Mid-Morning Art Thread

Gray and Brass
John Sloan

Posted by: CBD at 09:15 AM

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1 Yo!

Posted by: Doof at February 16, 2024 09:21 AM (eNASR)

2 NOOD duties have been performed

Posted by: Doof at February 16, 2024 09:23 AM (eNASR)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Early art is rude.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

5 Hi Doof.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 16, 2024 09:23 AM (7h3oY)

6 I'd take the car, tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

7 Posted by: CBD at 09:15 AM

What mad sorcery is this?

Posted by: Oddbob at February 16, 2024 09:24 AM (sNc8Y)

8 Their car - like all cars of that era - were prone to breakdowns and general unreliability, especially once they were no longer new.

They compensated for that reality by leaving plenty of time, always departing early. On days like today when nothing goes wrong, they end up arriving early. About ten minutes in this case.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:24 AM (HnUIn)

9 Driver: "Too much weight!"

*Hits passenger seat ejector button*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Early Art? What wizardry is this?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 09:24 AM (Wnv9h)

11 Howdy Ben Had!

Gray and brass.
Gun and ammo.
220 / 221

Posted by: Doof at February 16, 2024 09:25 AM (eNASR)

12 Art is early.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2024 09:25 AM (NpAcC)

13 What’s up with that one dude’s legs?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 09:25 AM (9yWhg)

14 Their livery is a bit oniony.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 09:25 AM (9UlRk)

15 jalopy

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:25 AM (NYzgN)

16 I like this! But why is the back end of the car blurry? Flux-capacitor kicking in?

Great Scot!!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 16, 2024 09:25 AM (T+Iwg)

17 Pleasing.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 16, 2024 09:26 AM (bNf8H)

18 Is that the Archduke in the back?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:26 AM (NYzgN)

19 Art is never early or late. It arrives precisely when it means to

Posted by: Ben Had at February 16, 2024 09:26 AM (7h3oY)

20 There is nothing wrong with painting. It's absolutely fine.

It just does nothing for me. I feel nothing but towering indifference when looking at it. It raises no passion, good or bad. It's just ... there.

Would not hang. Not because I hate it, just because I don't anything.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:26 AM (HnUIn)

21 British car? The wheel is on the right. But the front seat passenger looks more German, like Otto Preminger in a Mussolini cap.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 09:26 AM (J2vNu)

22 Fudfudfudfudfudfudfudfudfud.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 09:26 AM (9UlRk)

23 Art is never early or late. It arrives precisely when it means to
Posted by: Ben Had at February 16, 2024 09:26 AM

So...wizardry, then.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 09:27 AM (Wnv9h)

24 This is how you invade Poland.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 09:27 AM (Hpgos)

25 And they loaded up that hunk of shit and moved to Beverly....Hills that is....

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 16, 2024 09:27 AM (R4t5M)

26 this art redefines 'meh'

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 09:27 AM (geLO8)

27 The 'brass' is sitting the rear.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2024 09:28 AM (KXSjw)

28 Their car - like all cars of that era - were prone to breakdowns and general unreliability, especially once they were no longer new.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:24 AM (HnUIn)

Still had better range than an ev.

Posted by: BignJames at February 16, 2024 09:28 AM (AwYPR)

29 He didn't leave enough room on the canvas for the back of the car. Should'a sketched it first.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:28 AM (NYzgN)

30 That doesn't look much like a war machine.

And they don't look dressed to kill.

No War, No Art.

Posted by: XTC at February 16, 2024 09:28 AM (sm6Pk)

31 AAAAAH! I just noticed all the people in the background.

Don't scare me like that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 09:28 AM (9UlRk)

32 This painting would be excellent if they had Toad doing the driving.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 09:28 AM (Hpgos)

33 That doesn't look much like a war machine.

KISS earworm.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 16, 2024 09:29 AM (R4t5M)

34 Day trip. Baggage but no luggage

Posted by: Ben Had at February 16, 2024 09:29 AM (7h3oY)

35 What’s up with that one dude’s legs?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024

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That's his duster draped outside the car. His legs in dark trousers are inside.

A duster, goggles, and a cap were good things to wear in the early days of motoring, esp. in open cars. Dust and dirt and rain were constant risks. The ladies in the back seat may look pretty begrimed and bedraggled by the time they reach their destination.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 09:29 AM (J2vNu)

36 British car? The wheel is on the right. But the front seat passenger looks more German, like Otto Preminger in a Mussolini cap.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 09:26 AM (J2vNu)
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Painting is from 1907, which was very early and there were no standards yet. Traffic was right-hand by convention (and by law in some places and on some highways), but seating position was not universally on the left for quite some time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:29 AM (HnUIn)

37 The crowd assembled to watch them go to market

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2024 09:30 AM (IFNME)

38 Dude in the front passenger seat looks pissed.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 09:30 AM (Wnv9h)

39 cool

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 16, 2024 09:30 AM (ENQN6)

40 Just follow the Archduke's vehicle, Jeeves. I'm sure he knows where he's going.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 16, 2024 09:30 AM (2yu8s)

41 Life was far better when I had a chauffeur, a butler, and a footman!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 16, 2024 09:30 AM (hOUT3)

42 Woah, fat!

Posted by: look whats not at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (nakGR)

43
Gas, grass, or brass.

Posted by: Nobody rides for free at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (NBVIP)

44 Fudfudfudfudfudfudfudfudfud.....

No it's more like this
*hula-hoops with a half-full milk carton*
~some 80-yo man who worked for Warner Bros

Posted by: BourbonChicken, supervillain at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (cf/0E)

45 Dude in the front passenger seat looks pissed.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 09:30 AM (Wnv9h)

Miffed at the cackling biddies behind him most likely.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (9UlRk)

46 Is that the Archduke in the back?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:26 AM (NYzgN)

Lol!

There are clever people who make memes as though Twitter existed all throughout history. One I saw was from "@archduke" saying "This parade boring - somebody please shoot me"

Posted by: Doof at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (eNASR)

47 Lady in red is telling the driver to slow down. And she doesn’t remember taking this road to get where they are going. He must be lost. Pull over and ask those people how to get there.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (NYzgN)

48 Morning.

Beverly Hillbillies?

Would hang.

Posted by: Robert at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (1Yy3c)

49 Dude in the front passenger seat looks pissed.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024

***
Auric Goldfinger, annoyed by this pestilential Bond fellow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (J2vNu)

50 The MET

Title: Gray and Brass

Artist: John Sloan (American, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania 1871–1951 Hanover, New Hampshire)

Date: 1907

Geography: Made in United States

Culture: American

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22 × 27 in. (55.9 × 68.6 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (ENQN6)

51 Gas, grass, or brass.
Posted by: Nobody rides for free at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (NBVIP)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (HnUIn)

52 Murky.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (GTqXr)

53 This painting would be excellent if they had Toad doing the driving.
Posted by: Pudinhead

That would be a wild ride.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (sivlk)

54 Dude in the front passenger seat looks pissed.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

He's a lard ass and doesn't fit in his seat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (R4t5M)

55 You know who else had Grey Poupon in the glovebox?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (a3Q+t)

56 Too many backseat drivers.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 16, 2024 09:32 AM (7h3oY)

57 That car is a bit overloaded, not bad but needs more detail

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2024 09:32 AM (J4B1Q)

58 Are you sure this is the way, Archduke Ferdinand?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 16, 2024 09:32 AM (MDua2)

59 The Great Race is one of my favorite movies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 16, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)

60 You know who else had Grey Poupon in the glovebox?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM

My friend who used to own a beautiful 60s Bentley. Kept a little jar in his glovebox. Just in case.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 09:33 AM (Wnv9h)

61 Alternate title: Carrying a Load

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2024 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

62 Title: Gray and Brass
Artist: John Sloan (American, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania 1871–1951 Hanover, New Hampshire)
Date: 1907
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: American
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 22 × 27 in. (55.9 × 68.6 cm)
Credit Line: Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 2018
Accession Number: 2018.649

Posted by: Victims R Us at February 16, 2024 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

63 ++++
Painting is from 1907, which was very early and there were no standards yet. Traffic was right-hand by convention (and by law in some places and on some highways), but seating position was not universally on the left for quite some time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:29 AM (HnUIn)

The Irish R.M. stories of Somerville and Ross are set right around the turn of the century. Several of them feature Major Yeats' adventures with his car when they were still an outright oddity, especially in the far west of Ireland. Fun stuff.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 16, 2024 09:33 AM (T+Iwg)

64 Lady in red is telling the driver to slow down. And she doesn’t remember taking this road to get where they are going. He must be lost. Pull over and ask those people how to get there.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024

***
I know the trope, that men refuse to ask for directions. I'm living proof that it's not true in every case. But I'll tell you, an awful lot of the people you ask about how to get somewhere are either as clueless as you are, or are lousy at giving directions. "You turn left a good ways ahead, where the Collisons' barn used to be . . .."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 09:34 AM (J2vNu)

65 The general's horse was very happy when the automobile was invented.

Posted by: t-bird at February 16, 2024 09:34 AM (moEfX)

66 The art supply store had just gotten in a new color of paint called "brass" so I decided to just go with it.

Posted by: John Sloan at February 16, 2024 09:34 AM (NBVIP)

67 He's going to pull over and get the socks and duct tape out. He's had enough.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 16, 2024 09:34 AM (R4t5M)

68 "Ass, grass, or gas."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 16, 2024 09:34 AM (RIvkX)

69 I like this one though a bit blurry. Would hang

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 16, 2024 09:34 AM (DgSZ/)

70 Credit Line: Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 2018

Ah, yes. Artwork money laundering/ tax shelter.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:34 AM (NYzgN)

71 "Sheriff John Sloan . . . why don't you leave me alone . . ."

Posted by: Beach Boys at February 16, 2024 09:34 AM (J2vNu)

72 Are you sure this is the way, Archduke Ferdinand?
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

"I know this town like the back of my hand, take the next right t..."

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 16, 2024 09:34 AM (hOUT3)

73 Gray and Brass

Too many colors!

Posted by: Henry Ford at February 16, 2024 09:35 AM (UnD48)

74 It seems it was Saloon Relocation Day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

75 Going on a Sunday drive?

Posted by: dantesed at February 16, 2024 09:35 AM (88xKn)

76 GF does all the driving.

She gets car sick as a passenger, and i could get lost in a broom closet.

My testicles are none the worse for it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 09:35 AM (9UlRk)

77 I like this. From back when if you could afford a car, you could afford a mechanic/driver.

Much like India today.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 09:35 AM (aD39U)

78 This is not a Fast Car.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2024 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

79 but seating position was not universally on the left for quite some time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:29 AM

Soon, my pretties, soon!

Posted by: Democrat Socialists at February 16, 2024 09:36 AM (a3Q+t)

80 Lakewood Church Shooter in Hijab Praised Hamas and Osama bin Laden
"Don't worry my MUSLIMS brothers I am pass the threat phase. I'm in planning mode."

Posted by: Victims R Us at February 16, 2024 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

81
Ah, yes. Artwork money laundering/ tax shelter.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:34 AM (NYzgN)

Hey bud. What's your problem?!?

Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 16, 2024 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

82 Would chitty chitty bang bang.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 09:36 AM (aD39U)

83 Gas, grass, or brass.
Posted by: Nobody rides for free at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (NBVIP)
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Hordemind

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 16, 2024 09:36 AM (RIvkX)

84 Remember before cars like this there were never storms, the temperature was never hot or cold, and people lived in harmony with nature...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 09:36 AM (ibTVg)

85
A perfunctory effort, at best

C-

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2024 09:36 AM (xG4kz)

86 I like how off center this is. To me, it makes the car look like it's moving -- like the car is going so fast the cameraman is struggling to follow it.

Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024 09:37 AM (OyyDO)

87 This painting is fraught with implication, little of it good.

In its era, it depicted an unusual but by no means rare situation: wealthy aristocrats puttering about in their motor car. The car itself was fairly new as a product. Often seen as a positive, it was anything but. This was the beginning of the transformation of the world toward gigantic malallocation of resources for motorized personal travel. What was once rare would become the economically and environmentally destructive obsession with automobiles at all levels.

But aside from glimpses of a destructive future, there is more. The choice of color is deliberate. Gray - the color of the Confederacy - is the central theme. These southern aristocrats, recently deprived of their slaves, are still upper-crust and still wealthy enough to afford the new curiosity of the automobile. Their ostentatious show of wealth serves the same purpose as their plantation houses: to underscore their supremacy thanks to their skin color and the power it gives them to exploit the lower classes.

