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Sunday Overnight Open Thread (4/14/24)
Quote I "Israel smoked that Iranian General" Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)
Quote II “So you have two different standards. On the one hand, the full breadth of the First Amendment is deployed when we’re talking about criticism of Jews or Israel, but criticism of other groups is assessed under a different standard.” Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Quote III "It is deeply simplistic to assert that the diversity of America can be reduced to any particular set of beliefs, and faulty reasoning to infer that identity is determinative of one's thoughts or political leanings." NPR president and CEO Katherine Maher
She also had her very own pithy comment.
194 When the USC Gamecocks (the original one, founded 1804) played the nouveau USC California, I saw signs and bumperstickers- "No Trojans can hold our Cocks"
Posted by: Miklos, does recall at April 08, 2024 11:05 PM (7KVXA)
Tonight's science lesson. Or guess why I don't want to be anywhere near these guys.
Science. The next story just boggles my mind if true. Most people 'want to have sex with robots,' new Robosexuality study reveals
Technology has moved on in leaps and bounds from the days of blow-up dolls to realistic sex robots, which have been 'built to satisfy,' and researchers have tried to find out who the most likely customers are
The Biden station-wagon family vacation must have been a hoot. "Don't do that!" said the respected elder. While the bastard child hissed back, "What are you going to do? Nothing, nada, zilch pops. Corn Pop boy."
Failed: Biden Tells Iran ‘Don’t’ Launch Attack on Israel Only Hours Before They Do It Anyway To show just how much of a failure Joe Biden is on the international scene, he has twice told a nation not to launched an attack, yet BOTH times they did it, at least one time within hours after Biden issued his toothless warning. Of course, we all know that the useless old man Biden warned Putin not to invade Ukraine.
If we had a respected president. Perhaps Tehran wouldn't be so flippant.
‘Punishment’ of Israel completed – Tehran
Iran’s top military commander has promised a “more extensive” response in case of future attacks by West Jerusalem
Joe Biden has American blood on his hands. How much? Too much to wash off. NEVER FORGET: Joe Biden Gifted Iran with Over $80 Billion Since Entering the White House
In November 2023, the Joe Biden administration extended a sanctions waiver that allows Iran to collect another $10 billion in funds to assist the mullahs in funding their military operations in the region. This comes one week after Iranian-backed Houthis attempted to shoot down a US drone in the region and one month after Iran-backed Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,300 Jews in Israel and took another 240 Jews hostage. It was the deadliest attack on Jews since World War II.
Born on this day: April 14, 1945 - Ritchie Blackmore
English guitarist and songwriter Ritchie Blackmore from Deep Purple, who had the 1970 UK No.2 single 'Black Night' and the 1973 US No.4 single 'Smoke On The Water'. Deep Purple were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre. Blackmore later formed Rainbow who had the 1981 hit single 'I Surrender'.
Would you buy a vibrator from this Genius Award Winner?
A Missouri man is facing a felony theft charge for allegedly swiping eight “luxury” vibrators from an adult toy store and then trying to fence them via Facebook Marketplace , according to court records. Christopher Michael Booth, 34, was named yesterday in a felony complaint charging him with stealing the vibrators--valued at a combined $1539.20--from a Hustler Hollywood outlet in Berkeley, a St. Louis suburb. The purloined sex toys, which retail for around $200 apiece, are manufactured by Lelo, a Swedish company that advertises itself as “one of the world’s leading designer brands for intimate lifestyle products.
Dog Named 'Hero' Kept Stuck Owner Warm And Safe From Coyotes For 2 Days Today's good news story comes from Alberta, Canada. Living up to his name, an Akita breed dog in Taber, Alberta named Hero saved the life of his owner by protecting him from the elements, fighting off coyotes and eventually alerting people to his owner's whereabouts.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)WOOT!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:01 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: LRob in OK at April 14, 2024 10:02 PM (TSQkU)
Posted by: LRob in OK at April 14, 2024 10:02 PM (TSQkU)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 14, 2024 10:02 PM (IL7Li)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 10:03 PM (NlLwm)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 10:04 PM (NlLwm)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 14, 2024 10:02 PM (IL7Li)
You clean them?
Posted by: Big Pinguin at April 14, 2024 10:05 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 14, 2024 10:05 PM (9yWhg)
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Oh my.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 10:05 PM (NlLwm)
Posted by: TRex at April 14, 2024 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 14, 2024 10:07 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2024 10:08 PM (WXNFJ)
I see you are not behind the eight-ball tonight!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:08 PM (hOUT3)
Bull. You have no integrity. You and your employees have debased yourselves. All you claim is a lie. You are weeds planted in the garden. Hopefully, you'll be thrown on the dung heap soon.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 14, 2024 10:08 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: JT at April 14, 2024 10:08 PM (T4tVD)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2024 10:09 PM (lkZz0)
Posted by: GWB at April 14, 2024 10:09 PM (1zxQh)
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 10:09 PM (NxC5+)
Doesn't everyone just love an Earth Shattering KaBOOM!?
*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 14, 2024 10:10 PM (e6UQI)
If one would have told me just a few months ago that I would support anything Fetterman had said, I'd thought you were looney.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2024 10:08 PM (WXNFJ)
Fetterman seems to be sharper than all the other Democrats and most of our worthless Uni-Party pseudo-conservative repubs
Life is indeed stranger than fiction, eh?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:10 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Tonypete
*Snort!* I know! What kinda topsy turvy world we living in??!!
Posted by: Some Rat at April 14, 2024 10:11 PM (vJiyU)
Got home just a couple hours ago after a week in SoCal.
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That explains it. I was wondering who brought the Seattle weather down here this weekend.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2024 10:12 PM (bo7UB)
Posted by: tankdemon
You clean them?
Posted by: Big Pinguin
During HS, I worked in a tux rental shop. Mondays, when the tuxes were returned, were lit! You can't believe what was found in those pockets. Nasty!! Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)
So... she's saying that Biden is wrong? That if you don't vote for him, you can still be black?
I'm frankly quite shocked.
Posted by: GWB at April 14, 2024 10:12 PM (1zxQh)
Posted by: Bat Box at April 14, 2024 10:12 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 14, 2024 10:12 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2024 10:13 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 10:13 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 14, 2024 10:08 PM (0eaVi)
IIRC, the best part is this bint's salary is being paid with our tax dollars!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:13 PM (hOUT3)
You're welcome! It was so green down there! Loads of flowers and birds and critters. The cacti were even blooming!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2024 10:14 PM (lkZz0)
Have you seen today's women? Sorta puts the story in perspective, don't it?
Posted by: Horny Guys for Robotsex at April 14, 2024 10:14 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 14, 2024 10:14 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 14, 2024 10:08 PM (0eaVi)
IIRC, the best part is this bint's salary is being paid with our tax dollars!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:13 PM (hOUT3)
One spanking after another.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at April 14, 2024 10:14 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)
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Is it true what they say about the big money in the rental clothing game?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2024 10:14 PM (H22GW)
Posted by: Dr. T at April 14, 2024 10:14 PM (g0Y4p)
Boy that mush brain Fetterman, who talked in nothing but gibberish but was still somehow elected (not fraud I'm sure) Is actually saying things I agree with. Who knew?
Maybe the stroke rearranged his neurons into a cogent republican. One can only hope. He's taking some decidedly
anti left positions.
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at April 14, 2024 10:15 PM (duT0u)
That photo up top and the Mystery Click behind it are absolutely perfect for one another. *sigh*
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 14, 2024 10:15 PM (U3L4U)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2024 10:16 PM (LkLld)
WOOT!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:01 PM (hOUT3)
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Congratulations Commissar! Well done!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 14, 2024 10:16 PM (U3L4U)
That photo up top and the Mystery Click behind it are absolutely perfect for one another. *sigh*
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 14, 2024 10:15 PM (U3L4U)
You're welcome but you are "reading" too much into it.
Song was picked first. Then the pic was up for the Sunday night thread. Things work out funny at times here in Aceville.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at April 14, 2024 10:17 PM (QXQ4l)
I'm with you, Jim - we need one of those at the TxMoMe!
Posted by: LRob in OK at April 14, 2024 10:17 PM (TSQkU)
I don't know what ULEZ is, but I like the Batitude.
Posted by: scampydog at April 14, 2024 10:17 PM (41CYW)
From the article:
people who were higher in hostile sexism were more likely to be interested in sex with robots.
The study also found that people higher in social dominance orientation were also more likely to be interested in sex with robots.
So assholes and sexist/racist/et-cetera-ists want 'bot ass.
Let's get this technology going! All the Democrats will be too busy rogering their robots to vote!
Posted by: mikeski at April 14, 2024 10:17 PM (DgGvY)
You're welcome! It was so green down there! Loads of flowers and birds and critters. The cacti were even blooming!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2024 10:14 PM (lkZz0)
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Did you notice how clean all the vagrants were?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2024 10:18 PM (H22GW)
Posted by: Cicero
Dunno about that but, our shop also did dry cleaning. The big money was in dry cleaning women's clothing. I forget exactly the prices, hell, it was 50 years ago, but depending on whether it was a man's jacket or a woman's, the price would be 2x the other. True for all other women's items too.
Same process, sameo everything. Except the prices.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2024 10:18 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: huerfano at April 14, 2024 10:19 PM (VGOMa)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender
The part of his brain that was possessed by demons died off, leaving behind a mostly-functional human.
Posted by: mikeski at April 14, 2024 10:19 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Geez, how hard does it rain down there?
Posted by: Some Rat at April 14, 2024 10:21 PM (vJiyU)
And a fantastic tune in back...
Thanks Mis.Hum. You always bring it🙂
And, hi everyone!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 14, 2024 10:21 PM (IvaTo)
Posted by: mikeski
Best explanation I have heard so far!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:21 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Tonypete
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A few months ago, no one could *understand* anything Fetterman said.
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 14, 2024 10:22 PM (wQXfi)
Posted by: Grateful at April 14, 2024 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Cicero
We were mostly in Oceanside staying in a beautiful Airbnb on the beach. Wedding was in the hills. We got some sprinkles yesterday, but was mostly nice until the drive back to Oceanside. Then it was pretty wet.
Gorgeous this morning though. Tons of surfers to watch while drinking my coffee.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2024 10:22 PM (lkZz0)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2024 10:16 PM (LkLld)
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*fist bump*
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 14, 2024 10:22 PM (U3L4U)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 14, 2024 10:08 PM (0eaVi)
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Wouldn't that just make the dung heap weedy?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 14, 2024 10:23 PM (Be/+i)
Say, Kathy, have you chastised FJB for telling black people they're not black if they don't vote for him?
