ONT Is The Last Infirmity Of The Human Mind

Evening, folks! Hope the weekend finds you well. Here's a little known factoid about Japanese history.

Fido Friday: Cute overload

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Nature is beautful

What's Dutch for “Big cock”? 'Cuz you know someone had to.

Man gets tired

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Cat venom

Footprints

I'm going to vote for him, but this and COVID really diminished his presidency for me. He could have issued a blanket pardon, Carter pardoned the dodgers.

From the world of sports

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Pretty flower

Big doings in the stroganoff world

When they say oversize load, they mean oversize load

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I grew up in the 80s. Big hair still gets me aroused

Muldoon should write this

Sound on

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History factoid

Twitter in a nutshell

Navigating difficult terrain

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When one of our friend's daughters was very young, I was holding her hand as we walked down the alley. At one point, a storm drain crossed the alley, and she stopped short. “Come on sweetie” I said. She looked down through the grate, and then up at me like I was the dumbest thing on the planet. “I fall” she said. Cute moment, and “I fall” has been part of my family's vocabulary since.

Why harvesting advertising materials with a bot isn't a good idea

A dilemma as old as man

Power move

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Literature moment

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by geography:

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1 Oneth!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 16, 2024 09:59 PM (hOUT3)

2 first

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at February 16, 2024 09:59 PM (GIu0F)

3 damn

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at February 16, 2024 10:00 PM (GIu0F)

4 So much content! Thanks!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 16, 2024 10:00 PM (YRK4R)

5 ONT, yay WD!

Posted by: Zeera , becoming ungovernable by choice at February 16, 2024 10:03 PM (qGQta)

6 Lotsa content...

Posted by: Half Dozen at February 16, 2024 10:05 PM (eHovo)

7 That "longest truck in the world" is pretty impressive. It takes at least 6 semis to move that piece of machinery. I don't even know if you can count how many wheels are on each of the trailers...

Wonder how much of that has to be moved around each year....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2024 10:08 PM (BpYfr)

8 Very girthy ONT WD, thanks!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 16, 2024 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

9 Good evening morons and thanks wd for all the memes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 16, 2024 10:09 PM (RIvkX)

10 That "longest truck in the world" is pretty impressive. It takes at least 6 semis to move that piece of machinery. I don't even know if you can count how many wheels are on each of the trailers...

Wonder how much of that has to be moved around each year....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2024 10:08 PM (BpYfr)

Were the ones at the end pushing, or were they reserve?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 16, 2024 10:09 PM (Angsy)

11 2 first
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at February 16, 2024 09:59 PM (GIu0F)

The ONT
When microseconds count...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 16, 2024 10:10 PM (hOUT3)

12 7 That "longest truck in the world" is pretty impressive. It takes at least 6 semis to move that piece of machinery. I don't even know if you can count how many wheels are on each of the trailers...

Wonder how much of that has to be moved around each year....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2024 10:08 PM

I bet Alberta Oil Peon currently has a splitter in his backyard that he is fixing up for resale.

Unfortunately, he is planning a MoMe where we all have to help him lift in onto the trailer.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:11 PM (HlyYF)

13 Also grew up in the 80's. Big hair is hot.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 16, 2024 10:11 PM (R4t5M)

14 What's Dutch for “Big cock”? 'Cuz you know someone had to.

Den Beste. Used to have a blog. Sadly passed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 16, 2024 10:12 PM (Angsy)

15 I never had to deal with mole rats. But I did deal with gophers. Flooding their burrows was part of the deal. Burning them with diesel fuel and shooting them with .22s was the other part. Getting fat won't save your rat asses from that shit, guys.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2024 10:12 PM (0FoWg)

16 Yay, Do a Grouch a Favor Day ONT!

And now I have to get back to work.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 16, 2024 10:13 PM (dZVON)

17 Were the ones at the end pushing, or were they reserve?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Wondered the same thing.
Also think there had to be one heck of a control synchronization program running the series of trucks.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 16, 2024 10:13 PM (hOUT3)

18 The puppy /baby clip made me light headed it was so sweet.

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:13 PM (MNhXM)

19 I had no idea the Dutch eschewed last names but wondered why so many were named "from the grave."

This explains so much.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 16, 2024 10:13 PM (RIvkX)

20 The geography terms left out coulee.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at February 16, 2024 10:14 PM (ODCB/)

21 Were the ones at the end pushing, or were they reserve?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 16, 2024 10:09 PM (Angsy)
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I'm willing to bet they were pushing. It resembled a long train where you have locomotives at both ends. The semis in the rear probably help steer as this thing does NOT corner well...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2024 10:14 PM (BpYfr)

22 It took me a while, the pretty flower is a nicely expanded jacketed bullet, probably a hollow point handgun bullet that has been shot into a block of gelatin and recovered.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 16, 2024 10:14 PM (YRK4R)

23 10 That "longest truck in the world" is pretty impressive. It takes at least 6 semis to move that piece of machinery. I don't even know if you can count how many wheels are on each of the trailers...

Wonder how much of that has to be moved around each year....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2024 10:08 PM

I think(?) that is probably a new-manufacture condensate splitter. (A simplified hydrocarbon refinery piece of processing equipment.) Probably just moving it to location the one time.

Hopefully, AOP actually will clarify.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:15 PM (HlyYF)

24 20 The geography terms left out coulee.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at February 16, 2024 10:14 PM (ODCB/)

Dam, I can't believe that!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 16, 2024 10:15 PM (hOUT3)

25 When does a cape become a peninsula?

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:15 PM (MNhXM)

26 Was at the county offices a while back. A family was coming in and I held the elevator for them. The little girl with them was afraid of the cracks between the floor and the elevator... had to hop over it.

Took forever for her to get up her nerve.

I closed the door on them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2024 10:17 PM (Q4IgG)

27 Hell yeah. That chick's big hair is hot

Posted by: Admiral spinebender at February 16, 2024 10:17 PM (duT0u)

28 22 It took me a while, the pretty flower is a nicely expanded jacketed bullet, probably a hollow point handgun bullet that has been shot into a block of gelatin and recovered.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 16, 2024 10:14 PM

How many of our best and brightest, college-educated journalists would you have to show that flower before one correctly identified it?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:17 PM (HlyYF)

29 It looked to me the first set of semis at the end were on a chain. That's why I thought they were reserve. Can't push chain. Eh, I'll look again.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 16, 2024 10:17 PM (Angsy)

30 No landslides, gullies or washes either.
Must be a kollige poster.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at February 16, 2024 10:18 PM (ODCB/)

31 When does a cape become a peninsula?
Posted by: Sap Green

When it sees a really hot looking canyon.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 16, 2024 10:18 PM (YRK4R)

32 Love, absolutely LOVE, the geography terms. Nice graphic, the BEST

Posted by: Zeera , becoming ungovernable by choice at February 16, 2024 10:18 PM (qGQta)

33 geography terms left out coulee.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at February 16, 2024 10:14 PM (ODCB/)

Dam, I can't believe that!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at February 16, 2024 10:15 PM (hOUT3)

Isn’t it the same as a ravine?

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:18 PM (MNhXM)

34 It took me a while, the pretty flower is a nicely expanded jacketed bullet, probably a hollow point handgun bullet that has been shot into a block of gelatin and recovered.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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That is exactly what it is. HP after hitting the gel.

Posted by: JQ at February 16, 2024 10:19 PM (njWTi)

35 When does a cape become a peninsula?
Posted by: Sap Green

When it sees a really hot looking canyon.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 16, 2024 10:18 PM (YRK4R)

Hah . Excellent.

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:19 PM (MNhXM)

36 Isthmus be my lucky day!

Posted by: Stymie at February 16, 2024 10:20 PM (V5BDR)

37 When does a cape become a peninsula?
Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:15 PM (MNhXM)

I'm guessing it has something to do with a peninsula being attached to the mainland by a narrow strip of land, like the Crimean Peninsula. But I'm not a geographist.

Posted by: RickZ at February 16, 2024 10:20 PM (emlEe)

38 "YO HO"

All HORDE...Raise the colors HIGH...

Heave HO... Morons & Ettes

Never shall we die...

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 16, 2024 10:20 PM (TDvv2)

39 How much does the gel cost, anyway? Is it worth buying, instead of just watching other guys buy/test it on YT?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2024 10:21 PM (0FoWg)

40 Ravines are small, coulees are big no creek on that poster either.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at February 16, 2024 10:21 PM (ODCB/)

41 A cape is surrounded by water on 2 sides. A peninsula is surrounded by water on 3 sides.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 16, 2024 10:21 PM (R4t5M)

42 25 When does a cape become a peninsula?

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:15 PM (MNhXM)

When does a sound become a bay?

Posted by: BillyD at February 16, 2024 10:22 PM (F6Xpw)

43 Also grew up in the 80's. Big hair is hot.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

When walking into a dance club's women's room (don't ask) during the 80's you risked asphyxiation from the 80%/20% atmospheric mix of Aqua Net/Air.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 16, 2024 10:22 PM (VwNzI)

44 ...it's a penis...dissssgusting!

There ya go, into the weekend on a high note!

Posted by: browndog ready for the weekend at February 16, 2024 10:23 PM (TTAGa)

45 Take no prisoners...

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 16, 2024 10:23 PM (TDvv2)

46 Didn't note the pool under the waterfall.

Posted by: davidt at February 16, 2024 10:24 PM (SYTee)

47 Isn’t it the same as a ravine?

Wadi ya ask?

Posted by: Oddbob at February 16, 2024 10:24 PM (sNc8Y)

48 [i29 It looked to me the first set of semis at the end were on a chain. That's why I thought they were reserve. Can't push chain. Eh, I'll look again.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 16, 2024 10:17 PM (Angsy)

They might also be there for braking on downgrades.

Posted by: BillyD at February 16, 2024 10:24 PM (F6Xpw)

49 14 What's Dutch for “Big cock”? 'Cuz you know someone had to.

Den Beste. Used to have a blog. Sadly passed.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 16, 2024 10:12 PM

Agree!