Rich white former slave owners out for a "Sunday Drive" is not positive and not worthy of a painter's skill.

Posted by: Your Kid's Art History Professor at February 16, 2024 09:37 AM (HnUIn)

88 Their friends all say 'Hey move away from there'.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 09:37 AM (aD39U)

89 Fulton DA Willis: ‘Not aware’ of disclosure requirement of relationship with special prosecutor

"She set up her own perjury trap and walked into it. She is the dumbest prosecutor I've ever seen in all my time as a lawyer," said Mike Davis, Article III Project founder.

Posted by: Victims R Us at February 16, 2024 09:38 AM (RHGPo)

90 Gray or Grey?

Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2024 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

91 I probably drive 80-90% of the time if my GF and I are going somewhere.

I guess this is the evil patriarchy at work but...she hates driving.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

92 It's racist. And fascist BTW

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at February 16, 2024 09:38 AM (ytSiK)

93 I can't imagine that car going more than 10mph.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:38 AM (NYzgN)

94 Reading old books, it's interesting how many young, and older, women took to driving cars early on. I wonder when the stereotype of women as bad drivers started, since it wasn't a thing initially.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 09:38 AM (nC+QA)

95 This is not a Fast Car.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2024

***
A dizzying top speed of 45 mph

Posted by: Beach Boys at February 16, 2024 09:38 AM (J2vNu)

96
Are you sure this is the way, Archduke Ferdinand?
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

It was his driver making a wrong turn and then having to stop and back up what got him shot.

A stationary fooking target, he was.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (xG4kz)

97 My testicles are none the worse for it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 09:35 AM (9UlRk)
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Yes, but you need to fold the corner of your membership card.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (RIvkX)

98 Gas, grass, or brass.
Posted by: Nobody rides for free at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (NBVIP)

I'll totally blow your tuba for a ride into town mister

Posted by: A very suspicious looking hitchhiker in a marching band uniform at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (ibTVg)

99 COIN is up $27 a share on second shitty inflation report. Its amazing what Wall Street will do to paper over bad news just to keep the market from falling into Bear territory. Fucking amazing.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (Hpgos)

100
"She set up her own perjury trap and walked into it. She is the dumbest prosecutor I've ever seen in all my time as a lawyer," said Mike Davis, Article III Project founder.
Posted by: Victims R Us at February 16, 2024 09:38 AM (RHGPo)

This, too, is the story of affirmative action hires everywhere.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

101 Reading old books, it's interesting how many young, and older, women took to driving cars early on. I wonder when the stereotype of women as bad drivers started, since it wasn't a thing initially.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 09:38 AM (nC+QA)
++++
"I can do it" doesn't mean "I can do it well" ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (HnUIn)

102 Remember before cars like this there were never storms, the temperature was never hot or cold, and people lived in harmony with nature...
Posted by: 18-1

But then woman ate the apple of the tree of carbon....

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (NYzgN)

103 Nowadays poor people drive cars and rich people ride horses.

Posted by: Just an observation at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (NBVIP)

104 I think there was a time that most learned folks thought if you went over say 25 mph you would be kilt.

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (JF/W5)

105 I like how off center this is. To me, it makes the car look like it's moving -- like the car is going so fast the cameraman is struggling to follow it.
Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024

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The rear wheel being a little blurry adds to that.

Posted by: Beach Boys at February 16, 2024 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

106 Reading old books, it's interesting how many young, and older, women took to driving cars early on. I wonder when the stereotype of women as bad drivers started, since it wasn't a thing initially.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

They didn't always get directions right, though...
~A.M.Earhart

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2024 09:40 AM (sivlk)

107 Posted by: Your Kid's Art History Professor at February 16, 2024 09:37 AM (HnUIn)

This reminds me of the time I had to analyze the art market in the style of Karl Marx. The BS was so think, you needed waders. Got an A on the paper tho.

Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024 09:40 AM (OyyDO)

108 Reading old books, it's interesting how many young, and older, women took to driving cars early on. I wonder when the stereotype of women as bad drivers started, since it wasn't a thing initially.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 09:38 AM

TBF, parallel parking hadn't been invented yet.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 16, 2024 09:40 AM (a3Q+t)

109 I wonder when the stereotype of women as bad drivers started, since it wasn't a thing initially.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 09:38 AM (nC+QA)
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*silence*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 16, 2024 09:40 AM (RIvkX)

110 104 I think there was a time that most learned folks thought if you went over say 25 mph you would be kilt.

Would Hang.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (JF/W5)

In some of those cars, you probably would

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 09:40 AM (9UlRk)

111 I wonder when the stereotype of women as bad drivers started, since it wasn't a thing initially.

If I recall the stats men get in more accidents per capita, women get in more accidents per hour driven.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 09:40 AM (ibTVg)

112 COIN is up $27 a share on second shitty inflation report. Its amazing what Wall Street will do to paper over bad news just to keep the market from falling into Bear territory. Fucking amazing.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (Hpgos)

Yep. I have had a not so good two weeks. I keep selling this irrational rise and then eating a small loss to get away.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 09:40 AM (aD39U)

113 Nowadays poor people drive cars and rich people ride horses.
Posted by: Just an observation at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (NBVIP)
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Nowadays, rich people drive cars, poor people ride buses and aristocrats keep horses that can't even pull a plow.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:40 AM (HnUIn)

114
"She is the dumbest prosecutor I've ever seen in all my time as a lawyer."

But she was a top shelf Affirmative Action hire.

Now do you see the glaring contradictions inherent in the system?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2024 09:41 AM (xG4kz)

115 Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has concluded her testimony, a lawyer for her office said Friday.

Willis was expected to be cross-examined by District Attorney lawyer Anna Cross, but Cross said at the beginning of Friday’s hearing that she did not have any additional questions.

Attorneys for the state and the defendants charged in the case are debating what will happen next in the hearing, and it is not clear who will be called to testify next, if anyone.

Posted by: SMOD at February 16, 2024 09:41 AM (RHGPo)

116 This reminds me of the time I had to analyze the art market in the style of Karl Marx. The BS was so think, you needed waders. Got an A on the paper tho.
Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024 09:40 AM (OyyDO)
++++
If anyone is wondering how the universities all fell, this is a good indicator. Art students had to "analyze in the style of Karl Marx."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:41 AM (HnUIn)

117 Date: 1907

An enjoyable painting. The elites are flying past the hoi-polloi at 11 mph without deigning to even look at them.

Oh, they'll change their tune in a hundred yards as they break down yet again.

Posted by: t-bird at February 16, 2024 09:41 AM (B3ASk)

118 Automobiles? You're welcome.

Posted by: The Patriarchy at February 16, 2024 09:42 AM (NBVIP)

119 It was his driver making a wrong turn and then having to stop and back up what got him shot.

A stationary fooking target, he was.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (xG4kz)

Bloody bad luck doing a three-point turn in front of the guy trying to kill you too.

Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024 09:42 AM (OyyDO)

120 "...so-o-o they loaded up the truck and moved to Bever-leee. Hills, that is. Swimming' pools, movie stars."

Posted by: red speck at February 16, 2024 09:42 AM (0Id0S)

121 Reading old books, it's interesting how many young, and older, women took to driving cars early on. I wonder when the stereotype of women as bad drivers started, since it wasn't a thing initially.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

It boggles the mind that women get insurance rate breaks at 21 and men at 25. Teenage girl drivers are HORRIBLE. Sure, boys wreck, speed, cause havoc....but they LEARN how to drive and handle cars in several situations from it and become better drivers because of it.

Now, throw in texting.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

122 Reading old books, it's interesting how many young, and older, women took to driving cars early on. I wonder when the stereotype of women as bad drivers started, since it wasn't a thing initially.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024
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TBF, parallel parking hadn't been invented yet.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 16, 2024

***
Didn't need it. You could park anyplace. Then came angled parking on wide shopping streets, which made sense (you could get more cars stationed in a given block than with parallel). Parallel ruined things until we had big shopping centers with gigantic parking lots.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

123 ttorneys for the state and the defendants charged in the case are debating what will happen next in the hearing, and it is not clear who will be called to testify next, if anyone.
Posted by: SMOD

It doesn’t matter. The judge has been told what his decision will be. She lacked candor, but did not knowingly deceive the court or State of GA.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:43 AM (NYzgN)

124 Art students had to "analyze in the style of Karl Marx."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:41 AM (HnUIn)

"I don't think anyone should hang Art. At least not without a fair trial. *waggles eyebrows*"

"Wrong Marx. See me after class. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 09:43 AM (9UlRk)

125 Now, throw in texting.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)
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You crash your car, lose use of your hands, travel to India and gain superpowers as a sorcerer like Doctor Strange?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:43 AM (HnUIn)

126 This reminds me of the time I had to analyze the art market in the style of Karl Marx. The BS was so think, you needed waders. Got an A on the paper tho.
Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024 09:40 AM (OyyDO)

In HS a friend and I submitted (under a pen-name) an English paper entitled "Dr. Seuss and the Communist Manifesto: A Marxian Reading of 'Green Eggs and Ham'".

I'm happy to say our teach larffed.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 16, 2024 09:43 AM (T+Iwg)

127 The early beginnings of globull warming.
Bring back the 2 horse wagon.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at February 16, 2024 09:43 AM (dr4Q1)

128 Now, throw in texting.......

Was reading a story recently about a teenaged girl that got in a crash because she was watching Stranger Things while driving.

W
T
F

You watch a graphically intense show with sudden jump scares while driving?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 09:44 AM (ibTVg)

129 Gray or Grey?
Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2024 09:38 AM

Depends.

Posted by: Dorian at February 16, 2024 09:44 AM (a3Q+t)

130 No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute the prosecutor.

He will defer criminal charges against Fani to Fani.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:44 AM (NYzgN)

131 Nice ride. Needs an 8 track player.

Posted by: The days of my misspent yute at February 16, 2024 09:45 AM (NBVIP)

132 After showing part of Biden’s video on the subject, Sullivan said, “So, is it true that big companies are trying to actually make more money post-pandemic? Well, listen, it’s — frankly, it’s impossible to know overall. There are hundreds of thousands of companies, big and small, across America, but we did look at two of the biggest public companies in their respective sector: Procter & Gamble, which makes all kinds of household goods, and Coca-Cola, they make soda and stuff like that. We compared fiscal year 2019, that is pre-pandemic, of course, gross margins, to 2023 margins. PG&E’s margins actually declined a bit. Coca-Cola did as well compared to 2019. Of course, these are just a couple of examples…and, let’s be clear, there are no doubt many big, bad actors out there. But this bill seeks to stop the practice by empowering the FTC and states to enforce a ban against…grossly excessive price increases regardless of a seller’s position on a supply chain. There’s also one little added detail in this bill. It would give an extra $1 billion to the Federal Trade Commission to fund the effort to fight price hikes. If you’ve ever wondered why half the richest countries in America are th

Posted by: SMOD at February 16, 2024 09:45 AM (RHGPo)

133 Pimp my ride.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 16, 2024 09:45 AM (MGqzM)

134 The radiator shell/front grille looks rather rounded, so I suspect this was not an early Rolls-Royce. As far as I know they had the sharp-edged grille from pretty much the beginning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 09:45 AM (J2vNu)

135 Their car - like all cars of that era - were prone to breakdowns and general unreliability, especially once they were no longer new.

They compensated for that reality by leaving plenty of time, always departing early. On days like today when nothing goes wrong, they end up arriving early. About ten minutes in this case.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:24 AM

This truly is the story of EV's.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (MGqzM)

136 The left: These companies are price gouging how dare they raise their prices in this economy!

Also the left: Of course I'm demanding a raise at work. In this economy I need more money to keep up with the increasing costs. Which totally are not inflation.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (ibTVg)

137 "If you’ve ever wondered why half the richest countries in America are those surrounding Washington, D.C., that’s probably part of it.”

Posted by: SMOD at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (RHGPo)

138 A stationary fooking target, he was.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

That's why Zapruder was able to get such great footage of the Archduke's assassination.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (9yWhg)

139 You watch a graphically intense show with sudden jump scares while driving?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 09:44 AM (ibTVg)

I was behind some guy in a minivan not too long ago in the zero dark thirty hours going down the highway and he had pron on his monitor in the van. The "actors" were going at it like 2 cats in a burlap sack.

