Monday Overnight Open Thread (4/22/24) Less Is More Edition

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Does Tuesday, November 5, 2024 even matter anymore?

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She was married, so probably not a virgin. Genius Award Winner.

DEATH PLUNGE Tourist, 31, dies after plummeting 250ft into VOLCANO while her husband was taking a picture on crater’s rim

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by a Crappy Ride.

Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC. Legal representation provided by Dewey, Cheatem & Howe, S.C. No bails-bondsmen were injured in the production of The ONT.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:01 PM

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1 Timing is everything, unless it's not!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 22, 2024 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

2 I'm number one! I'm number one!

Posted by: Half Dozen at April 22, 2024 10:02 PM (eHovo)

3 Happy birthday to Publius!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 22, 2024 10:02 PM (w6EFb)

4 Good evening horde. Have a good ONT.

Posted by: TRex at April 22, 2024 10:02 PM (IQ6Gq)

5 The loneliest number?

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at April 22, 2024 10:02 PM (duT0u)

6 Wut?!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 22, 2024 10:02 PM (XvPG9)

7 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 22, 2024 10:02 PM (SRRAx)

8 Yay, National Jelly Bean Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 22, 2024 10:02 PM (dZVON)

9 plus 4.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at April 22, 2024 10:03 PM (duT0u)

10 Bwahahahahaha!!!!

Half dozen was half way there.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 10:03 PM (W/lyH)

11 Did that fisherman learn to share in kindergarten? Because the bear didn't.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:03 PM (u82oZ)

12 Happy Birthday, Publius!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 22, 2024 10:04 PM (SRRAx)

13 Happy birthday to Publius!
Posted by: Miley

* shoves cake with candles into USB*

Pretty sure he still has to stay off my lawn.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 22, 2024 10:04 PM (hKZ+8)

14 No bails-bondsmen were injured in the production of The ONT.

There's still time!

Posted by: mikeski at April 22, 2024 10:04 PM (DgGvY)

15 I think that bear has a plan, and I think the fisherman does not have a clue...
yet!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 22, 2024 10:04 PM (hOUT3)

16 The scooter dude is sitting backwards on the "seat".

Nice ONT, Mis Hum - at least all of it I could find . . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at April 22, 2024 10:04 PM (TSQkU)

17 That scooter rider is so apropos for Earth Day.

Well done, Misanthropic Humanitarian.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:04 PM (u82oZ)

18 Happy Birfday Publius!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 22, 2024 10:05 PM (hOUT3)

19 2 I'm number one! I'm number one!

Posted by: Half Dozen at April 22, 2024 10:02 PM
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If you're the guy on the scooter, perhaps number two is more appropriate.

Posted by: TRex at April 22, 2024 10:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

20 Ok Mis.Hum...now you're just taunting us with Neil Young.
Well you know what? I still tnink...furnace him....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 22, 2024 10:05 PM (XvPG9)

21 {{{COMountainMarie}}}

Your presence is always a good thing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:05 PM (u82oZ)

22 Just fling it back over your head, trust me.

Posted by: huerfano at April 22, 2024 10:05 PM (VGOMa)

23 Well, I finished my book about the end of the world.

Minor Spoiler: The world didn't end, but it was close. Pretty weird resolution.

More to follow on Sunday Morning Book Thread...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2024 10:06 PM (BpYfr)

24 And that's it for tonight's ONT! Music by Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra. Next week's guest is Lenny Bruce. Brought to you by Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco Treat. This has been a Filmways Presentation!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 22, 2024 10:06 PM (0eaVi)

25 Happy birthday to Publius!
Posted by: Miley

🥳

Posted by: mikeski at April 22, 2024 10:06 PM (DgGvY)

26 Now I know what happened to the commode my neighbor left at the curb.

Posted by: Isophorone at April 22, 2024 10:06 PM (42qwK)

27 17 That scooter rider is so apropos for Earth Day.

Well done, Misanthropic Humanitarian.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:04 PM (u82oZ)

I wish I had planned it that way. I am lucky and stumble into those photos.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at April 22, 2024 10:07 PM (QXQ4l)

28 Anyone else think the fish pic might be a composite?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2024 10:07 PM (tkR6S)

29 * shoves cake with candles into USB*

Oh! Cake.

My bad.

Posted by: Buttigig at April 22, 2024 10:07 PM (WXNFJ)

30 Thanks for the swell ONT, Mis Hum!

That photo up top is so funny, although not for the fisherman...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 22, 2024 10:07 PM (U3L4U)

31 Yay, National Jelly Bean Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 22, 2024 10:02 PM (dZVON)

Hate 'em!
Reagan's only down side.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 10:07 PM (W/lyH)

32 Hello Teresa!

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 10:07 PM (vJiyU)

33 Now I know what happened to the commode my neighbor left at the curb.
Posted by: Isophorone

Down here, many are reused as flower planters.

Posted by: Buttigig at April 22, 2024 10:08 PM (WXNFJ)

34 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by a Crappy Ride.

Picture checks out. An electric scooter wouldn't have a tank.

Posted by: mikeski at April 22, 2024 10:08 PM (DgGvY)

35 Happy birthday to Publius!
Posted by: Miley

{{{Miley}}}
Your Grace, it doth please me to not sing for your dear husband Publius on his birthday. My good wishes are heartfelt, but my singing is not a gift to appreciate.

And there was much rejoicing!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:08 PM (u82oZ)

36 From Boot Hill:

Here lies Lester Moore
Shot down with a .44
No Les
No Moore

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 22, 2024 10:08 PM (uqx1e)

37 {{{Salty}}}
Yay! I get to 'see' you!
Love ya guy!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 22, 2024 10:09 PM (XvPG9)

38 Anyone else think the fish pic might be a composite?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Yes.

But if it's not, the next one will be.

Posted by: mikeski at April 22, 2024 10:09 PM (DgGvY)

39 I swear there was a Neil Young song I liked but I must have been drinking heavily when I did!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 22, 2024 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

40 Anyone else think the fish pic might be a composite?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2024 10:07 PM (tkR6S)

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Yeah, reminds me of a pic of a scuba diver with a huge great white shark right behind him.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 22, 2024 10:09 PM (u73oe)

41 Anyone else think the fish pic might be a composite?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2024 10:07 PM (tkR6S)

No way! It has to be real. Just as that woman accidentally fell into the volcano.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 22, 2024 10:09 PM (0eaVi)

42 Here's the Canadian train afire.

https://shorturl.at/yAMR7

Looks a lot like America.

andycanuk was the light bearer

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 10:10 PM (jw2BQ)

43 * shoves cake with candles into USB*

Pretty sure he still has to stay off my lawn.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 22, 2024 10:04 PM (hKZ+

He has to stay off MY lawn...except my lawn is his lawn. So.

We got him a super duper chocolate ganache cake. No candles. I also found a "Happy 29th birthday...again!" card.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 22, 2024 10:10 PM (w6EFb)

44 Sooo much content! How will I ever get through it all?

And so glad to be here for Neil Young month. 'Coz, everybody knows Neil >> Frank...

Hooookay. That's Monday for ya.

Hello y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - vacuum packed at April 22, 2024 10:10 PM (7WAWe)

45 Sorry I'm late, I didn't think composting would take that long.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 22, 2024 10:11 PM (8YpUj)

46 Hate 'em!
Reagan's only down side.

It's all I got. It's not like there's a made up holiday invented by a guy who was known as "The Unicorn Killer" and had stuffed his murdered girlfriend's body in a trunk in his apartment to celebrate today.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 22, 2024 10:11 PM (dZVON)

47 Now I know what happened to the commode my neighbor left at the curb.
Posted by: Isophorone

Told my son if ever wanted to get rid of anything, don't put "free" on it. Put 25$ on it, it'll be gone by morning.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 10:11 PM (vJiyU)

48 HA

Posted by: Talachulitna at April 22, 2024 10:11 PM (jwcve)

49 That photo up top is so funny, although not for the fisherman...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 22, 2024 10:07 PM (U3L4U)

Dude! I'm right here!

Posted by: The Fish at April 22, 2024 10:11 PM (W/lyH)

50 COMountainMarie

^^ Blushes^^
Ah shucks. Kicks dirt.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:12 PM (u82oZ)

51 President Nixon won the death pool 30 years ago tonight.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 22, 2024 10:12 PM (8sMut)

52 Yeah, reminds me of a pic of a scuba diver with a huge great white shark right behind him.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 22, 2024 10:09 PM (u73oe)

Or Lileks on top of the World Trade center with a plane heading toward it in the background on 9/11.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 22, 2024 10:12 PM (0eaVi)

53 Bear's thinking Mmmm, surf and turf!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 22, 2024 10:12 PM (3e3hy)

54 tankdemon

Nice Earth Day excuse.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:13 PM (u82oZ)

55 Does Tuesday, November 5, 2024 even matter anymore?

Don't forget, Trump was also supporting the Ukraine aid package when talking to Congressmen.

This may, in fact, be multi-dimensional chess - there is an excellent chance that Ukraine is going to lose the war this summer, and of course the Republicans would be blamed for that if the aid package didn't pass.

As Julian Röpcke, a fair-minded German journalist who is quite pro-Ukrainian noted:

All the American money, all the Western support, all the German weapons won’t help if Ukraine does not mobilize another 250,000 soldiers at least to reinforce a far too thin manned front.

I've seen a report that the Russians are removing mines on the Russian - Ukrainian front in Kharkiv and Sumy provinces, and the Russians just took out the antenna on the TV tower in Kharkiv to screw up Ukrainian communications, so the start of the Russian summer offensive may be imminent.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 22, 2024 10:13 PM (YAtuc)

56 {{{Miley}}}
Your Grace, it doth please me to not sing for your dear husband Publius on his birthday. My good wishes are heartfelt, but my singing is not a gift to appreciate.

And there was much rejoicing!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:08 PM (u82oZ)

Thanks Salty! He's asleep on the couch after bush hogging this afternoon and a nice supper with cake. He may be around later, you never know.

Of note: he and Edward Dowd were born on the same day.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 22, 2024 10:14 PM (w6EFb)

57 Looks a lot like America.

andycanuk was the light bearer
Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 10:10 PM (jw2BQ)

It's a hunka hunk of burnin' something.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2024 10:14 PM (tkR6S)

58 20

Anyway... I really meant fuk him.
Luv ya anyway Mr. Hum.🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 22, 2024 10:14 PM (XvPG9)

59 I love the assumption that the married woman was not a virgin. The article doesn’t say how long they were married, so it might have been a virgin sacrifice on their honeymoon.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 22, 2024 10:14 PM (VNX3d)

60 Told my son if ever wanted to get rid of anything, don't put "free" on it. Put 25$ on it, it'll be gone by morning.

Posted by: Some Rat

Yo Rat, I didn't know you were a psychologist!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 22, 2024 10:14 PM (hOUT3)

61 It's all I got. It's not like there's a made up holiday invented by a guy who was known as "The Unicorn Killer" and had stuffed his murdered girlfriend's body in a trunk in his apartment to celebrate today.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 22, 2024 10:11 PM (dZVON)

That's amazingly detailed...NTTIAWWT

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 10:14 PM (W/lyH)

62 It's not like there's a made up holiday invented by a guy who was known as "The Unicorn Killer" and had stuffed his murdered girlfriend's body in a trunk in his apartment to celebrate today.

Hey - it got the West celebrating my birthday in the middle of the Cold War!

Posted by: Zombie Vladmir Lenin! at April 22, 2024 10:15 PM (YAtuc)

63 I once put a pile of stuff on the curb with a FREE sign. While I was in the shop I watched some kids take the sign.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:15 PM (9yXr+)

64 What do you say to a hungry grizzly bear?
It doesn't matter, just don't over the phone.

Ha ha ha.

Do you get it? You see, if you try to tell it something face to face, it'll eat you!!!!

Ha ha.... uh,

Timothy Treadwell would've laughed.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 22, 2024 10:15 PM (8YpUj)

65 Miley, okravangelist

Please tell Publius that the correct number of candles is a bad ideas. Because the house does not have a flooding Halon 1301 system.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:15 PM (u82oZ)

66 There are purportedly meteors a-showering, but betwixt the full moon and the cloud cover, I see zilch.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 22, 2024 10:15 PM (3e3hy)

67 I HATE travelling.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 22, 2024 10:16 PM (CHHv1)

68 This may, in fact, be multi-dimensional chess - there is an excellent chance that Ukraine is going to lose the war this summer, and of course the Republicans would be blamed for that if the aid package didn't pass.
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I doubt there's much strategy involved in Republicans burning taxpayer money under threat that Democrats might blame them for something. It's pretty much like breathing.

Posted by: Methos at April 22, 2024 10:16 PM (Dnobf)

69
Carolina scores 3 unanswered in the third period, lead 4-3.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2024 10:16 PM (MoZTd)

70 Well, at least now the fisherman knows what lure to use for Bear.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 22, 2024 10:16 PM (e6UQI)

71 Maybe grizzlies are so mean because they don’t really like fish. I’m mean, if all I had to eat was fish I’d maul the fuck out of something too.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 22, 2024 10:17 PM (u73oe)

72 67 I HATE travelling.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Take the train, what could possibly go wrong...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 22, 2024 10:17 PM (hOUT3)

73 Well, at least now the fisherman knows what lure to use for Bear.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 22, 2024 10:16 PM (e6UQI)
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Or perhaps the bear knows what lure to use to catch fishermen....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2024 10:17 PM (BpYfr)

74 All the American money, all the Western support, all the German weapons won’t help if Ukraine does not mobilize another 250,000 soldiers at least to reinforce a far too thin manned front.'

They do not have the manpower. They killed them all in Stalin- and Zhukov-esque frontal assaults.

