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The Saturday Overnight Open Thread (3/9/24) The Night Where Government F*cks Up Your Sleep Pattern Edition
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I have a big heart and a number of great loves. Besides The Fabulous, fishing ranks right up there. I've encountered Karens before. Fortunately never on, in or near the water while I was fishing.
If a plan works out in a comedy, it probably work in real life. Multiple Genius Award Winners.
MARCH 7--Two Ohio women propped up a man’s corpse in their vehicle and withdrew money from the dead man’s bank account before dropping the 80-year-old’s body off at a hospital emergency room, police allege. Prosecutors this week charged Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, and Karen Casbohm, 63, with theft and gross abuse of a corpse, both felonies, in connection with their alleged activities following the death of Douglas Layman. According to police, the two women were not related to Layman, but lived with him at his home in Ashtabula, a city about 50 miles from Cleveland. Cops say that Feralo and Casbohm--with the help of a third individual--removed Layman’s corpse from the residence on Monday and placed the body in the front passenger seat of his car and then headed to a nearby bank’s drive-thru window.
NSFW-Language Warning
My friend and fellow Buck Throckmorton enjoys music with the upright bass. For me, rock with horns rates quite highly with yours truly.
Born on this day: 1945 - Robin Trower
English rock guitarist and vocalist Robin Trower who with Procol Harum, had the 1967 UK No.1 single & US No.5 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale'. He formed the Robin Trower Band in 1973 and has since released over 20 albums.
Wisconsin man identifies as a Genius Award Winner.
A Wisconsin man who legally changed his first name to “Deez-Nuts” has been arrested following a violent domestic confrontation, police report. Deez-Nuts Kroll, 42, was busted Tuesday night for battery and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, according to a criminal complaint which includes a Green Bay Police Department officer’s observation that, “Deez-Nuts appeared to be highly intoxicated.” Police allege that Kroll punched and shoved his daughter and tangled with her boyfriend at the E. Walnut Street residence where the trio resides. According to the complaint, Kroll accused his daughter of failing to do small household chores and care for their puppies. At one point, cops allege, Kroll--who was unencumbered by a shirt--pulled out a BB gun that resembled a pistol.
Notice: Contrary to unfounded beliefs, the Saturday ONT really isn't approved by anyone but the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC Cafeteria Workers & Lunch Ladies International Brotherhood of Food Service Workers.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 09, 2024 10:00 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 10:00 PM (H/XYA)
Posted by: lin-duh at March 09, 2024 10:00 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 10:00 PM (TSQkU)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 10:01 PM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 10:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 10:01 PM (TSQkU)
Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 10:01 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Ciampino - They might regret that at March 09, 2024 10:01 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:01 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 10:01 PM (H/XYA)
I can hear my arteries crinkling just looking at the top picture.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:01 PM (u82oZ)
But a tasty crinkling. Amirite?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:02 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 10:02 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Admiral spinebender at March 09, 2024 10:03 PM (duT0u)
Posted by: JT at March 09, 2024 10:03 PM (T4tVD)
Arby's here took them off the menu and the ones in the froze food section at the grocer are just minced & reformed onion material
Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 10:03 PM (oCjPU)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 09, 2024 10:04 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: NC Ref at March 09, 2024 10:04 PM (7g6Or)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 09, 2024 10:04 PM (0eaVi)
D'oh!
Posted by: Rev Lovejoy at March 09, 2024 10:04 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 10:05 PM (TSQkU)
Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 10:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
Same here but we just had a power outage a bit ago so now all the clocks are done.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 10:05 PM (W/lyH)
How does a BB gun "resemble" a pistol? I think it would actually be one if it resembled one.
Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 10:05 PM (DgGvY)
Yeah, too bad they serve it with a Budweiser.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 09, 2024 10:04 PM (dZVON)
That was before AB sold to that European conglomerate
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:05 PM (QXQ4l)
Absolutely! I wish I could eat all that tasty, tasty food.
Yesterday, I had my first caffeine in 10 months to get me through a 3 hour lecture on weather spotting, safety, and how to not make the news during weather hazards on the road.
So I'm living on the wild side now.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:05 PM (u82oZ)
We had tough lunch ladies. First day of h.s. She comes up to us with a little notebook and pen. "I've heard about you boys" she says. And then demands our mom's name and our phone number. "This is in case you give me trouble."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 09, 2024 10:05 PM (RIvkX)
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
BIDEN: "The U.S. Capitol — the same building where our freedoms came under assault on July the 6th!"
https://tinyurl.com/yeju63r6
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At least I assume Macho Grande was on July 6.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 10:06 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 10:05 PM (TSQkU)
You're welcome LRob.
Hopefully Charles will let me sit in for him in the future
Perhaps I burned a bridge or 3.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:06 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: browndog not biting the hand that feeds it at March 09, 2024 10:06 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: lin-duh at March 09, 2024 10:06 PM (PZo5T)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:07 PM (u82oZ)
Glad the ONT is promptly on the hour tonight. My late musical memories comment didn't get severely willowed.
🙃
Posted by: mindful webworker - nearly bedtime at March 09, 2024 10:07 PM (0QZAr)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 10:08 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 10:08 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 10:08 PM (TSQkU)
Burgers and onion rings... a match made in heaven. A different beer would go well with that combination...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 09, 2024 10:08 PM (KglbO)
I saw Unencumbered By Shirts open for a double-bill of Men Without Hats and Skyclad, at the X-Ray Arcade in '91.
Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 10:08 PM (DgGvY)
We had tough lunch ladies. First day of h.s. She comes up to us with a little notebook and pen. "I've heard about you boys" she says. And then demands our mom's name and our phone number. "This is in case you give me trouble."
Posted by: San Franpsycho
HA! You think they were tough? My lunch ladies at my HS were my Nonna and Aunt Jeannie. No shit was tolerated. However, they did name one of their dishes "Turkey Balls" - even printed it on the menu.
It was as if the Principal was running towards the cafeteria in slow motion screaming 'Nooooooooooo. . . '.
Good times, good times.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 10:09 PM (H/XYA)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:05 PM
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Not making the news is usually a worthy life goal - with or without weather. Nothing good happens on the news. Best wishes.
Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 09, 2024 10:09 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:05 PM (u82oZ)
Living? I said take a walk, nobody said living. You'll put an eye out or somethin'.
Posted by: Lou Reed at March 09, 2024 10:09 PM (z+89e)
(assuming good weather and no scrubs)
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 6-43
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS
SpaceX is targeting Sunday, March 10 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Commentary March 10 at 6:55 PM EDT
Liftoff is targeted for 7:05 p.m. EDT. 23:05 UTC
(00:05 CET March 11)
YouTube link: https://tinyurl.com/af3j72rf
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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 7-17
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space
SpaceX targets Sunday, March 10, for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Live commentary March 10 at 7:03 PM PDT, 9:03 CST
Liftoff is targeted for 7:13 p.m. PDT, 9:13 CST
(02:13 UTC, 03:13 CET March 11), with backup opportunities available until 11:13 p.m. PDT.
YouTube link: https://tinyurl.com/mu7jwjms
Posted by: Ciampino - Rockets Sprockets at March 09, 2024 10:10 PM (qfLjt)
FDNY firefighters are now being asked to turn themselves in or risk being hunted down.
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at March 09, 2024 10:10 PM (gWAUD)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 10:10 PM (TSQkU)
Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY
As I suspected. The president is literally slandering a candy bar. Official statement given to me by the Mars/Snickers people. Will literally slander anything and anyone. Total hack.
https://tinyurl.com/msx2nsx3
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He who blasphemes a Snickers Bar has no soul.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 10:11 PM (FVME7)
COB insult bonding is using just guy bonding with a 2x4 to accentuate the plight of typing on a schedule.
Youse guys are the best, and by adding ace and the broad-shouldered commenters known un-ironically as the Horde makes this the best spot on the Intertubes.