Posted by: Gref at April 14, 2024 10:23 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: mikeski
Excellent theory...kinda like that movie Fallen with Denzel Demons who jump from person to person...great creepy flick. The demon left.
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at April 14, 2024 10:24 PM (duT0u)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * hanging out at the corner of Crazy and Sanity at April 14, 2024 10:24 PM (3ElJg)
And, what do you know, it's Pledge Week.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 14, 2024 10:24 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Grateful at April 14, 2024 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)
It was lovely. The moms worked our tushies off though, to pull together all the last minute loose ends.
I'm pooped.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2024 10:24 PM (lkZz0)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2024 10:22 PM (lkZz0)
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Nice. You were just a few miles south of my boat in Dana Point.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2024 10:24 PM (H22GW)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 14, 2024 10:24 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2024 10:16 PM (LkLld)
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*fist bump*
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
You count yourself lucky if you have ever had that kind of true eye contact with your pup!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:25 PM (hOUT3)
It gets better - apparently the Biden Administration signed off on the Iranian strike.
Using Turkey as an intermediary, we apparently told Iran that a strike on Israel was acceptable, so long as the strike was not "too big".
And although this hasn't been reported yet, I'm sure that we assured the Iranians that we would keep Israel from retaliating, to the best of our abilities.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 14, 2024 10:25 PM (YAtuc)
Living up to his name, an Akita breed dog in Taber, Alberta named Hero saved the life of his owner by protecting him from the elements, fighting off coyotes and eventually alerting people to his owner's whereabouts.
Akitas are crazy loyal.
https://tinyurl.com/4pes23s8
Posted by: mikeski at April 14, 2024 10:27 PM (DgGvY)
And, what do you know, it's Pledge Week.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
A most excellent correction!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:27 PM (hOUT3)
Glad to hear it went well. That's the important part. And that kind of tired is a happy tired. Rest up, you certainly earned it.
Posted by: Grateful at April 14, 2024 10:27 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 14, 2024 10:28 PM (YAtuc)
Yes, it is. Justice is a form of revenge, in every single case. At least when it works.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2024 10:29 PM (0FoWg)
ADM J. Painter
sad thing is our Navy ain't got no Painters no more
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 10:29 PM (NxC5+)
Let's get this technology going! All the Democrats will be too busy rogering their robots to vote!
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Fewer abortions, too.
The problem is, there will be more government subsidies for the technology than electric cars.
Posted by: Methos at April 14, 2024 10:29 PM (Dnobf)
I would try and find out who are the originators of these calls for anti-Jewish action and pay them a personal home/street visit and let them know that it is very easy to make them disappear or maybe they want to be looking over their shoulder for the rest of their miserable lives - add that this goes for their family too.
Posted by: Ciampino - violence can visit the aggressor too at April 14, 2024 10:30 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:25 PM (hOUT3)
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I do... because I have.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 14, 2024 10:30 PM (U3L4U)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 14, 2024 10:25 PM (YAtuc)
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If true, FJB. Sideways with the barbed cock of Satan. And that goes for his minions too!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 14, 2024 10:30 PM (U3L4U)
And, what do you know, it's Pledge Week.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 14, 2024 10:24 PM (zdLoL)
Also known as any week in the year
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 14, 2024 10:31 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Beverly at April 14, 2024 10:31 PM (Epeb0)
Posted by: Robin at April 14, 2024 10:32 PM (Dnobf)
Yes, it is. Justice is a form of revenge, in every single case. At least when it works.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's
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Robert Duval said almost the same lines in Open Range except he said vengeance instead of revenge.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 10:33 PM (NlLwm)
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I'm sure that's illegal now.
No Ladies Day allowed at the car wash either.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2024 10:34 PM (H22GW)
Posted by: Eromero
But, to be fair, that whole Winning concept just isn't Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive enough!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:34 PM (hOUT3)
We had a Lady Cock parade in Columbia this afternoon. They gave Dawn Staley some giant belt, like a wrestling champeen or something. The mayor of Columbia presented it to her, saying she needed a good fashion accessory.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 14, 2024 10:34 PM (w6EFb)
'It gets better - apparently the Biden Administration signed off on the Iranian strike.'
He'd do the same if he knew a strike were coming at America. Biden really is the lowest piece of shit.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 14, 2024 10:34 PM (roH4R)
While the trial was going on, I was living in Sweden and teaching English as a native language. I went around to different schools and different age groups. My favorite was one with two 8-year-old boys, one from England and one from Eritrea.
They were fascinated by death in all its forms, and the black kid from Eritrea asked me if OJ was guilty. He thought that as an American, I would know. I explained that I really didn't know very much about the case. He then asked if OJ would be put before a firing squad if he was found guilty.
I said that as far as I know, they didn't have firing squads in America. It might be lethal injection.
I wrote it on the blackboard: "LETHAL INJECTION" and then I explained the meaning of each word and had them pronounce it a few times.
When we left, I didn't erase the board. Wonder what the teacher made of that the next morning.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 14, 2024 10:35 PM (w6EFb)
I think he believed he'd get that CEO job. But, curiouser and curiouser. What a great radio drama this would make.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 14, 2024 10:35 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
As have I, and thankfully multiple times over the years!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:36 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 14, 2024 10:36 PM (IL7Li)
Posted by: huerfano at April 14, 2024 10:19 PM (VGOMa)
Indeed. I lived in Wilton for a short period of time. When I went to my son's grade school chorus performance, I was one of only two black people in the audience. The only other dark-skinned people there were from India.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 14, 2024 10:37 PM (3Hm/H)
Remember, General Milley said he would give a heads-up to his Chinese counterpart if Trump ordered military action against China.
For some reason he wasn't court-martialed and sentenced to Leavenworth for saying this.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 14, 2024 10:37 PM (YAtuc)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 14, 2024 10:23 PM (Be/+i)
Oh, I missed a step. I left out the burn in a fire part.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 14, 2024 10:37 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2024 10:08 PM (WXNFJ)
Yup, Fetterman sounds quite sane and cogent in that clip. Makes you wonder if his ex was drugging him to fuck up his mind.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2024 10:37 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 14, 2024 10:38 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2024 10:39 PM (H22GW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2024 10:37 PM (tkR6S)
AOP, you have just offered the most cogent explanation for Fetterman Part Deux I have ever seen!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:39 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 14, 2024 10:40 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 10:13 PM (NxC5+)
They should have stuffed the finger holes on the bowling balls with a pyrotechnic mixture to make smoke, so the flight of the balls could be tracked. That's quite the mine pit. somewhere in Russia, maybe?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2024 10:40 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~
My beagle has big, brown eyes. Sometimes, she'll be on the couch and I'll be on the recliner. She'll make eye contact with me and hold it. Then I get up and get her a treat. I'm pretty sure it's ESP.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 14, 2024 10:40 PM (0Htd1)
Yes indeed. My girldog looks in my eyes with a most intense look all the time. We bond well. I love her with all of my heart!
I'm pretty sure we both know what the other is thinking 🥰
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 14, 2024 10:40 PM (IvaTo)
Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 14, 2024 10:41 PM (iNp3L)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 14, 2024 10:40 PM (0Htd1)
Mind control!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:41 PM (hOUT3)
“So you have two different standards. On the one hand, the full breadth of the First Amendment is deployed when we’re talking about criticism of Jews or Israel, but criticism of other groups is assessed under a different standard.”
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And that dear morons is the definition of antisemitism.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2024 10:42 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:42 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 14, 2024 10:43 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 10:33 PM (NlLwm)
Cool. I'll check out that movie.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2024 10:43 PM (0FoWg)
I have never listened to that trash.
Posted by: Ciampino - violence can visit the aggressor too, yup at April 14, 2024 10:44 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 14, 2024 10:08 PM (0eaVi)
Burn pile.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 14, 2024 10:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2024 10:44 PM (h20Yo)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 14, 2024 10:25 PM (YAtuc)
If we had an opposition party, and if this is true, it should be the end of the biden maladministration.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 14, 2024 10:44 PM (0eaVi)
No disease, no drama, no sextortion, no cheating, no breakups, no divorce, no false accusations, no child support, no alimony...what's not to like?
Posted by: Don't see much downside at April 14, 2024 10:44 PM (wWkjp)
I didn’t mean to imply you were bluffing, I stopped watching PBS because most times I turned it on for something interesting, it was a pledge week. I gave up on it. I never listened to NPR unless the driver turned it on - and I would tune it out.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 14, 2024 10:45 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 14, 2024 10:08 PM (0eaVi)
Burn pile.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 14, 2024 10:44 PM (w6EFb)
Burn Pit!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:45 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 14, 2024 10:43 PM (w6EFb)
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Check out the unlimited warranty. Repair or Replace. No embarrassing questions asked!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2024 10:45 PM (H22GW)
I’m sure intentionally covering cameras is against the law too.
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 10:45 PM (MNhXM)
Ritchie Blackmore \m/
Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2024 10:44 PM (h20Yo)
Space Truckin' > Smoke On the Water
Posted by: Fight me, if necessary at April 14, 2024 10:45 PM (wWkjp)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2024 10:37 PM (tkR6S)
AOP, you have just offered the most cogent explanation for Fetterman Part Deux I have ever seen!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:39 PM (hOUT3)
'I am not an animal!'
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 10:45 PM (NxC5+)
- - - - - - - - -
Then again, maybe that's why Slow Joe thought it would work.
"Don't snort that cocaine, Hunter!"
And that's the story of how that baggie was found in the White House locker.
Posted by: Another Anon at April 14, 2024 10:46 PM (QNMaY)
Posted by: Fight me, if necessary at April 14, 2024 10:45 PM (wWkjp)
You're not wrong.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 14, 2024 10:46 PM (R4t5M)
That was an eye- opener. If there was ever reason to hang a flag officer, that was it. But he got a book deal, instead.
"smdh*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2024 10:47 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 14, 2024 10:48 PM (R4t5M)
===
You can burn an American flag and ban confederate flags but you can’t burn gay flags or ban Palestinian flags.
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 10:48 PM (MNhXM)
No disease, no drama, no sextortion, no cheating, no breakups, no divorce, no false accusations, no child support, no alimony...what's not to like?
Posted by: Don't see much downside at April 14, 2024 10:44 PM (wWkjp)
'It just keeps coming.'
No way to get away from it.
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 10:48 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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A worthwhile watch I thought.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 10:49 PM (NlLwm)
I’m sure intentionally covering cameras is against the law too.
