” to show its “solidarity with civilians in Gaza.”

A pair of Penn Public Safety officials stood by for the duration as members of Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine blockaded the steps of the administration building’s main entrance, The Daily Pennsylvanian reports

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:39 AM (fs1hN)

353 This just shows you how hard it is to root out Bleeding Hearts. Seriously - the house is GONE and the BH is just happy as a clam, growing away with no competition.

mac :]

Posted by: macbrooks at January 31, 2024 10:39 AM (4Zhch)

354 Running an achoo! train on her!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 10:39 AM (2yu8s)

355 352 A pair of Penn Public Safety officials stood by for the duration as members of Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine blockaded the steps of the administration building’s main entrance, The Daily Pennsylvanian reports
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:39 AM (fs1hN)

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You know it's a real protest with real personal stakes when the police show up and prevent anyone from stepping on you laying on the ground.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

356 A pair of Penn Public Safety officials stood by for the duration as members of Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine blockaded the steps of the administration building’s main entrance, The Daily Pennsylvanian reports
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:39 AM (fs1hN)
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Break out the skip loaders.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 10:40 AM (0gvpA)

357 This is the impression I get from Sandy Cortez too.
Posted by: spindrift at January 31, 2024 10:37 AM (MqhXY)

I look at her as more of a frigid bitch
Posted by: It's me donna

She's no Nancy Mace.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:40 AM (9yWhg)

358 This is the impression I get from Sandy Cortez too.

I suspect one problem a lot of leftist women end up with is that they hate the men that are attractive to them and have zero sexual interest in the ones whose politics align with their own. So either they "betray the sisterhood" and marry/hook up with a Chad or get bitter and sexual frustrated paired up with some effeminate leftist guy.

Sandy appears to have chosen the latter path.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:40 AM (ibTVg)

359 This just shows you how hard it is to root out Bleeding Hearts. Seriously - the house is GONE and the BH is just happy as a clam, growing away with no competition.

What? We wanted to pretty the place up a bit after the nuclear exchange.

Posted by: Cockroaches at January 31, 2024 10:40 AM (CsUN+)

360 You know it's a real protest with real personal stakes when the police show up and prevent anyone from stepping on you laying on the ground.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

If your brave protest is functionally indistinguishable from a nap in the park, then I don't particularly care what it is you're protesting.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2024 10:41 AM (VoAdT)

361 His name was Rath, and friends used to tease him about writing a life-ending expose called The Gripes of Rath.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 31, 2024 10:37 AM (zdLoL)

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There's a Muldoon limerick in there somewhere.

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 10:42 AM (lgDr6)

362 I guess a female habitue of the HQ who hails from that town in Jersey would be a Bayonne-'ette!

"I told you she was sharp!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:24 AM (J2vNu)

Lol.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 31, 2024 10:42 AM (nC+QA)

363 Nancy you know you'd, uh, get more done, if you didn't go to church after boning guys.

Trust me, my calendar is so full the only time I have for the gym is when I bang the 3 Pilates instructors at the local Planet Fitness.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 31, 2024 10:42 AM (ibTVg)

364 I wonder if I'd get kicked off campus if I climbed over the 'dead' faculty to get to the entrance. I would like to try though.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:39 AM (fs1hN)

I am thinking the same thing.

Oops! Was that your mouth? So sorry!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 31, 2024 10:43 AM (gSZYf)

365 President Biden to visit East Palestine toxic train wreck site
President Joe Biden visited the site on the one-year anniversary of the incident

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2024 09:42 AM (RHGPo)

I guess they filled out the proper paperwork.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2024 10:43 AM (W/lyH)

366 Rath baking powder with the Indian Chief on the label.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 31, 2024 10:43 AM (In5Sq)

367 Insty :
DON SURBER: Trump’s next Cabinet: Senators need not bother to apply.
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Dangit!
-Mitt Romney

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:43 AM (fs1hN)

368 I guess a female habitue of the HQ who hails from that town in Jersey would be a Bayonne-'ette!

"I told you she was sharp!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2024 10:24 AM (J2vNu)
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Fun fact: bayonets were apparently first manufactured in Bayonne (the French one, that is).