AoSHQ: Using 2014 era message board technology in a futuristic world gone mad.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:11 PM (u82oZ)
Adds another hour of day drinking!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 09, 2024 10:11 PM (gg4h4)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 10:09 PM
****
Say everybody have you seen my balls
They're big and salty and brown!!
If you ever need em' quick,
Pick me up
Just stick my balls in your mouth
Ooohh!!
Suck on my chocolate salty balls,
Stick 'em in your mouth and suck 'em
Suck on my chocolate salty balls,
They're packed full of vitamins and good for you,
So suck on my balls!!
Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:11 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 10:11 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
That's why they're just using the Bud bottle as an onion-ring stand.
You can see the beer in the background, but it's blurry. It could be Guinness if the head were a bit darker-colored, so it's probably some other sort of stout or porter.
Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 10:11 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2024 10:12 PM (63Dwl)
But I am here.
Posted by: RI Red at March 09, 2024 10:12 PM (cB1i4)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 09, 2024 10:12 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 09, 2024 10:09 PM (vJiyU)
Hush SR. You are employed by the best boss, YOU.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:12 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 10:09 PM (H/XYA)
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I'm so sorry.
Considering the level of technology the surveillance regime imposed back then was fairly complete.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 09, 2024 10:13 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 10:08 PM (TSQkU)
Walla Walla Sweets.
Large. Crisp. Succulent.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 10:13 PM (W/lyH)
But I am here.
Posted by: RI Red at March 09, 2024 10:12 PM (cB1i4)
Nice to see you off the range, errr I mean The Gun Thread
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:13 PM (QXQ4l)
Pedo chronology - the big hand is on the little hard.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 09, 2024 10:14 PM (gg4h4)
Large. Crisp. Succulent.
Posted by: Diogenes
Didn't Walla Walla Sweets win his match with Bobo Brazil? It may have been with The Sheik - it was a long time ago.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 10:14 PM (H/XYA)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 10:09 PM (H/XYA)
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I'm so sorry.
Considering the level of technology the surveillance regime imposed back then was fairly complete.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 09, 2024 10:13 PM (RIvkX)
My Mom was a kitchen worker where I went to HS.
Talk about not getting away with stuff.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:15 PM (QXQ4l)
But I am here.
Posted by: RI Red at March 09, 2024 10:12 PM
****
See you Sun PM? Same time, same dojo?
Posted by: TRex at March 09, 2024 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)
Scotland's power sector came under fire after it was revealed that massive diesel generators were used to ensure dozens of giant wind turbines could function.
https://tinyurl.com/445msnta
Posted by: Ciampino - Fusion power man, it's the way at March 09, 2024 10:15 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 10:16 PM (TSQkU)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 09, 2024 10:09 PM (vJiyU)
Well, when the big hand is on top of the little hand, it's bed time.
Posted by: Zombie Michael Jackson at March 09, 2024 10:16 PM (z+89e)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 10:09 PM (H/XYA)
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I'm so sorry.
Considering the level of technology the surveillance regime imposed back then was fairly complete.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 09, 2024 10:13 PM (RIvkX)
My Mom was a kitchen worker where I went to HS.
Talk about not getting away with stuff.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:15 PM (QXQ4l)
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Kitchen workers??? Sheesh! You1%ers.
We just had the janitor throw crap at us as we walked past hoping to get a half eaten sammich.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 10:18 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: GWB at March 09, 2024 10:18 PM (69JzL)
Been on the front page of major newspapers. Once above the fold, but I was a half a pixel high on the starboard bridge wing.
The time I was quoted by name in the New Orleans Times Picayune newspaper. -- oh boy.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:18 PM (u82oZ)
Like irongrampa mentioned, panko works
I'd rather just have a funyun.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 09, 2024 10:19 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at March 09, 2024 10:19 PM (snyZJ)
Posted by: Zombie Michael Jackson
HEY! I DID put an "L" in there!
Posted by: Some Rat at March 09, 2024 10:19 PM (vJiyU)
Kitchen workers??? Sheesh! You1%ers.
We just had the janitor throw crap at us as we walked past hoping to get a half eaten sammich.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 10:18 PM (W/lyH)
That's right, and you forgot the white privilege screed
Bawahhhhhh Evil 1%er laugh.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:20 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 09, 2024 10:20 PM (MeG8a)
You gotta sous vide that shit . . . . . . . . . .
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 09, 2024 10:21 PM (TSQkU)
https://mol.im/a/13176941
Posted by: Ciampino - Come on you can do it at March 09, 2024 10:21 PM (qfLjt)
I came home, my parent's home, back in the day and got to enjoy Edgar Winter doing "Frankenstein" on Austin City Limits.
Had to be 1975. plus or minus a year.
Posted by: No One of Any Consequence at March 09, 2024 10:21 PM (VuZH8)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at March 09, 2024 10:19 PM (snyZJ)
That all depends on how much liquor, beer and wine you mix.
Or just plain old Schell's or Grain Belt Beer.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:21 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2024 10:21 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Grateful at March 09, 2024 10:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
No springing here in AZ.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 10:21 PM (tkR6S)
https://tinyurl.com/445msnta
Posted by: Ciampino - Fusion power man, it's the way at
And when it all comes crashing down, they won't let us hang any of the bastards responsible.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 09, 2024 10:22 PM (vJiyU)
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I had a defendant who drove through a drive through without pants and shocked the monkey in front of the teenage girl working the window. I described him to the jury as being without benefit of pants and was rewarded with laughter.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 10:22 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: No One of Any Consequence at March 09, 2024 10:23 PM (VuZH8)
Bravo for her work ethic. Bet she knows all about what to do.
Shame about her timing. But maybe she can retire.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:23 PM (u82oZ)
I read most threads, but only comment when I expect to be able to answer responses.
Tonight, I am here. With a nice red. I may be able to answer responses, but that is a factor of depth into the red.
Be that as it may, ONT and life are good..
Posted by: RI Red at March 09, 2024 10:23 PM (cB1i4)
We just had the janitor throw crap at us as we walked past hoping to get a half eaten sammich.
Posted by: Diogenes
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O we used to dream of getting a half eaten sandwich...
would've been a palace to us-
Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 10:23 PM (oCjPU)
Let the city burn.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:11 PM
Hey.... Isn't the trucker strike having an negative impact? And just the chilling effect of that fraud judgment... There's something comic about the AG hunting down people for booing her.
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at March 09, 2024 10:23 PM (gWAUD)
This article is about the obsolete Spanish coin. For other uses, see Picayune (disambiguation).
A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real or one sixteenth of a dollar. Its name derives from the French picaillon, which is itself from the Provençal picaioun, the name of an unrelated small copper coin from Savoy.[1] By extension, picayune can mean "trivial" or "of little value".
I did not know that.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 09, 2024 10:23 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 09, 2024 10:23 PM (CUv7Y)
What have you been watching that you've seen indecent uses of a Budweiser bottle?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 09, 2024 10:24 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
That's why they're just using the Bud bottle as an onion-ring stand.
You can see the beer in the background, but it's blurry. It could be Guinness if the head were a bit darker-colored, so it's probably some other sort of stout or porter.
Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 10:11 PM (DgGvY)
* * * *
Good! Because Bud isn't beer and should not be consumed by humans. But reusing the bottle for holding onion rings is... sustainable, right? (wink)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 09, 2024 10:24 PM (KglbO)
Posted by: Lass Mich In Ruhe at March 09, 2024 10:24 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 09, 2024 10:25 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
like a selfie
a pic of you, but said in an ethnic patois
Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 10:25 PM (oCjPU)
Be that as it may, ONT and life are good..
Posted by: RI Red at March 09, 2024 10:23 PM (cB1i4)
Enjoy!
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:25 PM (QXQ4l)
I mean, if you turn the thing inside out, the baby is gonna fall out anyway.
Posted by: GWB at March 09, 2024 10:26 PM (69JzL)
Gaza aid ship set to depart from Cyprus amid fears children are starving to death with up to a quarter of the strip's population on the brink of famine
https://mol.im/a/13177297
Where are the hostages?
