Saturday Overnight Open Thread (4/20/24)

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The Saturday Night Joke

An old hillbilly farmer had a wife who nagged him unmercifully. From morning till night (and sometimes later), she was always complaining about something. The only time he got any relief was when he was out plowing with his old mule. He tried to plow a lot.

One day, when he was out plowing, his wife brought him lunch in the field. He drove the old mule into the shade, sat down on a stump, and began to eat his lunch. Immediately, his wife began haranguing him again. Complain, nag, nag; it just went on and on. All of a sudden, the old mule lashed out with both hind feet; caught her smack in the back of the head. Killed her dead on the spot.

At the funeral several days later, the minister noticed something rather odd. When a woman mourner would approach the old farmer, he would listen for a minute, then nod his head in agreement; but when a man mourner approached him, he would listen for a minute, then shake his head in disagreement. This was so consistent, the minister decided to ask the old farmer about it.

Following the funeral, the clergyman approached the elderly farmer and inquired why he nodded in accord with the women but consistently shook his head in disagreement with the men.

The old farmer said: "Well, the women would come up and say something about how nice my wife looked, or how pretty her dress was, so I'd nod my head in agreement."

"And what about the men?" the minister asked.

"They wanted to know if the mule was for sale." (H/T Hadrian the Seventh)

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I don't think KT featured this in her Garden Thread.

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You are not a Lottery Winner. You are a criminal. And a Genius Award Winner to boot.

PENSCOLA, Florida (WSVN) -- A Walton County couple is facing felony charges after allegedly attempting to claim a million-dollar lottery prize, authorities reported.
Kira Ender and her boyfriend, Dakota Jones, were arrested after trying to pass off an altered $50 ticket as a real $1 million winner at a Florida Lottery office in Pensacola on March 1.

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Allman Bros. Emporium

RIP Dickie Betts

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Whew, big sigh of relief. Happy to see that Casa Misanthrope didn't make it to this list.

HIDDEN GEMS World’s most underrated tourist attractions revealed – an overlooked Gilded Age spot in the US makes the list
And the best view of Australia's Gold Coast

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NSFW-Language

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This makes no sense. Run 13 miles in an hour and all you get is the Genius Award

RUNNING AMOK Beijing half marathon runners who ‘slowed down to let Chinese runner win’ stripped of medals and bonuses
One runner claimed he was not at the race to compete

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Complete Self-Defense Training.

Notice: Posted with permission by someone at the HQ of the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:04 PM

Comments

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1 War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 20, 2024 10:05 PM (hOUT3)

2 Hi

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at April 20, 2024 10:05 PM (duT0u)

3 Finally

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 20, 2024 10:05 PM (ufFY8)

4 Yay, National Cold Brew Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 20, 2024 10:05 PM (dZVON)

5 Howdy

Posted by: GWB at April 20, 2024 10:05 PM (1zxQh)

6 Red meat for us tonight! Thanks, MisHum!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 20, 2024 10:06 PM (0eaVi)

7 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Complete Self-Defense Training.

To carry over from the music thread, they seem to be missing divorce attorneys.

Posted by: mikeski at April 20, 2024 10:06 PM (DgGvY)

8 Steak and a tribute.. well done MisHum.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 10:06 PM (iN/nt)

9 That picture at the top was my dinner Thursday night! Yum!

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 20, 2024 10:06 PM (rbKZ6)

10 Yeah, we are about the time when all the Dakotas are approaching middle age, huh.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:06 PM (di6C2)

11 Good evening horde. Have a good ONT. Thanks MisHum!

Posted by: TRex at April 20, 2024 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

12 To carry over from the music thread, they seem to be missing divorce attorneys.
Posted by: mikeski

No, wait, that's covered by the Saturday Night Joke.

Carry on.

Posted by: mikeski at April 20, 2024 10:08 PM (DgGvY)

13 I love that the paint store is on that list of self-defense training. I'm assuming they teach you knots, and how to calculate the arc of a full paint can when swung from a bannister?

Posted by: GWB at April 20, 2024 10:08 PM (1zxQh)

14 Sorry I'm late. I'll be blunt, I rolled out without directions and couldn't find the joint. I feel like a dope.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 20, 2024 10:08 PM (NISZH)

15 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 20, 2024 10:09 PM (WXNFJ)

16 I thought the punchline would have been

' mule turns to the farmer and says ' I was really tired of plowing'

Posted by: polynikes at April 20, 2024 10:09 PM (TDRQO)

17 Sorry I'm late. I'll be blunt, I rolled out without directions and couldn't find the joint. I feel like a dope.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 20

ISWYDT.

Posted by: mikeski at April 20, 2024 10:09 PM (DgGvY)

18 Evenin'

https://youtu.be/aqxywPYRCbI?si=tbnaH3KpYI_cJF2d

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 20, 2024 10:10 PM (aKh6S)

19 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Mis Hum!

Great Saturday Night joke too!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 20, 2024 10:10 PM (U3L4U)

20 Nice ONT, Mis Hum. Thank you.

Posted by: LRob in OK at April 20, 2024 10:11 PM (TSQkU)

21 This makes no sense. Run 13 miles in an hour and all you get is the Genius Award
RUNNING AMOK Beijing half marathon runners who �slowed down to let Chinese runner win� stripped of medals and bonuses
One runner claimed he was not at the race to compete

Then why show up? I agree with the commies here. Play or shut the hell up and stay home.

Competition means you want to beat the best, not have someone let you win like a child.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:12 PM (di6C2)

22 Good evening morons and thanks as always mh

Thanks for the laugh Hadrian and to Dickie Betts for the licks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2024 10:12 PM (RIvkX)

23
Got the estate mowed this afternoon. Busy morning as well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2024 10:12 PM (MoZTd)

24 Thanks for inviting us to your roast, Mis Hum!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 20, 2024 10:13 PM (DsA2n)

25 I wish they gave the ages of the lottery fraud couple in the article. I knew a girl in high school named Kira, but after 30 years I've forgotten her last name.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 20, 2024 10:13 PM (XjtdB)

26 HIDDEN GEMS World’s most underrated tourist attractions revealed
...
Irish National Stud and Gardens, Ireland

The Paolo, he does not think the pale men of Ireland are much competition.

Posted by: Paolo at April 20, 2024 10:14 PM (DgGvY)

27 That’s my steak,
that’s what I crave.
Everything I take,
everything I save,
is to buy that meat,
so you can watch me eat.
Cause that’s my steak.

Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2024 10:15 PM (NxC5+)

28 I have most of The Allman Brothers albums on CD now. I had bought a box set (remember those) years ago while stationed in the UK. Followed there careers at varous stages. Somewhere in there you will find a Dickey Betts duet with Don Johnson. It was done before Johnson's acting career took off. Late 70s-early 80s sometime.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 20, 2024 10:15 PM (aKh6S)

29 We need to see more of Gwengoolie. She appears to have a nice rack and booty.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 20, 2024 10:15 PM (ufFY8)

30 Ok, this is pretty frickin funny:

https://tinyurl.com/3mbpr7xf

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:15 PM (di6C2)

31 "trying to pass off an altered $50 ticket as a real $1 million winner..."

Bad enough to be bad at math & buy a lottery ticket. Really dumb to try to cheat at it.
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Good overnight, y'all. Glad to be here.

Posted by: mindful webworker - still around at April 20, 2024 10:16 PM (L6R40)

32 PPG used to be Pittsburgh Plate Glass company
I think they do ceramic coatings now, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 20, 2024 10:17 PM (D7oie)

33
In re top picture. Had a clearance bin steak from Kroger for dinner. Not terrible but not great.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2024 10:17 PM (MoZTd)

34 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:17 PM (9yWhg)

35 That's quite an enticing photo up top.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 20, 2024 10:17 PM (q2svT)

36
Good overnight, y'all. Glad to be here.
Posted by: mindful webworker - still around at April 20, 2024 10:16 PM (L6R40)

Good to see you on the blog today mindful.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at April 20, 2024 10:17 PM (QXQ4l)

37 32 PPG used to be Pittsburgh Plate Glass company
I think they do ceramic coatings now, too.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 20, 2024 10:17 PM (D7oie)

As of about 20 years ago they did. Buddy of mine from school went to work for them.

I have not heard from him for a while. Hmmmm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:18 PM (di6C2)

38 PPG used to be Pittsburgh Plate Glass company

Decent stock for me.
Held it for a long while.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 20, 2024 10:18 PM (ufFY8)

39 That steak looks so good!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at April 20, 2024 10:19 PM (PZo5T)

40 PPG used to be Pittsburgh Plate Glass company
I think they do ceramic coatings now, too.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 20, 2024 10:17 PM (D7oie)

I used to go to seminars in the PPG building in Pittsburgh. Downtown Pittsburgh wasn't too bad in the early 90's.

Posted by: polynikes at April 20, 2024 10:19 PM (TDRQO)

41
I have not heard from him for a while. Hmmmm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:18 PM (di6C2)

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What a pane.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2024 10:19 PM (MoZTd)

42 High Falls, with Dickie and Chuck Leavell alternating long leads, is my favorite Allman Bros Song.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 20, 2024 10:19 PM (DsA2n)

43 "trying to pass off an altered $50 ticket as a real $1 million winner..."

--

The state lottery will continue selling scratch offs after all of the winning scratch offs have been sold and it's impossible for anyone buying scratch offs to win.

I am indifferent to someone trying to scam the lottery system.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 10:19 PM (qQsNc)

44 23 Gotta mow my lawn. Feh.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:20 PM (9yWhg)

45 I've been cooking cheap steaks in the airfryer - set to bake as low as possible for around 8 min per side then airfry as high as possible for a couple of minutes.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 20, 2024 10:20 PM (q2svT)

46 41 I have not heard from him for a while. Hmmmm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:18 PM (di6C2)
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What a pane.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2024 10:19 PM
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Could probably see right through him.

Posted by: TRex at April 20, 2024 10:21 PM (IQ6Gq)

47 The state lottery will continue selling scratch offs after all of the winning scratch offs have been sold and it's impossible for anyone buying scratch offs to win.

I am indifferent to someone trying to scam the lottery system.
Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 10:19 PM (qQsNc)

That's why I don't buy scratch offs.

Posted by: polynikes at April 20, 2024 10:21 PM (TDRQO)

48 Pic up top = yum^nth

Hello Everyone!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 20, 2024 10:21 PM (QGaXH)

49 I am indifferent to someone trying to scam the lottery system.
Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 10:19 PM (qQsNc)

You don't scam the scammers!

Posted by: Your State Lottery Commission at April 20, 2024 10:21 PM (0eaVi)

50 have not heard from him for a while. Hmmmm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

What a pane.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Could probably see right through him.
Posted by: TRex

Probably cracked up.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 10:22 PM (iN/nt)

51 Remember gambling is bad bad bad...unless the government is running it.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 10:23 PM (ibTVg)

52 I have a joke. A caddy at a golf course in rural Nebraska took a women’s foursome out for a round of golf. An hour later he came back to the clubhouse all beaten and bloody. The manager asked what had happened. “Well,” he said, “One of them hit a vicious slice into a cow pasture across the road, right under one of the cows. We went over and I lifted the cow’s tail and said ‘Ma’am, does this look like one of yours?’”