I loved his blog.

He was a very clear thinker and therefore a very clear writer.

Sometimes he would address a problem about 90 degrees rotated from the way everyone else was looking at it. After he explained it from that angle, you could see it much more clearly, even while looking at it head on.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:25 PM (HlyYF)

50 When I managed a CVS in the 80’s I couldn’t keep aquanet on the shelves. It was also the period of hair bands so guys bought it too.

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:25 PM (MNhXM)

51 so what would be the driver count?

Posted by: Zeera , becoming ungovernable by choice at February 16, 2024 10:26 PM (qGQta)

52 When does a sound become a bay?

Posted by: BillyD at February 16, 2024 10:22 PM (F6Xpw)

And what about a bight?

Posted by: RickZ at February 16, 2024 10:27 PM (emlEe)

53 I would have been here sooner but I was stuck in the land of the pathetic toys café. So glad there were at least a couple of cute critter clips.

Hi, all. The enemy is held at bay one more day because of the mighty ONT!

Posted by: mindful webworker - almost at February 16, 2024 10:27 PM (fuB9Z)

54 Or Teamster Total in a union state?

Posted by: Zeera , becoming ungovernable by choice at February 16, 2024 10:28 PM (qGQta)

55 I'm getting close to re-using the toddlers method of locomotion. Miss-judged the height of a curb today and fell head first into the passenger seat of my wife's car.

Posted by: javems at February 16, 2024 10:32 PM (8I4hW)

56 I really miss L Elle.

Oh and thanks for the great ONT Weird Dave.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 16, 2024 10:32 PM (CHHv1)

57 Tick Tock

The clock do clock to November 2024.

And we do? So what we do?

Should be thinking?

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 16, 2024 10:33 PM (TDvv2)

58 Is this blog becoming more Japo-centric? I hope.

Posted by: Hashimoto at February 16, 2024 10:33 PM (V5BDR)

59 55 I'm getting close to re-using the toddlers method of locomotion. Miss-judged the height of a curb today and fell head first into the passenger seat of my wife's car.

Posted by: javems at February 16, 2024 10:32 PM

Your wife is obviously a woman of great intellect and distinction.

It was very impressive of her to park the car exactly where you would fall into a cushy seat!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:34 PM (HlyYF)

60 Rainforests, deserts, and glaciers within walking distance of each other? That is one climatologically diverse bits of real estate. Like Iceland and the Amazon Basin got married, gave birth to Polynesia, and moved to Nevada.

Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank at February 16, 2024 10:34 PM (wgbya)

61 44 ...it's a penis...dissssgusting!

First lesson on the first day of Kindergarten in the Woke Program in the SF school district.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:36 PM (HlyYF)

62 RLM and their hilarious stupidity is basically everything that's keeping me from killing myself lately. Yeah, I know, like that's a GOOD thing.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 16, 2024 10:36 PM (CHHv1)

63 I'm willing to bet they were pushing. It resembled a long train where you have locomotives at both ends. The semis in the rear probably help steer as this thing does NOT corner well...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2024 10:14 PM (BpYfr)

Really long loads usually have a cab in the rear trailer with a driver to steer it.

Posted by: javems at February 16, 2024 10:36 PM (8I4hW)

64 At least I spared you all the vile...

Sleep the Sleep.

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 16, 2024 10:37 PM (TDvv2)

65 My kids have a million toys. Too many toys. When I was a kid, we had like maybe ten of them between the three of us. Lame ones, too. No Chucky dolls who killed people, or anything cool like that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2024 10:37 PM (0FoWg)

66 Oh, and "that chick" up there is one Heather Locklear, of whom some might have heard.

Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank at February 16, 2024 10:38 PM (wgbya)

67 60 Rainforests, deserts, and glaciers within walking distance of each other? That is one climatologically diverse bits of real estate. Like Iceland and the Amazon Basin got married, gave birth to Polynesia, and moved to Nevada.

Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank at February 16, 2024 10:34 PM

See!!! More evidence that global warming is wrecking the planet!!!

-- High School Dropout & Noted Scientific Genius, Greta Thunberg

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:38 PM (HlyYF)

68 How much does the gel cost, anyway? Is it worth buying, instead of just watching other guys buy/test it on YT?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I think it's rather expensive, like $50 a block for the real, laboratory grade stuff. The lab stuff is used once, then discarded. I think there is a reusable version out there for hobbyist use.
The lab blocks are used because they can give repeatable results, and can be used for valid comparisons between different brands and types of ammo.
The poor man's version is to soak bundles of newspapers or phone books in water, and shoot into them.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 16, 2024 10:39 PM (YRK4R)

69 I just saw a photo of the Mike and Molly guy, comedian , Billy Gardell.

Unrecognizable. He had bariatric surgery in 2021.

Good for him.

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:39 PM (MNhXM)

70 Really long loads usually have a cab in the rear trailer with a driver to steer it.
Posted by: javems at February 16, 2024 10:36 PM (8I4hW)

Oooh!

Posted by: Pete Buttgigger at February 16, 2024 10:39 PM (Angsy)

71 @56 - BeckoningChasm

Yup! Some commenters and two cobs to blame.
Got to meet her irl. Sincerely hope she's doing better than well.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 16, 2024 10:41 PM (o3xwr)

72 66 Oh, and "that chick" up there is one Heather Locklear, of whom some might have heard.

Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank at February 16, 2024 10:38 PM

Yep. Awfully cute in her day!

Was it the excessive hairspray that made her go a little nutso later, or was that just extended exposure to Hollywood?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:41 PM (HlyYF)

73 Maybe it's just me but I'm not really hip to parents putting those giant bows on their baby's heads. That melon needs to breathe, for cryin' out loud.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 16, 2024 10:41 PM (V8he0)

74 The Dad was more happy that his son wouldn’t touch a penis than if he would have milked that cow like a pro.

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:42 PM (MNhXM)

75 Re the J6 arrests--didn't they wait until Trump was out of office to start the mass arrests?

Posted by: Lirio100 at February 16, 2024 10:42 PM (I5U35)

76 Dutch names. LOL.
Knew a guy whose last name was Nussbaum. Thought it was just a regular German name until some Germans chuckled. Means "Nut Tree".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 10:42 PM (ynpvh)

77 Den Beste. Used to have a blog. Sadly passed.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Yep.

Posted by: Adriane the New is Bad Old is Not Much Better But At Least Comforting Critic . . . at February 16, 2024 10:42 PM (4Winp)

78 The poor man's version is to soak bundles of newspapers or phone books in water, and shoot into them.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 16, 2024 10:39 PM (YRK4R)

Right. I used to tie up old chunks of 2x4. You could put a few through them before they broke up. It was pretty "reliable" for figuring out how far loads would penetrate, and you could make them from trash.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2024 10:43 PM (0FoWg)

79 So, and you may have already heard this one, but Nikki Haley is running for Miss Koch 2024

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 16, 2024 10:43 PM (n7c6k)

80 s this blog becoming more Japo-centric? I hope.
Posted by: Hashimoto

Sashimi, Sushi Rolls, Saki. Tentacle sex. There you go it's even more Japo-centric.

Posted by: Admiral spinebender at February 16, 2024 10:43 PM (duT0u)

81 Locklear is nuttier than a trailer full of squirrel shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 16, 2024 10:44 PM (R4t5M)

82 Well there's always Tora Tora Tora

Posted by: Admiral spinebender at February 16, 2024 10:44 PM (duT0u)

83 Was it the excessive hairspray that made her go a little nutso later, or was that just extended exposure to Hollywood? Posted by: Pillage Idiot

My money is on prolonged exposure to Tommy Lee, but the hairspray probably didn't help. Or did she finally lose it after Shatner rode the hood of a car for the umpteenth time on TJ Hooker?

Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank at February 16, 2024 10:44 PM (wgbya)

84 74 The Dad was more happy that his son wouldn’t touch a penis than if he would have milked that cow like a pro.

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:42 PM

In that case, Mom is either a hero at cleaning up the bathroom, or Dad is raising a sitzpinkler!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:44 PM (HlyYF)

85 I used to know a hot chick named Nussbaum. We called her "Nice Bum."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2024 10:45 PM (0FoWg)

86 Heather Locklear make me want to be Gear Jammer and drive big truck .... stay overnight at truck stop where she make home.

Posted by: MR. KIM at February 16, 2024 10:45 PM (gyhsN)

87 The J6 arrests really got going once Beria-Garland was confirmed. Still arresting more people and wrecking as many lives as they can.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 16, 2024 10:45 PM (n7c6k)

88 Is this blog becoming more Japo-centric? I hope.

==

origami, tatami, tsunami

Posted by: runner at February 16, 2024 10:45 PM (V13WU)

89 Fido Friday: Cute overload - So! Much! D'awwwww!

Pretty flower - perhaps this has been asked & answered, but, um, what are we looking at here?

Navigating difficult terrain - me before my legs start working in the morning.

Posted by: mindful webworker - lately at February 16, 2024 10:45 PM (fuB9Z)

90 Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:44 PM (HlyYF)

Touching your own penis never has counted .

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:46 PM (MNhXM)

91 When does a sound become a bay?

*********

When a bloodhound stops whimpering and begins to howl!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 16, 2024 10:46 PM (991eG)

92 79 So, and you may have already heard this one, but Nikki Haley is running for Miss Koch 2024

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 16, 2024 10:43 PM

Nikki must really love to finish in 2nd place.

No chance she beats "Big Mike" Obama in that competition!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:46 PM (HlyYF)

93 That last picture: what a great place to live. Literally everything is within walking distance.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 16, 2024 10:47 PM (byWhc)

94 @-62
Lose that immediately.
Can be lots of pain in this life but one thing I know for certain, you do NOT know what may be just around the corner.
In the meantime, one foot in front of the other.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 16, 2024 10:48 PM (o3xwr)

95 A day that will live in infamy.

Posted by: Admiral spinebender at February 16, 2024 10:48 PM (duT0u)

96 Is this Japan day? Historically this is about the time some of us start going off about how everyone calls George Washington’s birthday or George Washington Day, “Presidents Day”, with no more authority than car commercials. I again am in a Southern state that does not celebrate Presidents’ Day, but the entire government proclaimed loudly that they do even though they don’t. It is a tired argument because you can tell people reality yet if they don’t wanna see it, what in the end are you going to do?