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 10:44 AM (0gvpA)

369 Weird. That furniture, the design is strikingly similar to the dining room set "she-who-shall-not-be-named" made me buy. I ended up giving it away. Because I don't need a freakin' formal dining set.

So this painting is sort of metaphoric to me.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2024 10:44 AM (dGCAG)

370 'Dead' Penn faculty are not actually dead. Just like a lot of the propaganda videos from Hamas. So, it's authentic at least.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:45 AM (fs1hN)

371 Romney would be a great Secretary of Backstabbing and a decent one at Secretary of Graft.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:45 AM (ibTVg)

372 Regional, party-connected bigwigs will be the only ones allowed to walk with Mudpants around East Palestine. And he'll talk to planted people around town for the news cameras.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:46 AM (R4t5M)

373 371 Romney would be a great Secretary of Backstabbing and a decent one at Secretary of Graft.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:45 AM (ibTVg)

Do they have a Secretary of Open Mouth insert foot ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:46 AM (n2vyf)

374 They're burning fried chicken restaurants?

Posted by: Oh, the humanity! at January 31, 2024 10:35 AM (NBVIP)

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Kentucky Fired Chicken.

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 10:46 AM (5mM83)

375 "Rocking like a wagon wheel." To make for a smoother ride in mule-drawn ambulance wagons, Studebaker developed the rocker-arm suspension system that allowed extremely long travel of the axle trunion as it bridged road ruts. A variation of it is used on the Mars rovers.

They were still building those for the AEF in WWI. Capacity of the largest wagons was a ton and a half, which became the standard spec for military trucks. Aren't you guys all engineers? You always say you are engineers. I never hear you talk about anything but programming computer games.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 31, 2024 10:46 AM (zdLoL)

376 >> So either they "betray the sisterhood" and marry/hook up with a Chad or get bitter and sexual frustrated paired up with some effeminate leftist guy.

They want a cuck they can boss around -- and yet they hate them for being so weak.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2024 10:46 AM (RXyKO)

377 Romney would be a great Secretary of Backstabbing and a decent one at Secretary of Graft.
Posted by: 18-1

I dunno. There's an awful lot of competition there.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:46 AM (9yWhg)

378 DON SURBER: Trump’s next Cabinet: Senators need not bother to apply.
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Dangit!
-Mitt Romney
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:43 AM (fs1hN)

Cabinet level, no, but could we maybe get Cornyn a job like attendant in the White House men's room?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2024 10:47 AM (dGCAG)

379 371 Romney would be a great Secretary of Backstabbing and a decent one at Secretary of Graft.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:45 AM (ibTVg)
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Do we have a consulate in Antarctica?

Posted by: Braenyard at January 31, 2024 10:47 AM (In5Sq)

380 Regional, party-connected bigwigs will be the only ones allowed to walk with Mudpants around East Palestine. And he'll talk to planted people around town for the news cameras.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:46 AM (R4t5M)
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Hope there's a lot of Trump signs around. Hoping for a Joe meltdown.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 10:47 AM (0gvpA)

381 They're burning fried chicken restaurants?

Posted by: Oh, the humanity! at January 31, 2024 10:35 AM (NBVIP)

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Kentucky Fired Chicken.
Posted by: ShainS

Reminds me. I was dreamng about fried chicken last night.

Guess it's Popeyes for lunch today, then.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:47 AM (9yWhg)

382 Cabinet level, no, but could we maybe get Cornyn a job like attendant in the White House men's room?
Posted by: BurtTC at

I wouldnt trust Cornyn to be a Walmart greeter

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 31, 2024 10:47 AM (CIS44)

383
Do we have a consulate in Antarctica?
Posted by: Braenyard at January 31, 2024 10:47 AM (In5Sq)

That ones reserved for John Kerry

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:48 AM (n2vyf)

384 >>President Biden to visit East Palestine toxic train wreck site
President Joe Biden visited the site on the one-year anniversary of the incident

What's the point?
Like, oh yeah, it's an election year so I have to pretend I care about flyover state rubes again.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2024 10:48 AM (RXyKO)

385 Lucky Ned Pepper: Your friend Rooster does not collect many prisoners.
Mattie Ross: He is not my friend. He has abandoned me to a congress of louts.
Lucky Ned Pepper: You do not varnish your opinions.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:48 AM (DyHJQ)