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at April 20, 2024 10:23 PM (hsWtj)

53 45 I've been cooking cheap steaks in the airfryer - set to bake as low as possible for around 8 min per side then airfry as high as possible for a couple of minutes.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 20, 2024 10:20 PM (q2svT)

How tough?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at April 20, 2024 10:23 PM (QXQ4l)

54 29 We need to see more of Gwengoolie. She appears to have a nice rack and booty.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 20, 2024 10:15 PM (ufFY

Not on yet here on the left coast - but good to know when deciding evening viewing options.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 20, 2024 10:25 PM (QGaXH)

55 Isn’t anybody screening these window puns before they are posted?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:25 PM (9yWhg)

56 I planted part of my garden today. Still a touch early, but the lettuce and carrots can stand cooler weather.

One year I planted a bunch of carrot seed in a new garden site, and then spent time carefully thinning them back, more and more and more, and eventually figured out that I was caring for four rows of Queen Anne's Lace and probably pulled out all the little carrot seedlings.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 20, 2024 10:26 PM (D7oie)

57 We went over and I lifted the cow’s tail and said ‘Ma’am, does this look like one of yours?’”
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at April 20, 2024 10:23 PM (hsWtj)

Ha! That's funny... hey, haven't seen you on ALH lately? Novel coming along?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 20, 2024 10:26 PM (0eaVi)

58 Isn’t anybody screening these window puns before they are posted?

TBH the process isn't as transparent as you would think

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 10:26 PM (ibTVg)

59 Pulling up music for the prior thread has made a mess of my suggested, but this popped up. The brunette in this one is pretty smoking though...

https://tinyurl.com/yc6w7m4t

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:27 PM (di6C2)

60 The filet looks delicious but the top looks a little more well than the bottom.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2024 10:28 PM (RIvkX)

61 Pulling up music for the prior thread has made a mess of my suggested, but this popped up. The brunette in this one is pretty smoking though...

https://tinyurl.com/yc6w7m4t
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:27 PM (di6C2)

Not as smoking as I am right now.

Posted by: Max Azzarello at April 20, 2024 10:29 PM (0eaVi)

62 Isn’t anybody screening these window puns before they are posted?

TBH the process isn't as transparent as you would think
Posted by: 18-1

I say shutter the whole pun thread.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 20, 2024 10:29 PM (vJiyU)

63 I read a few years back of a mathematician who spotted a pattern in the exposed numbers of scratch off tickets that let him pick out the winning tickets from a pile of them. When he informed the state lottery officials that they had a problem, they told him they didn't care, they were in the business of selling lottery tickets, and didn't care who won or how often.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 20, 2024 10:29 PM (uqx1e)

64 Hey, Aetius.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:30 PM (9yWhg)

65 58 Isn’t anybody screening these window puns before they are posted?

TBH the process isn't as transparent as you would think
Posted by: 18-1 at April 20

Right! Especially when those tasked with doing it throw so much shade and then drape themselves in a cloak of altruism.

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

66 Pulling up music for the prior thread has made a mess of my suggested
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Go to

https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

and delete the ones you don't want used for suggestions.

Posted by: mikeski at April 20, 2024 10:30 PM (DgGvY)

67 Not as smoking as I am right now.
Posted by: Max Azzarello

Oooooo! Sick burn!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 20, 2024 10:30 PM (WXNFJ)

68 Hey Bulgar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:31 PM (di6C2)

69 Hey, Piper.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:31 PM (9yWhg)

70 I'm trying to place where I saw the Allman Brothers outdoors in the mid 70s. Thought it was the Englishtown Raceway Show in August 77 that the Dead, Marshall Tucker Band, and New Riders of the Purple Sage played, but looking it up, The Allman Brothers weren't mentioned. There were 125,000-175,000 people at that one.

Maybe it was at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City. Went to a couple big shows there.

Posted by: Confuzzled at April 20, 2024 10:31 PM (V5BDR)

71 58 Isn’t anybody screening these window puns before they are posted?

TBH the process isn't as transparent as you would think
Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 10:26 PM (ibTVg)

They 'crack' me up....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 20, 2024 10:31 PM (QGaXH)

72 Hola, Bulgaroctonus!

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

73 55 Isn’t anybody screening these window puns before they are posted?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:25 PM
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I would, but its late and I'm shattered.

Posted by: TRex at April 20, 2024 10:33 PM (IQ6Gq)

74 Reading between the lines of the half marathon story, looks to me like the 3 African runners were paid to throw the race, but they did it too obviously, so now the local government is embarrassed and blaming the foreign devils.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2024 10:33 PM (S6gqv)

75 Isn’t anybody screening these window puns before they are posted?

TBH the process isn't as transparent as you would think
Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 10:26 PM (ibTVg)

They 'crack' me up....

I guess whether they're funny or not depends on your frame of reference.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 20, 2024 10:33 PM (dZVON)

76 Go to

https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

and delete the ones you don't want used for suggestions.
Posted by: mikeski at April 20, 2024 10:30 PM (DgGvY)

Meh. No sign in, so it is going off history for this IP I'd guess. Thanks though.

In any event, it'll smooth out on it's own. Cheesy pop music is better than the run of nazi executions it went on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:33 PM (di6C2)

77 Who knew that windows would be such a portal to pundom?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:34 PM (di6C2)

78 I saw the Dead at Oxford Speedway in 87. Gorged on Maine lobster.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2024 10:34 PM (RIvkX)

79 These puns suck caulk.

Posted by: polynikes at April 20, 2024 10:35 PM (TDRQO)

80 65 58 Isn’t anybody screening these window puns before they are posted?

TBH the process isn't as transparent as you would think
Posted by: 18-1 at April 20

Right! Especially when those tasked with doing it throw so much shade and then drape themselves in a cloak of altruism.
Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

Glazing bright futures I see.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at April 20, 2024 10:36 PM (QXQ4l)

81 75 I guess whether they're funny or not depends on your frame of reference.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 20, 2024 10:33 PM
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What if you're frameless?

Posted by: TRex at April 20, 2024 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

82 62 Isn’t anybody screening these window puns before they are posted?

TBH the process isn't as transparent as you would think
Posted by: 18-1

I say shutter the whole pun thread.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 20, 2024 10:29 PM (vJiyU)

Open up the window

Let some air into the room

I'm almost choking from the smell of stale perfume

Mama told me not to come (two meanings?)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 20, 2024 10:36 PM (QGaXH)

83 79 These puns suck caulk.
Posted by: polynikes at April 20, 2024 10:35 PM (TDRQO)

They pane me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:36 PM (di6C2)

84 Reading between the lines of the half marathon story, looks to me like the 3 African runners were paid to throw the race, but they did it too obviously, so now the local government is embarrassed and blaming the foreign devils.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2024 10:33 PM (S6gqv)

They were paid by a race sponsor to be pace runners for the winner.

Posted by: polynikes at April 20, 2024 10:37 PM (TDRQO)

85 I saw the Dead at Oxford Speedway in 87. Gorged on Maine lobster.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I'll wear my "fishing with the dead" shirt to Texas.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 20, 2024 10:38 PM (vJiyU)

86 But the music suggestions are not all bad, just sappy.

https://tinyurl.com/yrj6thzv

and one for Dr Bone.

https://tinyurl.com/362tyw7u

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:38 PM (di6C2)

87 81 What if you’re frameless?

Well, it depends on how you definestrate your terms.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:39 PM (9yWhg)

88 They were paid by a race sponsor to be pace runners for the winner.
Posted by: polynikes

So, a death penalty case then.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 20, 2024 10:40 PM (vJiyU)

89 Isn’t anybody screening these window puns before they are posted?

TBH the process isn't as transparent as you would think
Posted by: 18-1

I say shutter the whole pun thread.
Posted by: Some Rat
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It's a real caulk up.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 10:40 PM (vtyCZ)

90 In re top picture. Had a clearance bin steak from Kroger for dinner. Not terrible but not great.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

One of the stores I go to has two grades of beef. I can't remember what is on the USDA stickers, but the sticker for the higher quality grade is silvery. The higher quality beef is quite a bit more expensive than the lower quality beef. If I decide I want a steak, it's worth the extra money to get the better one.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 20, 2024 10:40 PM (0Htd1)

91 Glassholes beat me to it.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 10:41 PM (vtyCZ)

92 Somebody said ' The eyes are the windows to the soul'.

Too d*** lazy to look up who....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 20, 2024 10:41 PM (QGaXH)

93 One of the stores I go to has two grades of beef. I can't remember what is on the USDA stickers, but the sticker for the higher quality grade is silvery. The higher quality beef is quite a bit more expensive than the lower quality beef. If I decide I want a steak, it's worth the extra money to get the better one.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Select
Choice
Prime

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 10:42 PM (iN/nt)

94 I saw The Allman Brothers in the Mid 90s, touring for 'Where It All Begins' album. Saw them at the Hillsborough County Fair Grounds in Tampa. Great show. About 3+ hours long. Got my money's worth.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 20, 2024 10:43 PM (aKh6S)

95 Only 35 minutes in to 1:26 minute tribute-choice concert.
Thanks again MisHum

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 10:43 PM (iN/nt)

96 45 I've been cooking cheap steaks in the airfryer - set to bake as low as possible for around 8 min per side then airfry as high as possible for a couple of minutes.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

Does that work well? I have an airfryer. It is that big thing sitting on my counter that I haven't used in about a year.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 20, 2024 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

97 Gonna have to sign off and go get takey- outie so good nite for now...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 20, 2024 10:43 PM (QGaXH)

98 Hiya

Posted by: JT at April 20, 2024 10:44 PM (T4tVD)

99 Select
Choice
Prime
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 10:42 PM (iN/nt)
===
This was a question on my Home Ec final in 1977.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2024 10:44 PM (RIvkX)

100 95 Only 35 minutes in to 1:26 minute tribute-choice concert.
Thanks again MisHum
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

🎶🎵AND SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH🎵🎶

Oh wait, that was a different thing.

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 10:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

101 This was a question on my Home Ec final in 1977.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Get off my lawn.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 10:46 PM (iN/nt)

102 99 This was a question on my Home Ec final in 1977.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2024 10:44 PM (RIvkX)

High School I assume?