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 10:45 PM (MNhXM)
The cameras are being used as a weapon against the people. I am all for any measures taken by the people to impair them. It's simple civil disobedience.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2024 10:49 PM (tkR6S)
I raced on a boat that was kept at Indian Harbor in Greenwich. The amount of money in that area is astounding. They can afford to live in their own universe and have no inkling of what reality looks like to us normal people no matter the color of our skin.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2024 10:50 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Oddbob
There was a Big Thing with traffic cameras in Columbus, Ohio some years ago. It was going to improve traffic control, ticketing (revenue to you, peasant!), etc., etc.
Some investigative reporter got into it, and found that ACTUALLY there was a big payoff scam between the traffic camera vendors (think MONORAIL!) and some of the people in the city government. It went to court, and the city government was thoroughly embarrassed (in the end, it was actually quite comical) and removed all the traffic cameras, and they probably will never come back here, again.
But I hear that Gavin Grewsome, Dictator of Californicator, is all for them. Good luck, California Horde- mates. You will need it.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 14, 2024 10:50 PM (tjZg/)
Could we ask him for examples of 'lies' told by Trump?
Could we ask him what he means by belligerent, with examples? After all it's Biden who has threatened individuals with taking them round back or similar.
Berliner is another communist hack who occasionally gets something right. Probably angry he didn't get the job.
Posted by: Ciampino - violence can visit the aggressor too, yup! at April 14, 2024 10:50 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2024 10:50 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 10:50 PM (MNhXM)
No disease, no drama, no sextortion, no cheating, no breakups, no divorce, no false accusations, no child support, no alimony...what's not to like?
Posted by: Don't see much downside at April 14, 2024 10:44 PM (wWkjp)
'It just keeps coming.'
No way to get away from it.
Posted by: Eromero
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Can it cook?
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 10:51 PM (NlLwm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2024 10:49 PM (tkR6S)
ANARCHY IN THE UK!!!
Posted by: It's the only way to be! at April 14, 2024 10:52 PM (wWkjp)
Posted by: Don't see much downside
Let's see, ummmm, well there is....I'm sure it's obvious, gosh that's a poser...there's always....it really just slipped my mind, plenty of good reasons, gonna have an answer for ya real soon, let me get back to you.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 14, 2024 10:52 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2024 10:45 PM (H22GW)
Absolutely! And with the USB charger, no tearing through batteries.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 14, 2024 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
The cameras are being used as a weapon against the people. I am all for any measures taken by the people to impair them. It's simple civil disobedience.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2024 10:49 PM (tkR6S)
I don’t mind that. I’m talking about the government itself taking position they can’t remove it. That’s retarded.
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 10:53 PM (MNhXM)
That was an eye- opener. If there was ever reason to hang a flag officer, that was it. But he got a book deal, instead.
"smdh*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
There were a lot of people complicit in many hanging offenses during the Trump Presidency (note I do not say Trump Administration), but since they were all D or D-adjacent, they were not deemed threats to Our Precious Democracy and skated away, unlike those truly evil J6 threats!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:53 PM (hOUT3)
Having an affair made me a better mother because it made me happy
My husband and I tried an open relationship and it failed
My kid's are sad about my divorce because dad isn't around
I Refuse to Feel Embarrassed About Being on Welfare
I Feel Inferior to My Son's Friends' Parents because they are rich and married
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 10:53 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Eromero
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Can it cook?
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 10:51 PM (NlLwm
Get the Kardashian BBL version and you can fit an InstaPot in the badonkadonk.
Posted by: Maybe not exactly what you were looking for at April 14, 2024 10:53 PM (wWkjp)
Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2024 10:44 PM (h20Yo)
Space Truckin' > Smoke On the Water
Posted by: Fight me, if necessary
Ritchie Blackmore and John Lord MADE Deep Purple. Ritchie was kinda bitchie to work for. He went through a bunch of lead singers.
John Lord is now dead (RIP), and Ritchie is a long way from Deep Purple, playing some Medieval music with his most recent wife. Deep Purple kind of sucks, now. Pete Townsend kind of made fun of Ritchie the last time I saw The Who live. His Medieval instrument stuff, and all.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 14, 2024 10:54 PM (tjZg/)
There is a brewing movement on the feminist left and white knight "right" to ban sexbots.
Yes yes yes trannies molesting kids are apparently ok but realistic sexbots? Now that's beyond the pale!
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 10:55 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Don't see much downside
Let's see, ummmm, well there is....I'm sure it's obvious, gosh that's a poser...there's always....it really just slipped my mind, plenty of good reasons, gonna have an answer for ya real soon, let me get back to you.
Posted by: Some Rat
When SkyNet takes over, the terminators will be the sexbots, not Ahnuld look-alike.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 14, 2024 10:55 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 14, 2024 10:55 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 10:51 PM (NlLwm)
'How do you want this sandwich, honey?'
Cherry 2000
'Bring it to the shop.'
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 10:55 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:55 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Ripley at April 14, 2024 10:55 PM (PTDkx)
We'd be wise to all sharpen our skills thus, in all manner of Civil Disobediences. And some, not so Civil.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 14, 2024 10:55 PM (e6UQI)
Having an affair made me a better mother because it made me happy
My husband and I tried an open relationship and it failed
My kid's are sad about my divorce because dad isn't around"
Free marketing material for sexbots right there.
Posted by: And they aren't even trying at April 14, 2024 10:56 PM (wWkjp)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 14, 2024 10:57 PM (0Htd1)
How did monkeys get to South America?
The standard argument is they evolved in Africa and their fossil record shows up around 30M years ago in South America - long after the Atlantic separated the continents. And yes apparently the current argument is they floated across on rafts. Monkeys. Crossing the ocean. On rafts.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 10:57 PM (ibTVg)
Gotta get up early tomorrow, so I bid you all ado.
Love y'all, and thanks Mis.Hum; especially for covering for j.j.
You're a good man.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 14, 2024 10:58 PM (IvaTo)
Posted by: Ripley
Time to dust off those bomb-shelter plans from the 1960's? We had a book of those at home when I was a kid. Were my parents actually thinking about it?
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 14, 2024 10:58 PM (tjZg/)
But...they'll replace him at the next primary.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 10:59 PM (ibTVg)
That’s my point.
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 10:59 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 10:53 PM (MNhXM)
Removing the bat boxes would probably cause the traffic nazis to run afoul of the Brit equivalent of the Endangered Species Act.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2024 10:59 PM (tkR6S)
Dude, really? I’m not arguing with your premise, but express yourself like a man.
That’s a good-looking, lovable dog. No need for the girly talk.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 14, 2024 10:59 PM (9yWhg)
How did monkeys get to South America?
The standard argument is they evolved in Africa and their fossil record shows up around 30M years ago in South America - long after the Atlantic separated the continents. And yes apparently the current argument is they floated across on rafts. Monkeys. Crossing the ocean. On rafts.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 10:57 PM (ibTVg)
You do realize they went to the freaking moon?
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:00 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2024 10:59 PM (tkR6S)
But I thought that even though all animals were equal, some were more equal than others?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 11:00 PM (hOUT3)
Cooking's one thing. Nobody mentioned just sandwiches.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 14, 2024 11:00 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 10:57 PM (ibTVg)
Haven't you ever read "Mon-ti-key"?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 14, 2024 11:01 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 11:01 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 11:02 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 14, 2024 11:02 PM (zdLoL)
Yes yes yes trannies molesting kids are apparently ok but realistic sexbots? Now that's beyond the pale!
Posted by: 18-1
Just for laughs, you should re-watch (or watch it the first time!) the Star Trek TOS episode, "I, Mudd".
A cautionary tale about "sex bots" and what could go worng. Or maybe the original "West World".
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 14, 2024 11:03 PM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 14, 2024 11:01 PM (w6EFb)
Thor Heyerdahl, premier minkey pro.
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:03 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 14, 2024 11:03 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at April 14, 2024 11:03 PM (FiEQz)
Posted by: Braenyard
No, but you can turn it off!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:55 PM (hOUT3)
Hrothgar! Hrothgar Fenton Mudd! Have you been drinking again!
Posted by: Stella 500 at April 14, 2024 11:03 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 11:02 PM (ibTVg)
You frucked, loundeye!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 14, 2024 11:04 PM (R4t5M)
A cautionary tale about "sex bots" and what could go worng. Or maybe the original "West World".
I understand some of the implications that the white knight "right" complain about but honestly it is *nothing* compared to all the other crap going on...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 11:04 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2024 11:04 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 14, 2024 11:05 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 11:02 PM (ibTVg)
You frucked, loundeye!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 14, 2024 11:04 PM (R4t5M)
'took her in the shower? Says right here 'DO NOT GET Wet!'
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:06 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 14, 2024 11:06 PM (w6EFb)
Another movie where I heard the short premise and wondered how in the hell could they make a whole movie on it.
The other one that I thought it wasn’t possible was the advanced Siri based movie , Her.
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 11:06 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:00 PM (NxC5+)
They wrote Shakespeare's plays too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 14, 2024 11:07 PM (0eaVi)
Tomorrow there is supposed to be a worldwide event across at least 36 cities globally called "A-15"
Marxists/Commies/Middle Eastern Terrortwats and all of their useful idiot sub-factions are supposed to conduct a day of "violent rioting" across these cities many of which are here in the US.
Just something for your commute tomorrow and maybe you should pack along some "EXTRA COFFEE AND BEANS"
maybe...
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 14, 2024 11:07 PM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Braenyard
No, but you can turn it off!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 10:55 PM (hOUT3)
Hrothgar! Hrothgar Fenton Mudd! Have you been drinking again!
Posted by: Stella 500 at April 14, 2024 11:03 PM (0eaVi)
Sorry Stella: Click!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 11:07 PM (hOUT3)
That's a funny way to spell "traitorous sucker of ChiCom cock", but OK.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2024 11:07 PM (dZVON)
CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2024 11:07 PM (H22GW)
The cameras are being used as a weapon against the people. I am all for any measures taken by the people to impair them. It's simple civil disobedience.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Drones with spray paint
Posted by: Bat Box at April 14, 2024 11:08 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 14, 2024 10:59 PM (9yWhg)
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You are forbidden to read my comments.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2024 11:09 PM (RIvkX)
White House national security communications spokesperson John Kirby reacted to Iran's direct attacks against Israel, in part by blaming former President Trump for supposedly emboldening Iran.