I admit, there are a few states in the South that celebrate Presidents’ Day, such as Texas. I have a big problem with that, but this is the reality based community. The majority of states do not celebrate Presidents’ Day and the US government certainly does not. It is so weird that this just doesn’t get through even though anyone can look up a federal or state calendar. It’s not exactly a major challenge of your net fu.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2024 10:48 PM (GHj1L)

97 I read the thread title as:

ONT Is The Last ~~Infirmity~~ Infinity Of The Human Mind

And I was supremely confused for a moment or two.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 16, 2024 10:48 PM (u9uo0)

98 No word expert here, but probably up to 60% of those geography terms come from French. More so on the left side of the picture but also on the right.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2024 10:50 PM (GHj1L)

99 Sashimi, Sushi Rolls, Saki. Tentacle sex. There you go it's even more Japo-centric.
Posted by: Admiral spinebender at February 16, 2024 10:43 PM (duT0u)
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No flashing lights, and you got me!

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at February 16, 2024 10:51 PM (cQs7n)

100 In the meantime, one foot in front of the other.
Posted by: TeeJ at February 16, 2024 10:48 PM (o3xwr

Yup. Sometimes life is good. Sometimes it sucks shit. It's all part and parcel.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2024 10:51 PM (0FoWg)

101 There's very little to distinguish a mature rain-forest from a (tropical) jungle. More leeches in a rain-forest perhaps?

Posted by: Ciampino - A magic frog lives in the rain forest at February 16, 2024 10:51 PM (qfLjt)

102 I think a President can pardon for acts prior to any arrest or conviction.

Just as it would have been unprecedented for the VP to stop the electoral vote it would have been the same for Trump to issue that type of pardon. I don’t blame him for not attempting it.

Closest would have been Ford pardoning Nixon.

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:51 PM (MNhXM)

103 Kotatsu.

For those chilly evenings

Posted by: JQ at February 16, 2024 10:51 PM (njWTi)

104 My best and longest time friend, is a retired SAPD officer, who drive a Pilot Truck all over the lower 48.

And, he had the Certificates to operate a trailer such as that splitter rides upon.

VERY complex series of hydraulics. Each wheel can turn and steer. And, as the load might go over an "hump" type railroad crossing in a road, each wheel can retract up towards the load bed, as each axle rides over the raised railroad grade. So, the load-bed and load, don't change pitch or height, even a fraction of an inch.

A rig like that might have three hydraulic operators, plus the actual driver. All those trucks? SKILLED and EXPERIENCED drivers. And lots of radio comms.

Oh, and for real. It'll sometimes take them two or three DAYS to negotiate a single 90 degree turn.

Friend quit after about a decade of doing the job. Too much the Gypsy life out there.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 16, 2024 10:52 PM (e6UQI)

105 Okay, I'm laughing at the "Given your history" addendum.

"Hey, jim, wanna play around the Barrel, given your history?"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

106 Range Rover made a commercial based on that map.

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:53 PM (MNhXM)

107 @101: "More leeches in a rain-forest perhaps?"

Better to count the number of hallucinogenic frogs.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 16, 2024 10:53 PM (u9uo0)

108 Maybe ...Presidents day name changed to "Indigenous Peoples'
Executive Office Oppressor Day" ?

Posted by: MR. KIM at February 16, 2024 10:53 PM (gyhsN)

109 Wonder how much of that has to be moved around each year....

Every time they build a new refinery.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 16, 2024 10:54 PM (JrYM1)

110 Wonder how much of that has to be moved around each year....

Every time they build a new refinery.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 16, 2024 10:54 PM (JrYM1)

So in the US every 40 years?

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:55 PM (MNhXM)

111 107 @101: "More leeches in a rain-forest perhaps?"

Better to count the number of hallucinogenic frogs.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 16, 2024 10:53 PM (u9uo0)

Surprised the LGBTWTFBBQ crowd hasn't been offended by the word "strait"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 10:55 PM (ynpvh)

112 108 Maybe ...Presidents day name changed to "Indigenous Peoples'
Executive Office Oppressor Day" ?

Posted by: MR. KIM at February 16, 2024 10:53 PM (gyhsN)

Doesn't quite roll off the tongue, does it? IPEOOD?
I pee odd?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 10:56 PM (ynpvh)

113 110 Wonder how much of that has to be moved around each year....

Every time they build a new refinery.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 16, 2024 10:54 PM (JrYM1)

So in the US every 40 years?

Posted by: Sap Green at February 16, 2024 10:55 PM

With Democrats entrenching their power, I fear that "40 years" may turn into "never".

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:57 PM (HlyYF)

114 Girthy ONT, WD.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 10:57 PM (ynpvh)

115 F'ing hughtub will break right in the middle of a solo for a commercial. That is high disregard for your clients.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 16, 2024 10:59 PM (kiFJn)

116 Wow. Over 100 comments, and no Sandra Fluke sock for that oversized load.

Y'all must be maturin' up or somethin'...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 16, 2024 10:59 PM (F4bAW)

117 It's not premature if you think about it all day first.

Posted by: mnw at February 16, 2024 11:00 PM (NLIak)

118 Surprised the LGBTWTFBBQ crowd hasn't been offended by the word "strait"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 10:55 PM (ynpvh)

"And all the bays were gay." ~ Updated The Mamas & The Papas' 'California Dreamin'' lyrics.

Wait. Can we still call them Mamas and Papas, not birthing persons and child support cash machines?

Posted by: RickZ at February 16, 2024 11:01 PM (emlEe)

119 I'm grateful for a 3-day weekend, but I'm always mindful that this is the last "free" time off work until Memorial Day. That 3.5 month slog to the next holiday always seems so long.

Posted by: PabloD at February 16, 2024 11:01 PM (bDE7A)

120 Vaccine mixup: Incorrect RSV shots given to 128 pregnant women and 25 babies, CDC says

http://tinyurl.com/2s4272r5

BUT Good News!! They were all masked!!!

Posted by: Ciampino - didn't check again at February 16, 2024 11:02 PM (qfLjt)

121 The Big Hair '80's.

*sigh*

The era when women valued being desirable.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2024 11:02 PM (bo7UB)

122 MAMOET! I remember almost fighting over those hardhat stickers when I worked at a power plant.

Posted by: Nancy at 7000 ft at February 16, 2024 11:02 PM (0tmoY)

123 Geen Frans

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 16, 2024 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

124 121 The Big Hair '80's.

*sigh*

The era when women valued being desirable.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2024 11:02 PM (bo7UB)

Don't forget the big glasses.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:03 PM (ynpvh)

125 Wow. Over 100 comments, and no Sandra Fluke sock for that oversized load.

Y'all must be maturin' up or somethin'...
Posted by: No One of Consequence

Taila Maddison has entered the chat ...

Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank at February 16, 2024 11:04 PM (wgbya)

126 121 The Big Hair '80's.

*sigh*

The era when women valued being desirable.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2024 11:02 PM (bo7UB)

When women were women. Not like now.
https://youtu.be/EngMYI95zkA&t=52s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:05 PM (ynpvh)

127 Christian
@ChristianM_74
Robert Kennedy Jr. has been granted a victory in his lawsuit against the Biden administration for colluding with social media companies to censor him and others.

RFK Jr. was able to win a preliminary injunction against the White House and several federal agencies as a federal judge ruled that the government was "insinuating themselves into the social-media companies’ private affairs and blurring the line between public and private action."

Judge Doughty said Kennedy provided substantial evidence that the Biden administration had coerced the companies into suppressing free speech related to Covid, elections, gas prices, climate change, gender, and abortion. ...

Posted by: Braenyard at February 16, 2024 11:05 PM (kiFJn)

128 Don't forget the big glasses.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:03 PM (ynpvh)

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You misspelled "shoulder pads"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2024 11:06 PM (bo7UB)

129 Doesn't quite roll off the tongue, does it? IPEOOD?
I pee odd?

Maybe.....DLWOSWDNP
"Dear Leader who once shower with daughter now President" Day.

Posted by: MR. KIM at February 16, 2024 11:06 PM (gyhsN)

130 119 I'm grateful for a 3-day weekend, but I'm always mindful that this is the last "free" time off work until Memorial Day. That 3.5 month slog to the next holiday always seems so long.
Posted by: PabloD at February 16, 2024 11:01 PM (bDE7A)

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

Do you get PTO? If you can spare it, take a random Friday or Monday off (with no real plans). Taking a day off for absolutely no reason always seems more relaxing than a day taken off with a purpose.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 16, 2024 11:06 PM (F4bAW)

131 I think a President can pardon for acts prior to any arrest or conviction.

Just as it would have been unprecedented for the VP to stop the electoral vote it would have been the same for Trump to issue that type of pardon. I don’t blame him for not attempting it.

I mentioned the president in the OP. The precedent too. Damn auto cucumber.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 16, 2024 11:06 PM (6/M8P)

132 At least one such massive refinery vessel is moved into the refineries in and around the Texas City, TX, every year.

Most are new replacements, to take the place of a decades old, worn out one of the same kind. Every now and then, a new process line is added, (think, new mini-refinery), and they'll build everything in, brand new.

Now, multiply Texas City by Deer Park, Pasadena, TX, Baytown, Beaumont, Chocolate Bayou, Lake Jackson, and etc... there are dozens of those moved in and out, just in the Texas Golden Triangle area. Which does not include Corpus Christi and other "points South", refinery locations.

What's also fun, is watching them truck-in the giant cranes that lift those splitters to the vertical, hoist them high into the air, and move them into place while the fiters secure and install them.

Those cranes arrive in component parts and pieces, abord a good many Oversize Load semi trucks, and are assembled/disassembled on-site. Which alone, can take two weeks to accomplish.