Posted by: Ciampino - Isn't it pathetic to use kids as pawns? at March 09, 2024 10:27 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Lass Mich In Ruhe at March 09, 2024 10:24 PM (V5BDR)
Actually March 11th is my Mom's BD. RIP Mom.
Ya never know what you might get.
I haven't worked that far ahead.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:27 PM (QXQ4l)
But a big enough bottle of peanut oil to run it costs $23
Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 10:28 PM (oCjPU)
Posted by: LRob in OK
My favorite salad dressing is Vidalia onion.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 10:28 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: javems at March 09, 2024 10:28 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 09, 2024 10:25 PM (MeG8a)
No time sensitive puppehs in your home?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:28 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 09, 2024 10:28 PM (RIvkX)
https://mol.im/a/13177097
Posted by: Ciampino - They start young at March 09, 2024 10:29 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 10:29 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at March 09, 2024 10:29 PM (e9COb)
I would like to make onion rings, and I actually have a deep fryer.
But a big enough bottle of peanut oil to run it costs $23
Posted by: Don Black
I'll bet Five Guys onion rings cost more than that.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2024 10:29 PM (63Dwl)
The weather report is now calling for 8-14” of snow overnight.
Posted by: RI Red at March 09, 2024 10:29 PM (cB1i4)
Posted by: madtom at March 09, 2024 10:29 PM (go+84)
Posted by: madtom at March 09, 2024 10:29 PM (go+84)
do not taunt happy fun ball!
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 10:30 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Don Black a
Frozen ones are never as good as from a diner. But some grocery stores have a brand called Nathan's that are pretty good.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 09, 2024 10:30 PM (0Htd1)
https://mol.im/a/13177465
Posted by: Ciampino - Let's do this where we don't hire cretins at March 09, 2024 10:31 PM (qfLjt)
I have no idea. My boss the Program anager called an editor to get my best quote out there. It was a long week.
We were the only sea-going EMP testing outfit anywhere. PMS 423 Theater Nuclear Weapons Program Office at NAVSEASYSCOM. The program is long gone.
I said, and I could back it up, that EMP was safe for humans. Not unshielded electronics, but people were OK. On one trial I set a world record on field strength exposure, and the amount of energy that went through me was the equivalent of touching a doorknob in the winter in the winter after stuffing my feet on a rug.
My crime was my analogy for a science weak reporter. "Comparing EMP to 60 Hz power is like saying Motley Crue and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are the same.
Oops.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:31 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 10:31 PM (0FoWg)
I would like to make onion rings, and I actually have a deep fryer.
But a big enough bottle of peanut oil to run it costs $23
Posted by: Don Black
I'll bet Five Guys onion rings cost more than that.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2024 10:29 PM (63Dwl)
Culver's has pretty decent onion rings.
And are less than the jug of peanut oil mentioned above.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:32 PM (QXQ4l)
https://mol.im/a/13177903
Posted by: Ciampino - O look, a cretinous entertainer! at March 09, 2024 10:33 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Piper at March 09, 2024 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper at March 09, 2024 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)
Because his original name was probably "Shit For Brains"
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 09, 2024 10:33 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Ciampino - I need a stray with a $quirk at March 09, 2024 10:34 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: RI Red at March 09, 2024 10:34 PM (cB1i4)
Posted by: madtom at March 09, 2024 10:34 PM (go+84)
Adds another hour of day drinking!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism
And a 12 hour midshift turns into an 11 hour midshift.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2024 10:35 PM (rii+a)
https://mol.im/a/13177465
Posted by: Ciampino
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The election can't come soon enough.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 10:35 PM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 09, 2024 10:35 PM (KglbO)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 10:35 PM (D7oie)
Madonna scolds concertgoer for sitting down at her Los Angeles concert
Are there no seats at a Madonna concert?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2024 10:36 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:36 PM (u82oZ)
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It's almost enough to make you want to move to AZ.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 10:37 PM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 10:35 PM (EXNVN)
Nothing like optimism on the SAONT, i.e., believing that there will be another election!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 09, 2024 10:38 PM (hOUT3)
Having small value, worthless. Derives from a small coin with little value.
Posted by: Piper at March 09, 2024 10:38 PM (ZdaMQ)
Just what is a Picayune?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
>>> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the obsolete Spanish coin. For other uses, see Picayune (disambiguation).
A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real or one sixteenth of a dollar. Its name derives from the French picaillon, which is itself from the Provençal picaioun, the name of an unrelated small copper coin from Savoy.[1] By extension, picayune can mean "trivial" or "of little value".
I did not know that.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
So the Times-Picayune used to cost a picayune? Or a picayune times something?
I'd go with the non-coin definition, myself, since it's the MSM.
picayune
adjective
1. Of little value or importance; paltry.
2. Petty; small-minded.
3. Petty, trivial; of little consequence; small and of little importance.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
I think all three apply!
Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 10:38 PM (DgGvY)
I didn't know who this person was so I looked her up
Holy f***ing shit what is her problem
Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 10:39 PM (oCjPU)
My cabin sits on a creek where the closest public access is over a mile away. As long as someone is in the water they have riparian right to fish there and are always greeted with a friendly "Having any luck?" from me.
Posted by: Auspex at March 09, 2024 10:39 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 10:39 PM (S6gqv)
Although Puyallup has great kazoo jam sessions from time to time.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 10:40 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again!
Or the 120% turnout in certain swing states.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 09, 2024 10:40 PM (vJiyU)
Monday morning is going to be BAD!!!
I used to be to be of those annoying "morning people" but now the world is getting it's revenge.
Posted by: pawn at March 09, 2024 10:40 PM (QB+5g)
*sigh*
Drugs.
I know a guy whose dad OD'd, so he rifled through his pockets for the dope that killed him, and took off to get high on it. His sister found the dad a couple days later.
At least these two Hunter Bidens bothered to dump the corpse at a morgue, I suppose.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 10:40 PM (0FoWg)
Holy f***ing shit what is her problem
Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 10:39 PM (oCjPU)
Yes.
I think it started with the DDR music scene and then it went odd in the Punk era. I liked her cover of Spirit in the Sky, way back when.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 10:40 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Ciampino
A well managed string of A-list franchises can give the owner between $200K-$400K per location per year. No kidding.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 10:40 PM (H/XYA)
Posted by: Piper at March 09, 2024 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)
Because his original name was probably "Shit For Brains"
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives
In bigger mysteries, why does my smart iPad pick words that make zero sense? I assure you I typed “can” not “doesn’t”.
Are we sure we should be afraid of AI?
Posted by: Piper at March 09, 2024 10:41 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 09, 2024 10:38 PM (hOUT3)
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Either way it will be a clear start.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 10:41 PM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 10:41 PM (H/XYA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 10:39 PM (S6gqv)
It really sounds like it *should* be.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 09, 2024 10:42 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 09, 2024 10:40 PM (vJiyU)
See what I mean, more optimism from SR, believing that the excess vote count will only be 120%!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 09, 2024 10:42 PM (hOUT3)
Sorry, state's full. Gila monster out front should have told you.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 09, 2024 10:43 PM (dZVON)
When I tell her, she informs me it is Saturday.
Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at March 09, 2024 10:43 PM (hUGOQ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 10:43 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Diogenes
Having attended every recorder concert the kiddos and grandkiddos were in....why does every freaking song sound like "three blind mice"?
Posted by: Some Rat at March 09, 2024 10:43 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Ciampino - I need a stray with a $quirk1 at March 09, 2024 10:44 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 10:44 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 09, 2024 10:44 PM (llON8)
I have done numerous 14s since. A nice 20 year pension would have been good.
Posted by: RI Red at March 09, 2024 10:44 PM (cB1i4)
Posted by: Johnny Yune at March 09, 2024 10:44 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 09, 2024 10:45 PM (MeG8a)
If it's doing spell checking, no. Running air traffic control or writing prescriptions, yes.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 09, 2024 10:45 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Piper at March 09, 2024 10:45 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 09, 2024 10:46 PM (szKLp)
Posted by: Piper
In bigger mysteries, why does my smart iPad pick words that make zero sense? I assure you I typed “can” not “doesn’t”.
