By The Pricking Of My Thumbs, An ONT This Way Comes

Memebeth? The above is what happens when pop culture meets the classics. The meme is a popular reaction meme from the movie Zoolander Will Ferrell is saying “I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!”. I was discussing quotes from Macbeth earlier today, and that popped into my head. It's the same meme, just...Shakespeareized.

Newspapers Die In Darkness

Media meltdown: Why journalism is battered and bleeding

"No matter how many heroic nonprofit newsrooms like the Baltimore Banner and Daily Memphian take root, no matter how many Substack-like newsletters blossom or creators emerge to drop their videos on YouTube, you can’t deny the journalism business’ decline," Shafer writes.
What’s remarkable to me is how many of these pieces, and there have been many, overlook the importance of political bias. Republicans have been complaining about a liberal tilt since I began to read newspapers. Now, in the Trump era, half the country believes the media have become the opposition party, determined to block their man from returning to the White House. But during the Biden presidency, a growing percentage of those on the left have lost trust in the business as well.
You have Red and Blue America, each filled with anger, each side viewing the other as evil and dangerous, with the press having forfeited its standing as a neutral arbiter of facts.

Turns out people don't like it when the MSM pisses in their face and tells them it's raining. Who woulda thought?

An Apple A Day

This is cool.

This robotic apple harvester can pick ~30 apples in one minute

[?Advanced Farm]pic.twitter.com/5Sy8p6tDAC
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 1, 2024

New York, New York

Brooklyn Man's Gun Hobby Leads to a SWAT Raid and a Harrowing Legal Fight for His Freedom

“I found out that you can actually legally buy a receiver and you can machine that receiver to completion, and you buy your parts and you put them together and you've got a pistol or a rifle. And once I saw that I was hooked. I was like, ‘This is the coolest thing ever. This is the most cool thing you could possibly do in your machine shop.’”
Years after Taylor began his new hobby, the ATF and New York City Police Department (NYPD) showed up at his home to arrest him. “A joint SWAT ATF task force raided my house, broke down my door,” he said.
The officers arrested Taylor, who spent one week in jail on Rikers Island.
On April 22, 2022, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced the indictment of Dexter Taylor for purchasing “$10,000 worth of gun parts online to build illegal, untraceable firearms known as ghost guns.”

There is no mention in the story of Taylor attempting to sell any guns. Absent that, nobody should have a beef with him.

Valentine's Day Tip

Baltimore is the most romantic city in America, Eventbrite says

Baltimore is the most romantic city in the U.S., according to Eventbrite.
That's right! The event management and ticketing company ranked Charm City over Chicago, Austin, and Denver — all based on the number of events being held on or around Valentine's Day.
The listings currently posted on Eventbrite show there are tons of things to do in Baltimore on Feb. 14, like a TwerkFit class, a pizza-making lesson for lovers, and lots of speed dating.
Washington D.C. also made the list as the fourth most romantic city. Thankfully, the team at Eventbrite curated a selection of unique date ideas and events in the District and shared them on their blog.

Our plans for tonight? Oh, dinner and a carjacking. Look, I lived there for 50 years, and consider it my hometown, but the city's unofficial mascot is a rat, for heaven's sake

On Medieval Staircases

We talked about this a while back when I posted a picture of two knights fighting on the stairs.

Fighting on Spiral Staircases

The story goes that all spiral* staircases in castles turn clockwise so that primarily right-handed defenders, fighting downwards, would have an advantage over attackers whose weapon would be impeded by the newel post. It is a particular favourite of tour guides, appears in castle guidebooks (Hodgson & Wise 2015, 46) and interpretation panels (for example at Arundel Castle, West Sussex), has been included in many popular texts (Mortimer 2009, 160), gets incorporated into television documentaries, is widely present in internet articles and is liberally recited by members of online discussion forums.
Of all the stories connected to mediaeval buildings this is perhaps the one that has been the most resilient. Unlike many other mediaeval tales that I have researched there does not seem to be a shred of truth behind it. For some folk this can be quite a controversial opinion. Attempting to gently puncture the swordsman theory of spiral staircases gets a lot of pushback online. One reason for this might be the frequency of its repetition by parents to children. Whilst working at or visiting castles I inevitably hear a dad proudly imparting this knowledge to his little boy (and it usually is boys’ talk) and it may be that this familial link creates a strong bond between the myth and its proponents.

Much more at the link.

More Federal Overreach

They Are Trying to Ban Ham Radio

The proposal, which comes as part of a government drive for spectrum efficiency, would see ham operators forced off their frequencies between 420 and 450 MHz to make way for “public safety”.
Many ham radio operators are also preppers and survivalists, who can use ham radios for communication when all other means of communication go down (i.e., in case of a natural disaster). So it’s within the public interest to keep ham radio available, for safety and peace of mind.
The official story regarding the proposal is about ham radio interference, but many people believe the reality is that ham operators are a threat to government officials because of their ability to communicate without being monitored.
The FCC has been asking for public input on their proposal and so far the response from Americans has been overwhelmingly against this “ham-ban”

Hmmm. Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State. There's a term for that that the left likes to throw around carelessly. It's on the tip of my tongue...

Whites Need Not Apply

White men no longer want to fight for a nation that scorns them

Let me begin by making this point as clearly as possible. There is absolutely nothing worse for the combat effectiveness of a military, than attempting to use recruiting as a social engineering program.
It was reported in this newspaper recently how the US Army has seen a dramatic fall in the number of white recruits, as the Military.com website found that the army fell 10,000 short of its 65,000 enlistment target.
Underpinning this drop was a dramatic decrease in white recruits from 44,042 in 2018, to just 25,070 in 2023, leading to the proportion of white recruits falling from 56.4 per cent of all recruits in 2018, to just 44 per cent. According to the US Census from 2022, around 59 per cent of all US citizens were from white backgrounds. The US military is 17 per cent women, so the recruiting crisis is primarily one among white men.
Clearly, something inside the US Army’s recruitment system is failing, both in terms of targets being drastically missed, and a failure to recruit effectively among the nation’s largest ethnic group.

I know more than a few vets who proudly served, many who come from families that have served for generations, who are advising their kids not to enlist.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the El Camaro:

Oh, BTW, my wife lost her job this week. If anyone has any leads for office work, executive assistant type stuff, than can be done remotely, we'd be grateful for any suggestions.

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 10:00 PM (geLO8)

2 make it

Posted by: Ciampino - Daily #16 at February 01, 2024 10:00 PM (qfLjt)

3 Slow evening.
Good evening, everyone.

Posted by: From about that Time at February 01, 2024 10:01 PM (4780s)

4 With four or five of those apple pickers I could make big bank.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:01 PM (bo7UB)

5 yikes, VDay on the horizon!

Yo WD

Posted by: Zeera , becoming ungovernable by choice at February 01, 2024 10:01 PM (qGQta)

6 Woulda been could been shoulda been.

Posted by: Rex B at February 01, 2024 10:01 PM (5h/8D)

7 This robotic apple harvester can pick ~30 apples in one minute

I see such potential...

Posted by: Howard Wolowitz at February 01, 2024 10:02 PM (ynpvh)

8 Oh, BTW, my wife lost her job this week. If anyone has any leads for office work, executive assistant type stuff, than can be done remotely, we'd be grateful for any suggestions

The Biden Economy strikes again.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 01, 2024 10:03 PM (3aLWR)

9 Nice one WD!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 01, 2024 10:04 PM (5kdlS)

10 I never heard the thing about sword fighting on spiral staircases before.

There has to be a good joke in there somewhere.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:04 PM (bo7UB)

11 Good Evening.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 01, 2024 10:05 PM (R4t5M)

12 Sword fighting in elevators was definitely not for the novice.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:05 PM (bo7UB)

13 Good evening horde. Speaking of ham radios, I just got a pair of Baofengs off Amazon for when the shtf.

Posted by: Redchief at February 01, 2024 10:06 PM (FrHBa)

14 Oh, BTW, my wife lost her job this week. If anyone has any leads for office work, executive assistant type stuff, than can be done remotely, we'd be grateful for any suggestions.

Posted by WeirdDave at 10:00 PM Comments

Decision Desk HQ is very sporadic work, otherwise I'd recommend it.

Posted by: pookysgirl, DDHQ cat-herder at February 01, 2024 10:06 PM (dtlDP)

15 Camaro has kind of a low ride height for a pickup truck, but I applaud the effort, even if it does need a finishing touch or two.

Posted by: Redneck Engineer at February 01, 2024 10:06 PM (V5BDR)

16 It would seem to me that the priority would be defending from upstairs to keep the invaders trying to go upstairs out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 01, 2024 10:07 PM (FVME7)

17 Will the Army ever get it? I doubt it.

You went woke. That's the problem. Your woke BS is signaling that white men aren't welcome anymore.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 01, 2024 10:07 PM (3aLWR)

18 14 Oh, BTW, my wife lost her job this week. If anyone has any leads for office work, executive assistant type stuff, than can be done remotely, we'd be grateful for any suggestions.

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How is she at pushing a button?

Posted by: The Jeopardy Team at February 01, 2024 10:07 PM (bo7UB)

19 Shake-a-spear, shake a spirit, shake an ONT

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2024 10:07 PM (ezSUn)

20 So, there's an ONT tonight.

Lucky us. Got to have something separating the café from the tech thread!

Posted by: mindful webworker - getting from here to there at February 01, 2024 10:07 PM (ZUERo)

21 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 10:08 PM (IaTa3)

22 ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 10:08 PM (5HQE5)

23 Oh, BTW, my wife lost her job this week. If anyone has any leads for office work, executive assistant type stuff, than can be done remotely, we'd be grateful for any suggestions.

Sorry to hear about that WD. I don't think I'm much help in that department.

Posted by: Howard Wolowitz at February 01, 2024 10:09 PM (ynpvh)

24 Life sucks. That is all you need to know. Creation was a beta project and when the stupid angels put it into production, God came in the next day and was "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE" and that was the fall of Lucifer.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 01, 2024 10:09 PM (CHHv1)

25 Speaking of pickups, I saw my fist Tesla pickup truck on the freeway today. It's even weirder-looking in person than it is in pictures.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:09 PM (bo7UB)

26 12 Sword fighting in elevators was definitely not for the novice.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:05 PM (bo7UB)

Neither is sword fighting ON elevators. Can get...squishy.

Posted by: Howard Wolowitz at February 01, 2024 10:09 PM (ynpvh)

27 Prayers for your missus to regain employment post haste, WD..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 01, 2024 10:09 PM (szKLp)

28 Puddles Pity Party has a new video, very nice rendition of Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage/Eclipse".

https://youtu.be/A_IHFa5uozc

Posted by: tankdemon at February 01, 2024 10:10 PM (tPpAz)

29 Sword fighting in elevators was definitely not for the novice.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:05 PM (bo7UB)

Excuse me, but we call them "lifts".

Posted by: snooty English castle tour guide at February 01, 2024 10:10 PM (e58S1)

30 25 Speaking of pickups, I saw my fist Tesla pickup truck on the freeway today. It's even weirder-looking in person than it is in pictures.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:09 PM (bo7UB)

I certainly wouldn't try fisting one. You're a braver man than I.

Posted by: Howard Wolowitz at February 01, 2024 10:10 PM (ynpvh)

31 29 Sword fighting in elevators was definitely not for the novice.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:05 PM (bo7UB)

Excuse me, but we call them "lifts".

Posted by: snooty English castle tour guide at February 01, 2024 10:10 PM (e58S1)

I thought that's what DeNiro uses on his shoes.

Posted by: Howard Wolowitz at February 01, 2024 10:11 PM (ynpvh)

32 Seriously, how dare technically inclined citizens think they are entitled to truly private communications channels? This goes against every precept of Our Precious Democracy.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 01, 2024 10:11 PM (5kdlS)

33 >Your woke BS is signaling that white men aren't welcome anymore.
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or people who are normal, sexually

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 10:11 PM (geLO8)

34 The ham radio article is downright dumb. Even if the Feds took away our 70cm privileges (and I'm not endorsing that), that's only a fraction of the spectrum allocated to amateur radio users. And to say that hams can communicate without being monitored is just sheer ignorance. You can't transmit encrypted data on the ham bands. That article must've been churned out by either AI or someone who did zero research.

Posted by: PabloD at February 01, 2024 10:12 PM (x96/P)

35 Many ham radio operators are also preppers and survivalists

If this is true (and I suspect it is) you couldn’t tell it from QST.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 01, 2024 10:12 PM (EXyHK)

36 10 I never heard the thing about sword fighting on spiral staircases before.

There has to be a good joke in there somewhere.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:04 PM (bo7UB)

I tried making a that joke, but I got twisted up.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 01, 2024 10:13 PM (tPpAz)

37 >Seriously, how dare technically inclined citizens think they are entitled to truly private communications channels?

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I never understood how a government can claim ownership of the electromagnetic spectrum

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 10:13 PM (geLO8)

38 From the things I learned from the old ladies at church today file:

Medicare will pay for breast reduction surgery if your yabos are so large they cause severe neck or back pain.

The more you learn. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 10:13 PM (IaTa3)

39 That article must've been churned out by either AI or someone who did zero research.
Posted by: PabloD at February 01, 2024 10:12 PM (x96/P)

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I was very proud of it.

Posted by: Claudine Gay at February 01, 2024 10:13 PM (bo7UB)

40 >>sword fighting in spinal staircases

"They are trapped up there. We have taken the courtyard and well. Now we drink their wine, fuck their women, and wait for them to die."

Long game.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 10:14 PM (5HQE5)

41 "This robotic apple harvester can pick ~30 apples in one minute"

Piker, you never saw Eve did ya?

Posted by: Adam - the original henpecked at February 01, 2024 10:14 PM (qfLjt)

42 Excuse me, but we call them "lifts".

Posted by: snooty English castle tour guide at February 01, 2024 10:10 PM (e58S1)

I thought that's what DeNiro uses on his shoes.