Heavy Industry is Heavy.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 16, 2024 11:08 PM (e6UQI)

133 Wow. Over 100 comments, and no Sandra Fluke sock for that oversized load.

Y'all must be maturin' up or somethin'...
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 16, 2024 10:59 PM (F4bAW)

"Maturin' on up -- To 'The Bulwark'!" ~ Theme song from TV sitcom that thankfully never aired.

Posted by: RickZ at February 16, 2024 11:09 PM (emlEe)

134 Taking a day off for absolutely no reason always seems more relaxing than a day taken off with a purpose.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 16, 2024 11:06 PM (F4bAW)
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Lighten up, Ferris Beuller.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 16, 2024 11:09 PM (RIvkX)

135 Sometimes, if you step outside yourself for a second, even the most horrible parts of life have a good side to them. You just have to view from them from a very slightly different angle.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2024 11:09 PM (0FoWg)

136 For the last two days, every time I paste an AOS youtube link, the ad I get is from the gun grabber guy from Sandy Hook Promise.

Are you Morons getting that, or is it recommended due to my youtube selections?

If so, then that ad is being targeted to right-wingers.

P.S. Their side has a LOT of money.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 11:10 PM (HlyYF)

137 WD, was the nic that helped you out when you had rv troubles oldraceral ? I've thought about it a few times and the nic is always just out of my grasp.

Posted by: old chick at February 16, 2024 11:10 PM (sOete)

138 Dutch names -
Girl in HS last name was
HorDyke

Have to break out the yearbook for correct spelling...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 16, 2024 11:10 PM (cOq4q)

139 135 Sometimes, if you step outside yourself for a second, even the most horrible parts of life have a good side to them. You just have to view from them from a very slightly different angle.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2024 11:09 PM (0FoWg)

I'm trying that for this admin. Still haven't found the right angle yet.

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

140 think a President can pardon for acts prior to any arrest or conviction.

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You forgot the magic word. "Federal."

Unfortunately, that lunatic prosecutor and judge are minions of the Great State of New York.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2024 11:11 PM (bo7UB)

141 The Big Hair '80's.

*sigh*

The era when women valued being desirable.

Posted by: Cicero

No disagreement, but one unique little subset of that look - it may have just been localized to the university I attended, but there was a weird phase where all the girls were adding gray highlights to their hair.

18-21 year-olds with streaks of white running through their coiffure was ... different. Had a sort of Elsa Lanchester Bride of Frankenstein vibe going with it. Not off-putting, but really difficult to comprehend exactly what they thought that look was conveying.

Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank at February 16, 2024 11:11 PM (wgbya)

142 138 Dutch names -
Girl in HS last name was
HorDyke

Have to break out the yearbook for correct spelling...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 16, 2024 11:10 PM (cOq4q)

there was a pic from a yearbook for one "Destiny Ho"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:12 PM (ynpvh)

143 I'm trying that for this admin. Still haven't found the right angle yet.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:11 PM (ynpvh)

Lol, sometimes a turd is just a turd, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2024 11:12 PM (0FoWg)

144 137. I think so. My problem is, I got to know him by name so that's how I think of him.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 16, 2024 11:12 PM (6/M8P)

145 140 think a President can pardon for acts prior to any arrest or conviction.

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You forgot the magic word. "Federal."

Unfortunately, that lunatic prosecutor and judge are minions of the Great State of New York.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2024 11:11 PM (bo7UB)

Some states deserve to be reduced to territory status.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:12 PM (ynpvh)

146 >>> Re the J6 arrests--didn't they wait until Trump was out of office to start the mass arrests?
Posted by: Lirio100

The J6 roundup started. around Nov 6th and continues to today. The Junta is picking up people now who happened to be in DC on J6 and

that's about it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 16, 2024 11:13 PM (cOq4q)

147 No disagreement, but one unique little subset of that look - it may have just been localized to the university I attended, but there was a weird phase where all the girls were adding gray highlights to their hair.

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Transylvania U?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2024 11:13 PM (bo7UB)

148 This guy has chapter and verse of the whole mechanism from beginning to end. Deep State had its act together long before Trump. Talk a bout a convoluted concept of democracy

https://t.ly/OIAvZ
Tucker Carlson@TuckerCarlson

Ep. 75 The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I’m describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It’s the inversion of democracy."

Posted by: Braenyard at February 16, 2024 11:13 PM (kiFJn)

149 >>I'm trying that for this admin. Still haven't found the right angle yet.

People are waking up to what has been going on for a very long time and finally starting to fight back. Not just in the US but around the world.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2024 11:14 PM (LkLld)

150 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by geography:

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Very helpful. No dykes ???

Posted by: runner at February 16, 2024 11:15 PM (V13WU)

151 I thought that Zondervan surname sounded familiar.

Zondervan Publishing
Grand Rapids, MI

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at February 16, 2024 11:15 PM (/HDaX)

152 Good to know, WD, thanks.

Posted by: old chick at February 16, 2024 11:15 PM (sOete)

153 Yeah, I get a decent amount of PTO every year, and I do take the occasional Friday off just to give myself a break. Just depends on how the work week flows. I usually have a few days of "use it or lose it" leave every year, so I try to burn that first and save the actual vacation time that doesn't evaporate on Jan. 01.

Posted by: PabloD at February 16, 2024 11:16 PM (bDE7A)

154 150 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by geography:
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Very helpful. No dykes ???

Posted by: runner at February 16, 2024 11:15 PM (V13WU)

Those are NOT the ones the little Dutch boy should be sticking his fingers in.

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

155 136

I get the Sandy Hook videos too, and usually when I watch videos with Christian content.
I hate those ads.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 16, 2024 11:16 PM (JrYM1)

156 155 136

I get the Sandy Hook videos too, and usually when I watch videos with Christian content.
I hate those ads.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 16, 2024 11:16 PM (JrYM1)

Yeah, I hate those. I skip as soon as EweToob allows.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:17 PM (ynpvh)

157 >>> Zondervan Publishing
Grand Rapids, MI
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent

Know it.
Have something laying around.

They are mostly religion related and 'History of _____'.
Good though.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 16, 2024 11:18 PM (cOq4q)

158
ISS CARGO DELIVERY
Live in 68 minutes
February 16 at 11:25 PM CST
Roscosmos - Progress MS-26 -
Approach and Docking ISS -
Space Affairs Livestream

https://www.youtube.com/live/tVLg_5BTLX8

====
LAUNCH FROM INDIA
ISRO - GSLV Mk II - INSAT 3DS -
SLP - Satish Dhawan SC
February 17 at 6:25 a.m. ET

https://www.youtube.com/live/WvmjoXcjWuM

Posted by: Ciampino - lots of SPACE here at February 16, 2024 11:18 PM (qfLjt)

159 Another example of a Dutch protest name - A distant relative of mine (fourth cousin-in law three times removed up) had the last name 'Naaktgeboren' meaning 'born naked'

Posted by: Trudy at February 16, 2024 11:19 PM (Zl29w)

160 150, for one brief respite, no.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2024 11:20 PM (GHj1L)

161 159 Another example of a Dutch protest name - A distant relative of mine (fourth cousin-in law three times removed up) had the last name 'Naaktgeboren' meaning 'born naked'

Posted by: Trudy at February 16, 2024 11:19 PM (Zl29w)

Well, seems right...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:20 PM (ynpvh)

162 If the YouTube algorithm thinks that I'm interested in gun grabber ads, then (a) maybe I'm not on as many lists as I thought, and (b) I'm glad somebody is pissing away their money trying to convince me to support their idiotic ideas.

Posted by: PabloD at February 16, 2024 11:21 PM (bDE7A)

163 Posted by: Braenyard at February 16, 2024 11:13 PM (kiFJn)

One of the best explanations of what we have been living through over the last 6 years I've seen. I posted a link a couple times earlier today, I hope everyone watches it. Not just here, everyone.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2024 11:21 PM (LkLld)

164 Transylvania U?
Posted by: Cicero

Had that effect, but no, an SEC school that's currently having a very uncharacteristic renaissance in the football realm, where the late wife of the lead from The Sixth Sense is deified, and the whole institution is in thrall to a local writer whose countless pages of run-on sentences somehow garnered him an international reputation and a Nobel Prize.

Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank at February 16, 2024 11:21 PM (wgbya)

165 ISS is a go but India is not in my time zone.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 16, 2024 11:22 PM (kiFJn)

166 "It’s the inversion of democracy."
Posted by: Braenyard at February 16, 2024 11:13 PM (kiFJn)

Democracy, schmemocracy. I can barely remember representative government at all, and I ain't so old.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2024 11:23 PM (0FoWg)

167 I think the Sandy Hook ad folks on YouTube are just flooding the zone.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at February 16, 2024 11:23 PM (/HDaX)

168 Any reason the Dutch didn't have last names before the French conquered them? I appreciate the subtle 'fuck you' to the French though. Clever.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 16, 2024 11:24 PM (byWhc)

169 132

Heavy Industry is Heavy.

Posted by: Jim at February 16, 2024 11:08 PM (e6UQI)
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Now do all that with minority-engineering ......!!

Posted by: Ciampino - lots of SPACE here Jim at February 16, 2024 11:25 PM (qfLjt)

170 168 Any reason the Dutch didn't have last names before the French conquered them? I appreciate the subtle 'fuck you' to the French though. Clever.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 16, 2024 11:24 PM (byWhc)

A Few Funny German names:
http://tinyurl.com/yuw7p58j

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:27 PM (ynpvh)

171 Hoe heet jij?

Posted by: runner at February 16, 2024 11:27 PM (V13WU)

172 169 132

Heavy Industry is Heavy.

Posted by: Jim at February 16, 2024 11:08 PM (e6UQI)
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Now do all that with minority-engineering ......!!