Posted by: Don Black at April 14, 2024 11:09 PM (oCjPU)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 10:57 PM (ibTVg)
IIRC, the current spreading rate on the mid-Atlantic ridge is about 2 cm per year. 30M years ago, the ocean would have been 600 km narrower. And rafts could simply be logjams and vegetation torn loose from river banks in a big flood.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2024 11:09 PM (tkR6S)
Those fuckers built Machu Pichu.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 14, 2024 11:09 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 14, 2024 11:07 PM (0eaVi)
To be fair, SOME of them wrote Shakespeare's plays, but it took them a while!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 14, 2024 11:09 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Drones with spray paint
Posted by: Bat Box at April 14, 2024 11:08 PM (63Dwl)
cut/jib
like
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 14, 2024 11:10 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 11:10 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 14, 2024 11:11 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2024 11:11 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
Machu Pichu was the best Pokemon!
Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2024 11:12 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2024 11:11 PM (63Dwl)
Primates in the sky
Posted by: Fly monkeys fly at April 14, 2024 11:12 PM (wWkjp)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 14, 2024 11:13 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2024 11:13 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2024 11:09 PM (tkR6S)
I have this book that describes a global flood, but it plainly states every airbreather except marine mammals got drownded complete. That includes minkeys. Except those two on the ark.
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:13 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:13 PM (NxC5+)
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You just spoiled The Epic of Gilgamesh for everyone.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2024 11:15 PM (H22GW)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 14, 2024 11:02 PM (zdLoL)
Arrows, archery, and bowling balls. Reminds me of a story. Did you know that William Tell, the famous Swiss archer, was also a scratch bowler? Best in the entire league. So good in fact, that every season, the various cantons of Switzerland would make extravagant bids to get him on their bowling teams. Hundreds of years later, Ernest Hemingway wrote a story about it: "For Whom The Tell Bowls".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2024 11:15 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2024 11:07 PM (dZVON)
It's one of those things that will always bother me.
The motherfucker bragged in a book about plotting treason while chairing the joint chiefs of staff, and was hailed as a hero for it.
Repulsive.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2024 11:16 PM (0FoWg)
Prior to the coming of the English the Irish had a more dispersed governance, based on community groupings. It was a typical situation where the leaders pissed off their constituency, who then would go do what they wanted, or find a new leader. IIRC, they also had an odd system of jurisprudence, where instead of choosing a lawyer you chose the judge and jurisdiction.
One of the things I noticed working with Mexican laborers was that it never mattered what they were agreeing to, if they didn't understand what was going on, or thought it was ill advised, it was not going to get done, no matter what your style of leadership was. It became important to figure out what they thought was going on for this reason.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2024 11:16 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 11:17 PM (MNhXM)
Have they figured out how dinosaurs got to South America yet?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2024 11:18 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: 18-1
Obligatory:
https://xkcd.com/595/
Posted by: mikeski at April 14, 2024 11:19 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2024 11:18 PM (LkLld)
Monkeys rode them there.
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 11:19 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Don't see much downside
The pillow talk being all Viagra ads can be a bit demoralizing.
Posted by: mikeski at April 14, 2024 11:21 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 11:17 PM (MNhXM)
Yes.
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:21 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 11:02 PM (ibTVg)
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Just ripped it right off.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 11:23 PM (NlLwm)
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 11:17 PM (MNhXM)
Yes.
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:21 PM (NxC5+)
It sure seemed that way. I couldn’t finish it. Rock monsters?
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 11:23 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 14, 2024 11:23 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 14, 2024 11:23 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: mikeski
Person could do a whole comedy routine on the tech support calls.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 14, 2024 11:24 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2024 11:24 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 11:23 PM (MNhXM)
Nephilim or something. Supposedly the giants resulting from fallen angels mating with human women. Some Biblical references.
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:25 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Don Black
Not contesting the election let Biden in, which emboldened Iran.
So they skipped a step, but this checks out.
Posted by: mikeski at April 14, 2024 11:26 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Some stupid with a flare gun at April 14, 2024 11:27 PM (fUOVH)
The standard argument is they evolved in Africa and their fossil record shows up around 30M years ago in South America - long after the Atlantic separated the continents. And yes apparently the current argument is they floated across on rafts. Monkeys. Crossing the ocean. On rafts.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 10:57 PM (ibTVg)
The best explanation is that chunks of mangrove swamp or matted vegetation patches detached from estuaries, like those muskeg islands in lakes in Canada that can float around and block marinas. There had to have been enough vegetation for the monkeys to survive on during a passage.
It seems that there were more than one species that crossed and there may have been more than one period though. Also, Cavimorphs (ancestors to capybara and chinchilla) appear to have rafted across as well 40 million years ago from genetic "timing", This matches the probable period of rafting monkeys as well.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2024 11:28 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Don Black
The chutzpah was implying the emboldening was a result of not kowtowing to them. The Left have no shame in being so utterly ridiculous.
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 11:28 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Some stupid with a flare gun at April 14, 2024 11:27 PM (fUOVH)
'You suppose these fireworks will be ok up here on the stage?'
-Great White roadies
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:28 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Some stupid with a flare gun
The Tacoma Dome.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 14, 2024 11:29 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 14, 2024 11:00 PM (zdLoL)
I bet a decent sexbot would come with a GrubHub app
Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2024 11:30 PM (D7oie)
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That's hot, but feathers get everywhere.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2024 11:30 PM (H22GW)
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 11:30 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: polynikes at April 14, 2024 11:30 PM (MNhXM)
Not as many container ships back then. Lotsa monkey rafts though, and you those monkeys can't navigate for shit.
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:33 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Awiens.....
Posted by: Cute Fuzzy Kitten at April 14, 2024 11:34 PM (sAmhv)
Before becoming a public school teacher he taught Spanish at the USAF Academy. - in this area of the country it was pre hippie so none of this modern think crap-
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 11:34 PM (NlLwm)
Posted by: Eromero
You try making a sextant out of bamboo and coconuts, human.
Posted by: monkey on a three-hour tour at April 14, 2024 11:35 PM (DgGvY)
Captain Monkey
'That' the new guy from the galley.'
Chief Monkey
'Well fling some shit at him.'
Captain Monkey
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:36 PM (NxC5+)
My eighth grade Spanish teacher said that Egyptian vessels were seaworthy to cross the Atlantic and he believed it quite possible that there was trade between them and the Indians in Mexico.
Jim Jones was a door to door money salesman.
The Egyptians showed the way.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2024 11:39 PM (63Dwl)
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Boston. It figures. It's one of America's most productive Asshole Factories.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2024 11:42 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 11:34 PM (NlLwm)
There is similarities between the reed ships made by the Egyptians and the Cretans, and the reed boats made in Peru and Bolivia, though some people have also argued there is only so much you can do with reeds and keep them floating.
There should be some evidence if there was contact.
by the way, have you heard they have found evidence that the Polynesians who settled Easter Island had gotten as far as mainland South America?
https://tinyurl.com/4eh5dpa9
Identification of breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) and South American crops introduced during early settlement of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), as revealed through starch analysis
Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2024 11:45 PM (D7oie)
"It is deeply simplistic to assert that the diversity of America can be reduced to any particular set of beliefs,
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That's gibberish.
"and faulty reasoning to infer that identity is determinative of one's thoughts or political leanings."
That's bullshit.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 14, 2024 11:45 PM (QwK6F)
The problem with using fossils to judge when things happened, suffers from the obvious: how does one know that this fossil is the first and not just a random one that got preserved, unlike older ones? That whole 'out of Africa' nonsense for example.
(I don't know what is the flyby all about)
Posted by: Ciampino - wet places are not condusive to fossils at April 14, 2024 11:47 PM (qfLjt)
Think I see a D.C.French statue coming on the Art Thread.
Check it out in advance: there's a bruise on her ass. Figures.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 14, 2024 11:48 PM (zdLoL)
I've spent a fair part of my life offshore and I've seen a lot crazy stuff. But not once have I seen monkeys piloting a raft from Africa. Or even from New York City.
I think some of these scientist pushing this crap were ones to dumb to be climate scientists.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2024 11:51 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: scampydog at April 14, 2024 11:52 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 14, 2024 10:14 PM (9yWhg)
Commie rat bastard.
Posted by: RickZ at April 14, 2024 11:52 PM (emlEe)
We really need to kill it. I bet all the mostly female board members are liberals/communists.
Posted by: Ciampino - NPR only serves HALF the country at April 14, 2024 11:52 PM (qfLjt)
There should be some evidence if there was contact....
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Thor Heyerdahl has entered the conversation.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 14, 2024 11:55 PM (NlLwm)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 14, 2024 10:14 PM (9yWhg)
Commie rat bastard.
Posted by: RickZ at April 14, 2024 11:52 PM (emlEe)
In the 3rd grade us boys used to sit in the back of the classroom and crack two pecans in our hands. The teacher would come back there and say 'you boys are worse than pet coons.'
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:56 PM (NxC5+)
Not that we could insomuch we all have jobs to do every day and all of these reprobates get paid to go out and riot by LEFT WING money tanks like SOROS, BLM, and their ilk.
But there must come a day...and there will come a day...
But it better come soon.
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 14, 2024 11:58 PM (TDvv2)
Sexbots will put a real crimp in the supply of males willing to do stupid shit in return for a chance at getting lucky.
"I have the pussy so I make the rules," will be so passe'.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 15, 2024 12:00 AM (AOz1w)
Monkeys though...good at flinging poo...not so good at navigation...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2024 12:00 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2024 12:02 AM (TDvv2)
Sexbots will put a real crimp in the supply of males willing to do stupid shit in return for a chance at getting lucky.
"I have the pussy so I make the rules," will be so passe'.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 15, 2024 12:00 AM (AOz1w)
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Man hating becomes passe'. I should live so long.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 12:02 AM (NlLwm)
Aren't that many monkeys living in the wild in Oregon even now when there is mass transit and open borders. Not even rafting monkeys.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:03 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: azjaeger at April 15, 2024 12:03 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Some stupid with a flare gun at April 14, 2024 11:27 PM (fUOVH)
'You suppose these fireworks will be ok up here on the stage?'
-Great White roadies
You guys are funny, but I'd step on you to see The Who.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 15, 2024 12:03 AM (dZVON)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2024 12:00 AM (ibTVg)
You don't have to do any navigating if you are riding a logjam or an island of floating vegetation. All you have to do is survive until the winds and currents take you to...wherever.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:04 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 12:04 AM (NlLwm)
Posted by: buddhaha
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Unwritten rules? Here are a couple.
1.
2.