So say my sources.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:18 PM (9yXr+)

75 So wait...
Is that top picture AI?
Because that bear probably would've eaten the guy, and picked his teeth with the little fish....
😒

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 22, 2024 10:18 PM (XvPG9)

76 Holy shit, what a Carolina comeback against the Islanders.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 22, 2024 10:18 PM (ufFY8)

77
Empty net, 5-3 Carolina.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2024 10:18 PM (MoZTd)

78 67 I HATE travelling.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Take the train, what could possibly go wrong...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 22, 2024 10:17 PM (hOUT3)
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Well, as long as you are not going to Busan...or the train is NOT the Orient Express, I'm sure everything will be fine.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2024 10:19 PM (BpYfr)

79 so... the Hitler Youth 2.0 is on the march in NYC(a bit behind watching...ugh Hannity...) looks like thousands on the street right now....

Posted by: ziggggeeee at April 22, 2024 10:19 PM (K5Rdg)

80 I doubt there's much strategy involved in Republicans burning taxpayer money under threat that Democrats might blame them for something. It's pretty much like breathing.
Posted by: Methos

Don't forget, we can be pretty sure the GOP elites are in on the grift, we just don't know which ones and how much it cost to buy them!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 22, 2024 10:19 PM (hOUT3)

81 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2024 10:20 PM (sAmhv)

82 Can we send some of the congresscritters on a fact-finding tour of the front lines in Ukraine? They should get the chance to see where the money is being spent. They should expect to be shown around by high-level military and civilian leaders from the Ukraine, and their schedule published so the Russians know where they are. We wouldn’t want to lose any of them, now, would we?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 22, 2024 10:20 PM (VNX3d)

83 Well, as long as you are not going to Busan...or the train is NOT the Orient Express, I'm sure everything will be fine.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2024 10:19 PM (BpYfr)

We have some nice trains on track three for you conservatives.

Posted by: The Left at April 22, 2024 10:20 PM (0eaVi)

84 PNWMOME! June!

Left sidebar!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 10:21 PM (QsvZb)

85 Timothy Treadwell would've laughed.
Posted by: tankdemon

To paraphrase Chris Rock. "The bear did nothing wrong. It was being a BEAR!!

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 10:21 PM (vJiyU)

86 Don't forget, we can be pretty sure the GOP elites are in on the grift, we just don't know which ones and how much it cost to buy them!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 22, 2024 10:19 PM (hOUT3)

I assume all of them, and probably shockingly small amount

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 22, 2024 10:21 PM (+I6Y/)

87 Does Tuesday, November 5, 2024 even matter anymore?

Been on a Y chromosome romance novel kick. Read the first 7 Louis Lamore Sackett family books. Took a break to read Kurt Schlichter's last 2 Kelly Turnbull books. Does that answer your question?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 22, 2024 10:21 PM (hKZ+8)

88 Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 22, 2024 10:20 PM (VNX3d)

That doesn't sound very patriotic...

Very very rational, just not patriotic!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 22, 2024 10:21 PM (hOUT3)

89 Hour of the Wolf

Won't happen. Those that are GOPe and voted to fund Ukraine are moral and physical cowards.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:21 PM (u82oZ)

90 There was a female poster on here some while ago who made one of the funniest comments on traveling I've ever heard/seen, I quote it all the time on the occasion. She said, paraphrasing,

"I love exploring. But I don't do it often as I hate being cold, lost, wet, hungry, too hot, airplanes, trains, buses, long trips, sweaty, being rained on, snow, and being physically uncomfortable in any way."

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:21 PM (9yXr+)

91 Rat!

You bastard!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 10:22 PM (QsvZb)

92 PNWMOME! June!

Left sidebar!

Posted by: nurse ratched

I'm in!

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 10:22 PM (vJiyU)

93
Take the train, what could possibly go wrong...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again!

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But, Mom! All the European kids have trains!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2024 10:22 PM (MoZTd)

94 I assume all of them, and probably shockingly small amount
Posted by: a dude in MI at April 22, 2024 10:21 PM (+I6Y/)

Sadly, I think you are spot on in your assumptions!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 22, 2024 10:23 PM (hOUT3)

95 The woodpecker was doing nothing wrong.
It was being a woodpecker.

Eh, nurse?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 22, 2024 10:23 PM (ufFY8)

96 Now I know what happened to the commode my neighbor left at the curb.

Posted by: Isophorone at April 22, 2024 10:06 PM (42qwK)

This is "big trash week" here, so we paid the $15 for a lawn flag and left out three old office chairs and a few other things. While Pooky was dragging chair #2 to the curb, a city pickup came by and picked up chair #1. We went to dinner afterwards and now chair #2 is gone. Chair #3 is the one remaining, and it's the one Bel loved to almost pieces.

Pooky, Dutchman that he is, said to me, "Should we have even paid for a flag if people are going to just pick up our stuff?"

Posted by: this is pookysgirl's dad's favorite week at April 22, 2024 10:23 PM (dtlDP)

97 87 Does Tuesday, November 5, 2024 even matter anymore?

Been on a Y chromosome romance novel kick. Read the first 7 Louis Lamore Sackett family books. Took a break to read Kurt Schlichter's last 2 Kelly Turnbull books. Does that answer your question?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 22, 2024 10:21 PM (hKZ+

I believe that it does Sock Monkey

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at April 22, 2024 10:24 PM (QXQ4l)

98 Well, this cold is still kicking my ass. Going to lie down for nap now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2024 10:24 PM (tkR6S)

99 How much wood would a woodpecker peck
If a woodpecker would peck wood?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 10:24 PM (QsvZb)

100 'Back in the volcano again,
she's burning like like she's always been...'

Posted by: Eromero at April 22, 2024 10:24 PM (NxC5+)

101 They do not have the manpower. They killed them all in Stalin- and Zhukov-esque frontal assaults.

So say my sources.
Posted by: LenNeal

Saw something the other day that said the average age of Ukrainians on the front lines was 42. Also saw that they're refining their conscription law to include 15 year olds. F' ng butchers .

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 22, 2024 10:25 PM (hKZ+8)

102 You bastard!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Nurse!!

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 10:25 PM (vJiyU)

103 I assume all of them, and probably shockingly small amount
Posted by: a dude in MI at April 22, 2024 10:21 PM (+I6Y/)

$20, same as in DC.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 22, 2024 10:25 PM (0eaVi)

104 Back in the volcano again,
she's burning like like she's always been...'
Posted by: Eromero at April 22, 2024 10:24 PM (NxC5+)

She's burning, she's burning for you.

Posted by: Blue Oyster Cult at April 22, 2024 10:26 PM (ufFY8)

105 How much wood would a woodpecker peck
If a woodpecker would peck wood?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 10:24 PM (QsvZb)

——————

I thought you shot it in the face.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 22, 2024 10:26 PM (u73oe)

106
Sock, any more news on the grandpup?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2024 10:26 PM (MoZTd)

107 34 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by a Crappy Ride.

Picture checks out. An electric scooter wouldn't have a tank.

Posted by: mikeski at April 22, 2024 10:08 PM (DgGvY)
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Water cooling for the batteries?

Posted by: Ciampino - Game of Thrones #01 at April 22, 2024 10:27 PM (qfLjt)

108 But, Mom! All the European kids have trains!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2024 10:22 PM (MoZTd)

I took the train whistle. I like the toot toot sound.

Posted by: Evil Roy Slade at April 22, 2024 10:27 PM (0eaVi)

109 Also saw that they're refining their conscription law to include 15 year olds. F' ng butchers .
Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 22, 2024 10:25 PM (hKZ+

The Graft must flow

Posted by: Imperial Grand Poobah Zelinsky at April 22, 2024 10:27 PM (+I6Y/)

110 Saw something the other day that said the average age of Ukrainians on the front lines was 42. Also saw that they're refining their conscription law to include 15 year olds. F' ng butchers .
Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 22, 2024 10:25 PM (hKZ+

Best part is that it is our taxpayer money (the small non-grift part that actually makes to Ukraine) that is aiding and abetting this carnage.
Thanks to the Uni-Party Congressional Machine...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 22, 2024 10:28 PM (hOUT3)

111 Thanks for this ONT. Between it and the cafe I guess I need to grin and bear it.

Posted by: Ciampino - Game of Thrones #02 at April 22, 2024 10:28 PM (qfLjt)

112 Lets say Ukraine holds off the Russians with our billions worth of weapons.

The country is already gone. Outmigration of the women and children, and dying in trenches for the men.

Only the Paraguay casualties in the War of the Triple Alliance can top the slaughter.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:30 PM (u82oZ)

113 But, Mom! All the European kids have trains!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

So if the Europea Kids jumped off a bridge, would you?!

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 10:30 PM (vJiyU)

114 I still can’t believe we're funding some other country's war. And we're borrowing the money to boot.

Posted by: chris+opher at April 22, 2024 10:30 PM (dSco/)

115 That scooter in the last pic, has Turbo ~~Charging~~ Colon Blow, for that extra BURST on the road!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 22, 2024 10:31 PM (e6UQI)

116 Oh, leaving to the hardware store this morning the Cooper's Hawk flew over my car. The Kid puts out bird seed for the sparrows (she says) but has admitted to me she also does it as they're fodder for raptors.
I'm like, "What are you, running your own ecosystem back here?"

She got both a webcam and trailcam, but not to glory in the wonder of Nature, but to manage the balance of predators and prey.

WTF.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:31 PM (9yXr+)

117 They do not have the manpower. They killed them all in Stalin- and Zhukov-esque frontal assaults.

So say my sources.

It's a bit more complicated than that - the Ukrainians have been mostly drafting rural people, the working class, and non-Russian speakers.

There's still a sizable pool of people they haven't drafted, but they are from influential families, which causes -er- internal political problems.

We'll see how the just-passed mobilization law works.

One thing contained in the mobilization law is that Ukrainian men of draftable age will not be able to get their passports renewed at Ukrainian embassies abroad, unless their military documents are current.

That will be interesting to watch.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 22, 2024 10:31 PM (YAtuc)

118 the Ukrainians have been mostly drafting rural people, the working class, and non-Russian speakers

Er - non-Ukrainian speakers, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 22, 2024 10:32 PM (YAtuc)

119
Only the Paraguay casualties in the War of the Triple Alliance can top the slaughter.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

_________

The usual indifference to casualties.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2024 10:32 PM (MoZTd)

120 LenNeal,

Read your e-book and liked it. Got the link from a comment and downloaded it.

Very interesting story and entertaining. Enjoyed the character development and the plot twist. Been awhile since I read sci-fi but getting back into that genre was like putting on a favorite sweater. I will review it in the Sunday Book Thread.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 22, 2024 10:32 PM (U3L4U)

121 I see that there are model kits of the Boeing 737Max. Now I need to see if there are add-ons that show it in-flight with missing emergency door and engine parts….

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 22, 2024 10:33 PM (VNX3d)

122 The scooter dude is sitting backwards on the "seat".
Posted by: LRob in OK

That's the least of his plooplems.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 22, 2024 10:33 PM (IG4Id)

123 Hello, Some Rat! ❤️❤️❤️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 22, 2024 10:33 PM (SRRAx)

124 It's a pooper scooter!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 22, 2024 10:33 PM (q2svT)

125 If you like pain, the funding of Ukraine accelerates the death of the dollar as the World's reserve currency.

I am much more focused on surviving the burning train getting closer, as the trajectory for the US is beyond recoverable.

But I'll be fine, for varying amounts of fine.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:33 PM (u82oZ)

126 Sock, any more news on the grandpup?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

CT scan was positive. No apparent neck damage other than a severe strain. The concussion was a bigger concern. They admitted her for 48 hours of observation and they will reevaluate after that. She's more alert now. My little red headed fireball/angel's biggest concern was that she was going to miss her baseball game on Wednesday. Again, moron prayers are priceless. They helped my frustration and anxiousness as much as they helped her. You guys are awesome.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 22, 2024 10:33 PM (hKZ+8)

127 It's a bit more complicated than that - the Ukrainians have been mostly drafting rural people, the working class, and non-Russian speakers.
One thing contained in the mobilization law is that Ukrainian men of draftable age will not be able to get their passports renewed at Ukrainian embassies abroad, unless their military documents are current.
That will be interesting to watch.
Posted by: The ARC of History!'

I find the whole thing depressing, but keep an eye on it. It was a pointless conflict from the very beginning.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:34 PM (9yXr+)

128 DEATH PLUNGE Tourist, 31, dies after plummeting 250ft into VOLCANO while her husband was taking a picture on crater’s rim

Hubby shouted down after her, "I lava you!"

Posted by: mikeski at April 22, 2024 10:34 PM (DgGvY)

129 I know all about trains!!

Posted by: Kumala at April 22, 2024 10:35 PM (WXNFJ)

130 Bear is having sal-man for lunch

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 22, 2024 10:35 PM (q2svT)

131 I still can’t believe we're funding some other country's war. And we're borrowing the money to boot.
Posted by: chris+opher

We take the illegals, dress em up in Ukrainian Uniforms, stuff em on airplanes to Ukraine and explain based on what we pay for their illegal asses, Uk is getting a hell of a payday.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 10:35 PM (vJiyU)

132 111

Oh no...another one of those....things...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 22, 2024 10:35 PM (XvPG9)

133 It was a pointless conflict from the very beginning.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:34 PM (9yXr+)

Pointless to most...10% would disagree

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 22, 2024 10:36 PM (+I6Y/)

134
Foolish girl
she fell in to a burning ring of fire 🌋

Posted by: Don Black at April 22, 2024 10:36 PM (oCjPU)

135

CT scan was positive. No apparent neck damage other than a severe strain.

_________

Thank God! Keep us advised.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2024 10:36 PM (MoZTd)

136 Watching The Tomorrow War. No wonder they were losing . The soldiers were mostly women. And except for Chris Pratt I don't think there are any white guys.

Posted by: polynikes at April 22, 2024 10:36 PM (TDRQO)

137 I see that there are model kits of the Boeing 737Max. Now I need to see if there are add-ons that show it in-flight with missing emergency door and engine parts….
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

A steady hand and an x-acto knife and you've got your own custom one.

Posted by: mikeski at April 22, 2024 10:36 PM (DgGvY)

138 Today's launch moved to tomorrow when we have the NZ launch also, details to follow:

New T-Zero: Liftoff is targeted for April 23, 6:15 p.m. EDT, 22:15 UTC (00:15 CEST, April 24) due to off-nominal launch weather conditions.

off-nominal? How about adverse?