Posted by: Howard Wolowitz at February 01, 2024 10:11 PM (ynpvh)

Well, Muppet Labs has him covered:

youtu.be/q1ODHVib4us

Posted by: pookysgirl rarely wears stripey socks at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (dtlDP)

43 Sorry to hear that Gingy lost her job, WD. They didn't deserve her anyway.

Maybe Waffle House?
Dominatrix?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (+RQPJ)

44 Are Jewish folk allowed to own/operate ham radio?

Posted by: Under Rabbinical Supervision at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (V5BDR)

45 HAIL ZOD!

*strips naked*
* plunges into Puget Sound*. Current temp 50f

*emerges*
*dances around fire*

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (PV/vv)

46 37 >Seriously, how dare technically inclined citizens think they are entitled to truly private communications channels?

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I never understood how a government can claim ownership of the electromagnetic spectrum

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 10:13 PM (geLO

I guess under the same authority they do everything else, like water rights in Colorado.

Posted by: Howard Wolowitz at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (ynpvh)

47 45 HAIL ZOD!

*strips naked*
* plunges into Puget Sound*. Current temp 50f

*emerges*
*dances around fire*
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (PV/vv)

Well that escalated quickly.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 01, 2024 10:16 PM (3aLWR)

48 "They are trapped up there. We have taken the courtyard and well. Now we drink their wine, fuck their women, and wait for them to die."

Long game.
Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 10:14 PM (5HQE5)

In one historical documentary I watched, though, Janet Leigh was in the top of the tower.

Posted by: spindrift at February 01, 2024 10:16 PM (e58S1)

49 26 12 Sword fighting in elevators was definitely not for the novice.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:05 PM (bo7UB)

Neither is sword fighting ON elevators. Can get...squishy.
Posted by: Howard Wolowitz at February 01, 2024 10:09 PM (ynpvh)

Purty sure that is in a Highlander episode.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 01, 2024 10:16 PM (xaFKb)

50 38 From the things I learned from the old ladies at church today file:

Medicare will pay for breast reduction surgery if your yabos are so large they cause severe neck or back pain.

The more you learn. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 10:13 PM (IaTa3)

For men too? Asking for a Friend.

Posted by: Not Crispy Creosote at February 01, 2024 10:16 PM (ynpvh)

51 "Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the El Camaro:"

It's fifty percent Bandit and fifty percent Snowman.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 01, 2024 10:16 PM (z+89e)

52 >>*dances around fire*
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (PV/vv)

Dance IN the fire.

Do it. Do it now.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 10:16 PM (5HQE5)

53 *strips naked*

Pics or etc.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 01, 2024 10:17 PM (CHHv1)

54 Learn to drive well. It's worth it. El Camino, FTW!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 01, 2024 10:17 PM (as3uC)

55 Maybe Waffle House?
Dominatrix?

Posted by: All Hail Eris

If she can do them at the same time why then, she'll really have something!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 10:17 PM (IaTa3)

56 My condolences to Gingy on the job loss. Maybe the Texas Militia needs office managers?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 10:17 PM (tkR6S)

57 Sorry to hear about the job loss. May God bless you with all you need.

Evening all

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:18 PM (S5+ge)

58 36 10 I never heard the thing about sword fighting on spiral staircases before.

There has to be a good joke in there somewhere.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:04 PM (bo7UB)

I tried making a that joke, but I got twisted up.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 01, 2024 10:13 PM (tPpAz)
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Screw that! We've got better silly, twisted things to do.

Posted by: Ciampino - The thumbscrew? at February 01, 2024 10:18 PM (qfLjt)

59 Waffle House Dominatrix is my favorite Southern Culture on the Skids album.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at February 01, 2024 10:18 PM (+RQPJ)

60
Shake-a-spear, shake a spirit, shake an ONT
Posted by: Braenyard

Shake a Pudd'n

https://youtu.be/uKV7yd6RWYk

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 01, 2024 10:18 PM (63Dwl)

61 44 Are Jewish folk allowed to own/operate ham radio?

Posted by: Under Rabbinical Supervision at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (V5BDR)

Depends if the have the chops for it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:18 PM (ynpvh)

62 12 Sword fighting in elevators was definitely not for the novice.
Posted by: Cicero

You think that's bad? Try sword fighting on a medieval escalator. You're focused on fighting, forget to step off, and get sucked inside the mechanism!

Posted by: Military Moron at February 01, 2024 10:18 PM (ycI94)

63 it's a sword-fighting thread

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 10:19 PM (geLO8)

64 Condolences to your wife on the job front.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 01, 2024 10:19 PM (HlyYF)

65 I never understood how a government can claim ownership of the electromagnetic spectrum
Posted by: Don Black

You haven't been paying attention have you?

Is for common good comrade, that is all you need to know, da!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 01, 2024 10:19 PM (5kdlS)

66 45 HAIL ZOD!

*strips naked*
* plunges into Puget Sound*. Current temp 50f

*emerges*
*dances around fire*
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (PV/vv)

Most of us just kneel, but hell, maybe that'll catch on, too.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 01, 2024 10:19 PM (z+89e)

67 52 >>*dances around fire*
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (PV/vv)

Dance IN the fire.

Do it. Do it now.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 10:16 PM (5HQE5)

https://youtu.be/a3pQDMi4W-g

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:20 PM (ynpvh)

68 Diced, chunked, or smothered?

Posted by: Waffle House waitress in a leather mask with a zipper at February 01, 2024 10:21 PM (R4t5M)

69 61 44 Are Jewish folk allowed to own/operate ham radio?

Posted by: Under Rabbinical Supervision at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (V5BDR)

Depends if the have the chops for it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Somehow, it just doesn't sound kosher!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 01, 2024 10:21 PM (5kdlS)

70 The El Camaro, LOL!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 10:21 PM (S6gqv)

71 I can't find a link in the ham story that goes to any proposal to take back the 420MHz band. The ARRL would be all over it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 01, 2024 10:21 PM (63Dwl)

72 In one historical documentary I watched, though, Janet Leigh was in the top of the tower.
Posted by: spindrift at February 01, 2024 10:16 PM (e58S1)

That was on da castle of my faddah.

Posted by: Stoney Curtis at February 01, 2024 10:21 PM (Angsy)

73 63 it's a sword-fighting thread

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 10:19 PM (geLO

Long Sword vs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:22 PM (ynpvh)

74 I never understood how a government can claim ownership of the electromagnetic spectrum
Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 10:13 PM (geLO

You are no longer allowed to observe the color blue. You have four weeks to show compliance with this directive.

Posted by: FCC at February 01, 2024 10:22 PM (e58S1)

75 45 HAIL ZOD!

*strips naked*
* plunges into Puget Sound*. Current temp 50f

*emerges*
*dances around fire*

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (PV/vv)
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Shrinkage ....!

Posted by: Unwashed wool at February 01, 2024 10:22 PM (qfLjt)

76 While considering the logistics of spiral staircases there are innumerable factors that makes choosing a "handed-ness" or "upper/lower" advantage difficult.
Being easily stabbed in the ankle/calf area is not insignificant.

Posted by: irright at February 01, 2024 10:22 PM (1p+IG)

77 69 61 44 Are Jewish folk allowed to own/operate ham radio?

Posted by: Under Rabbinical Supervision at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (V5BDR)

Depends if the have the chops for it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Somehow, it just doesn't sound kosher!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 01, 2024 10:21 PM (5kdlS)

You were Bacon for an answer, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:23 PM (ynpvh)

78 Oh, BTW, my wife lost her job this week.

Sorry to hear that, WD.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 01, 2024 10:23 PM (V8he0)

79 Camaro has kind of a low ride height for a pickup truck, but I applaud the effort, even if it does need a finishing touch or two.
Posted by: Redneck Engineer at February 01, 2024 10:06 PM (V5BDR)

It's not the worst such effort I have seen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 10:23 PM (tkR6S)

80 74 I never understood how a government can claim ownership of the electromagnetic spectrum
Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 10:13 PM (geLO

You are no longer allowed to observe the color blue. You have four weeks to show compliance with this directive.

Posted by: FCC at February 01, 2024 10:22 PM (e58S1)

Then stop allowing the lights and the sun to display it!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:23 PM (ynpvh)

81 74 I never understood how a government can claim ownership of the electromagnetic spectrum
Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 10:13 PM (geLO

You are no longer allowed to observe the color blue. You have four weeks to show compliance with this directive.

Posted by: FCC at February 01, 2024 10:22 PM (e58S1)
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Hey look! The sky's gone plaid!!

Posted by: Vassal in compliance or The Funny-looking guy (Fargo) at February 01, 2024 10:24 PM (qfLjt)

82 Shake-a-spear, shake a spirit, shake an ONT
Posted by: Braenyard

Cherry Poppin' Daddies: Shake your Lovemaker

https://youtu.be/KlkET8YMqG8?si=_VIv2lsfo33P9awE

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2024 10:24 PM (D7oie)

83 Yay, National Freedom Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 01, 2024 10:25 PM (dZVON)

84 Good evening morons and thanks wd

I'm no apple farmer but that robot looks much less efficient than your average Mayan picker.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

85 The left: Corporations are evil and only trying to take your money

Also the left: Corporate media is actually scientifically accurate and non-partisan. And if you don't believe that you are a science hating NAZI.

Also also the left: Isn't Jeff Bezos just dreamy?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2024 10:25 PM (ibTVg)

86 Unleash the robot apple picker on the apple trees in the land of Oz.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 01, 2024 10:26 PM (63Dwl)

87 77 69 61 44 Are Jewish folk allowed to own/operate ham radio?

Posted by: Under Rabbinical Supervision at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (V5BDR)

Depends if the have the chops for it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Somehow, it just doesn't sound kosher!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 01, 2024 10:21 PM (5kdlS)

You were Bacon for an answer, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:23 PM (ynpvh)

You don't want to get porked in the Barrel?

Posted by: Ciampino - The whole pig, nothing but the pig at February 01, 2024 10:27 PM (qfLjt)

88 Long Sword vs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:22 PM (ynpvh)

Samurai Sword... argument has been going on for decades.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 01, 2024 10:27 PM (xaFKb)

89 Baltimore has a certain charm but it is not charming.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:27 PM (RIvkX)

90 Robotic apple picker, putting our precious migrant farm workers out of a job! Oh, the humanity!

Posted by: mindful webworker - now do lettuce at February 01, 2024 10:28 PM (WLLsa)

91 What the hell is Gutfeld wearing?

Posted by: Theodore at February 01, 2024 10:28 PM (pGonq)

92 I think the PA Electric Utility is ripping me off.

They claim I used over 4000kwh for the month of Dec. then they tack on distribution fees and other ticky tack fees like a solar energy charge to subsidize solar customers.

Bottom line, Pa's a pretty corrupt, shitty state.

The people are nice but things are not on the level.

Starting to get that sinking feeling I made a rather large mistake moving here.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:28 PM (XV/Pl)

93 87 77 69 61 44 Are Jewish folk allowed to own/operate ham radio?

Posted by: Under Rabbinical Supervision at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (V5BDR)

Depends if the have the chops for it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Somehow, it just doesn't sound kosher!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 01, 2024 10:21 PM (5kdlS)

You were Bacon for an answer, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:23 PM (ynpvh)

You don't want to get porked in the Barrel?

Posted by: Ciampino - The whole pig, nothing but the pig at February 01, 2024 10:27 PM (qfLjt)

You really want to put the (pork) knuckles on me...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:29 PM (ynpvh)

94 Maybe the Texas Militia needs office managers?

This is one of the few ways I would be able to help.

Unlike AOP who could direct teams to create many needful things from the pieces in a junkyard 😉

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:29 PM (S5+ge)

95 Sorry to hear gingy lost her job

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:29 PM (RIvkX)

96 Was thinking about going fishing today. See if I could catch a few crappie off the boat slips. Called the marina. Still ice. After two days in the 60's. Didn't feel like doing the heated dock thing with it being in the 60's again so,,, I wait. Did put new line on one rod and got that one and another rigged for the docks.

Regarding Ham radios; don't you have to get a license for those?
**spit** more control freaks stuff

Posted by: TeeJ at February 01, 2024 10:30 PM (ix5nG)

97 Re:military recruitment woes: One of the biggest selling points for recruiters has always been the GI Bill to help pay for college. The recent disillusionment on the value of a college education, especially among white males, probably plays a role in lack of interest. Why worry about the means to pay for college when you have no interest in attending. (They might want to emphasize that the GI Bill also covers costs for tech and trade schools more.)
The expectation of student loans forgiveness also devalues the GI Bill.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 01, 2024 10:31 PM (tPpAz)

98 -
Are Jewish folk allowed to own/operate ham radio?

Posted by: Under Rabbinical Supervision at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM -
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As long as your antenna is properly trimmed by a mohel, you're kosher.

Posted by: irright at February 01, 2024 10:31 PM (1p+IG)

99 Also garbage collection is ridiculous in this state.

Everything is a f**king racket here.

Gahhhh!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:32 PM (XV/Pl)

100 Yay, National Freedom Day ONT!

Definitely something to celebrate! And something to try to reclaim and restore.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:32 PM (S5+ge)

101 A white man joining to fight for Biden is an imbecile.

Posted by: Montec at February 01, 2024 10:32 PM (bWsRe)

102 25 Speaking of pickups, I saw my fist Tesla pickup truck on the freeway today. It's even weirder-looking in person than it is in pictures.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:09 PM (bo7UB)

On the 405 in so. cal it seems like almost every other car is a Tesla. I've even seen two Teslas in a collision.

Of course this is the best climate for them - rarely ever snows/rains, almost never below freezing....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 10:32 PM (QGaXH)

103 I had a Camaro but then Mrs F. got it stole in Sacramento.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

104 Holy Christ! The only comedian less funny than Will Ferrell is Kathy Griffin.

Okay, and maybe Amy Schumer.

Like fingernails on a blackboard. And that other clownfuck, Jim Carrey.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 01, 2024 10:33 PM (EEgXH)

105 80 74 I never understood how a government can claim ownership of the electromagnetic spectrum
Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 10:13 PM (geLO

You are no longer allowed to observe the color blue. You have four weeks to show compliance with this directive.

Posted by: FCC at February 01, 2024 10:22 PM (e58S1)

Then stop allowing the lights and the sun to display it!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:23 PM (ynpvh)
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Don't give Bill Gates ideas. He already wants to create shade globally.

Posted by: Ciampino - The elite must be debased at February 01, 2024 10:33 PM (qfLjt)

106 Unelected bureaucrats can’t just wave a magic wand and ban ham radio. Oh wait we’re in a post America, America. Carry on.

