Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (4/9/24)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
"I understand that they're not going to relieve any pain. And quite frankly they probably just don't believe me.
"Please know I am truly very sorry." James Crumbley

Quote II
“An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America,” That wouldn’t be a problem for an openly polemical news outlet serving a niche audience. But for NPR, which purports to consider all things, it’s devastating both for its journalism and its business model.Veteran National Public Radio (NPR) editor Uri Berliner

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Casa Misanthrope holds onto traditional games. No "inclusive" Scrabble for this family.

You guys ever played Scrabble with a Gen Zer?
It's a terrible time, mostly because they're not allowed to be on their phone.
So now Mattel has come up with a wonderful new version of Scrabble just for Gen Z, Scrabble: Snowflake Edition.

What's next, Participation Trophy Spin The Bottle?

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Those of you who follow The ONT know I don't care for soccer. I really don't see the fascination. But to each their own. That said about the game, I'll say this. The fans are die hards. And a little terrorist threat or two won't persuade them from staying away from the game.

Defiant football fans flock to Champions League clashes involving Man City and Arsenal despite ISIS threats: 'I thought about it for a second, then said f*** it, I'm coming to London to drink beer!'

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The Democrats are not only communist swine. They are the leading intellects of scientific fact. What a dumb twat.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a member of the Party of Science, gave instructions on what the moon is made of – gases! Who knew? Most of us thought it was a body of rocks and minerals.

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Sometimes my cousin Chuck sends me an odd ball email. Today was one of those days. STOP caulk from drying out, not a joke. Yep, rubbers for caulk.

Thanks Chuck.

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It sure is fun to watch Argentina's president in action.

Argentina demands right to inspect Chinese antenna facility
The Argentina government of Javier Milei is now demanding the right to inspect a Chinese antenna facility that was established in Argentina in 2014 and began operating in 2017 under a 50-year-lease.

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Recliner Emporium

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There are certain things you can and cannot do. That doesn't stop our Genius Award Winner.

Man Found Drunk, Naked, Sitting In Garbage Can
Perp claimed he was "allowed" sidewalk display of intoxication
APRIL 8--Arguing that he was not subject to arrest, a Florida Man told police that he “was allowed to be drunk and disorderly and sit naked in a trash can on the public sidewalk,” according to an arrest affidavit.
St. Petersburg cops allege that Wyly James Weeks, 35, was intoxicated, unsteady on his feet, and smelled of booze when they discovered him late Saturday evening on a downtown street.
Weeks, seen at right, was extricated, sans clothes, from a corner trash can and arrested for disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer without violence, both of which are misdemeanors.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:04 PM

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1 Yay, National Gin and Tonic Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 09, 2024 10:04 PM (dZVON)

2 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 09, 2024 10:05 PM (WXNFJ)

3 Cretinous Hushpuppies

Posted by: Braenyard at April 09, 2024 10:05 PM (2BB5W)

4 09APR MHONT
Woof!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 09, 2024 10:05 PM (hOUT3)

5 Howdy Mis Hum!
Hello Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at April 09, 2024 10:05 PM (eNASR)

6 Hey!

Posted by: Half Dozen at April 09, 2024 10:05 PM (eHovo)

7 Yey ONT

Posted by: Ciampino - That Ceiling at the Vatican is art at April 09, 2024 10:05 PM (qfLjt)

8 Yay TONT Thank you Mis Hum

Prayers for Sefton

13 more work days to retirement.

That is all.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 09, 2024 10:05 PM (QGaXH)

9 -Arguing that he was not subject to arrest, a Florida Man told police that he “was allowed to be drunk and disorderly and sit naked in a trash can on the public sidewalk,” according to an arrest affidavit.

Was that wrong?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 09, 2024 10:07 PM (WXNFJ)

10 Good evening.

Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer at April 09, 2024 10:07 PM (iF0sF)

11 That's a moon.

Posted by: Obi Wan at April 09, 2024 10:08 PM (SYTee)

12 Gee, I thought the moon was made out of dead weasels. Now, if it’s made out of gas, I’m surprised we haven’t claimed it for drilling to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 09, 2024 10:08 PM (VNX3d)

13 Evening, all.

So what happened to Bander? I was sad to hear of his passing.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 09, 2024 10:08 PM (3e3hy)

14 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Travel Challenges.

Judging by The Umbrella Incident, we know it would stump Barry.

Posted by: spindrift at April 09, 2024 10:08 PM (HBFar)

15 *pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

....fuckit, I'm cuttin' right to the chase.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 09, 2024 10:09 PM (e6UQI)

16 The sidewalk closed thing brings a memory.
I was the staff duty officer for my unit once at Ft Lewis back in my army days. The motor pool was getting a new fence put in and the old fence was gone. But the gate remained. About 2 in the morning the post staff duty officer shows up all pissed off because the gate was not locked.
Huh?
He wrote me up for it even though I pointed out there was no fence. Not good enough.
In the morning I briefed my commander and he just laughed.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2024 10:11 PM (W/lyH)

17 Just think, if we Drill, Baby, Drill on the moon, we could use Eagles to transport it back to Earth!

https://youtu.be/Pv_hP8JSpBE

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 09, 2024 10:11 PM (VNX3d)

18 Heard a report that Biden fell upstairs on his plane today despite his anti-fall shoes.

Any truth to that?

Oh yes: yay ONT! I hope MisHum gets some sleep... doing Sexton's job and the ONT as well must be exhausting.

Posted by: SimoHayha at April 09, 2024 10:11 PM (N/k1H)

19 Durn it. Forgot to check the clock again.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 09, 2024 10:12 PM (0eaVi)

20 Thanks for the girthy ONT, Mis Hum!

That photo up top is magical. Nice tune behind it too.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 09, 2024 10:12 PM (U3L4U)

21 That sidewalk closure fence was modeled by the sterling example Bribem set with out Souther border with Fentanilico.

Sinaloa-ico
Escobardico

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 09, 2024 10:12 PM (MsrgL)

22 Good evening.
Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer

And a very good evening to you Miss Jewels! (yes I know you're taken. smiley face icon here.)
And thank you MisHum for the ONTs!

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 10:12 PM (vJiyU)

23 How in the world could Sheila Jackson Lee get the composition of the moon wrong? Everyone knows it’s made of magnetic cheese.

Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2024 10:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

24 Man Found Drunk, Naked, Sitting In Garbage Can
Perp claimed he was "allowed" sidewalk display of intoxication

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I thought this was America!

Posted by: Randy Marsh at April 09, 2024 10:13 PM (FVME7)

25 Defiant football fans flock to Champions League clashes involving Man City and Arsenal despite ISIS threats: 'I thought about it for a second, then said f*** it, I'm coming to London to drink beer!'

OOOOOh! Man City. My favorite place.

Posted by: Barry O at April 09, 2024 10:13 PM (0eaVi)

26 Hi Some Rat!

Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer at April 09, 2024 10:14 PM (iF0sF)

27 ONT!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 09, 2024 10:14 PM (Ka3bZ)

28 23 Everyone knows it’s made of magnetic cheese.
Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2024 10:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

Green magnetic cheese - no?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 09, 2024 10:14 PM (QGaXH)

29 Heard a report that Biden fell upstairs on his plane today despite his anti-fall shoes.

Any truth to that?
Posted by: SimoHayha

Since they now have him using the "kiddie" stairs, that would be pretty funny.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 10:14 PM (vJiyU)

30 I also have a question: are there any MoMe's close..ish to Utah? Or are there any Morons or Ette's from Utah besides I think three?

Posted by: SimoHayha at April 09, 2024 10:15 PM (N/k1H)

31 {{{Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer}}}

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 10:16 PM (vJiyU)

32 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Travel Challenges.

Judging by The Umbrella Incident, we know it would stump Barry.
Posted by: spindrift at April 09, 2024 10:08 PM (HBFar)

That sign is as effective as those gun free zone signs in the ghetto.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 09, 2024 10:16 PM (0eaVi)

33 I also have a question: are there any MoMe's close..ish to Utah? Or are there any Morons or Ette's from Utah besides I think three?
Posted by: SimoHayha at April 09, 2024 10:15 PM (N/k1H)

Whenever three or more of you are gathered, Ace is there.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2024 10:17 PM (W/lyH)

34 On the bright side, she could have insisted the moon was made of cheese.

Posted by: polynikes at April 09, 2024 10:18 PM (MNhXM)

35 One man's Genius Award Winner is another man's Moron of the Year...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 09, 2024 10:18 PM (BpYfr)

36 My Grandma was strict at the Scrabble board. When you learned to read, you were in and everyone played by the same rules. No "I'm a little kid" exceptions. Her grandchildren are good spellers and avid readers. Some are even good Scrabble players.

Posted by: huerfano at April 09, 2024 10:18 PM (VGOMa)

37 Caullk rubbers.
If you are not particularly well endowed, and on the cheap side to boot, you can get them for seventeen cents each by the 80 pack.
Should last a life time.

Posted by: From about that Time at April 09, 2024 10:19 PM (4780s)

38 That's a moon.

Posted by: Obi Wan at April 09, 2024 10:08 PM (SYTee)

Made out of gas.

Posted by: RickZ at April 09, 2024 10:19 PM (emlEe)

39
So what happened to Bander?
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Not sure what took Bander...

However: In the final analysis all deaths are heart-failure so if you ever see that on a death certificate ask for more information.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 10:19 PM (68+uw)

40 My Grandma was strict at the Scrabble board. When you learned to read, you were in and everyone played by the same rules. No "I'm a little kid" exceptions. Her grandchildren are good spellers and avid readers. Some are even good Scrabble players.
Posted by: huerfano

I suck at Boggle and Scabble cause I can't spell for crap.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 10:20 PM (vJiyU)

41 That sidewalk leads to the front door of Midvale School For the Gifted.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 09, 2024 10:20 PM (63Dwl)

42 My Grandma was strict at the Scrabble board. When you learned to read, you were in and everyone played by the same rules. No "I'm a little kid" exceptions. Her grandchildren are good spellers and avid readers. Some are even good Scrabble players.
Posted by: huerfano at April 09, 2024 10:18 PM (VGOMa)
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"Death Scrabble" is a helluva game...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 09, 2024 10:21 PM (BpYfr)

43 Caullk rubbers.
If you are not particularly well endowed, and on the cheap side to boot, you can get them for seventeen cents each by the 80 pack.
Should last a life time.
Posted by: From about that Time

The Caulk Asian has entered the chat

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 09, 2024 10:21 PM (MsrgL)

44 Good evening everyone,thx MisHum. There is no reason for NPR, PBS, and their parent Comp, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to exist as a government funded entity. It might have made sense when there were three tv stations or only local radio, but now no. And yet the Dems would kill to keep it and the Republicans refuse to defund it despite it being the lowest hanging fruit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 09, 2024 10:21 PM (ixVYR)

45 ..Whenever three or more of you are gathered, Ace is there. Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2024 10:17 PM (W/lyH)

Ewokology.

And Ace will soon publish it's guidebook "Dietnutniks". Featuring every form of fasting and other dietary fad of the Post WWII era.

Cruel Ace, his "audits" feature REAL IRS AGENTS. You don't want one of those audits. They'll tax your Capital Gainz!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 09, 2024 10:22 PM (e6UQI)

46 That photo of Ethan Crumbley has a strong case of, as the Other, Good McCain would say, "Crazy Eyes".

Posted by: Another Anon at April 09, 2024 10:22 PM (QNMaY)

47 Damn I ignored my own advice and went for the low hanging cheese snark.

Posted by: polynikes at April 09, 2024 10:23 PM (MNhXM)

48 Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a member of the Party of Science, gave instructions on what the moon is made of – gases! Who knew? Most of us thought it was a body of rocks and minerals.

Yale grad. UVa law. The best and brightest.

Posted by: 7 man at April 09, 2024 10:23 PM (Gfz8S)

49 Thank you, MisHum for the exposure to different types of music. I maybe shouldn’t admit Iihave not listened to Dan Auerbach, I mean maybe in a Black Keys song here or there, but I haven’t actively looked for his music. The video struck a chord with me, dare I say it like that, with dancing. They were just letting the music move them in the way music does to the young and old alike. Nothing choreographed. Just joyful movement. Maybe I am tired, but it was cool. Obviously I have a dance background, and I still find choreographed dancing beautiful, but raw, no dance training movement is also beautiful.

Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2024 10:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

50 Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 09, 2024 10:24 PM (R4t5M)

51 Saw Van Halen on the 1984 tour. Great show at MSG.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 09, 2024 10:25 PM (ixVYR)

52 Caullk rubbers.
If you are not particularly well endowed, and on the cheap side to boot, you can get them for seventeen cents each by the 80 pack.
Should last a life time.
Posted by: From about that Time

The Coral Sea had some UDT guys onboard and they saw me taking dive classes so when they needed a corpsman they 'adopted' me.
So I learned their 'oddities'.
They were sending a package over to another ships UDT team and pulled out a package of condoms labeled extra large. The label was replaced with the words 'extra small' and sent to the other ship's team as a gift.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 10:25 PM (68+uw)

53 I suck at Boggle and Scabble cause I can't spell for crap.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 10:20 PM (vJiyU)

Really? Oh, ok.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 09, 2024 10:26 PM (0eaVi)

54 Obviously I have a dance background, and I still find choreographed dancing beautiful, but raw, no dance training movement is also beautiful.
Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2024 10:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

Not if you saw me on the dance floor.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2024 10:26 PM (W/lyH)

55 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2024 10:26 PM (sAmhv)

56 28 23 Everyone knows it’s made of magnetic cheese.
Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2024 10:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

Green magnetic cheese - no?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

I thought that might be too sciencey to call it out

Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2024 10:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

57 Never caught on to the Black Keys. They're from my AO so I always wanted to support them. Their music just doesn't grab me. Can't teach an ol' dog new tricks, I guess.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 09, 2024 10:27 PM (V8he0)

58 Bander?
Damn.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2024 10:27 PM (W/lyH)

59 However: In the final analysis all deaths are heart-failure so if you ever see that on a death certificate ask for more information.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 10:19 PM (68+uw)

I learned that from a Heinlein book in middle school. Can't remember which one though.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 10:27 PM (XjtdB)

60 For everyone that has an annual review
https://youtu.be/nFVHaus_pjI

Specifically for MisHum
https://youtu.be/JuLK9qQvUGg

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 10:28 PM (k1/QX)

61 There's a moon out tonight, is it a blue moon? Don't know but for sure it's over Miami. Is it glowing? It may be glowing in Vermont. It's certainly not a harvest moon - wrong time of year.
Well, do as Joey said and shoot it.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 09, 2024 10:28 PM (2BB5W)

62
I learned that from a Heinlein book in middle school. Can't remember which one though.
Posted by: Polliwog

Heh, probably the same place I got it!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 10:29 PM (68+uw)

63 NPR has been DNC bilge for decades. It needs to go, along with about 50 other agencies.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at April 09, 2024 10:29 PM (MeG8a)

64 I think Ruthless is/was in Moab.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 09, 2024 10:29 PM (iNp3L)

65 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. No major ground movement for a while. The Russians continue to grind forward, one potato field and hedgerow at a time.
2. The Russians tried out a prototype "Turtle Tank", a tank with an armored shed built over it to stop drones from impacting directly on the tank. It worked well during an assault, but was later wrecked by rocket fire while it was parked after the battle.
3. At a different battle, the Russians lost a column of about 30 armored vehicles when apparently their latest electronic drone jamming device failed to do any jamming.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 09, 2024 10:29 PM (RJAZT)

66 Ahh, Scrabble ("squabble" we called it, LOL)

Family Fun Time!!!

On a related note:

Why do drug names always look like they're trying to use up all those high-score letters within a single word? Don't they know that proper names aren't allowed? Sheesh!

Posted by: JQ at April 09, 2024 10:30 PM (njWTi)

67 54 Obviously I have a dance background, and I still find choreographed dancing beautiful, but raw, no dance training movement is also beautiful.
Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2024 10:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

Not if you saw me on the dance floor.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2024 10:26 PM (W/lyH)

I do a great stagger and fall.

Posted by: javems at April 09, 2024 10:30 PM (xgBZ9)

68 Inspired by events at the Senate, I have composed a topical limerick:

A woman named Medea Benjamin,
Rents out her tired old minge to men.
"It's two in the pink,
And one in the stink,
Just pay me those media Benjamins!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 10:30 PM (tkR6S)

69 54
Not if you saw me on the dance floor.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2024 10:26

I am sure you can sway to the beat just fine.

Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2024 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

70 The problem is the people who are in the View's studio audience and its TV audience are lower IQ than the panel dunces - yet still get to vote and browbeat other women they know into voting for Libtards.

Posted by: Gref at April 09, 2024 10:30 PM (5fDan)

71 If a man can't sit drunk and naked in a trash can, then the terrorists have won.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 09, 2024 10:31 PM (0Htd1)

72 but raw, no dance training movement is also beautiful.
Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2024 10:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

I've sorta fused Flashdance with MC Hammer shit.

Posted by: David Brent at April 09, 2024 10:31 PM (HBFar)

73 "However: In the final analysis all deaths are heart-failure so if you ever see that on a death certificate ask for more information."

I once posited that very thing and was smacked down by Muldoon himself.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at April 09, 2024 10:31 PM (MeG8a)

74 I learned that from a Heinlein book in middle school. Can't remember which one though.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 10:27 PM (XjtdB)

Between Planets

Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 10:32 PM (D7oie)

75 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
3. At a different battle, the Russians lost a column of about 30 armored vehicles when apparently their latest electronic drone jamming device failed to do any jamming.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

That is what you get for shopping at Ruski Shak.

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 10:32 PM (k1/QX)

76 Howdy, beloved Horde and the ever faithful MisHum!

Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 10:32 PM (Sf2cq)

77 Need to buy some chicken thighs, need to do cooking tonight.
Just wanted to share a link I found earlier today when I was commenting to someone's CBD maple syrup comment.

https://tinyurl.com/329s879n
"CBD-Infused Maple Syrup, Sous Vide-Style"

Would CBD approve, as it's sous vide-style? Hmmm.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 09, 2024 10:33 PM (ynpvh)

78 At a different battle, the Russians lost a column of about 30 armored vehicles when apparently their latest electronic drone jamming device failed to do any jamming.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 09, 2024 10:29 PM (RJAZT)

I have a video of Iraqi troops surrendering to a remotely piloted vehicle. From Desert Storm. I have been saying since the first company to develop a real counter-drone technology will make billions.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2024 10:33 PM (W/lyH)

79 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
3. At a different battle, the Russians lost a column of about 30 armored vehicles when apparently their latest electronic drone jamming device failed to do any jamming.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

That is what you get for shopping at Ruski Shak.
Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 10:32 PM (k1/QX)
----
"Made in China"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 09, 2024 10:33 PM (BpYfr)

80 Wild tied the Av's

Go Wild

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at April 09, 2024 10:34 PM (6I2Cp)

81 but raw, no dance training movement is also beautiful.
Posted by: Piper

Not if you saw me on the dance floor.

Posted by: Diogenes

A physician in attendance once caught my dancing and immediately began an evaluate as me possibly suffering a seizure.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 09, 2024 10:35 PM (WXNFJ)

82 My PC had a Windows update that bricked the machine. The cool part is the shitty update deleted itself so you can't undo the the update.

Creating a recovery usb as type.

Isn't Microsoft required to limit this type of shit to April 1st?

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 10:35 PM (k1/QX)

83 We didn't play Scrabble in my family. We played Risk. That got ugly. My mom made the rule that if you engaged in name calling, you lost an army.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 09, 2024 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

84 Howdy, beloved Horde and the ever faithful MisHum!
Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 10:32 PM (Sf2cq)

Blows on schedule every couple of hours?

Posted by: RickZ at April 09, 2024 10:35 PM (emlEe)

85 Put together my Orion 70mm tabletop equatorial reflector telescope.

Using it as a spotting scope, kinda. I can zoom in on stuff about 20 miles away, mountains and mesas. Very cool!

But I want to look at stars, planets, and or the moon. In a great spot for this. I want to wait a few more days, about 1/4 Moon, right?

Or how about Mars or Jupiter? The Milky Way was really cool. Also it is still Cold AF here, and when does the Moon come up, morning or evening?

Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2024 10:36 PM (4eslj)

86 @40

F - O - R - C - R - A - P

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 09, 2024 10:36 PM (YIxO9)

87 It needs to go, along with about 50 other agencies.
Posted by: gourmand

They still run a program (fed pays for it completely) that sends kids over to Europe to sing in the Summer. It is run like a private fief by the director. He hires 'assistants' to do all the work so they get completely funded European vacations. A pretty sweet gig for him and his friends.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 10:36 PM (68+uw)

88 We didn't play Scrabble in my family. We played Risk. That got ugly. My mom made the rule that if you engaged in name calling, you lost an army.
Posted by: nerdygirl

We played Risk with lots of alcohol being drank. Name calling was the least of our concerns.

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 10:37 PM (k1/QX)

89 Little Meanie is good at finding Saturn on the telescope. The first time I saw it thru the eyepiece actually kind of floored me, 'cuz I never had the patience for it.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 09, 2024 10:37 PM (YIxO9)

90 We played Risk. That got ugly. My mom made the rule that if you engaged in name calling, you lost an army.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Non aggression pacts had to be outlawed at our table.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 10:37 PM (vJiyU)

91 - First thought on sidewalk fence?
Someone's gonna have to go back and get a roll of dimes.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 09, 2024 10:38 PM (dWUm0)

92 At a different battle, the Russians lost a column of about 30 armored vehicles when apparently their latest electronic drone jamming device failed to do any jamming.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Who is reporting these Russian losses?

Posted by: polynikes at April 09, 2024 10:38 PM (AIm4E)

93 Between Planets
Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 10:32 PM (D7oie)

Thank you. I just read a synopsis, and I obviously didn't remember much beyond that bit. I thought it was the main character's parents who had died.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 10:38 PM (XjtdB)

94 65 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. No major ground movement for a while. The Russians continue to grind forward, one potato field and hedgerow at a time.
2. The Russians tried out a prototype "Turtle Tank", a tank with an armored shed built over it to stop drones from impacting directly on the tank. It worked well during an assault, but was later wrecked by rocket fire while it was parked after the battle.
3. At a different battle, the Russians lost a column of about 30 armored vehicles when apparently their latest electronic drone jamming device failed to do any jamming.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 09, 2024 10:29 PM (RJAZT)

Onwards to Sevastopol, and take it from Putin's criminals by the end of summer, my soldiers! For the Glory of Ukraine!

I'll be right behind you! But don't slow down to turn you heads to look for me, I WILL BE THERE!!! Swearsies!

Posted by: Z-Man at April 09, 2024 10:38 PM (5fDan)

95 I put the hockey score on the wrong thread

Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2024 10:38 PM (oCjPU)

96 Why do drug names always look like they're trying to use up all those high-score letters within a single word? Don't they know that proper names aren't allowed? Sheesh!
Posted by: JQ

They pay marketing firms to come up with them. There is kind an art to it. It has to sound therapeutic and it has to be unique to avoid any trademark suits.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 09, 2024 10:39 PM (IG4Id)

97 I just realized this site is working again with Brave on my home PC, after crashing any time I tried last week.

Interesting.

Posted by: spindrift at April 09, 2024 10:39 PM (HBFar)

98 Probably has something to do with the eclipse.

Posted by: spindrift at April 09, 2024 10:39 PM (HBFar)

99 Not from Utah, here now. Weather starting to co-operate

Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2024 10:39 PM (4eslj)

100 The Russians tried out a prototype "Turtle Tank", a tank with an armored shed built over it to stop drones from impacting directly on the tank.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Yo dawg, I heard you like tanks, so I put a tank in your tank so you're armored while you're armored.

Posted by: Xzibit's 15-year-old meme at April 09, 2024 10:39 PM (DgGvY)

101 F - O - R - C - R - A - P
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

See? I had it F-O-U-R- C-R-A-P-P.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 10:39 PM (vJiyU)

102 If the economy was so good, we wouldn't need to be reminded that the economy is good.
If crime rates were down, we wouldn't need to be reminded that crime rates are down.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at April 09, 2024 10:39 PM (MeG8a)

103 Related to Scrabble, several years ago there was a Socialist Monopoly version that was supposed to be sold at Target. Tagline: "Winning is for Capitalists".

And just like Socialism, you couldn't find it on the shelves. You had to resort to the black market to find a copy.

Posted by: Another Anon at April 09, 2024 10:40 PM (QNMaY)

104 Yes, thank you for yet another fine ONT, MisHum.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 09, 2024 10:40 PM (V8he0)

105 Isn't Microsoft required to limit this type of shit to April 1st?

Posted by: lost in space
--------------------------

Come my precious, I will inoculate your machine with another update.
You will always need and update. Do not turn off updates.
_BGates

Posted by: Braenyard at April 09, 2024 10:41 PM (2BB5W)

106 62
I learned that from a Heinlein book in middle school. Can't remember which one though.
Posted by: Polliwog

Heh, probably the same place I got it!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 10:29 PM (68+uw)

Slaughterhouse 5 perhaps? Was that Heinlein? Where's Perfesser Squirrel when we need him?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 09, 2024 10:41 PM (QGaXH)

107
Who is reporting these Russian losses?
Posted by: polynikes

Good question. Is the reporting as reliable as reports from Gaza?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 09, 2024 10:41 PM (63Dwl)

108 They pay marketing firms to come up with them. There is kind an art to it. It has to sound therapeutic and it has to be unique to avoid any trademark suits.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 09, 2024 10:39 PM (IG4Id)

Do not take Salmonella if you are allergic to Salmonella.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 10:41 PM (tkR6S)

109 >>>An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR

When did it ever?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 09, 2024 10:42 PM (klJTj)

110 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 10:36 PM (68+uw)

My sister did the orchestra version of that in high school. I remember that we had to look up what "chinos" were so we could be sure she didn't pack any.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 10:42 PM (XjtdB)

111 After one night of a controversial Risk game at the fraternity house, one of the belligerents filled a trash can full of water and leaned it against the other belligerent's bedroom door. Funniest thing is no one attempted to remove it and allowed hilarity to ensue the following morning.

Posted by: polynikes at April 09, 2024 10:43 PM (AIm4E)

112 Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 10:35 PM (k1/QX)

Ouch!

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 10:43 PM (XjtdB)

113 Slaughterhouse 5 is Kurt Vonnegut

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 09, 2024 10:43 PM (63Dwl)

114 I hope MisHum gets some sleep... doing Sexton's job and the ONT as well must be exhausting.
Posted by: SimoHayha
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That MisHum guy is "retired" so he has plenty of time on his hands. Plus he can nap whenever he feels like it!😎🥸

Posted by: lin-duh at April 09, 2024 10:43 PM (PZo5T)

115 So if parents can be arrested for not doing anything about their violent son when he goes on a rampage, as I guess the responsible party to stop him and contact local authorities couldn't you arrest everyone working on Biden's immigration "policies" for the same?

They know these invaders will murder and rape people and yet they let them in anyway.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2024 10:44 PM (ibTVg)

116 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
3. At a different battle, the Russians lost a column of about 30 armored vehicles when apparently their latest electronic drone jamming device failed to do any jamming.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

That is what you get for shopping at Ruski Shak.
Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 10:32 PM (k1/QX)
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"Made in China"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Look again. “Made with pride in Ukraine”!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 09, 2024 10:44 PM (VNX3d)

117 Me thinks the US and others have been prototyping various drone tech in Ukraine. The accelerated use of them, the complexity and lethality is really something. Russia's doing the same... but lagging behind, as is usually the case. Underwater drones are the "next big thing" over there.