Crazy.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (JF/W5)

140 Love Sloan paintings, very nice. The best Sloan collection can be found at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington. Sloan's widow had a long affiliation there and donated many of his works. She was a good artist, too.

Posted by: Ashcan School Rules! at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (V5BDR)

141 Amazing how quickly "Fight for $15" became "Fight for $30"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (NYzgN)

142 If anyone is wondering how the universities all fell, this is a good indicator. Art students had to "analyze in the style of Karl Marx."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:41 AM (HnUIn)

Meh. It was an art theory course. We had to read all kinds of stuff and drew lots to see who we would write as. Guess who I got. Whatever. At least I didn't get Derrida.

Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (OyyDO)

143 Three women in the back, I think, and the Jimmy Olsen-looking dude in the sport coat and driving cap, plus the driver and the overweight passenger/owner. No wonder that rear wheel looks blurred: It's wobbling under that load and about to come off.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (J2vNu)

144 If anyone is wondering how the universities all fell, this is a good indicator. Art students had to "analyze in the style of Karl Marx."

Says the guy who perfectly mimics Your Kid's [ ] Professor. Isn't it a good thing to be able to imagine your enemy's perspective so you can anticipate his actions and prepare to meet them?

Posted by: Oddbob at February 16, 2024 09:48 AM (sNc8Y)

145 At least I didn't get Derrida.
Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (OyyDO)

"Joyce?!?!? Crap."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 09:48 AM (9UlRk)

146 Reading old books, it's interesting how many young, and older, women took to driving cars early on. I wonder when the stereotype of women as bad drivers started, since it wasn't a thing initially.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024
*
TBF, parallel parking hadn't been

Those were the romance novels of the day, that it was in a book did not mean it was. Not many women were handcranking starters.

Women are bad drivers

Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 09:48 AM (RjBju)

147 It doesn’t matter. The judge has been told what his decision will be. She lacked candor, but did not knowingly deceive the court or State of GA.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:43 AM (NYzgN)

"Intent"...blah blah?

Posted by: Not this shit again at February 16, 2024 09:48 AM (+3lgn)

148 Nice ride. Needs an 8 track player.
Posted by: The days of my misspent yute at February 16, 2024 09:45 AM

And some Cragar rims and a some Craco speakers.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 16, 2024 09:48 AM (MGqzM)

149 "I can do it" doesn't mean "I can do it well" ...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:39 AM (HnUIn)

I mean that the early depictions generally described the women drivers showing competence. Although, there is the Tish series who's title character is a generally accident prone middle-aged lady who is no less accident prone once she buys a car.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 09:48 AM (nC+QA)

150 Amazing how quickly "Fight for $15" became "Fight for $30"

A couple of cities experimented with the $15 minimum wage before it got broader traction. In each case they found that the costs for the people making minimum wage increased more then their new higher salary.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 09:49 AM (ibTVg)

151 Yep. I have had a not so good two weeks. I keep selling this irrational rise and then eating a small loss to get away.
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Its a rigged market. They somehow believe they can kite anytime they want on any news. And the evidence tells you this is rigged. I, too, am short. They are very afraid of a Bear Market which is just a few ticks away.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 09:49 AM (Hpgos)

152
The Picklethwaites had a remorseless marriage
Which local nags would (of course) disparage
They're always flouting theirs
With those high-faluting airs
Driving around in that damned horseless carriage!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 16, 2024 09:49 AM (991eG)

153 “Some in Congress wanting to take on shrinkflation. Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren (MA), Tammy Baldwin (WI), and Bob Casey (PA), and more re-introducing the Price Gouging Prevention Act. "

Posted by: SMOD at February 16, 2024 09:49 AM (RHGPo)

154 Meh. It was an art theory course. We had to read all kinds of stuff and drew lots to see who we would write as. Guess who I got. Whatever. At least I didn't get Derrida.
Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (OyyDO)
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Ugh. Derrida. It might have been easier, though, I am not sure. Is malicious gibberish easier or harder to write than malicious pseudo-reasoning?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:49 AM (HnUIn)

155 The left: These companies are price gouging how dare they raise their prices in this economy!

Also the left: Of course I'm demanding a raise at work. In this economy I need more money to keep up with the increasing costs. Which totally are not inflation.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (ibTVg)

Worked with a kid once, he was married and already had a child he couldn't really afford, then knocked up his wife again.

He asked for a raise because he was having a second child.

"That's not really how this works."

He went out and looked for another job. He had a line on one and submitted his resignation. That job fell through, so he wanted to rescind said resignation.

"Your paperwork has already been processed and we're interviewing your replacement. Sorry."

Hopefully, he learned his lesson from that. But somehow, I doubt it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

156 Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’

http://tinyurl.com/2crst3ku

Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2024 09:50 AM (NpAcC)

157 Says the guy who perfectly mimics Your Kid's [ ] Professor. Isn't it a good thing to be able to imagine your enemy's perspective so you can anticipate his actions and prepare to meet them?
Posted by: Oddbob at February 16, 2024 09:48 AM (sNc8Y)
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Yes, it is. But that also definitely isn't what the professors are after...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:50 AM (HnUIn)

158 re-introducing the Price Gouging Prevention Act. "

Nice to see we are in the wreckers and saboteurs part of our socialist revolution.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 09:50 AM (ibTVg)

159 Amazing how quickly "Fight for $15" became "Fight for $30"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM

And they wonder why they are being replaced by kiosks and robots. Pro tip. Entry level jobs are named that for a reason.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 16, 2024 09:50 AM (MGqzM)

160 Lobbyists: Hey WH, corporations are trying to gouge customers, you should propose a lew!

WH: We need a law!

Lobbyists: Hey corporations, the WH is trying to get a law passed, pay us and we will stop it, or at least rejigger it so it looks like you are getting screwed, but really you win and congress gets more power while gaslighting America into thinking they were just helped.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:50 AM (NYzgN)

161 Absolutely fascinating painting!

Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 09:50 AM (KpWJP)

162 I mean that the early depictions generally described the women drivers showing competence. Although, there is the Tish series who's title character is a generally accident prone middle-aged lady who is no less accident prone once she buys a car.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 09:48 AM (nC+QA)
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I was just trolling

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:51 AM (HnUIn)

163 Stop the press. Bob Casey the oxygen thief is doing something.

What a worthless piece of shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 16, 2024 09:51 AM (R4t5M)

164 I mean that the early depictions generally described the women drivers showing competence. Although, there is the Tish series who's title character is a generally accident prone middle-aged lady who is no less accident prone once she buys a car.

So fiction books?

Women were not driving cars without power steering.

Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 09:51 AM (RjBju)

165 Hope they got CarShield or something.

Posted by: dantesed at February 16, 2024 09:51 AM (88xKn)

166 Amazing how quickly "Fight for $15" became "Fight for $30"

A couple of cities experimented with the $15 minimum wage before it got broader traction. In each case they found that the costs for the people making minimum wage increased more then their new higher salary.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 09:49 AM (ibTVg)

Lee out in California, running against Schiff for Senate, pitched her "fight for $50" during a debate.

it's AMAZING how little our intellectual betters know about the economy and how it works.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

167 Hope they got CarShield or something.
Posted by: dantesed at February 16, 2024 09:51 AM

They were already getting calls that their car warranty was about to expire.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 16, 2024 09:52 AM (MGqzM)

168 >>>Gray and Brass

Bray and Grass!

Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 09:52 AM (KpWJP)

169 If Climate Change is actually existential, why is there not a "windfall profits tax" on the profits in regard to Climate Change ?

Just pass one, and there will be no existential climate change.

Posted by: SMOD at February 16, 2024 09:52 AM (RHGPo)

170 At least I didn't get Derrida.
Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024 09:47 AM (OyyDO)

It's said that Derrida was just BS-ing and knew it. The apostle of Deconstructionism in this country was Paul De Man at Yale. He had printed pro-Nazi pamphlets in Belgium in his yoot.

Convenient for him to latch on to a literary theory that words essentially mean nothing, no?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (T+Iwg)

171 Living in the matrix is fun!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (R4t5M)

172 This shade of gray seems to be getting popular for newer cars this year.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (NpAcC)

173 The wretched refuse was pretty civil; no eggs flying at the elite's car.

Appreciate Sloan's paintings, and Gray and Brass is a nice end to for this week. (Yes, I'd hang any of his works.) Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun and bear, they only have to outrun us - for now at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (GshMh)

174
He went out and looked for another job. He had a line on one and submitted his resignation. That job fell through, so he wanted to rescind said resignation.

I had a guy that did worse. He said he got a job somewhere else with a big increase but would stay if our company would match.

Our company couldn't so his manager wished him well at the new company.

And as it got close to the last day he told his manager he'd made it all up and wanted to keep his original job at the original rate.

That did not go well.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (ibTVg)

175 Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’

http://tinyurl.com/2crst3ku
Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2024 09:50 AM (NpAcC)

That reminds me of the story where a woman thought the young girl she was caring for as a nanny was a FRIGGIN GENIUS for 'inventing' some sort of communications device that was tethered to the home that could be used in an emergency if you forgot your cell phone somewhere or the battery died.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

176 You crazy kids and your newefangled phones that plug into a wall. Back in my day phones were wireless and we had to plug them in to charge them. AND WE LIKED IT!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (NYzgN)

177 13 What’s up with that one dude’s legs?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 09:25 AM (9yWhg)

Man-spreading?

Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (KpWJP)

178 it's AMAZING how little our intellectual betters know about the economy and how it works.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:51 AM (Zz0t1

More like don't care in this case. Lee knows people will hear that she's going to fight to make them $50/hr and vote for her on that.

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (IFNME)

179 make 'fllouting' become 'flaunting'.

I was distracted.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (991eG)

180 Its a rigged market. They somehow believe they can kite anytime they want on any news. And the evidence tells you this is rigged. I, too, am short. They are very afraid of a Bear Market which is just a few ticks away.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 09:49 AM (Hpgos)

I'm up 1.72% this morning, but, based on the last couple of weeks, I expect it won't hold, so I either take it now, or see the market pumped back up later today.

FOMO vs FOLA

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (aD39U)

181 I like this painting, but cannot identify the car. It's not a Model T.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 16, 2024 09:54 AM (tkR6S)

182 This shade of gray seems to be getting popular for newer cars this year.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (NpAcC)

Yeah. Who knew 'Battleship Grey' would become the color de jure at any point in life.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

183 This shade of gray seems to be getting popular for newer cars this year.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (NpAcC)
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Cars the color of twilight are hard to see.

And more cars than ever are the color are twilight.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:54 AM (HnUIn)

184 Take the day off Fani...

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 16, 2024 09:54 AM (MGqzM)

185 So fiction books?

Women were not driving cars without power steering.

Posted by: N at February 16, 2024

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At least those huge steering wheels gave 'em some leverage. And as was pointed out, there was no need for parallel parking yet. My father's '47 Cadillac was a beeyotch to parallel park, I understand, with no power assist to the steering. (No A/C either, which I remember from my early childhood. A dark blue car in the Deep South? HOT.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 09:54 AM (J2vNu)

186 Hmm, 2.19%

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 09:54 AM (aD39U)

187 This shade of gray seems to be getting popular for newer cars this year.
Posted by: r

That blue gray shade

Started with porsche a few years ago, then went to BMW, now everybody is doing it. It's ugly

Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 09:54 AM (RjBju)

188 it's AMAZING how little our intellectual betters know about the economy and how it works.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck

Oh, they know. That is the kink.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:54 AM (NYzgN)

189 It almost has an "Emperor's New Clothes" effect.

Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 09:54 AM (KpWJP)

190 More like don't care in this case. Lee knows people will hear that she's going to fight to make them $50/hr and vote for her on that.

If you've ever talked with a member of the FSA they do not care where the free stuff is coming from, what long term impacts it will have, or who it is being taken from.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 09:55 AM (ibTVg)

191 Automobiles? You're welcome.
Posted by: The Patriarchy at February 16, 2024 09:42 AM

Automobile?

Posted by: Long Duc Dong at February 16, 2024 09:55 AM (Wnv9h)

192
More like don't care in this case. Lee knows people will hear that she's going to fight to make them $50/hr and vote for her on that.

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (IFNME)

It won't stay out there, is the problem.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

193 Chase, Blackrock and some Global company have pulled out of some big climate consortium.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 16, 2024 09:55 AM (7h3oY)

194 2.63. The animal spirit this morning is fear.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 09:55 AM (aD39U)

195 make 'fllouting' become 'flaunting'.