Posted by: Montec at February 01, 2024 10:33 PM (bWsRe)

107 Wait does Gingy have music for sale? I thought she was a big band singer. I could BUY MP3s or some damn thing.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 01, 2024 10:34 PM (CHHv1)

108 @101

>>A white man joining to fight for Biden is an imbecile.

Joining the military has been a rather poor decisions since the GWOT started.

Anyone who would join the military TODAY!!!, is not thinking clearly at all.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:34 PM (XV/Pl)

109 104 Holy Christ! The only comedian less funny than Will Ferrell is Kathy Griffin.

Okay, and maybe Amy Schumer.

Like fingernails on a blackboard. And that other clownfuck, Jim Carrey.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 01, 2024 10:33 PM (EEgXH)

I'm still laughing about a pic I saw, where the guy says the window to his pickup truck was broken when he parked to attend the Kathy Griffin show...someone left two more tickets for him.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:34 PM (ynpvh)

110 I saw an amazing clip of a machine used to "pick" oranges. It holds the tree, unfolds an upside down umbrella under the branches and shakes the tree. Very effective.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:35 PM (S5+ge)

111 110 I saw an amazing clip of a machine used to "pick" oranges. It holds the tree, unfolds an upside down umbrella under the branches and shakes the tree. Very effective.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:35 PM (S5+ge)

Shaker machines are used on olive trees, too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (ynpvh)

112 "Clearly, something inside the US Army’s recruitment system is failing, both in terms of targets being drastically missed"

But they are getting the trans pronouns "correct", which is more important than winning battles.

(so says our trannie commanders, enemies of the state)

Posted by: illiniwek at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (Cus5s)

113 @110

>>I saw an amazing clip of a machine used to "pick" oranges. It holds the tree, unfolds an upside down umbrella under the branches and shakes the tree. Very effective.

So if orange picking is mechanized, what are the 16M illegals have aided and abetted going to do for jobs?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (XV/Pl)

114 98 -
Are Jewish folk allowed to own/operate ham radio?

Posted by: Under Rabbinical Supervision at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM -
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As long as your antenna is properly trimmed by a mohel, you're kosher.

Posted by: irright at February 01, 2024 10:31 PM (1p+IG)
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But for what frequency, Kenneth?

Posted by: Ciampino - a rigid antenna? at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (qfLjt)

115 Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:34 PM (XV/Pl)

Are you channeling John Kerry?

Posted by: Cobalt Blue at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (MNhXM)

116 111 110 I saw an amazing clip of a machine used to "pick" oranges. It holds the tree, unfolds an upside down umbrella under the branches and shakes the tree. Very effective.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:35 PM (S5+ge)

Shaker machines are used on olive trees, too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (ynpvh)

Although I'm a little leery of those machines that shake nuts out of trees...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (ynpvh)

117 I know more than a few vets who proudly served, many who come from families that have served for generations, who are advising their kids not to enlist.

Sad to say, it's clear how serious and widespread this is, just going by comments I've read on my favorite smart military blog!

Posted by: mindful webworker - God bless America at February 01, 2024 10:37 PM (WLLsa)

118 Hmm, my description wasn't very clear. Oh well, the Horde is intelligent, they'll figure it out.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:37 PM (S5+ge)

119 Bottom line, Pa's a pretty corrupt, shitty state.

The people are nice but things are not on the level.

Starting to get that sinking feeling I made a rather large mistake moving here.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Eight. Fooking. Years. to settle an estate due to interference by PA state, county and borough officialdom.

Corrupt as the years are long.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 10:37 PM (IaTa3)

120 113 @110

>>I saw an amazing clip of a machine used to "pick" oranges. It holds the tree, unfolds an upside down umbrella under the branches and shakes the tree. Very effective.

So if orange picking is mechanized, what are the 16M illegals have aided and abetted going to do for jobs?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (XV/Pl)

Strawberries, I guess. And veggies. Need a maid?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:38 PM (ynpvh)

121 Are Jewish folk allowed to own/operate ham radio?
Posted by: Under Rabbinical Supervision

We can't eat them, but beef radio tastes much better anyway, especially with a really sharp cheddar.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 01, 2024 10:38 PM (KAi1n)

122 I'm reading an article on Liz Taylor and Richard Burton and learned a new phrase: "erotic vagrancy", leveled against them for cheating on their spouses.

Love hobos!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at February 01, 2024 10:39 PM (+RQPJ)

123 tree. Very effective.

So if orange picking is mechanized, what are the 16M illegals have aided and abetted going to do for jobs?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 1

Military.
Jose and Juan will have no issue killing gringos when ordered to do so by their trans commander.

Posted by: Montec at February 01, 2024 10:39 PM (bWsRe)

124 113 @110

>>I saw an amazing clip of a machine used to "pick" oranges. It holds the tree, unfolds an upside down umbrella under the branches and shakes the tree. Very effective.

So if orange picking is mechanized, what are the 16M illegals have aided and abetted going to do for jobs?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (XV/Pl)
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I've seen a video of the orange picker. Are there machines for harvesting carrots - you know, for the chili?

Posted by: Ciampino - a turbid antenna? at February 01, 2024 10:39 PM (qfLjt)

125 121 Are Jewish folk allowed to own/operate ham radio?
Posted by: Under Rabbinical Supervision

We can't eat them, but beef radio tastes much better anyway, especially with a really sharp cheddar.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 01, 2024 10:38 PM (KAi1n)

Would have to be American Cheese...I thought the Orthodox didn't mix meat and milk products.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:39 PM (ynpvh)

126 Shakers are also used for cherries.

Posted by: Shipoopi at February 01, 2024 10:39 PM (xKFcT)

127 My thought as to why newspapers, and journalism generally has collapsed; it began when the net began draining away all the ad revenue, especially classified ads. Most people have forgotten how huge a section of every local paper was taken up by those! But as they dried up, revenue dried up, and papers quit making money, and consequently, all the people interested in making money found other things to do.
That was the point at which most business would radically restructure, or just fail, but that didn't happen to papers, because in came the rich idealogues! These were people who had a lot of money and loved the idea of owning their own paper, just for the "prestige", and so of course they quickly turned what they owned into a mouthpiece for their own politics. Who cares if this was what people wanted? They didn't, this was all for ego stroking.

and all those papers that *weren't* bought by Oligarchs became cookie cutter copies in the Gannett universe, in which all creativity and spark was completely erased. Result - this a zombified husk of an industry, shambling towards a long overdue grave.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 10:40 PM (S6gqv)

128 That New York gun case sounds like a bum rap to me. If they really, really suspected the guy of selling unserialized guns, why would they not have tried to make a buy from him? Because if he did sell one, they'd have dead to rights on a Federal felony, right?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 10:40 PM (tkR6S)

129 1
Posted by: Don Black

Does First count if the comment is empty?

Almost seems like a barreling offense.

Posted by: mindful webworker - imho at February 01, 2024 10:40 PM (WLLsa)

130 @115

>>Are you channeling John Kerry?

If you are going to use the military as play for a college degree or to gain expertise in something you can use when you get out, I suppose that could be rational.

But what are you actually fighting for in today's military?

The Junta just sanctioned Texas by shutting down natural gas distribution, this is going to aid Russia and The CCP as they are providers of NATGas, and since we won't be supplying Europe now, Europe is going to look elsewhere.

So we just emboldened and rewarded enemies our so-called military is supposed to be "protecting" and or preparing to fight.

It's f**king stupid, everything is stupid and inverted.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:41 PM (XV/Pl)

131 110 I saw an amazing clip of a machine used to "pick" oranges. It holds the tree, unfolds an upside down umbrella under the branches and shakes the tree. Very effective.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:35 PM (S5+ge)

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With a little adapting it could make body cavity searches a thing of the past.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 01, 2024 10:41 PM (bo7UB)

132 So if orange picking is mechanized, what are the 16M illegals have aided and abetted going to do for jobs?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (XV/Pl)

Learn to code.

Posted by: thatcrazyjersey guy now with twice the crazy at February 01, 2024 10:41 PM (iODuv)

133 So if orange picking is mechanized, what are the 16M illegals have aided and abetted going to do for jobs?

Judging by the illegal who attacked a cop and was released without bail while flipping off the onlookers, they are here to cause trouble. Treasonous how our feral government is bringing them in.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:41 PM (S5+ge)

134 My boss got himself fired last week

All I know is we were trying to finalize budget at 2 pm and at 3 pm I got an email from his boss saying he was no longer employed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:41 PM (RIvkX)

135 129 1
Posted by: Don Black

Does First count if the comment is empty?

Almost seems like a barreling offense.

Posted by: mindful webworker - imho at February 01, 2024 10:40 PM (WLLsa)

Still a better claim to #1 than the Chinese claim to the entire South China Sea.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:41 PM (ynpvh)

136 113
So if orange picking is mechanized, what are the 16M illegals have aided and abetted going to do for jobs?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (XV/Pl)
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They will be harvesting your social security numbers.

Posted by: Ciampino - The Government encourages it at February 01, 2024 10:41 PM (qfLjt)

137 I live in PA, 45 minutes from WV. It's somewhat normal. East of the Susquehanna- all bets are off. I've got relatives around Filthadelphia. Fuck that shit.

Posted by: Waffle House waitress in a leather mask with a zipper at February 01, 2024 10:42 PM (R4t5M)

138 132 So if orange picking is mechanized, what are the 16M illegals have aided and abetted going to do for jobs?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (XV/Pl)

Learn to code.

Posted by: thatcrazyjersey guy now with twice the crazy at February 01, 2024 10:41 PM (iODuv)

Oh, bugger off, benchod. We have those jobs now.

Posted by: Krinshnan from India at February 01, 2024 10:42 PM (ynpvh)

139 @119

>>Corrupt as the years are long.

Yeah, not really digging the state.

I've been coming to Pa to ski, horseback ride and antique for decades, but living here has, shall we say, is sub-optimal.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:42 PM (XV/Pl)

140 off sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 01, 2024 10:43 PM (R4t5M)

141 I've seen a video of the orange picker. Are there machines for harvesting carrots - you know, for the chili?
Posted by: Ciampino - a turbid antenna? at February 01, 2024 10:39 PM (qfLjt)

really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree!

Posted by: Steve Miller at February 01, 2024 10:43 PM (S6gqv)

142 Shakers are also used for cherries.
Posted by: Shipoopi

Shakers designed some damn good looking furniture before they gave up sex and the offspring that are a result of that.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 10:43 PM (IaTa3)

143 Every state is corrupt. Some more than others. But it’s like arguing over the tallest midget.

Posted by: Montec at February 01, 2024 10:43 PM (bWsRe)

144 So if orange picking is mechanized, what are the 16M illegals have aided and abetted going to do for jobs?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:36 PM (XV/Pl)

Its for the lettuce...always the lettuce

Posted by: a dude in MI at February 01, 2024 10:44 PM (+I6Y/)

145 It's f**king stupid, everything is stupid and inverted.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2024 10:41 PM (XV/Pl)
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Lame and Gay > Stupid and Inverted

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:44 PM (RIvkX)

146 I thought the Orthodox didn't mix meat and milk products.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

They aren't *supposed to*. [shifty eyes]

Posted by: SFGoth at February 01, 2024 10:44 PM (KAi1n)

147 Evenin'

Sorry to hear about your wife's job loss, WD. It's been happening everywhere except the bubble known as Babylon DC.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 01, 2024 10:44 PM (sAmhv)

148 What's Kenyan for "hold my beer"?

@BNONews 1h
WATCH: Massive gas explosion in Nairobi, Kenya. At least 2 dead, 167 injured. Death toll expected to rise

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 01, 2024 10:45 PM (IG4Id)

149 Its for the lettuce...always the lettuce
Posted by: a dude in MI at February 01, 2024 10:44 PM (+I6Y/)
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Which is why it is so important to wash lettuce carefully.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:45 PM (RIvkX)

150 My boss got himself fired last week

All I know is we were trying to finalize budget at 2 pm and at 3 pm I got an email from his boss saying he was no longer employed.

Guess that means they found a way to cut six figures out of the budget.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 01, 2024 10:45 PM (dZVON)

151 That New York gun case sounds like a bum rap to me.

Lots of questions about the story.
They had to be tracking his purchasing. From his end? The seller's end, credit card info.?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:46 PM (S5+ge)

152 Sorry to hear about your wife's job loss, WD. It's been happening everywhere except the bubble known as Babylon DC.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 01, 2024 10:44 PM (sAmhv)

Govt...largest employer that produces nothing but pain and sorrow

Posted by: a dude in MI at February 01, 2024 10:46 PM (+I6Y/)

153 really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree!
Posted by: Steve Miller

Millions of peaches, peaches for free,
Millions of peaches, peaches for me.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 01, 2024 10:46 PM (R4t5M)

154 146 I thought the Orthodox didn't mix meat and milk products.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

They aren't *supposed to*. [shifty eyes]

Posted by: SFGoth at February 01, 2024 10:44 PM (KAi1n)

I happened to be in Hong Kong many years ago. I was walking around Stanley one Saturday and saw an Orthdox-looking jew smoking. I said "Shabbat Shalom!", and he mumbled back "shabbat shalom", put his cigarette on the ground, put it out, and walked away.
Only later did I learn that observant Jews are NOT supposed to light a fire on Shabbat...I wonder what the guy thought when I greeted him. LOL

Posted by: Krinshnan from India at February 01, 2024 10:47 PM (ynpvh)

155 All I know is we were trying to finalize budget at 2 pm and at 3 pm I got an email from his boss saying he was no longer employed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Big Boss, what happened? Ah, we had a problem. We tried to do everything we could.

San Franpsycho - Whadda mean?

You know what I mean - he's gone. And we couldn't do nothing about it.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 10:47 PM (IaTa3)

156 My Mom had a shaker rocker, straight back, uncomfortable, woven seat. I don't get why they are so special. We managed to get one sibling to take it when she passed. There was no fighting for it.

Posted by: Shipoopi at February 01, 2024 10:47 PM (xKFcT)

157 149 Its for the lettuce...always the lettuce
Posted by: a dude in MI at February 01, 2024 10:44 PM (+I6Y/)
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Which is why it is so important to wash lettuce carefully.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:45 PM (RIvkX)

Was it used like toilet paper in the olden days?