Posted by: Ciampino - Game of Thrones #03 at April 22, 2024 10:37 PM (qfLjt)

139 It's a pooper scooter!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 22, 2024 10:33 PM (q2svT)

Fun Fact: Some wag shoved a Porsche engine in a Mini Cooper and the Mini Pooper was born!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 22, 2024 10:37 PM (4I/2K)

140 LenNeal,

Read your e-book and liked it. Got the link from a comment and downloaded it.

Very interesting story and entertaining. Enjoyed the character development and the plot twist. Been awhile since I read sci-fi but getting back into that genre was like putting on a favorite sweater. I will review it in the Sunday Book Thread.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient'

Let Us Now Be Famous Men?

THANK YOU! What a nice thing to hear today. I wrote it as a vintage novel c. about 1962-ish?
Claire IX is one of my favorite 'people'.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:37 PM (9yXr+)

141 I've spent the past hour reading about Israeli
arms, drinking Irish Whiskey, and listening to Steely Dan.
Mellowed out, I am.

Posted by: Eromero at April 22, 2024 10:37 PM (NxC5+)

142 CT scan was positive. No apparent neck damage other than a severe strain.

_________

You pulled a Michael Scott.

Posted by: polynikes at April 22, 2024 10:38 PM (TDRQO)

143 130 Bear is having sal-man for lunch
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 22, 2024 10:35 PM (q2svT)

---------

It's well known that salmon is tastiest when wrapped in a fresh Bubba.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2024 10:38 PM (bo7UB)

144 Lots of oil and gas in Ukraine. Burisma, Hunter, etc. Now $Billions in aid.

All coincidental.

Posted by: davidt at April 22, 2024 10:38 PM (SYTee)

145 Hubby shouted down after her, "I lava you!"
Posted by: mikeski'

Daaaamn

props.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:38 PM (9yXr+)

146 No apparent neck damage other than a severe strain. The concussion was a bigger concern. They admitted her for 48 hours of observation and they will reevaluate after that. She's more alert now.

I know she'll pull through.

Posted by: Tuna at April 22, 2024 10:38 PM (oaGWv)

147 Have a great night, everyone.

May you all be blessed with bliss.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2024 10:38 PM (u82oZ)

148 CT scan was positive. No apparent neck damage other than a severe strain. The concussion was a bigger concern. They admitted her for 48 hours of observation and they will reevaluate after that. She's more alert now.

Posted by: Sock Monkey

Praise God.

My friend's toddler son was in a terrible car accident years ago - traumatic brain injury. Put in an induced coma. Everyone was praying for him.
He recovered fully and now is an awesome young man.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 22, 2024 10:39 PM (q2svT)

149 Oh, and for a fascinating glimpse into the future of "Our Democracies", the government censor in Australia has demanded that all social media companies remove a video showing a jihadist stabbing a Maronite priest during a church service in Australia.

Everyone complied, except for X. Elon Musk said that the censorship order was illegal, but still blocked the video in Australia, pending a resolution of the legal case.

The Australian government said that wasn't good enough - the video needed to be blocked worldwide, not just in Australia.

So, the Australian government is asserting the authority to censor the entire internet, if something happened in Australia that they want to suppress.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 22, 2024 10:39 PM (YAtuc)

150 I see that there are model kits of the Boeing 737Max. Now I need to see if there are add-ons that show it in-flight with missing emergency door and engine parts….
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

A steady hand and an x-acto knife and you've got your own custom one.
Posted by: mikeski

"Now with extra missing parts!"

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 10:39 PM (vJiyU)

151 I have to ask.

With the Olympics opening in Paris in just a couple months, how are the Israeli athletes going to be protected? Is anyone else having flashbacks to Munich in 1972?

Anyone?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 10:39 PM (VsEAp)

152 I'm going to bail on the movie and just read the synopsis on Wiki.

Posted by: polynikes at April 22, 2024 10:39 PM (TDRQO)

153 I still remember when I had an MRI, after a very minor stroke. I got the techs laughing afterwards by asking if they found my brain, because I knew at least one of my siblings would ask. They laughed and said yes - and I did get asked!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 22, 2024 10:39 PM (VNX3d)

154
Da Bruins lost 3-2. I can sleep contented tonight.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2024 10:39 PM (MoZTd)

155 So, MisHum. Are you the fish, the guy holding the fish or the bear about to wreck it all?

Posted by: tbodie, Lurker. Unless you are reading this at April 22, 2024 10:40 PM (GHa0y)

156 137 I see that there are model kits of the Boeing 737Max. Now I need to see if there are add-ons that show it in-flight with missing emergency door and engine parts….
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

----------

Add the special weights that make the nose pitch down during thrust changes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2024 10:40 PM (bo7UB)

157 Thanks to the Uni-Party Congressional Machine...

You're one of those white suppremies aren't you?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 22, 2024 10:40 PM (XvPG9)

158 CT scan was positive. No apparent neck damage other than a severe strain.

_________

Thank God! Keep us advised.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

No kidding! Yikes.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 10:40 PM (vJiyU)

159 "Now with extra missing parts!"
Posted by: Some Rat'

wow, lots of quotable lines tonight

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:40 PM (9yXr+)

160 Meh. Neil Young's other stuff really sucked compared to his early work on SNL's "The Whiners".

Posted by: irright at April 22, 2024 10:41 PM (DtNNC)

161 Let Us Now Be Famous Men?

THANK YOU! What a nice thing to hear today. I wrote it as a vintage novel c. about 1962-ish?
Claire IX is one of my favorite 'people'.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:37 PM (9yXr+)
* * * *
You did a wonderful job with Claire IX. I came to like her too. Thank you for letting me read it!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 22, 2024 10:41 PM (U3L4U)

162 With the Olympics opening in Paris in just a couple months, how are the Israeli athletes going to be protected? Is anyone else having flashbacks to Munich in 1972?

Anyone?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Not to worry, we'll ~~ignore~~ take care of it!

-- IOC

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2024 10:42 PM (WXNFJ)

163 Some words that should NEVER be used regarding DEMs & 2024: "panic"; "panicked"; "panicky"; "shocked"; "scared"; "stunned"; "worried"; "nervous"; "anxious"; "alarmed"

That's clickbait nonsense, but I see it every day.

Posted by: mnw at April 22, 2024 10:42 PM (NLIak)

164 141 I've spent the past hour reading about Israeli
arms, drinking Irish Whiskey, and listening to Steely Dan.
Mellowed out, I am.
Posted by: Eromero

One of my shooting buddies out here has a Jericho 1911. Is is a wonderful pistol to shoot.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 10:42 PM (VsEAp)

165 You pulled a Michael Scott.
Posted by: polynikes

That's what she said.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 22, 2024 10:42 PM (hKZ+8)

166 47

Told my son if ever wanted to get rid of anything, don't put "free" on it. Put 25$ on it, it'll be gone by morning.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 10:11 PM (vJiyU)
----
In Africa anything not bolted or chained down outside is gone by morning. At a large office/factory building they replaced all the long tube fluorescents and put the duds in the same cardboard carrier each good tube ws packaged in. Then these were stacked outside for the waste disposal truck. Gone by morning. Hope no one actually bought hem.

Posted by: Ciampino - Game of Thrones #04 at April 22, 2024 10:42 PM (qfLjt)

167 155 So, MisHum. Are you the fish, the guy holding the fish or the bear about to wreck it all?
Posted by: tbodie, Lurker. Unless you are reading this at April 22, 2024 10:40 PM (GHa0y)

I'm the Cob enjoying you folks chat tonight.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at April 22, 2024 10:43 PM (QXQ4l)

168 It was a Dark and Stormy night.

Drinkwise that is.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2024 10:43 PM (WXNFJ)

169 126 Hopeful news and continuing prayers, Sock Monkey.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 22, 2024 10:44 PM (w6EFb)

170 Sock Monkey, I must have missed it - what happened to your granddaughter? Sounds like she is doing better - so glad to hear it!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 22, 2024 10:44 PM (SRRAx)

171 It's a pooper scooter!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 22, 2024 10:33 PM (

A Bidet Skootay!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 10:44 PM (W/lyH)

172 Hubby shouted down after her, "I lava you!"

Posted by: mikeski at April 22, 2024 10:34 PM (DgGvY)

That's truly awful, and hordian : )

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 22, 2024 10:45 PM (w6EFb)

173 That picture up top is hilarious. Reminds me of that fish- eating- fish- eating-fish diagram.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at April 22, 2024 10:46 PM (ny95y)

174 131 We take the illegals, dress em up in Ukrainian Uniforms, stuff em on airplanes to Ukraine and explain based on what we pay for their illegal asses, Uk is getting a hell of a payday.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 10:35 PM (vJiyU)

That's a brilliant idea!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 22, 2024 10:46 PM (w6EFb)

175 public service announcement:

Formula 1 fans I have found this guy "rocketpoweredmohawk" on youtube, quality race analysis. Funny as hell, in a particular way.

Posted by: The Lump at April 22, 2024 10:46 PM (Z8Yh2)

176 A Bidet Skootay!

Posted by: Diogenes at

Manufactured by Fartrarri

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 22, 2024 10:46 PM (q2svT)

177 I thought you shot it in the face.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

No no no!
I pegged the little bastard in the ass. Took out a couple tail feathers.

He came back.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 10:47 PM (VsEAp)

178 It was a pointless conflict from the very beginning.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:34 PM (9yXr+)

Pointless to most...10% would disagree

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 22, 2024 10:36 PM (+I6Y/)

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: The Big Guy at April 22, 2024 10:47 PM (w6EFb)

179 DEATH PLUNGE Tourist, 31, dies after plummeting 250ft into VOLCANO while her husband was taking a picture on crater’s rim

----------

Do we have to recover her or can we just wait for the next eruption?

-- Rescue Crew No. 310

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2024 10:48 PM (bo7UB)

180 That's truly awful, and hordian : )
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I ~~blame~~ credit the bourbon.

Posted by: mikeski at April 22, 2024 10:48 PM (DgGvY)

181 59 I love the assumption that the married woman was not a virgin. The article doesn’t say how long they were married, so it might have been a virgin sacrifice on their honeymoon.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 22, 2024 10:14 PM (VNX3d)
----
Never.
In today's society those two have had sex before marriage.
Also it is wedding reception to bedroom. It is known.

Posted by: Ciampino - Game of Thrones #05 at April 22, 2024 10:48 PM (qfLjt)

182 I started the sci-fi book as kind of a PKD parody, and wanted to title it 'SEXBOT', with a lurid headlights cover and the tagline:

"She was part human, part machine, ALL WOMAN! What was Phil K going to do with this red-hot bucket of bolts?"

Then I got to writing it and got invested in the characters and it turned into this other thing. Oh well.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:49 PM (9yXr+)

183 She "tripped".

Posted by: The Lump at April 22, 2024 10:49 PM (Z8Yh2)

184 I've spent the past hour reading about Israeli
arms, drinking Irish Whiskey, and listening to Steely Dan.
Mellowed out, I am.
Posted by: Eromero

Nicely done!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 10:50 PM (W/lyH)

185 Some words that should NEVER be used regarding DEMs & 2024: "panic"; "panicked"; "panicky"; "shocked"; "scared"; "stunned"; "worried"; "nervous"; "anxious"; "alarmed"

That's clickbait nonsense, but I see it every day.
Posted by: mnw at April 22, 2024 10:42 PM (NLIak)

What if the word "alarmed" is used in connection with Democrat Jamal Bowman?

Posted by: pookysgirl, being pedantic again at April 22, 2024 10:51 PM (dtlDP)

186 67 I HATE travelling.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
------------

I don't mind it as long as my girlfriend, a class A motor home and a driver are involved.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 10:52 PM (jw2BQ)

187 Dude is avoiding flush hour traffic.

Posted by: Rex B at April 22, 2024 10:53 PM (5h/8D)

188 according to US government estimates

the Rooskies have not only totally reconstituted their military

they are 15% above what it was before the war started

now with another 60 billion going to the crooks in Ukraine

the Rooskies are hoping to get their war machine up to 20-25% of it's pre war power

somehow, I think the Rooskies may be getting a cut of our cash

Posted by: yikes at April 22, 2024 10:53 PM (us2H3)

189 Sock- that's so good to hear. Glad they're keeping her in for observation. Prayers will continue for a quick and complete recovery.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at April 22, 2024 10:53 PM (jN2/U)

190 I started the sci-fi book as kind of a PKD parody, and wanted to title it 'SEXBOT', with a lurid headlights cover and the tagline:

"She was part human, part machine, ALL WOMAN! What was Phil K going to do with this red-hot bucket of bolts?"

Then I got to writing it and got invested in the characters and it turned into this other thing. Oh well.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:49 PM (9yXr+)
* * * *
You done good. Your finished product is a much better and thoughtful story than one suggested by your planned promo, in my opinion.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 22, 2024 10:53 PM (U3L4U)

191 151 I have to ask.

With the Olympics opening in Paris in just a couple months, how are the Israeli athletes going to be protected? Is anyone else having flashbacks to Munich in 1972?

Anyone?
Posted
It’s what the jihadis do. They love to replay their greatest hits. So yes, I expect them to try to outdo Munich 72, and as a matter of fact, October 7, 24.

Posted by: Eromero at April 22, 2024 10:53 PM (NxC5+)

192 She and her husband Zhang Yong had climbed the slope with a local guide so they could watch the sunrise from the volcano's rim, local media reports.

----------

In other news, Zhang Yong is on the dating market, ladies.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2024 10:54 PM (bo7UB)

193 She "tripped".
Posted by: The Lump at April 22, 2024 10:49 PM (Z8Yh2

That's what the insurance agent is trying to determine...

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 10:54 PM (W/lyH)

194 what happened to your granddaughter

She fell off a climbing toy in her backyard, landing head first from about 7 ft. She was unconscious when my daughter got outside. My daughter, the RN is pretyy cool headed. They transported her by ambulance to the ER. I was outside keeping an eye on one of my pregnant goats and my phone was inside. I didn't find out until almost 2 hours after it happened. My wife had already made the trip in. We weren't getting any information for quite awhile, which ratcheted up my frustration.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 22, 2024 10:54 PM (hKZ+8)

195 What if the word "alarmed" is used in connection with Democrat Jamal Bowman?
Posted by: pookysgirl, being pedantic again

Heh!