I was distracted.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (991eG)

I got myself a booth at the flouting convention.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 09:55 AM (9UlRk)

196 Lee out in California, running against Schiff for Senate, pitched her "fight for $50" during a debate.
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And she claims she ran a small business for 11 years and understands how important a living wage is.
I'm wondering how many of her employees were paid $50 an hour.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at February 16, 2024 09:56 AM (dr4Q1)

197 Fight for $500!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:56 AM (NYzgN)

198 Fight for $1500!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:57 AM (NYzgN)

199 It won't stay out there, is the problem.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

That's a you problem not a her problem.

Going out next time and saying $75 minimum wage is cost free to her and gets more votes.

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2024 09:57 AM (IFNME)

200 154 Ugh. Derrida. It might have been easier, though, I am not sure. Is malicious gibberish easier or harder to write than malicious pseudo-reasoning?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 09:49 AM (HnUIn)

At least it wasn't Foucault or Gramsci?

But still pretty awful.

Posted by: XTC at February 16, 2024 09:57 AM (sm6Pk)

201 +++
And she claims she ran a small business for 11 years and understands how important a living wage is.
I'm wondering how many of her employees were paid $50 an hour.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at February 16, 2024 09:56 AM (dr4Q1)

Not a one. And I'm betting she paid them the minimum and they pissed about not being able to raise a family on what she paid them. And she closed her business.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

202 We need to start printing $10,000 bills.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:57 AM (NYzgN)

203 If you've ever talked with a member of the FSA they do not care where the free stuff is coming from, what long term impacts it will have, or who it is being taken from.
Posted by: 18-1

As long as they gets their 'bama pho and their ebt card gets loaded monthly.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 16, 2024 09:57 AM (ous9O)

204 This shade of gray seems to be getting popular for newer cars this year.
Posted by: r

That blue gray shade

Started with porsche a few years ago, then went to BMW, now everybody is doing it. It's ugly
Posted by: N

Nardo Gray started with Audi. And then everyone else started doing their own versions of it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 09:58 AM (9yWhg)

205 86 I like how off center this is. To me, it makes the car look like it's moving -- like the car is going so fast the cameraman is struggling to follow it.
Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024 09:37 AM (OyyDO)

---------------

Me too. I bet if you measure from end to end, the fat guy in the passenger's seat is right at the Golden Ratio point. Also, I love the look on the passenger's face. I bet he's thinking, "Why won't they shut the hell up back there?"

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at February 16, 2024 09:58 AM (2AUjo)

206 This shade of gray seems to be getting popular for newer cars this year.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (NpAcC)
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Cars the color of twilight are hard to see.

And more cars than ever are the color are twilight.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024

***
Monochrome colors, ranging from white to silver to gray to dark gray to black, with the rare gold and even rarer red or green. And the interiors are dark gray or black most of the time with only the occasional beige. The Germans at least give you a couple of choices in the tan or light gray range. My Buick would look great in midnight blue (which GM did offer) and a white or silver-blue interior.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 09:58 AM (J2vNu)

207 Why does it take a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a latte anymore?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:58 AM (NYzgN)

208 180 Its a rigged market. They somehow believe they can kite anytime they want on any news. And the evidence tells you this is rigged. I, too, am short. They are very afraid of a Bear Market which is just a few ticks away.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 09:49 AM (Hpgos)

I'm up 1.72% this morning, but, based on the last couple of weeks, I expect it won't hold, so I either take it now, or see the market pumped back up later today.

FOMO vs FOLA
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Every time I think I should take a profit I hesitate. When I say we are very close to a Bear Market, I mean we are very close to a Bear Market. The profits from that would be stupendous. I added to my short this morning and am up 1.48% for the day.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 09:58 AM (Hpgos)

209
That's a you problem not a her problem.

Going out next time and saying $75 minimum wage is cost free to her and gets more votes.
Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2024 09:57 AM (IFNME)

That's an everyone problem, whether you support it or not. It will spread and it will destroy the economy, affecting everyone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)

210 Nardo Gray started with Audi. And then everyone else started doing their own versions of it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024

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Nice that they thought to name it after the hot redhead at the Sunshien Cab Company.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 09:59 AM (J2vNu)

211 Bear market will start the day after Trump is elected.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 09:59 AM (NYzgN)

212 50
Artist: John Sloan (American, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania 1871–1951 Hanover, New Hampshire)

Geography: Made in United States

Culture: American

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 16, 2024 09:31 AM (ENQN6)

USA! USA! USA!

Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 10:00 AM (KpWJP)

213 Nardo Gray started with Audi. And then everyone else started doing their own versions of it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024

***
Nice that they thought to name it after the hot redhead at the Sunshien Cab Company.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Nardo has knobs.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:00 AM (9yWhg)

214 Women were not driving cars without power steering.

Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 09:51 AM (RjBju)

I'm sure the ambulance drivers of WWI would be surprised to know that. I wonder if the invention of power steering, and power brakes, is what let *enough* women drive to give rise to the stereotype.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 10:00 AM (nC+QA)

215 Our place in WV has an actual corded phone on the wall in the kitchen. There's zero cellular coverage there, but we do have cable/Internet service.

Hi-tec rednecks

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2024 10:00 AM (Q4IgG)

216 It's said that Derrida was just BS-ing and knew it.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 16, 2024 09:53 AM (T+Iwg)

I could not figure out what he was talking about so that would explain a lot. I had a classmate who thought he was the bee's-knees. At least I understood Marx. Long-winded tho. The guy really liked to sound of his own voice.

Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024 10:00 AM (OyyDO)

217 204
Nardo Gray started with Audi. And then everyone else started doing their own versions of it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 09:58 AM (9yWhg)
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It should be a law that any color called "Nardo" should be red, to remember the ultra-hot Taxi-era Marilu Henner, who was I'm certain instrumental in making men of many of us, myself included.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at February 16, 2024 10:00 AM (2AUjo)

218 A few years back, Infiniti offered a nice metallic sage green color on its I30 sedan. It got so if I saw that color, I knew it was an Infiniti. They still offer it: I parked near an SUV in that shade the other day, and guessed it was that brand. Turned out I was right.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 10:00 AM (J2vNu)

219 Science & Technology - Has there been a story around here on the "crisis in cosmology" the JWST has been causing? All those fully formed, even barred galaxies, way way out there, way way "back in time" when they were gonna be seen just beginning to form?
Posted by: TeeJ at February 16, 2024 09:14 AM (o3xwr)

———-

Willowed, but I appreciate someone mentioning this, not much astronomy around here.

I grew up loving astronomy and had a few classes in college back in the 90’s. Then I lost some interest for awhile but have regained some interest recently and what is being found and described now is simply mind blowing and, frankly, bordering on the ludicrous.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 16, 2024 10:00 AM (++4z6)

220 I added to my short this morning and am up 1.48% for the day.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 09:58 AM (Hpgos)

What instrument are you using if you don't mind sharing?

I use TQQQ and SQQQ ETFs for the NASDQ at 3 times leverage pretty much exclusively. The NASDQ is the only thing I trade in index funds.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:01 AM (aD39U)

221 211 Bear market will start the day after Trump is elected.
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No it won't. My guess is this will be a very bloody spring and early summer.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 10:01 AM (Hpgos)

222 A recent poll says 6 out of 7 respondents think only American citizens should vote in American elections.

I'm guessing the seventh is an illegal alien. 👽

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 16, 2024 10:01 AM (a3Q+t)

223 Hi-tec rednecks
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2024 10:00 AM (Q4IgG)

Well shit, there's an ear worm from the depths of the past...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 10:01 AM (9UlRk)

224 also, 3.24%. The dive is real this morning, but I bet it recovers.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:02 AM (aD39U)

225 I use TQQQ and SQQQ ETFs for the NASDQ at 3 times leverage pretty much exclusively. The NASDQ is the only thing I trade in index funds
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I use SQQQ and QLD. Keeps life simple.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 10:02 AM (Hpgos)

226 so I suspect this was not an early Rolls-Royce.

An academic's write-up on the artist, which sounds a lot like our own "Your Kid's Art Professor", includes this

"...in which policemen riding bicycles on Riverside Drive in Manhattan overtake a Pierce-Arrow touring car, similar to the one in Sloan’s painting. Gray and Brass ..."

There sure were a lot of car manufacturers back then.

Posted by: t-bird at February 16, 2024 10:02 AM (HE+xO)

227 Lee out in California, running against Schiff for Senate, pitched her "fight for $50" during a debate.
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And she claims she ran a small business for 11 years and understands how important a living wage is.
I'm wondering how many of her employees were paid $50 an hour.
Posted by: Florida Peasant

And people shit now because 3 McD hash browns cost $18 at a San Diego McDonald's.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 16, 2024 10:02 AM (ous9O)

228 Taking a step back the smartest thing to do would be to end minimum wage jobs.

It will reduce the increase in prices and open up more jobs.

And if you really want to help the lowest classes combine that with evicting the illegals and ending immigration.

Why? Salaries will go up for low skill jobs but for the ones we actually need. Yes Karen McAWFL is probably going to have to trim her own hedges or give up one of her overseas vacations a year, but I'm ok with that.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 10:03 AM (ibTVg)

229 Going out next time and saying $75 minimum wage is cost free to her and gets more votes.
Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2024 09:57 AM (IFNME)
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A standard full working year is 2,080 hours.

At $75/hr, that is $156,000. Real median household income is around $71,000. That is more than a clean double.

Something that insane can only come from a communist. Unemployment would hit 25% almost immediately, inflation would surge and GDP would fall precipitously as the economy converts to as much automation as possible, even if that automation would be uneconomic today.

The only sense in such a plan would be the sinister variety: to deliberately drive up unemployment and drive down consumption to create conditions for UBI and final takeover.

But I doubt that. I suspect it's just retardation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 10:03 AM (HnUIn)

230 Power steering was introduced in 1926

Posted by: Ben Had at February 16, 2024 10:03 AM (7h3oY)

231 78 This is not a Fast Car.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2024 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

Nice.

Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 10:03 AM (KpWJP)

232 Hell, I don't even make enough to have investments.

Posted by: XTC at February 16, 2024 10:03 AM (sm6Pk)

233 Roseanne Barr interviewed Mel K on Roseanne's Rumble channel re: the true nature of the globalist cabal.

Verrry interesting.

Posted by: Beverly at February 16, 2024 10:03 AM (Epeb0)

234 Auto makers employ the makers of lipstick to determine the color of cars for the upcoming year.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 16, 2024 10:03 AM (MGqzM)

235 A recent poll says 6 out of 7 respondents think only American citizens should vote in American elections.

I'm guessing the seventh is an illegal alien. 👽

40M illegals out of a population of 330M so...your numbers check out

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 10:04 AM (ibTVg)

236 Our place in WV has an actual corded phone on the wall in the kitchen. There's zero cellular coverage there, but we do have cable/Internet service.

Hi-tec rednecks
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Is it in the National Radio Quiet Zone?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:04 AM (9yWhg)

237
And people shit now because 3 McD hash browns cost $18 at a San Diego McDonald's.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 16, 2024 10:02 AM (ous9O)

A cheeseburger, fries, large Coke and chocolate cake in Russia is $7.05 at their McDonald's clone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)

238 Hi-tec rednecks
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2024 10:00 AM (Q4IgG)
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Is that like the "Rednecks with Paychecks" party in Texas where people show up in their Cowboy Cadillacs and boats and whatnot?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 10:04 AM (HnUIn)

239 Wow, I got a cold call from Austria. Hitler must have something to tell me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 10:05 AM (Hpgos)

240 A cheeseburger, fries, large Coke and chocolate cake in Russia is $7.05 at their McDonald's clone.

Probably less sugar and fillers in their burgers as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 10:05 AM (ibTVg)

241 There sure were a lot of car manufacturers back then.
Posted by: t-bird at February 16, 2024

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A lot of companies in those early days of motoring offered custom body work. You purchased the chassis and engine, and they built the body and painted it to your order, then installed it on the frame. So they did not need to have an enormous assembly plant a la Ford and GM.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

242 Hell, I don't even make enough to have investments.
Posted by: XTC at February 16, 2024 10:03 AM (sm6Pk)

Active trading is like being a gambler. It adds juice to my day. And like gambling, don't use more than you can afford to lose.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:05 AM (aD39U)

243 ++++
Is that like the "Rednecks with Paychecks" party in Texas where people show up in their Cowboy Cadillacs and boats and whatnot?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 10:04 AM (HnUIn)

That thing is more 'Rednecks with Oil Money.' You should SEE the shit that shows up to that thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

244 Wow, I got a cold call from Austria. Hitler must have something to tell me.

Let me guess, he thinks I'm coming still?