Posted by: Krinshnan from India at February 01, 2024 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

158 "erotic vagrancy" has a certain....off-putting aroma methinks

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 01, 2024 10:48 PM (sJHOI)

159 Remind me to tell you about the first time I had a MdDonald's burger and shake together.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:48 PM (RIvkX)

160 151 That New York gun case sounds like a bum rap to me.

Lots of questions about the story.
They had to be tracking his purchasing. From his end? The seller's end, credit card info.?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:46 PM (S5+ge)

Or snitched on.

Posted by: Krinshnan from India at February 01, 2024 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

161 Greatest El Camino of all time (friend had one back in the day) was the '72 SS model, with the 454 big block in it. It was basically the Chevelle SS with a pickup bed instead of a trunk and back seat.

Posted by: Steve Miller at February 01, 2024 10:48 PM (S6gqv)

162 >>>>>>> 112 "Clearly, something inside the US Army’s recruitment system is failing, both in terms of targets being drastically missed"
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It's much easier to sell a quality product than a defective one.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2024 10:48 PM (ezSUn)

163 Brooklyn gun maker: I don't know anything about the Slave State laws of New York, but BATF has quite strict regulations on manufacturing firearms, including the required markings for the receiver you make. If you are going to sell your products, you have to get a license.
If you think that is absurd, set up a still in your backyard, sell your neighbors whiskey, and see what happens.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 01, 2024 10:49 PM (8mA1p)

164 That's the problem with nice cars, Thieves want to steal them.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 01, 2024 10:49 PM (MeG8a)

165 158 "erotic vagrancy" has a certain....off-putting aroma methinks

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 01, 2024 10:48 PM (sJHOI)

Gay mud-wrestling (I hope it's mud) hobos.

Posted by: Krinshnan from India at February 01, 2024 10:50 PM (ynpvh)

166 159 Remind me to tell you about the first time I had a MdDonald's burger and shake together.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:48 PM (RIvkX)

Sounds messy. Pour the shake over the burger, or soak the burger in the shake?

Posted by: Krinshnan from India at February 01, 2024 10:50 PM (ynpvh)

167 You need a Ham Radio license. There are several categories. I can't remember them. I've looked into getting one.

Baltimore is very romantic. The rom-com TV show 'The Wire' emphasized that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 01, 2024 10:50 PM (sAmhv)

168 @BNONews 1h
WATCH: Massive gas explosion in Nairobi, Kenya. At least 2 dead, 167 injured. Death toll expected to rise
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 01, 2024 10:45 PM (IG4Id)

Another grim milestone for the Biden Administration.
(well that's what they would have said if Trump was in office!)

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 10:51 PM (S6gqv)

169 You know what I mean - he's gone. And we couldn't do nothing about it.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 10:47 PM (IaTa3)
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"It is what it is."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:52 PM (RIvkX)

170 163 Brooklyn gun maker: I don't know anything about the Slave State laws of New York, but BATF has quite strict regulations on manufacturing firearms, including the required markings for the receiver you make. If you are going to sell your products, you have to get a license.
If you think that is absurd, set up a still in your backyard, sell your neighbors whiskey, and see what happens.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 01, 2024 10:49 PM (8mA1p)

Was he selling them? I didn't get that sense in the article.

Posted by: Krinshnan from India at February 01, 2024 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

171 Massive gas explosion in Nairobi, Kenya. At least 2 dead, 167 injured. Death toll expected to rise.

https://t.co/cfle9onXYT

Posted by: Ciampino - Today #01 at February 01, 2024 10:52 PM (qfLjt)

172 My Mom had a shaker rocker, straight back, uncomfortable, woven seat. I don't get why they are so special. We managed to get one sibling to take it when she passed. There was no fighting for it.
Posted by: Shipoopi at February 01, 2024 10:47 PM (xKFcT)

Can't make the rocker too comfortable. It might lead to sex.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 10:52 PM (tkR6S)

173 Whites Need Not Apply

White men no longer want to fight for a nation that scorns them

There isn't much incentive for your average white straight man participate in modern American society in general. College, marriage, the workplace, the military, even churches are hostile environments. The vilification, exploitation, discrimination, denigration and potential ruination just aren't worth it.

Posted by: Dropping out of the society that hates you at February 01, 2024 10:52 PM (pKFK0)

174 . It's been happening everywhere except the bubble known as Babylon DC.

Which is why we need our very own Milei. "Fuera!"

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:53 PM (S5+ge)

175 Waffle House Dominatrix is my favorite Southern Culture on the Skids album.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Darleen was in the video

Posted by: Miklos was right damn proud of her, too at February 01, 2024 10:53 PM (S1Xkm)

176 Oh, bugger off, benchod. We have those jobs now.
Posted by: Krinshnan from India at February 01, 2024 10:42 PM (ynpvh)

Says, you, India dude.

Posted by: Mohamed O'Riley From Ireland at February 01, 2024 10:53 PM (iODuv)

177 137 I live in PA, 45 minutes from WV. It's somewhat normal. East of the Susquehanna- all bets are off. I've got relatives around Filthadelphia. Fuck that shit.
Posted by: Waffle House

Yea, the western part has more in common with Ohio than anything east of the Susquehanna.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 01, 2024 10:53 PM (sAmhv)

178 You need a Ham Radio license. There are several categories. I can't remember them. I've looked into getting one.

Technician, General, Extra are the three levels currently. All you gotta do is take a written test for each and pay a fee. If you think you can pass all three tests in the same day, you only have to pay the fee for one. But if you fail the first or second test you don't get to move on and you have to try again another day.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 01, 2024 10:54 PM (dZVON)

179 If you are going to sell your products, you have to get a license. . . .
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

I've heard tell of all members of a group each (legally) buying a stripped upper receiver of the exact model, throwing them into a pot if you will, and then randomly reaching in and pulling one out for keeps.

But that would be very, very wrong and should never, ever be done.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 10:54 PM (IaTa3)

180 Sounds messy. Pour the shake over the burger, or soak the burger in the shake?
Posted by: Krinshnan from India at February 01, 2024 10:50 PM (ynpvh)
===

Have you met my friend JT?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:54 PM (RIvkX)

181 Millions of peaches, peaches for free,
Millions of peaches, peaches for me.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 01, 2024 10:46 PM

I sing at least half of that song EVERY time my wife is putting out peaches as part of a meal.

She has not YET put a pillow over my face while I was sleeping or clanged a peach can off of my noggin.

However, if you Morons no longer see me in the comments, you will know what actually happened.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 01, 2024 10:55 PM (HlyYF)

182 Sounds messy. Pour the shake over the burger, or soak the burger in the shake?

Either way, sounds unappetizing.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:55 PM (S5+ge)

183 off sock. Damn, I keep getting my socks stuck on me tonight. Probably a sign I should call it a night soon...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:55 PM (ynpvh)

184 Thomas Bender

Eight. Fooking. Years. to settle an estate due to interference by PA state, county and borough officialdom.

Corrupt as the years are long.
Posted by: Tonypete

The elites had best be careful, they are on the road to early 19th century lifestyles for us. Reasonably certain they ain't gonna like the loose vigilante justice that comes with it.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 01, 2024 10:55 PM (MsrgL)

185 off sock. Damn, I keep getting my socks stuck on me tonight. Probably a sign I should call it a night soon...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

/sarc

Gotta wash them after fapping, before next use.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 01, 2024 10:56 PM (MsrgL)

186 I sing at least half of that song EVERY time my wife is putting out peaches as part of a meal.

She has not YET put a pillow over my face while I was sleeping or clanged a peach can off of my noggin.

However, if you Morons no longer see me in the comments, you will know what actually happened.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 01, 2024 10:55 PM (HlyYF)

Peaches come in a can
They were put there by a man
In a factory downtown

Posted by: Ear peach worm at February 01, 2024 10:57 PM (pKFK0)

187 For a funny typo: Canadian Pizza Hut goes viral for hysterical typo about why dining room was closed

http://tinyurl.com/y9j6e59x

Posted by: Ciampino - Today #02 at February 01, 2024 10:57 PM (qfLjt)

188 184 Thomas Bender

Eight. Fooking. Years. to settle an estate due to interference by PA state, county and borough officialdom.

Corrupt as the years are long.
Posted by: Tonypete

The elites had best be careful, they are on the road to early 19th century lifestyles for us. Reasonably certain they ain't gonna like the loose vigilante justice that comes with it.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 01, 2024 10:55 PM (MsrgL)

Seems like, in many ways, we're heading towards more of a French style revolution than American style...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:57 PM (ynpvh)

189 Ooookay.
Love each other fellow babies

Posted by: TeeJ at February 01, 2024 10:57 PM (ix5nG)

190 185 off sock. Damn, I keep getting my socks stuck on me tonight. Probably a sign I should call it a night soon...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

/sarc

Gotta wash them after fapping, before next use.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 01, 2024 10:56 PM (MsrgL)

Static cling. Used the wrong stuff in the dryer.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 10:58 PM (ynpvh)

191 "Let me begin by making this point as clearly as possible. There is absolutely nothing worse for the combat effectiveness of a military, than attempting to use recruiting as a social engineering program."

Seems to me (no military service) that as worse or worse for combat effectiveness and morale is your Commander-in-Chief letting enemies attack you daily while doing nothing to stop them. Your effectiveness and morale sinks further after several of your brothers and sisters in arms are killed in attacks by the same enemy and your C-in-C delays any reprisal and suppression attacks for 4 days and counting.

Posted by: Gref at February 01, 2024 10:58 PM (5fDan)

192 For a funny typo: Canadian Pizza Hut goes viral for hysterical typo about why dining room was closed

http://tinyurl.com/y9j6e59x
Posted by: Ciampino

There go the tips!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 10:58 PM (IaTa3)

193 134 My boss got himself fired last week

All I know is we were trying to finalize budget at 2 pm and at 3 pm I got an email from his boss saying he was no longer employed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 10:41 PM (RIvkX)

I had a boss get himself most deservedly fired once. Security came right into our little lab area and walked him right out while my colleague and I huddled in fear under our desks. Worse was when a junior nazi from HR followed up a few minutes later and told us if we discussed what we saw we'd be next.....

I hate HR Nazis......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 10:59 PM (QGaXH)

194 Good night Teej

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:00 PM (S5+ge)

195 Peaches come in a can
They were put there by a man
In a factory downtown

Posted by: Ear peach worm at February 01, 2024 10:57 PM

I will admit that I am a terrible sucker for LOTS of earworm songs.

Of all of the one-hit wonders of the last 70 years, I enjoy a shockingly high percentage of them.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 01, 2024 11:00 PM (HlyYF)

196 Rotten peaches, rotting in the sun. Elton John

Posted by: Shipoopi at February 01, 2024 11:00 PM (xKFcT)

197 Worse was when a junior nazi from HR followed up a few minutes later and told us if we discussed what we saw we'd be next.....

I hate HR Nazis......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 10:59 PM (QGaXH)

Was there a single gunshot moments later?....damn

Posted by: a dude in MI at February 01, 2024 11:01 PM (+I6Y/)

198 126 Shakers are also used for cherries.

Posted by: Shipoopi at February 01, 2024 10:39 PM (xKFcT)
--------
Odd way to spell martinis

Posted by: 496 at February 01, 2024 11:02 PM (+mwHe)

199 192 For a funny typo: Canadian Pizza Hut goes viral for hysterical typo about why dining room was closed

http://tinyurl.com/y9j6e59x
Posted by: Ciampino

There go the tips!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 10:58 PM (IaTa3)

I would say there was foreshadowing, but that's the wrong fore-word.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:02 PM (ynpvh)

200 Reports emerging that the election interference case against President Trump in DC has been REMOVED FROM THE COURT CALENDAR and postponed indefinitely.

Posted by: SMOD at February 01, 2024 11:03 PM (RovqD)

201 I picked up a very expensive treat today, now as I have sampled them, totally worth it. Strawberries and cream white chocolate macadamias.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:03 PM (S5+ge)

202 195 Peaches come in a can
They were put there by a man
In a factory downtown

Posted by: Ear peach worm at February 01, 2024 10:57 PM

I will admit that I am a terrible sucker for LOTS of earworm songs.

Of all of the one-hit wonders of the last 70 years, I enjoy a shockingly high percentage of them.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 01, 2024 11:00 PM (HlyYF)

Ever listen to Baby Shark?
Had a co-worker tell me about that song; his kids are quite a bit younger than mine.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:03 PM (ynpvh)

203 197 Worse was when a junior nazi from HR followed up a few minutes later and told us if we discussed what we saw we'd be next.....

I hate HR Nazis......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 10:59 PM (QGaXH)

Remember kids, HR is NOT your friend.

Posted by: They serve the company not you at February 01, 2024 11:03 PM (pKFK0)

204 I would say there was foreshadowing, but that's the wrong fore-word.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:02 PM (ynpvh)

This week only! Lunch special, personal pan pizza. Only four skins!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 11:04 PM (tkR6S)

205 Is the BATFE as a federal agency even constitutional? State agencies yes but federal?

Posted by: Ciampino - questioning at February 01, 2024 11:04 PM (qfLjt)

206 Ever listen to Baby Shark?
Had a co-worker tell me about that song; his kids are quite a bit younger than mine.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:03 PM (ynpvh)

Yes I
Do doo doo doo do doo

Posted by: Daddy shark, etc at February 01, 2024 11:04 PM (pKFK0)

207 203 197 Worse was when a junior nazi from HR followed up a few minutes later and told us if we discussed what we saw we'd be next.....

I hate HR Nazis......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 10:59 PM (QGaXH)

Remember kids, HR is NOT your friend.

Posted by: They serve the company not you at February 01, 2024 11:03 PM (pKFK0)

It's missing a character...the 8 inbetween the H and the R...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:05 PM (ynpvh)

208 Was he selling them? I didn't get that sense in the article.
Posted by: Krinshnan from India at February 01, 2024 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

"When he discovered the world of gun manufacturing, he believed he had found a new hobby and possibly a small business opportunity."

From the opening paragraph of the story. It wouldn't surprise me if he had advertised his services, the ignorance seems strong with this one.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 01, 2024 11:05 PM (8mA1p)

209 204 I would say there was foreshadowing, but that's the wrong fore-word.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:02 PM (ynpvh)

This week only! Lunch special, personal pan pizza. Only four skins!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 11:04 PM (tkR6S)

The calamari ain't calamari.