386 Do we have a consulate in Antarctica?
Posted by: Braenyard at January 31, 2024 10:47 AM (In5Sq)
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Are you referring to (lowers voice) Big Penguin?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 10:48 AM (0gvpA)

387 Do we have a consulate in Antarctica?
Posted by: Braenyard

No. We got kicked out after the Trump Admin. refused to recognize Big Penguin.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:48 AM (9yWhg)

388 Cabinet level, no, but could we maybe get Cornyn a job like attendant in the White House men's room?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2024 10:47 AM (dGCAG)

He already does that. He waits for the dick to come through the hole.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:48 AM (R4t5M)

389 What's the point?
Like, oh yeah, it's an election year so I have to pretend I care about flyover state rubes again.

Posted by: Lizzy at Ja

Seems like it invites more of a "why didnt you come here before" narrative, than just ignoring it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 31, 2024 10:49 AM (CIS44)

390 Good morning horde
Picture is nice, detailed, yet not detailed to look real and not a painting

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2024 10:49 AM (fwDg9)

391 I expect "DON'T" Joe's retaliation attacks will be tonight, Tehran time. So he can crow about his stronkness as a leader tomorrow at Dover AFB, when he is scheduled to attend the Dignified Transfer of the remains of the three dead Georgia Army Reservists to their families.

Terrific. Joe's given the Republican Guard and their proxies across the region four days to move high-value transportable assets into civilian areas and extra-hardened bunkers, and remove electronics, engines, warheads, and weaponry from missiles, drones, ships, attack boats, radar sites, etc.

Posted by: Gref at January 31, 2024 10:49 AM (5fDan)

392 378 Cabinet level, no, but could we maybe get Cornyn a job like attendant in the White House men's room?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2024 10:47 AM (dGCAG)

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A smart Republican would do everything they could do to get enemies out of Congress, replaced in organization with the Republican governors of those states with more conservative Senators, and then fire the cabinet within weeks.

It would only work once and it would cause a lot of strife, but if you do it early, you could end up with a better cabinet and a much more amenable senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

393 Guess it's Popeyes for lunch today, then.
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Popeyes sucks. Go with the Colonel.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:49 AM (DyHJQ)

394
Seems like it invites more of a "why didnt you come here before" narrative, than just ignoring it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at January 31, 2024 10:49 AM (CIS44)

Must be desperate

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2024 10:49 AM (n2vyf)

395 I wouldnt trust Cornyn to be a Walmart greeter
Posted by: BruceWayne at January 31, 2024 10:47 AM (CIS44)

Walmart must at least attempt to engage in good customer service. Obviously the White House doesn't.

Unless you're a foreign graft provider.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2024 10:50 AM (dGCAG)

396 They're burning fried chicken restaurants?

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If black people do it it's considered soul food.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at January 31, 2024 10:50 AM (AIJ3L)

397 Fetterman waves Israeli flag from rooftop as pro-Hamas demonstrators whine outside his home. This is spectacular, Fetterman is quickly becoming one of our best Democratic senators!

Mixed feelings about this. Our leaders need to hold Israel more accountable and empathize with the palestinians especially when there is footage of blatant war crimes from the IDF. This is fanning the flames

It isn't going to help President Biden to win in Michigan. A word or two of concern for the civilian casualties in Gaza would not hurt---has he spoken any such words?

In my lifetime, I have never seen international policy win or lose elections...even during the height of Vietnam. Nixon still won in 68 and 72. Both Mondale and McGovern who promised to end the war lost...despite all the protests and rhetoric.

They were at his HOME with his wife and kids. If they want to protest, protest in Oakland or Pittsburgh. The worst killing of Jews in the US happened not far from John's home. Where were these people at the Tree of Life murder?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2024 10:50 AM (JCZqz)

398 You always say you are engineers. I never hear you talk about anything but programming computer games.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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You must have mentioned the discussions of panhard rods, and gudgeon pins.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2024 10:51 AM (XeU6L)

399 397 They were at his HOME with his wife and kids. If they want to protest, protest in Oakland or Pittsburgh. The worst killing of Jews in the US happened not far from John's home. Where were these people at the Tree of Life murder?
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2024 10:50 AM (JCZqz)

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That's a very different take from the SCOTUS protests.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 31, 2024 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

400 Penn faculty ‘die-in’ blocks building entrance in ‘solidarity with civilians in Gaza’

A fledgling University of Pennsylvania faculty group blocked the entrance to a campus building for an hour on Monday, a so-called “die-in” to show its “solidarity with civilians in Gaza.”