Posted by: Steiner at February 16, 2024 10:06 AM (ibTVg)

245 All shades of gray have been getting popular the last few years, from silver to that strange glossy gray. There are also a lot more cars around possessing some ghastly combination of what appears to be gray and brown. I remember reading somewhere that gray (and white) were the least costly colors to use when manufacturing cars. I even saw a gray Ferrari not long ago. I mean, why bother?

Too bad. The proliferation of this color just leads to the gloomy, overcast vibe of the times. This is why I'm always so pleased when I see a lipstick red RAM truck, or a canary yellow Mustang.

Posted by: Paco at February 16, 2024 10:06 AM (njExo)

246 Wow, I got a cold call from Austria. Hitler must have something to tell me.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 10:05 AM (Hpgos)

G'Day mate!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

247 This shade of gray seems to be getting popular for newer cars this year.

A little Bondo, primer, and then clear-coat it several times.

Posted by: t-bird at February 16, 2024 10:06 AM (HE+xO)

248 Since Biden was installed my best performing investment has been...a high yield savings account.

Isn't Bidenomics wonderful?

Posted by: Steiner at February 16, 2024 10:07 AM (ibTVg)

249 87 Posted by: Your Kid's Art History Professor at February 16, 2024 09:37 AM (HnUIn)

Yaaaaaay! You have a real talent.

Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 10:07 AM (KpWJP)

250 I hate those super shiny silver cars.

On a bright sunny day they are migraine magnets.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 10:08 AM (ibTVg)

251 You guys realize that naming and discussing subtle differences in a color is veering towards 'ette territory, and soon they'll be fawning for a fashion and perhaps even a shoe Thread?

Let's taupe not!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 16, 2024 10:08 AM (a3Q+t)

252 Yeah. Who knew 'Battleship Grey' would become the color de jure at any point in life.......

When I started noticing it, I identified it as the exact color of plumber's putty.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 16, 2024 10:08 AM (sNc8Y)

253 Wow, I got a cold call from Austria. Hitler must have something to tell me.
Posted by: Pudinhead

"Yah, Herr Pudin I just saw great movie -- 'Babe: Schwein in der Burg.' Zu must watch it. Heil me!"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:08 AM (9yWhg)

254 I wonder if the woman in back in pink is the Mrs. to the large man in front. They have similar airs. Their daughter and a suitor in the center? She has the same attitude. The young man is trying so hard. LOL.

Posted by: Kris at February 16, 2024 10:08 AM (OyyDO)

255 The CU we got our mortgage with has some pretty baller CD rates right now. I'll be setting up some tidy little ladders with them once we close on the old place and have some money sloshing around to pay with.

I feel like my grandfather.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 10:08 AM (9UlRk)

256 UGH!

Not very pleasant to look at. Too drab and dreary for my taste.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2024 10:09 AM (7fElN)

257 A little Bondo, primer, and then clear-coat it several times.
Posted by: t-bird at February 16, 2024 10:06 AM (HE+xO)

Right? I was shocked when I saw a clearly new car that color. Ugly as can be.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 10:09 AM (nC+QA)

258 I hate those super shiny silver cars.

On a bright sunny day they are migraine magnets.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 10:08 AM (ibTVg)
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Man, you'd hate my chrome-plated Bentley.

Too bad for you, I guess. Just try to dodge my cigar ash.

Posted by: Fat Cat Plutocrat at February 16, 2024 10:09 AM (HnUIn)

259
I'm sure the ambulance drivers of WWI would be surprised to know that. I wonder if the invention of power steering, and power brakes, is what let *enough* women drive to give rise to the stereotype.
Posted by: Polliw

1. What percentage were they

2. Why argue the exception?

What was that 300 women?

Sigh

Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:09 AM (RjBju)

260 Roseanne Barr interviewed Mel K

One of the Spice Girls?

Posted by: spindrift at February 16, 2024 10:10 AM (MqhXY)

261 I thought you guys were kidding, but I saw the photo

that woman really did wear her dress backwards
how dumb must one be?

#rhetorical

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:10 AM (geLO8)

262 We were told in several of the earliest Ellery Queen novels of the Thirties that Ellery owned a Duesenberg. But the authors were clear: It was not one of the super-elegant and super-$$$ phaetons or town cars of that time, but an older, "racing relic" Duesenberg. It was an open car (Ellery drives from Long Island to West Virginia in one novel, soaked by a rainstorm), sturdy (he took it on vacations), and pretty fast.

I've never been able to find pics of such a vehicle.

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

263 Cars should be black

Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:11 AM (RjBju)

264 N you are absolutely full of shit and seem proud of yourself for it.
One could live in abject terror that some otherwise innocent passerby might look in here assuming it was serious conservatives honestly debating the issues of the day, instead of a bunch of moral cripples jacking off while stealing time in their basement cubicles on the clock. I sincerely hope you are having enough fun.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 16, 2024 10:11 AM (zdLoL)

265 115 Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has concluded her testimony, a lawyer for her office said Friday.

Willis was expected to be cross-examined by District Attorney lawyer Anna Cross, but Cross said at the beginning of Friday’s hearing that she did not have any additional questions.
Posted by: SMOD at February 16, 2024 09:41 AM (RHGPo)

Boooo!

Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 10:11 AM (KpWJP)

266 I use TQQQ and SQQQ ETFs for the NASDQ at 3 times leverage pretty much exclusively. The NASDQ is the only thing I trade in index funds
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I use SQQQ and QLD. Keeps life simple.
Posted by: Pudinhead a

Is this english?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 10:11 AM (NYzgN)

267 blaster - was gone for a bit. Did see you "something from nothing" comment previous thread. Truth.
So many problems in virtually all areas. Genetics, fossil record, etc.
A big problem is most folks never see them brought up.
The biggest problem, of course, is in the end, if they do run across them, rejected due to "heart condition" or maybe wanting to be seen as "wise" in the eyes of the world.
Only God knows the heart though.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 16, 2024 10:11 AM (o3xwr)

268 >And people shit now because 3 McD hash browns cost $18 at a San Diego McDonald's.
Posted by: rickb223

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Surely, you're joking

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:12 AM (geLO8)

269 I have money in Empower's Capital account drawing 4.7% at no risk. FDIC insured to $250K, no charge for entry and exit.

Under Biden, I have become a rent seeking Capitalist. It sucks for everyone else.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:12 AM (aD39U)

270 The CU we got our mortgage with has some pretty baller CD rates right now. I'll be setting up some tidy little ladders with them once we close on the old place and have some money sloshing around to pay with.

I feel like my grandfather.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2024 10:08 AM (9UlRk)
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My CU is just now approaching short-term Treasury rates on their CDs. I'm not bothering because I already have my short-term T-Bill ladders set up, but if it holds up or exceeds the Treasury rates, I'll liquidate and convert some of 'em.

The only downsides to buying Bills directly are that they don't roll over (e.g., compound) so you have to manage returns yourself, and the Treasury's consumer web system (TreasuryDirect) is an inflexible, unintuitive, picky and uninformative complex of archaic trash. But the returns are still better.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 10:13 AM (HnUIn)

271 Cars should be black
Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:11 AM (RjBju)

Not in Houston or all of southern Arizona. Makes a serious difference in comfort.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 10:13 AM (nC+QA)

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

Duesenberg wasn't that Stalin's favorite ride?...or wasit Cadillac?

Posted by: BignJames at February 16, 2024 10:14 AM (AwYPR)

273 I use TQQQ and SQQQ ETFs for the NASDQ at 3 times leverage pretty much exclusively. The NASDQ is the only thing I trade in index funds
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I use SQQQ and QLD. Keeps life simple.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 10:02 AM (Hpgos)
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So THAT'S where all the "Qs" are hiding....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2024 10:14 AM (7fElN)

274 266 I use TQQQ and SQQQ ETFs for the NASDQ at 3 times leverage pretty much exclusively. The NASDQ is the only thing I trade in index funds
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I use SQQQ and QLD. Keeps life simple.
Posted by: Pudinhead a

Is this english?
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Its ETF speak.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 10:14 AM (7Vi0c)

275 Yeah. Who knew 'Battleship Grey' would become the color de jure at any point in life.......

When I started noticing it, I identified it as the exact color of plumber's putty.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 16, 2024

***
In the early novels, Fleming describes Bond's supercharged pre-war Bentley as "rough, not gloss, battleship grey." The one he buys at the end of Moonraker has dark blue leather upholstery -- a color of seating I haven't seen on a car since my fling with Eighties Mercedes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 10:14 AM (J2vNu)

276
Not in Houston or all of southern Arizona. Makes a serious difference in comfort.
Posted by: Polliwog

That's where we are. Cars should be black

Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:14 AM (RjBju)

277 Cars should be black
Posted by: N

I had a black car with a black interior. Got ridiculusly hot inside. Any temp over 40 degrees, and I would have to turn on the AC. Never again.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:15 AM (9yWhg)

278 I like the industrial "sea foam green" that was popular in the 60's and 70's and buildings in the 90's that had not been renovated since the 60's and 70's.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 10:16 AM (NYzgN)

279 So the DOJ arrests someone who claimed the Biden's got money from Ukraine ? How convenient

Posted by: It's me donna at February 16, 2024 10:16 AM (Akjoo)

280 I have a nephew that trades as a Chartist. I point out to him that it only works because enough people ARE chartists. It's like a self-licking icecream cone. It only works, when it works, because enough people believe it works.

When you think about it, that is the true of most things financial.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:17 AM (aD39U)

281 The painting is the first recording of backseat driving.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 16, 2024 10:17 AM (MGqzM)

282
Duesenberg wasn't that Stalin's favorite ride?...or wasit Cadillac?
Posted by: BignJames at February 16, 2024

***
Old Joe S. liked American products. He had U.S. Edgeworth pipe tobacco shipped to him in the diplomatic pouches. On the other hand, Dunhill, an English pipe, was reportedly his favorite pipe brand.

I think Duesenberg went out of business early in the Depression, so it's not terribly likely Stalin had one. Though he might have. Or perhaps a Packard -- the "American Rolls-Royce."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

283 Power steering was introduced in 1926
Posted by: Ben Had at February 16, 2024 10:03 AM (7h3oY)

I won't dispute that, but myself, I have never seen a pre-War car fitted with it. It really only became commonplace, on mass-market cars, in the early 1950's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 16, 2024 10:17 AM (tkR6S)

284 So the DOJ arrests someone who claimed the Biden's got money from Ukraine ? How convenient
Posted by: It's me donna at February 16, 2024 10:16 AM (Akjoo)

Better, they charged him with giving false testimony ... about Biden getting money from Ukraine.

Because that would never happen.

Sweet methodology there.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:18 AM (aD39U)

285 Duesenberg's were works of art.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 16, 2024 10:18 AM (MGqzM)

286 I like the industrial "sea foam green" that was popular in the 60's and 70's and buildings in the 90's that had not been renovated since the 60's and 70's.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024

***
When I see those Jacuzzi commercials about updating your shower or tub with a modern shower, I like the colors of tile and tub in the older installations better. Bathroom tile green FTW!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 10:19 AM (J2vNu)

287
Autumn Gold
Frost White
Avocado Green

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:19 AM (geLO8)

288 We are watching the Stalinification of our government before our eyes.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 10:20 AM (NYzgN)

289 Cars should be black
Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:11 AM (RjBju)

You own a carwash, don't you.

Posted by: spindrift at February 16, 2024 10:20 AM (MqhXY)

290 I like my cars black, like my county prosecutors.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 10:21 AM (NYzgN)

291 so is the theme of the painting, 'poor Okies huddled under a tree watching the rich folk drive by' ?

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:21 AM (geLO8)

292 282
Duesenberg wasn't that Stalin's favorite ride?...or wasit Cadillac?
Posted by: BignJames at February 16, 2024
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Stalin road in Packard's. His top men road in Rolls Royce's. Packard and Stalin were tight. The first post war luxury car the Soviet Union made looked like a Packard.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 10:21 AM (7Vi0c)

293 Or perhaps a Packard -- the "American Rolls-Royce."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

I think Packard...FDR "gifted" him one.