On a related note, DJI, China's biggest purveyor of commercial and hobby class drones is supposed to be banned from doing business in the US. If you were/are unaware, the software used to fly them from a smartphone basically spies on everything it touches... the video and photos one takes with the drone, the GPS data, info on the network(s) the phone's attached to and so on. They've been discovered at sensitive FedGov sites... doing drone things. Personally, I think they're a networked spy system sold to unassuming Americans.

There are millions of DJI "quad-copter" hobbyist drones in use. Owning one will potentially be illegal should the legislation pass. The hobbyist drone community is obviously divided on this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 09, 2024 10:44 PM (Q4IgG)

118 33 I also have a question: are there any MoMe's close..ish to Utah? Or are there any Morons or Ette's from Utah besides I think three?
Posted by: SimoHayha at April 09, 2024 10:15 PM (N/k1H)

Whenever three or more of you are gathered, Ace is there.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 09, 2024 10:17 PM (W/lyH)
______
I thought alcohol had to be involved.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 09, 2024 10:44 PM (1bNHn)

119 Obviously I have a dance background, and I still find choreographed dancing beautiful, but raw, no dance training movement is also beautiful.
Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2024 10:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

Living the fullest life like a Kindltot: Smile like you learned it from diagrams, laugh like you have something caught on your uvula, dance like you are following the footsteps painted on the floor.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 10:44 PM (D7oie)

120 96 Why do drug names always look like they're trying to use up all those high-score letters within a single word? Don't they know that proper names aren't allowed? Sheesh!
Posted by: JQ

They pay marketing firms to come up with them. There is kind an art to it. It has to sound therapeutic and it has to be unique to avoid any trademark suits.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 09, 2024 10:39 PM (IG4Id)

All of the pronounceable combinations of random syllables were trademarked decades ago, by corporations making everything from cars to potato chips to acne medications to axle grease.

Posted by: Gref at April 09, 2024 10:44 PM (5fDan)

121 >>>Arguing that he was not subject to arrest

You gotta be one silver-tongued devil to get a cop to buy that one.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 09, 2024 10:45 PM (klJTj)

122 I am sure you can sway to the beat just fine.
Posted by: Piper
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What's a "beat?"

Posted by: lin-duh at April 09, 2024 10:45 PM (PZo5T)

123 "Weeks, seen at right, was extricated, sans clothes, from a corner trash can and arrested for disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer without violence, both of which are misdemeanors."

Oscar the Grouch's cousin, maybe?

Posted by: Another Anon at April 09, 2024 10:45 PM (QNMaY)

124 Or how about Mars or Jupiter? The Milky Way was really cool. Also it is still Cold AF here, and when does the Moon come up, morning or evening?
Posted by: Common Tater

Hope you have a moon filter otherwise the moon is just really bright.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 10:46 PM (68+uw)

125 70 The problem is the people who are in the View's studio audience and its TV audience are lower IQ than the panel dunces - yet still get to vote and browbeat other women they know into voting for Libtards.

Posted by: Gref at April 09, 2024 10:30 PM (5fDan)
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But not 'highbrowbeat' right?

Posted by: Ciampino - what is the total IQ in that room? at April 09, 2024 10:46 PM (qfLjt)

126 So if parents can be arrested for not doing anything about their violent son when he goes on a rampage, as I guess the responsible party to stop him and contact local authorities .
Posted by: 18-1

Should cause certain single parents a great deal of alarm.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 10:46 PM (vJiyU)

127 Posted by: 18-1 at April 09, 2024 10:44 PM (ibTVg)

Apparently they bought him the gun, because he was a minor and couldn't buy it himself, *after* having been alerted that he was making threats.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 10:46 PM (XjtdB)

128 Yay, open thread! I want to ask the Horde if I should slap a hot iron to a (checks notes) used pickup purchase.

More seriously, our vehicle we use to tow our small camper blew out the rear differential. The vehicle also needs a new transmission pretty soon. And although it's rated to tow our small camper, it labors a bit when we do that.

It will cost about $9000 if we want to keep this vehicle. So we are considering a bunch of things. Get rid of the camper get something for which tow capacity doesn't matter? Keep the camper and get a pickup?

We test drove a 2021 Ram 1500 Tradesman crew cab today, asking price $15,000. Don't know whether to steer toward Toyota, Dodge, or Ford. We want something that will tow a small camper and not be too tall to easily climb into.

Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 10:46 PM (Sf2cq)

129 >>>Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Travel Challenges.

A real life sighting of Chesterton's Fence!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 09, 2024 10:46 PM (klJTj)

130
What's a "beat?"
Posted by: lin-duh

A guy who snaps his fingers to poetry and plays the bongos.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 09, 2024 10:47 PM (63Dwl)

131 am sure you can sway to the beat just fine.
Posted by: Piper
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What's a "beat?"
Posted by: lin-duh at April 09, 2024 10:45 PM (PZo5T)

We used to tease our friend about his dancing and say the only time he hit a beat was by accident.

Posted by: polynikes at April 09, 2024 10:47 PM (AIm4E)

132 >>> 85 Put together my Orion 70mm tabletop equatorial reflector telescope.

Using it as a spotting scope, kinda. I can zoom in on stuff about 20 miles away, mountains and mesas. Very cool!

But I want to look at stars, planets, and or the moon. In a great spot for this. I want to wait a few more days, about 1/4 Moon, right?

Or how about Mars or Jupiter? The Milky Way was really cool. Also it is still Cold AF here, and when does the Moon come up, morning or evening?
Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2024 10:36 PM (4eslj)

Change the city name at the end of the URL to something close to you, scroll down, click on the Moon...
https://shorturl.at/sDKT7

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 09, 2024 10:48 PM (llON8)

133 I just checked, the Moon looks like a Tums! Just a sliver of the lighted portion, but the whole is visible. I think wait till it’s higher in sky? Wow

Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2024 10:48 PM (04lxq)

134 (there was this thing that happened because it was close to the Sun)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 09, 2024 10:49 PM (llON8)

135 Slaughterhouse 5 perhaps? Was that Heinlein? Where's Perfesser Squirrel when we need him?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 09, 2024 10:41 PM (QGaXH)
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Slaughterhouse 5 was Kurt Vonnegut...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 09, 2024 10:49 PM (BpYfr)

136 My sister did the orchestra version of that in high school. I remember that we had to look up what "chinos" were so we could be sure she didn't pack any.
Posted by: Polliwog

I forgot to tell that those programs were started by Ike and are still going...
Line item veto needs to be a thing for Presidents who think for themselves.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 10:49 PM (68+uw)

137 Thank you. I just read a synopsis, and I obviously didn't remember much beyond that bit. I thought it was the main character's parents who had died.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 10:38 PM (XjtdB)

It is a really good book, it and Citizen of the Galaxy were my two favorite juveniles.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 10:49 PM (D7oie)

138 Apparently they bought him the gun, because he was a minor and couldn't buy it himself, *after* having been alerted that he was making threats.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 10:46 PM (XjtdB)

It was a Christmas present.

Posted by: polynikes at April 09, 2024 10:50 PM (AIm4E)

139 72 I've sorta fused Flashdance with MC Hammer shit.
Posted by: David Brent at April 09, 2024 10:31

That is remarkably creative.

Speaking of choreography, I have 6a and 815a classes on deck for me tomorrow. Hitting the hay.

Nightsie noodles!

Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2024 10:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

140 Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley’s parents Jennifer & James sentenced to 10-15 years in historic ruling

The parents are white, of course.

Get back to me when black parents are sentenced to prison for something their offspring did.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 09, 2024 10:51 PM (YAtuc)

141 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 10:49 PM (68+uw)

I guess they haven't changed the dress code since then. Although her trip was 30 years ago, so who knows what's changed.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 10:51 PM (XjtdB)

142 All of the pronounceable combinations of random syllables were trademarked decades ago . . .
Posted by: Gref

They'd best be careful. The Nine Billion Names of God storyline could rear it's head and no one wants that.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 09, 2024 10:52 PM (WXNFJ)

143 128 I should mention that we are of limited means and we like to drive our cars for 20 years or 400,000 miles, whichever comes first.

Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 10:52 PM (Sf2cq)

144 >>> , the GPS data, info on the network(s) the phone's attached to and so on. They've been discovered at sensitive FedGov sites... doing drone things. Personally, I think they're a networked spy system sold to unassuming Americans.

There are millions of DJI "quad-copter" hobbyist drones in use. Owning one will potentially be illegal should the legislation pass. The hobbyist drone community is obviously divided on this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer
----------------------------

Every Chinese tech device sold in the world is a data collector for them. Every device collects all data it's exposed to and sends it back home.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 09, 2024 10:52 PM (2BB5W)

145 My sister did the orchestra version of that in high school. I remember that we had to look up what "chinos" were so we could be sure she didn't pack any.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 10:42 PM (XjtdB)

In Mexico, it means "curly headed" and in Colombia it means "young boy" In the rest of south america it means "Asian"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 10:53 PM (D7oie)

146 On my Ranger, with automatic transmission, there is a “No Overdrive” setting on the gear selector stalk that should always be enabled when towing, for a few reasons.

Other makes may have a different name for it, but accomplishes the same thing - a transmission will or can be destroyed in short order when towing if the overdrive function is not disabled!

Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2024 10:53 PM (04lxq)

147 I hope MisHum gets some sleep... doing Sexton's job and the ONT as well must be exhausting.
Posted by: SimoHayha
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That MisHum guy is "retired" so he has plenty of time on his hands. Plus he can nap whenever he feels like it!😎🥸
Posted by: lin-duh

It has to have severely cut into MisHum's snowmobile time. Good thing it is almost mosquito netting and new lawn furniture season.

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 10:53 PM (k1/QX)

148 - First thought on sidewalk fence?
Someone's gonna have to go back and get a roll of dimes.
Posted by: TeeJ at April 09, 2024 10:38 PM
Now that's what you m talking about!

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at April 09, 2024 10:53 PM (UWRAE)

149 Who is reporting these Russian losses?
Posted by: polynikes at April 09, 2024 10:38 PM (AIm4E)

A decent source is the EweTube channel "Military Summary"

https://m.youtube.com/
@militarysummary/videos

It is run by a guy in Belarus, and while pro-Russian, he shows both Russian and Ukrainian videos as he updates his color coded map. He also provides plenty of commentary, which you can take with as much salt as you want.

[Don't blow the f*cking margins. CBD]

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 09, 2024 10:54 PM (RJAZT)

150 We played Scrabble when the kids were younger with the rule that you could used the dictionary to help out. We figured it was a good way for them to learn new words and correct spelling at the same time.

They always got mad at me because I would always strategically use 2 tiles and all of the bonus squares to get a high-scoring word simply by spelling "an" or "to" or something silly like that.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at April 09, 2024 10:54 PM (SRRAx)

151 All of the pronounceable combinations of random syllables were trademarked decades ago . . .
Posted by: Gref

They'd best be careful. The Nine Billion Names of God storyline could rear it's head and no one wants that.
Posted by: Tonypete

Hawaiian has no consonants, but which one has no vowels?

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 10:54 PM (vJiyU)

152 151 All of the pronounceable combinations of random syllables were trademarked decades ago . . .
Posted by: Gref

They'd best be careful. The Nine Billion Names of God storyline could rear it's head and no one wants that.
Posted by: Tonypete

Hawaiian has no consonants, but which one has no vowels?

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 10:54 PM (vJiyU)

Biden-speak?

Posted by: Gref at April 09, 2024 10:55 PM (5fDan)

153 ---
What's a "beat?"
Posted by: lin-duh at April 09, 2024 10:45 PM (PZo5T

Lin-duh, you have no idea what I am going through right now with a new teacher I hired. She is a Pilates instructor, so she knows fitness and anatomy really well. I thought with that I could build the musicality. It’s just not there. We count beats and she can do it with me, but she can’t transfer that to just listening for the rise in music bringing you to the top of the block for another 8 count. I love her personality so hoping for a break though.

Good night for real this time!

Posted by: Piper at April 09, 2024 10:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

154 Apparently they bought him the gun, because he was a minor and couldn't buy it himself, *after* having been alerted that he was making threats.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 10:46 PM (XjtdB)

Seems there was a pattern of gross negligence there, culminating when they were called to the school shortly before the shooting, and were told that the kid was acting out and making threats. And they just left him there, and said, basically, "you deal with it."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 10:56 PM (tkR6S)

155 I was always told the Moon was made of Gruyère, you know, with all the crater holes.

Posted by: Ciampino - what is the total IQ in that room?... at April 09, 2024 10:56 PM (qfLjt)

156 Florida man: "[I am] allowed to be drunk and disorderly and sit naked in a trash can on the public sidewalk".

He was lost. He thought he was in San Francisco.

Posted by: An honest mistake at April 09, 2024 10:56 PM (7zCvS)

157 Don't put your Bachman turner into overdrive.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 09, 2024 10:56 PM (63Dwl)

158 We want something that will tow a small camper and not be too tall to easily climb into.
Posted by: Emmie

Betterhalf feels the same way with her knee replacement. We recently bought a 2012 Toyota Tundra with the v8 4.6 engine (not the largest V8 engine).It has a step below the door that makes it easy to enter and exit.