A pair of Penn Public Safety officials stood by for the duration as members of Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine blockaded the steps of the administration building’s main entrance, The Daily Pennsylvanian reports
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 10:39 AM (fs1hN)
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The virtue signaling is lame and gay.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2024 10:51 AM (RIvkX)

401 Raising Flames Chicken Fingers.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:51 AM (R4t5M)

402 must have mentioned

*missed

You must have missed...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2024 10:52 AM (XeU6L)

403 In my lifetime, I have never seen international policy win or lose elections...even during the height of Vietnam. Nixon still won in 68 and 72. Both Mondale and McGovern who promised to end the war lost...despite all the protests and rhetoric.

Nixon also ran on ending the war. And...he actually mostly extracted Americans from the fighting getting the S Vietnamese to defend their own country with our support.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2024 10:52 AM (ibTVg)

404 Popeyes sucks. Go with the Colonel.
Posted by: Pudinhead

No. Yum! Brands has bad politics.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:52 AM (9yWhg)

405 Cabinet level, no, but could we maybe get Cornyn a job like attendant in the White House men's room?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2024 10:47 AM (dGCAG)

He already does that. He waits for the dick to come through the hole.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:48 AM (R4t5M)

It's been suggested I'm not deferential enough to some of our congresscritters, so I'm trying to be nice. As nice as possible.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2024 10:52 AM (dGCAG)

406 Fun fact: bayonets were apparently first manufactured in Bayonne (the French one, that is).
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 10:44 AM (0gvpA)

That's because the village of Pointy-Stabby didn't have enough workers to fill the jobs.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2024 10:53 AM (W/lyH)

407 Before the ring bayonet was invented, that allowed for the loading and firing of muzzleloaders with the bayonet fixed, bayonets were, basically, a dagger that fitted into the musket's muzzle, called a plug bayonet.

Despite the obvious shortcomings, it was preferred to have all the troops armed with muskets and plug bayonets than having 1/4 to 1/2 the unit armed with pikes [to fend off cavalry attacks] and not firearms.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 10:53 AM (2yu8s)

408 In my lifetime, I have never seen international policy win or lose elections...even during the height of Vietnam. Nixon still won in 68 and 72. Both Mondale and McGovern who promised to end the war lost...despite all the protests and rhetoric.

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It's interesting to note how it's not international policy in a small little bottle in a cabinet that does it, but international policy seems to be part of the concoction that is poured into the vat of making everything for Americans so much worse.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at January 31, 2024 10:53 AM (AIJ3L)

409 A fledgling University of Pennsylvania faculty group blocked the entrance to a campus building for an hour on Monday, a so-called “die-in” to show its “solidarity with civilians in Gaza.”
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Its always good to wear steel toed boots.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:53 AM (DyHJQ)

410 >>They were at his HOME with his wife and kids. If they want to protest, protest in Oakland or Pittsburgh.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE ALWAYS SAID THE HOMES, OFFICES, KIDS' SCHOOLS (EVEN DC RESTAURANTS) ARE FAIR GAME WHEN PROTESTING REPUBLICANS, FOX TV HOSTS AND CONSERVATIVE SCOTUS JUSTICES.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 31, 2024 10:53 AM (RXyKO)

411 That's because the village of Pointy-Stabby didn't have enough workers to fill the jobs.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2024 10:53 AM (W/lyH)
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The rural economy sucked hard in mid-17th Century France.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 10:54 AM (0gvpA)

412 No. We got kicked out after the Trump Admin. refused to recognize Big Penguin.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:48 AM (9yWhg)

not true! King Penguin refused to bow to the cult of Trump, and to adorn every surface in Antarctica with Trump portraits. So Trump had a hissy fit and called King Penguin a RINO. Then left in a huff.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2024 10:54 AM (V13WU)

413 You always say you are engineers. I never hear you talk about anything but programming computer games.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 31, 2024 10:46 AM (zdLoL)

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The going consulting rate now for our expertise is $150/hour.