Posted by: BignJames at February 16, 2024 10:21 AM (AwYPR)

294 153 “Some in Congress wanting to take on shrinkflation. Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren (MA), Tammy Baldwin (WI), and Bob Casey (PA), and more re-introducing the Price Gouging Prevention Act. "
Posted by: SMOD

If the manufacturers didn't have to pay rising salaries & benefits, much more for products made from oil/gas, and the ever increasing, often outrageous transportation costs for many/most goods, would there be such shrinkflation that that band of Senate clowns will make their names on for the election cycle while also supporting FJB's nonsense? (Rhetorical)

Casey and his big business cries. Betcha at least one immediate relative has been blessed.

My opinion, all.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun and bear, they only have to outrun us - for now at February 16, 2024 10:21 AM (GshMh)

295 You own a carwash, don't you.
Posted by: spindrift at February 16, 2024 10:20 AM (MqhXY)
++++
LOL

One thing I did not anticipate when moving somewhere humid was how much my car wash budget would fall. In Denver, it's dry and it's dusty and a carwash just something I had to do regularly. A bit of moisture in the air really reduces the need for routine car washing. I imagine it's much harder to make money owning a car wash in Topeka than it is in Phoenix.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 10:21 AM (HnUIn)

296 I had a black car with a black interior. Got ridiculusly hot inside. Any temp over 40 degrees, and I would have to turn on the AC. Never again.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024

***
And the salespeople try to convince you that a black interior doesn't show dirt. Uh, no. Ever wear a black suit? Dirt is not all coal black; it shows up against the dark material. Yes, my beige interior gets a little dirty, but it's cooler, and it seems larger inside than does a black interior.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 10:22 AM (J2vNu)

297 Used to love the metal buckles ON the seat that some genius thought would look cool on the Volare I had to drive. Nothing better than climbing in on that imitation leather in the summer and a nice hot fake buckle on your legs. Maybe they were trying to brand their customers.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 16, 2024 10:22 AM (MGqzM)

298 MAGA Ken -
Please excuse my slow response. By the time I one finger type a comment on this phone...
What I find ludicrous are the rescue mechanism explanations "they" come up with. Actually foretold to a T by Dr Jason Lisle before the first images started coming back.
"Galaxies must have started forming much earlier than we thought."

Posted by: TeeJ at February 16, 2024 10:22 AM (o3xwr)

299 Washing a car is a waste of time. That's what rain is for.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:23 AM (9yWhg)

300 Wow, I got a cold call from Austria. Hitler must have something to tell me.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Wife got one Monday.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 16, 2024 10:23 AM (ous9O)

301 The Stupid Party GOP continues to display why we can't have nice things. 'Michigan GOP chair refuses to step down after party votes her out'

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She's gone full Biden!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 16, 2024 10:23 AM (FVME7)

302 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around.
Dang. Today's travel tip. No matter how good the soap in the restroom smells, it is never a good idea to come walking out sniffing your fingers.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 16, 2024 10:24 AM (W/lyH)

303 >Duesenberg's were works of art.

I want a 1920s car that is 30 feet long and 10 feet wide. Two door two seater of course.

Posted by: BourbonChicken, supervillain at February 16, 2024 10:24 AM (cf/0E)

304 I had a black car with a black interior. Got ridiculusly hot inside. Any temp over 40 degrees, and I would have to turn on the AC. Never again.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

White. The national car color of Texas.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 16, 2024 10:24 AM (ous9O)

305 The Stupid Party GOP continues to display why we can't have nice things. 'Michigan GOP chair refuses to step down after party votes her out'

In fairness, she was not voted out by the MIGOP but rather by People Back East (tm)

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:24 AM (aD39U)

306 Navalny dead in gulag.

Posted by: torabora at February 16, 2024 10:25 AM (BeGNM)

307 293 Or perhaps a Packard -- the "American Rolls-Royce."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

I think Packard...FDR "gifted" him one.
Posted by: BignJames at February 16, 2024 10:21 AM (AwYPR)

Some people call me a Packard Goose.

(This reference would've worked better on the previous thread run by MisHum.)

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 16, 2024 10:25 AM (KbCG3)

308 Duesenberg's were works of art.

I want a 1920s car that is 30 feet long and 10 feet wide. Two door two seater of course.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

With the outside rumble seat for the mother-in-law.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 16, 2024 10:25 AM (ous9O)

309 Navalny dead in gulag.
Posted by: torabora at February 16, 2024 10:25 AM (BeGNM)

Collapsed and died at 47.

Convenient for someone.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:25 AM (aD39U)

310 It is always a smart move to drive a polished stainless steel car down south.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 10:26 AM (NYzgN)

311 Posted by: Pudinhead

Wife got one Monday.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 16, 2024 10:23 AM (ous9O)

"I have zee final solution for your expiring car warranty."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 16, 2024 10:26 AM (KbCG3)

312 She's gone full Biden!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 16, 2024 10:23 AM (FVME7)

'You can't fire me, I *won't* quit!' is a new take.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 10:26 AM (nC+QA)

313 Marilu Henner or Mariette Hartley?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:27 AM (9yWhg)

314 I had a black car with a black interior. Got ridiculusly hot inside. Any temp over 40 degrees, and I would have to turn on the AC. Never again.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Assuming leather. I've never understood leather interior. Fry your ass on any day above 60. Freeze your ass on any day below 50.

All for something you actually care to keep nice (your interior, not your ass).

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 16, 2024 10:27 AM (KbCG3)

315 The Stupid Party GOP continues to display why we can't have nice things. 'Michigan GOP chair refuses to step down after party votes her out'

-
She's gone full Biden!

Interesting story.
On its face, GOP POC chick has a valid argument that the national RNC cannot override the state selection. However, the devil is in the details, and I don't know what the bylaws actually say. Once again, insufficiently detailed reporting.

Pete Hoekstra used to be my rep.
He was all right.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 16, 2024 10:27 AM (ufFY8)

316 Assuming leather. I've never understood leather interior. Fry your ass on any day above 60. Freeze your ass on any day below 50.

No, just fabric.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:28 AM (9yWhg)

317 Navalny dead in gulag.

I'm shocked, shocked, that there would be wetworks in Russia.

Posted by: John Podesta at February 16, 2024 10:28 AM (ibTVg)

318 All for something you actually care to keep nice (your interior, not your ass).
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 16, 2024 10:27 AM (KbCG3)

Speak for yourself.

Posted by: Pete Bootygag at February 16, 2024 10:28 AM (tkR6S)

319 In fairness, she was not voted out by the MIGOP but rather by People Back East (tm)

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:24 AM (aD39U)

Ah. That makes rather a difference.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 10:28 AM (nC+QA)

320 I want a 1920s car that is 30 feet long and 10 feet wide. Two door two seater of course.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

Of course there are some 70s Detroit monsters that fit this description.

Posted by: BourbonChicken, supervillain at February 16, 2024 10:28 AM (cf/0E)

321 Redneck car wash... a rain storm and a rag.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2024 10:28 AM (Q4IgG)

322 Marilu Henner or Mariette Hartley?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:27 AM (9yWhg)

Henner if I can't have both.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

323 313 Marilu Henner or Mariette Hartley?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:27 AM (9yWhg)
---------------

Yes, please.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at February 16, 2024 10:29 AM (2AUjo)

324 Redneck car wash... a rain storm and a rag.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2024 10:28 AM (Q4IgG)

Heard about a dude breaking out the bar of soap on the side of the freeway during a heavy rainstorm once. Thankfully he left his underwear on.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

325 who remembers those folding mesh seat cover things from back in the day

my dad had a '69 Olds Delta 88 with a black interior, no AC

so we all had to have our own seat covers
that car was miserable in warm weather

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:29 AM (geLO8)

326 Assuming leather. I've never understood leather interior. Fry your ass on any day above 60. Freeze your ass on any day below 50.

No, just fabric.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

100% support and defend this statement.

However, I can't stand getting zapped by static electricity during cold dry season every time I get in or out of the car.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 16, 2024 10:30 AM (jk+hZ)

327 316 Assuming leather. I've never understood leather interior. Fry your ass on any day above 60. Freeze your ass on any day below 50.

No, just fabric.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:28 AM (9yWhg)

Well then. Ha.

Bought a truck two years ago. Father went with me. After signing the papers I said to my father, "Super happy. Had everything I wanted. Fit my budget and heated seats."

"It doesn't have heated seats."

"Dang."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 16, 2024 10:30 AM (KbCG3)

328 Cars should be black
Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:11 AM (RjBju)

You own a carwash, don't you.
Posted by: spindrift

city cars n tx do not get drty

Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:30 AM (RjBju)

329 .Marilu Henner or Mariette Hartley?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Marilu, for the Saucy factor

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:30 AM (geLO8)

330 300 Wow, I got a cold call from Austria. Hitler must have something to tell me.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Wife got one Monday.
--------------
What did Hitler tell her?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 10:30 AM (Hpgos)

331 326 Assuming leather. I've never understood leather interior. Fry your ass on any day above 60. Freeze your ass on any day below 50.

No, just fabric.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

100% support and defend this statement.

However, I can't stand getting zapped by static electricity during cold dry season every time I get in or out of the car.
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 16, 2024 10:30 AM (jk+hZ)

I got into the habit of tapping the car door. Became an involuntary movement.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 16, 2024 10:31 AM (KbCG3)

332 'You can't fire me, I *won't* quit!' is a new take.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 10:26 AM (nC+QA)

Yes it is.
Bitch that was removed in my county from her Health Administrator job last year ( she was put in two weeks before the new Board (8 of 11 new 'superconservatives') took power refuses to leave. Lawsuit going on, total bullshit. And these are all supposedly Republicans.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 16, 2024 10:31 AM (ufFY8)

333 47 is not far from the average male lifespan in Russia for a man these days. (it's actually about 64, if the web is to be trusted).

Maybe it is just one of those things. Or he was vaxxed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:31 AM (aD39U)

334 We had a 1908 Buick kicking around the garage when I was a kid, we'd push it up to the showroom for the September new car showings.
My grandfather put a weekend in in the early sixties and got the thing running, then he sold it to another Buick dealer.
It was fun to play on when killing time at the garage.

Posted by: From about that Time at February 16, 2024 10:31 AM (4780s)

335 Of course there are some 70s Detroit monsters that fit this description.

Posted by: BourbonChicken, supervillain at February 16, 2024 10:28 AM (cf/0E)

'73 Mustang

Posted by: BignJames at February 16, 2024 10:31 AM (AwYPR)

336 Of course there are some 70s Detroit monsters that fit this description.
----------------
I am particularly fond of the early 70s Cadillac El Dorado.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 10:32 AM (Hpgos)

337 Yaaaaaay! You have a real talent.
Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 10:07 AM

He doesn't just track down hot babes for us.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 10:33 AM (Wnv9h)

338 It was a sporty little thing, the 1908 Buick. Bright yellow, three seater, two in front and one slightly raised and centered in the back.

Posted by: From about that Time at February 16, 2024 10:33 AM (4780s)

339 298 MAGA Ken -
Please excuse my slow response. By the time I one finger type a comment on this phone...
What I find ludicrous are the rescue mechanism explanations "they" come up with. Actually foretold to a T by Dr Jason Lisle before the first images started coming back.
"Galaxies must have started forming much earlier than we thought."
Posted by: TeeJ at February 16, 2024 10:22 AM (o3xwr)

————

Well they want to fit it in their current theories. Of course it makes seem like they are grasping at straws. I just watched an episode of PBS Space Time and the super massive early black hole required them to make a “heavy seed” model of early BH development. Not quite buying it.

But what is ludicrous in my mind is the scale: 200 trillion galaxies and that’s only in the 4% of the universe currently observed.

The mapping of the universe is really just beginning.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 16, 2024 10:33 AM (++4z6)

340 * Good Corinthian blither has re-entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 16, 2024 10:33 AM (TtRev)

341 my dad had a '69 Olds Delta 88

Did he have a haunted cabin in the woods?

Posted by: BourbonChicken, supervillain at February 16, 2024 10:34 AM (cf/0E)

342 I hope J.J. Sefton is on the mend.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 16, 2024 10:35 AM (tkR6S)

343 that sounds like a movie reference
I am not familiar

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:35 AM (geLO8)

344 He doesn't just track down hot babes for us.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 10:33 AM (Wnv9h)

He also darts them, hogties them, and leaves them in the meat locker.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2024 10:36 AM (dGCAG)

345 341 my dad had a '69 Olds Delta 88
-----------------
I used my dad's 72 Delta 88 for date night. That front seat was excellent for making out.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 10:36 AM (Hpgos)

346 Mrs DIG says heated leather seats are weird, they feel like you peed.

LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 16, 2024 10:36 AM (ufFY8)

347 >>> I hope J.J. Sefton is on the mend.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I think he's on the toilet

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:36 AM (geLO8)

348 I want a 1920s car that is 30 feet long and 10 feet wide. Two door two seater of course.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

******

Of course there are some 70s Detroit monsters that fit this description.