Posted by: Waiter this is very chewy. And growing. at February 01, 2024 11:06 PM (pKFK0)

210 Is the BATFE as a federal agency even constitutional? State agencies yes but federal?
Posted by: Ciampino - questioning at February 01, 2024 11:04 PM (qfLjt)

Not even close.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 01, 2024 11:06 PM (R4t5M)

211 204 I would say there was foreshadowing, but that's the wrong fore-word.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:02 PM (ynpvh)

This week only! Lunch special, personal pan pizza. Only four skins!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 11:04 PM (tkR6S)

Heh, very good.
Get that man a Mohel, stat!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:06 PM (ynpvh)

212 Is the BATFE as a federal agency even constitutional? State agencies yes but federal?

I think that question is appropriate for all agencies.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:06 PM (S5+ge)

213 187 For a funny typo: Canadian Pizza Hut goes viral for hysterical typo about why dining room was closed

http://tinyurl.com/y9j6e59x
Posted by: Ciampino - Today #02 at February 01, 2024 10:57 PM (qfLjt)

But WAS it a 'typo'?? wink wink...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 11:06 PM (QGaXH)

214 71 I can't find a link in the ham story that goes to any proposal to take back the 420MHz band. The ARRL would be all over it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 01, 2024 10:21 PM (63Dwl)

Yeah, I'm on the ARRL mailing list, which often contains notes about potential loss of amateur spectrum, with requests to comment on related FCC proposals, and I haven't seen anything on this, either.

Posted by: BillyD at February 01, 2024 11:06 PM (F6Xpw)

215 I will admit that I am a terrible sucker for LOTS of earworm songs.

Of all of the one-hit wonders of the last 70 years, I enjoy a shockingly high percentage of them.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 01, 2024 11:00 PM (HlyYF)

PI, here's a Utoob channel you may enjoy -

https://www.youtube.com/@sonnysoldies5288/videos

And with that, good night, all.

Posted by: Gref at February 01, 2024 11:07 PM (5fDan)

216 Remember kids, HR is NOT your friend.
Posted by: They serve the company not you

Once you understand that HR's purpose is twofold in that they are trying to keep the company from being sued while simultaneously expanding the HR department a few things start to make sense.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 01, 2024 11:07 PM (dZVON)

217 Fifth migrant accused of attacking NYPD cops in Times Square walks free from court...as police fear his four accomplices have fled to CALIFORNIA amid calls for them to be deported

https://mol.im/a/13035851

Posted by: Ciampino - Well you found the J6 now find these at February 01, 2024 11:07 PM (qfLjt)

218 213 187 For a funny typo: Canadian Pizza Hut goes viral for hysterical typo about why dining room was closed

http://tinyurl.com/y9j6e59x
Posted by: Ciampino - Today #02 at February 01, 2024 10:57 PM (qfLjt)

But WAS it a 'typo'?? wink wink...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 11:06 PM (QGaXH)

Coulda been autocucumbered.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:07 PM (ynpvh)

219 I paused the vid an hour into the 90 minute interview, but the Tucker Carlson interview with Bret Weinstein, the subject the Darien gap, cannot be ignored.

Team Biden has signed this country's death warrant, with the open border permitting anyone to enter, and Bret's report of what happens in the Darien gap, just north of Panama, must be seen.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 01, 2024 11:07 PM (KiBMU)

220 I can't find a link in the ham story that goes to any proposal to take back the 420MHz band. The ARRL would be all over it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 01, 2024 10:21 PM

The proposal happened back in 2012. The argument to do it was because it might interfere with medical devices. The restriction never happened.

Posted by: V. Zelenskyy at February 01, 2024 11:07 PM (VARTN)

221 Wow, how long have I been using that sock?

Posted by: Bert G at February 01, 2024 11:07 PM (VARTN)

222 Those look like columnar apple trees in the video. They grow in a column, hence the name. They do need some pruning though to keep them straight. We've got a couple of spots in the back forty designated for a couple of them next Fall.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 01, 2024 11:08 PM (5FnZt)

223 Good night Gref

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:08 PM (S5+ge)

224 I bought new outdoor furniture today. Adirondack chairs, 4 of them. That's how optimistic about the future I am because they ain't cheap.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 01, 2024 11:08 PM (MeG8a)

225 Many years ago, I saw a list of the funniest things kids wrote on essays for class.
One of my favorites?
"Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100ft clipper."
Well, seems a little small for the earth, perhaps.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:08 PM (ynpvh)

226 Which is why we need our very own Milei. "Fuera!"
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:53 PM (S5+ge)

we won't get one, and if we do half the idiots who would otherwise find success would spend all their time bitching about their libertarian beach friends they did drugs with who ripped them off.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2024 11:10 PM (D7oie)

227 Ever listen to Baby Shark?
Had a co-worker tell me about that song; his kids are quite a bit younger than mine.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:03 PM

Yes, but it is not in my Spotify playlist.

That song is a good example. Play it 3 times for a room full of 5-year-olds and they will then run around on the playground singing the chorus.

Play some Drake song that hit #1 on the charts for several weeks and most adults could not whistle, hum, or sing the chorus 15 minutes later.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 01, 2024 11:10 PM (HlyYF)

228 So it can pick apples ... from bizarre stunted trees.
No. I'll stick with human-picked.

Posted by: GWB at February 01, 2024 11:10 PM (32nmx)

229 Save you a click to MSN:

A Canadian Pizza Hut location has gone viral after a hysterical typo left customers wondering if they should leave a tip.

"Due to unforeseen circumcisions the dining room will be closed this evening," a sign taped to the door by employees said. "Sorry for the inconvenience."

Ha.

Ha.

Posted by: mindful webworker - spoiler at February 01, 2024 11:10 PM (WLLsa)

230 207 203 197 Worse was when a junior nazi from HR followed up a few minutes later and told us if we discussed what we saw we'd be next.....

I hate HR Nazis......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 10:59 PM (QGaXH)

And yet not a single Illinois Nazi reference - you're letting Jake and Elwood down....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 11:10 PM (QGaXH)

231 I wonder what the recruitment stats are for...say...the Texas national guard as compared to the regular army?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2024 11:10 PM (W/lyH)

232 >>>197 Worse was when a junior nazi from HR followed up a few minutes later and told us if we discussed what we saw we'd be next.....

I hate HR Nazis......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

>Amateurs. Intimidation like this is something a rookie cop would spew during a traffic citation.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 01, 2024 11:10 PM (EEgXH)

233 104 Holy Christ! The only comedian less funny than Will Ferrell is Kathy Griffin.

Okay, and maybe Amy Schumer.

Like fingernails on a blackboard. And that other clownfuck, Jim Carrey.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 01, 2024 10:33 PM (EEgXH)

This will probably get me accused of misogyny, but the only really funny female comic in history was Joan Rivers.

Posted by: BillyD at February 01, 2024 11:10 PM (F6Xpw)

234 221 Wow, how long have I been using that sock?

Posted by: Bert G at February 01, 2024 11:07 PM (VARTN)

I found an old pair of rollerblades in the garage; when I touched one of the wheels, the rubber fell off in dust and chunks.
If your socks do the same thing, you've been wearing them too long. Also if they're stuck and don't want to come off.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:11 PM (ynpvh)

235 "Due to unforeseen circumcisions the dining room will be closed this evening," a sign taped to the door by employees said. "Sorry for the inconvenience."

Maybe the electric sausage sharpener was a mistake?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 01, 2024 11:11 PM (dZVON)

236 US sent SPIES into Venezuela for years to record country's leaders setting up drug-trafficking deals after Maduro's regime banned American agents

https://mol.im/a/13035047

But what did those poor spies eat?

Posted by: Ciampino - Bugs and rats for dinner at February 01, 2024 11:11 PM (qfLjt)

237 230 207 203 197 Worse was when a junior nazi from HR followed up a few minutes later and told us if we discussed what we saw we'd be next.....

I hate HR Nazis......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 10:59 PM (QGaXH)

And yet not a single Illinois Nazi reference - you're letting Jake and Elwood down....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 11:10 PM (QGaXH)

Well, that's got me feeling Blue...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:12 PM (ynpvh)

238 to build illegal, untraceable firearms known as ghost guns
Except they're NOT illegal at the federal level. And you making them ex post facto illegal in NY is *your* illegality, not his.

Posted by: GWB at February 01, 2024 11:12 PM (32nmx)

239 Thanks Gref.

First song up, Treat Her Like a Lady by Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose. A catchy and powerful little number!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 01, 2024 11:13 PM (HlyYF)

240 235 "Due to unforeseen circumcisions the dining room will be closed this evening," a sign taped to the door by employees said. "Sorry for the inconvenience."

Maybe the electric sausage sharpener was a mistake?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 01, 2024 11:11 PM (dZVON)

Bill worked in a pickle factory. He had been employed there
for a number of years when he came home one day to confess
to his wife that he had a terrible compulsion. He had an
urge to stick his penis into the pickle slicer. His wife
suggested that he should see a sex therapist to talk about
it, but Bill indicated that he'd be too embarrassed. He
vowed to overcome the compulsion on his own. One day a few
weeks later, Bill came home absolutely ashen. His wife
could see at once that something was seriously wrong.
"What's wrong, Bill?" she asked. "Do you remember that I
told you how I had this tremendous urge to put my penis
into the pickle slicer?" "Oh, Bill, you didn't." "Yes, I
did." "My God, Bill, what happened?" "I got fired." "No,
Bill. I mean, what happened with the pickle slicer?"
"Oh...she got fired too."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:13 PM (ynpvh)

241 There was a local Hispanic female comic here in S.F. who was hilarious. I saw her a few times at amateur events and she killed it every time.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 01, 2024 11:13 PM (KAi1n)

242 Mayorkas impeachment in doubt as outgoing Republican Ken Buck says he will vote AGAINST it.
GOP facing disaster if one more member rejects probe over border chaos

https://mol.im/a/13035291

Posted by: Ciampino - Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory at February 01, 2024 11:14 PM (qfLjt)

243 The elites had best be careful, they are on the road to early 19th century lifestyles for us.

Perhaps, mon ami, we should introduce the new aristocrats to a late 18th century lifestyle.

Posted by: Dr. Guillotine at February 01, 2024 11:14 PM (8mA1p)

244 Due to unforeseen circumcisions the dining room will be closed this evening," a sign taped to the door by employees said. "Sorry for the inconvenience."

Thanks for that. I didn't click the link.

What makes it funny is the "unforeseen" . I mean, how does that happen!?!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:14 PM (S5+ge)

245 217 Fifth migrant accused of attacking NYPD cops in Times Square walks free from court...as police fear his four accomplices have fled to CALIFORNIA amid calls for them to be deported

https://mol.im/a/13035851
Posted by: Ciampino - Well you found the J6 now find these at February 01, 2024 11:07 PM (qfLjt)

GREAT! Thanks a lot......(sarc)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 11:14 PM (QGaXH)

246 Ron White is funny.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 01, 2024 11:15 PM (Dmh54)

247 225 Many years ago, I saw a list of the funniest things kids wrote on essays for class.
One of my favorites?
"Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100ft clipper."
Well, seems a little small for the earth, perhaps.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:08 PM

I am sure the water was pretty darn cold going around Tierra del Fuego!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 01, 2024 11:15 PM (HlyYF)

248 238 to build illegal, untraceable firearms known as ghost guns
Except they're NOT illegal at the federal level. And you making them ex post facto illegal in NY is *your* illegality, not his.

Posted by: GWB at February 01, 2024 11:12 PM (32nmx)

Kali has something similar with magazines. I can buy the springs, I can buy the magazine body, but if I put the two together I've just committed a possible felony of making a large capacity magazine...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:16 PM (ynpvh)

249 244 Due to unforeseen circumcisions the dining room will be closed this evening," a sign taped to the door by employees said. "Sorry for the inconvenience."

Thanks for that. I didn't click the link.

What makes it funny is the "unforeseen" . I mean, how does that happen!?!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:14 PM (S5+ge)

Mohel convention decided to eat there. Un-fore-seen.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:17 PM (ynpvh)

250 One of my favorites?
"Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100ft clipper."
Well, seems a little small for the earth, perhaps.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:08 PM

from a Sunday School class, a fave of mine:
"Lot's wife was a Pillar of Salt by day, and a Ball of Fire by night!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 11:17 PM (S6gqv)

251 Kansas city says it WANTS migrants to move there with $15,000 'Choose Topeka' campaign to lure border crossers to the Dem-led city to fill 7,000 open jobs.

https://mol.im/a/13034543

Posted by: Ciampino - Today #03 at February 01, 2024 11:17 PM (qfLjt)

252 Soon to be "corrected" for sure:

@JackPosobiec
🚨🚨🚨

BREAKING: Trump J6 case REMOVED from DC court docket

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 01, 2024 11:18 PM (IG4Id)

253 250 One of my favorites?
"Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100ft clipper."
Well, seems a little small for the earth, perhaps.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:08 PM

from a Sunday School class, a fave of mine:
"Lot's wife was a Pillar of Salt by day, and a Ball of Fire by night!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 11:17 PM (S6gqv)

LOL. If Lot said so.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:18 PM (ynpvh)

254 151 That New York gun case sounds like a bum rap to me.

Lots of questions about the story.
They had to be tracking his purchasing. From his end? The seller's end, credit card info.?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:46 PM (S5+ge)

. . . which is why he should have bought all his pieces / parts face-to-face for cash. Seem like mail ordering parts for a "ghost gun" and paying with a credit card kinda defeats the purpose of having an anonymous firearm.

New York has some onerous gun laws, maybe he ran afoul of those, not Federal stuff.

Posted by: BillyD at February 01, 2024 11:18 PM (F6Xpw)

255 35 years ago I went to a convention in Baltimore, where I met my then-future wife. That was pretty romantic - love at first sight.

Only time I ever went there, haven't been back since

Posted by: Toad-0 at February 01, 2024 11:18 PM (cct0t)

256 239 Thanks Gref.

First song up, Treat Her Like a Lady by Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose. A catchy and powerful little number!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 01, 2024 11:13 PM (HlyYF)

Was listening to that on the 70's channel on the satellite radio just this evening.