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 10:54 AM (pyoFO)

414 Fill a church with chickens and set it ablaze. Voila! Church's.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:54 AM (R4t5M)

415 404 Popeyes sucks. Go with the Colonel.
Posted by: Pudinhead

No. Yum! Brands has bad politics.
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Popeyes has stringy chicken that is over battered. Fuck politics. We are talking about fried chicken.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 10:55 AM (DyHJQ)

416 >>In my lifetime, I have never seen international policy win or lose elections...even during the height of Vietnam.

HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR GLOBALISM NOW, B!TCHEZZZZZ?

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 31, 2024 10:55 AM (RXyKO)

417 A fledgling University of Pennsylvania faculty group blocked the entrance to a campus building for an hour on Monday, a so-called “die-in” to show its “solidarity with civilians in Gaza.”

Fledgling?
Ahhh...so....ornithology 101 is cancelled today!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2024 10:56 AM (W/lyH)

418 When did chickens get fingers?

Posted by: I musta missed that in Biology class at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (NBVIP)

419 Can you hear the people honk??

||The Belgian port of Zeebrugge was blockaded on Tuesday, causing gridlock on surrounding roads as a wave of farmer protests spread across Europe.

Authorities at the North Sea port, one of the biggest in Europe, said all access roads were blocked by 5pm (1600 GMT) on Tuesday, in a demonstration that will hit commercial trade, including imports and exports of food to and from the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia.

“Every single road into and out of the port is blocked. No trucks can get in, cars are being let in and police and the harbour master are trying to find a safe way for these trucks to wait on the side of the road,” said a spokesperson for the port authority for Antwerp-Zeebrugge.||

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (2yu8s)

420 to show its “solidarity with civilians in Gaza.”
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Go to Gaza and join them, cowards.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (lf83v)

421 If interested in watching some of today’s painters , look up vids of Andrew Tischler, Michael James Smith or Chuck Black.

Even if you’re not a painter watching them paint is pretty neat .

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (MNhXM)

422 Lovely horde mind @ 386 & 387!

* sheds tear *

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (pyoFO)

423 When did chickens get fingers?
Posted by: I musta missed that in Biology class at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (NBVIP)
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Same time as they got nuggets.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (0gvpA)

424 403 In my lifetime, I have never seen international policy win or lose elections.
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It caused Johnson to drop out of his second run for president.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (In5Sq)

425 Don't finger the chickens.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (R4t5M)

426 Regional, party-connected bigwigs will be the only ones allowed to walk with Mudpants around East Palestine. And he'll talk to planted people around town for the news cameras.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2024 10:46 AM (R4t5M)

It would be lese majeste to claim that this is because the shock collar they use for conditioning is very useful but cannot cover all eventualities in an uncontrolled environment

Posted by: Kindltot at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (D7oie)

427 When did chickens get fingers?
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When Buffaloes got wings.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (lf83v)

428 Yikes, looks like after tornado at the old house.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2024 10:58 AM (VwHCD)

429 When did chickens get fingers?

Posted by: I musta missed that in Biology class at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (NBVIP)

Before they got lips.

Posted by: BignJames at January 31, 2024 10:58 AM (AwYPR)

430 Right next to the boneless chicken ranch.

Posted by: Just the punchline at January 31, 2024 10:58 AM (NBVIP)

431 The inhabitants of DU apparently believe:
1 - Nixon started the Vietnam war.
B - Nixon did not also run on ending the war.
III - Nixon had largely ended the war by 1972. (At the end of 1972, the were virtually NO US ground troops left in Vietnam. Only air force.)

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 31, 2024 10:58 AM (PGtkS)

432 >A fledgling University of Pennsylvania faculty group blocked the entrance to a campus building for an hour on Monday, a so-called “die-in” to show its “solidarity with civilians in Gaza.”

Huh, I guess ousting the university president wasn't enough. Shocked, simply shocked at this. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2024 10:58 AM (RXyKO)

433 When did chickens get fingers?
Posted by: I musta missed that in Biology class at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (NBVIP)
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Same time as they got nuggets.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 10:57 AM (0gvpA)

If a buffalo can have wings, a chicken can have fingers.