I was bicentennial class of '76.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 20, 2024 10:46 PM (QGaXH)

103 Hi JT!

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 10:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

104 eventually figured out that I was caring for four rows of Queen Anne's Lace and probably pulled out all the little carrot seedlings.
Posted by: Kindltot

Oh, well. Queen Anne's Lace makes a nice addition to bouquets.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 20, 2024 10:47 PM (0Htd1)

105
I was bicentennial class of '76.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

You too!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 10:47 PM (iN/nt)

106 I made green spaghetti sauce in my home every class in middle school. Too much oregano.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:47 PM (9yWhg)

107 Don't a lot of races have a "rabbit" whose job it is to set a really fast pace. Then they always drop back/out. I thought it was common practice.

Posted by: Adibas Grand Champion at April 20, 2024 10:48 PM (V5BDR)

108 I'm signing off for the night. Need to get out before the window puns get into flashing and single hung v. double hung. See y'all tomorrow. Thanks again to those who stopped by the hobby thread earlier this evening.

Posted by: TRex at April 20, 2024 10:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

109 One of my favorite King of the Hill episodes was when Bobby was on the community college's beef evaluation team .

Posted by: polynikes at April 20, 2024 10:49 PM (TDRQO)

110 100 The honesty of that post is too much for me.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:49 PM (9yWhg)

111 There's a cute doggeh on Fox News right now!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 10:49 PM (vtyCZ)

112 57 OrangeEnt, I found out my 1st publisher was not really a publisher but a place that helps an author self-publish. I’m looking for a publisher. I need to edit it some more and send it out again. Thanks for asking. Will check out ALH also.

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at April 20, 2024 10:49 PM (hsWtj)

113 War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 20, 2024 10:05 PM (hOUT3)

Smart guy ol Benny was.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 10:50 PM (W/lyH)

114 One of my favorite King of the Hill episodes was when Bobby was on the community college's beef evaluation team .
Posted by: polynikes

That was a pretty good one.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 20, 2024 10:50 PM (vJiyU)

115 110 100 The honesty of that post is too much for me.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April

I probably should close my eyes and hide for bringing it back up.

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 10:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

116 Oh. Cesar Milan is a guest on the show.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 10:50 PM (vtyCZ)

117 Between Home Ec, lunch, French club, Spanish club, study hall, cutting class, raiding every refrigerator in a 5 mile radius my last year in high school was 85% eating.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2024 10:50 PM (RIvkX)

118 Sorry. Millan.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 10:51 PM (vtyCZ)

119 Star Trek’s up soon.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:52 PM (9yWhg)

120 Somebody said ' The eyes are the windows to the soul'.

Too d*** lazy to look up who....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 20, 2024 10:41 PM (QGaXH)

The guy on First ?

Posted by: JT at April 20, 2024 10:52 PM (T4tVD)

121 Bixby.
--Dog--

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 10:52 PM (vtyCZ)

122 Hiya Piper !

Posted by: JT at April 20, 2024 10:53 PM (T4tVD)

123 Somebody said ' The eyes are the windows to the soul'.
--------
Thomas Paine???

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 10:53 PM (vtyCZ)

124 Great joke

Posted by: Talachulitna at April 20, 2024 10:54 PM (jwcve)

125 Select
Choice
Prime
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

I think the one I get is Choice. I don't think they carry Prime.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 20, 2024 10:54 PM (0Htd1)

126
The guy on First ?
Posted by: JT

Who?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 10:54 PM (iN/nt)

127 I think the one I get is Choice. I don't think they carry Prime.
Posted by: nerdygirl

As CBD advises, always look at the steaks because sometimes you find a really well marbled choice that probably should have been prime.
Or select that might be a choice...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 10:56 PM (iN/nt)

128 Oh, the pane, the pane...

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 10:57 PM (9Uomk)

129 I don’t have a beef with the grade of steak they sell.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:58 PM (9yWhg)

130 Oh, the pane, the pane...
Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 10:57 PM (9Uomk)

It has stained the thread.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 10:59 PM (W/lyH)

131 I don’t have a beef with the grade of steak they sell.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

They wouldn't steer you wrong.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 20, 2024 10:59 PM (WXNFJ)

132 129 I don’t have a beef with the grade of steak they sell.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:58 PM (9yWhg)

The horde’s ability to turn anything into a pun thread is rare talent indeed.

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 11:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

133 Notice: Posted with permission by someone at the HQ of the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC.

Not me, or else there would have been a comma after Empire.

Posted by: Assistant Associate AoSHQ Copy Editor, Punctuation Brigade, Oxford Comma Company at April 20, 2024 11:00 PM (a3Q+t)

134 I don’t have a beef with the grade of steak they sell.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:58 PM (9yWhg)

The horde’s ability to turn anything into a pun thread is rare talent indeed.
Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 11:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

It only takes one to start a stampede of puns.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 11:01 PM (W/lyH)

135 Whoops, I see "pane" has been used already. Should have checked closer, but there were Rheims and Rheims of comments to go through.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 11:02 PM (9Uomk)

136 I don’t have a beef with the grade of steak they sell.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:58 PM (9yWhg)

The horde’s ability to turn anything into a pun thread is rare talent indeed.
Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 11:00 PM

Are you saying we've lost so many that we're no longer well-marbled?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 20, 2024 11:02 PM (a3Q+t)

137 Awww, Chartres....

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 11:03 PM (9Uomk)

138 Someone needs to drink all my booze for me. Today's funeral of my sister-in-law's mother was hard. When the pastor and my parents all started breaking down, I (the pregnant lady) had no chance at stopping the tears. My brother had to physically hold up his wife and daughters. Poor JT The Wonder Dog was working overtime both at the visitation and the funeral.

We thought we had more time to say goodbye. Hug your loved ones as much as you can.

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to make up the hydration at April 20, 2024 11:03 PM (dtlDP)

139 42

Chuck Leavell! My all-time favorite keyboardist!
RIP Dickey Betts.
Only one original ABB member left; 'Jamoe' Johanson (drummer).

Good grief...Keith Richard's is goingto outlive EVERYONE, isn't he?!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 20, 2024 11:04 PM (XvPG9)

140 Night - night.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 20, 2024 11:05 PM (LSgdX)

141 You morons are awesome and funny. Besides the boss, this is why I keep coming back.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2024 11:05 PM (pDQ/8)

142 Are you saying we've lost so many that we're no longer well-marbled?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

More like we're on the horns of a dilemma.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 20, 2024 11:06 PM (vJiyU)

143 It only takes one to start a stampede of puns.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 11:01 PM (W/lyH

Who will steer us in the right direction?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 20, 2024 11:07 PM (R4t5M)

144 OrangeEnt, I found out my 1st publisher was not really a publisher but a place that helps an author self-publish. I’m looking for a publisher. I need to edit it some more and send it out again. Thanks for asking. Will check out ALH also.
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at April 20, 2024 10:49 PM (hsWtj)

There's a post about avoiding fake publishers. Might be by Sabrina Chase. Can't remember offhand, but it's there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 20, 2024 11:07 PM (0eaVi)

145 Are you saying we've lost so many that we're no longer well-marbled?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

More like we're on the horns of a dilemma.
Posted by: Some Rat

As long as we aren’t mounted on the front of a long classic Cadillac.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 20, 2024 11:07 PM (VNX3d)

146 Poor JT The Wonder Dog was working overtime both at the visitation and the funeral.

We thought we had more time to say goodbye. Hug your loved ones as much as you can.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to make up the hydration
Your funeral home has a dog too? There is a funeral home in my area that has a Sheltie. It's wonderful at the visitations.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 20, 2024 11:08 PM (0Htd1)

147 May her memory be a blessing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2024 11:08 PM (RIvkX)

148 Good grief...Keith Richard's is goingto outlive EVERYONE, isn't he?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Must have been a hell of deal he cut with the devil.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 20, 2024 11:08 PM (vJiyU)

149 Are you saying we've lost so many that we're no longer well-marbled?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

More like we're on the horns of a dilemma.
Posted by: Some Rat

It's like when I heard that my psychic advisor had passed away. I felt that I had lost a medium rare in a world of high stakes.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 11:09 PM (9Uomk)

150 Last night was 4/20 Eve. I hope you left out brownies and milk for Willie Nelson.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 20, 2024 11:09 PM (a3Q+t)

151
As long as we aren’t mounted on the front of a long classic Cadillac.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Really glad you continued after 'mounted'...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 11:09 PM (iN/nt)

152 Good grief...Keith Richard's is goingto outlive EVERYONE, isn't he?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie

I AM BECOME DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS!!!

Posted by: Keith Richards at April 20, 2024 11:09 PM (aKh6S)

153 Hug your loved ones as much as you can.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to make up the hydration

And hugs to you. Sorry for your family's loss.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 20, 2024 11:10 PM (0Htd1)

154 I don’t have a beef with the grade of steak they sell.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:58 PM (9yWhg)

I do. Really does a number on my angus.

Posted by: Average Guy at April 20, 2024 11:10 PM (lPHZZ)

155 Nite all.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 11:11 PM (iN/nt)

156 >>> Somebody said ' The eyes are the windows to the soul'.
Too d*** lazy to look up who....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 20, 2024 10:41 PM (QGaXH)

"The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth" unrelated but a weird little short story.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 20, 2024 11:12 PM (Y6IkP)

157 It's like when I heard that my psychic advisor had passed away. I felt that I had lost a medium rare in a world of high stakes.
Posted by: John Drake

Now that one took some doing.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 20, 2024 11:12 PM (0Htd1)

158 150 Last night was 4/20 Eve. I hope you left out brownies and milk for Willie Nelson.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April

Today is J’s birthday.

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 11:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

159 "The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth" unrelated but a weird little short story.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 20, 2024 11:12 PM (Y6IkP)

I think the title was Zelazny spoofing on Aldous Huxley, but I was never sure about the story content. It was about fishing for a behemoth.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 20, 2024 11:14 PM (D7oie)

160 It's like when I heard that my psychic advisor had passed away. I felt that I had lost a medium rare in a world of high stakes.
Posted by: John Drake

Now that one took some doing.
Posted by: nerdygirl

I believe you meant it was well done.

Posted by: mikeski at April 20, 2024 11:14 PM (DgGvY)

161 Who will steer us in the right direction?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 20, 2024 11:07 PM (R4t5M)
-

Well, I remember watching the Lion King for the first time, thinking that no gnus is good gnus.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2024 11:14 PM (YKpDD)

162 As long as we aren’t mounted on the front of a long classic Cadillac.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

My son and his friends after graduation drove from Seattle to Philly in a 1981 Mazda CGL (?) Station Wagon....with steer horns mounted on the hood. Near Sturgis they were passed by the "Banditos MC" whom all gave them a thumbs up!

Posted by: Some Rat at April 20, 2024 11:14 PM (vJiyU)

163 And then there's Saturday right there.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 20, 2024 11:15 PM (CHHv1)

164 Night - night.
---------
I once commented, "Night night, night nurse" when night nurse said she was leaving for the night, and someone went ape-shit about me saying that. Long time ago.