I suggested a one hit wonder month a while back but it didn't seem to take.....as with most of my bright ideas....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 11:19 PM (QGaXH)

257 Biden builds war chest of $117 million as Trump spends $50 million on legal fees: Democrats gloat Republican is 'lighting money on fire'

https://mol.im/a/13033629

Posted by: Ciampino - Today #04 at February 01, 2024 11:19 PM (qfLjt)

258 254 151 That New York gun case sounds like a bum rap to me.

Lots of questions about the story.
They had to be tracking his purchasing. From his end? The seller's end, credit card info.?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 10:46 PM (S5+ge)

. . . which is why he should have bought all his pieces / parts face-to-face for cash. Seem like mail ordering parts for a "ghost gun" and paying with a credit card kinda defeats the purpose of having an anonymous firearm.

New York has some onerous gun laws, maybe he ran afoul of those, not Federal stuff.

Posted by: BillyD at February 01, 2024 11:18 PM (F6Xpw)

The fact that he didn't indicates he wasn't trying to create Ghost guns, just make guns for the enjoyment of it (at least initially).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:19 PM (ynpvh)

259 Kali has something similar with magazines. I can buy the springs, I can buy the magazine body, but if I put the two together I've just committed a possible felony of making a large capacity magazine...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:16 PM (ynpvh)

Could you take a large-capacity magazine, and drill it, and put a pin through to block the follower plate from exceeding the legal limit?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 11:19 PM (tkR6S)

260 >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > GOP facing disaster if one more member rejects probe over border chaos

https://mol.im/a/13035291
Posted by: Ciampino - Snatching
-------------------------------

Elise Stefanik should call Tom DeLay and get some hints and tips.
Bet she could fly him up there on the govt dime as a consultant.
He could observe these BOZOS and set her on the path.
Anoint her with the ancient whip as is were.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2024 11:20 PM (ezSUn)

261 Kansas city says it WANTS migrants to move there with $15,000 'Choose Topeka' campaign to lure border crossers to the Dem-led city to fill 7,000 open jobs.

Feedstock for the new Soylent Green factory.

Posted by: Nothing to see here, citizen. Move along. at February 01, 2024 11:20 PM (8mA1p)

262 257 Biden builds war chest of $117 million as Trump spends $50 million on legal fees: Democrats gloat Republican is 'lighting money on fire'

https://mol.im/a/13033629

Posted by: Ciampino - Today #04 at February 01, 2024 11:19 PM (qfLjt)

That's because the DOJ won't prosecute Biden's family members for there legitimate crimes, but are prosecuting Trump on "trumped-up" charges.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:20 PM (ynpvh)

263 Ive written previously about recruiting. The military has tracked the statistics for decades. They know down to the zip code how many people will usually join and by service in any given month. Recruiting sells the military emphasizing the main reasons people join.
These are: for fun/excitement, for a paycheck, for education benefits, for patriotism, for training, for travel, and for a career. These seven reasons cover 99% of the reasons people claim as a reason for enlisting.
One only has to look at what is going on today to see why recruiting is failing. Many of these inducements no longer apply to the typical high school graduate. Compound this with a shrinking pool of high school seniors who can qualify either physically or mentally, and you can see the problem.
It's not going to get better any time soon.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2024 11:21 PM (W/lyH)

264 259 Kali has something similar with magazines. I can buy the springs, I can buy the magazine body, but if I put the two together I've just committed a possible felony of making a large capacity magazine...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:16 PM (ynpvh)

Could you take a large-capacity magazine, and drill it, and put a pin through to block the follower plate from exceeding the legal limit?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 11:19 PM (tkR6S)

Seems like a lot of work. Kali would go after you for posessing a large-capacity magazine in the first place most likely.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:21 PM (ynpvh)

265 I suggested a one hit wonder month a while back but it didn't seem to take.....as with most of my bright ideas....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 11:19 PM

True geniuses are seldom recognized in their own time!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 01, 2024 11:22 PM (HlyYF)

266 And I'm out. Night all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:22 PM (ynpvh)

267 Uproot office building. Deploy umbrella underneath. Shake building vigorously.

Human-picker.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 11:24 PM (5HQE5)

268 Since I'm still chuckling over it, I nominate this from the café thread as comment of the day:

FEMALE REPORTER: I can't believe that dude from the White House didn't recognize James O'Keefe just because O'Keefe was wearing glasses!

MALE REPORTER: You dropped your pen, Lois.

FEMALE REPORTER: Thanks, Clark. Now, where was I?
Posted by: Pete in Texas

Posted by: mindful webworker - in Chris Reeve's voice at February 01, 2024 11:25 PM (WLLsa)

269 Seems like a lot of work. Kali would go after you for posessing a large-capacity magazine in the first place most likely.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:21 PM (ynpvh)

My thinking being, that if you could plug a large-cap mag in such a way as to satisfy the Kali requirements for a small-cap mag, you would be able to un-plug it real quick if things got sporty and you really needed a large-cap mag.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 11:26 PM (tkR6S)

270 >>Military...These are: for fun/excitement, for a paycheck, for education benefits, for patriotism, for training, for travel, and for a career.

To kill people.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 11:26 PM (5HQE5)

271 265 I suggested a one hit wonder month a while back but it didn't seem to take.....as with most of my bright ideas....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 11:19 PM

True geniuses are seldom recognized in their own time!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 01, 2024 11:22 PM (HlyYF)

Thank you PI.

And with that I'm out. It's almost 8:30 here and 3:45 comes awful early. Thank you everyone for most enjoyable conversation.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 01, 2024 11:26 PM (QGaXH)

272 Biden set to sanction four Israeli settlers who led riots and have attacked Palestinian civilians in the West Bank in rare move against ally

https://mol.im/a/13034305

This seems to me as a stupid, useless gesture. Good. Let the Palis experience a bit of terrorism and uncertainty for a change.

Posted by: Ciampino - Today #06 at February 01, 2024 11:29 PM (qfLjt)

273 >>Military...These are: for fun/excitement, for a paycheck, for education benefits, for patriotism, for training, for travel, and for a career.

To kill people.
Posted by: ZOD

Teenaged Bif: i get to play with NUKES?

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 01, 2024 11:29 PM (MsrgL)

274 Bidenomics, man.

“Progress on inflation has brightened the economic picture despite a slowdown in hiring and pay. Wages adjusted for inflation have improved over the past six months, and the economy looks like it’s headed toward a soft landing in the U.S. and globally,” says Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP.
http://tinyurl.com/4tyyebcc

***
Dr. Nela Richardson is ADP's Chief Economist and ESG Officer.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2024 11:29 PM (ezSUn)

275 Procter & Gamble hostages released after eight hours at Istanbul plant: Gunman who painted 'the gates will open for Gaza' on wall is arrested

https://mol.im/a/13034361

Posted by: Ciampino - Today #07 at February 01, 2024 11:31 PM (qfLjt)

276 To kill people.
Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 11:26 PM (5HQE5)

It'd be easy to say something humorous, but as was pointed out earlier today, the military exists to win our wars. They do that by killing people and breaking things. Usually by doing it better than the enemy.
We haven't been doing that well and nobody wants to join an army of losers.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2024 11:32 PM (W/lyH)

277 This seems to me as a stupid, useless gesture. Good. Let the Palis experience a bit of terrorism and uncertainty for a change.

Posted by: Ciampino
----------------------------

He cut 'em off at the bank.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2024 11:32 PM (ezSUn)

278 We're coming for EU:
Furious farmers clash with riot cops, topple statues and surround Brussels HQ with a thousand tractors as they bring raging protest to the doorstep of the European Union ahead of key summit

https://mol.im/a/13032229

Posted by: Ciampino - Today #08 at February 01, 2024 11:33 PM (qfLjt)

279 We haven't been doing that well and nobody wants to join an army of losers.

Posted by: Diogenes
----------------------

"Americans love a winner"
_General George S. Patton aka ...

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2024 11:33 PM (ezSUn)

280 Dr. Nela Richardson is ADP's Chief Economist and ESG Officer.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2024 11:29 PM (ezSUn)

I went to the link, and nowhere is it explained what ADP is. So her stunned opinion carries a lot of weight. Not.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 11:34 PM (tkR6S)

281 What's kind of funny is both the Camaro and the 73-87 GM pickup they got the bed from have gone from being beaters to second rank collectibles, assuming they both didn't start out as trashed..

Posted by: Azjaeger at February 01, 2024 11:35 PM (3/XaG)

282 Teenaged Bif: i get to play with NUKES?
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 01, 2024 11:29 PM (MsrgL)

I loved the nuke stuff.
Good times!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2024 11:36 PM (W/lyH)

283 Good night Jim and Anon

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:36 PM (S5+ge)

284 >>>
I went to the link, and nowhere is it explained what ADP is. So her stunned opinion carries a lot of weight. Not.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
--------------

I put it in my browser and the top 4 ledes didn't say what it is.
'Chief Economist and ESG officer' is the tip off.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2024 11:37 PM (ezSUn)

285 Ciampino's Rescue Kitties

Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all

There's another more extensive photo update #227 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
https://is.gd/WQ5JcT

ALSO LIVE STREAMING!! - Now most nights as well

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Posted by: Ciampino - kitties at February 01, 2024 11:37 PM (qfLjt)

286 Thomas Bender -- You must have electric heat for 4000kwh usage in Dec. Mine was just 600kwh for Jan., with gas heat, in North Texas. My usage in summer is ~3000kwh. But 4000kwh still seems high.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 01, 2024 11:38 PM (XMwZJ)

287 For the Nikki Haley fans:

13 mega Democrat donors will host Haley’s February 7th fundraisers. These events will take place in Los Angeles and Orange County.
_Laura Loomer
http://tinyurl.com/5e7jebvf

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2024 11:39 PM (ezSUn)

288 Was listening to that on the 70's channel on the satellite radio just this evening.

I suggested a one hit wonder month a while back but it didn't seem to take.....as with most of my bright ideas....

Maybe because they actually had at least one other hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVZH3EzVZtk

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 01, 2024 11:40 PM (V8he0)

289 Camino was a nice ride.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2024 11:41 PM (ezSUn)

290 "If you join the army we will protect the southern border"
If they said that, I would assume it was a trick. Expect to go somewhere in the middle east that the white house swears up and down we don't have any soldiers there.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 01, 2024 11:41 PM (lhenN)

291 Ranch-Camaro has a better ring to it.

Posted by: Rex B at February 01, 2024 11:43 PM (5h/8D)

292 I'm tucking it in. Y'all have a good evening.
'night

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2024 11:44 PM (ezSUn)

293 ADP is a payroll and tax firm.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 01, 2024 11:44 PM (63Dwl)

294 ADP is a payroll and HR services company.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 01, 2024 11:44 PM (XMwZJ)

295 Ranch-Camaro has a better ring to it.
Posted by: Rex B at February 01, 2024 11:43 PM (5h/8D)

Too close to Ford's offering in that class, the Ranchero.

How about CamarUte?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 11:46 PM (tkR6S)

296 Small plane crashed into Clearwater, FL mobile home park.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 01, 2024 11:47 PM (63Dwl)

297 >>somewhere in the middle east

Circa 2005 the Pentagon spin-machine was claiming that "the Iraqis had made great strides in their training to take over after we left."

I remember thinking, that's bullshit. Then I went to Iraqi for several months, and said, you were right, ZOD. It is bullshit.

The Iraqi people are, as a whole, shitty at everything.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 11:47 PM (5HQE5)

298 Good night Braenyard

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:48 PM (S5+ge)

299 234 221 Wow, how long have I been using that sock?

Posted by: Bert G at February 01, 2024 11:07 PM (VARTN)

I found an old pair of rollerblades in the garage; when I touched one of the wheels, the rubber fell off in dust and chunks.
If your socks do the same thing, you've been wearing them too long. Also if they're stuck and don't want to come off.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:11 PM (ynpvh)
----
Also if you throw them at a wall and they stick. See also panties and shorts. (Boarding school lore).

Posted by: Ciampino - The Power Of Toejam at February 01, 2024 11:48 PM (qfLjt)

300 >>296 Small plane crashed into Clearwater, FL mobile home park. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 01, 2024 11:47 PM (63Dwl)

Scientologists deploy to give touch-assists.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 11:49 PM (5HQE5)

301 ADP was Automated Data Processing Co.

They are the biggest payroll service company and provide key macro employment and wage indicators

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 11:49 PM (RIvkX)

302 297 >>somewhere in the middle east

Circa 2005 the Pentagon spin-machine was claiming that "the Iraqis had made great strides in their training to take over after we left."

I remember thinking, that's bullshit. Then I went to Iraqi for several months, and said, you were right, ZOD. It is bullshit.

The Iraqi people are, as a whole, shitty at everything.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 11:47 PM (5HQE5)

It's not just Iraqis, pretty much all Arabs are, as a whole, shitty at everything.

Posted by: BillyD at February 01, 2024 11:49 PM (F6Xpw)

303 Ranch-Camaro has a better ring to it.
Posted by: Rex B at February 01, 2024 11:43 PM (5h/8D)

Too close to Ford's offering in that class, the Ranchero.

How about CamarUte?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 11:46 PM (tkR6S)

That’s where I was going. It’s better than the Camp-Pinto.

Posted by: Rex B at February 01, 2024 11:50 PM (5h/8D)

304 >>Also if they're stuck and don't want to come off.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 11:11 PM (ynpvh)

Reminds me of those stranger-than-fiction stories of morbidly obese, immobile people who, over time ..."meld" into their couches.

Ewww.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 11:51 PM (5HQE5)

305 My sister gifted me a coffee mug that is covered with a Shakespearean insults. She thought I would find it funny. She was correct.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:52 PM (S5+ge)

306 Camaranch.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 11:53 PM (5HQE5)

307 Good night all

Peace

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:54 PM (S5+ge)

308 Evening.

Sorry to hear about Gingy losing her job.

Worse comes to worse? Could always drive a truck.

Posted by: Robert at February 01, 2024 11:56 PM (lyDVI)

309 They actually almost built a two door wagon Camaro\Firebird. First in 70 1\2 and later in 1977 on a Trans Am. What killed it the second time was that the extra money they could charge for the wagon didn't make up for the lost production due to the conversion cause right then they could sell every T\A they could make.