They're descended from dinosaurs, after all.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 31, 2024 10:58 AM (dGCAG)

434 I was dreamng about fried chicken last night.

I dreamt of Angelica Huston last night. I have no idea where that came from.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 31, 2024 10:58 AM (Q0kLU)

435 In my lifetime, I have never seen international policy win or lose elections.
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*The Third Reich has joined the chat*

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2024 10:59 AM (lf83v)

436 I dreamt of Angelica Huston last night. I have no idea where that came from.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I'm sorry.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 10:59 AM (9yWhg)

437 I dreamt of Angelica Huston last night. I have no idea where that came from.
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Was a wagon wheel involved?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 11:00 AM (fs1hN)

438 In my lifetime, I have never seen international policy win or lose elections...even during the height of Vietnam.

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* Zombie LBJ enters the lobotomized DU chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 31, 2024 11:00 AM (pyoFO)

439 It takes a tough man to finger a tender chicken!

Posted by: Zombie Frank Perdue at January 31, 2024 11:00 AM (Q0kLU)

440 Farmers are planning on blocking all roads into Paris.
Paris has the second largest food/distribution/market in the world.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 31, 2024 11:00 AM (In5Sq)

441 I am thinking the same thing.

Oops! Was that your mouth? So sorry!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 31, 2024 10:43 AM (gSZYf)

Get inside the building via a back door, or a window. Pull the fire alarm, and let the cocksuckers be trampled.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2024 11:00 AM (tkR6S)

442 I dreamt of Angelica Huston last night. I have no idea where that came from.
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Was a wagon wheel involved?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 31, 2024 11:00 AM (fs1hN)
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Or an 18" high Stonehenge monument?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 11:00 AM (0gvpA)

443 439 It takes a tough man to finger a tender chicken!
Posted by: Zombie Frank Perdue
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You got that right!

Posted by: Skeevy Joe Biden at January 31, 2024 11:01 AM (fs1hN)

444 “Every single road into and out of the port is blocked. No trucks can get in, cars are being let in and police and the harbour master are trying to find a safe way for these trucks to wait on the side of the road,” said a spokesperson for the port authority for Antwerp-Zeebrugge.||
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I believe the Gillet Junes are doing the same to Paris. It would be nice if we had some vehicle to know what is going on in the world. But, alas, we don't.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2024 11:01 AM (DyHJQ)

445 Nood Mannix.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 31, 2024 11:02 AM (0gvpA)

446 Farmers are planning on blocking all roads into Paris.
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They have been unloading soil on the roads to Paris and cultivating them.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2024 11:02 AM (lf83v)

447 MONKEY FACE NOOD

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2024 11:02 AM (fwDg9)

448 A Nood there is and it makes its prayer
(Even as you and I)

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 31, 2024 11:02 AM (9yWhg)

449 Beau Biden knew how to finger a tender chicken.

Posted by: Not a joke at January 31, 2024 11:02 AM (NBVIP)

450 287 So rock me momma like a wagon wheel

I've been hearing that everywhere lately. I'm not the most abstract thinker so maybe I'm missing something but WTF is that supposed to mean?
Posted by: Oddbob at January 31, 2024 10:25 AM (sNc8Y)

Agreed.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2024 11:04 AM (weK7N)

451 The DU believe Republicans are the Slavery party, the Civil Rights Act was filibustered by the Republicans, Kennedy assassinated by the Right, the United States started slavery, etc etc etc

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at January 31, 2024 11:05 AM (MNhXM)

452 Except for Hammer and AOP, I never hear you talk about anything but...

Precision is important in imprecations.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 31, 2024 11:15 AM (zdLoL)

453 Ace & Company, I do beg your indulgence as I have a request. Could you please use a standard for labeling the artworks you display? I prefer [artist]-[title]-[year of artwork] as it makes it easy to find an original and related works.

Cordially,

Zavod-Imeni-Lenina-Industriearbeiten et Ulm S.A.

Posted by: ZilWerks at January 31, 2024 12:52 PM (0MpOC)

454 Where's the Old House?!

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 31, 2024 05:03 PM (wGqjj)

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