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 10:54 PM (vJiyU)

196 Likes: Hiking, the sunrise, social media

Dislikes: Gravity, pyroclastic flow, official paperwork

Posted by: Zhong Yang at April 22, 2024 10:56 PM (bo7UB)

197 So after Putin annexes a third of UKR or so (if UKR is lucky), that will be Russia's last territorial demand in Europe, right? /s

UKR is just a little country far away of which we know nothing. Just like the Czech Republic in 1938.

Anyway, when Moldova and Georgia are overrun, at least we'll have gotten used to it.

What's the harm if Putin reassembles the old Soviet Block, anyway?

Isolationism: everything old is new again.

Posted by: mnw at April 22, 2024 10:56 PM (NLIak)

198 Currently in between horrible technical work about the usual war shit and current events, I'm writing a series of vampire fiction.

It's not 'Twilight', my vampire is a straight-up predator and the work is not something I can share on the Book Thread or the Horde site, which I am about to get back into. My vampire is an obscene killer.

Oh, there is a sequel to the sci-fi book. Range does go on, with Claire IX. And it's not like Future World, it's better than that.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:56 PM (9yXr+)

199 It's a very pleasant evening. I'm hanging outbwith the demon dog in the back yard. He's been eating so much grass that I'm beginning to suspect he's a German Shepherd / goat hybrid. Maybe I won't have to mow at all...

Posted by: PabloD at April 22, 2024 10:57 PM (m0FOZ)

200 With the Olympics opening in Paris in just a couple months, how are the Israeli athletes going to be protected? Is anyone else having flashbacks to Munich in 1972?

The Eurovision song contest is upcoming in Malmo, Sweden, which officially is 12% Muslim (probably considerably more, of course).

The Israeli government has told the Israeli Eurovision contestant to stay in her hotel room at all times, except when attending official Eurovision functions.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 22, 2024 10:58 PM (YAtuc)

201 Why do I expect to see this headline written and buried in the next few months: President Biden gets wedgie from young girl after sniffing her hair.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 22, 2024 10:58 PM (VNX3d)

202 Tourist, 31, dies after plummeting 250ft into VOLCANO while her husband was taking a picture on crater’s rim

"Just a LITTLE further back, honey. Trust me!"

Posted by: Rusty Nail at April 22, 2024 10:59 PM (VxbvY)

203 NYC live now:
https://www.twitch.tv/thizzl

Posted by: Ciampino - Game of Thrones #06 at April 22, 2024 10:59 PM (qfLjt)

204 With the Olympics opening in Paris in just a couple months, how are the Israeli athletes going to be protected? Is anyone else having flashbacks to Munich in 1972?

Anyone?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 10:39 PM (VsEAp)

^^ You are so right. Very scary.

Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at April 22, 2024 10:59 PM (n3DL0)

205 I watched the first episode of "Johnny Quest" in blue ray. Wow, it looks great. And it's kind of dumb. Looking forward to the robot spider and the invisible screamer.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 22, 2024 10:59 PM (CHHv1)

206 Greetings Everyone

Four more days to retirement.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2024 11:00 PM (QGaXH)

207 Posted by: mnw at April 22, 2024 10:56 PM (NLIak)

You definitely framed it without any context at all. It's like Putin just decided one day to attack Ukraine.

Posted by: polynikes at April 22, 2024 11:00 PM (TDRQO)

208 188 according to US government estimates

the Rooskies have not only totally reconstituted their military

they are 15% above what it was before the war started

now with another 60 billion going to the crooks in Ukraine

the Rooskies are hoping to get their war machine up to 20-25% of it's pre war power

somehow, I think the Rooskies may be getting a cut of our cash
Posted by: yikes
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Not to be forgetting that their manufacturing capability is equally increased.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 11:00 PM (jw2BQ)

209 Yikes, Monkey! How old is your granddaughter? I am so glad that she is on the mend - it sounds like it could have been SO much worse!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 22, 2024 11:00 PM (SRRAx)

210 Mark Hamill
@MarkHamill
Joe Biden is the best president we've ever had.

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Good. Good. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can release the Dark Side.

Posted by: Darth Vader at April 22, 2024 11:00 PM (FVME7)

211 Was today Earthday? I forgot to set my clock back 200 years.

Posted by: Ripley at April 22, 2024 11:01 PM (bYyP0)

212 So after Putin annexes a third of UKR or so (if UKR is lucky), that will be Russia's last territorial demand in Europe, right? /s

Putin is 71 and a half - he'd better get cracking if he wants to conquer all of Europe while he's still alive.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 22, 2024 11:01 PM (YAtuc)

213 Oh, there is a sequel to the sci-fi book. Range does go on, with Claire IX. And it's not like Future World, it's better than that.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:56 PM (9yXr+)
* * * *
Sounds interesting!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 22, 2024 11:01 PM (U3L4U)

214 Why do I expect to see this headline written and buried in the next few months: President Biden gets wedgie from young girl after sniffing her hair.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

If we’re lucky, the story shows the Secret Service rushing him away, while trying not to grin in approval.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 22, 2024 11:01 PM (VNX3d)

215 Putin smiles, OTJ training. Read recently that a crop of ex prisoners have successfully completed their tour of duty and are coming home to Mother Russia with pockets full of cash.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 11:02 PM (jw2BQ)

216 185
Some words that should NEVER be used regarding DEMs & 2024: "panic"; "panicked"; "panicky"; "shocked"; "scared"; "stunned"; "worried"; "nervous"; "anxious"; "alarmed"

But wait. Can we use 'pounced'? Or does that only apply to conservatives?...I often get confused...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 22, 2024 11:02 PM (XvPG9)

217 I watched the first episode of "Johnny Quest" in blue ray. Wow, it looks great. And it's kind of dumb. Looking forward to the robot spider and the invisible screamer.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Oo! Oo!! The greatest intro/theme song of all time.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2024 11:02 PM (WXNFJ)

218 Wow, I'm kind of excited someone read a book I wrote!

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 11:03 PM (9yXr+)

219 ith the Olympics opening in Paris in just a couple months, how are the Israeli athletes going to be protected? Is anyone else having flashbacks to Munich in 1972?

Anyone?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 10:39 PM (VsEAp)

^^ You are so right. Very scary.
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at April 22, 2024 10:59 PM (n3DL0)

I'm just assuming the Israeli team will be well guarded by undercover Israeli special forces,

Posted by: polynikes at April 22, 2024 11:03 PM (TDRQO)

220 Whew! The day is done. Kitchen cleaned, cats fed final dinner of the night, one on one time spent with the kidlette, morning class choreography learned, showered, and now 10 minutes to relax before bed and I start all over again tomorrow.

Posted by: Piper at April 22, 2024 11:03 PM (ZdaMQ)

221 204 With the Olympics opening in Paris in just a couple months, how are the Israeli athletes going to be protected? Is anyone else having flashbacks to Munich in 1972?

Anyone?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 10:39 PM (VsEAp)

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I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. The French have a faultless record protecting their native Jews, right?

RIGHT?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2024 11:03 PM (bo7UB)

222 Mr. S, as a Dad thing, has paid for the kids' tolltags for years.
He started to notice a lot of trips to DFW airport, which was odd. Checked around and learned that our SIL had finally sold my old Ford Focus, that was the kid car, to an
acquaintance for parts.
This guy sold the windshield to someone and no one thought to remove the sticker.
It's being fixed, though, and we will be paid back.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at April 22, 2024 11:03 PM (jN2/U)

223 F*ck Mark Hamill.

Asshoe.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2024 11:04 PM (bo7UB)

224 212 So after Putin annexes a third of UKR or so (if UKR is lucky), that will be Russia's last territorial demand in Europe, right? /s

Putin is 71 and a half - he'd better get cracking if he wants to conquer all of Europe while he's still alive.
Posted by: The ARC of History
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It's a red line, man. Putin will go no further than he can.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 11:04 PM (jw2BQ)

225 Greetings Everyone

Four more days to retirement.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2024 11:00 PM (QGaXH)
* * * *
Woohoo!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 22, 2024 11:04 PM (U3L4U)

226 @217 - a guy named Roger Evans did a stop motion version of that, which is AWESOME. (He's not related to Rich Evans.)

Seek it out on YT, you will not be disappointed.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 22, 2024 11:05 PM (CHHv1)

227 Mr. S, as a Dad thing, has paid for the kids' tolltags for years.
He started to notice a lot of trips to DFW airport, which was odd. Checked around and learned that our SIL had finally sold my old Ford Focus, that was the kid car, to an
acquaintance for parts.
This guy sold the windshield to someone and no one thought to remove the sticker.
It's being fixed, though, and we will be paid back.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum

Ask not for whom the toll dings,
It dings for thy money

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 22, 2024 11:06 PM (VNX3d)

228 I think they should have Mossad portrayed as athletes along with them.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 11:07 PM (jw2BQ)

229 Greetings Everyone

Four more days to retirement.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Good for you!!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 11:07 PM (qRY7w)

230 We shoulda gone to Roy Roger's.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 22, 2024 11:07 PM (yGf0p)

231 Germany afraid that Russia may invade their space

industrial grade chutzpah

Posted by: Barbarossa at April 22, 2024 11:07 PM (us2H3)

232 I don't want to shock you but Alec Baldwin freaks out and punches someone in a coffee shop.

https://shorturl.at/fqsS7

I'm disappointed only in that he punched someone who deserved it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 22, 2024 11:07 PM (FVME7)

233 It’s a mistake to assume that the West wants this war to end.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 22, 2024 11:08 PM (u73oe)

234 220 Whew! The day is done. Kitchen cleaned, cats fed final dinner of the night, one on one time spent with the kidlette, morning class choreography learned, showered, and now 10 minutes to relax before bed and I start all over again tomorrow.
Posted by: Piper at April 22, 2024 11:03 PM (ZdaMQ)

Piper

Ours are grown and gone - it goes so fast - like the song 'don't blink'. Savor every moment.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2024 11:08 PM (QGaXH)

235 Hhmmm...Retirement.

Maybe if I was a working man in the 1950's.

I'll be going out feet first...shame.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 22, 2024 11:08 PM (TDvv2)

236 Greetings Everyone

Four more days to retirement.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2024 11:00 PM (QGaXH)

Woohoo!!!
We'll be partying on the same day. My birthday!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 11:08 PM (W/lyH)

237 Mark Hamill
@MarkHamill
Joe Biden is the best president we've ever had.

If you're going to reveal how mentally ill you are don't half ass it. Go big.

Posted by: polynikes at April 22, 2024 11:09 PM (TDRQO)

238 DEATH PLUNGE Tourist, 31, dies after plummeting 250ft into VOLCANO while her husband was taking a picture on crater’s rim

Riiiiiight. 'Taking a picture'. *taps side of nose*

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 11:09 PM (di6C2)

239 I watched the first episode of "Johnny Quest" in blue ray. Wow, it looks great. And it's kind of dumb. Looking forward to the robot spider and the invisible screamer.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 22, 2024 10:59 PM (CHHv1)

when we first got streaming service, we watched all kinds of vintage TV. Our conclusion- we were very easily entertained back in the day. It was kind of embarrassing.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at April 22, 2024 11:10 PM (jN2/U)

240 Ours are grown and gone - it goes so fast - like the song 'don't blink'. Savor every moment.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Oh I know, I can’t believe my oldest ones are 32 and almost 25. They really need to lie about their ages so my lies about mine make sense! The kidlette will be 13 in June. So weird since I am 29.

Posted by: Piper at April 22, 2024 11:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

241 Yes...

Thank you for the ONT.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 22, 2024 11:11 PM (TDvv2)

242 Thank you Nurse and Legally Sufficient.

I told them I was leaving instead of the other way around, but still I'm pretty apprehensive. Financially we should be more than fine. Just...this is wayyyy out of my comfort zone...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2024 11:11 PM (QGaXH)

243 I'm three years retired now and don't regret one day retiring early at 60.

Posted by: polynikes at April 22, 2024 11:12 PM (TDRQO)

244 Mark Hamill
@MarkHamill
Joe Biden is the best president we've ever had.

Amazing! It's a talking turnip! We do live in an age of miracles and wonders!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2024 11:12 PM (sAmhv)

245 Apparently I am the only Eastern Orthodox Christian on this board at all, and my sources from that side very often do not coincide with what the West says. Don't get me wrong: I firmly believe the Nationalist/Tribal/Ethnic factor inevitable in autocephalous Churches can and does get out of control.
But I will also stress that I personally, am not a member of any EOC Church in North America: I am directly associated with, baptised into, another Orthodox Church not in the USA.

This is an important distinction to me: this American Orthodox business trying to canonize Robert E. Lee is nuts and it's not a good idea, much less a good look. I keep up with what is going on in the EOC, and this Ukraine thing is a very serious issue, especially considering who is sponsoring the 'new' Uke church.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 11:12 PM (9yXr+)

246 243 I'm three years retired now and don't regret one day retiring early at 60.
Posted by: polynikes

My sister retired at age 59. She's very content. Me? Well, I'll retire 3 years after I'm dead.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2024 11:13 PM (sAmhv)

247 DEATH PLUNGE Tourist, 31, dies after plummeting 250ft into VOLCANO while her husband was taking a picture on crater’s rim

Riiiiiight. 'Taking a picture'. *taps side of nose*

Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Camera by Acme, from the Wile E Coyote collection.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 22, 2024 11:13 PM (VNX3d)

248
I see Miley let slip today is the day I turn 29. Thanks for the birthday wishes to all above.

I see someone mentioned meteors. It's the Lyrids, which peaked today (peak was around dawn this morning). The radiant (point from which they all appear to originate from) is to the West of Vega, in the constellation Lyra.

The radiant rises around 9:30PM here, and is about 15 degrees about the horizon now. Transit (meridian crossing) is a little bit before dawn.