Even funnier to me was that I was quoting one of the Carry On films set in a hospital!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 11:15 PM (vtyCZ)

165 Your funeral home has a dog too? There is a funeral home in my area that has a Sheltie. It's wonderful at the visitations.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 20, 2024 11:08 PM (0Htd1)

Heh, no. JT is my husband's service dog. We were in line for over an hour last night for the visitation, and he tried to comfort everyone (including the widower, who was grateful for it). Even my brother, who is mildly allergic to dogs, got some pets in.

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to make up the hydration at April 20, 2024 11:15 PM (dtlDP)

166 Hug your loved ones as much as you can.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to make up the hydration

I am so sorry. Losing your mama is so hard. Many hugs and prayers for your family.

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 11:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

167 154 I don’t have a beef with the grade of steak they sell.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2024 10:58 PM (9yWhg)

---------

Better just to skirt the issue entirely.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 20, 2024 11:16 PM (bo7UB)

168 Eating raw meat leads to early onset dementia.
That's what I think.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 20, 2024 11:16 PM (ABAnI)

169 Hugs and prayers to those who alas need hugs and prayers.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 20, 2024 11:17 PM (CHHv1)

170 War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

As an interesting caveat the left tells me endlessly thinking for myself is bad. If I'd just let the right credentialed people decide on literally everything for me my life would be so much better...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:18 PM (ibTVg)

171 169 Hugs and prayers to those who alas need hugs and prayers.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 20, 2024 11:17 PM (CHHv1)

I think that is all of us for differing reasons.

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 11:18 PM (ZdaMQ)

172 sorry meant addendum not caveat

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:19 PM (ibTVg)

173 It's like when I heard that my psychic advisor had passed away. I felt that I had lost a medium rare in a world of high stakes.
Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 11:09 PM (9Uomk)

Well played!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 11:19 PM (W/lyH)

174 Hug your loved ones as much as you can.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to make up the hydration

This must be stated often.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 20, 2024 11:20 PM (vJiyU)

175 BC, Robert looked very regal on the pet thread today

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2024 11:20 PM (RIvkX)

176 >> lost a medium rare in a world of high stakes.

That gets an "A" for effort. Of course DEI grading may have to reduce that to 'C'.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 20, 2024 11:20 PM (w6EFb)

177 Does that work well? I have an airfryer. It is that big thing sitting on my counter that I haven't used in about a year.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Decent job on a weeknight imo - no mess or smoke alarms going off. Bit of trial and error - some of the first attempts were sadly overcooked.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 20, 2024 11:21 PM (Ka3bZ)

178 Evening everyone, thx MisHum. Said it before but the Allman Brothers were the first concert I went to. 1977 o believe at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center and n Poughkeepsie. Been a fan ever since, and have seen them four other times. RIP Dicky

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 20, 2024 11:22 PM (Wjvnb)

179 I am so sorry. Losing your mama is so hard. Many hugs and prayers for your family.

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 11:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

My sister-in-law, despite the distance, was tight with her mom. We're all worried about her the most out of the four kids. Fortunately my brother is strong and her daughters are just as close to her as she was with her mom. Their son is pretty young and clueless.... just like Pookette, which is why they get along so well. Ah, shared genetics!

Posted by: pookysgirl is used to seeing weird traits in the gene pool at April 20, 2024 11:23 PM (dtlDP)

180 Then why show up? I agree with the commies here. Play or shut the hell up and stay home.

Competition means you want to beat the best, not have someone let you win like a child.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 10:12 PM (di6C2)

And just how does that jive with the Communist beliefs?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 20, 2024 11:23 PM (xaFKb)

181 It those darn guns again just going off by themselves...

@BNONews 8m
BREAKING: Police confirm 16 people shot, at least 2 killed, at Memphis block party

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 20, 2024 11:24 PM (IG4Id)

182 175 BC, Robert looked very regal on the pet thread today
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Agreed. You have a fine looking kittuh, BC. My sister had a cat that looked like that.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 20, 2024 11:24 PM (aKh6S)

183 As an interesting caveat the left tells me endlessly thinking for myself is bad. If I'd just let the right credentialed people decide on literally everything for me my life would be so much better...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:18 PM (ibTVg)

And yet, the very idea of a democracy, rests on the idea that people can make up their own minds, and make good decisions...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 20, 2024 11:24 PM (xaFKb)

184 Decent job on a weeknight imo - no mess or smoke alarms going off. Bit of trial and error - some of the first attempts were sadly overcooked.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 20, 2024 11:21 PM (Ka3bZ)

Got one a couple of weeks ago. You have to cut the time on everything, even what the food package says for air fryers.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 20, 2024 11:25 PM (0eaVi)

185 I don’t have a beef with the grade of steak they sell.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
---------
Better just to skirt the issue entirely.
Posted by: Cicero
====
That's a good tip.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 11:25 PM (vtyCZ)

186 And just how does that jive with the Communist beliefs?
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 20, 2024 11:23 PM (xaFKb)

The reason I would be pissed off might not be the same reason they are pissed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 11:25 PM (di6C2)

187 179 My sister-in-law, despite the distance, was tight with her mom. We're all worried about her the most out of the four kids. Fortunately my brother is strong and her daughters are just as close to her as she was with her mom. Their son is pretty young and clueless.... just like Pookette, which is why they get along so well. Ah, shared genetics!
Posted by: pookysgirl is

I lost my mom last year and the hole in my heart remains. I still have times where something funny happens and I want to call my mom. I don’t think it gets easier, but I do think you transition to warm memories versus just hurting.

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

188 Well, Genghis Khan got really riled up when one of his envoys was impaled by the monarch he was visiting. Sent his whole Horde after them.

The man was not a fan of staked Tartar.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 11:27 PM (9Uomk)

189 War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

As an interesting caveat the left tells me endlessly thinking for myself is bad. If I'd just let the right credentialed people decide on literally everything for me my life would be so much better...
Posted by: 18-1

The mind works in mysterious ways. It was said well by Col. Hogan.

https://youtu.be/RaivxysqDGQ?t=100

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 20, 2024 11:28 PM (VNX3d)

190 Aetius451AD #86: But the music suggestions are not all bad, just sappy.

https://tinyurl.com/yrj6thzv....

Croce's Time in a Bottle always so heart-wrenching. For MiladyJo and me both. As the decades pass, it only gets dearer to us. Come October, if we make it, she & I will have been together for fifty years. So many ways & times we could have been broken, yet we're closer than ever. But there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them.

Another song she introduced me to our first year together that similarly evokes the long passage of our time together is Steve Goodman's Dutchman.

https://youtu.be/BPAM5uEOuGE
❣️
And with that, time for sleep.

💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - every day a blessing at April 20, 2024 11:28 PM (L6R40)

191 News chyron here for, "Young brother and sister died, 15 people injured after vehicle crashed into a birthday party in a town south of Detroit."

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 11:29 PM (vtyCZ)

192 Night mw.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 11:29 PM (di6C2)

193 I don’t have a beef with the grade of steak they sell.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
---------
Better just to skirt the issue entirely.
Posted by: Cicero
====
That's a good tip.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 11:25 PM (vtyCZ)
***

Chuck these puns up to the Horde at it's best.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 11:29 PM (W/lyH)

194 >>>
@BNONews 8m
BREAKING: Police confirm 16 people shot, at least 2 killed, at Memphis block party

Posted by: weft cut-loop a
------------------

There was a stabbing on a Brooklyn dinner ship. Four people, two to the hospital. Witnesses say it was raucous. Rowdy people from the beginning of the trip.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 20, 2024 11:30 PM (ABAnI)

195 I lost my mom last year and the hole in my heart remains. I still have times where something funny happens and I want to call my mom. I don’t think it gets easier, but I do think you transition to warm memories versus just hurting.
Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

I lost my mom 20 years ago this month. I still miss her.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 20, 2024 11:31 PM (D7oie)

196 There was a stabbing on a Brooklyn dinner ship. Four people, two to the hospital. Witnesses say it was raucous. Rowdy people from the beginning of the trip.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 20, 2024 11:30 PM (ABAnI)

Those scamps.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 11:31 PM (di6C2)

197 Chuck these puns up to the Horde at it's best.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Flanks alot, Diogenes.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 11:31 PM (vtyCZ)

198 I lost my mom last year and the hole in my heart remains. I still have times where something funny happens and I want to call my mom. I don’t think it gets easier, but I do think you transition to warm memories versus just hurting.
Posted by: Piper

Dad passed more than 15 years ago and STILL I'll be stumped by something and think "I'll call dad, he'll know."

Posted by: Some Rat at April 20, 2024 11:32 PM (vJiyU)

199 A pun stripper might put a stake into about a third of the comments some nights. It would ground round the meatiest comments.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 20, 2024 11:32 PM (VNX3d)

200 Chuck these puns up to the Horde at it's best.
Posted by: Diogenes
-------
Flanks alot, Diogenes.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 11:31 PM (vtyCZ)

Yes. Shank you very much.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 20, 2024 11:33 PM (R4t5M)

201 A pun stripper might put a stake into about a third of the comments some nights. It would ground round the meatiest comments.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Maybe a stripper from the Tenderloin District?

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 11:34 PM (9Uomk)

202 Northern Minnesota or Northern Wisconsin community college graduate?

https://tinyurl.com/2bjxru9p

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 20, 2024 11:34 PM (+zECz)

203 Chuck these puns up to the Horde at it's best.
Posted by: Diogenes
-------
Flanks alot, Diogenes.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 11:31 PM (vtyCZ)

Yes. Shank you very much.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

You people are the rarest of friends! Well done!

Posted by: Some Rat at April 20, 2024 11:35 PM (vJiyU)

204 Cutting humour is the best humour.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 20, 2024 11:36 PM (vtyCZ)

205 @RandPaul Ukrainian flags fly in the chamber of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives as they vote to send more of your hard-earned money to a corrupt foreign regime. And just like that they shout “UKRAINE! UKRAINE!” while happily working to secure Ukraine’s borders, not ours.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 20, 2024 11:37 PM (ABAnI)

206 Cutting humour is the best humour.
Posted by: andycanuck

Especially when it goes against the grain.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 11:38 PM (9Uomk)

207 Ukrainian flags fly in the chamber of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives as they vote to send more of your hard-earned money to a corrupt foreign regime. And just like that they shout “UKRAINE! UKRAINE!” while happily working to secure Ukraine’s borders, not ours.

Those underage hookers, sorry, refugees, aren't going to pay for themselves you know...

Posted by: Most of the rest of congress at April 20, 2024 11:40 PM (ibTVg)

208 205 @RandPaul Ukrainian flags fly in the chamber of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives as they vote to send more of your hard-earned money to a corrupt foreign regime. And just like that they shout “UKRAINE! UKRAINE!” while happily working to secure Ukraine’s borders, not ours.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 20, 2024 11:37 PM (ABAnI)

Well, he's not wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 11:40 PM (di6C2)

209 198…think "I'll call dad, he'll know."
Posted by: Some Rat at April

195 I lost my mom 20 years ago this month. I still miss her.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 20, 2024 11:31 PM (D7oie)

I raise my glass, even though it’s only water, to our parents. We were lucky, you know. Not everyone gets blessed with great parents who loved them like ours did.