Posted by: scampydog at April 15, 2024 12:05 AM (41CYW)
(I don't know what is the flyby all about)
Posted by: Ciampino - wet places are not condusive to fossils at April 14, 2024 11:47 PM (qfLjt)
except, as I understand it, the lineage of monkeys and primates is fairly well established in Africa and Europe, and any attempt to claim that the American monkeys were from before plate tectonics separated the African and South American continents (so they walked there instead of rafting) requires claiming that primates existed back in the cretaceous, and is supported by no findings of any fossils at all.
the idea of rafting monkeys used to be considered crackpot territory, and in fact was an argument used to deny that continents moved and split at all, but nothing else matches the time, fossils found and the fact that there are south american monkeys. It is a headache.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 12:07 AM (D7oie)
Have you seen today's women? Sorta puts the story in perspective, don't it?
Posted by: Horny Guys for Robotsex at April 14, 2024 10:14 PM (0eaVi)
Maybe it's a case of:
Guys want to have sex with a hot woman.
They'd put up with having sex with a biological woman
They'll have to settle for a robot.
https://youtu.be/r-VJLz65QhM&t=120s
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 12:07 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:08 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:08 AM (tkR6S)
I'm sure the Monkees played many time in North America.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 12:09 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2024 12:10 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 12:07 AM (D7oie)
Most gradeschool kids noted how it seemed Brazil looked like a fiting puzzle piece to west Africa...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 12:11 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:08 AM (tkR6S)
I had to check, there were monkey ancestors in North America during the eocene, but they apparently did not survive the climate cooling off.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 12:11 AM (D7oie)
A clever subterfuge. How clever? You regurgitated it uncritically.
The government funds NPR to the extent of 60-70% of its budget, but sneakily. It hands out the money to the individual "public radio stations", who then pay NPR for content.
In other circles, it's called money laundering.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 15, 2024 12:12 AM (AOz1w)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2024 12:10 AM (63Dwl)
Give Puerto Rico to the diehard Cuban Communists, and make Cuba an offshore extension of Florida.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:13 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2024 11:13 PM (NxC5+)
So how come the brackish water resulting from the rain didn't kill the saltwater fish, hmmmmmmm?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 12:13 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2024 12:13 AM (63Dwl)
Then...WELCOME TO CUBA BITCHES... rit LARGE!!!
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2024 12:02 AM (TDvv2)
Ya didn't want to go to Cuba, so they decided to bring Cuba to us.
https://youtu.be/mDLS12_a-fk&t=100s
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 12:14 AM (ynpvh)
When they reached South America, they were going too fast, and finally came to a stop about a mile from the nearest water. They didn’t see any light sockets there, so they stayed.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 15, 2024 12:14 AM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Levine, Biden, etal., not a confidence builder. My bags are packed however.
Posted by: Sam Brinton at April 15, 2024 12:14 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 12:11 AM (ynpvh)
Yes, but there was a conclusion that continents were fixed and did not move or split, and that was the established opinion of very learned men. However:
"Scientific thought advances by one funeral at a time"
(and one day I would like to see some discussion of the "aquatic hominid" that did not get branded wrongthing}
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 12:14 AM (D7oie)
Anomalous acceleration of spacecraft doing close flyby gravitational assist maneuvers, usually by Earth. (There are some clever techniques they use, to save fuel at the expense of time.
Some of these can get pretty fancy. See the MESSENGER Mercury probe.
There was a similar acceleration anomaly, called the Pioneer anomaly. The Pioneer probe was decelerating faster than expected. A mundane explanation was finally found (anisotropic thermal radiation).
There will likely be such a similar mundane explanation of the flyby anomaly. The anomalous acceleration is very small, on the order of mm/s compared to velocities of km/s. That is the spacecraft's velocity differs from expected after the maneuver by a few mm/s.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 12:14 AM (w6EFb)
Why did monkeys stop their seafaring ways? Could have made billions in the shipping trades.
C'mon. Just because fossils haven't been found yet, and the key word there is yet, is no reason to declare that monkeys went on a cruise across the southern ocean on a raft they built when they have shown no aptitude to do that since.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:15 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 12:15 AM (NlLwm)
Repulsive.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2024 11:16 PM (0FoWg)
I have this daydream where, when shit goes south, certain people will be assigned some justice.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 12:15 AM (w6EFb)
A clever subterfuge. How clever? You regurgitated it uncritically.
The government funds NPR to the extent of 60-70% of its budget, but sneakily. It hands out the money to the individual "public radio stations", who then pay NPR for content.
In other circles, it's called money laundering.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 15, 2024 12:12 AM (AOz1w
Sorry,, I read that as monkey laundering.
Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2024 12:16 AM (NxC5+)
1. Saturday's Iranian attack on Israel was widely telegraphed and explicitly anticipated in US major news outlets days in advance, with a steady drumbeat of “attack imminent.”
2. The Iranian military generally has good OPSEC, other than this past week.
3. The Iranian attack on Israel was almost wholly ineffectual, with zero Israeli casualties and minor property damage.
4. The Biden Administration is urging Israel to call this a “victory” and not retaliate.
5. Coincidentally, the House of Representatives is trying to vote this week on a controversial aid package for Ukraine and Israel.
6. Joe Biden and his son Hunter made $millions$ from Ukrainian companies operating in Ukraine, the world’s money laundering capital.
These are facts, none of which are in dispute. What do they tell you?
I am reminded of that great Violent Femmes song of the 1980s, “Add It Up."
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2024 12:16 AM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 12:13 AM (w6EFb)
I am wondering how the ichthyosaurs drowned, myself.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 12:16 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 12:11 AM (ynpvh)
Yes, but there was a conclusion that continents were fixed and did not move or split, and that was the established opinion of very learned men. However:
"Scientific thought advances by one funeral at a time"
(and one day I would like to see some discussion of the "aquatic hominid" that did not get branded wrongthing}
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 12:14 AM (D7oie)
::: Abe Sapien has entered the chat :::
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 12:17 AM (ynpvh)
Why did monkeys stop their seafaring ways? Could have made billions in the shipping trades.
Monkeys threw other monkeys overboard at the monkey latitudes. The sharks still swim there.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2024 12:18 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 12:13 AM (w6EFb)
How should I know? I’m not an ichtyologist.
Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2024 12:19 AM (NxC5+)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:15 AM (LkLld)
Brazil was such a sweet gig for monkeys, they had no reason to want to move on. The damned Africans were eating them!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:19 AM (tkR6S)
Repulsive.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2024 11:16 PM (0FoWg)
I have this daydream where, when shit goes south, certain people will be assigned some justice.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 12:15 AM (w6EFb)
I wouldn't mind seeing some pole dancing, IFKWIMAITYD
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 12:19 AM (ynpvh)
There is also a theory that the Atlantic was frozen in parts, creating an ice bridge from Africa to the American continent.
Posted by: Ciampino - we are now devolving - look at Liberals at April 15, 2024 12:20 AM (qfLjt)
A clever subterfuge. How clever? You regurgitated it uncritically.
The government funds NPR to the extent of 60-70% of its budget, but sneakily. It hands out the money to the individual "public radio stations", who then pay NPR for content.
In other circles, it's called money laundering.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 15, 2024 12:12 AM (AOz1w
Sorry,, I read that as monkey laundering.
Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2024 12:16 AM (NxC5+)
Monkeys are especially hateful of the spin cycle...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 12:20 AM (ynpvh)
That monkeys sailed on a raft to DC and inhabit our government. The science is settled.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:20 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 12:13 AM (w6EFb)
I am wondering how the ichthyosaurs drowned, myself.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 12:16 AM (D7oie)
It had a hard time pronouncing it's name underwater?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 12:22 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 12:16 AM (D7oie)
Starved, probably. A great many totally marine species went extinct in the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous. All the ammonites - gone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:23 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: That's A Moray! at April 15, 2024 12:23 AM (V5BDR)
I have a photo somewhere of me feeding nuts to the monkeys that live on Sugarloaf in Rio. Cute little panhandlers.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:26 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:15 AM (LkLld)
This is an argument from lack of evidence, matched to a wildly exaggerated misrepresentation of any claim placed.
fine, you figure it out, I just was interested in what has been written on the subject.
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be considered, even if it it does not match your preconceptions.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 12:27 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Major Owens at April 15, 2024 12:27 AM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:23 AM (tkR6S)
I've wondered if there were intermediate dieoffs during the cretaceous - maybe certain areas of the shallow sea got cut off and stagnated. I say this because I sometimes fossil hunt along the banks of the Trinity in Ft Worth, where it cuts through a cretaceous chalk. You can see many distinct layers in that chalk, some only 2' wide, and you can follow them along the river bank. In most of them, fossils are rare, but there's one layer that is just about paved with ammonite fossils, I can always find more than I can carry if I run into it. I always wonder how so many ended up on the bottom when that was being formed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2024 12:28 AM (S6gqv)
Posted by: buddhaha at April 15, 2024 12:00 AM (AOz1w)
I never got to make the rules.
*pouts*
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 12:28 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:26 AM (LkLld)
I saw, and took photos of howler monkeys in Nicaragua. The sound of their hooting at night was very spooky, until you got used to it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:28 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2024 12:28 AM (NxC5+)
Just spitballin' here, but...
The earth isn't a sphere, but flattened at the poles. That has to have an effect on the gravitational field. It might be enough to account for a couple of ppm discrepancy.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 15, 2024 12:29 AM (AOz1w)
Identification of breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) and South American crops introduced during early settlement of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), as revealed through starch analysis
Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2024 11:45 PM (D7oie)
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Have they considered swallows, particularly African swallows, possibly carrying those breadfruits? According to Arthurian Legend (M. Python et al) African swallows may have been responsible for ferrying coconuts from Africa to England. {the husks were used to shoe horses or something}.
Posted by: Ciampino - what about Texan swallows? Must be huge! at April 15, 2024 12:29 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2024 12:28 AM (NxC5+)
Alcohol-related accidents
Posted by: Damn dirty drunken monkeys at April 15, 2024 12:30 AM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2024 12:28 AM (NxC5+)
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The vets chop them off when they're born?
Posted by: Ciampino - what about Texan swallows? Must be huge!! at April 15, 2024 12:31 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: buddhaha at April 15, 2024 12:12 AM (AOz1w)
At least they aren't monkey laundering.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 12:32 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: scampydog at April 15, 2024 12:32 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Chance99 at April 15, 2024 12:32 AM (pCKll)
Posted by: Ciampino - we are now devolving - look at Liberals at April 15, 2024 12:20 AM (qfLjt)
That one is a stretch, especially since the Eocene was warmer than it is today. I think the first permanent ice sheets in Antarctica were in the upper Eocene, and that was due to separation of South American and Antarctic continental plates
I do wonder if there was an ice bridge between Antarctica and South America during the upper and lower Dryas glaciations, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 12:33 AM (D7oie)
That's one of the explanations. The model of the earth's gravitational field in terms of the multipole moments (deviations from spherical) is pretty complex. But some paper claims even that wasn't enough, and a much more complex model explains things perfectly.