So, if you want to see them, that's where and when to look. I haven't had any luck lately seeing any meteors when I was actively looking.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 22, 2024 11:13 PM (w6EFb)

249 ...I think they should have Mossad portrayed as athletes along with them. Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 11:07 PM (jw2BQ)

Mossad should wear crisply creased Khaki slacks, blue polo shirts, black "trainer" shoes and of course, the requisite Ray Ban Wayfarer sunglasses.

Clean shaven young men, all not to be older than their mid '30s.

No one will "make" them, least of all The Media.

.... well, except for every muzzie terrorist within the Olympic Village.

Remember. It takes a Village to Raze a People.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 22, 2024 11:13 PM (e6UQI)

250 Camera by Acme, from the Wile E Coyote collection.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 22, 2024 11:13 PM (VNX3d)

Has a boxing glove that springs out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 11:14 PM (di6C2)

251 242 Thank you Nurse and Legally Sufficient. And Diogenes...

If any of you see a dark gray Ram 1500 pulling a 29' Sundance with California plates this summer, be sure and wave...LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2024 11:14 PM (QGaXH)

252 What's the harm if Putin reassembles the old Soviet Block, anyway?
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Why stop there, mnw?

Why would the world be a worse place if Putin ran Europe rather than the EU and Nato?

Posted by: Methos at April 22, 2024 11:14 PM (Dnobf)

253 >@MarkHamill
Joe Biden is the best president we've ever had.

---

this is an absurd statement
either Hamill's an idiot or he's signaling his lefty bona fides to Hollywood

Posted by: Don Black at April 22, 2024 11:15 PM (oCjPU)

254 this is an absurd statement
either Hamill's an idiot or he's signaling his lefty bona fides to Hollywood
Posted by: Don Black at April 22, 2024 11:15 PM (oCjPU)

Both.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 11:16 PM (di6C2)

255 Scooter Boy is going to be in a world of hurt if he wrecks. Toilets explode into shards when impacted. Slice you worse than a sharp knife. Maybe amputation, arteries sliced.

Posted by: American Standard at April 22, 2024 11:16 PM (V5BDR)

256 211 Was today Earthday? I forgot to set my clock back 200 years.

Not me. My clocks always tend to be at least 205 years behind, and I forget to reset them...no big deal...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 22, 2024 11:17 PM (XvPG9)

257 It's a very pleasant evening. I'm hanging outbwith the demon dog in the back yard. He's been eating so much grass that I'm beginning to suspect he's a German Shepherd / goat hybrid. Maybe I won't have to mow at all...

Posted by: PabloD at April 22, 2024 10:57 PM (m0FOZ)

Every time JT goes for crabgrass on a walk, I tell him, "Your name is NOT Hank! You are NOT a cowdog!"

Shockingly, it doesn't work on JT, but it does make Pooky smile.

Posted by: pookysgirl listened to a lot of those audiobooks at April 22, 2024 11:17 PM (dtlDP)

258 BREAKING: Police clear NYU “Liberated Zone” encampment, clash with protesters

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I hope there were many hickory shampoos given then rinse and repeat.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 22, 2024 11:18 PM (FVME7)

259 Then I got to writing it and got invested in the characters and it turned into this other thing. Oh well.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 10:49 PM (9yXr+)

Happens to you, too?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 22, 2024 11:18 PM (0eaVi)

260 and this Ukraine thing is a very serious issue, especially considering who is sponsoring the 'new' Uke church.

National Google Review had an article recently accusing the Russians of suppressing religious freedom in Ukraine.

Projection, always.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 22, 2024 11:18 PM (YAtuc)

261 Who's the "we" in the Hamill quote?

Marginal faggot actors who've been in one notable trilogy of poorly acted movies that ends with cannibal carebears?

Hamill sucks cock by choice.

Posted by: Probably Poorly, Even For An Elderly Queen at April 22, 2024 11:18 PM (nRamD)

262 Mark Hamill
@MarkHamill
Joe Biden is the best president we've ever had.

Amazing! It's a talking turnip! We do live in an age of miracles and wonders!
Posted by: Puddleglum

Bite me.

Posted by: an actual talking turnip at April 22, 2024 11:18 PM (DgGvY)

263 this is an absurd statement
either Hamill's an idiot or he's signaling his lefty bona fides to Hollywood
Posted by: Don Black at April 22, 2024 11:15 PM (oCjPU)

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YES and YES

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2024 11:19 PM (bo7UB)

264 If any of you see a dark gray Ram 1500 pulling a 29' Sundance with California plates this summer, be sure and wave...LOL!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

That narrows it down to about 20,000 vehicles....stick an AoS flag on the antenna.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 11:19 PM (vJiyU)

265 242 I told them I was leaving instead of the other way around, but still I'm pretty apprehensive. Financially we should be more than fine. Just...this is wayyyy out of my comfort zone...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Change is always uncomfortable, even good change! You will find your way and may even discover new things that keep you occupied. It’s cliche, but true, a new chapter is starting and who knows what adventures you may find yourself getting involved with!

Posted by: Piper at April 22, 2024 11:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

266 this is an absurd statement
either Hamill's an idiot or he's signaling his lefty bona fides to Hollywood
Posted by: Don Black

Too much acid.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 22, 2024 11:19 PM (FVME7)

267 -
Mark Hamill
@MarkHamill
Joe Biden is the best president we've ever had.

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

The green milk that is circulating around is not specifically too good. Uh, it's suggested that you do stay away from that, course it's your own trip, so be my guest, but, uh, please be advised that there is a warning on that one ok?

Posted by: Announcement at April 22, 2024 11:20 PM (DtNNC)

268 Does Tuesday, November 5, 2024 even matter anymore?

Those black pills are quite something; like the sunglasses in 'They Live.'

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 22, 2024 11:21 PM (WZi61)

269 246 243 I'm three years retired now and don't regret one day retiring early at 60.
Posted by: polynikes

My sister retired at age 59. She's very content. Me? Well, I'll retire 3 years after I'm dead.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2024 11:13 PM (sAmhv)

Except for 6 weeks in the summer of 1982 when I was unexpectedly laid-off*, I've worked or had a job every day since college graduation in May, 1980.

*that was the only non-aerospace job I ever had.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2024 11:21 PM (QGaXH)

270 I think they should have Mossad portrayed as athletes along with them.
Posted by: Braenyard

Were I a betting man (and I am), I'd wager there are numerous gay 'escorts' that work for Mossad for just this type of eventuality. Hamas and the like cannot give up their perversions no matter what it could do to their OPSEC.

Therefore. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2024 11:21 PM (WXNFJ)

271 Never stand between a bear and his steelhead.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 22, 2024 11:21 PM (fY84s)

272 Happens to you, too?
Posted by: OrangeEnt'

Yes. The characters start writing themselves, and then you're stuck. Claire IX started as an android foil for a parody of PKD, then became the soul of the entire book!
She wrote herself.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 11:21 PM (9yXr+)

273
Hello, people whose faces and names I don't even know! I'm utterly miserable because I think my relative's hospice nurse is a bossy know-it-all. (This isn't my first rodeo with hospice nurses and they weren't all like this one.) His wife has decided to end the feeding even if he says he's hungry because the nurse explained that starving is the natural process.

His death is imminent but I rate this a mercy killing. I'm afraid it's going to color my relationship with her for the rest of our lives. Plus I'm miserable about this guy dying.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 22, 2024 11:21 PM (ny95y)

274 this is an absurd statement
either Hamill's an idiot or he's signaling his lefty bona fides to Hollywood
Posted by: Don Black at April 22, 2024 11:15 PM (oCjPU)

Both.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 11:16 PM (di6C2)

He's an idiot.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 11:21 PM (W/lyH)

275 266 this is an absurd statement
either Hamill's an idiot or he's signaling his lefty bona fides to Hollywood
Posted by: Don Black

Too much acid.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 22, 2024 11:19 PM (FVME7)

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This is the guy who didn't have the acting chops for Corvette Summer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2024 11:21 PM (bo7UB)

276 this is an absurd statement
either Hamill's an idiot or he's signaling his lefty bona fides to Hollywood

Bona fide brain dead leftist idiot.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 22, 2024 11:22 PM (V8he0)

277 Yikes, Monkey! How old is your granddaughter? I am so glad that she is on the mend - it sounds like it could have been SO much worse!
Posted by: Teresa

She's a six year old ball of fire. My daughter did caution us that doctors are still very concerned and that the damage from those types of injuries don't always reveal themselves immediately. I'll trust our Lord. One of her favorite things to do is go to church with us. She will ask her parents if she can come out on the weekend, without her siblings, so she can go to church. Her parents are not believers. Several months ago, she came out on a Saturday evening. She went up to play in her room. After a half an hour, she came down and sat between my wife and I and in a very serious voice, told us she wanted to give her life to Jesus.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 22, 2024 11:23 PM (hKZ+8)

278 I told them I was leaving instead of the other way around, but still I'm pretty apprehensive. Financially we should be more than fine. Just...this is wayyyy out of my comfort zone...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

I kept my CDL alive just in case. So far, so good.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 11:24 PM (vJiyU)

279 starving is the natural process

Spoken like a fucking concentration camp guard.

Posted by: I think nursing attracts a lot of chicks who would like to be prison guards but lack the chops at April 22, 2024 11:24 PM (nRamD)

280 273
His death is imminent but I rate this a mercy killing. I'm afraid it's going to color my relationship with her for the rest of our lives. Plus I'm miserable about this guy dying.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April

Oh my goodness, that is awful and I am so sorry. I can’t even imagine a hospice nurse saying this. Saying don’t force food if they aren’t hungry, yes. But starving if they can keep food down? No. Again, I am so sorry. As much positive energy as I can send is coming your way.

Posted by: Piper at April 22, 2024 11:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

281 265 242 Just...this is wayyyy out of my comfort zone...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Change is always uncomfortable, even good change! You will find your way and may even discover new things that keep you occupied. It’s cliche, but true, a new chapter is starting and who knows what adventures you may find yourself getting involved with!
Posted by: Piper at April 22, 2024 11:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

Thank you Piper. It will take a little time to get used to my new freedom. I'm sure good things will keep coming. We've been extremely blessed and I'm grateful. For now my plan is do a little travel and 'wait for instructions'.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2024 11:26 PM (QGaXH)

282 We got him a super duper chocolate ganache cake. No candles. I also found a "Happy 29th birthday...again!" card.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Erfday Birfday!

Posted by: Miklos, turning on all the lights in Celebration at April 22, 2024 11:26 PM (oGyF9)

283 For Mark Hamill’s next trick, he’ll claim Emperor Palpatine was the hero of Star Wars, because he was the only character in all three trilogies, and that he misses those wonderful but misunderstood leaders, Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 22, 2024 11:26 PM (VNX3d)

284 I told them I was leaving instead of the other way around, but still I'm pretty apprehensive. Financially we should be more than fine. Just...this is wayyyy out of my comfort zone...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Before I retired, I was counseled that it would take about one year to get used to my new normal.

HA! I slid easily into retirement during the ride home from my last day at the office.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2024 11:26 PM (WXNFJ)

285 I was a Boy Scout in my youth.

The best times were the camping trips.

Sometimes local mountains and air awash in pine with maybe a creek or lake to explore. Once, a 50 mile backpack through the Dinky Lakes in the Sierra's
Flashlight "Tag" at night...meals cooked on large skillets..."Minute steaks", beans, "Swiss Miss" Cocoa, TANG.
And GORP...now known as "Trail Mix." or the venerable Beef Jerky/Pemmican.

I wish to smell the pines again... one last time.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 22, 2024 11:26 PM (TDvv2)

286 Thank you Nurse and Legally Sufficient. And Diogenes...

If any of you see a dark gray Ram 1500 pulling a 29' Sundance with California plates this summer, be sure and wave...LOL!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2024 11:14 PM (QGaXH)
***

*runs down to stand on side if I-5*
*waves like Forest at every gray Ram 1500*

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 11:27 PM (W/lyH)

287 264 If any of you see a dark gray Ram 1500 pulling a 29' Sundance with California plates this summer, be sure and wave...LOL!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

That narrows it down to about 20,000 vehicles....stick an AoS flag on the antenna.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 11:19 PM (vJiyU)

I don't think the Ram has an antenna - maybe I'll print out the logo and put it in the back window of the camper.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2024 11:28 PM (QGaXH)

288 282 We got him a super duper chocolate ganache cake. No candles. I also found a "Happy 29th birthday...again!" card.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Erfday Birfday!
Posted by: Miklos, turning on all the lights in Celebration at April 22, 2024 11:26 PM (oGyF9)

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It's a little late in the day to round up 29 used tires.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2024 11:28 PM (bo7UB)

289 Never stand between a bear and his steelhead.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

This then is also the story of we Morons.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2024 11:28 PM (WXNFJ)

290 197 So after Putin annexes a third of UKR or so (if UKR is lucky), that will be Russia's last territorial demand in Europe, right? /s

UKR is just a little country far away of which we know nothing. Just like the Czech Republic in 1938.

Anyway, when Moldova and Georgia are overrun, at least we'll have gotten used to it.

What's the harm if Putin reassembles the old Soviet Block, anyway?

Isolationism: everything old is new again.

Posted by: mnw at April 22, 2024 10:56 PM (NLIak)

I'm glad I don't live in one of the three tiny Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All are in NATO. When Pootin decides it is time to re-incorporate them into Greater Russia, a few years after Ukraine throws in the towel, the leader of every other NATO nation will tell the Baltic States leaders, "When are we coming to defend you per the Mutual Defense paragraph in Article V of the NATO Treaty, you ask? Ha! You must not have read the fine print! Good luck to ya!"

Posted by: Gref at April 22, 2024 11:29 PM (5fDan)

291 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Perhaps you could road trip to Yakima in June for a moron meet up? Ping Mark in the left sidebar.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 11:29 PM (oAWcY)

292 serious voice, told us she wanted to give her life to Jesus.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings

This is beyond precious.