Posted by: Azjaeger at February 01, 2024 11:57 PM (3/XaG)

310 >>305 My sister gifted me a coffee mug that is covered with a Shakespearean insults. She thought I would find it funny. She was correct.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:52 PM (S5+ge)

You will gift your sister a coffee mug with a hole drilled in the base. For more funny.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 11:58 PM (5HQE5)

311 Camaranch.
Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 11:53 PM (5HQE5)

Ramacouch!

Posted by: Couch Fucker at February 01, 2024 11:58 PM (tkR6S)

312 Good night all

Peace
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:54 PM (S5+ge)

Good night to you!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 11:59 PM (tkR6S)

313 I like the part of the movie where they stuff the paralyzed guy into the gutted bear and burn him alive.

Posted by: ZOD at February 02, 2024 12:00 AM (5HQE5)

314 ...hat’s where I was going. It’s better than the Camp-Pinto. Posted by: Rex B at February 01, 2024 11:50 PM (5h/8D)

Both the Pinto and the Vega were made in wagon versions. Would be relatively simple to turn either into a small pickup truck.

And then make into a "Technical". I'm thinking, robust enough for a twin-mount, hand-cranked pair of Ruger 10/22s ?

The Pinto might be a big seller in the mid-east. It'll blow itself up!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2024 12:00 AM (e6UQI)

315
Ramacouch!
Posted by: Couch Fucker

Will you do the Fandango?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2024 12:00 AM (63Dwl)

316 @242

>>Mayorkas impeachment in doubt as outgoing Republican Ken Buck says he will vote AGAINST it.
GOP facing disaster if one more member rejects probe over border chaos

Ahh, there's the goofball illegitimate party we know and despise.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 02, 2024 12:00 AM (XV/Pl)

317 107 Wait does Gingy have music for sale? I thought she was a big band singer. I could BUY MP3s or some damn thing.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 01, 2024 10:34 PM (CHHv1)
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I am flummoxed by this statement. I was a professional singer a very long time ago but never sold mp3s. I am a knitting pattern designer.

Posted by: Gingy at February 02, 2024 12:02 AM (6/M8P)

318 274 Braen

What she actually said is neither extreme nor unusual. ESG means she's a political hack, of course.

"Wages adjusted for inflation have improved over the last 6 months" is true, but omits the fact that wages are STILL not keeping up.

"The win/loss record of the Carolina Panthers improved during the second half of the season." Don't know if this is true, but if so, they STILL suk.

Posted by: mnw at February 02, 2024 12:03 AM (NLIak)

319 250
Those school bloopers are from Richard Lederer:

http://tinyurl.com/236rftfu

Hysterical stuff. I first read this in South Africa late 1980s.

Posted by: Ciampino - The Power of laughter at February 02, 2024 12:03 AM (qfLjt)

320 Reminds me of those stranger-than-fiction stories of morbidly obese, immobile people who, over time ..."meld" into their couches.

Ewww.
Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 11:51 PM (5HQE5)

There was a picture going round of a mega porker that said...you thought she was sitting on a couch..nope, all her.

Posted by: a dude in MI at February 02, 2024 12:05 AM (+I6Y/)

321 Raining here tonight. Not a gully-washer, just a steady light rain.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2024 12:05 AM (tkR6S)

322 I am flummoxed by this statement. I was a professional singer a very long time ago but never sold mp3s. I am a knitting pattern designer.
Posted by: Gingy at February 02, 2024 12:02 AM (6/M8P)

You know, there are several female Members of Congress that need new mufflers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2024 12:08 AM (tkR6S)

323 The Yu-Bronc-Ota! All 3 get in on the design.

Posted by: Rex B at February 02, 2024 12:09 AM (5h/8D)

324 Time-travelling to the morning. Always wanted to see the future!

God bless this ~~herd~~ Horde.

💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - getting from now 'til then at February 02, 2024 12:11 AM (WLLsa)

325 I was a professional singer a very long time ago
Posted by: Gingy at February 02, 2024 12:02 AM (6/M8P)

Free Bird!

Posted by: Robert at February 02, 2024 12:11 AM (lyDVI)

326 313 I like the part of the movie where they stuff the paralyzed guy into the gutted bear and burn him alive.
Posted by: ZOD

That movie needed Lord Summerisle and his merry village to emerge from the woods and slaughter everybody.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2024 12:13 AM (sAmhv)

327 Those school bloopers are from Richard Lederer:

http://tinyurl.com/236rftfu

Hysterical stuff. I first read this in South Africa late 1980s.
Posted by: Ciampino - The Power of laughter at February 02, 2024 12:03 AM (qfLjt)

Those are really old. Can be found in small books published in the 1930's, illustrated, too: Boners, More Boners, and Still More Boners.

http://tinyurl.com/5t2j7tzj

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2024 12:14 AM (tkR6S)

328 301 ADP was Automated Data Processing Co.

They are the biggest payroll service company and provide key macro employment and wage indicators

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 11:49 PM (RIvkX)
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Why are there still Manual Data Processing companies?

Posted by: Ciampino - The Power of the Abacus at February 02, 2024 12:15 AM (qfLjt)

329 Why are there still Manual Data Processing companies?
Posted by: Ciampino - The Power of the Abacus at February 02, 2024 12:15 AM (qfLjt)

Because some bosses still like to give employees the gears the old-fashioned way?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2024 12:16 AM (tkR6S)

330 >>That movie needed Lord Summerisle and his merry village to emerge from the woods and slaughter everybody. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2024 12:13 AM (sAmhv)

If only Summerisle's cult found out that they were sharing the island with the Harga clan.

Weirdness squared.

Posted by: ZOD at February 02, 2024 12:17 AM (5HQE5)

331 http://tinyurl.com/3df4afpp
Another good 20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 12:20 AM (fwDg9)

332 "February" is too hard to say. I move we change the name to "Febulary".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2024 12:20 AM (tkR6S)

333 I used to use ADP. Back when I had reliable employees. I still remember one of the pass codes with them, but forgot many of the short term helpers that I’d ran thru them.

Posted by: Rex B at February 02, 2024 12:21 AM (5h/8D)

334 I never heard the thing about sword fighting on spiral staircases before.
Posted by: Cicero

I heard it once, long ago, in reference to an Irish castle whose staircases wound the wrong way. Supposedly because left-handedness ran in the family.

* searches *

First hit for it is Clan Kerr, and it's a debunking.

Posted by: mikeski at February 02, 2024 12:22 AM (DgGvY)

335 The Iraqi people are, as a whole, shitty at everything.

My friend and occasional poster Mike Banzet might disagree with you. Read "A Flowershop in Baghdad" for his story of the time he spent at in the sandbox trying to train young Iraqis to be the Iraqi Air Force. Incredibly brave young men. It's a great book to boot. He's funny as hell.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2024 12:23 AM (P2Ylr)

336 Hey Horde.

pookysgirl if you are still around, how did the ultrasound go today?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 02, 2024 12:25 AM (Sgq8y)

337 52 >>*dances around fire*
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 01, 2024 10:15 PM (PV/vv)

Dance IN the fire.

Do it. Do it now.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 10:16 PM (5HQE5)

http://tinyurl.com/2wtc7b3e

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at February 02, 2024 12:26 AM (y7zkd)

338 pookysgirl if you are still around, how did the ultrasound go today?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 02, 2024 12:25 AM (Sgq8y)

She said it went well, and the baby is a quarter-inch tall at this time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2024 12:28 AM (tkR6S)

339
Dance IN the fire.

Do it. Do it now.

Might as well jump into it

https://youtu.be/CfjNpgZ4C5Q

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2024 12:30 AM (63Dwl)

340 Why are there still Manual Data Processing companies?
Posted by: Ciampino

It's a living, ese.

Posted by: Manuel at February 02, 2024 12:32 AM (DgGvY)

341 Well, I am getting real sleepy. Going to call it a night. Be well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2024 12:32 AM (tkR6S)

342 Thanks AOP, I am happy to hear that.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 02, 2024 12:33 AM (Sgq8y)

343 310 >>305 My sister gifted me a coffee mug that is covered with a Shakespearean insults. She thought I would find it funny. She was correct.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 01, 2024 11:52 PM (S5+ge)

You will gift your sister a coffee mug with a hole drilled in the base. For more funny.

Posted by: ZOD at February 01, 2024 11:58 PM (5HQE5)

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http://tinyurl.com/y5v5t8dx

Actually saw one in Texas at a steakhouse (near Amarillo?)

Posted by: Ciampino - The 72oz steak place at February 02, 2024 12:35 AM (qfLjt)

344 Hi, WD. I feel your wife's pain. I've had good luck with Remote.co and Flexjobs. You have to pay to access all information on the latter site, but it's not expensive and I found it worth it. Just check it out first. You can also get adequate information from some of their listings to know what company they're talking about and go to that website and contact them directly. Hope this development turns out to be a blessing in disguise for your wife.

Posted by: Clio Weeps at February 02, 2024 12:42 AM (kSAM8)

345
Dear Lord, please don't let Bill Diblasio pick me up tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Groundhog prayer at February 02, 2024 12:43 AM (XeU6L)

346 For F1 Racing fans:
Lewis Hamilton set to move to Ferrari in bombshell switch, less than a year after he denied £40m talks, with an 'escape clause' in Mercedes contract allowing him to cut £100m deal short

https://mol.im/a/13032493

Posted by: Ciampino - The 72 oz steak place at February 02, 2024 12:44 AM (qfLjt)

347 Lotta yack about English Fish & Chips, in last nite's ONT.

So, went to dinner tonight, at the Houston Fish n' Chips, in Kemah, TX.

SUBLIME.

Both the fish. And, the chips. Goodness, these ARE the real thing, and perfectly cooked and simply presented.

Huge filets, and Worth. Every. Penny.

Nom. Yum. ENDORSED!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2024 12:45 AM (e6UQI)

348 One more Into the Fire, 1990s and Sarah McLachlan.
https://youtu.be/ar6a1pkiGf8?si=Amujk-nfnWRvEgy7

Posted by: Rex B at February 02, 2024 12:49 AM (5h/8D)

349 Acid Thrower: 'He should NEVER have been granted asylum': Fury grows over how chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi who maimed mother and two girls in Clapham was allowed to stay in UK despite sex crime conviction AFTER arriving here in lorry - as hunt for him enters day three

https://mol.im/a/13035785

'Asylum seekers who commit crimes in UK should be deported' - Tory MPs

Posted by: Ciampino - Hanging? at February 02, 2024 12:49 AM (qfLjt)

350 Lewis to Ferrari somehow had a inevitable to it.

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 12:50 AM (fwDg9)

351 Harvard's woes deepen: Pro-Palestine students complain college is failing to protect them from racist attacks, a month after Jewish students complained Ivy League school is now 'bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred'

https://mol.im/a/13032277

Well, have there actually been 'racist' attacks? And why racists? Palestinian is not even a country let alone a race. Goat-fuckers maybe.

Posted by: Ciampino - Hanging? Too good at February 02, 2024 12:52 AM (qfLjt)

352
Well, have there actually been 'racist' attacks? And why racists? Palestinian is not even a country let alone a race. Goat-fuckers maybe.
Posted by: Ciampino
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Do they even have *that* status? My guess is that they are just woke American students.

Posted by: Groundhog prayer at February 02, 2024 12:58 AM (XeU6L)

353 347 On fish topic:
Burger King announces new Fiery Big Fish Sandwich

[URL]http://tinyurl.com/yhy2mwvk[/URL]

Posted by: Ciampino - Fish is nice at February 02, 2024 12:59 AM (qfLjt)

354 Oops /Phil

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2024 12:59 AM (XeU6L)

355 Lewis at Ferrari is bizarre, but Ferrari's CEO was really keen on getting woke-boy for whatever reason. It also seems really strange to switch before even finding out whether this year's Mercedes is any good. Well, I' m sure Lulu has 100 million good reasons for making the change. Here's hoping Leclerc can curbstomp him next year

Posted by: spindrift at February 02, 2024 01:05 AM (e58S1)

356 NOT FLORIDA MAN.
Los Angeles — On Feb. 1, a naked man was stuck in a waste bin in Hollywood.
Andy Ngô

https://t.co/reILD8KlHn"

Posted by: Ciampino - Taking a dump or dumped by hooligans at February 02, 2024 01:05 AM (qfLjt)

357 Innovative biotech firm files Chapter 11 bankruptcy to close down

http://tinyurl.com/3f437w4t

Posted by: Ciampino - Whatever happened to Chapters 10 & 12 at February 02, 2024 01:09 AM (qfLjt)

358 "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, power and a sound mind."

2nd Timothy 1:7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 01:13 AM (Ki//m)

359 Well, have there actually been 'racist' attacks? And why racists? Palestinian is not even a country let alone a race. Goat-fuckers maybe.
Posted by: Ciampino
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Do they even have *that* status? My guess is that they are just woke American students.

If a Harvard man wants to identify as a Palestinian, he should be accommodated. Now, where did I put that goat?

Posted by: Chip "Achmed" VanWooten III at February 02, 2024 01:19 AM (8mA1p)

360 Innovative biotech firm files Chapter 11
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I read that as 'innovative biotch firm'...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2024 01:20 AM (XeU6L)

361
If a Harvard man wants to identify as a Palestinian, he should be accommodated. Now, where did I put that goat?
Posted by: Chip "Achmed" VanWooten III
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[checks watch]

You're running late for the Feltching 101 lab.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2024 01:21 AM (XeU6L)

362 Here's a story about a Super Bowl player who sounds like a nice, Christian man:

http://tinyurl.com/42p9m8cw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 01:26 AM (Ki//m)

363 301 ADP was Automated Data Processing Co.

Back in the pre internet days of data communication, ADP was a client of ours. In our circle, ADP was known as Assholes Doing Paychecks...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 02, 2024 01:28 AM (szKLp)

364 "Palestinians" Appx 79.5% Jordanian lineage. Appx 19.5% Syrian Lineage.

Estimated, 1% Goat DNA.

Kidding aside. There is no Palestinian language. They speak straight up Arabic. Cultures and Customs, IDENTICAL to other Arab tribes.

NO "Palestinian" history, outside of their Jordanian, Syrian, and a bit of Nomadic Arab tales.

They were living in historic Jewish lands, when in 1948, Jordan and Syria told 'em to flee "Israel", go to "refugee camps" in Gaza, which became cities. And armed hospitals and schools. And tunnels.