Posted by: BourbonChicken, supervillain at February 16, 2024 10:28 AM (cf/0E)

Or a Canyonero!

Posted by: HTL at February 16, 2024 10:36 AM (RAGWM)

349 313 Marilu Henner or Mariette Hartley?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:27 AM (9yWhg)

———

Marilu Hennecke hands down. I hit puberty watching Taxi. She is seared into my sexual brain cells.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 16, 2024 10:37 AM (++4z6)

350 Packard...goose

Back in the day Mr. Kellogg would fire up the 'Old Black Goose' and take the kids for a ride around the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. That was also a huge black Packard.

Posted by: DanMan at February 16, 2024 10:37 AM (8uzBS)

351 >>.I used my dad's 72 Delta 88 for date night. That front seat was excellent for making out.

Posted by: Pudinhead

it was capacious

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:37 AM (geLO8)

352 Mrs DIG says heated leather seats are weird, they feel like you peed.

LOL
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 16, 2024 10:36 AM (ufFY

Heated seat are da bomb if you live in a cold climate.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 16, 2024 10:37 AM (tkR6S)

353 Literature Students Told 'Worship of the Written Word' Is White Supremacy

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Uh oh. There goes the Book Thread!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 16, 2024 10:37 AM (FVME7)

354 47 is not far from the average male lifespan in Russia for a man these days. (it's actually about 64, if the web is to be trusted).

Maybe it is just one of those things. Or he was vaxxed.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:31 AM (aD39U)

He was in Germany in 2021, reportedly, died of a blood clot, and wasn't going to get out of prison for another 14 years but no doubt we'll spend all day wacking it to how awful Putin is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 16, 2024 10:38 AM (zhLdt)

355 The aforementioned Miss Henner

all I can say is 'oh Mommy'

http://tinyurl.com/3u5vczh7

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:39 AM (geLO8)

356 Well they want to fit it in their current theories. Of course it makes seem like they are grasping at straws. I just watched an episode of PBS Space Time and the super massive early black hole required them to make a “heavy seed” model of early BH development. Not quite buying it.

But what is ludicrous in my mind is the scale: 200 trillion galaxies and that’s only in the 4% of the universe currently observed.

The mapping of the universe is really just beginning.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 16, 2024 10:33 AM (++4z6)

I read a rather intriguing piece some time ago, arguing that our current beliefs about black holes may be quite wrong. It had a rather provocative title like "Black Holes Don't Exist," but it was of course more nuanced than that.

Anyhoo, I recall having a discussion with one of my brothers about it, and he got really angry that I would dare question science.

Nitwit. Don't ask me what he does for a living. Just don't.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2024 10:39 AM (dGCAG)

357 http://tinyurl.com/3u5vczh7
Posted by: Don Black

Nice. Very nice.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:40 AM (9yWhg)

358 I hope J.J. Sefton is on the mend.
__________

Make sure you wish him a happy birthday!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 16, 2024 10:40 AM (lf83v)

359 Miss Henner: meow!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 16, 2024 10:40 AM (ufFY8)

360 Marilu Hennecke hands down. I hit puberty watching Taxi. She is seared into my sexual brain cells.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 16, 2024 10:37 AM

Loves shelf paper, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 10:41 AM (Wnv9h)

361 Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 16, 2024 10:33 AM (++4z6)

I remember reading something where they were explaining that the old "steady state" model of the universe had to be thrown out because expansion would require the constant creation of matter. That meant that the only conceivable correct theory was that all matter was created all at once rather than slowly, continuously over time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 16, 2024 10:41 AM (zhLdt)

362 You can't fire me, I *won't* quit!' is a new take.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 10:26 AM (nC+QA)

Saw a story about this affirmative action elect in small town Illinois the other day. She got elected, implemented herself a massive salary, then dictated that should she ever be replaced, that salary drops to $22k a year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

363 we had a 1972 two door Maverick. The front seats tilted in to get into the back seat. Made for impossible contortions that negated any thing other than sitting down facing forward.

Posted by: DanMan at February 16, 2024 10:42 AM (8uzBS)

364 http://tinyurl.com/3u5vczh7
Posted by: Don Black

Nice. Very nice.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:40 AM (9yWhg)

Yeah, she looks hot and actually human.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:42 AM (aD39U)

365 Mrs DIG says heated leather seats are weird, they feel like you peed.

LOL
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 16, 2024

***
The ones with A/C make you feel that way. The heated ones make you feel as if you're sitting on sandpaper.

Leather I admit can be hot. But it's better in that respect than the vinyl we used to have in US cars. That stuff would sear you. Nowadays I try to park in shade where I can, I hve tinted windows, and I put up a sunshade in both front and back. The car is usually not too desperately hot after work. I open all four doors and let the hot breeze blow some of the heat out, then climb in, roll down the windows, get going, turn the air on, and only then shut the windows.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 10:42 AM (J2vNu)

366 Wow, I got a cold call from Austria. Hitler must have something to tell me.
_______

Probably wallpaper sales call.

Or your Austrian car warranty is about to expire.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 16, 2024 10:42 AM (lf83v)

367 Apparently, Marilu Henner has an incredible memory.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:42 AM (9yWhg)

368 The aforementioned Miss Henner

all I can say is 'oh Mommy'

http://tinyurl.com/3u5vczh7
Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:39 AM

Real and spectacular.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 10:43 AM (Wnv9h)

369 367 Apparently, Marilu Henner has an incredible memory.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:42 AM (9yWhg)

That what we're calling them these days?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 16, 2024 10:43 AM (KbCG3)

370 The word is mammary.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:44 AM (aD39U)

371 ... and he got really angry that I would dare question science.

-------------

* Speechless *

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 16, 2024 10:44 AM (TtRev)

372 >That meant that the only conceivable correct theory was that all matter was created all at once

yeah I never bought that one
But I'm no pscientist

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:44 AM (geLO8)

373
Have urinalists noted that Fani put all African-American wymyns at risk by divulging that they keep wads of cash and stockpiles of precious metals in their places of residence?

How dare she? How dare she!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2024 10:44 AM (myK50)

374 I used my dad's 72 Delta 88 for date night. That front seat was excellent for making out.

Posted by: Pudinhead
*
it was capacious
Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024

***
My '65 Mercury Park Lane, the full-sized four-door, had plenty of room both front and back. Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 and I took advantage of that fact from time to time. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 10:45 AM (J2vNu)

375 Referring to Evil Dead and Army of Darkness. Sam Raimi has the same yellow Delta 88 in every movie he makes.

Posted by: BourbonChicken, supervillain at February 16, 2024 10:45 AM (cf/0E)

376 Think about this: the people of Fulton County Georgia wanted Fani Willis as DA

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2024 10:45 AM (B19zH)

377 Loves shelf paper, too.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Shelf paper requires that the shelving be properly installed. Looks like Ace is out of luck.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:45 AM (9yWhg)

378 The word is mammary.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:44 AM (aD39U)

Lyrics I will be singing to God at the Pearly Gates:

"Thanks for the mammaries!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

379 At ZH:
In what some have called the 'woke trifecta', the white trans official took to social media today to explain that, apparently, climate-change is racist.

“Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on the physical and mental health of black communities.”

So, to be clear, climate-change is an existential threat to all of mankind, right?

But it's an existential-er threat to communities of color?

'Trust the science'.

But have no fear, America, 'Rachel' has a solution. As 'they' explains:

"Through our Office of Climate Change and Health Equity and the Office of Environmental Justice..."

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 10:45 AM (NYzgN)

380 Cars should be black
Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:11 AM (RjBju)

You own a carwash, don't you.
Posted by: spindrift

city cars n tx do not get drty
Posted by: N

You've never left the city, huh?
More country than city in Texas.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 16, 2024 10:46 AM (ous9O)

381 any word that proceeds Justice ensures that it isn't.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:46 AM (aD39U)

382
city cars n tx do not get drty
Posted by: N

You've never left the city, huh?
More country than city in Texas.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 16, 2024 10:46 AM (ous9O)

Cars in cities get dirty sitting in parking garages when the wind blows.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

383 47 is not far from the average male lifespan in Russia for a man these days. (it's actually about 64, if the web is to be trusted).

Maybe it is just one of those things. Or he was vaxxed.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:31 AM (aD39U)

He went for a "walk"...because sure, who does not go for a walk in the middle of February, while serving time beyond the Arctic Circle. Given this is Russia, and given Navalnyy was so far away he no longer posed a serious threat, his demise could have been carelessness since this is a terrible black eye for Putin, just days after his first sit down with a Western journalist.

Posted by: runner at February 16, 2024 10:47 AM (V13WU)

384 I don't see a horn on that car, but

Kah-ooo-gah! Kah-ooo-gah!

Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 10:47 AM (KpWJP)

385 Think about this: the people of Fulton County Georgia wanted Fani Willis as DA
__________

It's like that in places like Albany County and Schenectady County in New York. The voters want someone who will let them get away with crimes. They don't want a prosecutor. They want someone who will plea down their DWI or their nephew's drug possession.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 16, 2024 10:47 AM (lf83v)

386 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
UNREAL. National MS Society (@mssociety) forced a 90-year-old volunteer to step down because she wasn’t “inclusive” enough after she asked what pronouns are.
Fran volunteered for 60 years and her late husband had MS.
The @mssociety still hasn’t said a word about this. Don’t give them another penny until they rectify this!

-
Bitch wouldn't join the New World Order by becoming New Soviet Woman!

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 16, 2024 10:47 AM (FVME7)

387 ... and he got really angry that I would dare question science.

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* Speechless *
Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 16, 2024 10:44 AM (TtRev)

He didn't quite put it that way, that's me using current terminology about how we are not allowed to question science.

But still, he's very smart, except where he isn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2024 10:47 AM (dGCAG)

388 a dead whale has washed up on the beach near Seaside, Oregon. Oregon DOT is apparently standing by with dynamite, prepared for round two

http://tinyurl.com/3mwna4eu

Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2024 10:47 AM (D7oie)

389 Wow, I got a cold call from Austria. Hitler must have something to tell me.
_______

Probably wallpaper sales call.

Or your Austrian car warranty is about to expire.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 16, 2024 10:42 AM (lf83v)

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There's a funny Hitler "Downfall" parody video in there somewhere ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 16, 2024 10:47 AM (XUhl+)

390 I like this painting, but cannot identify the car. It's not a Model T.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Might be a 1905 Spyker
http://tinyurl.com/yuunhphs

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2024 10:47 AM (HE6Dk)

391 Dad always liked huge cars

he had a 2 door Chrysler Newport- immense car
the front hood was big enough to have a picnic with the family

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 10:47 AM (geLO8)

392
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Bitch wouldn't join the New World Order by becoming New Soviet Woman!

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 16, 2024 10:47 AM (FVME7)

EVENINK wear!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

393 Think about this: the people of Fulton County Georgia wanted Fani Willis as DA
Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2024 10:45 AM (B19zH)

Of course, at the time, they weren't told that she is a self-dealing coont.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 16, 2024 10:48 AM (tkR6S)

394 You've never left the city, huh?
More country than city in Texas.
Posted by: r

vs the north cars in tx do not get dirty

i have driven around tx for a month and the cars are not as dirty as 1 day in a northern state after a storm

Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:48 AM (RjBju)

395 EVENINK wear!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

Very nice..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2024 10:48 AM (aD39U)

396 You can't fire me, I *won't* quit!' is a new take.
Posted by: Polliwog

Don't go pissing off people in Michigan. They have a way of making people disappear.

Posted by: Jimmy Hoffa at February 16, 2024 10:48 AM (ous9O)

397 Hadn't heard they were up to two hundred trillion. Just hundreds of billions. Not surprising though.
We'll never map it all.
And they, them will never get it right because they, them, in their own words, will only allow for a naturalistic explanation for "In the beginning..."
Even sadder to me though are those who want to "ride the fence" by trying shoehorn billions of years into the creation account.