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 11:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

210 RIP Dickie.

Not something you see much in a lifetime.

One of the greatest and most dedicated.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2024 11:43 PM (pDQ/8)

211 Even though I don’t have to get up early, I am going to bed anyway. Have a great evening!

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 11:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

212 When I was attending a community college in northern Minnesota back in the day, I had a classmate who was about 6'4", 275 lbs, neither fat nor fit. He dressed like a farmer, a diesel mechanic, or a logger. He possessed three great talents in life. He ran a moonshine still, was a first rate diesel mechanic and played French horn like a son of a bitch. It's people like this that fill my Hall of Fame.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 20, 2024 11:45 PM (+zECz)

213 The British hanged me for window puns and treason, but mostly treason. And maybe the sodomy, too.

Posted by: zombie Roger Casement at April 20, 2024 11:46 PM (tkR6S)

214 MEMPHIS, Tenn.– Memphis has been ranked as the most dangerous city in the United States, according to a 24/7 Wall St. study using FBI statistics.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 20, 2024 11:50 PM (XeU6L)

215 214 MEMPHIS, Tenn.– Memphis has been ranked as the most dangerous city in the United States, according to a 24/7 Wall St. study using FBI statistics.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 20, 2024 11:50 PM (XeU6L)

Huh. Baltimore? Chicago? Gary?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2024 11:55 PM (di6C2)

216
I've got a 3HP compressor motor, single phase, CSCR (capacitor start, capacitor run). It blew the time delay fuse on start.

Long story, I've got two compressors, in tandem (it's fun to try to sync pressure switches. You can do it where they'll come on at the same time, but not cut off at the same pressure. At then, at one ambient temperature. :-) I thought about rigging something with one switch to turn both on, but too much candy for a nickel, safety wise stuff).

Anyway, sucker came on, then turned off. Next start attempt, it blew the time delay. I replaced that fuse with one I had left. Promptly blew it. And on the same side.

I'm just arm chair debugging. Got my cheap meter. No short to ground, and winding resistance seems normal. I'm thinking a capacitor or centrifugal switch problem. There was a slight chirp, mechanical sounding last few times I heard it run.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 20, 2024 11:56 PM (w6EFb)

217 We are saving Our Democrats!

I mean Democracy!

Posted by: Speaker MAGA Mike at April 20, 2024 11:57 PM (XG+Ue)

218
Huh. Baltimore? Chicago? Gary?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Never underestimate the ability of Democrats to destroy a community. BTW, you left out E. St. Louis.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 20, 2024 11:58 PM (XeU6L)

219
They don't make this exact motor any more, I see. I'd replaced it many moons ago, a Dayton from Grainger. They don't make this model any more.

I was looking at new motor prices and nearly had a heart attack. Also, the damned federal efficiency regulations are ridiculous, and the "light duty compressor motors" they do have look like cheap shit that will give all sorts of trouble.

Spend a grand for a heavy duty motor for that class, and then the frame size would be a problem. So, I'm gonna fix this one, if I can.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 20, 2024 11:58 PM (w6EFb)

220 The Honda Trail 125 motorcycle I ordered a couple weeks ago still hasn't arrived. I need an intervention.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 21, 2024 12:00 AM (+zECz)

221 178

Yep.Allmans were, and still are my all time favorite band. Saw them countless times in the 70s, even taking the train to Boston by myself when none of my friends could make it.

Guess I'll get to lurking now...throw on some Allman music...
Good night all.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 21, 2024 12:01 AM (XvPG9)

222 Publius - Are you confident that the compressor itself isn't overloading the motor?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 21, 2024 12:02 AM (XeU6L)

223 >> Are you confident that the compressor itself isn't overloading the motor?

Yep, it's a start problem. No torque. Want even try to turn. Brief hum and blows the time delay element. IOW, sustained heavy current with no torque.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 12:04 AM (w6EFb)

224 Spend a grand for a heavy duty motor for that class, and then the frame size would be a problem. So, I'm gonna fix this one, if I can.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 20, 2024 11:58 PM (w6EFb)

Do you have a multimeter with a capacitance function? Take the capacitors out, and see if they measure close to nominal value. Within 20% should be OK.

If the start cap and run cap are the same, try swapping them, and see what happens.

Posted by: zombie Roger Casement at April 21, 2024 12:05 AM (tkR6S)

225
I'll be checking out the motor maybe Monday or so. Again, there is winding resistance, and it agrees with the working other motor for the other, twin compressor.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 12:06 AM (w6EFb)

226 off, icky sock

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2024 12:06 AM (tkR6S)

227 The rakshasa episode of Kolchak is on MeTV.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 21, 2024 12:07 AM (9yWhg)

228 Trex,

Left you a comment on Wednesday night, iirc. Was in relation to your comment about having lunch with jay leno. Are you in ri or la? Had lunch with Donald Osborne in ri at the home of a mutual friend and was wondering you are in the neighborhood…

Posted by: Slash Buzz at April 21, 2024 12:07 AM (qVs5k)

229 Moronrovia is the Capital City of Punsylvania.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 21, 2024 12:07 AM (e6UQI)

230 Are you confident that the compressor itself isn't overloading the motor?

Yep, it's a start problem. No torque. Want even try to turn. Brief hum and blows the time delay element. IOW, sustained heavy current with no torque.
Posted by: publius
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Yeah, start/run cap is a good guess.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 21, 2024 12:07 AM (XeU6L)

231
First thing I'll do is see what the motor does no load. Will it try to turn then without the compressor starting load (and yes, the compressor pump turns freely by hand, no problem there).

Such a motor will try to start, no load, and may even do it with just the run capacitor working. That chirping sound makes me think there may be a fault with the centrifugal switch, maybe shorting something out.

That switch opens up the start capacitor once the motors gets to a certain RPM.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 12:09 AM (w6EFb)

232 >> If the start cap and run cap are the same, try swapping them, and see what happens.

On this class of motor, the start and run capacitors are very different. The run capacitor leaves the start winding in the circuit, but with low current. It improves efficiency and stuff.

The start capacitor is much larger, and lets much more current flow for starting torque in the start winding (you've got to induce a phase shift for a single phase to have starting torque).

The start capacitors are short term, electrolytic designs. Large capacitance, but they can't stand continuous operation without overheating.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 12:12 AM (w6EFb)

233 That switch opens up the start capacitor once the motors gets to a certain RPM.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 12:09 AM (w6EFb)

I have had motors where the start capacitor or start winding went bad, but they would still run fine if you spun them up by hand before kicking in the juice. OK for a bench grinder; compressor, not so much.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2024 12:13 AM (tkR6S)

234 BNONews 8m
BREAKING: Police confirm 16 people shot, at least 2 killed, at Memphis block party

Posted by: weft cut-loop a
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Just adding to the percentage to the demographic responsible for the most mass shootings. And it ain't white males.

Posted by: polynikes at April 21, 2024 12:15 AM (TDRQO)

235 The start capacitors are short term, electrolytic designs. Large capacitance, but they can't stand continuous operation without overheating.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 12:12 AM (w6EFb)

Other than it’s cool, and a sufficient reason itself, why run two simultaneously? Tractor tire?

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 21, 2024 12:17 AM (1C1sV)

236
Speaking of bench grinder, reminds me of something funny. Somebody mounted a bench grinder upside down. The motor would overheat. Turn it right side up, run just fine. WTF?

Elementary my Dear Watson. "Split phase" design (low starting torque requirement, resistance in the start winding circuit induces enough phase shift for a start).

Start winding was cut in by a current relay, but one that needed gravity to drop out. Inrush current through main winding pulled that relay closed, energizing start winding. When current reduced, it would drop out, but needed gravity to pull it down.

Upside down, start winding engaged all the time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 12:17 AM (w6EFb)

237 G’night, All. Sleep well.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 21, 2024 12:17 AM (9yWhg)

238 >> Other than it’s cool, and a sufficient reason itself, why run two simultaneously? Tractor tire?

Basically capacity. Neighbor had an old one, a twin of the one we had (goes way back with Daddy and me as young 'un). I fixed that old one, and run 'em both together.

I've got these little air tools, a cut-off tool and a die grinder. The CFM on those is pretty good. Also a little sand blaster, which will bog one down alone. Two can keep up with all that.

Again, this is just me, nostalgia and keeping old shit running, like My Daddy, rest his soul, taught me. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 12:20 AM (w6EFb)

239
I've got three-phase in the shop, and ought to just get a nice 3-phase compressor. Might do that, but I'll keep these two old ones running just for nostalgia purposes.

These compressors are maybe 40 year old models.

And yep, I've replace the pumps and motors on both once apiece. :-) Just the tanks are original.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 12:22 AM (w6EFb)

240 229 Moronrovia is the Capital City of Punsylvania.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim

Moronrovia Mall is where 'Dawn of the Dead' was filmed.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 21, 2024 12:22 AM (s1NDj)

241 MEMPHIS, Tenn.– Memphis has been ranked as the most dangerous city in the United States, according to a 24/7 Wall St. study using FBI statistics.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 20, 2024 11:50 PM (XeU6L)

Huh. Baltimore? Chicago? Gary?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Most dangerous in the U.S. is a bit of a stretch, but living down here in central Mississippi, we tend to get a lot more coverage of Memphis and its woes than anyone but Tennessee itself and part of eastern Arkansas, and I can tell you, it has gotten pretty bad up that way.

The surge in violent crime in Memphis and the surrounding suburbs like Germantown and Colliersville has its roots back in the late Nineties. Since that time, there's nary a week where something horrific isn't going down up there, to the point where the Mayor recently hosted a "gang summit" to try to tamp things down a bit. Which (surprise!) didn't work.

1/

Posted by: John Drake at April 21, 2024 12:26 AM (9Uomk)

242 Moronrovia Mall is where 'Dawn of the Dead' was filmed.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 21, 2024 12:22 AM (s1NDj)

Moronrovia should be the capital of Libraria.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2024 12:26 AM (tkR6S)

243 >> , but they would still run fine if you spun them up by hand before kicking in the juice.

That will be another no load test when I get this motor out and loose from the pump.

See what it does no load trying to start. If that fails, see what it goes when I give it a good hand spin.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 12:28 AM (w6EFb)

244 The surge in violent crime in Memphis and the surrounding suburbs like Germantown and Colliersville has its roots back in the late Nineties. Since that time, there's nary a week where something horrific isn't going down up there, to the point where the Mayor recently hosted a "gang summit" to try to tamp things down a bit. Which (surprise!) didn't work.