Other mundane explanations are timing errors in the signal receiving networks.
Exotic explanations are "new physics".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 12:33 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 15, 2024 12:33 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 12:27 AM (D7oie)
it could have been the bunch that left the monolith that moved them over.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2024 12:34 AM (S6gqv)
Posted by: That's A Moray!
You're Hungarian, aren't you?
Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 12:34 AM (WqOsh)
When they were created God gave them a choice. Have no tail and walk funny your whole life, or keep the tail, get circumcised, and walk funny for a few days. Once He explained what circumcision was, the chimps said they'd rather lose the tail.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 15, 2024 12:34 AM (dZVON)
Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2024 12:28 AM (NxC5+)
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The vets chop them off when they're born?
Posted by: Ciampino - what about Texan swallows? Must be huge!! at April 15, 2024 12:31 AM (qfLjt)
Because they're transitioning them into Democrats?
Posted by: RickZ at April 15, 2024 12:36 AM (emlEe)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 15, 2024 12:33 AM (Sgq8y
Pray for Boston. Jihadis have a thing about significant events.
Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2024 12:36 AM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2024 12:37 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2024 12:28 AM (S6gqv)
I expect that conditions were ideal for ammonites during certain periods, and they flourished in great numbers. In the Bearspaw Formation in Alberta, which exists under my house, at some depth, there are many ammonites. Also mososaur fossils. And ammonites are often found with holes punched in their shells by mososaur teeth. There are some indications that mososaurs would rear their young in sheltered bays or lagoons, and the adults would venture out, catch some ammonites, and bring them back to feed their young, resulting in middens of toothmarked shells. To this day, birds engage in similar behavior. Fascinating stuff. I have handled ammonite shells with toothmarks on them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:37 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Barry Hussein al-Soetoro at April 15, 2024 12:39 AM (oGyF9)
Exactly. But that goes both ways.
The type of marmoset monkeys that exist in Brazil and other South American countries do not exist in Africa. They are unique to South America.
So the preconceived ideas that all primates originated in Africa and then went yachting has at least some ginormous holes in it.
An enormous meat eating dinosaur that would make T-Rex's dick shrivel with shame lived in South America but it gets little PR. And it didn't get their by raft. Continental drift and evolution seem much more likely if less sexy.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:40 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Ciampino - what about Texan swallows? Must be huge
African Swallows, yes, but definitely not European Swallows. The key thing is that they have to flap their wings 43 times every second.
On the other hand, African Swallows are non-migratory, so...
Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 12:40 AM (WqOsh)
No doubt.
Miley runs a sizable free-range organic Pith Farm.
Posted by: and Miklos.... was there at April 15, 2024 12:43 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: Eromero
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Descendants of Cain.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 15, 2024 12:44 AM (XeU6L)
Misinformation!!!!
Posted by: raimondo on tap at April 15, 2024 12:44 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:40 AM (LkLld)
If a rabbit can swim out and attack a president in a boat, then monkeys can navigate a parcel of land floating on the ocean.
Posted by: RickZ at April 15, 2024 12:46 AM (emlEe)
Posted by: John's has a long, wet with tears moustache at April 15, 2024 12:47 AM (oGyF9)
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:48 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: and Miklos.... was there at April 15, 2024 12:43 AM
Her helmets are FA-bulous.
Posted by: RickZ at April 15, 2024 12:49 AM (emlEe)
So the preconceived ideas that all primates originated in Africa and then went yachting has at least some ginormous holes in it.
An enormous meat eating dinosaur that would make T-Rex's dick shrivel with shame lived in South America but it gets little PR. And it didn't get their by raft. Continental drift and evolution seem much more likely if less sexy.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:40 AM (LkLld)
The African marmosets migrated north to the British Isles, and became gay authors, and consequently went extinct.
Posted by: Marmoset Saugham at April 15, 2024 12:49 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: That's A Moray!
You're Hungarian, aren't you?
Posted by: John Drake
Mi a problemad?
Posted by: Igazi Miklos at April 15, 2024 12:49 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
Were you referring to ..... (puts sunglasses on) Horatio Caine?
{Opening of "Won't Get Fooled Again" blares in background}
(removes sunglasses, polishes lens on his tie)
Because, lacking evidence, all you're left with is a ....(puts sunglasses on) missing link.
{"Won't Get Fooled Again" blares even louder in background}
Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 12:51 AM (WqOsh)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:48 AM (LkLd)
'Neither is the electoral college' adds every Democrat.
Posted by: RickZ at April 15, 2024 12:51 AM (emlEe)
Posted by: JackStraw
I got laid in a pond once
Posted by: *hic* at April 15, 2024 12:52 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: Marmoset Saugham
They were on the Razor's Edge.
Posted by: Wevelyn Augh at April 15, 2024 12:54 AM (oGyF9)
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, philosophically at April 15, 2024 12:54 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: *hic* at April 15, 2024 12:52 AM (oGyF9)
I got laid out in a pond once. Never got over it.
Posted by: Obama's Chef at April 15, 2024 12:54 AM (emlEe)
Posted by: Ciampino - what about Texan swallows? Must be huge right? at April 15, 2024 12:55 AM (qfLjt)
FJB touted total support here in his US statement but sources in Israel claim his phone call with Bibi said otherwise.
Typical of FJB if confirmed.
The Obama LEFT running the show is gonna push us to WWIII because they have THEIR plan.
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2024 12:55 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Igazi Miklos
No, none at all - I just had the chance to read your Hungarian/English translation guide that you dropped when you were punching Michael Palin's lights out.
Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 12:55 AM (WqOsh)
Posted by: *hic* at April 15, 2024 12:52 AM (oGyF9)
I got pounded in a lei, once.
Posted by: Maizie Hirono at April 15, 2024 12:55 AM (tkR6S)
The Equation of Time just zeroed at around 12:47AM EDT. Funny how a zero of the EoT occurs on Tax Day.
At that moment, apparent solar time was exactly equal to mean solar time. Hereafter until about June 13th, local high noon will occur ahead of local mean noon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 12:58 AM (w6EFb)
AOP that was very funny.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 15, 2024 12:58 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
"Miklos is evidently absent. Again."
Posted by: various teachers at April 15, 2024 12:59 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, philosophically at April 15, 2024 12:54 AM (XeU6L)
Abstinence of evidence is not evidence of abstinence.
Posted by: Norm Crosby at April 15, 2024 12:59 AM (emlEe)
Posted by: scampydog at April 15, 2024 12:59 AM (41CYW)
By the time Asia was invented airplane travel was common. Most monkeys immigrated to Asia for work and a better way of life for their families.
Do you even science?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:59 AM (LkLld)
https://mol.im/a/13308371
Posted by: Ciampino - whatever evil gets into people at April 15, 2024 01:02 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: the Plastic Straw Disaster Theorist at April 15, 2024 01:03 AM (oGyF9)
https://tinyurl.com/sv8744wv
Posted by: Ciampino - whatever at April 15, 2024 01:04 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Ciampino - what about Texan swallows? Must be huge right? at April 15, 2024 12:55 AM (qfLjt)
Lancelot Link led them there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2024 01:04 AM (S6gqv)
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By the time Asia was invented airplane travel was common. Most monkeys immigrated to Asia for work and a better way of life for their families.
Do you even science?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:59 AM (LkLld)
I thought they hitched a ride on some chariots but you posit an interesting theory. I'd like to learn more.
Posted by: AI Advertising Bot at April 15, 2024 01:05 AM (emlEe)
https://mol.im/a/13307687
Posted by: Ciampino - hurt them until they won't try again at April 15, 2024 01:05 AM (qfLjt)
Where are you hiding out these days you Smoking, Coke Snorting living with a Tranny wife trotting POSCSMFILAALBSOAM?
The HORDE wants to know?
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2024 01:05 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Miklos, following the evidence at April 15, 2024 01:06 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 15, 2024 01:07 AM (TDvv2)
https://mol.im/a/13305727
Posted by: Ciampino - 50 octopuses=10 kittens at April 15, 2024 01:07 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: and Miklos.... was there at April 15, 2024 12:43 AM (oGyF9)
Once we distill it, you can get pith drunk.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 01:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: CDC and WHO at April 15, 2024 01:08 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, philosophically
Horatio Caine turns to face Mike Hammer, Caine's sunglasses are now in his suit pocket. He ponders Hammer's words. His head lifts slightly while he raises the the sunglasses.
Caine: My barber, he's been working on the trade for decades. One day he says "Horatio, I am like your kindly uncle Occam, and I will tell you this one thing - hold still, that avian-like crest above your forehead is easy to mess up - this one thing, this thing is -snip, snip, snip- don't multiply entities beyond necessities.
(Looks at Hammer) I can see that you are also aware .....(puts on sunglasses) of Occam's Razor.
{"Won't Get Fooled Again" at jet engine intensity blares yet again}
Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 01:09 AM (WqOsh)
Looking up that flyby anomaly and the "earth's gravity not accurate enough" explanation. Current gravity models use a 10x10 matrix of terms. That's 100 different terms to get the earth's gravitational field. This is used for precise satellite ephemerides and such.
One paper claims you need to go even higher, and use a 50x50 matrix of terms, 2500 total terms. They claims doing that can make the anomaly go away.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 01:09 AM (w6EFb)
https://mol.im/a/13305727
Posted by: Ciampino
This week Special Caramari
Posted by: Chinese Buffet by Mikros at April 15, 2024 01:09 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:48 AM (LkLld)
Soggy bints.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 01:09 AM (w6EFb)
PICTURED: Mother-in-law, her boyfriend and two others arrested in huge Oklahoma SWAT raid over the kidnapping and murder of Kansas mom and her friend who vanished on way to pick up their children
https://mol.im/a/13306127
Posted by: Ciampino - evil personified at April 15, 2024 01:09 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Ciampino - 50 octopuses=10 kittens at April 15, 20
WTF? They didn't have a grill handy?
Posted by: RickZ at April 15, 2024 01:10 AM (emlEe)
I get any shit about it and there'll be a good try geared toward making life miserable for them until things change for the better.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2024 01:10 AM (KATBx)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 12:48 AM (LkLld)
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Rusty swords by this stage.
Posted by: Ciampino - nice water-tart at April 15, 2024 01:11 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
There is also a Pith Path for those with "outdoor plumbing".