Are we sure we should be afraid of AI?
Posted by: Piper
It's the permanent DEI setting in the Siri AI. "Just because you doesn't." It's making you speak Jive. For equity.
Posted by: mikeski at March 09, 2024 10:46 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 10:46 PM (EXNVN)
Posted by: tbodie, Lurker. Unless you are reading this at March 09, 2024 10:47 PM (riCFD)
https://tinyurl.com/3w8p563k
Wait. I thought she was dead? How could she....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 09, 2024 10:47 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: mikeski at March
😂
Posted by: Piper at March 09, 2024 10:47 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper at March 09, 2024 10:45 PM (ZdaMQ)
Didn't know that either... just over the state line near Nawlins!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 09, 2024 10:47 PM (llON8)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 09, 2024 10:48 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach
I believe that waterway laws allow people to fish or use waterways. In other words if you own a beach house, people can use the water in front of your home.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 09, 2024 10:48 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 09, 2024 10:19 PM (RIvkX)
Those containers of Durkee's Fried Onion Rings, the ones people use for the string bean/mushroom soup casserole, with the onions as a topping, that some serve at Thanksgiving/Christmas. I just eat 'em as a snack.
I'll say one thing, those cans have gotten way too expensive to have as a snack anymore.
Posted by: RickZ at March 09, 2024 10:48 PM (emlEe)
Posted by: PabloD at March 09, 2024 10:49 PM (zqwN3)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 10:49 PM (tkR6S)
Are we sure we should be afraid of AI?
Posted by: Piper
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New language skills, it doesn't do phonics, it goes by the shape and size.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 10:49 PM (EXNVN)
Hoo no's hao menny guise its cilled all reddi?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 10:50 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 09, 2024 10:50 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 10:51 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Some Rat at March 09, 2024 10:43 PM (vJiyU)
If they'd gone with the violin, you'd be stuck with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as the earworm from hell.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 10:53 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: nerdygirl
Nerdygirl, with coastal states it’s often use below the mean low tide level.
So get your tide books out.
Posted by: RI Red at March 09, 2024 10:55 PM (cB1i4)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 09, 2024 10:48 PM (0Htd1)
Depends where the river is. I can assure you that in the county where I grew up, property owners could ban fishing (or any use) of their river frontage with extreme prejudice, and did.
These were not people who'd come out and yell at you. They were people who'd string cables below their bridges to clothesline your hippie ass for trespassing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 10:55 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 09, 2024 10:55 PM (YAtuc)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 09, 2024 10:50 PM (MeG8a)
Well, private lakes exist, where the entire shoreline belongs to one owner or a community. But navigable waters are a different story.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 10:55 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 10:56 PM (S6gqv)
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My first shift being an on call deputy district attorney involved an elderly man found dead in a low rent residential hotel. It looked like natural causes except it was clear the body had been moved post mortum. The cops and I were discussing the situation when one of the deceased's neighbors came in to scavenge. Turns out the deceased had been rude enough to expire on top of the TV cord plugged into the wall and his neighbor had to move the body to make off with the TV.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 09, 2024 10:56 PM (FVME7)
But I will get an extra hour for yardwork tomorrow.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 09, 2024 10:56 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 10:51 PM (NxC5+)
Geez, has no one seen the documentary 'Men In Black'? Just when ya think it's only Earth-bound illegal aliens we had to worry about, there you go poking those cephalopods.
Posted by: RickZ at March 09, 2024 10:56 PM (emlEe)
The only time I see television is if I happen to be in a bar or place where it's on a monitor, which is either during the day, when the 3rd shift bars run MeTV or Grit for the old folks, or my local late night truckstop diner, which plays Fox News with the sound off.
Other than that I'm utterly ignorant of TV-based media except for what I see discussed on blogs.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 09, 2024 10:58 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2024 10:58 PM (NxC5+)
May you get the sleep and other essentials you need on a government-shortened night.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:58 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 09, 2024 10:59 PM (WCWLA)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 09, 2024 10:59 PM (WCWLA)
May you get the sleep and other essentials you need on a government-shortened night.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Sleep well!
Posted by: Piper at March 09, 2024 11:00 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks'
So... Mexico.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 09, 2024 11:00 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: RI Red at March 09, 2024 11:01 PM (cB1i4)
https://tinyurl.com/bn7k67f5
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 11:01 PM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks'
Haha! The low-rent informal will!
"When you die, can I have your stuff?"
"Sure, I don't care, I'll be dead."
Posted by: LenNeal at March 09, 2024 11:03 PM (9yXr+)
Robin: How could a little clam eat a boy that size?
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 09, 2024 11:04 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: gourmand du jour
There are tons of small lakes in Michigan. Even if private citizens own all of the property on a lake, if boaters can enter the lake via a river, they can use that lake.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 09, 2024 11:04 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2024 11:04 PM (V8he0)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 09, 2024 11:04 PM (MeG8a)
Those guys know their fried invertebrates.
Posted by: Auspex at March 09, 2024 11:04 PM (j4U/Z)
Going for the hat trick on this one?
Nina Hagen has two children. Her daughter is 43.
So there is a reason she looks like someone's Mum. She is.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 09, 2024 11:04 PM (zdLoL)
There are tons of small lakes in Michigan. Even if private citizens own all of the property on a lake, if boaters can enter the lake via a river, they can use that lake.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 09, 2024 11:04 PM (0Htd1)
Exceptions: The Huron Mountain Club and Fairlane.
Posted by: Auspex at March 09, 2024 11:06 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: RI Red
Nope. Permanent DST passed in the Senate, didn't get voted on by the House.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 09, 2024 11:06 PM (CUv7Y)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
>>>
Was it CA, boy or Nancy that didn't bring it to the floor?
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 11:08 PM (EXNVN)
Nope. Permanent DST passed in the Senate, didn't get voted on by the House.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 09, 2024 11:06 PM (CUv7Y)
Behold the power of Bog Clock!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 09, 2024 11:08 PM (hOUT3)
Better yet, go find Dinker's bar in Omaha. Might as well get a cheeseburger deluxe to go with the onion rings. Dinker's has been voted the best hamburger in Omaha for years.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at March 09, 2024 11:08 PM (ET1Q8)
Posted by: gourmand du jour'
Access to waterways and bodies of water is a whole Thing. Seems like there are infinite variations on categories and it varies from state to state. A family member had property with a 'creek' (an actual legal term) at the back, and the middle of the creek was his property line. However the county had an easement for it. It was bizarre.
In practice people (mostly kids) walked through the creek all the time and nobody, even people who'd lived there for generations, really knew exactly what rights, formal or informal, anybody had to the creek in practice or otherwise.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 09, 2024 11:08 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 09, 2024 11:09 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Sam Drucker, Chief Editor at March 09, 2024 11:11 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 09, 2024 11:11 PM (CHHv1)
For decades, a broad majority of people have wanted to end the "time" "change," and it never happens.
It's just the government rubbing people's noses in it.
They could, so they did. And once they did, it was forever. No matter how much they may personally hate it (most people do), they hate the idea of people having their way even more.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 11:12 PM (0FoWg)
This sometimes involves comely females flashing their breasts at the mostly homosexual men who occupy the grove. It's even possible that they were paid to be there. You can't rule it out.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 09, 2024 11:12 PM (MeG8a)
Had a quiet day capped off with a sushi dinner with my Son, DIL and 5 and 7 year old granddaughters. Started with a Pete The Cat cupcake game, followed by nurmerous books, a fight over which smashmallow each one wanted and sushi where they downed salmon roe like pros. Oh and handmade birthday cards with stickers and glitter.