1/
Posted by: John Drake at April 21, 2024 12:26 AM (9Uomk)

Nayib Bukele could tell them how to deal with gang violence.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2024 12:30 AM (tkR6S)

245

Have a cup of coffe at the Moron Cafe

https://tinyurl.com/4s6e3433

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 21, 2024 12:31 AM (63Dwl)

246 The irony here is that in the seventies, Memphis, especially downtown Memphis, could have given any urban dystopia a run for its money. Beale Street, today's tourist mecca, was hooker and heroin central, in a way that rivaled NYC's Time Square, on a reduced level. The Eighties saw a renewal effort and some concentrated gentrification in downtown Memphis, and there was some real progress made. There was the boondoggle of the Memphis Pyramid, which the city never quite got over, but beyond that it's hard to say what went wrong.

Just that it did, and I wouldn't advise anybody to let their guard down while in the River City, not even around Graceland. About the safest place in town is the Airport, and a lot of that had to do with it being the pre-eminent Fed-Ex hub.

Posted by: John Drake at April 21, 2024 12:35 AM (9Uomk)

247 Grew up in New Orleans, took the bus system and trolley everywhere. Went to a conference in Memphis about 2000. Decided to take the public bus to the hotel where MLK was shot. Survived the trip, but it was a stupid thing to have done.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at April 21, 2024 12:45 AM (WvGHv)

248 Nayib Bukele could tell them how to deal with gang violence.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Memphis could use him, and if he could extend his advice to the situation developing in Jackson, Mississippi it would be a godsend. The JPD used to be fairly on top of things, but that, sadly, is no more. The Mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, is striving to fulfill his pledge to make Jackson "the most radical city on the planet," which apparently means depriving the city and surrounding Hinds County of sanitation for half a year, among other things. He'll apparently allow the sanitation crisis to resume because the waste disposal company providing him with kickbacks didn't get the new contract. That parts of the city have become "no-go" zones and that the city and county water systems are still so polluted that most residents drink bottled water are apparently not on his radar.

Posted by: John Drake at April 21, 2024 12:49 AM (9Uomk)

249 "I read a few years back of a mathematician who spotted a pattern in the exposed numbers of scratch off tickets that let him pick out the winning tickets from a pile of them. When he informed the state lottery officials that they had a problem, they told him they didn't care"

Pretty sure they fixed that by just having you scratch everything off the ticket.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 21, 2024 12:53 AM (SXCRk)

250 21 This makes no sense. Run 13 miles in an hour and all you get is the Genius Award
RUNNING AMOK Beijing half marathon runners who �slowed down to let Chinese runner win� stripped of medals and bonuses
One runner claimed he was not at the race to compete
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I just woke up so I'm slow, but does that mean the other runners were not Chinese?

Posted by: Ciampino - imagine that! at April 21, 2024 12:54 AM (qfLjt)

251 Just beef up those puns a little, they are a bit lean.

Posted by: Ciampino - Bloody too! at April 21, 2024 01:01 AM (qfLjt)

252 Great tunes!! Just saying...

Posted by: Blue$b0y at April 21, 2024 01:06 AM (+ezMB)

253
Something hit me, and I ran back up to the shop to get the blown fuses to look at something.

These are Type T dual-element time delay Edison base plug fuses in a safety switch. (My father's original wiring, which I preserved for this compressor, even when I put three phase in the shop).

Now, first blown fuse was the time-delay element that blew. Second blown fuse was the *instantaneous* trip element that blew.

The time delay element is a little "solder pot" with a pin with a spring. Solder gets hot and melts, spring pulls pin out, breaks circuit.

The instantaneous trip element is a normal fusible link, although bigger than a normal one for the same current rating. So, "heap big" current blows it immediately, but some overcurrent delays blowing.

So, apparently compressor was running, something happened and it started drawing overcurrent and blew that fuse.

Upon trying to start, it blew the immediate trip element.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 01:07 AM (w6EFb)

254 Let me add "allegedly" on the kickback part, in the same spirit that Meyer Lansky was "allegedly" involved in the creation of the National Crime Syndicate.

Posted by: John Drake at April 21, 2024 01:11 AM (9Uomk)

255 Just beef up those puns a little, they are a bit lean.
Posted by: Ciampino
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Need more capacity.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 21, 2024 01:12 AM (XeU6L)

256 The Mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, is striving to fulfill his pledge to make Jackson "the most radical city on the planet," which apparently means depriving the city and surrounding Hinds County of sanitation for half a year, among other things. He'll apparently allow the sanitation crisis to resume because the waste disposal company providing him with kickbacks didn't get the new contract. That parts of the city have become "no-go" zones and that the city and county water systems are still so polluted that most residents drink bottled water are apparently not on his radar.
Posted by: John Drake at April 21, 2024 12:49 AM (9Uomk)

He should study up on what happened to his namesake.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2024 01:14 AM (tkR6S)

257 All electrical puns are Buddhist in origin.

They're all based on Ohmmmm's Law.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 21, 2024 01:15 AM (e6UQI)

258 Well, I feel like I am coming down with a cold, so I am going to get an early one. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2024 01:16 AM (tkR6S)

259 ...Well, I feel like I am coming down with a cold, so I am going to get an early one. Night, Horde. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2024 01:16 AM (tkR6S)

So, wintering in Arizona and you still can't escape the cold?

*grin*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 21, 2024 01:20 AM (e6UQI)

260 What I am doing is something a buddy of mine way back called "Zabel debugging". He worked at some outfit with this "brain", a Ph.D, named Zabel.

They would be working on something, designing something, and it didn't work. Dr. Zabel wanted to "armchair" it. Rather than taking it apart, looking at things, measuring things and see what we went wrong, he wanted to deduce what was wrong purely by the symptoms. An intellectual exercise (and many times in futility).

When time and money is on the line, Zabel Debugging ain't optimal. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 01:23 AM (w6EFb)

261 All these glass puns are just vitreous humour.

Posted by: Ciampino - Just a plane surface at April 21, 2024 01:24 AM (qfLjt)

262 He should study up on what happened to his namesake.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Indeed! And namesake it is - his father was born Edwin Taliaferro, and decided while in college to change his name to Chokwe, after an Angolan tribal people, and Lumumba after ole Patrice himself. Lumumba Sr.'s many claims to fame included defending Tupac's father, Assata Shakur and serving as one of the main architects of the Republic of New Afrika, which sought to transform the Southeastern US into an all-black break-away nation.

Posted by: John Drake at April 21, 2024 01:25 AM (9Uomk)

263
I have great reluctance to engage in electrical puns. My resistance is great, but sometimes my susceptance is high enough.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 01:25 AM (w6EFb)

264 Well, I feel like I am coming down with a cold, so I am going to get an early one. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I hope it isn't what I have. I am a week in and it isn't letting up.

Posted by: lost in space at April 21, 2024 01:25 AM (A1OGy)

265 257 All electrical puns are Buddhist in origin.

They're all based on Ohmmmm's Law.

Jim Sunk New Dawn

Posted by: Jim at April 21, 2024 01:15 AM (e6UQI)
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They all have a bit of Borg in them as 'their resistance is low'.

Posted by: Ciampino - and what about all those amps? at April 21, 2024 01:28 AM (qfLjt)

266 What I am doing is something a buddy of mine way back called "Zabel debugging". He worked at some outfit with this "brain", a Ph.D, named Zabel.

They would be working on something, designing something, and it didn't work. Dr. Zabel wanted to "armchair" it. Rather than taking it apart, looking at things, measuring things and see what we went wrong, he wanted to deduce what was wrong purely by the symptoms. An intellectual exercise (and many times in futility).

When time and money is on the line, Zabel Debugging ain't optimal. :-) Posted by: publius

Breakpoints are passe. Beta Zabel Penumbras and emanations are the new paradigm.

Posted by: lost in space at April 21, 2024 01:28 AM (A1OGy)

267 serving as one of the main architects of the Republic of New Afrika, which sought to transform the Southeastern US into an all-black break-away nation.

I envision a larger Jonestown. Same results too.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 21, 2024 01:32 AM (s1NDj)

268 I envision a larger Jonestown. Same results too.

Hutus and Tutsis comes to mind too.

Posted by: lost in space at April 21, 2024 01:35 AM (A1OGy)

269 Waaay back, the employer du jour dispatched me to a seminar being held in SF. It was in regard to a then-evolving technology. Interestingly, there were a couple of spooks in attendance.

At any rate, a significant portion of the thing was conducted by a Polish physicist, who filled a green board with rows formulas and calculations.

That evening, I was fortunate enough to have dinner with the physicist and two or three others. During the course of the meal, the physicist said an interesting thing. He pointed out that while the theory was perfectly sound, he had not the faintest idea of how it might be implemented in working hardware.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 21, 2024 01:38 AM (XeU6L)

270 I envision a larger Jonestown. Same results too.
Posted by: Puddleglum

I wouldn't disagree - thankfully, while there are still some die-hard supporters, the movement really lost steam for lack of black supporters. They weren't thrilled by the idea of a black separatist project, seeing a link with similar white supremacy movements in the same vein.

I still wonder how the "K" worked itself into the name, because the only people in Africa who would spell it that way also speak Afrikaans as their primary language, and I don't see the Boers as being role-models for what Chokwe and others had in mind.

Posted by: John Drake at April 21, 2024 01:40 AM (9Uomk)

271 US said poised to sanction IDF unit for alleged rights violations in West Bank

https://tinyurl.com/y3vz8mnk

Funny that, Hamas violated every right and yet here is the US sending food and money .... what's up with that?

Posted by: Ciampino - Our Junta are all hypocrites at April 21, 2024 01:40 AM (qfLjt)

272 When I lived in Sweden, CDs had to be special-ordered through music shops (this was probably 1990 or thereabouts). The Swede asked me what I wanted for my birthday (Eat A Peach). When we went to pick it up, the guy at the record shop had never heard of the Allman Brothers, so I let him play a few tracks. He couldn't believe he'd missed out on them, and I think he ordered one himself that day.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 21, 2024 01:43 AM (w6EFb)

273 Hillary Clinton claims Trump wants to 'KILL his opposition' like Putin and Kim Jong Un in wild rant pleading for Americans to vote for Biden - but admits the president, 81, IS old

https://mol.im/a/13332355

Posted by: Ciampino - Our Junta are all hypocrites! at April 21, 2024 01:43 AM (qfLjt)

274
My Zabel Debugging is telling me I may have a shorted run capacitor. Or something else.....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 01:46 AM (w6EFb)

275 My Zabel Debugging is telling me I may have a shorted run capacitor. Or something else.....
Posted by: publius
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I'm voting for one or the other of the caps.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 21, 2024 01:48 AM (XeU6L)

276 Megan Rapinoe and Partner Sue Bird to Create TV Show, Cleat Chute, About Lesbian Soccer Players.

Prediction: It will have less viewers that CNN's failed streaming cockup. In other news, CNN wants to bring back their failed streaming service.