Posted by: Ciampino - lots of SPACE here Jim at February 16, 2024 11:25 PM (qfLjt)

No, with DEI/DIE engineers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:28 PM (ynpvh)

173 167 I think the Sandy Hook ad folks on YouTube are just flooding the zone.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at February 16, 2024 11:23 PM

It appears so, a lot of Morons backed my observation.

Next question: Does youtube charge them the same rate to run ads as a retail sales business, or even some right-of-center political ads?

Or does the Left have their damn thumbs on the scale yet again?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 11:28 PM (HlyYF)

174 Ik ben ruuner .

Posted by: runner at February 16, 2024 11:28 PM (V13WU)

175 And I'm out. Night all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:30 PM (ynpvh)

176 168 I like that Italian last names were an add on to identify someone. Like in my boobies, you have Jimmy bag of donuts and PD from around the corner, the last name was used to make sure you knew whom you were speaking about.

During the Italian renaissance era you had Leonardo da Vinci, the da, meaning he was from Venice, so that Leonardo. You had Cosimo DE Medici, meaning Cosimo of the Medici family.

I think Cosimo‘s son was named Leonardo, but don’t quote me there, but he was Leonardo DI Cosimo, meaning Leonardo, the son of Cosimo. I admit these last names don’t fit for everyone, but at least in that region at that time last names were used simply as a way to identify someone versus someone else with a different first name, thinking about it. This makes perfect sense And I’m sure it’s the case not just in that era in Italy.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2024 11:30 PM (GHj1L)

177 Thumbs on scales.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at February 16, 2024 11:30 PM (/HDaX)

178 173 167 I think the Sandy Hook ad folks on YouTube are just flooding the zone.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at February 16, 2024 11:23 PM

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Youtoob keeps feeding me ads with Gavin Newsom praising our brave military.

SKIP AD doesn't come fast enough.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2024 11:30 PM (bo7UB)

179 I have no idea if it's true, but a friend in college said she grew up with a neighbor who's last name was 'DOUCHEBOGGEN"

Could have been true, but why in hell didn't somebody decide to change that bad boY?

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at February 16, 2024 11:30 PM (sRfrW)

180 Any reason the Dutch didn't have last names before the French conquered them? I

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Dutch most certainly had last names before the French "conquered" them.

Posted by: runner at February 16, 2024 11:31 PM (V13WU)

181 165 ISS is a go but India is not in my time zone.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 16, 2024 11:22 PM (kiFJn)
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The India launch time is Eastern Time (USA).

Posted by: Ciampino - lots of SPACE here Jim at February 16, 2024 11:33 PM (qfLjt)

182 144 137. I think so. My problem is, I got to know him by name so that's how I think of him.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 16, 2024 11:12 PM (6/M8P)

Don't think that was me. I don't know anything about rv's. Mostly just a lurker.

Posted by: oldraceral at February 16, 2024 11:33 PM (MFXsO)

183 Vermeer, Reubens, Hals, Rembrandt, Steen...

Posted by: runner at February 16, 2024 11:34 PM (V13WU)

184 I admit that big hair always gets a second look from me - probably hard-wired from my formative years. But my first real love wore what are commonly known as 'mom jeans'. I will always love mom jeans.

Posted by: 496 at February 16, 2024 11:34 PM (Bf+P4)

185 We have a letter from a Hittite (central Asia Minor) ruler to the Mycenaean Greek ruler congratulating him on defeating a Greek adventurer in coastal Asia minor.

So the funny thing about this...it is more conformation that the Trojan war was real, but it also means the ruler of Troy was likely Greek himself.

It does make the theft of a Greek princess seem more likely too. After all if Priam was Greek getting a Greek princess from an important city would be a major diplomatic success...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2024 11:34 PM (ibTVg)

186 I knew I was going to botch the son of Cosimo, his name was Piero.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2024 11:34 PM (GHj1L)

187 180 Any reason the Dutch didn't have last names before the French conquered them? I
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Dutch most certainly had last names before the French "conquered" them.
Posted by: runner at February 16, 2024 11:31 PM (V13WU)

Okay, last one:
http://tinyurl.com/4uv67dbf

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:35 PM (ynpvh)

188 Libs of TikTok on X: "UNREAL. At a hearing in NH, State Rep Glenn Cordelli attempted to read from inappropriate books in school libraries. He gets shut down because it’s too graphic. The Democrats freak out and then all vote to not let him continue speaking. Too graphic for a room of adults…

https://t.co/DWjgSiYCN2

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #25 at February 16, 2024 11:36 PM (qfLjt)

189 Harrumph. That oversize load should have been transported on light rail by electric vehicles. For Gaia.

Posted by: mindful webworker - oh sure at February 16, 2024 11:36 PM (fuB9Z)

190 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2024 11:35 PM (ynpvh)

Sticks and stones !

Posted by: runner at February 16, 2024 11:37 PM (V13WU)

191 The Dutch name fact is true, btw. And I've heard of... four of the eight names on the list, and went to school with two of those. People don't use winkel as a last name anymore, it's just another word for store.

Posted by: pookysgirl's married name is a tiny town in the Netherlands at February 16, 2024 11:38 PM (dtlDP)

192 Egypt has officially permanently ditched the US dollar

http://tinyurl.com/mr3wn986

So, can we stop giving them any money at all every year? Millions and millions.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #26 at February 16, 2024 11:39 PM (qfLjt)

193 Dutch most certainly had last names before the French "conquered" them.
Posted by: runner

In many cases they did - the Netherlands had a big uptick in the adoption of what could be considered surnames in the seventeenth century. Most of these arguably arose as nicknames or descriptions of the father that acquired an enduring aspect, ranging from occupations to geographic descriptors. Some of those listed in the post likely had a different meaning in an early modern context, and others might well be apocryphal.

Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank at February 16, 2024 11:41 PM (wgbya)

194 The Dutch mostly had patronymic names - that is they were the son (or daughter) of (father's name). If you owned property, people would use the name of the property as your identifier, or if you were from another town, or country, you might be called van Bakel. It is a challenge if you are tracing your family tree. You need to understand that the naming conventions were different, and that a change was decreed by law, so you will have to connect the name used under the old order with the name used under the new.

Posted by: Trudy at February 16, 2024 11:41 PM (Zl29w)

195 Does this mean nuclear war?

Have Dominos just declared war on Italy? New pasta-pizzas cause chaos

https://mol.im/a/13091507

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #27 at February 16, 2024 11:41 PM (qfLjt)

196 ONT is a Conspiracy.

But not of Dunces.

Posted by: Ignatius Reilly at February 16, 2024 11:42 PM (rbTgL)

197 Kamala Harris, do you want to suck my cock, given your history?

It works nicely. There's a natural flow.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2024 11:42 PM (EEgXH)

198 That oversize load should have been transported on light rail by electric vehicles. For Gaia.

I think you mean "hand carried". We do have a few million young men coming into the US right now.

Posted by: free tibet at February 16, 2024 11:42 PM (2lvRD)

199 Think of the last name Patel for someone from India. I know a tiny bit about it but for sure I realize I still don’t understand it at all. my understanding is there is a huge group of mercantile people that came to the US and they all have the last name Patel because they’re from some particular group, the last name is much less random than how we do it in this country. It means something different.

Then there was an old joke not really an old joke because no one‘s really heard it but it was about how 30% of Korea thinks they are related to Roberty Lee in someway. The point being Lee is a hugely significant last name in Korea. In this country, we joke about names like Smith, but they’re really not that common although I do know a few.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2024 11:43 PM (GHj1L)

200 Father, 33, who killed two-year-old daughter he adopted from Afghanistan by smashing her head against a wall in 'bad temper' rage is jailed for 23 years (not enough)

https://mol.im/a/13092871

Posted by: Ciampino - needed his nuts smashed with ballpeen hammer at February 16, 2024 11:43 PM (qfLjt)

201 The Dutch had last names and they were usually named after their profession, location, or family position but it it was not an official name.
When the French demanded everyone be registered in early 1800 a last name became a requirement.

Posted by: SnailRacer at February 16, 2024 11:44 PM (XVWsj)

202 When I say, Smith is not a common name of course it’s a common name but I bet it is less than 1% of the population. That’s what I’m saying..

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2024 11:45 PM (GHj1L)

203 By George, this is it!

Critical Race Theory=Class Theory=Marxism-Leninism !!

Posted by: runner at February 16, 2024 11:45 PM (V13WU)

204 Posted by: Ignatius Reilly at February 16, 2024 11:42 PM (rbTgL)
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Oh Fortuna! Why have you forsaken me?

Posted by: 496 at February 16, 2024 11:45 PM (Bf+P4)

205 "Even though Egypt enjoys numerous advantages, its economy has been on the verge of collapse, easily affected by outside events like pandemics and political battles. Over 70% of the value of the Egyptian pound has been lost since the beginning of 2022. This shows how unstable the country’s finances are."

That's a bold move, Cotton. Let's see how it works out for them.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 16, 2024 11:46 PM (YRK4R)

206 Egypt has officially permanently ditched the US dollar

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Last time I was in Egypt they used Egyptian pounds. The notes were filthy dirty which foreclosed using them for toilet paper instead of using them to buy toilet paper.

(You had to buy toilet paper from the local urchin that manned the public restroom.)

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2024 11:47 PM (bo7UB)

207 I could see 'given your history' becoming an AoS meme

cracked me up

Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 11:47 PM (geLO8)

208 There was a very popular restaurant in the 80s in Alexandria Virginia called generous Georges. They would bake pizza, crusts and dump several pounds of fettuccine and other pastas on top, way more extreme than what is shown in those dominoes shots. This stuff was legitimately a pizza shell full of pasta. The place was very popular with kids and groups, but finally went down after a long run.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2024 11:49 PM (GHj1L)

209 Woman jailed for flying three-year-old British girl to Kenya for female genital mutilation is DEFENDED by victim who kept abuse secret for 13 years

https://mol.im/a/13094103

Posted by: Ciampino - needed her fingers mashed at February 16, 2024 11:50 PM (qfLjt)

210 Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 11:47 PM (geLO

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It is one of the funniest things I have seen ever. It is brilliant, and its uses are near limitless. I'llbe using it regularly in my own life going forward.