Posted by: Piper at April 22, 2024 11:29 PM (ZdaMQ)

293 @MarkHamill
Joe Biden is the best president we've ever had.

Those 9 words say more about Hamill's emotional state than Biden's. I wonder if he realizes that.

Less is more is sometimes ideal.

Posted by: old chick at April 22, 2024 11:30 PM (F3Dlr)

294 If any of you see a dark gray Ram 1500 pulling a 29' Sundance with California plates this summer, be sure and wave...LOL!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

If you're on I40 in TN stop at the Buc-ee's and give me a call. I'll spring for a coffee and a brisket sammich for you all.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2024 11:30 PM (WXNFJ)

295 Thank you Piper. It will take a little time to get used to my new freedom. I'm sure good things will keep coming. We've been extremely blessed and I'm grateful. For now my plan is do a little travel and 'wait for instructions'.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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If your experience is anything like mine, you will soon wonder how you ever found time to work.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2024 11:30 PM (XeU6L)

296 This is the guy who didn't have the acting chops for Corvette Summer.
Posted by: Cicero

Posted by: Miklos, turning on all the lights in Celebration at April 22, 2024 11:30 PM (oGyF9)

297 I won't go into the NASA advice I got on the sci-fi book. What a PIA. I do in fact know a Rocket Scientist and he was all over it with suggestions about vintage authenticity.

Eurgh. I own, actually (!!!) a single-print copy of the report:

'The 1936-37 Purge of Soviet Astronomers'
By Robert A. McCutcheon, 1989 reprint, cited often in research. It wasn't expensive, suprisingly. Papers like this are obscure and not wanted generally so I got it, if I recall, for >USD$20.

I used that report to build the Luna Society.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 11:30 PM (9yXr+)

298 His death is imminent but I rate this a mercy killing. I'm afraid it's going to color my relationship with her for the rest of our lives. Plus I'm miserable about this guy dying.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April

Dad was in the end stages of cancer. LOT of pain. Hospice nurse came in, gave him a shot, explained he would sleep now and not wake up.
So I get both sides of this horrible equation.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 11:31 PM (vJiyU)

299 This is the guy who didn't have the acting chops for Corvette Summer.
Posted by: Cicero

Not great in a tube top neither.

Posted by: Miklos, correcting and revising at April 22, 2024 11:31 PM (oGyF9)

300 I wish to smell the pines again... one last time.
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 22, 2024 11:26 PM (TDvv2)

Fjording for the pines?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 22, 2024 11:32 PM (0eaVi)

301 Blonde Morticia,
I'm sorry your experience with hospice this time is so rotten.

May the peace of Christ be with you and your loved ones at this very difficult time.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 11:32 PM (oAWcY)

302 I'm glad I don't live in one of the three tiny Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All are in NATO.

Whatever one thinks of NATO expansion generally, including three mini-states that have historically been part of Russia (and are completely indefensible) was - unwise.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 22, 2024 11:32 PM (YAtuc)

303 268
*runs down to stand on side if I-5*
*waves like Forest at every gray Ram 1500*
Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 11:27 PM (W/lyH)

You made me laugh out loud, D!

Thank you everyone!

Gotta call it a night - still have a few days to go and 3:30 comes awful early in these parts...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2024 11:34 PM (QGaXH)

304 I got two cortisone shots today, one in each thumb. Lots of pain at the moment. The thumbs were in bad shape. I lost the ability to open a twist top beer bottle!

Posted by: Beartooth at April 22, 2024 11:34 PM (XT+5H)

305
Dad was in the end stages of cancer. LOT of pain. Hospice nurse came in, gave him a shot, explained he would sleep now and not wake up.
So I get both sides of this horrible equation.
Posted by: Some Rat'

I respect people able to make hard decisions in difficult times. Don't let anybody judge you. Anyone who has also been in that kind of situation won't and the rest don't matter.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 11:34 PM (9yXr+)

306 'The 1936-37 Purge of Soviet Astronomers'

Stalin purged the stamp collectors during the Great Purge.

After all, some of them had collected foreign stamps.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 22, 2024 11:34 PM (YAtuc)

307
Thank you Piper and I think nursing attracts a lot of chicks who would like to be prison guards but lack the chops.

The wife at this point is all about forcing herself to be pragmatic and "Nurse Knows Best," but I wish she'd give in to her emotions a little. Even one of the regular care givers cried over this development.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 22, 2024 11:35 PM (ny95y)

308 It's a little late in the day to round up 29 used tires.
Posted by: Cicero

Publius has flammables on-site you can see from Google Earth.

Including some truly big-ass tires.

Posted by: Miklos, no coordinates given at April 22, 2024 11:35 PM (oGyF9)

309 His wife has decided to end the feeding even if he says he's hungry because the nurse explained that starving is the natural process.

That's BS. That's not only the nurse, that's also the hospice organization. If their client stops eating is one thing but a family member making that decision is completely different. Sounds like burn out on the wife's part, which I can understand, but that doesn't make it a viable alternative. My daughter was a hospice nurse for six years. She said one of the most difficult aspects of the job was balancing between the family members issues and her clients needs.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 22, 2024 11:35 PM (hKZ+8)

310 291 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Perhaps you could road trip to Yakima in June for a moron meet up? Ping Mark in the left sidebar.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 11:29 PM (oAWcY)

Will consider it. Thank you for the invite.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2024 11:36 PM (QGaXH)

311 I hope you enjoyed your birthday, Publius!

I am off to bed. Thank you all for spending my wind down time with me!

Posted by: Piper at April 22, 2024 11:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

312 I'm glad I don't live in one of the three tiny Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All are in NATO.

Whatever one thinks of NATO expansion generally, including three mini-states that have historically been part of Russia (and are completely indefensible) was - unwise.
Posted by: The ARC of History!'

I'm not arguing, at all, just bringing up the rivers and the also traditional alliance between Lithuania and Poland. Again, not arguing, it's just a factor.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 11:37 PM (9yXr+)

313 Michael Douglas, 79, says Biden, 81, isn't too old for a second term: 'We all have an issue with memory when we get older!'

https://mol.im/a/13336695

Posted by: Ciampino - Game of Thrones #07 at April 22, 2024 11:37 PM (qfLjt)

314 Stalin purged the stamp collectors during the Great Purge.

After all, some of them had collected foreign stamps.
Posted by: The ARC of History!'

What about us? What are we, chopped liver?
Oh, I guess we are.

Posted by: Esperantists at April 22, 2024 11:38 PM (9yXr+)

315 >>>
His death is imminent but I rate this a mercy killing. I'm afraid it's going to color my relationship with her for the rest of our lives. Plus I'm miserable about this guy dying.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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I'm sorry for your predicament. I was with mother during her transition and it was rough. One thing I fault myself.
We are conditioned that drugs (opiates) are bad and I let that conditioning influence dosage If I had the option to be there again I would not be so reticent.
Prayers for your loved one and for strength to you.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 11:38 PM (jw2BQ)

316
I'm sorry your experience with hospice this time is so rotten.

May the peace of Christ be with you and your loved ones at this very difficult time.

Posted by: nurse ratched

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Thanks, nurse. I figure you might have a different view of it.

The patient is not in pain, partly because of the morphine and partly because of the nature of his ailment. His body is actually doing some healing -- his bedsore is drying up and scabs from multiple pokes are shrinking. So obviously he's got functions, but Nursey says he doesn't, pull the G-tube, refuse him food, don't "engage" him in conversation. Bleah.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 22, 2024 11:39 PM (ny95y)

317 Kamala Harris DENOUNCES critics of DEI and demands WNBA players are paid better after Caitlin Clark's rookie salary was revealed

https://mol.im/a/13337981

Posted by: Ciampino - Game of Thrones #08 at April 22, 2024 11:40 PM (qfLjt)

318 Michael Douglas, 79, says Biden, 81, isn't too old for a second term: 'We all have an issue with memory when we get older!'

https://mol.im/a/13336695
Posted by: Ciampino - Game of Thrones #07'

Says the guy who can't recall one single name of any African beer.

Phfft.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 11:40 PM (9yXr+)

319 I keep up with what is going on in the EOC, and this Ukraine thing is a very serious issue, especially considering who is sponsoring the 'new' Uke church.
Posted by: LenNeal

Who is sponsoring them?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 22, 2024 11:41 PM (q2svT)

320 Michael Douglas, 79, says Biden, 81, isn't too old for a second term: 'We all have an issue with memory when we get older!'

https://mol.im/a/13336695
Posted by: Ciampino - Game of Thrones #07 at April 22, 2024 11:37 PM (qfLjt)

It's not Biden's memory that's the problem. It's his problem with the truth and the Constitution.

That's in addition to him literally being an idiot.

Posted by: polynikes at April 22, 2024 11:41 PM (TDRQO)

321 Michael Douglas, 79, says Biden, 81, isn't too old for a second term: 'We all have an issue with memory when we get older!'

https://mol.im/a/13336695
Posted by: Ciampino - Game of Thrones

Because acting and running a freaking Country are the exact same thing to these elitist bastards.
"Dear Lord, hear my open prayer, that you stop the cheat and grant us 4 years of President Trump."

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 11:41 PM (vJiyU)

322 Says the guy who can't recall one single name of any African beer.

Fanni's Double Stout?

Posted by: Miklos, hazarder of guesses at April 22, 2024 11:42 PM (oGyF9)

323 This was a mostly good day, considering. Trying for another tomorrow.

https://youtu.be/VdcgrFegvH4

💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - all of thee above at April 22, 2024 11:42 PM (L6R40)

324 317 Kamala Harris DENOUNCES critics of DEI and demands WNBA players are paid better after Caitlin Clark's rookie salary was revealed

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Understandable. DEI and blowjobs got her where she is today.

But mostly blowjobs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2024 11:42 PM (bo7UB)

325 -
@MarkHamill
Joe Biden is the best president we've ever had.
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Seems about right from a guy out-acted by cgi thala-siren teats.

Posted by: Zombie Siskel at April 22, 2024 11:43 PM (DtNNC)

326
That's BS. That's not only the nurse, that's also the hospice organization. If their client stops eating is one thing but a family member making that decision is completely different.

Posted by: Sock Monkey *

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That's what I think. All of us have conceded that wife is the decision-maker, except that I think the patient is the decision-maker, and if he says he wants to eat, he should be permitted to eat.

Nevertheless I'm keeping my mouth shut. Other family members are getting all shouty and dramatic, which stresses everyone.

Thanks to you all for your kind words.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 22, 2024 11:43 PM (ny95y)

327 but Nursey says he doesn't, pull the G-tube, refuse him food, don't "engage" him in conversation. Bleah.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Who has the medical power of attorney?

This doesn't sound right. Can you ask to see the hospice director?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 11:44 PM (IT8WN)

328 What about us? What are we, chopped liver?
Oh, I guess we are.

You laugh.

Wikipedia:

Membership of the SEU increased during the mid-1930s, but the SEU was targeted as part of the Stalinist purge against Esperanto.[28] The group was not officially disbanded, as the Soviet government instead targeted members until operations could no longer continue.[18] In the purge the leader of the Soviet Esperantist Union, Ernest Drezen, was executed by gunshot on 27 October 1937. Drezen's reputation was rehabilitated by the USSR in 1957, and he was posthumously readmitted to the Communist Party in 1989.[29]

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 22, 2024 11:44 PM (YAtuc)

329 Fire the nurse. Get another service. Report the wife to elder abuse services. If you think he's going to come around. If not help him dream his life away.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 11:45 PM (jw2BQ)

330 Darleen says I should set fire to the half-buried tires painted white that mark the driveway and I bet Bubba Jr. will help.

Hey Junior, hold my PBR

Posted by: Miklos, solution FOUND at April 22, 2024 11:45 PM (oGyF9)

331 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 11:46 PM (9yWhg)

332 The guy doesn't have any children? I can't imagine refusing someone food if they say they are hungry.

Posted by: polynikes at April 22, 2024 11:46 PM (TDRQO)

333 Michael Douglas, 79, says Biden, 81, isn't too old for a second term: 'We all have an issue with memory when we get older!'

Biden is as sharp as a tack - but only when the cameras aren't on him!

Posted by: The White House! at April 22, 2024 11:46 PM (YAtuc)

334 Evenin’, All.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 11:46 PM (9yWhg)

S'up!!??

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 11:46 PM (W/lyH)

335 The object isn't to prolong suffering. It's to make those last few days less frightening, more comfortable. If he wants a small meal and to have a conversation with a loved one, that should be encouraged. Especially if he is lucid.

I'm sorry. This is so very sad.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 11:46 PM (IT8WN)

336 Posted by: Blonde Morticia

If he can verbalize that he wants to eat, that puts a whole different light on the situation.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 11:47 PM (vJiyU)

337 For all the Horde who are R n' B or rock n' roll fans, the full length documentary Muscle Shoals - free on YouTube - is a 10+.

I've watched it multiple times, and every time it comes to mind I want to go watch it again.

Posted by: Philip at April 22, 2024 11:48 PM (46Cfy)

338 'HA! I slid easily into retirement during the ride home from my last day at the office.'

Same! Did it and ain't lookin' back....although I do tend to get lazy on occasion....
Got the choice though....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 22, 2024 11:50 PM (XvPG9)

339 For all the Horde who are R n' B or rock n' roll fans, the full length documentary Muscle Shoals - free on YouTube - is a 10+.

I've watched it multiple times, and every time it comes to mind I want to go watch it again.
Posted by: Philip

Yes, it and "The Wrecking Crew" very watchable, and informative!

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 11:50 PM (vJiyU)

340 I was with mother during her transition and it was rough. One thing I fault myself.
We are conditioned that drugs (opiates) are bad and I let that conditioning influence dosage If I had the option to be there again I would not be so reticent.

On my Dad's last day here on this mortal coil, he was in agony until I raised all kinds of hell to get him some extra-strength pain relief. It was by no means a fatal dose but it allowed us just to be with him in peace at the end. No regrets, no remorse.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 22, 2024 11:50 PM (V8he0)

341 The Equalizer with Queen Latifa has got to be the biggest bullshit, racist show on tv. What a crock.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 11:51 PM (W/lyH)

342

Luke, I am your father.