It towed a small (just over 2000lbs) trailer on back roads (stop signs, lights, turns) and we barely knew it was behind us.
It got 19.5 freeway coming back from California and 15mpg towing the trailer without any freeway.
We are pleased.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 10:56 PM (68+uw)

159 We test drove a 2021 Ram 1500 Tradesman crew cab today, asking price $15,000. Don't know whether to steer toward Toyota, Dodge, or Ford. We want something that will tow a small camper and not be too tall to easily climb into.
Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 10:46 PM (Sf2cq)

I would suggest a Nissan Frontier. If you get a smaller trailer and want it new, I suggest Forest River. I own neither one and I am going from word of mouth, though.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 10:57 PM (D7oie)

160 Scrabble was always a game that I was adept at. Same with Risk. FWIW, which ain't much. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 09, 2024 10:57 PM (V8he0)

161 transmission will or can be destroyed in short order when towing if the overdrive function is not disabled!
Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2024 10:53 PM (04lxq)

Interesting. Our van naturally ran higher rpms when we towed. I don't think it ever ran in the highest gear.

Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 10:57 PM (Sf2cq)

162 Hawaiian has no consonants, but which one has no vowels?
Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 10:54 PM (vJiyU)

Welsh.

Posted by: RickZ at April 09, 2024 10:58 PM (emlEe)

163 Gallup has a new poll out where 9% of people that are hot to buy a car will be buying EVs. This is down from 12% a few months ago. I take this to mean the absolute ceiling for EVs as of today is 9% if you leave out threats of being tossed into prison for thinking about normal cars. if you include those tossed in to prison the ceiling is still 9% or about the number of The Gays that live within 20 miles of the West Coast.

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 10:58 PM (k1/QX)

164 Kindltot, our current trailer is significantly lighter than a Forest River. It's about 2,100 lbs unloaded.

Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 10:59 PM (Sf2cq)

165 Onwards to Sevastopol, and take it from Putin's criminals by the end of summer, my soldiers! For the Glory of Ukraine!

Speaking of delusional, General "Baghdad Ben" Hodges posted this just ten days ago:

Ben Hodges - The Siege of Crimea has Begun as Ukraine Takes Control over the Black Sea and Coastline

https://tinyurl.com/cyffuxtr

Whatever psychedelics he's on, they're too strong.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 09, 2024 10:59 PM (YAtuc)

166 We want something that will tow a small camper and not be too tall to easily climb into.
Posted by: Emmie

*warning. Math*

How much does the camper with all your stuff weigh?

Get a tow vehicle that can handle (brake safely) that weight, plus a 20% safety margin. This is your towed weight.

The tow vehicle needs to be capable of physically moving and braking itself (plus all you, a full tank of fuel, and all your stuff). This is your gross carrier vehicle weight.

The combination of gross carrier vehicle weight, plus the towed weight is your gross vehicle weight rating.

Get a tow vehicle with a gvwr that is a minimum of 20% over what you estimate you combination weight is going to be.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 09, 2024 11:00 PM (MsrgL)

167 I am going to finally go and order a Honda Trail 125 tomorrow This has burning desire has been building for 7 years.

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 11:00 PM (k1/QX)

168 They'd best be careful. The Nine Billion Names of God storyline could rear it's head and no one wants that.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 09, 2024 10:52 PM (WXNFJ)

"How was I to know, I don't speak R'lyehian! It was supposed to reduce tinnitus, I never knew what a Deep One was. What a horror."

-- Ex Marketing VP for Gilead

Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 11:01 PM (D7oie)

169 15mpg towing the trailer without any freeway.
We are pleased.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 10:56 PM (68+uw)

That's pretty good. I think we were getting 10 mpg when towing.

Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 11:01 PM (Sf2cq)

170 151

Hawaiian has no consonants, but which one has no vowels?

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 10:54 PM (vJiyU)
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Hebrew?
The Slavic languages are very short in vowels, so bad that during the 'war' Clinton carpet-bombed them with vowels.

Posted by: Ciampino - what is the total IQ in that room?.. at April 09, 2024 11:01 PM (qfLjt)

171 128 We test drove a 2021 Ram 1500 Tradesman crew cab today, asking price $15,000. Don't know whether to steer toward Toyota, Dodge, or Ford. We want something that will tow a small camper and not be too tall to easily climb into.
Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 10:46 PM (Sf2cq)

Emmie: Look at the published tow charts for your candidate vehicle and note the differences in tow capacity between the different engine/rear end ratio combinations. Derate that number by 30% - meaning if the chart says it can pull 10,000 lbs don't use it for anything over 7000 GVWR. Also look at your tow vehicle's GVWR rating - the maximum it can weigh and safely stop/manuever. Also on the door jamb should be a sticker stating actual payload capacity - how much people/pets/luggage you can load the tow vehicle with. Include the tongue weight of the trailer. Ex: Rams have GVWRs of around 6900 lbs and weigh 5000 themselves - that leaves 1900 lbs for passengers, luggage, cargo and the tongue weight of the trailer - the additional weight the trailer adds to your vehicle. That's where a lot of people mess up - they don't consider or underestimate that added weight.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 09, 2024 11:02 PM (QGaXH)

172 Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 10:53 PM (D7oie)

In this case it meant "blue jeans".

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 11:02 PM (XjtdB)

173 I should mention that we are of limited means and we like to drive our cars for 20 years or 400,000 miles, whichever comes first.
Posted by: Emmie

Match the rig with the trailer or vice versa. But always err on the side of bigger rig and look for one that already has all the tow goodies.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 11:02 PM (vJiyU)

174 ...He was lost. He thought he was in San Francisco.
Posted by: An honest mistake at April 09, 2024 10:56 PM (7zCvS)

Giving him the benefit of the doubt. The Castro District was only 90-ish miles offshore, to the South.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 09, 2024 11:03 PM (e6UQI)

175 I am going to finally go and order a Honda Trail 125 tomorrow This has burning desire has been building for 7 years.
Posted by: lost in space

You know that would get you to Corsicana really cheaply!
(of course you'd have to start on the trip tomorrow to make it by October).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 11:03 PM (68+uw)

176 Fat fingered something. Round 2.

I am going to finally go and order a Honda Trail 125 tomorrow. This burning desire has been building for 7 years and I finally was overwhelmed by it all today. Not having to shovel boatloads of cash to the recent college graduate and having the house painted last month is helping out a lot here.

What's that? Yes, I am out of my friggin' mind.

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 11:03 PM (k1/QX)

177 Yes, the RPMs will be noticeably higher, when “towing mode” is enabled (or overdrive disabled). The engine isn’t working “harder” though.

One of the main reasons is to keep the transmission oil temperatures down. Higher volume flow rates through the transmission achieves this, as well as a cooler.

Trucks setup for towing have a few different options. One is a dedicated hitch. And a brake controller. Nor your head “yes” - you want a brake controller. A few states - Oregon, Nevada, New Hampshire, Tennesee, require them.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2024 11:03 PM (2OKI5)

178 Get a tow vehicle with a gvwr that is a minimum of 20% over what you estimate you combination weight is going to be.
Posted by: BifBewalski
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And don't ride in the trailer while it's being towed....

Posted by: lin-duh at April 09, 2024 11:04 PM (PZo5T)

179 So they ended up doing the 4Runner reveal, completely unimpressive, there are now 9 trim levels, WHAT??, it's pretty much a Tacoma with a cabin integrated, It's not clear how the TRD Pro and Trail Hunter trim levels differentiate themselves and at the end of the day, you're driving a turbo 4 cylinder at the lower end or a turbo 4 cylinder hybrid with an electric motor.

And in order to squeeze in the hybrid batteries, they had to shrink the gas tank by 3 gallons, so now your range is under 400 miles.

And the shrunken gas tank is also on the non-hybrid models.

I mean, if you want a four runner, go out and get a 3rd, 4th or 5th Gen, because people are going to start snapping those up toot sweet.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2024 11:05 PM (XV/Pl)

180 transmission will or can be destroyed in short order when towing if the overdrive function is not disabled!
Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2024 10:53 PM (04lxq)

Interesting. Our van naturally ran higher rpms when we towed. I don't think it ever ran in the highest gear.
Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 10:57 PM (Sf2cq)

Some overdrive transmissions had a mechanically weak fifth gear, and the torque reversals that occurred when going from "pull" to "coast" would eventually break them. More recent generations of overdrive transmissions should have had this fixed. But if your vehicle has a "tow/haul" button, use it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 11:05 PM (tkR6S)

181
That's pretty good. I think we were getting 10 mpg when towing.
Posted by: Emmie

I used a 2004 Frontier towing the same type of trailer and it didn't have enough power. It also got 17mpg max (I didn't figure it's mpg while towing) so I was amazed at 19.5 and 15mpg with the V8.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 11:05 PM (68+uw)

182 That's pretty good. I think we were getting 10 mpg when towing.
Posted by: Emmie

Bigger engines don't lose as much milage towing as smaller engines. Dad said, "That things just loafing when empty."

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 11:06 PM (vJiyU)

183 90 We played Risk. That got ugly. My mom made the rule that if you engaged in name calling, you lost an army.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Non aggression pacts had to be outlawed at our table.
Posted by: Some Rat

Did you make a non aggression pact with someone, then turn around and stab him in the back when he wasn't expecting it?

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 09, 2024 11:07 PM (0Htd1)

184 178 - And don't ride in the trailer while it's being towed....
Posted by: lin-duh at April 09, 2024 11:04 PM (PZo5T)

Like the lady that fell out of the airstream on her way to see the eclipse - hit her head and died... sad!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 09, 2024 11:07 PM (QGaXH)

185 In this case it meant "blue jeans".
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 11:02 PM (XjtdB)

chinos to me means a type of slacks that are made of a heavier duck. I liked them because they were cut baggy, and baggy slacks used to be where it was at.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 11:07 PM (D7oie)

186 You know that would get you to Corsicana really cheaply!
(of course you'd have to start on the trip tomorrow to make it by October).
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

You are about right. I grew up riding a 60s Trail 90 and used as my daily driver for about year. I loved that bike even if driving it in city traffic was an exercise in tempting death to pay a visit each time I went out.

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 11:07 PM (k1/QX)

187 Welsh.
Posted by: RickZ at April 09, 2024 10:58 PM (emlEe)

Of course Welsh has vowels. W and Y are vowels in Welsh. They essentially make long and short U sounds, if I remember correctly.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 11:08 PM (XjtdB)

188 That sidewalk closure looks like one on Langley AFB several years ago.

Posted by: GWB at April 09, 2024 11:08 PM (69JzL)

189 I’m on a trailer trip now. Maiden inaugural.

There is a set of railroad tracks in Meade, Kansas. They are not marked “rough crossing”. I wasn’t going real fast, but fast enough to get all 6 wheels off the ground. LOL.

Nothing hardly broke, but all my stuff was mixmastered pretty good. I about shit when I saw the tracks. I didn’t try to slow down or brake, just enjoy the air time.

One thing I did do (or not) was put any water in the holding tank. I expect that would have ended up on the tracks if I had.

Pay attention to Hitch weight (or tongue weight) too much is not better than not enough.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 09, 2024 11:09 PM (2OKI5)

190 We played Risk. That got ugly. My mom made the rule that if you engaged in name calling, you lost an army.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Non aggression pacts had to be outlawed at our table.
Posted by: Some Rat

Did you make a non aggression pact with someone, then turn around and stab him in the back when he wasn't expecting it?
Posted by: nerdygirl

That question answers itself. Proper Risk etiquette demanded that we behave like absolute shits to each other. The game would have boring if we didn't act that way.

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 11:09 PM (k1/QX)

191 For those interested, in about one hour:

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 6-48 -
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, April 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.
Liftoff is targeted for 12:04 a.m. EDT, 04:04 UTC and 06:04 CEST.

https://www.youtube.com/live/82kr5L4F05A

Posted by: Ciampino - Space news today at April 09, 2024 11:09 PM (qfLjt)

192 Did you make a non aggression pact with someone, then turn around and stab him in the back when he wasn't expecting it?

I played Diplomacy in college. We developed the concept of "reasonable backstabbing" - backstabbing was considered acceptable, but only if the gains from the backstabbing were large enough.

Backstabbing someone for a minor gain was deemed unacceptable.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 09, 2024 11:10 PM (YAtuc)

193
What's that? Yes, I am out of my friggin' mind.
Posted by: lost in space

Lots of unimproved roads between you, and Riodoso. Check oit the dirt roads from Riodoso, down around the SouthEast end of McGregor Range. That's the northern end of the firing range for ft. Bliss and you'll see all of the check stations where us du,b ass privates had to man a guard post to close the range for live fires.

A LOT of history in that region. Membris camp sites, pottery sherds, and other interesting stuff.

Download a us forestry service topo map. Explore. Contact me at my nic @ gee emm exe dot com and i'll goggle maps you some places where i've been in that area while being paid private e2 salary.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 09, 2024 11:10 PM (MsrgL)

194 A physician in attendance once caught my dancing and immediately began an evaluate as me possibly suffering a seizure.
Posted by: Tonypete

* spazzes around to The Bryden Two-Step *

https://youtu.be/RXZttbVgsOk

Posted by: .....for amphibians at April 09, 2024 11:10 PM (DgGvY)

195 Tundra with tow package has over size alternator and radiator as well as transmission oil cooler. It also has a 'tow' button which locks out overdrive.
I think it also has a beefer frame but I'm not sure.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 11:10 PM (68+uw)

196 Dear Ones, I appreciate all the camper towing wisdom, but I've got that part already figured out except maybe deciding whether to get rid of our camper so towing isn't a factor. If we keep our camper, I'm wondering which trucks or other tow-worthy vehicles would be especially long-lived because we drive our cars a long time. We're big Toyota fans, but the truck I found today that seems to be a good deal is a Dodge Ram work truck from a fleet.

Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 11:10 PM (Sf2cq)

197 Did you make a non aggression pact with someone, then turn around and stab him in the back when he wasn't expecting it?
Posted by: nerdygirl

Yes.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 11:11 PM (vJiyU)

198 >>>driving it in city traffic was an exercise in tempting death to pay a visit each time I went out.

Posted by: lost in space
-----

Had a Yamaha 350 Street Scrambler. The day, on a highway, a guy driving a a damn Rambler passed me in my lane (plenty of open lanes) (couldn't catch him) was the day it went up for sale.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 09, 2024 11:12 PM (2BB5W)

199 That question answers itself. Proper Risk etiquette demanded that we behave like absolute shits to each other. The game would have boring if we didn't act that way.
Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 11:09 PM (k1/QX)

we were honorable, "we combine to wipe out your little brother, then all bets are off" That turns it into jockeying to fulfill the agreement while angling to stab each other at the first opportunity.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 11:12 PM (D7oie)

200 On the bright side, she could have insisted the moon was made of cheese.
Posted by: polynikes at April 09, 2024 10:18 PM (MNhXM)

People would have assumed she was joking then, and not that her IQ is printed on the sole of her shoes.

Posted by: GWB at April 09, 2024 11:13 PM (69JzL)

201 Of course Welsh has vowels. W and Y are vowels in Welsh. They essentially make long and short U sounds, if I remember correctly.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

Hey, now I can merge the linguistics discussion with the dance discussion!

Dance of the Seven Vowels:

https://youtu.be/rJ1EMkVXb-w

Posted by: mikeski at April 09, 2024 11:13 PM (DgGvY)

202 That ruling is still shit.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2024 11:14 PM (di6C2)

203 One other thought on vehicle shopping: the last year of an old-generation vehicle may be a better choice than the first year of a new generation. The old generation has been well sorted out, and while it make look a little stale, it's not likely to have weird breakdowns as it ages out.

If you buy the first year of a new generation, you are the beta tester.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 11:14 PM (tkR6S)

204 Sorry I'm late, the imps were feeling frisky.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 09, 2024 11:14 PM (yyzQB)

205 Thanks for the ONT, MisHum. Fun batch of content.
Good evening, Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at April 09, 2024 11:14 PM (41CYW)

206 Emmie: Search '2021 Ram Tow Chart' and you'll get the J2807 chart.

My wife and I just in the last year bought a 2019 Ram 1500 Hemi/3.92 rear end with tow package - we plan on using it to tow a 6000lb camper (loaded). So far seems to pull it fine. We're just starting this adventure.

Definitely try to get a factory tow package with a Cl IV factory hitch and integrated brake controller. Like hoses and ladders - get more than you think you need.

Last thing - consider going to a Cat scale and getting the combination truck and trailer weighed so you know exactly where you are weight-wise. I plan on doing that before we do any serious travelling.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 09, 2024 11:14 PM (QGaXH)

207 197 Did you make a non aggression pact with someone, then turn around and stab him in the back when he wasn't expecting it?
Posted by: nerdygirl

Yes.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 11:11 PM (vJiyU)

Is this a Scorpion and the Toad kind of thing?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2024 11:14 PM (di6C2)

208 Risk? Well, that is different.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 09, 2024 11:16 PM (di6C2)

209 An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR
When did it ever?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
-----------
NPR and SNL are in the same category for me. When young I didn't understand why everybody liked them. Got older and understood why I didn't like them.

Posted by: scampydog at April 09, 2024 11:16 PM (41CYW)

210
If you buy the first year of a new generation, you are the beta tester.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Agree.
The 2012 Tundra has 131,000 and some known issues but, we suspect it'll go about 270,000 at least.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 11:16 PM (68+uw)

211 Did you make a non aggression pact with someone, then turn around and stab him in the back when he wasn't expecting it?
Posted by: nerdygirl

Yes.
Posted by: Some Rat

Is this a Scorpion and the Toad kind of thing?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

They're playing Risk. It's scorpions all the way down.

Posted by: mikeski at April 09, 2024 11:17 PM (DgGvY)

212
Download a us forestry service topo map. Explore. Contact me and i'll goggle maps you some places where i've been in that area while being paid private e2 salary.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Thank you! I will get in touch tonight. I finally wised up that my 2106 suburban mom Jeep Cherokee is not the idea machine to to go crashing around out in the desert around Las Cruces. Last year through about 6 tires kept cutting them on the lava rocks. I am a little slow on the uptake OK. In about 15 minutes I can be on dirt/back roads that would take me all the from Las Cruces to Socorro or from Las Cruces to Arizona. I also have picked out a hitch carrier so I get up in the mountains around Ruidoso to start and then the Gila. I am going to get into so much fun trouble. What I will save by not screwing the Cherokee will pay for a good chunk of it.

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 11:18 PM (k1/QX)

213 Is this a Scorpion and the Toad kind of thing?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Heh, well it was "Risk" not "It's a sure thing."

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 11:18 PM (vJiyU)

214 An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR
When did it ever?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

Never as far back as I remember (late 60s).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 09, 2024 11:18 PM (68+uw)

215 Thanks, AOP! Although I have no idea what year of the generation that 2021 is.

Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 11:19 PM (Sf2cq)

216 154 Apparently they bought him the gun, because he was a minor and couldn't buy it himself, *after* having been alerted that he was making threats.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 10:46 PM (XjtdB)

Seems there was a pattern of gross negligence there, culminating when they were called to the school shortly before the shooting, and were told that the kid was acting out and making threats. And they just left him there, and said, basically, "you deal with it."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 10:56 PM (tkR6S)

So are we gonna lock up all absentee fathers of teen criminals for their gross negligence? No, right?

Are we gonna lock up all the black moms who know their gangbanger spawn are up to no good? No, right?

How about the parents happily transing their kids, some of whom seem rather prone to violence? No, right?

The Crumbleys may be loathsome parents who did nothing while their kid went off the deep end and even enabled him. But they're hardly unique.

But my guess is we won't see anything like evenhanded application of the law, so it will just be another cudgel for beating whites and other undesirables.

Posted by: Building the Railroad They'll Use to Send Us to the Camps at April 09, 2024 11:19 PM (6YPjt)

217 We're big Toyota fans, but the truck I found today that seems to be a good deal is a Dodge Ram work truck from a fleet.
Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 11:10 PM (Sf2cq)

I would be wondering why a fleet manager decided to dispose of a 3 year old truck in seemingly good condition.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 11:19 PM (tkR6S)

218 Of course Welsh has vowels. W and Y are vowels in Welsh. They essentially make long and short U sounds, if I remember correctly.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

Is stuttering a problem amongst the Welsh? Would anybody even notice?

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 11:20 PM (k1/QX)

219 SNL is written and performed by and for the people of Manhattan

but they make America watch

Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2024 11:21 PM (oCjPU)

220 207
Barbarossa?

Posted by: Ciampino - tongue-in-cheek at April 09, 2024 11:21 PM (qfLjt)

221 Still have various board games from childhood. Payday, Risk, Battleship, Sorry, etc. Most with duct tape on the corners. Inside lid of the Yahtzee box says: 'brothers' name, in red ink, is a dickhead. My kids laughed a bit when they first discovered that.

Posted by: scampydog at April 09, 2024 11:21 PM (41CYW)

222 The 2012 Tundra has 131,000 and some known issues but, we suspect it'll go about 270,000 at least.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

The 5.9 Cummins 24V is a 500,000 mile engine with a little TLC. For the transmission go over to "precision transmission" to learn how to rebuild.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 09, 2024 11:21 PM (vJiyU)

223 212 "...my 2106 suburban mom Jeep Cherokee.."

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 11:18 PM (k1/QX)

Nice to see those will still be around in the 22nd century...both the Cherokees and the suburban moms...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 09, 2024 11:21 PM (QGaXH)

224 COL 5 MIN 2 2ND
MacKinnon with the hat trick

Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2024 11:23 PM (oCjPU)

225 I would be wondering why a fleet manager decided to dispose of a 3 year old truck in seemingly good condition.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 11:19 PM (tkR6S)

Supposedly no accidents, runs like new, spiffy condition, work-related wear on the running boards and the truck bed liner. Maybe it's haunted.

Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 11:24 PM (Sf2cq)

226 But my guess is we won't see anything like evenhanded application of the law, so it will just be another cudgel for beating whites and other undesirables.

Posted by: Building the Railroad They'll Use to Send Us to the Camps at April 09, 2024 11:19 PM (6YPjt)

My point was that the Crumbleys worked really, really hard to become the kind of shit parents that could earn themselves a jail term under what seems to be an existing law. Or was some new law recently passed for this?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 11:24 PM (tkR6S)

227 chinos to me means a type of slacks that are made of a heavier duck. I liked them because they were cut baggy, and baggy slacks used to be where it was at.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 11:07 PM (D7oie)

You know what? I bet it was "dungarees" that we had to look up and turned out to be blue jeans. Like I said, 30 years ago.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 11:25 PM (XjtdB)

228 >>I would be wondering why a fleet manager decided to dispose of a 3 year old truck in seemingly good condition.

It's more than likely a leased vehicle and the fleet manager is getting a new vehicle to add to the fleet.

Rental car companies typically only keep their vehicles for 3 years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2024 11:25 PM (XV/Pl)

229 Wow

Mackinnon gets the hat. What a crazy freak of nature with that speed

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at April 09, 2024 11:26 PM (6I2Cp)

230 My point was that the Crumbleys worked really, really hard to become the kind of shit parents that could earn themselves a jail term under what seems to be an existing law. Or was some new law recently passed for this?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 11:24 PM (tkR6S)

They could be just the sort of parents that were intended to be allowed to have no control over their own kids as the laws are currently written and enforced.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 11:26 PM (D7oie)

231 clocked at 24mph on that breakaway

Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2024 11:27 PM (oCjPU)

232 I think dungarees are a type of sea cow or manatee.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 11:28 PM (D7oie)

233 Posted by: Building the Railroad They'll Use to Send Us to the Camps at April 09, 2024 11:19 PM (6YPjt)

They were accessories before the fact. They weren't charged with the same thing the kid was.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 11:28 PM (XjtdB)

234 stoppage in play while they repair the arena following the hat trick

Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2024 11:29 PM (oCjPU)

235 Dear Ones, I appreciate all the camper towing wisdom, but I've got that part already figured out except maybe deciding whether to get rid of our camper so towing isn't a factor. If we keep our camper, I'm wondering which trucks or other tow-worthy vehicles would be especially long-lived because we drive our cars a long time. We're big Toyota fans, but the truck I found today that seems to be a good deal is a Dodge Ram work truck from a fleet.
Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 11:10 PM (Sf2cq)

Aren't fleet former rentals?

If you don't mind signing up for something, go to Carkiller.com. a YT mechanic with 50 yrs experience created the site for people to ask car and truck questions. You'll need to create an account to post, but there's no constant e-mails. You'll want to ask if you should buy the truck and give its VIN number, make and model, engine type, and mileage. If you're lucky, the site owner will answer.

I asked about a car with a clean carfax, and he told me the car I was looking at was in a wreck. Might be worth the time to ask.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 09, 2024 11:30 PM (0eaVi)

236 I think dungarees are a type of sea cow or manatee.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 11:28 PM (D7oie)

Dugongs?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 09, 2024 11:30 PM (XjtdB)

237 Supposedly no accidents, runs like new, spiffy condition, work-related wear on the running boards and the truck bed liner. Maybe it's haunted.
Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 11:24 PM (Sf2cq)

What you want to hear from the fleet manager: "Well, economy is down a bit, so we decided to downsize the fleet, and the oldest trucks are the first out the door."

What you don't want to hear from the fleet manager: "WE have been hearing stories from other fleets that 2021 Ram 1500's start to experience slippage in the direct-drive clutch pack once mileage gets up over 150,000 miles, so we accelerated our turn-in rate for this model."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 11:31 PM (tkR6S)

238 COL 5 MIN 2 end 2nd 🏒 #29 🤠

Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2024 11:31 PM (oCjPU)

239 Evening.

I'm not going to watch anything with The View but it reminds me...did Ace link it? Drudge? Both?...this guy saying the global climate warmening was going to increase the severity and frequency of earthquakes cuz the water was living up the fault lines.

Two thoughts.

1. Even Gaia needs to get lubed up prior to a megathrust.

B. Most of the Earf's fault lines are underwater to begin with. Just crack open Google Maps, set it to satellite view and look at how the Earf is cracked like an eggshell. Notice that the fault lines are at the bottom of the oceans. Pardon the pun, but methinks the global lubening hypothesis doesn't hold water.

Posted by: Robert at April 09, 2024 11:32 PM (1Yy3c)

240 New trailers are so much lighter and efficient. Mine weighted about 4k and was only 20'. The old 6.2 clocked in at 14mpg on the highway. I liked using the trailer brakes to slow down the vehicle.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 09, 2024 11:34 PM (2BB5W)

241 Do not expect expert scientific commentary from The View

they are hateful drunken hags, not scientists

Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2024 11:36 PM (oCjPU)

242 I'm out. G'night all.

L.i.S., i'll build ya some pin pointers near and around you that we explored in the warly 80s, that the bike should be capable of. Some of them, the cherokee should be just fine as well (unless the usfs has abandoned the right of way).

The places are still there, but you'll only find corner stones and maybe soe sunken grou d where the cemetary was. Still, standing there, and thinking...Billy the kid and Pat Garret were RIGHT HERE! was kinda cool.

Look up the Cat Walk, over near where White Oak was. It's a park and a nature trail now, but really cool history of the place.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 09, 2024 11:37 PM (MsrgL)

243 And the added bonus of buying a fleet vehicle is that they are typically serviced and maintained at the manufacturers proscribed schedule.

Iv'e been driving rental cars for the last 5 years on pretty much on a weekly schedule and I've had nothing but a positive experience.

And this runs the gamut from pickups to SUVs and sedans.