Again, it is brilliant.

Posted by: 496 at February 16, 2024 11:51 PM (Bf+P4)

211 Harrumph. That oversize load should have been transported on light rail by electric vehicles. For Gaia.
Posted by: mindful webworker - oh sure

Well. Some day we’ll have those hi-tech zeppelins they keep promising …

Posted by: Adriane the New is Bad Old is Not Much Better But At Least Comforting Critic . . . at February 16, 2024 11:54 PM (4Winp)

212 192 Egypt has officially permanently ditched the US dollar

http://tinyurl.com/mr3wn986

So, can we stop giving them any money at all every year? Millions and millions.
Posted by: Ciampino

No.

Posted by: WEF, Fundamentally Transforming, good and hard at February 16, 2024 11:55 PM (byWhc)

213 In re last names, you really end up with some zingers when your forebears got here early enough that they were more-or-less forcibly anglicized to something that local officials could spell. Happened on both my mother's and father's side of the family. Too Teutonic for the folks in, respectively, North Carolina and Virginia, and in both cases generations up to the present have been required to state over and over "Yes, that's really my last name," and "No, you spell it like this. No, no, like this, no, okay, I'll write it down for you. No, really, that's my last name."

Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank at February 16, 2024 11:56 PM (wgbya)

214 Eric Adams is confronted by furious Harlem residents over plans to move migrants into luxury building -- NIMBY anyone?

https://mol.im/a/13093819

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #29 at February 16, 2024 11:58 PM (qfLjt)

215 208 There was a very popular restaurant in the 80s in Alexandria Virginia called generous Georges. They would bake pizza, crusts and dump several pounds of fettuccine and other pastas on top, way more extreme than what is shown in those dominoes shots. This stuff was legitimately a pizza shell full of pasta. The place was very popular with kids and groups, but finally went down after a long run.
Posted by: Quint

I miss that place! The pizza was wonderful! It was nearby too. I can't remember what it was called but they had a pizza that had EVERYTHING on it, and it was amazing! I miss Generous Georges Pizzeria. My sister had a part time job there for a while.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 16, 2024 11:59 PM (byWhc)

216 It is a challenge if you are tracing your family tree. You need to understand that the naming conventions were different, and that a change was decreed by law, so you will have to connect the name used under the old order with the name used under the new.

Posted by: Trudy at February 16, 2024 11:41 PM (Zl29w)

It's even harder when an ancestor changed his name to the town he was from as he immigrated to America right as WWI was kicking off in Europe. No one ever asked him about it, he just said he confused the "name" field with the "from" field and the family laughed it off. Decades later, Pooky's family put some pieces together and have come to the conclusion that he was a murderer, deserter, or both. And if Pooky had a murderer in his family tree, I wouldn't be surprised *and* I can't really judge because I come from a long line of barbarians.

Posted by: pookysgirl's married name is a tiny town in the Netherlands at February 17, 2024 12:00 AM (dtlDP)

217 Stanford has fallen: Prestigious college is plagued by anti-Semitism and refuses to discipline teaching assistant wearing 'Ask me about Jihad poster' who said he'd welcome Biden's assassination and Hamas US government

https://mol.im/a/13092673

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #30 at February 17, 2024 12:01 AM (qfLjt)

218 I think you mean "hand carried". We do have a few million young men coming into the US right now.
Posted by: free tibet at February 16, 2024 11:42 PM (2lvRD)

Amish could do it..and done by dinner time

Posted by: a dude in MI at February 17, 2024 12:01 AM (+I6Y/)

219 San Francisco Appoints First Noncitizen to Serve on Elections Commission

http://tinyurl.com/522p9t23

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #31 at February 17, 2024 12:03 AM (qfLjt)

220 217 Stanford has fallen: Prestigious college is plagued by anti-Semitism and refuses to discipline teaching assistant wearing 'Ask me about Jihad poster' who said he'd welcome Biden's assassination and Hamas US government

https://mol.im/a/13092673

Posted by: Ciampino -
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Stanford is in cahoots with DeepState.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2024 12:04 AM (kiFJn)

221 Don't think that was me. I don't know anything about rv's. Mostly just a lurker.

Maybe grumpy old man? Something like that

Posted by: Weirddave at February 17, 2024 12:04 AM (khgu5)

222 I pad says 20 min till lift off.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2024 12:05 AM (kiFJn)

223 They still have the hanging tree in the town square Colorado county.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2024 12:06 AM (kiFJn)

224 Work's done, just in time to wander off to bed.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 17, 2024 12:07 AM (dZVON)

225 Pennsylvania judge Sonya McKnight charged with attempted murder 'after shooting estranged boyfriend in the head, leaving him blind in one eye, while he slept - then claiming he did it to himself'

https://mol.im/a/13093051

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #32 at February 17, 2024 12:08 AM (qfLjt)

226 Wow, WD! A massive load of ONT! The poor tired guy is unlucky enough to have a camera watching him. Sad!

Posted by: JM in illinois, behold the Manchurian President at February 17, 2024 12:09 AM (jkh9b)

227 215 definitely part of old school Alexandria culture.

Posted by: Quint at February 17, 2024 12:10 AM (GHj1L)

228 225 Pennsylvania judge Sonya McKnight charged with attempted murder 'after shooting estranged boyfriend in the head, leaving him blind in one eye, while he slept - then claiming he did it to himself'

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Does she know what a woman is? If not, she may be qualified for our next opening.

Posted by: SCOTUS at February 17, 2024 12:10 AM (bo7UB)

229 Blow by Blow?

White House's rampant drug use exposed: Whistleblowers say president's pharmacy - run by 'Dr Feelgood' - doled out stimulants to aides in zip-lock baggies using fake aliases

https://mol.im/a/13092393

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #33 at February 17, 2024 12:13 AM (qfLjt)

230 Maybe that coke they found in the cloak room was Kanela's.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2024 12:14 AM (kiFJn)

231 White supremacist double murder suspect Brandon Gerner is charged with killing Tacoma family's horse as 'SACRIFICE' for dead friend

https://mol.im/a/13091975

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #34 at February 17, 2024 12:15 AM (qfLjt)

232 Quint - you were right: the surname "Smith" is only shared by roughly 1 % of the US population.

There could also be a regional phenomenon at play - there are parts of the South where you can't throw a rock without hitting a Williams, for example. Move over a bit and the same will apply for a Johnson or a Taylor.

Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank at February 17, 2024 12:17 AM (wgbya)

233 Yikes! A house goes BOOM in Loudon County, VA (Stirling).

From WTOP: http://tinyurl.com/5n7br797

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 17, 2024 12:19 AM (byWhc)

234 Well, my eyes are starting to cross.
I'll take that as induction it's time
say good night.
g'night.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2024 12:19 AM (kiFJn)

235 207 I could see 'given your history' becoming an AoS meme

cracked me up
Posted by: Don Black at February 16, 2024 11:47 PM (geLO

For a while I adopted the tagline, "in accordance with the prophesy", to random declarations. Inspiration came from a list of things to do for maximum annoyance. It was effective...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 17, 2024 12:21 AM (szKLp)

236 there are parts of the South where you can't throw a rock without hitting a Williams,
----

I dispute it thus:
[throws rock]
See?, barely made it across the street.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, with apologies to Dr. Johnson at February 17, 2024 12:21 AM (XeU6L)

237 The Erotic Literature was laugh-out-loud funny! Not funny to guys who have it, though. Or the woman.

Posted by: JM in illinois, behold the Manchurian President at February 17, 2024 12:21 AM (CKLSw)

238 I was listening to the rock band Muse and wondered if they might be politically conservative.

I checked out what the band said and they claimed to be opposed to party politics.

So then I went to see what the left thought of them and...one critique says, "the song includes all those right-wing culture-war buzzwords: “in-group,” “freedom,” “independent thought,"

That's right fellow morons, the left is claiming freedom and independent thought are right wing ideas...

The song they are complaining about which is...ok. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP3zRBtgvJo

Posted by: 18-1 at February 17, 2024 12:23 AM (ibTVg)

239 Stanford is in cahoots with DeepState.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2024 12:04 AM (kiFJn)

Yeah, I told the U of C that I didn't buy into their "unconscious bias" pushed by the Dean. Good, they stopped sending me fundraisers.

Posted by: JM in illinois, behold the Manchurian President at February 17, 2024 12:23 AM (CKLSw)

240 Well, it's been one thing after another all day long... but I guess that's better than everything all at once. Breathe!

💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - deeply at February 17, 2024 12:24 AM (fuB9Z)

241 Evening.

Is that Geography Terms thing some kind of Ma-like folding back cover? I feel if you folded that image you'd get a new picture.

Posted by: Robert at February 17, 2024 12:24 AM (1Yy3c)

242 Steven Den Beste once noted on his blog the same thing about Dutch names. A lot of guys named "Poopy" in Dutch. Great great great great great great great granddaddy Den Beste thought highly of himself.

Posted by: Robert at February 17, 2024 12:26 AM (1Yy3c)

243 I dispute it thus:
[throws rock]
See?, barely made it across the street.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, with apologies to Dr. Johnson

The Bishop Berkeley refutation! Dr. Sam always had a gift for the pithy and telling philosophic rejoinder!

Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank at February 17, 2024 12:26 AM (wgbya)

244 192 Egypt has officially permanently ditched the US dollar

http://tinyurl.com/mr3wn986

So, can we stop giving them any money at all every year? Millions and millions.
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #26 at February 16, 2024 11:39 PM (qfLjt)

That's what the government says. What about the people?
Still it is another BRICS in the wall. Thanks for inflating the dollar, FJB.

Posted by: JM in illinois, behold the Manchurian President at February 17, 2024 12:29 AM (PSFnA)

245
The Bishop Berkeley refutation! Dr. Sam always had a gift for the pithy and telling philosophic rejoinder!
Posted by: This Space Left Intentionally Blank
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I really did not expect anyone to pick up on that. You are a well-read moron.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 17, 2024 12:30 AM (XeU6L)

246 238 I was listening to the rock band Muse and wondered if they might be politically conservative.