Posted by: Uncle Bosie at April 22, 2024 11:51 PM (63Dwl)

343 I keep up with what is going on in the EOC, and this Ukraine thing is a very serious issue, especially considering who is sponsoring the 'new' Uke church.
Posted by: LenNeal
Who is sponsoring them?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion'

The Byzantine Church based in Istanbul, and incredibly, Chabad. If anyone wants to know why Erdogan declared the Hagia Sofia a Muslin Mosque, it has to do with that. It was a defensive measure against the incursive West.
Again, I don't do Catholic or Western Protestant so I don't know anything about that perspective and to be honest I really don't care. But Ukraine has touched off a serious conflict among the autocephalous Churches of the EOC, and it's based in Turkiye/autocorrect by Muslims and Ukraine by Chabad Jews.
I've said this before:
EOC does not recognize Chosen People and does not recognize any Holy Land. Something to keep in mind.
The Chabad movement in Ukraine is regarded by Turkiye as an identity-irredentist claim, and they enlisted the Byzantine Orthodox Church, which cost them Hagia Sofia.
I'm just reporting what I'm getting.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 11:51 PM (9yXr+)

344 The military purge was probably the most stupid. They purged all the way down to the sergeant level, iirc. Right before Barbarossa.

Beyond the problems with command and control, communication, experience to carry out orders, etc during the initial invasion, the lack of experience probably cost an enormous number of lives more during the war and the march on Berlin.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 11:51 PM (di6C2)

345 Biden isn't "as sharp as a tack".

He's as brittle as the decades old, unused and uncared for leather hanging at the back of the tack room.

The kind you'd toss to a dog, for a chew toy.

!!!

C'mere Major! C'mon boy! BITE! BITE LIKE THE WINNNND!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 22, 2024 11:51 PM (e6UQI)

346 Bed time for tired Peons. Not feeling quite as shitty as this time yesterday, but the cold is still very much with me. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2024 11:52 PM (tkR6S)

347 122 The scooter dude is sitting backwards on the "seat".
Posted by: LRob in OK

That's the least of his plooplems.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 22, 2024 10:33 PM (IG4Id)
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If he were from the 3rd. world then most likely he'd be standing on it, in a squat. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Ciampino - Cleat marks on the seat at April 22, 2024 11:53 PM (qfLjt)

348 Same! Did it and ain't lookin' back....although I do tend to get lazy on occasion....
Got the choice though....
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Heh, discovered I was too busy to be lazy.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 11:53 PM (vJiyU)

349 334 Hey, Diogenes. Not much here. How ‘bout you?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 11:53 PM (9yWhg)

350 Purchased from Taco Bell a Bean Burrito, a Chicken Enchilada Burrito, and a Soft Taco. I could not tell one from the other or what they were.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 11:53 PM (jw2BQ)

351
The object isn't to prolong suffering. It's to make those last few days less frightening, more comfortable. If he wants a small meal and to have a conversation with a loved one, that should be encouraged. Especially if he is lucid.

I'm sorry. This is so very sad.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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Wife has ALL the legal power. Stepdaughter One wants him cared for, not unfed and unhydrated. Stepdaughter Two is a contrarian who yells "This is my DAD!" if you question the omniscience of the hospice nurse. The caregiver can't stand to just swab his mouth with Gatorade instead of pouring in half a container of Ensure, but he can only follow orders.

So sad. I think tonight's going to be the night. I'm expecting to fall apart.

Enough of me, though. I just came here to vent my feelings on a bunch of ONTers. Thanks for your thoughts. There's nothing I can do but talk to other people about it.

Let's carry on with that idiot Mark Hamill, eh? I happen to know of one HUGE comeback project he LOST because of his outrageous contract demands.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 22, 2024 11:54 PM (ny95y)

352 Fentanyl was created for use for end stage cancer pain. Now otherwise healthy young adults are the biggest users.

Posted by: polynikes at April 22, 2024 11:54 PM (TDRQO)

353 I was making a very dark joke about Esperanto, I'm fully aware they were wiped out.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 11:55 PM (9yXr+)

354 Purchased from Taco Bell a Bean Burrito, a Chicken Enchilada Burrito, and a Soft Taco. I could not tell one from the other or what they were.
Posted by: Braenyard'

See you soon!

Posted by: Horace M. Commode, Esquire at April 22, 2024 11:56 PM (9yXr+)

355 Yes, it and "The Wrecking Crew" very watchable, and informative!
Posted by: Some Rat at April 22, 2024 11:50 PM (vJiyU)

Really? I've read The Wrecking Crew was the worst entry of the Matt Helm movies.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 22, 2024 11:56 PM (0eaVi)

356 350 Purchased from Taco Bell a Bean Burrito, a Chicken Enchilada Burrito, and a Soft Taco. I could not tell one from the other or what they were.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 11:53 PM (jw2BQ)

Yeah, I have been getting the grilled cheese burrito cravings box. The mentioned grilled cheese burrito, a chicken soft taco and a beef soft taco (I think.) The toppings seem different on the chicken vs the beef. Why? I dunno. Tasty and 'cheap' by current Taco Bell standards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 11:56 PM (di6C2)

357 343 Len Neal, please stop with the “Türkiye” nonsense. It’s “Turkey,”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 11:56 PM (9yWhg)

358 Yes, it and "The Wrecking Crew" very watchable, and informative!

Posted by: Some Rat

Thanks, Rat! I'll check it out tomorrow. I've got Smokey's greatest hits playing right now. Not Motown, but much of the same vibe.

Posted by: Philip at April 22, 2024 11:56 PM (46Cfy)

359
If he can verbalize that he wants to eat, that puts a whole different light on the situation.
Posted by: Some Rat

===========

He literally mumbles, "I'm hungry." Hospice nurse assures us that tricking him by swabbing his mouth with Gatorade is the correct response. If he still says he's hungry, swab his mouth again.

It's motivating me to get more specific in my final directive.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 22, 2024 11:57 PM (ny95y)

360 Hey, Diogenes. Not much here. How ‘bout you?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 11:53 PM (9yWhg)

Same.
Getting ready for Geezer Golf Tuesday in the morning.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 11:57 PM (W/lyH)

361 Mark Hamill wants to be relevant again. He doesn't believe what he says. He just wants attention.

Hey! I'm here! Listen to me!

Pretty pathetic

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 22, 2024 11:59 PM (x05v1)

362 357 343 Len Neal, please stop with the “Türkiye” nonsense. It’s “Turkey,”
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 11:56 PM (9yWhg)

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Without the umlaut it loses something in the translation

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2024 11:59 PM (bo7UB)

363 Beyond the problems with command and control, communication, experience to carry out orders, etc during the initial invasion, the lack of experience probably cost an enormous number of lives more during the war and the march on Berlin.
Posted by: Aetius451AD'

Counterpoint, which may or may not be factual: Stalin thought the West would fight itself out and purged his ranks so as to have a completely pure force when he took over Europe. He thought his forces would handle a German invasion no problem, then counterattack to the final win, but failed to realize just how much his own people hated his fucking guts.

Posted by: Horace M. Commode, Esquire at April 23, 2024 12:00 AM (9yXr+)

364 Purchased from Taco Bell a Bean Burrito, a Chicken Enchilada Burrito, and a Soft Taco. I could not tell one from the other or what they were.
Posted by: Braenyard'

You may need that Ty-D-Bowl scooter.

Posted by: Miklos, thinking Be Prepared at April 23, 2024 12:00 AM (oGyF9)

365
Back to Hamill.

The dude needs a comeback project. He agreed to kill off Luke Skywalker and he's 60-something and not sexy like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise or Johnny Depp. But there is simply no role for him. He took a big interest in an upcoming mega-project and he was considered ideal for the part, but his demands were so outrageous he was dropped. HAHAHAHA.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 23, 2024 12:00 AM (ny95y)

366 Really? I've read The Wrecking Crew was the worst entry of the Matt Helm movies.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

That film and those of it's genre, caused some very unChatholic feelings in the young Rat.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 23, 2024 12:00 AM (vJiyU)

367 343 Len Neal, please stop with the “Türkiye” nonsense. It’s “Turkey,”
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus'

I SAID 'autocorrect' and I'm tired of fighting it off.

You stop.

Posted by: Horace M. Commode, Esquire at April 23, 2024 12:00 AM (9yXr+)

368 Thanks to you all for your kind words.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

As Nurse R said, may our Lord comfort you , give you strength and peace. There are no good answers for that situation. My father was incoherent for his last six days. I spent most of that time holding his hand and talking to him.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 23, 2024 12:01 AM (hKZ+8)

369 Counterpoint, which may or may not be factual: Stalin thought the West would fight itself out and purged his ranks so as to have a completely pure force when he took over Europe. He thought his forces would handle a German invasion no problem, then counterattack to the final win, but failed to realize just how much his own people hated his fucking guts.
Posted by: Horace M. Commode, Esquire at April 23, 2024 12:00 AM (9yXr+)

IIRC, the initial push in Barbarossa had... 1.6 million captured Soviets. It was a phenomenal collapse. If this was his plan... well it wasn't a great one. It worked out in the end by a series of particularly brutal winters and the Nazis being a bit stupid and getting into ego wars instead of killing the enemy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:02 AM (di6C2)

370 I'm just assuming the Israeli team will be well guarded by undercover Israeli special forces,

Posted by: polynikes at April 22, 2024 11:03 PM (TDRQO)

Now with disemboweling features!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 12:02 AM (w6EFb)

371 AttaBoy, Ataturk.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2024 12:02 AM (bo7UB)

372
Mark Hamill wants to be relevant again. He doesn't believe what he says. He just wants attention.

Hey! I'm here! Listen to me!

Pretty pathetic
Posted by: nurse ratched

============

Yes! He seriously wants to be relevant and in front of the camera again, but all he'll do for the rest of his life is tweet about politics and refuse to go to Star Wars conventions because he won't get paid enough. Screw 'im.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 23, 2024 12:02 AM (ny95y)

373 My father was incoherent for his last six days. I spent most of that time holding his hand and talking to him.
Posted by: Sock Monkey

Same

Posted by: Miklos at April 23, 2024 12:03 AM (oGyF9)

374 The dude needs a comeback project. He agreed to kill off Luke Skywalker and he's 60-something and not sexy like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise or Johnny Depp. But there is simply no role for him. He took a big interest in an upcoming mega-project and he was considered ideal for the part, but his demands were so outrageous he was dropped. HAHAHAHA.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 23, 2024 12:00 AM (ny95y)

He did have a role as the Joker in the video game in which I am told he was 'amazing.' He was ok, imo, and really seemed to get into the role of a depraved psychopath. Go figure.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:03 AM (di6C2)

375 Pretty pathetic
Posted by: nurse ratched

He has the sadz because his light saber is limp.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 23, 2024 12:03 AM (hKZ+8)

376 360 Go get ‘em, Diogenes!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:03 AM (9yWhg)

377 Yes, it's turkey which doesn't trigger when it's lower case but capitalized Turkey (five fucking minutes later) it's Turkiye.

So sorry to offend your delicate sensibilities.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:03 AM (9yXr+)

378 Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Along with the horde, you have my sympathy and prayers, hang in there.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 23, 2024 12:04 AM (vJiyU)

379 That film and those of it's genre, caused some very unChatholic feelings in the young Rat.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 23, 2024 12:00 AM (vJiyU)

They were just supposed to be fun. Sure, they were spoofs of JB, but Helm and Flint were comedy movies, using JB as a take off point.

I've read there was a fourth MH movie announced, but Dean didn't want to do them anymore after Sharon Tate was killed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 23, 2024 12:04 AM (0eaVi)

380 Transgender sex offender is seen in creepy mugshot after trying to snatch young boy from elementary school

https://mol.im/a/13337823

Posted by: Ciampino - A face only a mother could love at April 23, 2024 12:04 AM (qfLjt)

381 Constantinople.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:04 AM (di6C2)

382 IIRC, the initial push in Barbarossa had... 1.6 million captured Soviets. It was a phenomenal collapse. If this was his plan... well it wasn't a great one. It worked out in the end by a series of particularly brutal winters and the Nazis being a bit stupid and getting into ego wars instead of killing the enemy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:02 AM (di6C2)

Don't forget getting supplied by the Allies.

Posted by: polynikes at April 23, 2024 12:04 AM (TDRQO)

383 330 Darleen says I should set fire to the half-buried tires painted white that mark the driveway and I bet Bubba Jr. will help.

Hey Junior, hold my PBR
Posted by: Miklos, solution FOUND
-----------------------------------------------

White, BLM, hippies committing vandalism.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 23, 2024 12:05 AM (jw2BQ)

384 ...I was making a very dark joke about Esperanto, I'm fully aware they were wiped out. Posted by: LenNeal at April 22, 2024 11:55 PM (9yXr+)

Dark Humor: https://tinyurl.com/yjwj2538

(link goes to a "meme" graphic)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 12:05 AM (e6UQI)

385 AttaBoy, Ataturk.
Posted by: Cicero

Who's a Good Bey? You are, yes you are!

Posted by: Miklos Effendi at April 23, 2024 12:05 AM (oGyF9)

386
I SAID 'autocorrect' and I'm tired of fighting it off.

You stop.
Posted by: Horace M. Commode, Esquire

============

Well, just tell us. Does it have 3 syllables with that "e" on the end?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 23, 2024 12:06 AM (ny95y)

387 I love Esperanto.

*hic*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2024 12:06 AM (bo7UB)

388 Don't forget getting supplied by the Allies.
Posted by: polynikes at April 23, 2024 12:04 AM (TDRQO)

Completely valid. On their own, the soviets would have splintered like a jammed door at Chuck Norris' house.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:07 AM (di6C2)

389 Biden Admin Mulling Plan To Give Legal Status To Illegal Alien Spouses: REPORT

https://t.co/6xlmbC2xQ6

So the spouses become legal before the husbands? That's how it reads.