It was not clarified what chute is referenced in the press release. *Snort*

Posted by: lost in space at April 21, 2024 01:51 AM (A1OGy)

277 276 Megan Rapinoe and Partner Sue Bird to Create TV Show, Cleat Chute, About Lesbian Soccer Players.

Prediction: It will have less viewers that CNN's failed streaming cockup. In other news, CNN wants to bring back their failed streaming service.

It was not clarified what chute is referenced in the press release. *Snort*
Posted by: lost in space

Brazzers version is better.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 21, 2024 01:52 AM (s1NDj)

278 >>>Hillary Clinton claims Trump wants to 'KILL his opposition' like Putin and Kim Jong Un in wild rant pleading for Americans to vote for Biden

OMG, WHEN are the bolts of lightning coming for these evil fucktards?

I would so love to watch their faces melt like in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 21, 2024 01:53 AM (w6EFb)

279 263
I have great reluctance to engage in electrical puns. My resistance is great, but sometimes my susceptance is high enough.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 01:25 AM (w6EFb)
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I know susceptibility but have never known susceptance. Is it the same thing?

Posted by: Ciampino - not susceptible to your advances at April 21, 2024 01:53 AM (qfLjt)

280 Chuck these puns up to the Horde at it's best.
Posted by: Diogenes

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At least the punnish meant is fun...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at April 21, 2024 01:54 AM (lsw9v)

281 Is it the same thing?
Posted by: Ciampino
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It is imaginary.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 21, 2024 01:55 AM (XeU6L)

282 If I have my time zones calculated correctly the Chicom Grand Prix starts in an hour. No word if Zhou will have a stunning and unexpected come from behind victory. Chairman Pandaface nods his approval.

Posted by: lost in space at April 21, 2024 01:57 AM (A1OGy)

283 Mass stabbing on NYC party boat: Multiple people rushed to hospital after fight broke out on vessel with 1,300 people onboard

https://mol.im/a/13332199

We need sensible party laws.

Posted by: Ciampino - not susceptible to your germs at April 21, 2024 02:02 AM (qfLjt)

284 >> I know susceptibility but have never known susceptance. Is it the same thing?

Heaviside named most of these, IIRC. Heaviside did not like "capacitance". He wanted to use "permittance". That did not take. It did take in "permittivity", as in epsilon-naught.

Anyway, the order of things, mostly due to Heaviside:

Resistance, inverse conductance.
Reactance, inverse susceptance.
Impedance, inverse admittance.

Reactance is the imaginary part in the AC model of that. Impedance is the whole thing, real and imaginary.

This is just a mathematical model of the phase shifts and all that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 02:02 AM (w6EFb)

285 I have great reluctance to engage in electrical puns. My resistance is great, but sometimes my susceptance is high enough.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Take heart, publius - even Maxwell had his demons.

Posted by: John Drake at April 21, 2024 02:04 AM (9Uomk)

286
Inductive reactance and capacitive reactance are imaginary, but of opposite sign.

The inverse of capacitance is "elastance", but no term for the inverse of inductance exists, that I know of.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 02:04 AM (w6EFb)

287 spit .. spit .. FBI serves subpoenas at Chicago suburb of scandal-ridden 'supermayor' Tiffany Henyard

https://tinyurl.com/b4jt3xhy

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #35 at April 21, 2024 02:05 AM (qfLjt)

288 Your Discord Data Is Being Sold to Law Enforcement and AI Companies

https://tinyurl.com/24nyz477

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #36 at April 21, 2024 02:08 AM (qfLjt)

289 >> I know susceptibility but have never known susceptance. Is it the same thing?

Had to look this up to get it right. They are related in a sense. Susceptibility is a dimensionless constant, that gives the polarization constant for a dielectric material. A dielectric material increases the capacitance of a given configuration above what vacuum would give.

Susceptibility is denoted by "chi", or "X" in ASCII. The relative dielectric constant is thus 1 + X.

Susceptance is inverse reactance, and includes inductance as well. So, sort of the same, but different.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 02:11 AM (w6EFb)

290 If you like cats and you like ice-hockey then

https://tinyurl.com/ex7vfejd

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #01 at April 21, 2024 02:18 AM (qfLjt)

291 Tucker Carlson says elected politicians have told him they’re terrified of intel agencies installing child p*rn on their computers if they speak out.

https://tinyurl.com/5c2va482

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #02 at April 21, 2024 02:24 AM (qfLjt)

292 Start caps and run caps on single phase equipment piss me off and are a nuisance.

I usually just recommend replacement so I'm not wasting my time on bullshit.

Of course, if you're at home and budget considerations are paramount, then the start cap is likely a problem, but you should consider budgeting a new system.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 21, 2024 02:30 AM (pDQ/8)

293
What everyone knows as Maxwell's Equations today, should be called Maxwell-Heaviside. Heaviside is responsible for the modern, nice vector form they are known today. Maxwell's original formulation was a bunch of partial differential expressions of each components, and he dabbled with a quaternion form.

The slickest form of Maxwell is the 4-vector, relativistic formalism. There rather than two fields, electric and magnetic, you have one tensor, a field tensor, an antisymmetric tensor with zero diagonals. The EM field becomes one thing, a rank two tensor.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 02:32 AM (w6EFb)

294 Way to go: cops shoot dead 67-year-old pedophile in sting operation after he showed up to a hotel to meet two girls aged 7 and 11

https://mol.im/a/13331859

Did I see rope in the video?

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #03 at April 21, 2024 02:37 AM (qfLjt)

295 >> intel agencies installing child p*rn on their computers if they speak out.

I can believe that. Easily. Epstein had a job, you know.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 02:41 AM (w6EFb)

296 Good Lord, I will never follow links to stories about child molestation and rape. Terrible, terrible stuff. The world is filled with hideous souls and our president is at the top of the heap of the damned.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 21, 2024 02:44 AM (pDQ/8)

297 Missing Buffalo boy, 12, is found dead in an attic four years after vanishing while walking his puppy - as it is revealed his mother unexpectedly died last year from a 'broken heart'

https://mol.im/a/13331957

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #04 at April 21, 2024 02:44 AM (qfLjt)

298 290 LOL!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 21, 2024 02:46 AM (w6EFb)

299
If I were king/president, I'd just open up, dump it all, the dirty secrets of the US govt over the past century. Declassify it all, and let the chips fall were they may.

All the dirty little secrets and dirty little lies, all open.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 02:50 AM (w6EFb)

300 Horrible shit happens all the time, and the zombie apocalypse hasn't even started.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 21, 2024 02:50 AM (w6EFb)

301 Stepmom who starved four-year-old boy to death and recorded him sobbing and begging for bread is stone-faced as she is sentenced to 25 years in prison for evil abuse - after breastfeeding new baby during trial

https://mol.im/a/13331743

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #05 at April 21, 2024 02:52 AM (qfLjt)

302 A lot of this going on or is it par for the course?
Two students are viciously punched and kicked by gang of school kids, with one suspect seen wearing brass knuckles during attack - as victim speaks out

https://mol.im/a/13330943

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #06 at April 21, 2024 02:56 AM (qfLjt)

303 Chinese Grand Prix about to start

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2024 02:59 AM (fwDg9)

304 Orange County man dropkicks tiny puppy down the street - with dog still missing after suspect was arrested for animal cruelty

https://mol.im/a/13331233

People do worse to cats!

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #07 at April 21, 2024 02:59 AM (qfLjt)

305 The Mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, is striving to fulfill his pledge to make Jackson "the most radical city on the planet,

Are we related?

Posted by: Patrice Lumumba at April 21, 2024 02:59 AM (nvtOt)

306 Good thing I visited Jackson to see the MS state capitol years ago, then?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 21, 2024 03:01 AM (nvtOt)

307 Ignorance or viciousness?
Nine-year-old girl killed by asthma attack after 'parents failed to refill her inhaler and ran sobbing child a bath instead of taking her to hospital when she turned BLUE' - as pair are charged over death

https://mol.im/a/13331015

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #08 at April 21, 2024 03:01 AM (qfLjt)

308 299
If I were king/president, I'd just open up, dump it all, the dirty secrets of the US govt over the past century. Declassify it all, and let the chips fall were they may.

All the dirty little secrets and dirty little lies, all open.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 02:50 AM (w6EFb)

Better to wait 40-50 years, and even then, SLOWLY publish things in FRUS.

Posted by: Department of State at April 21, 2024 03:02 AM (nvtOt)

309 307 Ignorance or viciousness?
Nine-year-old girl killed by asthma attack after 'parents failed to refill her inhaler and ran sobbing child a bath instead of taking her to hospital when she turned BLUE' - as pair are charged over death

https://mol.im/a/13331015
Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #08 at April 21, 2024 03:01 AM (qfLjt)

Idiocy.

(Said as I suck down albuterol via a nebulizer)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 21, 2024 03:03 AM (nvtOt)

310
Miley is in bed, watching an episode of "Leave it to Beaver" (FeTV, I think).

She said, well, this time it's June being hard on the Beaver, not Ward. I don't know what to make of this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 03:06 AM (w6EFb)

311 I don't know if this has been discussed today as I've been off the blog most of the day: Republican's border security bill to reinstate Trump-era wall and Remain in Mexico spectacularly FAILS after Democrats tank vote and GOP rebels discount it as a 'shiny object' to appease Speaker Mike Johnson's political rivals

https://mol.im/a/13329561

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #10 at April 21, 2024 03:07 AM (qfLjt)

312 Lots of people should hnot have children

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2024 03:08 AM (fwDg9)

313 What you observe, good or evil, that occurs in this world is facilitated by the exercise of the combined bane and blessing of humanity--free will.

That isn't intended as disparagement, merely an observation that leads to the postulation would we be here in this era with it's accomplishments if free will didn't exist.

Ponder that, if you would.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 21, 2024 03:08 AM (hKoQL)

314
Read Harry Truman. Some time, '50s I think, he published something saying, you know creating this CIA thing was big mistake. They've fuckin' taken over.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 03:08 AM (w6EFb)

315 Israel's secret weapon: MARK DUBOWITZ reveals how the Jewish State's shock strike took out Iran's air defenses

https://mol.im/a/13331215

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #11 at April 21, 2024 03:08 AM (qfLjt)

316 https://tinyurl.com/3byhmnkd
https://directorblue.blogspot.com/obama and gilded age.

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2024 03:10 AM (fwDg9)

317
It was 1963. Truman said this:

But it got out of hand. The fella ... the one that was in the White House after me never paid any attention to it, and it got out of hand. Why, they've got an organization over there in Virginia now that is practically the equal of the Pentagon in many ways. And I think I've told you, one Pentagon is one too many.

Now, as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don't just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there's nobody to keep track of what they're up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they'll have something to report on. They've become ... it's become a government all of its own and all secret. They don't have to account to anybody.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 03:13 AM (w6EFb)

318 Truman, 1963, continued:

That's a very dangerous thing in a democratic society, and it's got to be put a stop to. The people have got a right to know what those birds are up to. And if I was back in the White House, people would know. You see, the way a free government works, there's got to be a housecleaning every now and again, and I don't care what branch of the government is involved. Somebody has to keep an eye on things.