From 1948 to today, "Palestinians" have been living in Gaza, UNWANTED by Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and EVERY OTHER Arab Country in the mid-east.

They SEETHE with resentment, and don't even know the actual cause is their fucking-over by their fellow Arabs. The JEWS offered them State and Succor, if they had remained in Israel, back then.

They didn't. They fled. They FUCKED themselves. And now, here we are, today.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2024 01:31 AM (e6UQI)

365 I'm not quite sure where the proponents of this went to school but oviously didn't distinguish between numerals and operators.

http://tinyurl.com/8urkey3u

Posted by: Ciampino - Nobody used a calculator or spreadsheet? at February 02, 2024 01:37 AM (qfLjt)

366 Staircase wind has been debunked because no one has found a historical reference to any advantage.

But. But everyone presented with the tactical advantage acknowledged it is real.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 02, 2024 01:37 AM (cOq4q)

367 Estimated, 1% Goat DNA

We don't deserve this.

Posted by: Goats at February 02, 2024 01:42 AM (pjs7m)

368 366 Staircase wind has been debunked because no one has found a historical reference to any advantage.

But. But everyone presented with the tactical advantage acknowledged it is real.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 02, 2024 01:37 AM (cOq4q)
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Everybody knows it's due to the Coriolis effect - sheesh. In the Southern Hemisphere they wind anti-clockwise.

Posted by: Ciampino - Windage dictated by higher harmonics of step frequency at February 02, 2024 01:44 AM (qfLjt)

369 I'm not quite sure where the proponents of this went to school but oviously didn't distinguish between numerals and operators.
-----

I find it amusing that the blurb poses the equation, discusses disambiguation, and yet there is this statement: "Mathematics does not allow for subjective interpretation — the answer can only be one."

?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2024 01:44 AM (XeU6L)

370 "They FUCKED themselves. And now, here we are, today."

Yep. And, AFAIC...

May they *continue* to fuck themselves.

Posted by: JQ at February 02, 2024 01:45 AM (njWTi)

371 ...We don't deserve this. Posted by: Goats at February 02, 2024 01:42 AM (pjs7m)

Yeah, you did.

The Palis only caught up with the baa-a-a-a-d-d-d-ddd goats, you see.

Israelis? They adopted a New World word into their Yiddish, for the meaning of goat. It's spelled "Cabrito".

And if you'd had some from the Texas Hill Country, you'd know at once. This was the GOOD goat!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2024 01:47 AM (e6UQI)

372 the answer can only be one."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2024 01:44 AM (XeU6L)

Shit! I thought the answer was 42.

Posted by: RickZ at February 02, 2024 01:48 AM (emlEe)

373 Shit!

Posted by: RickZ at February 02, 2024 01:48 AM (emlEe)

374 I have notified the Government of Iran where the US will strike tommorrow to reduce civilian caualties....

All I can say is .... Don't........... Don't !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 02, 2024 01:49 AM (Qfk4E)

375 369 I'm not quite sure where the proponents of this went to school but oviously didn't distinguish between numerals and operators.
-----

I find it amusing that the blurb poses the equation, discusses disambiguation, and yet there is this statement: "Mathematics does not allow for subjective interpretation — the answer can only be one."

?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2024 01:44 AM (XeU6L)
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Do you think this may be minority math or is it Common Core Math? Also if there can only be one answer then it is an absolute answer right ...... but woke says 'no absolutes'.

Posted by: Ciampino - bo rockets tonight at February 02, 2024 01:53 AM (qfLjt)

376 Would Afromath include the concept of negative numbers? I don't mean the subtraction operation, just a negatively-signed number.

Posted by: Ciampino - no rockets tonight at February 02, 2024 01:59 AM (qfLjt)

377 Jim, when I was growing up, every once in a while Dad would go to Kemah (which was close to our town) and buy shrimp straight off of the shrimp boats to bring home to fry up for dinner - so good!

There is a restaurant in Kemah or Seabrook called Tookie's - wonderful hamburgers 😊❤

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at February 02, 2024 02:00 AM (SRRAx)

378 ..Do you think this may be minority math or is it Common Core Math? Also if there can only be one answer then it is an absolute answer right ...... but woke says 'no absolutes'. Posted by: Ciampino - bo rockets tonight at February 02, 2024 01:53 AM (qfLjt)

You know the Apollo 13 return and re-entry path was calculated by the blackwomen at Mission Control, and not the scientifically guesstimated Hail Mary, optical sighted, button-pressed when emerging from the Dark Side of the Moon by the Apollo Crew, themselves?

So, which was it. Did the Command Module/LEM combo steer course 42? Or, was it 1?

Inquiring Goats, want to kn-n-n-n-o--o-o-o-w-w-www!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2024 02:01 AM (e6UQI)

379 ...There is a restaurant in Kemah or Seabrook called Tookie's - wonderful hamburgers 😊❤ Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at February 02, 2024 02:00 AM (SRRAx)

Teresa. Don't bother any more with Tookies. Or T Bone Toms.

I was underwhelmed in 1999. And 2000. And 2001.

You going to the TxMoMeet this year? Let me know.

I might just cook you the finest burger you've ever had, and you'll wonder why I'm not in the business of sellin' 'em.

TOO MUCH WORK is the answer, why. I came up from my teens, working restaurants. The work is a living hell.

ONLY the owners get all the praise and rewards. The staff? At BEST, a paycheck. At. Best.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2024 02:09 AM (e6UQI)

380 EU caves in to farmers:
VICTORY for tractor protesters as Von der Leyen says Brussels will cut hated red tape 'burdens' that have pushed up prices following days of blockades across Europe

https://mol.im/a/13033827

Posted by: Ciampino - Lynch the unelected bureaucrats at February 02, 2024 02:09 AM (qfLjt)

381 Angry Biden demands supermarkets reduce prices as soaring grocery costs threaten his re-election - even though inflation, demand and supply-chain disruptions blamed for spikes are beyond retailers' control

https://mol.im/a/13036409

...... and we didn't have those problems when Trump was running things.

Posted by: Ciampino - Lynch the unelected bureaucrats here too at February 02, 2024 02:11 AM (qfLjt)

382 Angry Biden demands supermarkets reduce prices as soaring grocery costs threaten his re-election - even though inflation, demand and supply-chain disruptions blamed for spikes are beyond retailers' control

Business is always to blame for bad Dem policy. Just like how that Pressley scrunt from Mass. blames Walgreen's for closing a store in a poor black neighborhood because the corporation is too cheap and won't let the customers shop for free.

Posted by: RickZ at February 02, 2024 02:14 AM (emlEe)

383 382
Business is always to blame for bad Dem policy. Just like how that Pressley scrunt from Mass. blames Walgreen's for closing a store in a poor black neighborhood because the corporation is too cheap and won't let the customers shop for free.

Posted by: RickZ at February 02, 2024 02:14 AM (emlEe)
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Yes I watched those videos and no one ever mentioned the shoplifting. It was all 'where are these people supposed to shop?', etc. Well if these people told their kids not to steal and turned in those that didn't listen AND if the City actually prosecuted and incarcerated the thieves, things wouldn't get to be so bad.

Posted by: Ciampino - A whipping for theft might be good at February 02, 2024 02:24 AM (qfLjt)

384 Rickz - Nice catch

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2024 02:26 AM (XeU6L)

385 Would Afromath include the concept of negative numbers? I don't mean the subtraction operation, just a negatively-signed number.
Posted by: Ciampino
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John Derbyshire wrote a very nice book about this, 'Unknown Quantity'. I reccomend it.

Having said that, the concept of '0' was developed rather late.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2024 02:29 AM (XeU6L)

386 William O'Connell Dies: Memorable ‘Star Trek' Villain, Foils In Clint Eastwood Films. Was 94

http://tinyurl.com/yc6ac3hw

Posted by: Ciampino - A good life at February 02, 2024 02:32 AM (qfLjt)

387 1
Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 10:00 PM (geLO

Profound!

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 02:34 AM (weK7N)

388 Profound!
Posted by: m
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Elegant! Succinct!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2024 02:38 AM (XeU6L)

389 A comedy tonight!

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 02:40 AM (weK7N)

390 This robotic apple harvester can pick ~30 apples in one minute

How is it on noses ?

Posted by: JT at February 02, 2024 02:41 AM (T4tVD)

391 Profound!
Posted by: m
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Elegant! Succinct!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2024 02:38 AM (XeU6L)

Quotable even!

Posted by: RickZ at February 02, 2024 02:41 AM (emlEe)

392 O'Connell won the Bronze Star, but the bio doesn't give details.

Still though.

SALUTE!

Honored Veteran. Our humble thanks.

R.I.P. soldier/sailor/airman/marine.

....pity, the link didn't tell more.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2024 02:42 AM (e6UQI)

393 280 Dr. Nela Richardson is ADP's Chief Economist and ESG Officer.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2024 11:29 PM (ezSUn)

I went to the link, and nowhere is it explained what ADP is. So her stunned opinion carries a lot of weight. Not.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2024 11:34 PM (tkR6S)

Good point.

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 02:44 AM (weK7N)

394 Jim, quick search. From Microsoft Start Deadline(?):

Born May 12, 1929 in Los Angeles, O'Connell served in the Korean War as a 1st LT in the 45th Infantry. He received many decorations including the Bronze Star.

Posted by: RickZ at February 02, 2024 02:46 AM (emlEe)

395 from the O'Connell writeup:

Born May 12, 1929 in Los Angeles, O'Connell served in the Korean War as a 1st LT in the 45th Infantry. He received many decorations including the Bronze Star.
Complete survivor information was not immediately available.

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 02:48 AM (weK7N)

396 also:

His death was announced to Deadline by a family friend. A cause was not disclosed.

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 02:49 AM (weK7N)

397 Having said that, the concept of '0' was developed rather late.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

.....by a black man!

When he said he dindu nuffin.

Posted by: mikeski denounces himself at February 02, 2024 02:52 AM (DgGvY)

398 Thanks, RickZ. So, Army, then?

The beginning of a picture, emerges.

My late Dad was a Korean War vet.

U.S.S. Valley Forge. And, there's a HISTORY as to that ship's rapid appearance to those shores. Worth looking up. The Great "U" Turn, in the books.

No Bronze Star though. Wasn't much direct combat ON those decks, other than the horrid weather, wind and waves.

One sad Valley Forge crewman though, met his end from another ship's 20 mm cannon, as it's Anti-Aircraft fire swept the Valley Forge's decks. Her only combat loss in the Korean War, was that.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2024 02:53 AM (e6UQI)

399 more:

William O'Connell was born on August 20, 1933 in Richmond, Virginia, USA as William L. O'Connell Jr.

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 02:54 AM (weK7N)

400 400!

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 02:55 AM (weK7N)

401 He died January 15, so over 2 weeks ago. I'm surprised that IMDB has such scant details of his biography, for someone who has been there for a very long time.

Posted by: Ciampino - A good life 94 at February 02, 2024 02:57 AM (qfLjt)

402 Alarm in 5.5 hrs.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2024 02:59 AM (e6UQI)

403
The long intro to Get Shorty
This intro was longer and slower than the quickly-paced intro in the released film. Test audiences were bored by the slow pace and didn't find it funny or interesting. Editing saved the opening and saved the movie -- cutting everything tightly made it all funny, with an almost cartoonish energy.

What are you talking about? That is the introduction that runs whenever the movie is shown on cable. If there is a shorter one, then I've not seen it.

Great movie, noted for the role that animates the superb "racial scholarship" of Ibrim X. Kendi. I refer, of course, to the great Bo Catlett, screenwriter extraordinaire.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 02, 2024 03:01 AM (xG4kz)

404 Nikki making up stuff --
Hodgetwins on X: "Who in the hell is running this account? The first note is fake and the 2nd one is an email they wrote but forgot to send to themselves. 🤣 wtf"

http://tinyurl.com/2c8djhhz

Posted by: Ciampino - Not good Nikki at February 02, 2024 03:12 AM (qfLjt)

405 403 The long intro to Get Shorty
This intro was longer and slower than the quickly-paced intro in the released film. Test audiences were bored by the slow pace and didn't find it funny or interesting. Editing saved the opening and saved the movie -- cutting everything tightly made it all funny, with an almost cartoonish energy.

What are you talking about? That is the introduction that runs whenever the movie is shown on cable. If there is a shorter one, then I've not seen it.

Great movie, noted for the role that animates the superb "racial scholarship" of Ibrim X. Kendi. I refer, of course, to the great Bo Catlett, screenwriter extraordinaire.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 02, 2024 03:01 AM (xG4kz)

(from the right sidebar, main page)

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 03:14 AM (weK7N)

406 Time for a nap.

Posted by: Ciampino - good time for it at February 02, 2024 03:16 AM (qfLjt)

407 Thanks Skip !

Posted by: JT at February 02, 2024 03:27 AM (T4tVD)

408 Raining pretty good out thar....

Posted by: JT at February 02, 2024 03:27 AM (T4tVD)

409 William O'Connell was 94 so he did alright. They didn't mention how he died but he was 94. I had grandparents that lived that long, a couple of them longer (grandma, 101). The heart just winds down eventually. I remember quite a few of his rolls, not just the Star Trek episode. He's the proverbial 'Hey, it's that guy!' in TV shows and movies. He seemed pretty private as a person and I respect that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2024 03:41 AM (sAmhv)

410 409: Roles. Not rolls, though they may have been tasty.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2024 03:43 AM (sAmhv)

411 Morning, insomaniacals,

'Tis Friday! And 55 F. outside, dry(ish) and clear. I really ought to go work out. I really should.

The leak from above my bathroom ceiling has stopped, at least for now. On the other hand, the (mis)management of the complex has not bothered to deliver me a new lease, despite my notice to them three days ago. Yesterday I paid the same rent I've been paying for about 3.5 years now. No doubt I'll hear screeching soon.

And Mawdi Grass begins tonight, in that I have to take an alternate route home from work. A lot of the side streets I have to zigzag down are in terrible condition (the main roads are little better), and the whole business will probably take ten or fifteen minutes longer than usual.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 03:45 AM (omVj0)

412 Noodus pixyana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 04:02 AM (omVj0)

413 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 04:02 AM (weK7N)

414 Of course Baltimore is a romantic city, being anywhere near the place, you’re likely to get fucked.

Posted by: TC at February 02, 2024 05:45 AM (cHOHf)

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