So I think picking up a fleet vehicle could possibly be the best option.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2024 11:38 PM (XV/Pl)

244 B. Most of the Earf's fault lines are underwater to begin with. Just crack open Google Maps, set it to satellite view and look at how the Earf is cracked like an eggshell. Notice that the fault lines are at the bottom of the oceans. Pardon the pun, but methinks the global lubening hypothesis doesn't hold water.
Posted by: Robert at April 09, 2024 11:32 PM (1Yy3c)

Most faults will have some water in them, because there is usually ground water present at some level nearly everywhere. Earthquakes are a natural consequence of plate tectonics, which has been going on for several billion years, and shows no sign of ending. Which is a good thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 11:40 PM (tkR6S)

245 Argentina article: Any “infrastructure” the CCP builds is so cheap it starts crumbling immediately.

I remember the railway line that China built in 1975, the Tazara Railway, also called the Uhuru Railway or the Tanzam Railway, in East Africa linking the port of Dar es Salaam in east Tanzania with the town of Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia's Central Province.
Nothing lasted, bridges collapsed, rails went off the rail, etc.

Posted by: Ciampino - Chinese shit is like 1950s Japanese shit at April 09, 2024 11:45 PM (qfLjt)

246 I spend too much time on YouTube ogling campers, trailers, and RVs. Here is what I have concluded.

I can't backup a trailer and not really interested in learning too.

I can't see myself owning a dedicated RV other than a 4x4 Sprinter van configuration because I am delusional and still think I will make the trip from Purdhoe Bay to Tierra Del Fuego.

And finally the reality is I have my Jeep Cherokee kitted out nicely for camping and when I put a car topper on it and a rack for the Trail 125 I am set for what I will do. Plus I can buy a lot of hotels rooms for what the price of an RV I would like.

I really love thinking about them though.

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 11:45 PM (k1/QX)

247 I don't trust Chrysler. Talk earlier today sent me looking.
New Toyota Tacoma's come with charged four bangers no V6 or 8.
Scratch them off the list. Ford has rethought the Ranger
it now comes with a V6 & that's months old info maybe an
8 soon.

AOP, what is your reticence on the V6?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 09, 2024 11:45 PM (2BB5W)

248 147 I hope MisHum gets some sleep... doing Sexton's job and the ONT as well must be exhausting.
Posted by: SimoHayha
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That MisHum guy is "retired" so he has plenty of time on his hands. Plus he can nap whenever he feels like it!😎🥸
Posted by: lin-duh

It has to have severely cut into MisHum's snowmobile time. Good thing it is almost mosquito netting and new lawn furniture season.
Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 10:53 PM (k1/QX)

MisHum is getting double rations of Kaboom and Valu-Rite in his AceBux packet.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 09, 2024 11:46 PM (Saib+)

249
L.i.S., i'll build ya some pin pointers near and around you that we explored in the warly 80s, that the bike should be capable of. Some of them, the cherokee should be just fine as well (unless the usfs has abandoned the right of way).

The places are still there, but you'll only find corner stones and maybe soe sunken grou d where the cemetary was. Still, standing there, and thinking...Billy the kid and Pat Garret were RIGHT HERE! was kinda cool.

Look up the Cat Walk, over near where White Oak was. It's a park and a nature trail now, but really cool history of the place.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Much appreciated! Thank you! White Oaks is fantastic.

Posted by: lost in space at April 09, 2024 11:46 PM (k1/QX)

250 What you don't want to hear from the fleet manager: "WE have been hearing stories from other fleets that 2021 Ram 1500's start to experience slippage in the direct-drive clutch pack once mileage gets up over 150,000 miles, so we accelerated our turn-in rate for this model."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 11:31 PM (tkR6S)

Good point. Too bad I don't know any fleet managers. This truck was apparently the boss's truck or the dealer was telling me a story.

Posted by: Emmie at April 09, 2024 11:48 PM (Sf2cq)

251 Falcon launch pushed back 40 minutes:
now for 12:44 a.m. EDT, 04:44 UTC, and 06:44 CEST

Posted by: Ciampino - now new launchtime at April 09, 2024 11:48 PM (qfLjt)

252 179 So they ended up doing the 4Runner reveal, completely unimpressive, there are now 9 trim levels, WHAT??, it's pretty much a Tacoma with a cabin integrated, It's not clear how the TRD Pro and Trail Hunter trim levels differentiate themselves and at the end of the day, you're driving a turbo 4 cylinder at the lower end or a turbo 4 cylinder hybrid with an electric motor.

And in order to squeeze in the hybrid batteries, they had to shrink the gas tank by 3 gallons, so now your range is under 400 miles.

And the shrunken gas tank is also on the non-hybrid models.

I mean, if you want a four runner, go out and get a 3rd, 4th or 5th Gen, because people are going to start snapping those up toot sweet.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2024 11:05 PM (XV/Pl)

I'm on the Toyota website looking for the 4Runner and I come across the 2024 Prius. Not gonna lie, it looks pretty cool.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 09, 2024 11:50 PM (Saib+)

253 I spend time on CraigsList looking. It's an ebb and flow. Certain times people are dumping relatively new one's cheap other times not so much.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 09, 2024 11:50 PM (2BB5W)

254 Emmie, one final thought from me. The price you are quoted on this Ram 1500 seems pretty good. Could be because it's a plain-Jane fleet model. But if you like it, buy it, use it for a few months, doing some trailer towing, and if you find you don't like it, you could probably sell out of it without taking a huge hit. Might even be able to make a buck if you drove it to a part of the country where trucks are in big demand.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 11:52 PM (tkR6S)

255 AOP, what is your reticence on the V6?
Posted by: Braenyard at April 09, 2024 11:45 PM (2BB5W)

Basically, just not as smooth as a V8 or an inline six. There are probably folks here tonight who have never had the pleasure of driving a car or a pickup with a good inline six.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 09, 2024 11:56 PM (tkR6S)

256 Don't look now. But. Whoopie wears a mullet. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 09, 2024 11:56 PM (as3uC)

257 Due to thunder storms going on an hour sans power.

Sounds restful doesn't it? Except you hear everything now underscored with thunderous basso.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 09, 2024 11:56 PM (p4w7z)

258 Emmie, if you go talk to a couple of mechanics and tell them what you are thinking of buying, and ask them if you are making a mistake, they generally will tell you

Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 11:58 PM (D7oie)

259 I think everyone could pick up the tongue of a very lightweight trailer, and "walk it back" into any space large enough to clear the dimensions.

'Cause when you're facing the tongue, and have your Mk1 Mod0 eyeball on the thing, you naturally know how to walk it left or right, backwards or pull forward on it, in order to line it up for the final placement. You don't have to really think about it, you just do it.

Here's the trick. Just imagine that the hitch ball IS "your hands" Now, without a trailer, you'd know just how to steer to make that hitch ball "touch" a given spot you'd be backing towards. Probably be accurate to within an inch in the doing.

So, keep that mentality, and just use the hitch ball as "your hands" exactly as if you were facing the trailer and walking it in manually.

You won't have to be thinking about front wheel angles, or gripping the steering wheel at the top or the bottom.

Pseudo-Zen, but it works. Try it.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 09, 2024 11:58 PM (e6UQI)

260 Whoopie wears a mullet. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey
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There's no party in the back.

Posted by: scampydog at April 09, 2024 11:58 PM (41CYW)

261 That's no moon.

Posted by: Opie Wan Baloney at April 10, 2024 12:00 AM (bo7UB)

262 Don't look now. But. Whoopie wears a mullet. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 09, 2024 11:56 PM (as3uC)

That accounts for the fish smell.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2024 12:01 AM (tkR6S)

263 Fish smell?

That's offal.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 10, 2024 12:02 AM (p4w7z)

264 There's no party in the back.
Posted by: scampydog at April 09, 2024 11:58 PM (41CYW)

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Nobody should go back there.

Amiright, Ted?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 10, 2024 12:03 AM (bo7UB)

265 Man Found Drunk, Naked, Sitting In Garbage Can
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Florida Man never disappoints.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 12:03 AM (XeU6L)

266 AOP, thanks. Yes, it's the plainest of Janes. In fact, it's missing several features we hate in new cars, like engine stop/start, but includes features we would actually use, like a built-in trailer brake controller.

We will look around a bit more. I've asked God, Who knows our needs and the best way to meet them, to guide us to a good choice.

Posted by: Emmie at April 10, 2024 12:04 AM (Sf2cq)

267 >Whoopie wears a mullet. Just sayin'.

she looks like one of those guys in Battlefield Earth

https://tinyurl.com/53az7cyt

Posted by: Don Black at April 10, 2024 12:04 AM (oCjPU)

268 Florida Man never disappoints.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 12:03 AM (XeU6L)

When they throw you out of a Florida bar, they really throw you out. Note they did not put him in the Recycle bin.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2024 12:05 AM (tkR6S)

269 Norfolk Southern reaches $600 million settlement to settle East Palestine derailment suit

https://tinyurl.com/6fyehrrb

Posted by: Ciampino - Is that enough? at April 10, 2024 12:07 AM (qfLjt)

270 Fish smell?

That's offal.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Hairring?

Posted by: scampydog at April 10, 2024 12:07 AM (41CYW)

271 if you go talk to a couple of mechanics and tell them what you are thinking of buying, and ask them if you are making a mistake, they generally will tell you
Posted by: Kindltot at April 09, 2024 11:58 PM (D7oie

Thanks, Kindltot. We have a couple of trusted mechanics we can ask.

Posted by: Emmie at April 10, 2024 12:08 AM (Sf2cq)

272 Basically, just not as smooth as a V8 or an inline six. There are probably folks here tonight who have never had the pleasure of driving a car or a pickup with a good inline six.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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One element of this is that a straight 6 can have perfect primary balance, not true of others.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 12:08 AM (XeU6L)

273
Evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 10, 2024 12:08 AM (wjjYr)

274 Chicago police fired 96 shots after gunfire broke out at a fatal traffic stop, agency says. Here’s what bodycam footage shows

https://tinyurl.com/acbuc9jf

Posted by: Ciampino - Monday morning quarterbacking? at April 10, 2024 12:09 AM (qfLjt)

275 Fish smell?

That's offal.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Hairring?
Posted by: scampydog
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Scrod?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 12:09 AM (XeU6L)

276 Unplanned Tesla Solar Eclipse watch party in Marion, Illinois

https://tinyurl.com/376kw6xd

and all the ICE cars came in, topped up gas tanks, and went on their way - in 5 minutes.

Posted by: Ciampino - & if the charging station is broken? at April 10, 2024 12:14 AM (qfLjt)

277 I asked about a car with a clean carfax, and he told me the car I was looking at was in a wreck. Might be worth the time to ask.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 09, 2024 11:30 PM (0eaVi)

Interesting. I've seen that happen before, that wreck information shows up differently depending on who tries to access it.

Posted by: Emmie at April 10, 2024 12:16 AM (Sf2cq)

278 Hiya Blonde.

In your neck of the woods all week. At least I think I am. Marine is getting wedded.

It was a bit too hot for me today.
Beautiful day though.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 10, 2024 12:16 AM (5p76w)

279 The Honda Gold Wing flat six sports both perfect Primary Balance, but also perfect Secondary Balance.

You can balance a nickel on the engine, at idle.

Primary Balance, imagine a pencil spinning on it's axis, with not even the slightest upset to it's perfect rotation.

Secondary Balance. Imagine that same pencil, spinning perfectly, but also without any wobble whatsoever along it's length, each end putting no more stress on it's end-bearings, than the mid-crankshaft bearings between the crankshaft throws.

Ssssmmmmoooooootttthhh. As in, "electric motor" smooth.

Bonus. The '88 'Wng and later (all 6 cyl models) have barely any flywheel weight at all. They'll make RPM damn near as quickly as a Ferarri. What SEEMS to be a flywheel effect when you snap the throttle closed, is a computer controlled artifice of the electronics slowing the fuel flow more slowly and smoothly, than the twist grip had commanded. And, it works, perfectly so.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 10, 2024 12:19 AM (e6UQI)

280 275 Fish smell?

That's offal.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Hairring?
Posted by: scampydog
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Scrod?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 12:09 AM (XeU6L)
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Two old retired English teachers ...... are riding the train into town, and Annabelle asks Gertrude if she does goes into town often.

Gertrude replies, "Why yes. I go into the fish market once a week to get scrod."

Annabelle pauses for a minute, and remarks, "I never knew that *that* was the past perfect tense!"

Posted by: Ciampino - grammatically at April 10, 2024 12:20 AM (qfLjt)

281 265 Man Found Drunk, Naked, Sitting In Garbage Can
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Florida Man never disappoints.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 12:03 AM (XeU6L)

The Grouch?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 12:27 AM (di6C2)

282 281 265 Man Found Drunk, Naked, Sitting In Garbage Can
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Florida Man never disappoints.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 12:03 AM (XeU6L)

The Grouch?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 12:27 AM (di6C2)

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Diogenes wannabe?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 10, 2024 12:28 AM (bo7UB)

283 Had an F150 w/300 cu in 6 it was a good engine. Had 4 on the floor and #1 was low.

Jim, I've been backing trailers since I was 14 and never heard a more clear explanation of backing a trailer. I could see it in my mind as I read it.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 12:29 AM (2BB5W)

284 251
Changed again
New T-Zero: Liftoff is targeted for 1:16 a.m. EDT, 05:16 UTC, and 07:16 CEST.

Posted by: Ciampino - at this rate it will be a scrub at April 10, 2024 12:29 AM (qfLjt)

285 265 Man Found Drunk, Naked, Sitting In Garbage Can
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Florida Man never disappoints.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 12:03 AM (XeU6L)

The Grouch?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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He was trashed.