I checked out what the band said and they claimed to be opposed to party politics.

So then I went to see what the left thought of them and...one critique says, "the song includes all those right-wing culture-war buzzwords: “in-group,” “freedom,” “independent thought,"

That's right fellow morons, the left is claiming freedom and independent thought are right wing ideas...

The song they are complaining about which is...ok. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP3zRBtgvJo
Posted by: 18-1

Compliance will make you free. (creepy smile)

Posted by: Klaus Schwab, naked and open at February 17, 2024 12:30 AM (byWhc)

247 Meme suggestion: "What if animals could take cellphone pics of their meals?"

Cow: grass

Horse: hay

Dog: kibbles

Bear: mangled human

Alligator: mangled human (the same one)

Shark: mangled human (the same one)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2024 12:32 AM (tkR6S)

248 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
The Ukrainian fortress city of Avdeevka is being rolled up. Evacuation has been called for, but the Russians can shoot up the few paths left out of the city. I'm expecting lots of night vision videos in the morning (US time) showing bands of Ukrainians being thwarted from escaping.
The last time the Russians bagged a mass of prisoners, at Mariapol, the politicians traded some high profile ones away, who latter returned to the fight. I suspect the Russian troops may be a little, shall we say, selective, about who gets taken prisoner this time.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 17, 2024 12:32 AM (YRK4R)

249 148 This guy has chapter and verse of the whole mechanism from beginning to end. Deep State had its act together long before Trump. Talk a bout a convoluted concept of democracy

https://t.ly/OIAvZ
Tucker Carlson@TuckerCarlson

Ep. 75 The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I’m describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It’s the inversion of democracy."

Posted by: Braenyard at February 16, 2024 11:13 PM (kiFJn)

Yep. Free speech? Ask Mark Steyn, who just had a DC jury cost him a million dollars for calling Michael Mann's climate change hockey stick a "fraud", which it obviously is. Thou shall not insult the Gods of Climate.

Posted by: JM in illinois, behold the Manchurian President at February 17, 2024 12:34 AM (PSFnA)

250
That's right fellow morons, the left is claiming freedom and independent thought are right wing ideas...

Well, it IS white supremacy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 17, 2024 12:34 AM (63Dwl)

251 Hopefully, AOP actually will clarify.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2024 10:15 PM (HlyYF)

Really don't know. I never had anything to do with refining, other than put their product in my gas tank. I have driven that stretch of road, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2024 12:36 AM (tkR6S)

252 232, Don Williams sang about the “Williams boys, Hank and Tennessee”. I don’t think until just now I put together that that was the singer’s last name as well lol.

Posted by: Quint at February 17, 2024 12:38 AM (GHj1L)

253 Pennsylvania judge Sonya McKnight charged with attempted murder 'after shooting estranged boyfriend in the head, leaving him blind in one eye, while he slept - then claiming he did it to himself'

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #32 at February 17, 2024 12:08 AM (qfLjt)

"He made me do it to himself." ~ The Hillary Clinton Defense

Posted by: RickZ at February 17, 2024 12:40 AM (emlEe)

254 Ravines are small, coulees are big no creek on that poster either.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at February 16, 2024 10:21 PM (ODCB/)

A ravine is a small canyon, created by the creek that is in it. A coulee is a glacial outwash channel, and can be many miles long. Some may have successor streams in them, and some are dry.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2024 12:41 AM (tkR6S)

255 From WTOP: http://tinyurl.com/5n7br797

Puddleglum

Less lethal but no less destructive … An article on the WTOP page says the London County School Superintendent who lied about the Trans assaults against girls in his school will quietly have the charges dropped and very likely serve no time for the misdemeanor he was convicted of.

Posted by: Adriane the New is Bad Old is Not Much Better But At Least Comforting Critic . . . at February 17, 2024 12:41 AM (4Winp)

256 Less lethal but no less destructive … An article on the WTOP page says the London County School Superintendent who lied about the Trans assaults against girls in his school will quietly have the charges dropped and very likely serve no time for the misdemeanor he was convicted of.

Posted by: Adriane the New is Bad Old is Not Much Better But At Least Comforting Critic . . . at February 17, 2024 12:41 AM (4Winp)

Given it's a 'only' a misdemeanor, is the superintendent precluded from 'working' with children ever again? I honestly don't know. If not, he should be, as well as be on a sex registry list, too. To me and considering his position, covering up such crime is the same as the crime itself as the minor is victimized twice, the obvious first time and the second through ideological inertia because 'how dare you?'

If woke crime starts equaling jail time then woke, itself, will wither away.

Posted by: RickZ at February 17, 2024 12:50 AM (emlEe)

257 Hi Horde, I made every attempt to be here on Friday! My schedule has changed and I spend my evenings catching up on what happened during the day, and then of course, I get all depressed.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 17, 2024 12:54 AM (Sgq8y)

258 DDS - something something if you’re not depressed, you’re not paying attention …

Posted by: Adriane the New is Bad Old is Not Much Better But At Least Comforting Critic . . . at February 17, 2024 01:02 AM (4Winp)

259 It was weird when Loudon county became almost as left and then someway more left of Fairfax county. That used to be horse country really beautiful country and legit Virginia if you know what I’m saying. No, Loudon County is old-school swamp and the Uber rich live there in mansions that would make Potomac Maryland blush. Commute to DC, some so wealthy, they don’t have to commute anywhere, and post pandemic, you have a significant percentage that is allowed to work from home.

It is shocking, that most of Virginia is red when northern Virginia has spread south and west, there is blue Richmond, Charlottesville, and the Newport News Virginia Beach area. Pretty much every other county wasn’t deep red. Virginia would be a deep blue state.

The thing about successful states is they not only do not prevent people from moving in from other places to change their own culture, even the most hard-core, conservative ones like Florida and Texas beg them to come. Virginia is the same way, no one is moving out and people are moving in from San Salvador to Buffalo. That is a flat out fact. The DC area has always been a magnet for people with high aspirations and bad ideas. And that region

Posted by: Quint at February 17, 2024 01:04 AM (GHj1L)

260 It reaches south, as far as Fredericksburg, and in someways all the way to Richmond. To the west, they certainly own Loudon county.

Posted by: Quint at February 17, 2024 01:05 AM (GHj1L)

261 RickZ -

To the best of my knowledge, he lost his job.

I am assuming if they wait long enough, he’ll get another one at a different school.

Posted by: Adriane the New is Bad Old is Not Much Better But At Least Comforting Critic . . . at February 17, 2024 01:06 AM (4Winp)

262 Steven Den Beste once noted on his blog the same thing about Dutch names. A lot of guys named "Poopy" in Dutch. Great great great great great great great granddaddy Den Beste thought highly of himself.
Posted by: Robert

Yup. Great guy. Sad to see him go.

If it wasn't obvious, his surname is literally "The Best."

And for any metalheads, Sharon Den Adel of Within Temptation is literally "The Noble."

Posted by: mikeski at February 17, 2024 01:20 AM (DgGvY)

263 https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro?si=rJNEtvsgMwNKfqLo

North of Richmond, you say?

Posted by: Klaus Schwab, naked and open at February 17, 2024 01:22 AM (byWhc)

264 He lost his job, but the taxpayers had to pay off his contract with penalties.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 17, 2024 01:23 AM (0flpm)

265 199 Think of the last name Patel for someone from India. I know a tiny bit about it but for sure I realize I still don’t understand it at all. my understanding is there is a huge group of mercantile people that came to the US and they all have the last name Patel because they’re from some particular group, the last name is much less random than how we do it in this country. It means something different.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2024 11:43 PM (GHj1L)
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Patel is the most common name for Indians in East Africa. They are usually distinguished by initials: CJ Patel, MK Patel, etc. Often shopkeepers, joke was that when the USA reached the Moon they would find at least one Patel already there.
In South Africa the demographics were different. Most of the Indians had been brought over as coolies to work the sugarcane in Natal, so most were low caste and common names were various spellings of Moody, Moodly, Mudli, etc. (bloody British), also Naidoo, Naidu, etc. Govender, Govinder, etc. was already a higher caste. Patel was there but a 'better' class and not as common. Singh is Sikh I believe.

Posted by: Ciampino - Names, so what? at February 17, 2024 01:23 AM (qfLjt)

266 It reaches south, as far as Fredericksburg, and in someways all the way to Richmond. To the west, they certainly own Loudon county.

Posted by: Quint at February 17, 2024 01:05 AM (GHj1L)

My great uncle had a farm in Maryland, a 40 minute drive to the NW of D.C. and about a 45 minutes or so drive from Gettysburg, PA. His farm is now a subdivision of/for D.C.

Posted by: RickZ at February 17, 2024 01:23 AM (emlEe)

267 Off real world Bond villain sock.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 17, 2024 01:25 AM (byWhc)

268 Hamas says 'many' Israeli hostages have died and the remaining are living in 'difficult conditions'

https://mol.im/a/13092477

Why and why?

Posted by: Ciampino - who and who? at February 17, 2024 01:30 AM (qfLjt)

269 Well, I am off to the snoozer. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 17, 2024 01:36 AM (tkR6S)

270 Where are all the animal rights people?
There goes the neighborhood! Locals outrages over plan to build 200-acre 'mini-city' of 30,000 MONKEYS for medical research in Georgia

https://mol.im/a/13092123

Posted by: Ciampino - That's a lot of minkees to escape at February 17, 2024 01:37 AM (qfLjt)

271 Twitter in a nutshell

The image is the main character from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. (Japanese title "Sousou no Frieren." Literally "Frieren attends a funeral.")

Easily the most-recommendable anime of the last year or so. Started last season; still running. On Crunchyroll.

The hero and his party of Tolkeinesque characters (2 humans, 1 dwarf, 1 elf) have defeated the demon lord! What happens next? Let's follow the nigh-immortal elf and see.....