Posted by: Miklos can relievedly so test-ify at April 15, 2024 01:12 AM (oGyF9)
https://mol.im/a/13302535
Posted by: Ciampino - nice water-tarts at April 15, 2024 01:13 AM (qfLjt)
https://mol.im/a/13306305
Posted by: Ciampino - plus castration would be better at April 15, 2024 01:15 AM (qfLjt)
Your facts are that there are no fossils, that there are no corresponding monkeys in Africa that are similar, and that there are giant carnosaur fossils in South America that predate the monkeys in question by about 66 million years.
It is my opinion that your argument that it is not a valid argument that " all primates originated in Africa and then went yachting" is a straw-man argument only.
against this you have cavimorphs (a branch of rodents) who do have genetics and fossils similar to African species appearing at the same time in South America, and the fact that the oldest fossils of the ancestors of American monkeys consist of teeth since that appears to be the only parts that fossilized in what was then a rain forest which can cut either way.
I am interested in your argument that the American monkeys are a completely different line from African monkeys, is this borne out by any research in fossil records or just by visual matching of current species?
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 01:16 AM (D7oie)
https://tinyurl.com/29z46sxs
Posted by: Ciampino - LOL if you can't trust a towtruck driver .... at April 15, 2024 01:17 AM (qfLjt)
https://x.com/DawnTJ90/status/1779167687698002222
Posted by: scottst at April 15, 2024 01:17 AM (AZf41)
https://mol.im/a/13298397
These people just don't get it, it's the torture part we object to here, not killing.
The town is just a bunch of inbreds.
Posted by: Ciampino - Inbreds the lot at April 15, 2024 01:20 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 01:20 AM (D7oie)
The standard argument is they evolved in Africa and their fossil record shows up around 30M years ago in South America - long after the Atlantic separated the continents. And yes apparently the current argument is they floated across on rafts. Monkeys. Crossing the ocean. On rafts.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2024 10:57 PM (ibTVg)
What are we? Chopped liver?
Posted by: Land of Oz Winged Monkeys at April 15, 2024 01:21 AM (16ggG)
Another example of "anomalies" pointing to new physics that turned out to be nothing by error. Remember in 2011, CERN published some anomalous results that seemed to indicated faster than light neutrinos?
Well. Turned out to be a loose fiber optic cable, that reduced the computed time of flight of calculation. This was was offset somewhat by another error in some oscillator, a high precision clock, which was ticking a bit too fast.
They all had egg on their faces. It wasn't really bad, really. They said, basically, "This looks like faster than light, but we know that's a big deal, so all y'all check this out carefully".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 01:22 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Kindltot
Vhere ees your Minkey Lee-sance?
Posted by: Inspector Mikleuseau at April 15, 2024 01:22 AM (oGyF9)
https://x.com/DawnTJ90/status/1779167687698002222
Posted by: scottst at April 15, 2024 01:17 AM (AZf41)
That's from 2017. And bears will always eat berries, if available. And salmon, if available, and pic-a-nic baskets, if available. And Treadwells, if available.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 01:25 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: pawn at April 15, 2024 01:26 AM (QB+5g)
Never mind that it didn't have the range to have made the crossing. Consider it "a raft", and we'll go from there.
BTW. The monkees floated ashore on inflated No Alibi jeans. Just to fill in some Gap.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 15, 2024 01:27 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
And Vegan non-Binary Crossfitsters?
Posted by: Miklos wishes to be lied to, if necessary at April 15, 2024 01:27 AM (oGyF9)
Toronto's controversial 'rain tax' has been put on hold
Mayor says people need information on 'how to make their land more porous ... to prevent the flooding that may happen when a big storm comes'
https://tinyurl.com/2zbazkru
Posted by: Ciampino - Inbreds the lot of them at April 15, 2024 01:29 AM (qfLjt)
Jim
Like Bad Idea jeans?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGfBEnBw01A
Posted by: Miklos abjures pants on Principle at April 15, 2024 01:30 AM (oGyF9)
The loose cable vs the fast clock is an example of tow systemic errors nearly cancelling each other out. Either one alone would've been obvious. They would've known something wasn't right. But both of them together nearly cancelled and made the calibrations look good.
But the difference was enough to make them think their neutrinos were travelling faster than light.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 01:32 AM (w6EFb)
I don't know what brand the Kartrashians are hawking, but I doubt we'll see any 'ettes wearing 'em.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 15, 2024 01:34 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
And Vegan non-Binary Crossfitsters?
Posted by: Miklos wishes to be lied to, if necessary at April 15, 2024 01:27 AM (oGyF9)
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And Scouts and Scout Masters - where do you think Smokey gets his hats from?
Posted by: Ciampino - cub scout hats are too small at April 15, 2024 01:35 AM (qfLjt)
You're kind of making my argument for me. Let's assume that monkeys did in fact years ago go yachting and then stopped for some reason, did they take rats as first mates? Does that seem likely? Even if they did I bet they would have eaten them before they got more than a couple days offshore.
Or is it more likely that as we know that that the continents were originally attached as Pangea and that is how life migrated between what are now distant continents? This is not a wild eyed conspiracy theory but very well established fact backed up by decades of research, fossils and other evidence. That seems much more likely and obvious to me. Walking doesn't require that much talent and if you look at the maps of what Pangea supposedly looked like Africa and South America were right next to each other.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 01:36 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Miklos wishes to be lied to, if necessary at April 15, 2024 01:27 AM (oGyF9)
Too stringy, and too lacking in calories. We have standards, you know.
Posted by: The Bears at April 15, 2024 01:36 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Happens.
Hell, me, Bubba, and Bubba Jr. had to re-mud the drywall on our backyard Nukuler Kollider.
Posted by: CERN, the Carolina Edumacated RedNecks at April 15, 2024 01:36 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: scampydog at April 15, 2024 01:38 AM (41CYW)
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That was on TV for 14 years. Baffling.
Posted by: scampydog
"No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
Posted by: Miklos so recalls at April 15, 2024 01:42 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 01:36 AM (LkLld)
Primates didn't exist at all until after Pangaea broke apart. As a geologist, I don't find the idea of monkeys serendipitously rafting across a narrow ocean on a floating island of vegetation to be all that challenging. Monkeys are arboreal, as we all know. So a troop of monkeys is in a stand of trees on the bank of the Congo River. The bank gives way, and a mess of trees topple over, monkeys and all. But the trees remain afloat, and the monkeys stay in them, because swimming is not an option. Over the course of several months, many of the monkeys die, but eventually the floating debris washes up on the beach in Brazil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 01:47 AM (tkR6S)
But life did. And it existed across the super continent.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 01:50 AM (LkLld)
Have many supercontinents have there theorized to have been over the course of Erf's history.
I think 6 total. Pangaea is the most recent.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 01:52 AM (w6EFb)
Monkeys arriving in the New World via rafts, monkeys roaming all over Pangea, possible land bridges connecting West Africa with South America.... I think the one thing we can all agree upon here is that Monkey see ... puts on sunglasses ... Monkey do..
{"Won't Get Fooled Again" blasts high-rise Miami apartment windows, sends migrating whales off course, registers on seismic meters in Pyongyang, pings Russian Boomer Subs off East Coast, leading to mutinies and mass surfacing of craft with crew begging that their surrender be accepted}
Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 01:54 AM (WqOsh)
Posted by: Miklos only has to write eight moar songs, larn music, and find a GOOD band name at April 15, 2024 01:55 AM (oGyF9)
How many nautical monkey theories have been theorized in the same time?'
I only ask because it's almost fishing season again I don't want to have to dodge Cheetah and his fishing buds.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 01:57 AM (LkLld)
Which does not last long in water, but was found on remote Pacific islands thousands of miles from its place of origin.
Posted by: Miklos has THEORIES at April 15, 2024 01:57 AM (oGyF9)
Workin' on it, Boss
Soon as we get done with the Contract work for the NYT
Posted by: 12,000 nautical monkeys typing away at April 15, 2024 01:59 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 01:50 AM (LkLld)
But the notion that convergent evolution could result in very similar species arising independently requires more of a suspension of disbelief than the notion of rafting. Rafts of vegetation from tropical rivers have been observed at sea, so the mechanism of transport for the proto-monkeys is plausible. There is undoubtedly a huge body of DNA work out there now, that I know nothing about.
Are there apes in South America? Convergent evolution in the primate line should have led to apes, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 02:03 AM (tkR6S)
The explanation for all of these anomalies is ALIENS!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 02:05 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Brian Stelter at April 15, 2024 02:06 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
*scratches armpits*
*offers Darleen a banana*
Posted by: Anthropologist Miklos at April 15, 2024 02:06 AM (oGyF9)
Which does not last long in water, but was found on remote Pacific islands thousands of miles from its place of origin.
Posted by: Miklos
Monkeys with potato guns.
Posted by: mikeski at April 15, 2024 02:07 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2024 11:11 PM (63Dwl)
Primates in the sky
Posted by: Fly monkeys fly at April 14, 2024 11:12 PM (wWkjp)
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Ghost chickens in the Sky
https://youtu.be/Tr8LGr8HaJA
Posted by: Ciampino - feathery at April 15, 2024 02:08 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 02:10 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: mikeski
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Potato gun would be a fun one on the Weasel gub thread.
Posted by: scampydog at April 15, 2024 02:11 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: scampydog at April 15, 2024 02:12 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 15, 2024 02:12 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
I read that as "diddled".
Posted by: Anthropologist Miklos is non-judgemental at April 15, 2024 02:13 AM (oGyF9)
I got interested in this how many supercontinents have there been thing. May have been 12. Depending how you define them.
I don't know nuttin' 'bout this plate tectonics stuff. So I'm just readin'.
I don't want to be some Thomas Jefferson Jackson See. Look him up. Quite a hoot. He thought highly of himself. He was wrong.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 02:14 AM (w6EFb)
Nonsense. They came from the same host because they all existed on the same continent. There were natural differences just as there are in humans but the genesis was from the same source.
Look at the dinosaurs. T-Rex is very similar to but in many ways different from its South American relative Gigantasaurus. Do you think that guy swam to North America and mutated or was there some environmental modification to the evolution of both? Evolution happened similarly but with differences because it all came from the same source that was altered by different environments as the continents separated which again is not conjecture but fact.
What requires a suspension of disbelief is that all life sprang from Africa and went yachting.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 02:15 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
He was no Robert Quillen, that's for sure.
Posted by: Miklos actually buys books at April 15, 2024 02:17 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: publius
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Just did a quick scan/read. DEI hire of his day. Plagiarist and wrong about things.
Posted by: scampydog at April 15, 2024 02:18 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Miklos actually buys books at April 15, 2024 02:17 AM (oGyF9)
Didn't Quillen play for the Oakland Raiders in the Davis era?