And when you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damn secret, why, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix. And if what happened at the Bay of Pigs doesn't prove that, I don't know what does. You have got to keep an eye on the military at all times, and it doesn't matter whether it's the birds in the Pentagon or the birds in the CIA.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 03:14 AM (w6EFb)

319 Had a neighbor in Japan (1980s), an army dependent spouse (male) who was a *raging alcoholic* and just an all-around jerk...

Anyway, his wife got a puppy. Tiny thing, wasn't weaned yet, it's momma had died. Left it in the care of idiot alchy jerk husband while she was 'on maneuvers' for a couple weeks. Didn't turn out well.

This jerk dude was complaining to me one day about the pup, showed it to me and asked what was wrong with it (poor lil thing was whimpering and needed its bottle I thought) and just as I was about to say it needed milk....

Wham! Bastard threw it against the building. It didn't survive.

I never spoke to the SOB or his wife again

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 03:16 AM (njWTi)

320 Every race have hopes Haas can get in points, Hulk started well but was dropping before pitting

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2024 03:18 AM (fwDg9)

321 Good thing I visited Jackson to see the MS state capitol years ago, then?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Yes - Jackson was moderately safe into the late Eighties, early Nineties. It's even still moderately safe in daylight hours so long as you watch where you're going - South Jackson and North Jackson are especially risky then. But come nighttime, all bets are off.

Posted by: John Drake at April 21, 2024 03:21 AM (9Uomk)

322 Awww, crap... Hubby maybe is losing it...

He's been refusing to take his med (lactulose) for hepatic encephalopathy. So, I've been sneaking it into his bottled water, with "Mio" flavoring to disguise the taste.

Just now he's being kinda weird. Thinking he's not getting strong enough dose? Sh!t.

Got him to drink some juice with more lactulose in it, but don't know if tonight is gonna be "one of THOSE"

Pray, please? I'm so tired of this!

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 03:25 AM (njWTi)

323 320 Every race have hopes Haas can get in points, Hulk started well but was dropping before pitting
Posted by: Skip

Mario Andretti had some pointed words about F1 denying an Andretti/Cadillac entry. Apparently F1 is fine with Cadillac but not Andretti. Mike Andretti can be prickly at times but compared to some of those F1 owners, he's a peach.

https://tinyurl.com/s3bkd627

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 21, 2024 03:29 AM (s1NDj)

324 >> He's been refusing to take his med (lactulose) for hepatic encephalopathy.

I just looked that up. Too much ammonia in the blood. The lactulose helps with that somehow.

I remember that lactulose stuff. After I had my hip replaced, thanks the this damned rheumatoid arthritis (well, a hip injury degradation was accelerated by the RA), I got really constipated, thanks to the pain medicine, oxycodone, and maybe something else (anaesthetic, type that without looking it up).

Anyway, they prescribed lactulose to clear that up. Boy, howdy. That gets the "gut flora" in overdrive.

I experienced something I'll call "power farting"....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 03:36 AM (w6EFb)

325 Jackson was fairly safe during the period my wife's grandfather was one of the Deputy Chiefs - he bridged a lot of racial gaps and fought for full inclusion of all black members of the JPD. I'm a bit biased, obviously, but he was a great guy, and a fantastic grandfather to my wife and sister-in-law when they were small.

His only failing was that he was the worst shot in all creation. When he came onto the JPD range for certification or just to practice, everybody else left the field. But, irony of all ironies, the one time he needed to use his service weapon, he came through. The man had literally risen through the ranks to the command level as a Deputy Chief, and if he caught a call, he didn't let those stars on his shoulder stop him from responding.

There was a drugstore robbery taking place, and he rushed in, weapon drawn at the ready. The perp saw him and immediately fired. The bullet struck my wife's grandfather in the wrist, but that didn't stop him from returning fire and taking the criminal down center mass. 1/

Posted by: John Drake at April 21, 2024 03:36 AM (9Uomk)

326 Hey, publius. Thanks for reply.

Yeah, ammonia forms in the gut, a by-product of digestion (particularly proteins) and lactulose speeds things along so that the ammonia isn't --or is less so-- absorbed into the bloodstream.

At any rate, too much ammonia causes a dementia-like state. Hubby becomes irrational, bossy, difficult... ugh.

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 03:41 AM (njWTi)

327 She said, well, this time it's June being hard on the Beaver, not Ward. I don't know what to make of this.
Posted by: publius

Sometimes a woman has to take matters into her own hands.

Posted by: mikeski at April 21, 2024 03:41 AM (DgGvY)

328
Now, re "power farting" due to this lactulose shit. Lactulose is a disaccharide, which is indigestible to humans. It goes right through to the colon. But the gut bacteria in that colon love that shit. They go to town on it, and in metabolizing it, the produce all manner of gas byproduct.

What this does to the gut has the benefit of pulling excess ammonia out of the blood stream, BTW, which has to do with what JQ was talking about above.

Anyway, I remember taking that stuff. It cleaned me out quick. But then....it kept going. I had the sensation I was going to shit myself something awful.

So just went in and sat on the terlet. The gaseous erruptions were someting I cannot possibly describe. I mean, I was thrusting myself off the terlet seat.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 03:42 AM (w6EFb)

329 Pray, please? I'm so tired of this!
Posted by: JQ

Done.

Posted by: mikeski at April 21, 2024 03:46 AM (DgGvY)

330 Yes, publius. And that is *why* hubby is refusing to take it!

What he doesn't 'get' (or just doesn't give a damn about?) is that, when he doesn't get enough of it, he becomes loopy and unmanageable.

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 03:47 AM (njWTi)

331 The gaseous erruptions were someting I cannot possibly describe.
Posted by: publius

We find you personally responsible for 1E-11 C in climate change. Please report to the disintegration chamber.

Posted by: The UNFCCC at April 21, 2024 03:49 AM (DgGvY)

332 The perp survived, but was paralyzed from the waist down for life. My wife's grandfather only suffered mild nerve and bone damage that largely cleared up after a year or so. Until the robber died, he would visit him in prison at least once a year to check on his well-being. Heck of a guy, the Chief.

The joke that immediately made its way around the JPD and most of the people we knew was that the Chief was only able to make the shot because the perp had hit him in the wrist, and that helped him aim straight for the one and only time in his life. They still talk about the guy at the JPD Academy and it's rare I've met a veteran LEO anywhere in Mississippi who didn't love and respect the guy. 2/fin

Posted by: John Drake at April 21, 2024 03:49 AM (9Uomk)

333 he becomes loopy and unmanageable.
Posted by: JQ

Also, it can be quite frightening! It's like babysitting someone who's on an acid trip.

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 03:52 AM (njWTi)

334
Beans, beans, they're good for your gut
The more you eat, the more you putt

Posted by: SFGoth at April 21, 2024 03:54 AM (KAi1n)

335 JQ -

May you be Blessed with Strength and Patience while you care for your husband …

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at April 21, 2024 03:56 AM (4Winp)

336 You can just imagine what happens when he finally gets enough lactulose to relieve the dementia...

Yeah. A sh!tstorm for yours truly to clean up.

Oh joy!

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 03:56 AM (njWTi)

337 >> Also, it can be quite frightening! It's like babysitting someone who's on an acid trip.

Prayers for you. There at the last my father got "unmanageable".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 03:57 AM (w6EFb)

338 fml

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 03:57 AM (njWTi)

339
That lactulose did the trick of relieve my constipation. Lactulose truly = "Colon Blow".

I think all it took was just one packet, one dose of that stuff, and I was all cleaned out and back to normal.

After that, my poor sphincter. Well, it was like Barky Obama after a night at the bathhouse. Wrecked, it was.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 03:59 AM (w6EFb)

340 PIXY NOOD IS UP

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)

341 Wish I could remember all the "bad things" that I did, in some previous life, to earn the sh!t that I'm living now.

Hell, that's where I am.

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 04:02 AM (njWTi)

342 Not gonna trash Pixy's thread.

Goodnight, all.

Maybe hubby will go to sleep & let me get a bit of rest!

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 04:04 AM (njWTi)

343 >> Wish I could remember all the "bad things" that I did, in some previous life, to earn the sh!t that I'm living now.

It's just the order of things, I think.

I remember my father's literal shitstorms there at the last.

I mean, I was a baby once, couldn't control myself. And the circle became complete.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 04:05 AM (w6EFb)

344
Funny story about one of Daddy's late-stage shitstorms. It was after he broke his hip, that's when his decline, mentally, really started. He was very proud, and couldn't abide with the loss of dignity of personal bodily functions. It was hell....

Anyway, he made a mess all over the bathroom floor. I mean a real mess. I cleaned it up. He still had the presence of mind to be embarrassed about it. He said something about "Well, I had to clean up you when you messed yo' diapers....".

My mother heard that, and got a look on her face. A real mad look. She came up and whispered in my ear, "He didn't change one diaper of yours! That was all me!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 04:09 AM (w6EFb)

345 Right, publius!

And a baby doesn't produce anywhere NEAR the quantity of sh!t, that an adult will....

I cannot count the number of trousers and rugs I've had to throw away.

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 04:13 AM (njWTi)

346 His Majesty refuses to wear pull-up underwear and bitches about the chux pads on the bed... I told him "it's one or the other!"

Oh, but HE doesn't have to do the laundry, ya know.

Extra mattress pad & sheets are always ready.

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 04:17 AM (njWTi)

347 Sorry, horde. Sorry to threadjack and/or gross you all out.

fml

carry on

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 04:23 AM (njWTi)

348 >> Sorry, horde. Sorry to threadjack and/or gross you all out.

DOn't worry about it. Those who have had to deal with this, know. You've got to vent sometime. Only way to stay sane dealing with this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 04:29 AM (w6EFb)

349 Thanks, publius.

My "sanity" has been hanging by a fine thread for about a year now. Don't know how much longer I can take it.

Hubby was told, 3 years ago, basically to 'not buy any green bananas'

Don't know how we've made it this far, but I'm Totally Burnt Out. TOTALLY!

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 04:34 AM (njWTi)

350 These late hours of the night/early morning are my only quiet time to myself.

It's not insomnia-- it's "me time" and it's all I get.

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 04:37 AM (njWTi)

351 Mostly, when hubby isn't having 'an episode' I'm just the household help. Slave Girl, that's me... don't even feel like a "wife" anymore.

Chores and more chores.

My golden years of retirement! Yay!

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 04:43 AM (njWTi)

352 >> Girl, that's me... don't even feel like a "wife" anymore.

Hang in there. I know what you're going through. That doesn't help, but know you're not alone.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 21, 2024 04:48 AM (w6EFb)

353 You're awesome publius. Thank you.

Posted by: JQ at April 21, 2024 05:03 AM (njWTi)

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