Time to fix my standard, late breakfast.
Love each other fellow babies

Posted by: TeeJ at February 16, 2024 10:49 AM (o3xwr)

398 i have driven around tx for a month and the cars are not as dirty as 1 day in a northern state after a storm
Posted by: N

Come drive down my 3 mile dirt road in July.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 16, 2024 10:50 AM (ous9O)

399 Saw a story about this affirmative action elect in small town Illinois the other day. She got elected, implemented herself a massive salary, then dictated that should she ever be replaced, that salary drops to $22k a year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

New photo entry for the definition of "chutzpah" in the dictionary?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 10:50 AM (nC+QA)

400 Referring to Evil Dead and Army of Darkness. Sam Raimi has the same yellow Delta 88 in every movie he makes.
Posted by: BourbonChicken, supervillain at February 16, 2024 10:45 AM (cf/0E)

Have you seen the show they did, I think for Netflix, a few years ago? It wasn't bad.

Bruce Campbell points out where the car showed up in that, but he was rather coy about it, saying something to the effect the thing is so damned beat up now, not much of the original is left... or none of it. I'm not sure.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2024 10:50 AM (dGCAG)

401 I want a 1920s car that is 30 feet long and 10 feet wide. Two door two seater of course.
Posted by: BourbonChicken, supervillain at February 16, 2024 10:24 AM (cf/0E)

That sounds like a 2020's Ram 350, just about the only pickup you can find nowadays.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2024 10:50 AM (D7oie)

402 vs the north cars in tx do not get dirty

i have driven around tx for a month and the cars are not as dirty as 1 day in a northern state after a storm
Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:48 AM (RjBju)

I have lived in Lubbock, where after a rain during a wind storm, I couldn't find my neon blue 66 Mustang because everything was covered with 1/4 inch of mud.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

403 a dead whale has washed up on the beach near Seaside, Oregon. Oregon DOT is apparently standing by with dynamite, prepared for round two
_________

*Rosie O'Donnell has joined the chat*

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 16, 2024 10:51 AM (lf83v)

404 Duesenberg's were works of art.

I want a 1920s car that is 30 feet long and 10 feet wide. Two door two seater of course.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

If you ever get to Los Angeles go to the car museum on Wilshire, they had 30 duesenbergs when we visited.
(Near La Brea tarpits)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2024 10:51 AM (HE6Dk)

405 a dead whale has washed up on the beach near Seaside, Oregon. Oregon DOT is apparently standing by with dynamite, prepared for round two

http://tinyurl.com/3mwna4eu
Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2024 10:47 AM (D7oie)

Was a weird tall guy with crazy hair anywhere nearby with his golf clubs?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2024 10:51 AM (dGCAG)

406 Fat Fani as you've never seen her before!

DevilEyedElvis
@ElvisEyed
Yes this dummy legit has her dress on backwards…..what the actual fuck lmao

http://tinyurl.com/z3m49jvz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 16, 2024 10:51 AM (FVME7)

407 Damn it, Grump beat me to it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 10:52 AM (Wnv9h)

408
DevilEyedElvis
@ElvisEyed
Yes this dummy legit has her dress on backwards…..what the actual fuck lmao

http://tinyurl.com/z3m49jvz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 16, 2024 10:51 AM (FVME7)

The zipper is ALWAYS on the front. DUH!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

409 a dead whale has washed up on the beach near Seaside, Oregon. Oregon DOT is apparently standing by with dynamite, prepared for round two

Round one video is flat out awesome.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 16, 2024 10:52 AM (ous9O)

410 Damn it, Grump beat me to it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 10:52 AM (Wnv9h)

Yas gotta be FAST round these parts.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

411 Might be a 1905 Spyker
http://tinyurl.com/yuunhphs
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2024 10:47 AM (HE6Dk)

Interesting. The horn with the snake head is very cool.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 16, 2024 10:53 AM (tkR6S)

412 My grandmother had a 60's something Buick. Big 4 door, white, with a teal blue interior. Huge thing. I was 16 or 17 when we had it for a couple weeks as my mom's car was in the shop for something or other.

It was smooth. Picked up my little sister at elementary school one day. Made her sit in the back.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2024 10:54 AM (Q4IgG)

413
I have lived in Lubbock, where after a rain during a wind storm, I couldn't find my neon blue 66 Mustang because everything was covered with 1/4 inch of mud.......
Posted by: S

just sayin somewhere where they salt and sand changes your thoughts about dirty

Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:54 AM (RjBju)

414 Interesting. The horn with the snake head is very cool.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 16, 2024 10:53 AM (tkR6S)

Wonder if it's OE?

Posted by: BignJames at February 16, 2024 10:54 AM (AwYPR)

415 Our perception of time and space is a function of our existence within the universe that God created. We see what God wants us to see in the way he wants us to see it. It costs me nothing in this life to believe in a 6 day creation, but belief that our universe is billions of years old would cost me my salvation.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 10:54 AM (NYzgN)

416
just sayin somewhere where they salt and sand changes your thoughts about dirty
Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:54 AM (RjBju)

That's not dirt. That's rust forming before your very eyes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

417 Don't go pissing off people in Michigan. They have a way of making people disappear.

Maybe one of you could make the governor disappear.

Posted by: FBI Agent Totally Not Trying To Entrap You at February 16, 2024 10:55 AM (pjs7m)

418 I want a 1920s car that is 30 feet long and 10 feet wide. Two door two seater of course.
Posted by: BourbonChicken, supervillain at February 16, 2024 10:24 AM (cf/0E)

That sounds like a 2020's Ram 350, just about the only pickup you can find nowadays.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2024 10:50 AM (D7oie)

There's a museum in the middle of nowhere, the "town" of Gateway, Colorado. Has some of the most beautiful cars ever assembled.

I forget the year, but I think one of the more expensive vehicles is a Duesenberg, I believe once owned by Clark Gable or someone like that.

I wouldn't mind having that car.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2024 10:55 AM (dGCAG)

419 Yas gotta be FAST round these parts.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:53 AM

Got distracted by work training.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 10:55 AM (Wnv9h)

420 Coordinate and assist the DRL/GP Leadership in the administration and coordination of international human rights and democracy foreign assistance programs.
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How would you do this fucking job? I may apply just to see how fucked up this place is.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 16, 2024 10:55 AM (Hpgos)

421 just sayin somewhere where they salt and sand changes your thoughts about dirty
Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:54 AM (RjBju)

That's not dirt. That's rust forming before your very eyes.
Posted by: S

Posted by: N at February 16, 2024 10:55 AM (RjBju)

422 God as my witness, I thought whales could fly!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 10:56 AM (NYzgN)

423
Got distracted by work training.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 10:55 AM (Wnv9h)

You must be trained on how to work?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

424 406 Fat Fani as you've never seen her before!

DevilEyedElvis
@ElvisEyed
Yes this dummy legit has her dress on backwards…..what the actual fuck lmao

http://tinyurl.com/z3m49jvz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 16, 2024 10:51 AM (FVME7)

I wonder if she was drugged-up.

Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 10:56 AM (KpWJP)

425 Got distracted by work training.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 10:55 AM (Wnv9h)

You must be trained on how to work?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

If you're a white male you do.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2024 10:57 AM (dGCAG)

426 http://tinyurl.com/z3m49jvz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 16, 2024 10:51 AM (FVME7)

The zipper is ALWAYS on the front. DUH!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

Heh! Our old friend Amishdude is in the thread. LOL.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 16, 2024 10:57 AM (tkR6S)

427 belief that our universe is billions of years old would cost me my salvation.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 10:54 AM (NYzgN)

If you say so.

Posted by: BignJames at February 16, 2024 10:57 AM (AwYPR)

428 belief that our universe is billions of years old would cost me my salvation.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Really????

Salvation comes through accepting Christ as one's Lord and Savior. How does belief in the age of the universe affect that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:57 AM (9yWhg)

429 MSNBC: Nikki Haley on the death of Navalny: Putin did this. The same Putin who Donald Trump praises and defends

Never can I...

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun and bear, they only have to outrun us - for now at February 16, 2024 10:57 AM (GshMh)

430 @ElvisEyed
Yes this dummy legit has her dress on backwards…..what the actual fuck lmao
http://tinyurl.com/z3m49jvz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 16, 2024 10:51 AM (FVME7)
++++
Hilarious.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2024 10:57 AM (HnUIn)

431 You must be trained on how to work?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:56 AM

It's not like they do it at law school.

Actually some interesting AI features of Westlaw. Useful stuff if used properly.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 10:58 AM (Wnv9h)

432 I wonder if she was drugged-up.
Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 10:56 AM (KpWJP)

Someone in the comments yesterday was insinuating she was high on cocaine.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 10:58 AM (nC+QA)

433 belief that our universe is billions of years old would cost me my salvation.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I believe The Bible has first man living for a REALLY long time......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

434 277 I had a black car with a black interior. Got ridiculusly hot inside. Any temp over 40 degrees, and I would have to turn on the AC. Never again.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 10:15 AM (9yWhg)

Suffering builds strength.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Posted by: XTC at February 16, 2024 10:58 AM (sm6Pk)

435 Having a dress zipper at the back is white supremacy

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 10:58 AM (NYzgN)

436 When I visited the Stanley Hotel in Colorado (the hotel that inspired King to write The Shining), they had a gigantic scale model of the famous Stanley Steamer automobile on display in the lobby. Same Stanley for both.

Can't recall the scale, but the car was not full-sized. Maybe 4/5ths the size of the real vehicle?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

437 I think with the early cars, I'd stick with a horse. At least until the Model A at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 16, 2024 10:59 AM (xcxpd)

438 He was in Germany in 2021, reportedly, died of a blood clot, and wasn't going to get out of prison for another 14 years but no doubt we'll spend all day wacking it to how awful Putin is.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 16, 2024 10:38 AM (zhLdt)

well, America never has people locked away for political reasons so I can see their point.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2024 10:59 AM (D7oie)

439 BREAKING: Putin rival Navalny dies in Arctic prison, felt “unwell” after walk and “almost immediately lost consciousness”

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I didn't even know Hillary was in the Arctic.

http://tinyurl.com/33tdunbz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 16, 2024 11:00 AM (FVME7)

440 432 I wonder if she was drugged-up.
Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 10:56 AM (KpWJP)

Someone in the comments yesterday was insinuating she was high on cocaine.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 10:58 AM (nC+QA)

Something about a coke teeth-clenching. I didn't see that in the videos, though.

Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 11:00 AM (KpWJP)

441 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 16, 2024 11:00 AM (u82oZ)

442 Nood

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 16, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

443 Nitwit. Don't ask me what he does for a living. Just don't.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Some kind of public servant I would bet. High school science teacher, perhaps?

Posted by: From about that Time at February 16, 2024 11:01 AM (4780s)

444 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 16, 2024 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

445 noodness

Posted by: m at February 16, 2024 11:01 AM (KpWJP)

446 Noodus throckmortonii (and Buck is also talking about cars!)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 16, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)

447 Actually some interesting AI features of Westlaw. Useful stuff if used properly.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2024 10:58 AM (Wnv9h)

"used properly" being key. AtC has been rendered practically speechless on Twitter a few times due to examples of attorneys trusting a chatbot to provide legitimate cites.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 16, 2024 11:01 AM (nC+QA)

448 In reality only God grants salvation, no action on our part gains it for us.

The Bible is the word of God. To say that the creation account is wrong, delegitimizes the rest. So what good is your profession of Christ if you think the Bible is untrue? And if some is wrong, but some is not, where does God stop lying to us?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 11:02 AM (NYzgN)

449 Yeah, she looks hot and actually human.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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Actually, she looks like she has an incredible wedgie and is not enjoying it at all.

Posted by: From about that Time at February 16, 2024 11:03 AM (4780s)

450 The Evil Dead series was pretty good. The very end of the show the car gets a Mad Max style super upgrade.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 16, 2024 11:05 AM (cf/0E)

451 Suffering builds strength.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.
Posted by: XTC at February 16, 2024 10:58 AM (sm6Pk)

Pain is weakness moving out to go to college, where it will then lflunk out and move back into your basement to live, unemployed, with its pregnant girlfriend, arthritis.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2024 11:06 AM (D7oie)

452 415 Our perception of time and space is a function of our existence within the universe that God created. We see what God wants us to see in the way he wants us to see it. It costs me nothing in this life to believe in a 6 day creation, but belief that our universe is billions of years old would cost me my salvation.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 16, 2024 10:54 AM (NYzgN)

———

And the way we perceive it shows it to be billions of years old.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 16, 2024 11:59 AM (2fIO4)

453 NIAGRA FALLS. SLOWLY WE TURN,STEP BY STEP INCH BY INCH. Three Stooges Gents without Cents

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