I am truly blessed. Think I'll do my best to stick around for awhile.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 09, 2024 11:13 PM (t/2Uw)
It was a hassle but the end result was a plat of survey had to be shown to the judge, the cop got told to get his shit together, and the crazy lady got told to mind her own damn business.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 09, 2024 11:14 PM (9yXr+)
One pretty good reason you're always hearing Twinkle Twinkle
https://tinyurl.com/yb95b9m9
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 09, 2024 11:16 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 09, 2024 11:12 PM (MeG8a)
Not pro-Hamas protestors, I take it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 11:16 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: LenNeal at March 09, 2024 11:16 PM (9yXr+)
https://tinyurl.com/bn7k67f5
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 11:01 PM (EXNVN)
Dang.
I thought sure you were describing the scene they had uncovered.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 11:17 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: From about that Time at March 09, 2024 11:17 PM (4780s)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 09, 2024 11:18 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2024 11:19 PM (V8he0)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 09, 2024 11:09 PM (hOUT3)
*looks twice*
Ohhh...right. Clock.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 11:19 PM (W/lyH)
For decades, a broad majority of people have wanted to end the "time" "change," and it never happens.
It's just the government rubbing people's noses in it.
Remember we have a "sacred Democracy" with no fraud whatsoever.
I mean...that's how a democracy works right? The government does a bunch of things the vast majority opposes right?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 09, 2024 11:20 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Pro-Hamas, Pro-Homos
Po-tay-toes, Po-tah-toes
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 09, 2024 11:20 PM (CUv7Y)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 09, 2024 11:20 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: From about that Time at
Did it about two weeks ago....few problems, no big deal.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 09, 2024 11:21 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 09, 2024 11:04 PM (zdLoL)
I know, but she looks like someone's mum who got a BA in art from Berkley and married comfortably, not like Madonna
Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 11:21 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2024 11:22 PM (oCjPU)
Thai ladyballs > Vietnamese octo-balls
Posted by: David French at March 09, 2024 11:22 PM (ibTVg)
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That sounds Turkish. They're lucky one guy was working. I'm guessing he's the only German there.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 11:22 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: From about that Time'
The worst part about DST is that at my shift tonight at the company, everyone has to take lunch at the same time. Normally lunches are staggered but not DST shifts. So I'll have to share a table with someone, which I hate.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 09, 2024 11:22 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice'
Haha! You haven't seen Germans in 2nd and 3rd World countries. They don't work, ever. They supervise. If there are any Germans anywhere near that site they're in a cushy office reading reports and issuing commands.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 09, 2024 11:24 PM (9yXr+)
The female leader standing around, then 5 tubby guys of whom 2 were digging and the rest watching.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 09, 2024 11:24 PM (ibTVg)
https://tinyurl.com/bn7k67f5
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 11:01 PM (EXNVN)
The way that Çatalhöyük was dated is fascinating; besides the usual methods, one of the rooms they uncovered had a frescoed painting of a volcano erupting, and it had an unusual shape so they could tell it was a peak about 80 miles away. It would have been a spectacular sight, no surprise they painted it. The last time that particular volcano erupted was 7,000 years ago.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 11:26 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 11:27 PM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 11:21 PM (D7oie)
"Aged gracefully."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 11:27 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Couldn't they simply looked at the date on the fresco? I mean, 3/9/4976BC - it's right there!!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 09, 2024 11:29 PM (H/XYA)
Them there Europeans don't know a dang thing about how to dig a hole. Why, me and my buddies could borrow my uncle's John Deere excavator and knock that job out in an afternoon.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 09, 2024 11:30 PM (CUv7Y)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 11:26 PM (S6gqv)
Used to be, every dinosaur display worth its salt had erupting volcanoes painted on the backdrop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 11:31 PM (tkR6S)
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That sounds Turkish. They're lucky one guy was working. I'm guessing he's the only German there.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 11:22 PM (0FoWg)
***
A known neolitiic archeological dig site.
South of Ankara.
The thing about Turkey is you put a shovel in the ground anywhere and you're likely to dig up something.
Up in Sinop we had stuff from the Hittites, Greeks, Romans, and the early church. Amazing place.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 11:31 PM (W/lyH)
Every morning, Daisy dog and I get up for our sunrise walk at 6:30. But, tomorrow, we'll probably not get up 'til 7:30!
I hate DST soo much!
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for the simple civilized alternative at March 09, 2024 11:31 PM (0QZAr)
Posted by: LenNeal at March 09, 2024 11:24 PM (9yXr+)
Yeah, that's fair. Turks who have an inclination toward anything usually leave Turkey, but some of them do in fact work at jobs and things. It's not quite so bad off as the Arab countries.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 09, 2024 11:32 PM (0FoWg)
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Notorious BFD
Getting the joke wrong, for one thing.
Posted by: Bofa Deeznuts Anza-Johnson at March 09, 2024 11:34 PM (DgGvY)
South of Ankara.
The thing about Turkey is you put a shovel in the ground anywhere and you're likely to dig up something.
Up in Sinop we had stuff from the Hittites, Greeks, Romans, and the early church. Amazing place.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Crossroads of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF5fQXVZGug
Posted by: Braenyard at March 09, 2024 11:34 PM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 09, 2024 11:35 PM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2024 11:40 PM (D7oie)
Die Strenggestemmstehtfrau!
Remember guys that German words threaten the borders of the margins. And you know who else did that.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 09, 2024 11:40 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 11:31 PM (W/lyH)
one of the most intriguing recent archeological finds was on the shore of the Sea of Galilee - the team was excavating the remains of an early Byzantine Church, built in the 3rd century. As they dug down through the foundation stones, they were surprised to find that it was built directly on top of a very ordinary 1st century house, average working class house, not very big. Why would the Byzantines have chosen that spot for their church? The researchers believed that they were still close enough in time to have strong oral traditions about local landmarks, and they are certain they have found the actual site of Simon Peter's house, on the shores of Galilee.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 11:43 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2024 11:43 PM (bo7UB)
Posted by: PabloD at March 09, 2024 11:43 PM (zqwN3)
Posted by: PabloD at March 09, 2024 11:43 PM (zqwN3)
Already removed from the oven, and eaten. But thanks for the heads-up!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 11:45 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2024 11:45 PM (bo7UB)
Posted by: Homer Simpson at March 09, 2024 11:48 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 11:50 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 11:43 PM (S6gqv)
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In Sinop, the place I was assigned was atop an extinct volcano. About half way up the hill there is an old mosque that dates back about a thousand years. The locals are very proud of it. But about a mile away is an old church that goes back even farther...they estimate to 400'ish AD. You can still see faded frescoes on the wall. They were very well done. Not surprisingly, the Turks are very sensitive about anyone digging around that site.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 09, 2024 11:50 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 09, 2024 11:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Homer at March 09, 2024 11:51 PM (sE4sa)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 09, 2024 11:52 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2024 11:45 PM (bo7UB)
Hittites were Indo-Europeans, unlike the other people's in the region. I watched a fascinating piece about the couple who spent 20 years going through cuneiform tablets from Hattusha until they were finally able to read the language. They worked on boring things like supply lists and inventories, because it's easier to figure out what's going on with them. Their greatest surprise - and a key to deciphering the language - was realizing that the Hittite word for "Water" was, of all things.... Water.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 11:53 PM (S6gqv)
Die Strenggestemmstehtfrau!
Remember guys that German words threaten the borders of the margins. And you know who else did that.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 09, 2024 11:40 PM (lhenN)
Putin, Biden,...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 09, 2024 11:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 09, 2024 11:55 PM (CecP5)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 11:53 PM (S6gqv)
I can sort of see how, figuring from context in lists, how you could deduce that a certain set of characters means "water". I'm a lot less clear on how they deduced that those characters were pronounced "water".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 11:59 PM (tkR6S)
Reminds me of a chef's knife from Japan that had the warning:
"Keep out of children"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 09, 2024 11:59 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 11:53 PM (S6gqv)
I can sort of see how, figuring from context in lists, how you could deduce that a certain set of characters means "water". I'm a lot less clear on how they deduced that those characters were pronounced "water".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 11:59 PM (tkR6S)
Google AI told them so.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 12:00 AM (ynpvh)
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That's similar to the deciphering of Linear B, found on clay tablets on Crete. The task of deciphering an unknown language from fragments written in unknown symbols is a daunting challenge. It took decades to make any headway at all. In the meantime, there were all kinds of wild theories about which language Linear B expressed.