Oakland. Raiders. A biker gang that "played" football, on Sundays. Kenny Stabler was the Snake Pliskin of Quarterbacks.
Their EVERY down would be penalized by the rules, today. Lyle Alzado weeps.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 15, 2024 02:24 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 15, 2024 02:25 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Most faculties have lost their faculties.
Posted by: University of Miklos Institute for Advanced Studies Y'all at April 15, 2024 02:27 AM (oGyF9)
But, he seldom shows up on the Book Thread.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 15, 2024 02:28 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Miklos in fuzzy socks at April 15, 2024 02:29 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2024 02:15 AM (LkLld)
So, The Pangaea's Cup . . . ?
Posted by: RickZ at April 15, 2024 02:31 AM (emlEe)
Robert Quillen (pbuh). See the "Aunt Het Festival". Fountain Inn, SC.
He was one of the home town boys.
The road Me and Miley live on, which is kinda sorta eponymous (distance relations had a mill on this road, way back in the day) becomes Quillen Avenue when it crosses the Fountain Inn, SC city limits.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 02:31 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miklos in fuzzy socks at April 15, 2024 02:29 AM (oGyF9)
Does the dog wear pants?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 15, 2024 02:33 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
No.
She does have an eye patch, though (unfortunately).
Posted by: Miklos needs a pic for the Pet Thread at April 15, 2024 02:35 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: irongrampa at April 15, 2024 02:36 AM (KATBx)
Posted by: Miklos needs a pic for the Pet Thread
Arrrrrrr... she be a pirate dog, best of all the canine race! If she needs a diversion, I be plannin' to singe the King of Spain's beard and assault the ports of Panama!
Posted by: John Drake's Corsair Cousin Francis at April 15, 2024 02:39 AM (WqOsh)
No wonder the Souf ain't risin' anytime before the sourdough.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 15, 2024 02:39 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Gary Hart and Donna Rice at April 15, 2024 02:40 AM (oGyF9)
Robert Quillen caused to be created in the city of Fountain Inn, SC, the "Monument to Eve, the First Woman".
You can look that up. It's an obelisk sort of thing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 02:43 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miklos needs a pic for the Pet Thread at April 15, 2024 02:35 AM (oGyF9)
You sure she's just not walking backwards?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 15, 2024 02:43 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 15, 2024 02:46 AM (Sgq8y)
Robert Quillen's Monument to Eve:
https://tinyurl.com/2asw33df
A loathsome CVS store is polluting the vista. I apologize.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 02:49 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 02:51 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ciampino - we are now devolving - look at Liberals at April 15, 2024 12:20 AM (qfLjt)
That one is a stretch, especially since the Eocene was warmer than it is today. I think the first permanent ice sheets in Antarctica were in the upper Eocene, and that was due to separation of South American and Antarctic continental plates
I do wonder if there was an ice bridge between Antarctica and South America during the upper and lower Dryas glaciations, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2024 12:33 AM (D7oie)
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I have an ebook "Dennis J Stanford - Across Atlantic Ice- The Origin of America's Clovis Culture"
Haven't read it yet but that's one that mentions an ice bridge.
Also coal deposits in Antarctica point to a warm continent and if it was attached to Africa - monkeys. From there to S. America.
Posted by: Ciampino - we'll probably never know at April 15, 2024 02:51 AM (qfLjt)
https://tinyurl.com/2asw33df
A loathsome CVS store is polluting the vista. I apologize.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Heh
Posted by: The American Phallic Society "if it's taller than it is wide" at April 15, 2024 02:53 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 02:55 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 15, 2024 02:57 AM (Sgq8y)
Have not yet made Hoppin' John, so no suggestions.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 02:59 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
They compromised.
One fambly owned the mill, the other the road.
Posted by: Miklos has been on Quillen Street as well at April 15, 2024 02:59 AM (oGyF9)
DO NOT add green things to the Bog.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:01 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 15, 2024 03:01 AM (XYu4n)
Here are some photos of the Robert Quillen Office and Library, Fountain Inn, SC, which includes the Monument to Eve, the First Woman:
https://tinyurl.com/26unc6tu
The Monument to Eve, the First Woman was moved to its current location in 1973. I was just 6 years old then.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 03:02 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:03 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
Black eyed peas.
fatback or smoked jowls.
Rice.
Posted by: Miklos remebesrs the one legged waitress from IHOP at April 15, 2024 03:03 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 03:02 AM (w6EFb)
And I was accepted to college that year, youngster.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:04 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
I was thinking more like Ruth's Chris Steak House.
Posted by: Miklos requests an easement at this late hour at April 15, 2024 03:05 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2024 03:06 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
What does the Monument to Adam look like?
Posted by: Innocent Lil' Miklos (.) (.) at April 15, 2024 03:07 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:07 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Innocent Lil' Miklos (.) (.) at April 15, 2024 03:07 AM (oGyF9)
It's a big pothole out front. Our entire drive is a Monument to Adam.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 15, 2024 03:08 AM (Sgq8y)
*waves from the sidewalk*
Hi!
Posted by: JQ
Sidewalk!
City slickers.
Posted by: Miklos can be reached at BR-549 most days at April 15, 2024 03:08 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2024 03:08 AM (njWTi)
*hangs head in shame*
I don't got no sidewalk in my neighborhood neither. Didn't want to insult Her Grace by assuming she lived as lowly as myself...
Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2024 03:10 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
Not macadam, madame.
Posted by: Miklos can recite the alphabet backs, just like Officer Friendly insists at April 15, 2024 03:10 AM (oGyF9)
*waves from the sidewalk*
Hi!
Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2024 03:06 AM (njWTi)
Well, strictly speaking, it's mown weeds. Come on up to the porch and have some tea!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:11 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ
Jed!!!
Them neighbors got bacon AND beans!!!
Posted by: Granny Miklos-Clampett at April 15, 2024 03:12 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
They have a Verandah. And the whole proppity is crick-front.
Posted by: Miklos can only speculate what lives in that crick at April 15, 2024 03:14 AM (oGyF9)
Photo of Robert Quillen, in his dotage, at his Office and Library:
https://tinyurl.com/26otta8u
Note the green eye shade thing. His regular hat was on the desk.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 03:14 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:15 AM (w6EFb)
LOL, oh yeah, I hear ya on the "mown weeds"-- spent an hour just today, mowin' our own weedpatch.
Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2024 03:15 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Now that is just mean.
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Email me and you shall experience the delightful Chicken Bog!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:16 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
Bogge de Pouillet
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Posted by: Miklos is dashed! at April 15, 2024 03:22 AM (oGyF9)
Posted by: And they say Chivalry is dead at April 15, 2024 03:24 AM (oGyF9)
A page containing the Obituary of Robert Quillen:
https://tinyurl.com/29rswq2c
He departed this mortal coil on Dec. 9, 1948.
It ends as follows:
"As neighbors and friends were returning from the cemetery, Mr. T. H. McGee joined the widow to express his sympathy. 'It is a great loss,' he murmured. 'Yes,' she agreed absently, 'but it is fully covered by insurance'."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 03:31 AM (w6EFb)
Time sure flies!
Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2024 03:32 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:33 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2024 03:34 AM (njWTi)
Robert Quillen's full Name is give in Wiki as
Verni Robert Quillen.
In other place, such as that obit, it's given as "Robert Vern Quillen". Again, being not Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, I will attempt no explanation of this, other than to observe it and wonder.
Hey, Vern!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 03:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:37 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2024 03:37 AM (njWTi)
I shall always remember him as Robert Quillen, wikibedamned.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:39 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
I suspect that Somewhere, he is a mite pleased at this moment.
Posted by: the Unread Collected Works of Miklos at April 15, 2024 03:41 AM (oGyF9)
Fully covered, indeed.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:45 AM (w6EFb)
Opposite Cannon Collision Repair, is it not, Publius?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:51 AM (w6EFb)
'Tis 67 F., high humidity but almost no wind. Decent work out conditions.
Howzaboutchoo?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 15, 2024 03:53 AM (omVj0)
Yeah, that Cannon was a man of all trades. Mortician, collision repair, and PI. Drove a Lincoln Continental, in all trades he was participatin' in.
Yep, Verni Bon or Robert Vern died in NC, but he was interred right here in Ft. Inn.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 03:55 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:55 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 03:56 AM (w6EFb)
Glad you're getting good result w/the new 'stuff'
I may have to look into similar, as thc is a no-no in my state.
Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2024 03:58 AM (njWTi)
Glad you're getting good result w/the new 'stuff'
I may have to look into similar, as thc is a no-no in my state.
Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2024
***
Howdy, JQ,
Yes, this is the "isolate," as it's called. The fellow at the shop freely admitted that the stuff with the THC would produce a high, but I'd probably be asleep before it kicked in anyway. Still, I did not want that, just the sleepy part. A single 10 mg gummy Sat. night seemed to do nothing, but the 1.5 gummies last night maybe did.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 15, 2024 04:01 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: JQ at April 15, 2024 04:10 AM (njWTi)
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Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 15, 2024 04:11 AM (w6EFb)
I'm probably talkin' stuff I shouldn't be talkin', but in that stuff about Vern Bob or Bod Vern Quillen, you saw something about Cannon Funeral Home, and Memorial Park/whatever. Cannon is a big local name in the funerary bidness.
Long time readers of this here blog may recall some of my recountings of Ol' Red, an Okinawa Vet and truly the stuff of local legend. He was a hell raiser, and when he got back from WWII, he was even more of a hellraiser, until he found a good woman, and Jesus, not necessarily in that order.
Anyway, ol' Red had some tales about the "daughters of funeral directors" and their proclivities and "cold hands" which I won't recount because of decency.
Anyway, over the year, a number of folks joked with my Daddy about what was going to happen, "When Cannon gets you". That included a dentist, who had put some gold crowns in Daddy's mouth. Well, Daddy outlived that dentist, so it was moot.
When it was all said and done, Cannon didn't get my Daddy, it was another funeral home. Not that I have anything agin' Cannon, I just like the other better.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 15, 2024 04:13 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2024 05:18 AM (WXNFJ)
JQ, if you're here: Yes, though melatonin plus magnesium will do that okay. My concern was *staying* asleep for a decent amount of time. And despite an hour's nap yesterday p.m., I did get about six hours last night. The real test will be tonight after I've been up all day at work. Maybe only one 10mg dose, one gummy cube, will be enough.
This stuff costs about $1 per square, so I want to get my money's worth and not have to spend $50 a month.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 15, 2024 05:57 AM (omVj0)
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How the he'll did these guys beat us at the Alamo?
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