Posted by: scampydog at April 10, 2024 12:29 AM (41CYW)

286 Jim - Does the Goldwing engine use knife and fork rods?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 12:29 AM (XeU6L)

287 Diogenes wannabe?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 10, 2024 12:28 AM (bo7UB)

No lamp mentioned.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 12:29 AM (di6C2)

288 I have been there and done that... the only thing lacking are graves that tell.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 10, 2024 12:31 AM (TDvv2)

289 ..Jim - Does the Goldwing engine use knife and fork rods? Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 12:29 AM (XeU6L)

Nope. Staggered crank, all the way down the line. But, the Honda Engineers did the Black Woman NASA Math, and figured out the degrees and timings.

For a flat six, I can see that.

What amazes me, is how Mercedes and Audi figured out how to balance an inline FIVE cylinder engine.

Mind. Boggled.

O/T. Brother Hammer. I need to beg Lightning Arrestor advice from you. The options in the catalogs are... bewildering. I've GOT the 8 ft. ground rod hammered into the ground. But, yeah. I want those Arrestors inline in the Coax, before it fries the house.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 10, 2024 12:34 AM (e6UQI)

290 Interesting. I've seen that happen before, that wreck information shows up differently depending on who tries to access it.
Posted by: Emmie at April 10, 2024 12:16 AM (Sf2cq)

I'm just thinking that a mechanic has access to records of repairs done without insurance claims. That's probably why they ask you for the VIN. If you don't go through your insurance, carfax doesn't know about it, but a mechanic's database would.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 10, 2024 12:35 AM (0eaVi)

291 When I started mid-range delivery I leased the trucks. Every time I took the truck in I went back an talked to the mechanics. Which one do you like to work on? What's the problem with working on this one? The appreciated someone interested in what they were doing and it helped me pick out the trucks that I would eventually buy.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 12:37 AM (2BB5W)

292 Remember the old Pat Travers Band song Boom Boom Out Goes The Lights? Radio favorite, good old style rock song, basic but nice..hadn't heard it for many years...although it was an FM radio staple in the Classic years..heard it the other day on this local freeform no DJ station that throws up almost anything from the rock era. Neither me or my wife had noticed this, but the story is the singer is looking for his girl who did him dirty and when he finds her, well Boom Boom. Oh, THAT'S why it disappeared, lol

Posted by: azjaeger at April 10, 2024 12:37 AM (3/XaG)

293 Man Found Drunk, Naked, Sitting In Garbage Can
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Diogenes wannabe?
Posted by: Cicero

Do you know how hard it is to find a clay jar to live in nowadays?

Posted by: the trashcan cynic at April 10, 2024 12:38 AM (DgGvY)

294 Actually

Delete my last post...wanna be Rosie/hand/opal...my mistake

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 10, 2024 12:38 AM (TDvv2)

295 I see the 2025 Ram truck is losing the Hemi, and gaining two twin-turbo inline sixes, one of which makes 500 HP.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2024 12:40 AM (tkR6S)

296 Do you know how hard it is to find a clay jar to live in nowadays?
Posted by: the trashcan cynic at April 10, 2024 12:38 AM (DgGvY)

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In SoCal even a basic unglazed studio will run you $1800 a month.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 10, 2024 12:41 AM (bo7UB)

297 Jim,
and when the wings chase me through the curves on the Ducati, they scrape through the valve covers and the following wings crash and blame me. I did not lay out the course.

Diogenes,
Enjoy the 50th Anniversary, we just had the 55th, alone.
All our peers are dead. No shit. Covid treatment, COPD, stroke, heart, whatever. They are all gone.
It's pretty creepy...

Posted by: ChrisP at April 10, 2024 12:41 AM (8Hd6y)

298 Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2024 11:31 PM (oCjPU)

*******

Nathan MacKinnon may have just secured the MVP with that performance. He was playing beyond video game speed, beyond ludicrous speed. He was eye-popping. On a national platform tonight, that was impressive. Hat trick plus an assist in two periods.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 10, 2024 12:42 AM (991eG)

299 The brake controller shouldn't be a big deal if the truck you buy has a tow package. - You want a tow package - With a tow package the vehicle is usually wired for the brake controller so it's mostly a plug and play installation.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 12:42 AM (2BB5W)

300 Remember the old Pat Travers Band song Boom Boom Out Goes The Lights? Radio favorite, good old style rock song, basic but nice..hadn't heard it for many years...although it was an FM radio staple in the Classic years..heard it the other day on this local freeform no DJ station that throws up almost anything from the rock era. Neither me or my wife had noticed this, but the story is the singer is looking for his girl who did him dirty and when he finds her, well Boom Boom. Oh, THAT'S why it disappeared, lol
Posted by: azjaeger at April 10, 2024 12:37 AM (3/XaG)

The Canadian band Crowbar did a pretty good cover of that tune.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2024 12:43 AM (tkR6S)

301 295 I see the 2025 Ram truck is losing the Hemi, and gaining two twin-turbo inline sixes, one of which makes 500 HP.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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My father in Heaven is pleased to see that. He loved inline 6s.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 12:45 AM (2BB5W)

302 216 154 Apparently they bought him the gun, because he was a minor and couldn't buy it himself, *after* having been alerted that he was making threats.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
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Sandy Hook? mom bought her troubled kid the gun he used to kill her and the students. Don't buy a troubled person a gun to help them.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 12:47 AM (2BB5W)

303 Greetings! How about a weekly car thread?
Once upon a time I loved any discussion of things cars.
I loved Click and Clack. Especially when they asked the callers to imitate the sound of the malfunction. It was hilarious.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 12:49 AM (MeG8a)

304 Chris P.

A well set-up, skillfully ridden 'Wing, just won't be able to keep up with a skillfully piloted Sportbike, regardless of brand.

And, I've never been able to bag a "Pass" against a Yamaha R-6 of Ninja or any other such.

But I've arrived WITH 'em at the Old Spanish Trail restaurant in Bandera, and be PISSED that I could stay on their tail all through Park Road 37.

The skilled ones, they arrived there 10 minutes earlier, of course. The others? They HATED having my whale of a 'Wing in their mirrors, for the past eight or nine miles.

LOL

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 10, 2024 12:50 AM (e6UQI)

305 Jim - Your best bet is simply to read through the sundry ham sites/books, and see what the preponderance of opinion is. Certainly most of the in-line arrestors will be of the spark-gap variety, some more sophisticated than others, gas tube, etc.. Twin-lead and coax models. I expect that you have already learned this. There are such a myriad of possibilities. But anything is better than nothing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 12:50 AM (XeU6L)

306 Man Found Drunk, Naked, Sitting In Garbage Can

Stuff...ummm...happens

Posted by: Miklos hopes there are no pics at April 10, 2024 12:55 AM (7KVXA)

307 Jim - Your best bet is simply to read through the sundry ham sites/books, and see what the preponderance of opinion is. Certainly most of the in-line arrestors will be of the spark-gap variety, some more sophisticated than others, gas tube, etc.. Twin-lead and coax models. I expect that you have already learned this. There are such a myriad of possibilities. But anything is better than nothing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 12:50 AM (XeU6L)

Can an antenna tower be fitted with a lightning rod, in addition to lightning arrestors?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2024 12:56 AM (tkR6S)

308 By the light of the silvery moon
I want to spoon
To my honey, I'll croon love's tune
Honeymoon, keep a-shining in June
Your silvery beams will bring love's dreams
We'll be cuddlin' soon
By the silvery moon

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 10, 2024 12:57 AM (4I/2K)

309 Jim - Your best bet is simply to read through the sundry ham sites/books, and see what the preponderance of opinion is. Certainly most of the in-line arrestors will be of the spark-gap variety, some more sophisticated than others, gas tube, etc.. Twin-lead and coax models. I expect that you have already learned this. There are such a myriad of possibilities. But anything is better than nothing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer,

I would not eat such ham.

Nor Green Eggs, for that matter.

Posted by: Miklos is a picky eater at April 10, 2024 12:57 AM (7KVXA)

310 Shine on, harvest moon.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 01:01 AM (2BB5W)

311 Man Found Drunk, Naked, Sitting In Garbage Can
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Diogenes wannabe?
Posted by: Cicero

Do you know how hard it is to find a clay jar to live in nowadays?
Posted by: the trashcan cynic

All the Terlits in Boulder are TAKEN, MAGA vaxx deniers!

Posted by: a Hobo at April 10, 2024 01:01 AM (7KVXA)

312 Shine on, harvest moon.
Posted by: Braenyard

That was no moon.

Legally.

Posted by: Darrius "Honeydick" Sweetcum, Esq. at April 10, 2024 01:02 AM (7KVXA)

313 When completed, I'll have three coaxes coming in from the Tower.

RG-58, for the OTA TV antenna.

...and I've got the specs written and noted, but they're out in the car...but...

Premium Coax for up to 500 Watt HAM rig. Only 100 w/o Amp, but allowing for future expansion.

CB grade Coax for...well, CB/SSB base station rig, to compliment the HAM setup.

Comms is Comms, and I remember here after Hurricane Ike, with no Cel service for nearly #twoweeks.

So, the RIGHT arrestor for each of those three Coax paths.

Not Rolls Royce. But not useless Chinesium, either.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 10, 2024 01:05 AM (e6UQI)

314 Can an antenna tower be fitted with a lightning rod, in addition to lightning arrestors?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Sure.The grounded tower and/or rod simply serve to de-ionize the air around the structure. The arrestor is a safeguard against nasties getting into the gear. Especially *induced* nasties, not the consequence of an actual strike. A direct strike on an incoming lead would not be 'arrested' in any meaningful way, but strikes 1/4 mile away can induce very high voltage in the antenna and/or lead-in wire. That is the stuff that an arrester can handle.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 01:06 AM (XeU6L)

315 We cleave our mindset to November...

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 10, 2024 01:10 AM (TDvv2)

316 wire. That is the stuff that an arrester can handle.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

Oh sure. Like we are supposed to believe that guys who actually know what they're talking about, actually know.

Posted by: Miklos, insufficiently cynical for one so young at April 10, 2024 01:11 AM (7KVXA)

317 You are kidding me...

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 10, 2024 01:12 AM (TDvv2)

318 BUFFO CLEMINNOFFOR

The POST POLICE

ARE IN THE HOUSE

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 10, 2024 01:15 AM (TDvv2)

319 To:

Mr/Ms/Other Mike Hammer-

We cannot consider you for employment at this time, as you scored poorly on our DEI assessment. Your excess of technical knowledge and competence was also a big minus.

Posted by: Miklos from Boeing HR at April 10, 2024 01:16 AM (7KVXA)

320 TinyUrl seems to have gone commercial. Delete space prceeding '51'.
https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/
51/how-can-i-protect-equipment-against-a-lightning-strike

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 01:16 AM (XeU6L)

321 So very much...

The BUNCKER I will go...

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 10, 2024 01:18 AM (TDvv2)

322 In the final analysis, the only way to protect your gear is to disconnect lead-ins, drop the connector into a grounded metal bucket.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 01:18 AM (XeU6L)

323 Mike Hammer. Copied Link, working. Thanks!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 10, 2024 01:19 AM (e6UQI)

324 Quiet here

Posted by: Miklos reports no issues in Waffle House Valet parking at April 10, 2024 01:26 AM (7KVXA)

325 320
My TinyURL is working normally as always.
https://tinyurl.com/app

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #116 at April 10, 2024 01:27 AM (qfLjt)

326 ALERT: Cleavage spotted on Comment 315.

I repeat, cleavage spotted on Comment 315.

That is all.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 10, 2024 01:28 AM (bo7UB)

327 My TinyURL is working normally as always.
https://tinyurl.com/app
Posted by: Ciampino
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Heh. Mine is now too. Weird, a minute ago they wanted me to sign up for the service.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 01:29 AM (XeU6L)

328 Trailer conversation went home.
checking 315

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 01:29 AM (2BB5W)

329 My TinyURL is working normally as always.

Posted by: Ciampino

Italicans have connections, capiche?

Posted by: Il Miklosio, with a remarkable resemblance to Marcello Mastroianni (e vero) at April 10, 2024 01:30 AM (7KVXA)

330 I have been in a commercial building where nearby strikes were inducing enough voltage into the aluminum window frames to cause visible arcing between the frames and the metal studs.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 01:32 AM (XeU6L)

331 SpaceX T - <8 minutes

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #117 at April 10, 2024 01:32 AM (qfLjt)

332 ALERT: Cleavage spotted on Comment 315.

I repeat, cleavage spotted on Comment 315.

That is all.
Posted by: Cicero

"Thou shall cleave unto one another"

I suspect cleavage is involved in most marriage proposals.

Posted by: Il Miklosio, avec preguntas at April 10, 2024 01:33 AM (7KVXA)

333 Anyone need the URL:
https://www.youtube.com/live/82kr5L4F05A

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #118 at April 10, 2024 01:34 AM (qfLjt)

334 I look forward to November. November will bring clarity to the nation.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 01:36 AM (2BB5W)

335 I look forward to November. November will bring clarity to the nation.
Posted by: Braenyard

If the roots are healthy, all will be well in the Spring.

Posted by: a Chance Gardener at April 10, 2024 01:39 AM (/Q4HJ)

336 Mike Hammer. I'll rig the ground for the metal bucket, but keep it on Standby, out in the garage.

But as for disconnecting the leads, fortunately, I've designed this tower system to make that a very nimble task.

All three Coaxes will be joined by connectors in a Junction Box at the Fascia level of the house. I'll be able to separate those lines soon into any first storm warnings.

A sudden thunderstorm out of nowhere though, and the Arrestors will have to earn their costs.

But I think I will do the wide copper mesh ground "around the house". But just inside the pilings and lattice work, hidden from outside view. Might even lightly bury the copper mesh runs, just in case.