Posted by: Homer at March 10, 2024 12:01 AM (bo7UB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2024 12:02 AM (bo7UB)
Posted by: Cicero
Damn straight, yo!
Posted by: Landru, it's my will, bitchez at March 10, 2024 12:03 AM (rii+a)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2024 12:03 AM (bo7UB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2024 12:02 AM (bo7UB)
Socks don't go well with sandals.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2024 12:03 AM (tkR6S)
FUN FACT
The members of Los Lobos freely admitted that they did not know or speak Spanish growing up.
Had to learn it to Distinguish Themselves.
Posted by: El Mikloso, Profesor de Lenguas at March 10, 2024 12:04 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: El Mikloso, Profesor de Lenguas at March 10, 2024 12:04 AM (v+0wn)
Wadda you do with all those tongues?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 12:05 AM (ynpvh)
🙄🧭
G'nite y'all.
💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for the simple civilized alternative at March 10, 2024 12:05 AM (0QZAr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2024 12:03 AM (bo7UB)
So Linear B, was geometric, eh?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2024 12:05 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 10, 2024 12:06 AM (0FoWg)
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LOL. Just reminded me of all those hippies-- wearing Birkenstock sandals with thick socks.
Or-- gingham dresses with leather work boots.
Very odd combos.
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 12:07 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2024 12:05 AM (tkR6S)
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Sadly, Euclid was late by about a thousand years to the Linear B party.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2024 12:08 AM (bo7UB)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Wi Fi, I meant WiFi, easy brother...
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 12:08 AM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 11:59 PM (tkR6S)
I don't remember how, but that show went into detail as to how they were able to figure out actual pronunciation of the symbols. It had to do with realizing that it was a branch of proto Indo-European, and then comparing their symbols to the other early Indo European languages which are now fairly well known. (Mycenean Greek, for example)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2024 12:09 AM (S6gqv)
El Gusto
The original 1940s version was more betterer
Posted by: El Mikloso, Who can translate tambien at March 10, 2024 12:09 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 09, 2024 11:53 PM (S6gqv)
I can sort of see how, figuring from context in lists, how you could deduce that a certain set of characters means "water". I'm a lot less clear on how they deduced that those characters were pronounced "water".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 11:59 PM (tkR6S)
Google AI told them so.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 12:00 AM (ynpvh)
They should have asked vic.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2024 12:09 AM (llON8)
Got a lot of laughs from the younger cow orkers.
And summoned for "random" drug-testing that day.
Told my manager, joke was on them-- I was 'clean' LOL
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 12:11 AM (njWTi)
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How else would you pronounce "water"?
Duh.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2024 12:11 AM (bo7UB)
Very odd combos.
Posted by: JQ
So.
You met some Faculty Members in my Kollidge daze.
Posted by: Miklos can name them by name, to this day at March 10, 2024 12:11 AM (v+0wn)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_homeland
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 12:13 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Darleen, Marleen, and Charleen at March 10, 2024 12:13 AM (v+0wn)
Before that it was a Pagan shrine of who knows what antiquity, and before THAT it was, judging from still-existing local practice, the site of a probably Perun-based 'sacred oak tree'.
So who knows how old that site actually is. On the bus ride there you can see the remnants of Roman roads still being used as pathways by the residents.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 10, 2024 12:13 AM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Braenyard - the normalization of all things at March 10, 2024 12:15 AM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Tom Servo
That was the best part of Joe's SOTU speech.
Posted by: Miklos found it incomprehensible at March 10, 2024 12:15 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2024 12:16 AM (63Dwl)
Here the guy summarizes Indo-European conquests and the general 'scene' in so-called prehistory, fascinating stuff:
https://tinyurl.com/58chhzdj
Posted by: LenNeal at March 10, 2024 12:18 AM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2024 11:59 PM (tkR6S)
I believe there were a number of bilinguals found, and the Hittites used cuneiform for their official records. they did have a native script, but the official records were in cuneiform unless there was a reason for it.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2024 12:18 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
Whose brother was Tom-Jane Harman-Kardon
Posted by: Miklos can hear it clearly at March 10, 2024 12:19 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: LenNeal at March 10, 2024 12:13 AM (9yXr+)
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They haven't turned them into bike lanes yet.
Posted by: Braenyard - the normalization of all things at March 10, 2024 12:20 AM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Braenyard - the normalization of all things at March 10, 2024 12:22 AM (EXNVN)
Posted by: LenNeal at March 10, 2024 12:22 AM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Braenyard - the normalization of all things at March 10, 2024 12:24 AM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Braenyard - the normalization of all things at March 10, 2024 12:22 AM (EXNVN)
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Didn't he also buy Newsweek for a buck? So, not really a genius.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 10, 2024 12:25 AM (bo7UB)
Quick update on my mother: Her speech is improving. It's still all messed up, but it's a very improved messed up. Wrong words in wrong order, but she's actually saying sentences. They're messed up, wrong sentences, but they are sentences.
Today was the SEC semifinals for the girls basketball. Mama has been a big SC Girls fans (in the old days, they called the Girl Gamecocks "Pullets"). Game today was a nail biter. They blew an early 23 point lead, and nearly lost, but won with a last second 3 point shot.
That really focused Mama's attention and got her brain in gear.
We also got her to eat the best, and most she has in one sitting since this whole mess started. Vegetable beef soup. Institutional food sucks, and this was likely the first stuff she had that actually tasted good.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 10, 2024 12:27 AM (w6EFb)
If ever I were to visit Japan I'm just going to hit up all the places this guy goes to.
https://youtube.com/shorts/YEozSXuaodo
I will come back 600 pounds heavier.
Posted by: Robert at March 10, 2024 12:27 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Braenyard
Jane married well.
Although 41 years older, he was a catch. Billionaire to start with but then...
Almost all airline inflight video and audio systems are from Harman-Kardon.
Posted by: Miklos respects the Olds and plans to be one at March 10, 2024 12:28 AM (v+0wn)
Mama's speech coherence level is now at Biden's. In a day or two, she'll be more coherent that Biden, if this keeps up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 10, 2024 12:28 AM (w6EFb)
We also got her to eat the best, and most she has in one sitting since this whole mess started. Vegetable beef soup. Institutional food sucks, and this was likely the first stuff she had that actually tasted good.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 10, 2024 12:27 AM (w6EFb)
Good news, publius!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2024 12:29 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 12:30 AM (ynpvh)
Low bar, but glad to hear she's improving rapidly.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 10, 2024 12:30 AM (dZVON)
I tasted some of the food they gave Mama at the hospital (Hillcrest hospital in Simpsonville, SC). It was turrbible, just turrible. I mean tasted like shit.
Food couldn't taste that bad by accident. It has to be on purpose.
I've heard that Prisma (which runs that hospital) is the absolute worst such food around.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 10, 2024 12:31 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Job One every Day
FEED OLD MAMA
Good Sons do that
Posted by: Miklos has just prayed about Two Old Mamas (mine cussed me out again today) at March 10, 2024 12:31 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 10, 2024 12:31 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Miklos respects the Olds and plans to be one at March 10, 2024 12:28 AM (v+0wn)
I'd like to see them fit airliners with good video cameras that look down and forward, and tie them in to a GPS system, with a canned narration that explains what can be seen on the ground as you fly over it..."For those of you with access to a right side cabin window, you can see the Joe Biden dam, and shit lagoon behind it."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2024 12:35 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: publius
If I have to go to Prisma for blood clot surgery, I will order myself a Sandwich Platter from Publix before they put me under.
Posted by: Miklos tries to be Pracical at March 10, 2024 12:38 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 10, 2024 12:38 AM (V8he0)
Most over-rated speakers of the '70s? Bose 901. EXCELLENT, if your room was an exact geometric match as Bose Labs "sample" room. And a pure disaster in the average home living room.