Posted by: mikeski at February 17, 2024 01:38 AM (DgGvY)

272 266, There are some really nice parts of Maryland. The Eastern Shore, particularly the small towns there are something else. I also like the Northwest part of the state, certainly the area north of Frederick going towards Gettysburg, some damn fine land.

Posted by: Quint at February 17, 2024 01:42 AM (GHj1L)

273 He lost his job, but the taxpayers had to pay off his contract with penalties.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat

True or just very, highly, likely, probably ?

Posted by: Adriane the New is Bad Old is Not Much Better But At Least Comforting Critic . . . at February 17, 2024 01:44 AM (4Winp)

274 272 266, There are some really nice parts of Maryland. The Eastern Shore, particularly the small towns there are something else. I also like the Northwest part of the state, certainly the area north of Frederick going towards Gettysburg, some damn fine land.
Posted by: Quint

I-68 is one of the prettiest drives in the country and hardly anyone knows about it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 17, 2024 01:45 AM (byWhc)

275 Ravines are small, coulees are big no creek on that poster either.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at February 16, 2024 10:21 PM (ODCB/)

A ravine is a small canyon, created by the creek that is in it. A coulee is a glacial outwash channel, and can be many miles long. Some may have successor streams in them, and some are dry.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---------

Ian & Sylvia, 'Short Grass'
2nd verse '...the coulees are dry'
Nice tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWNA8gD0jUY

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 17, 2024 01:45 AM (XeU6L)

276 Oops. Wrong link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ctFwYClvM

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 17, 2024 01:49 AM (XeU6L)

277 Does she know what a woman is?
Posted by: SCOTUS

https://youtu.be/7i-fxbAG2fI

(2:09)

Posted by: mikeski at February 17, 2024 01:49 AM (DgGvY)

278 256 Less lethal but no less destructive … An article on the WTOP page says the London County School Superintendent

Is that London or Loudon county ....?

Posted by: Ciampino - That's a lot of minkees to escape at February 17, 2024 01:53 AM (qfLjt)

279 Final charge against former Loudoun Co. superintendent dropped

Posted by: Adriane the New is Bad Old is Not Much Better But At Least Comforting Critic . . . at February 17, 2024 01:56 AM (4Winp)

280 Today was our 45th Date-iversary (anniversary of our first date). Read on to find out how I remember that tidbit of information, and how we "met cute", as the kids say:

http://tinyurl.com/45YearsLaterBoyMeetsGirl

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at February 17, 2024 01:57 AM (SRRAx)

281 79 So, and you may have already heard this one, but Nikki Haley is running for Miss Koch 2024

Too late - I have been Mrs. Koch for 43 years. It's a much better gig 😊❤

Love the Geography picture, BTW!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at February 17, 2024 02:04 AM (SRRAx)

282 http://tinyurl.com/45YearsLaterBoyMeetsGirl

Yay, Math !!!!
: -))

Happy Date Anniversary Teresa, may you two have many more…

Posted by: Adriane the New is Bad Old is Not Much Better But At Least Comforting Critic . . . at February 17, 2024 02:04 AM (4Winp)

283 Hello horde. I got here a short while ago but will admit I was taken aback by the prospect of the aforementioned act being performed by a hottie like heather. Regardless of hair style.

I’d comment on how she’s aged but I don’t stand up very well in the Same comparison

Posted by: Pete Bog at February 17, 2024 02:08 AM (BHL6B)

284 Remember Moon Moon? What if he were owned by a guy named Thunderstore? Imagine the vet's reaction to entering your pet's name in the database - Moon Moon Thunder Store. That's mercilous.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 17, 2024 02:10 AM (KAi1n)

285 Moon Moon is my spirit animal...

Posted by: JQ at February 17, 2024 02:20 AM (njWTi)

286 Clownworld, Coneheads, ......

http://tinyurl.com/47fx7atv

Posted by: Ciampino - That's a lot of minkees at February 17, 2024 02:21 AM (qfLjt)

287 Teresa, That was a very lovely story, was going to post a story about hub's and my first valentine's the other night but it was a memory that I kept for just me. You and your Hubs are a very sweet couple indeed.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 17, 2024 02:21 AM (Sgq8y)

288
Evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2024 02:22 AM (lCaJd)

289 What Javier Milei said about trusts -

The fall of the Omnibus Law in parliament prevented Javier Milei - at least for now - from managing at his discretion the $1.5 billion distributed through at least 29 trusts .

The government of La Libertad Avanza understands that this fortune is part of a “black box” that has little or no controls and that was defended tooth and nail by “the caste” so as not to lose their “privileges” that they obtain through them.

Posted by: 13times at February 17, 2024 02:28 AM (g6VaL)

290 Aw, that was a sweet story, TiFW! Very cute indeed!

Posted by: JQ at February 17, 2024 02:33 AM (njWTi)

291 289
And our Congress critters plus all the top echelon Deep Staters and Military are analogously tied to "trusts" out of Ukraine hence the unwavering illogical support for everything Uke and the unexplainable visits there by these people.

Posted by: Ciampino - That's a lot of importance to a nothing burger, Uke at February 17, 2024 02:36 AM (qfLjt)

292 The time has come,
The Walrus said,
To stop thinking of things,
And go to Bed …

Posted by: Adriane the New is Bad Old is Not Much Better But At Least Comforting Critic . . . at February 17, 2024 03:04 AM (4Winp)

293 Midnight, Friday night, and pfft!

Posted by: JQ at February 17, 2024 03:07 AM (njWTi)

294 'Tis frosty outside but at least no snow or freezing rain.

Posted by: JQ at February 17, 2024 03:09 AM (njWTi)

295 And what about a bight?
Posted by: RickZ at February 16, 2024 10:27 PM (emlEe)

Dis ain't da FUD Thread !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 03:18 AM (T4tVD)

296 Hiya JT!

Posted by: JQ at February 17, 2024 03:24 AM (njWTi)

297 Everybody asleep?

Posted by: Ciampino - That's not cheap - he said at February 17, 2024 03:26 AM (qfLjt)

298 Not everybody, Ciampino

Posted by: JQ at February 17, 2024 03:27 AM (njWTi)

299 He could have issued a blanket pardon, Carter pardoned the draft dodgers.

This is legally questionable. Just because Carter did something does not mean it was constitutional. The fact is simply no prosecutor challenged this in court. Any January 6 pardon certainly would have. I'm sure he was getting "helpful" advice from people like Barr not to do it.

Additionally, Trump had no reason to believe the Justice Department would act as it did, in full bloodthirsty, vindictive Reign of Terror mode. He had spent four years witnessing the Justice Department do nothing to protesters.

Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at February 17, 2024 03:27 AM (26v+j)

300 LAUNCH FROM INDIA
ISRO - GSLV Mk II - INSAT 3DS -
SLP - Satish Dhawan SC
February 17 at 6:25 a.m. ET

https://www.youtube.com/live/WvmjoXcjWuM

In about 2 hours we'll see what the Indians made, rocketwise.

Posted by: Ciampino - Patel + Naidoo at February 17, 2024 03:28 AM (qfLjt)

301 test

Posted by: Jobber at February 17, 2024 03:29 AM (26v+j)

302 Ciampino, that "Momma Cat" is such a beautiful calico! Shame that she's feral.

2 of my previous cats were tri-colored wonders. I miss them both! One of them began life as a feral, managed to tame the wild babe. She was the best buddy evar.

Posted by: JQ at February 17, 2024 03:30 AM (njWTi)

303 'Tis frosty outside but at least no snow or freezing rain.
Posted by: JQ at February 17, 2024 03:09 AM (njWTi)

It SNOWED here !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 03:48 AM (T4tVD)

304 Hiya JQ !
How You ?

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 03:52 AM (T4tVD)

305 I have a nice B-Day snow job going on today.

Posted by: RickZ at February 17, 2024 03:55 AM (emlEe)

306 Happy Birthday !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 04:01 AM (T4tVD)

307 Pixy B UP !

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2024 04:06 AM (T4tVD)

308 Thanks, JT.

Older than I ever expected to be. Just because . . . lots of stupidity. But I somehow survived, "a testimony to the base instincts of humanity," or some such AI drivel.

Posted by: RickZ at February 17, 2024 04:08 AM (emlEe)

309 Additionally, Trump had no reason to believe the Justice Department would act as it did, in full bloodthirsty, vindictive Reign of Terror mode. He had spent four years witnessing the Justice Department do nothing to protesters.

Why not? You're just saying he's a bigger fool than he appears to be. Anyone who can't see the bias of the DOJ, and couldn't see it then, is an idiot.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 17, 2024 04:37 AM (Y88xx)

310 You got your isthmus on my peninsula.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 17, 2024 05:42 AM (w6EFb)

311 To the west, they certainly own Loudon county.

Posted by: Quint at February 17, 2024 01:05 AM (GHj1L)

Loudoun.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 17, 2024 06:10 AM (w6EFb)

312 I don't see Tilted Towers on that map.

Posted by: Spamf Roming at February 17, 2024 08:09 AM (Ntfez)

313 "I was gonna use BeefStew for a password but it wasn't stroganoff"

Posted by: AgathaPagatha at February 17, 2024 08:34 AM (xDMjB)

314 >>At approximately 7:38 p.m. on Friday, February 16, 2024, the Loudoun County Emergency Communications Center received a 911 call reporting an odor of gas outside of a residence in the 300 block of Silver Ridge Drive in Sterling. Upon arrival, units from Sterling located a 500-gallon underground propane tank with a leak on the side of the residence and requested the Loudoun County’s Hazardous Materials Response Team, as well as additional units from Sterling, South Riding, numerous Command Staff and Safety Officers.

http://tinyurl.com/3rt482ar

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2024 09:07 AM (LkLld)

315 WeirdDave!

Posted by: Candidus at February 17, 2024 10:05 AM (Q7KYg)

316 Is it JUST me, or is WeirdDave become mainstream?

Posted by: Ray Mota at February 17, 2024 12:29 PM (sw3xv)

317 You can ϲertainly see your skills within the article you write.

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