F'kn copper thieves. I can but hope they'll grab hold, right WHEN the lightning strikes. I'll not shed a tear.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 10, 2024 01:41 AM (e6UQI)

337 Had to transfer it to ipad and missed the launch.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 01:44 AM (2BB5W)

338 I just remembered that I bought some banana pudding at Maurice Bessinger's Piggy Park BBQ place.

Happy

Posted by: Moderatlely ecstatic Miklos at April 10, 2024 01:45 AM (/Q4HJ)

339 Mark Dice, that t-shirt: Because of the super-fancy "T" at the end of "ChrisT," there's a real risk of misreading that as "Chris* is King."

Posted by: m at April 10, 2024 01:47 AM (o3SCB)

340 Amazing how those little waffle things are part of the guidance system.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 01:47 AM (2BB5W)

341 Hiya

And Goodnight !

Posted by: JT at April 10, 2024 01:48 AM (T4tVD)

342 Bullseye

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 01:49 AM (2BB5W)

343 Amazing how those little waffle things are part of the guidance system.
Posted by: Braenyard

FUN FACT

Waffle House is a major DoD contractor.

Posted by: Darleen is sworn to silence at April 10, 2024 01:50 AM (/Q4HJ)

344 Well, going 4-wheeling tomorrow, so off to bed I go. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2024 01:52 AM (tkR6S)

345 Every Rib and CrossRib on those "Waffle Things", is a downward facing, symmetrical aero foil. Neutral as to lift or negative lift, depending only on Angle of Attack.

Add up all the Square Inches of all that Waffle Grid surface ara.

Now, give Musk's supercomputers and mega-fast actuators control over those?

That's a LOT of Wing Area controlling the descent and landing of those stages, and those Grids save on countless LBS of fuel and thrust from the engines, in the bargain.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galvesston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 10, 2024 01:55 AM (e6UQI)

346 Another launch in a couple of hours:
Roscosmos - Angara A5 Testflight - LS-1A - Vostochny Cosmodrome/Russia - Space Affairs Live
First test launch of the Angara A5 rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East.
Lift-Off is set for April 10, 5:00 a.m. EDT, 09:00 UTC, 11:00 CEST, 19:00 Asia/Yakutsk Time Zone.

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

The test flight on April 9 was scrubbed because of too many birds flying around and strong cross winds.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #119 at April 10, 2024 01:55 AM (qfLjt)

347 Well, going 4-wheeling tomorrow, so off to bed I go. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Hope you'll bring enough for everybody.

Posted by: the Horde at April 10, 2024 01:55 AM (/Q4HJ)

348
119
Sorry 3 hours.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #120 at April 10, 2024 01:57 AM (qfLjt)

349 The test flight on April 9 was scrubbed because of too many birds flying around and strong cross winds.
Posted by: Ciampino

Also, Russia failed to pay the rent moneys for the previous Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and were evicted.

Posted by: Miklosov "Bubba" Miklosevich at April 10, 2024 01:58 AM (/Q4HJ)

350 327 My TinyURL is working normally as always.
https://tinyurl.com/app
Posted by: Ciampino
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Heh. Mine is now too. Weird, a minute ago they wanted me to sign up for the service.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 10, 2024 01:29 AM (XeU6L)
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That sign-up is for the fancy options like tracking who is handling your URLs (keep it clean), customisation, etc.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #121 at April 10, 2024 02:03 AM (qfLjt)

351 30 I also have a question: are there any MoMe's close..ish to Utah? Or are there any Morons or Ette's from Utah besides I think three?
Posted by: SimoHayha at April 09, 2024 10:15 PM (N/k1H)

There are a few of us. But the Corsicana MoMe is where it's at.

What county are you in?

Posted by: Half Dozen at April 10, 2024 02:05 AM (eHovo)

352 I went to bed early, then heartburn and Lil Pooky's favorite pillow, my bladder, woke me up.

Good oh dark thirty, Horde.

Posted by: pookysgirl knows it's worth it in the end at April 10, 2024 02:08 AM (dtlDP)

353 Hey, pookysgirl... Congrats!

Mom always said the "bladder-bongo" was her least favorite part of being pregnant, after morning sickness...

Posted by: JQ at April 10, 2024 02:24 AM (njWTi)

354 https://www.shorturl.at/ seems like a good url tool.

Posted by: 13times at April 10, 2024 02:25 AM (mhgCT)

355 I also have a question: are there any MoMe's close..ish to Utah? Or are there any Morons or Ette's from Utah besides I think three?
Posted by: SimoHayha

Late to the thread, but a potential Horde recruit in that locale is Larry Correia, creator of the Monster Hunters International series of novels, the series Son of the Black Sword, and Grimnoir, among others. Don't know the man personally, but he's not shy about sharing his political views and this place would be a perfect place for him.

Posted by: John Drake at April 10, 2024 02:32 AM (ruzO0)

356 Hi pookysgirl, and here I was thinking that you were tucked in and sound asleep. I well remember the heartburn when I would try to sleep when I was pregnant, and the bladder urges too. Hang in their kiddo, it is all worth it.

Hey JQ, I trust that all is well with you and your Hubs.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 10, 2024 02:33 AM (Sgq8y)

357 {{{Debby}}}

Doing okay here! Only a few... uh... 'issues' what with hubby's meds. Laxatives. You can guess. Ugh.

Other than that, all is well! *knocks on wood*

Hope you're well, too!

Posted by: JQ at April 10, 2024 02:36 AM (njWTi)

358 Tooling around on a Honda 125. You’ll probably want more gas storage than comes stock. Or is that an option? Order that option.

If you ever get stranded in a very remote location? Burning the bike as signal fire is always an option. Heh.

PS: A fountain of sparks accompany bikes falling off bumper mounts while dragged down the road. Amazing! Again. Heh

Posted by: 13times at April 10, 2024 02:37 AM (C8EUP)

359 Heartburn trick:

If you don't have/can't take Tums or Rolaids--

Peel & eat a raw potato. As little salt as possible on it. Helps!

Posted by: JQ at April 10, 2024 02:39 AM (njWTi)

360 Ewokology.

And Ace will soon publish it's guidebook "Dietnutniks". Featuring every form of fasting and other dietary fad of the Post WWII era.

Brings back fond memories of the Erg Versus the Volcano saga, where Dianetics was one of the elements used to convince Erg that someone was tossed into a volcano in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master. One of the best cons ever, and you got to see it unfold in real time. Besides Ace, there was another Horde member that got the ball rolling in the first place - I wish I could remember the guy's name.

Posted by: John Drake at April 10, 2024 02:39 AM (ruzO0)

361 Hey, JQ, I am good, pat on the back from a distance for the great job you are doing in tending to your Hubs.

Now it is off to bed for me.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 10, 2024 02:43 AM (Sgq8y)

362 Good night, Debby. Great to see you!

Posted by: JQ at April 10, 2024 02:45 AM (njWTi)

363 129 >>>Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Travel Challenges.

A real life sighting of Chesterton's Fence!
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 09, 2024 10:46 PM (klJTj)

Exactly!

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 10, 2024 02:48 AM (F3e+W)

364
"Let me see ..."
* thinks *

"From left to right ... bigot! ... bigot! ... bigot!"
* points at picture of "The Spew" life forms *

"What do I win?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 02:59 AM (CK+db)

365 Good ole G.K. Chesterton - I think he'd be delighted that he lives on as much by his philosophical contributions as his literary efforts. Of course, he often combined the two, such as "The Oracle of the Dog," where Father Brown solves up a case of murder while pointing out some dangerous trends only then taking root in the soil of Western Civilization:

It's part of something I've noticed more and more in the modern world, appearing in all sorts of newspaper rumours and conversational catchwords; something that's arbitrary without being authoritative. People readily swallow the untested claims of this, that, or the other. It's drowning all your old rationalism and scepticism, it's coming in like a sea; and the name of it is superstition." 1/

Posted by: John Drake at April 10, 2024 03:01 AM (ruzO0)

366 "It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense, and can't see things as they are. Anything that anybody talks about, and says there's a good deal in it, extends itself indefinitely like a vista in a nightmare. And a dog is an omen and a cat is a mystery and a pig is a mascot and a beetle is a scarab, calling up all the menagerie of polytheism from Egypt and old India; Dog Anubis and great green-eyed Pasht and all the holy howling Bulls of Bashan; reeling back to the bestial gods of the beginning, escaping into elephants and snakes and crocodiles; and all because you are frightened of four words: 'He was made Man.'" 2/

Posted by: John Drake at April 10, 2024 03:02 AM (ruzO0)

367 "What do I win?"
--------

A new Monza!

or

A baby's arm, holding an apple

Posted by: JQ at April 10, 2024 03:10 AM (njWTi)

368 youtube.com/watch?v=_SyixSHWgR8

Posted by: JQ at April 10, 2024 03:14 AM (njWTi)

369 And this one, Father Brown on the hidden perils of disbelief: "When men choose not to believe in God, they do not hereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything."

I wonder what Chesterton (and Father Brown) would think of the current state of the Church. I fear it would lead both of them into despair, but they would still cling to the faith. 3/fin

Posted by: John Drake at April 10, 2024 03:16 AM (ruzO0)

370 354 https://www.shorturl.at/ seems like a good url tool.

Posted by: 13times at April 10, 2024 02:25 AM (mhgCT)
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Yes. I've use it, also https://is.gd and https://tinyurl.com/app
All good but occasionally cannot access one so I use the other. Woke URL shorteners may fail on particular domains and then I boycott them.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #122 at April 10, 2024 03:23 AM (qfLjt)

371 My apologies I had the old URL for the coming launch. Now corrected.
Roscosmos - Angara A5 Testflight - LS-1A - Vostochny Cosmodrome/Russia - Space Affairs Live
First test launch of the Angara A5 rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East.
Lift-Off is set for April 10, 5:00 a.m. EDT, 09:00 UTC, 11:00 CEST, 19:00 Asia/Yakutsk Time Zone.

https://www.youtube.com/live/jDskQb3YmL8

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #123 at April 10, 2024 03:33 AM (qfLjt)

372 Another long commute today, little better in miles, longer to get there

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2024 03:38 AM (fwDg9)

373 368 youtube.com/watch?v=_SyixSHWgR8

Posted by: JQ at April 10, 2024 03:14 AM (njWTi)
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Gee! 10/31/1974
I was living in Cambridge, MA and had not yet met my future (and now late) wife, who I miss dearly even after 3 years.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #124 at April 10, 2024 03:39 AM (qfLjt)

374 Morning, insomaniacals,

Another long commute today, little better in miles, longer to get there
Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2024

Conversely, "We got a long way to go/ And a short time to get there/ We're eastbound! Just watch Ol' Bandit run!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 03:49 AM (omVj0)

375 Well, tried to give sleep a shot but no dice. Ugh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 10, 2024 03:57 AM (V8he0)

376 Took a couple of CBD oil capsules Miss Linda got on a free trial a little while ago. The oil is supposed to help you sleep, and maybe it did because I got six hours. But I might have gotten that anyway. I'm thinking of trying the gummies or the oil Ace mentioned. The stuff ain't cheap, but if it works --

Any experiences?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 03:57 AM (omVj0)

377 Been up since little after 3

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2024 03:59 AM (fwDg9)

378 I've tried just about everything but not CBD. Yet.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 10, 2024 04:01 AM (V8he0)

379 Can't get CBD here. Could drive a ways & get it in neighboring state, though... My luck? I'd get 'busted' bringing it home.

Posted by: JQ at April 10, 2024 04:03 AM (njWTi)

380 It's warmish and breezy, but I really need to go work out. I need to get three sessions a week at a minimum, and don't like going on Saturday, so MWF is the usual.

We're supposed to see some heavy rain today, starting around 7 am. Then, supposedly, cooler and drier on Th & F.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 04:03 AM (omVj0)

381 Morning, group. No insomnia today, just a lifetime of rising early taught to me by my role model, my father. Never have been able to get back to sleep once awakened.

The eclipse was most interesting, we had almost full totality, the lighting changes were eerie, and as has been said frequently the process for people who were experiencing it for the first time must have been absolutely horrifying. The ending of their world.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 10, 2024 04:04 AM (KATBx)

382 Can't get CBD here. Could drive a ways & get it in neighboring state, though... My luck? I'd get 'busted' bringing it home.
Posted by: JQ at April 10, 2024

***
Hi, JQ! Yeah, this state has it legal, but with a strict limit of how much THC can be in it. I was planning on buying the non-THC version anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 04:05 AM (omVj0)

383 I was planning on buying the non-THC version anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
-------

I don't understand. Isn't it the thc that make it effective? Guess I'm just a dinosaur. Meh.

Good luck, Wolfus! Hope you can find relief somehow.

Posted by: JQ at April 10, 2024 04:08 AM (njWTi)

384 Speaking of sleep-- I'm gonna try it again.

Good night, all.

Remember, Pixy said techie threads would be a bit late for a while.

Posted by: JQ at April 10, 2024 04:10 AM (njWTi)

385 I was planning on buying the non-THC version anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
-------

I don't understand. Isn't it the thc that make it effective? Guess I'm just a dinosaur. Meh.

Good luck, Wolfus! Hope you can find relief somehow.
Posted by: JQ at April 10, 2024

***
You might be right. But I'm gun-shy of ingesting anything which might affect my sobriety. Less than .3% is probably not going to get me addicted though!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 04:13 AM (omVj0)

386 Noodus pixyana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 04:21 AM (omVj0)

387 PIXY 'S NOOD IS UP

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2024 04:23 AM (fwDg9)

388 Roscosmos - Angara A5 Testflight - LS-1A - Vostochny Cosmodrome/Russia

T - 31 minutes

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #125 at April 10, 2024 04:29 AM (qfLjt)

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