And in the '80s/90s, Cerwin Vega. No lack of quality there, just. Over. Rated. I rated them as "meh +"
Infinity made good speakers, and then began to believe their own hype. Oops.
Wharfdale still makes insanely good $$$peakers.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2024 12:40 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Because White Men and Asians positioned them for RespekT!
Posted by: Kamala SAY MY NAME RITE at March 10, 2024 12:40 AM (v+0wn)
That is going to be done, as best we can.
And with that, I'm out. Stupid DST kicks in tonight. See y'all later.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 10, 2024 12:41 AM (w6EFb)
Stealing a princess of Sparta then makes a lot more sense if you are Greek ruler trying to get status from other Greek rulers versus some random Hittite or other ruler doing so...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2024 12:42 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 12:43 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2024 12:45 AM (VwHCD)
And in the '80s/90s, Cerwin Vega. No lack of quality there, just. Over. Rated. I rated them as "meh +"
Infinity made good speakers, and then began to believe their own hype. Oops.
Wharfdale still makes insanely good $$$peakers.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2024 12:40 AM (e6UQI)
When I was a yute in Vancouver, we used to go to a peeler bar on Main Street, just a couple of blocks from the main police station, called Number Five Orange Street. They had Bose 901's for the stage sound. We would go there just to hear the tunes played on the sound system. And to see Peaches. Bose 901's and Peaches. but mostly Peaches.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2024 12:45 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 12:46 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 10, 2024 12:47 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2024 12:42 AM (ibTVg)
Better than writing a bit of graffiti saying The King is a Fink!
In Greek.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2024 12:48 AM (W/lyH)
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So glad your mom's doing better. Sounds like the framework is in order just some loose ends to adjust.
Mel Blanc was in a serious auto accident resulting in a deep coma, he wasn't coming out. One of the docs spoke to him in Bugs Bunny character and he responded, 'I'm going to get you wabbit'.
Bingo.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 12:48 AM (EXNVN)
Posted by: President Potatohead at March 10, 2024 12:49 AM (bo7UB)
Glad you'll be able --hopefully-- to take her home soon.
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 12:49 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 10, 2024 12:52 AM (CUv7Y)
Any speaker THAT sensitive as to "placement", and the geometry of a given room, HAD to be over rated.
Having heard a couple-three set up and played in "wrong" rooms? They were not just bad, they were HORRIBLE.
Their "Direct Reflecting" technology DEMANDED a "perfect corner" in which to set 'em, and Gawd He'p 'ya if you had floor to ceiling drapes extending into said corner.
A heavy set of such drapes would kill THAT speaker like a dead armadillo alongside the road.
Over. Rated.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2024 12:52 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 12:53 AM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 12:55 AM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Braenyard
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OOoo, weren't those the super-thin ones that sounded sooo freaking good? (Especially at higher volumes)
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 12:55 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
This
When my Old Papa married the Crazy Old Mama Lady, he married an entire family. Which explains a lot.
Publius Mama is nice Lady, and recently could tell a good joke and a story.
Posted by: Anonymous Witness who was THERE at March 10, 2024 12:55 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: Inga the lab assistant at March 10, 2024 12:56 AM (CUv7Y)
I actually, recently picked up a general manager who identifies himself from a childhood nickname as "Dee"
Deez Nuts, Dee Bag, - this bastard's fate is sealed.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2024 12:57 AM (EEgXH)
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*tiny fist bump*
Posted by: President Potatohead
*shouts*
*whispers*
*SHOUTS MOAR*
Posted by: Jill says I did fine, got Teo Scoops, just ike wahssisname at March 10, 2024 12:59 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: Miklos, with Perfect Central European accent at March 10, 2024 01:00 AM (v+0wn)
Magnaplanars.
Berserker, glad to see you back! What's this about you having to HIRE a "plumbing" contractor? At Dr. rates, even?
Did they install Pex? At THOSE prices?
(seriously, Welcome Back!)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2024 01:04 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2024 01:07 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 10, 2024 01:08 AM (cOq4q)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Rack ye well
An' come ye back
Posted by: Robbie Mikos-Burns at March 10, 2024 01:09 AM (v+0wn)
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Thanks, Jim! That's it!
Uncle had a pair. Awesome sound. So clear, so... perfect. We listened to Dark Side of the Moon and I swear I'd never heard it *like that* before or since.
Until his house was robbed by pro's-- they took EVERYTHING --cleaned out his whole house with a moving van.
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 01:14 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 10, 2024 01:15 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2024 12:42 AM (ibTVg)
Better than writing a bit of graffiti saying The King is a Fink!
In Greek.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2024 12:48 AM (W/lyH)
https://youtu.be/0lczHvB3Y9s&t=51s
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 01:20 AM (ynpvh)
So I'm living on the wild side now.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2024 10:05 PM (u82oZ)
Please, oh please, if you video your chases, please don't shout all the time like Reed Timmer...
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 10, 2024 01:23 AM (Rbu5d)
After I quit playing Large Rooms, I cross-wired it into a passive single-channel crossover, added a filter coil to keep it from having to work higher frequencies, hid it under a room platform, and drove it as a subwoofer only channel with the SVT. Nobody in the neighborhood starts subwoofer wars with us, any more: they've learned to submit to the Valkyrie Ride.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 10, 2024 01:27 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Miklos shares and warns at March 10, 2024 01:31 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: Looks at toes at March 10, 2024 01:32 AM (v+0wn)
Says a lot that you had to re-engineer SO much into the box, to make it do things you wanted.
A good measure of a GREAT speaker? Can it accurately and fully produce the quiet passages of a Classical Music media? Can it re-produce the Jazz session as closely as possible as the tracks were recorded? AND THEN, can it blast the ROCK ANTHEM as hard and loudly as you might want?
Cerwin Vega could DO the loud. On the quieter passages, it would suck it's own dick, and gag on it. It was like the speaker wasn't even really THERE.
Most of the Advent line, and damn near all of the early Infinity line, and let's not forget...if you've never heard a JVC Zero Five or Zero Six hooked up to YOUR rig, well... you've not heard the best. By FAR.
The very best speakers do not "affect" the sound. The BEST speakers accurately REPRODUCE the sound that was recorded in the studio. And that is ALL.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2024 01:42 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 10, 2024 01:43 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 01:43 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 01:43 AM (ynpvh)
Klipsch.... its what annoys the neighbors.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2024 01:46 AM (xaFKb)
Did they install Pex? At THOSE prices?
(seriously, Welcome Back!)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2024 01:04 AM (e6UQI)
Not sure wtf they installed, but I got 3 scars on the left leg, 2 on the right leg, and 2 on the left arm. I don't know what they did to me.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2024 01:47 AM (VwHCD)
*Nothing* sounds like it should, or like it used to.
No regerts.
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 01:48 AM (njWTi)
Fuck me with the power save.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2024 01:48 AM (EEgXH)
I'm not here to play Ford and Chevy with you.
My front channels are Bozak Concert Grands.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 10, 2024 01:48 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2024 01:47 AM (VwHCD)
Yeah, no fucking owners manual sucks.
Posted by: Steve Austin at March 10, 2024 01:48 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Archer at March 10, 2024 01:49 AM (rskKm)
He was mostly right then, and seldom wrong.
But.
If you put a set of 901s, perfectly placed, into a (near) perfect room. Then, OMG. You got to hear what everyone raved about lo, those many years ago. When they were good, they were GREAT.
The most FLEXIBLE Bose speakers? The humble 301.
They had a twist knob that would turn a baffle and let you tune the SPEAKER to the ROOM. And, it worked.
Idiots. They had a winner, and didn't evolve it up higher into their lineup.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2024 01:49 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Archer at March 10, 2024 01:49 AM (rskKm)
/looks at disappearing photos....
Uh....
Posted by: Marty McFly at March 10, 2024 01:51 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Archer at March 10, 2024 01:51 AM (rskKm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Don't worry about it. You'll be fine. Probably.
Posted by: The Greys at March 10, 2024 01:53 AM (rii+a)
Posted by: Archer at March 10, 2024 01:55 AM (rskKm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Wow. They went in from all directions!
Hubby had 2 stents put in a decade ago, but they did it all with one intrusion, went in thru his wrist. They had originally planned to go in thru femoral artery, but got a better path at wrist.
When he came out, was soooooo stoned, and kept trying to loosen the compression bandage on his wrist... I took turns with nursing staff, slapping his hand away from it!
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 01:59 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Archer at March 10, 2024 01:55 AM (rskKm)
But, is there a Hawt Eloy there?
Posted by: Marty McFly at March 10, 2024 01:59 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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They'll look good on that Harley.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 01:59 AM (EXNVN)
No regerts. Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 01:48 AM (njWTi)
I have learned to listen *through* the tinnitus, in the listening room. I can still hear the full range, through the never ending "tone".
As to Ford and Chevy. Fuck Off. Every brand and kind of speaker has/had it's characteristics, and Cerwin Vega was EXACTLY as I've described it.
I don't care if your front pair are Steinway Concert Grands. You chose to make an 18" CV do what it wasn't made to do, and that might speak more to your engineering prowess than to CV's speaker design. Or, lack, thereof.
There are no shortage of homies rollin' da 'hoods, thumpin' dat bass at streetlight shattering levels, and they don't impress me, either.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2024 02:01 AM (e6UQI)
'Blows'
The 901's required careful placement, and *lots* of power. No surprise, if one is going to try to produce decent bass from 4" drivers. But whatever, it was necessary that an equalizer be a part of the system, to produce bass, and to even out the output from the 4" speakers across the audio band. Sorry, they sucked, they just sucked in terms of quality of sound vs. $. YMMV
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2024 02:01 AM (XeU6L)
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Good thing for them that they don't use sodium pentothal any more.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 02:03 AM (EXNVN)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2024 02:04 AM (EEgXH)
You don't have to have a 15 but it makes a difference.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 02:05 AM (EXNVN)
All those SCARS!
Did you tell Mrs. B that "chicks dig scars"?
Did she offer to provide you a few new ones, herself?
(pro tip: do not piss off the Mrs. B)
Seriously, amigo. Glad you're back, glad you're upright, glad you're appropriately sardonic as to the state of things, as is your right.
First Bourbon is on me. I'll pour that one, myself.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2024 02:05 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Berserker
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Put together a story. Maybe, 'slashed by a popped Guitar string?' Plausible embellishment is the key.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2024 02:06 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2024 02:07 AM (XeU6L)
I get different tones from each side, sometimes more one than the other but always, always there to some degree.
Sometimes it's so loud, that I swear other people can probably hear it too. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 02:07 AM (njWTi)
You don't have to have a 15 but it makes a difference.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 02:05 AM (EXNVN)
Nah. A tower cabinet, a 10" driver and a 10" passive radiator.
Plenty Bass. Fewer watts.
Give it a good mid range and tweeter, and a quality crossover, though.
Inside baseball. The smaller driver will yield significantly higher acoustical accuracy than that 15" bass cone.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2024 02:09 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
I got pain medications I ain't even used yet.
Welcome, if'n you need 'em.
Posted by: Prof. Dr. Chikoadinaka Wnankpa, Healer Of Herbalist Knowlewdges at March 10, 2024 02:11 AM (v+0wn)
Glad to see you're still up. Please, email (it's in my sig line).
Got Lightning Arrestor questions for you. The tower will be well GROUNDED, but that ain't really the same thing.
It's a start, but it ain't all.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2024 02:13 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., across all Felame
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
And trans-leapt across or above all female competitours
Posted by: Miklos wishes he had a copy of Previous Work along these lines at March 10, 2024 02:18 AM (v+0wn)
Jim
Es verdad
Posted by: Low Rider Miklos Don't drive too fast at March 10, 2024 02:21 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: Born Free at March 10, 2024 02:26 AM (6kqgf)
Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2024 02:27 AM (e6UQI)
Hubby had 2 stents put in a decade ago, but they did it all with one intrusion, went in thru his wrist. They had originally planned to go in thru femoral artery, but got a better path at wrist.
When he came out, was soooooo stoned, and kept trying to loosen the compression bandage on his wrist... I took turns with nursing staff, slapping his hand away from it!
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 01:59 AM (njWTi)
Well they did the cath in my wrist. Thats when the fun started. The cardiologist said yeah you're not going home. I still got the last little traces of the black and blue. bastards.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2024 02:29 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: The Time Lords at March 10, 2024 02:29 AM (rii+a)
Posted by: The Time Lords
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Fk alla y'all! I wanted that hour!
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 02:33 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: The Time Lords at March 10, 2024 02:29 AM (rii+a)
Actually, you're right. It will help me get my normal sleep schedule back on track.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2024 02:34 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 02:37 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 02:44 AM (njWTi)
...
Hubby had 2 stents put in a decade ago, but they did it all with one intrusion, went in thru his wrist. They had originally planned to go in thru femoral artery, but got a better path at wrist.
When he came out, was soooooo stoned, and kept trying to loosen the compression bandage on his wrist... I took turns with nursing staff, slapping his hand away from it!
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 01:59 AM (njWTi)
Went through right femoral for FIL's angiogram (coronary arteries were plugged, worst at 95%).
Then the went throught the LEFT femoral artery (for angioplasty), but only corrected ONE of the three coronary arteries.
He never got his 2nd angioplasty. Passed away Sat morn.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 02:49 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 02:44 AM (njWTi)
Add Sacramento for us Kalifornians to multiply the misery.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 02:51 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Rich men north of Richmond at March 10, 2024 02:53 AM (rii+a)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
My vascular surgery will not be until June.
If the surgeon has a name similar to certain DAs and Prosecutors, I'm heading for Hungary or Costa Rica.
Posted by: Miklos does discriminate at March 10, 2024 02:53 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Oh, ugh! What can anyone say, to make it less painful for you, or other survivors?
You've been through the wringer lately, Jim. But seem to be holding up okay... I do hope you're *really* okay, not just putting up a good face.
{{hugs!}}
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 02:55 AM (njWTi)
I give an hour now, get it back every Fall.
I want Compound Interest on all those borrowed hours.
Posted by: Miklos would like to have a few minutes back at March 10, 2024 02:56 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 02:57 AM (njWTi)
Now I can sleep 9-10 hours a night and still don't feel 'rested'
WTH?
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 03:01 AM (njWTi)
WTH?
Posted by: JQ
Look into my eyes
*swings pocket watch*
Posted by: Miklos is also veddy, veddy sleepy at March 10, 2024 03:03 AM (v+0wn)
Need a clone, to stand in for me for a couple weeks, while I go away somewhere for a nice vacation.
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 03:06 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 03:07 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: JQ
Ayup
Got that
Posted by: Miklos attempting to speak like kinda Yankee at March 10, 2024 03:09 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: JQ
If you can get two (Discount maybe) I'll go in for half.
Posted by: One Miklos is probably more than sufficient for everyone but Miklos at March 10, 2024 03:11 AM (v+0wn)
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 03:12 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: JQ at March 10, 2024 03:13 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: m at March 10, 2024 04:01 AM (o3SCB)
FDNY firefighters are now being asked to turn themselves in or risk being hunted down.
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at March 09, 2024 10:10 PM (gWAUD)
They're union. Be a shame of they all suddenly suffered from "Blue Flu" or experienced a work slowdown. Yep. A damn shame.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 10, 2024 08:28 AM (iODuv)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 02:49
Very sorry to hear that news jim. You have had a lot of death lately, to be blunt. That has to be tough to deal with.
I think your wife would be proud of your care for her father, may they both rest in peace.
How is your youngest son dealing with his grandfathers' death? I know he has had problems, but this has to be tough for him.
Tell him there are people out there rooting for him and praying for some peace for you all.
Posted by: Farmer at March 11, 2024 03:58 AM (55Qr6)
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