Posted by: Ciampino - Illegal Alien #01 at April 23, 2024 12:07 AM (qfLjt)

390 IIRC, the initial push in Barbarossa had... 1.6 million captured Soviets. It was a phenomenal collapse. If this was his plan... well it wasn't a great one. It worked out in the end by a series of particularly brutal winters and the Nazis being a bit stupid and getting into ego wars instead of killing the enemy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD'

Want a real wake-up call? Look at Organization Todt and how he told the Wermacht they needed to stop and sue for peace in 1941. And look at what Germany had for 'tanks'. The armor was incredible. The most patched-together pile of shit imaginable. The most amazing thing to me is how Stalin really thought he'd had the whole thing figured out and everyone under his control. He really, genuinely thought he had his peons under control. And as soon as that line broke they ran.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:07 AM (9yXr+)

391 Constantinople.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

Posted by: Miklos liked Istanbul at April 23, 2024 12:07 AM (oGyF9)

392
He did have a role as the Joker in the video game in which I am told he was 'amazing.' He was ok, imo, and really seemed to get into the role of a depraved psychopath. Go figure.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

============

It's funny, I was thinking villain roles might be his future. Apparently someone met his price -- or he lowered it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 23, 2024 12:08 AM (ny95y)

393 Well, just tell us. Does it have 3 syllables with that "e" on the end?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia'

Actually (!!!!!!!!)

I believe it's Tuuuuuurkiyeeeeeee!

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:08 AM (9yXr+)

394 385 AttaBoy, Ataturk.
Posted by: Cicero

Who's a Good Bey? You are, yes you are!
Posted by: Miklos Effendi at April 23, 2024 12:05 AM (oGyF9)

Cok iyi!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 23, 2024 12:08 AM (W/lyH)

395 Posted by: Miklos Effendi at April 23, 2024 12:05 AM (oGyF9)

*snort*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2024 12:08 AM (bo7UB)

396 So, don't crucify me for this but....

I went to Disneyland with the "kids" before Marine's wedding. The Star Wars stuff blew my mind. Absolutely unbelievable. There's a new ride, "Rise of the Resistance." It was spectacular. Trust me. My jaw was on the floor for a good 20 mi Utes afterwards.

The Millenium Falcon and the X wing fighters were so very cool. And we got a group picture with R2 and some Storm Troopers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2024 12:10 AM (w8VPD)

397 Thanks LenNeal

Also

Who's a Good Bey? You are, yes you are!
Posted by: Miklos Effendi

Made me lol.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 23, 2024 12:10 AM (q2svT)

398 He really, genuinely thought he had his peons under control. And as soon as that line broke they ran.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:07 AM (9yXr+)

He believed he was the smartest guy in the room. He figured he had Hitler hoodwinked and would be able to betray him later at the time of his choosing. A lot of the purging was obviously because he believed he had the time and leisure. His 'reaction' to the invasion speaks clearly to a guy who cannot believe what he is hearing and does not know how to react or process.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:10 AM (di6C2)

399 when we first got streaming service, we watched all kinds of vintage TV. Our conclusion- we were very easily entertained back in the day. It was kind of embarrassing.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at April 22, 2024 11:10 PM (jN2/U)

We have at least 4 vintage TV stations that we perch on. Little cleavage but pointy bewbs.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 12:11 AM (w6EFb)

400
So the spouses become legal before the husbands? That's how it reads.
Posted by: Ciampino - Illegal Alien #01

============

As long as someone gets to vote.

This raft of insanity coming down -- the rewriting of Title IX now, too -- seems like one suicide pill after another. Who wants this but the hardest extremists?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 23, 2024 12:11 AM (ny95y)

401 So, don't crucify me for this but....

I went to Disneyland with the "kids" before Marine's wedding. The Star Wars stuff blew my mind. Absolutely unbelievable. There's a new ride, "Rise of the Resistance." It was spectacular. Trust me. My jaw was on the floor for a good 20 mi Utes afterwards.
The Millenium Falcon and the X wing fighters were so very cool. And we got a group picture with R2 and some Storm Troopers.
Posted by: nurse ratched'

No crucifixion but you do need to explain these walking whales.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:12 AM (9yXr+)

402 The Governor of CO quietly signed HB1071 aka “Tiara’s Law.”
The law will make it easier for trans criminals to change their name, evade identification, & hide their criminal record.

https://t.co/oPLVGq49Je

Posted by: Ciampino - You get what you vote for at April 23, 2024 12:12 AM (qfLjt)

403 Ok. Gonna slide on out..
Good night to the best folks eva!
My best to you Blond M. I just recently had to go through this with a very fine friend of 55 years. The pain cannot even be described. My heart to you💔

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 23, 2024 12:12 AM (XvPG9)

404 Tasty and 'cheap' by current Taco Bell standards.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
------------------------------

Taco Bell offers more calories and mass per dollar than Jack in the Box or McDonald's.
The beef patty at Mc's is way undersized to the bun.
Jack in the Box is the best burger buy. Both of their
breakfasts are fare buys, haven't determined the best
for the buck.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 23, 2024 12:12 AM (jw2BQ)

405 402 The Governor of CO quietly signed HB1071 aka “Tiara’s Law.”
The law will make it easier for trans criminals to change their name, evade identification, & hide their criminal record.

https://t.co/oPLVGq49Je
Posted by: Ciampino - You get what you vote for at April 23, 2024 12:12 AM (qfLjt)

Oh joy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:13 AM (di6C2)

406 Night marie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:13 AM (di6C2)

407
The Star Wars stuff blew my mind.

Posted by: nurse ratched

==============

The trouble is, if one is not into Star Wars beyond the first movie or so, none of this makes a dent.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 23, 2024 12:14 AM (ny95y)

408 I went to Disneyland with the "kids" before Marine's wedding. The Star Wars stuff blew my mind. Absolutely unbelievable. There's a new ride, "Rise of the Resistance." It was spectacular. Trust me. My jaw was on the floor for a good 20 mi Utes afterwards.

----------

If you didn't walk out a lesbian then it failed in its mission.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2024 12:14 AM (bo7UB)

409 If Mark Hamill wants to be relevant, he should use his Jedi mind tricks to get all the illegals to enlist in the Jedi Brigades of the Army of the Ukraine. He could lead them in battle with his light saber while flying his X-wing

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 23, 2024 12:15 AM (VNX3d)

410 How many of these bastards do we have to suffer? It's bad enough with our own predators.
Illegal immigrant Jose Luis Gomez Espinol has been arrested on EIGHT counts of sexual assault in North Carolina. Pure evil.

https://tinyurl.com/2ddhepax

Posted by: Ciampino - Illegal Alien #02 at April 23, 2024 12:15 AM (qfLjt)

411 His 'reaction' to the invasion speaks clearly to a guy who cannot believe what he is hearing and does not know how to react or process.
Posted by: Aetius451AD'

What truly blows me away is the hive mentality. Stalin did put himself at the mercy of his cabinet and told them if they wanted to, to shoot him dead. They did not. THAT just blows my mind. I can sometimes, in my work, what I do, get a glimpse of what might cause that kind of behavior but I can never, never understand it. I'd have shot him in the face without any hesitation and anyone who has ever been around me knows I would. The absence of individuality.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:15 AM (9yXr+)

412 Why would the world be a worse place if Putin ran Europe rather than the EU and Nato?

Posted by: Methos at April 22, 2024 11:14 PM (Dnobf)

The EU and NATO are probably* more evil than Putin.

---
*just kidding, they definitely are

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 12:16 AM (w6EFb)

413 And we got a group picture with R2 and some Storm Troopers.
Posted by: nurse ratched

They cheated you! The stormtroopers are all the same guy!

Posted by: 3147th clone of mikeski at April 23, 2024 12:17 AM (DgGvY)

414 Where are there Jack In The Box? They went out here decades ago.
Jack In The Boxes?
Jacks In the Box?

Plural?

Some help, here.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:17 AM (9yXr+)

415 Cok guzel.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:17 AM (9yWhg)

416 Department Of Useless Information:
Brazil, Argentina and Turkey now more popular and affordable for gender reassignment surgery than places like Thailand

https://mol.im/a/13336559

Also:
The Left Academia is one large Circle Jerk.

Posted by: Ciampino - Illegal Junta #02 at April 23, 2024 12:19 AM (qfLjt)

417 Anybody says Jack, spends a night in the Box.

Posted by: Miklos over here Boss at April 23, 2024 12:19 AM (oGyF9)

418 What truly blows me away is the hive mentality. Stalin did put himself at the mercy of his cabinet and told them if they wanted to, to shoot him dead. They did not. THAT just blows my mind. I can sometimes, in my work, what I do, get a glimpse of what might cause that kind of behavior but I can never, never understand it. I'd have shot him in the face without any hesitation and anyone who has ever been around me knows I would. The absence of individuality.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:15 AM (9yXr+)

Also terror of making a decision. And being held accountable. It pervaded so much of the command structure. They obviously did not want any sort of initiative in the army, because what would happen if someone wanted to rebel? Well, that may be all well and good for political purposes (still bad) but for an army, it is disastrous.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:19 AM (di6C2)

419 I liked the Jack in the Box Ultimate Cheeseburger. They still have those?

They were all west of the Mississippi as far as I know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:20 AM (di6C2)

420 In France, are they "Jaques en le Baux?"

Hell, I'm so old, I remember when you'd "Order From The Clown" at the Drive Thru.

And before the Jack Antenna Ball, there was the Union "76" ball, from the gas stations.

My Lawn is full of eels.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 12:20 AM (e6UQI)

421 Intruder is arrested after breaking into the home of progressive Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass who is pleading for MORE criminals to be released from prison on bail

https://mol.im/a/13334951

Note: normally arrestees are released, no bail required BUT in this case the perp is being detained.

Posted by: Ciampino - Illegal Junta #03 at April 23, 2024 12:21 AM (qfLjt)

422 Also:
The Left Academia is one large Circle Jerk.
Posted by: Ciampino - Illegal Junta #02'

Obligatory Circle Jerks from Repo Man, lounge act of 'When The Shit Hits The Fan'.
It's on YT find it yourself I'm too lazy to link it.

Oh, I tried playing the DUNE soundtrack at the office and it sucked but the DUNE 2 soundtrack is superlative.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:21 AM (9yXr+)

423 Author sparks FURY after branding Taylor Swift a 'billionaire racist' and a 'NAZI Barbie' in vitriolic rant - while slamming star for not mentioning Palestine in her 'vapid, rotted' songs on The Tortured Poets Department

https://mol.im/a/13337261

Posted by: Ciampino - Healous maybe a little bit? at April 23, 2024 12:23 AM (qfLjt)

424 423 Author sparks FURY after branding Taylor Swift a 'billionaire racist' and a 'NAZI Barbie' in vitriolic rant - while slamming star for not mentioning Palestine in her 'vapid, rotted' songs on The Tortured Poets Department

https://mol.im/a/13337261
Posted by: Ciampino - Healous maybe a little bit? at April 23, 2024 12:23 AM (qfLjt)

Wow. It is never enough, Taylor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:23 AM (di6C2)

425 No “Türkiye,” with or without the damn umlaut. And damn it, autocucumber puts the umlaut in automatically.

It’s “Turkey.” Erdogan can go to hell.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:24 AM (9yWhg)

426 I have been in nursing now 30 years.

The majority of my time was ER though, I was always enamored by my associates that worked in Hospice. The ones I worked with at times....I could not help but admire their overwhelming compassion to their patients and their dedication to helping them come to the final passing. Though their overriding focus was on their patient, they would give such caring heartfelt support to the various family members as well.

Such BIG HEARTS in a single nurse. I for one no not where we get such graceful, beautiful, humans.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 23, 2024 12:24 AM (TDvv2)

427 Gee! It's Philly again .....
Wild 'slush fund' spending of Philly cop who posted glowing fake news stories written by ChatGPT on her own website and 'lost' 76 department guns

https://mol.im/a/13337049

Posted by: Ciampino - who got the guns? at April 23, 2024 12:24 AM (qfLjt)

428 In France, are they "Jaques en le Baux?"

Oui.

And they are staffed entirely by mimes in some kind of imaginary box.

Posted by: Le Mikleuse at April 23, 2024 12:24 AM (oGyF9)

429 No “Türkiye,” with or without the damn umlaut. And damn it, autocucumber puts the umlaut in automatically.

It’s “Turkey.” Erdogan can go to hell.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus'

SEE?

Posted by: LenNeal told you at April 23, 2024 12:25 AM (9yXr+)

430 423 Author sparks FURY after branding Taylor Swift a 'billionaire racist' and a 'NAZI Barbie' in vitriolic rant - while slamming star for not mentioning Palestine in her 'vapid, rotted' songs on The Tortured Poets Department

--------

I is confuzzled.

Aren't the people who want to kill all the Jews the Nazis? Did I read it wrong?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2024 12:25 AM (bo7UB)

431 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April

Oh my goodness, that is awful and I am so sorry. I can’t even imagine a hospice nurse saying this. Saying don’t force food if they aren’t hungry, yes. But starving if they can keep food down? No. Again, I am so sorry. As much positive energy as I can send is coming your way.

Posted by: Piper at April 22, 2024 11:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

I agree, it's so cold. Prayers.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 12:25 AM (w6EFb)

432 It’s “Turkey.” Erdogan can go to hell.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

But now I'm hungary.

Posted by: Mere Magyar Moron Miklos at April 23, 2024 12:26 AM (oGyF9)

433 Who was it did the post about the sale for USD$40 million of a photo of Taylor Swift with her mouth fully closed?

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:26 AM (9yXr+)

434 Good night, COMM, I am sorry that I missed you.

{{Blonde Morticia}}, I am thinking of you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 23, 2024 12:26 AM (Sgq8y)

435 ...And they are staffed entirely by mimes in some kind of imaginary box. Posted by: Le Mikleuse at April 23, 2024 12:24 AM (oGyF9)

The Mimeworker's Union failed, as they were unable to articulate their demands.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 12:27 AM (e6UQI)

436 No proper English word should use foreign diacritical marks.

Looking at you, French loanwords.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:27 AM (9yWhg)

437
And they are staffed entirely by mimes in some kind of imaginary box.
Posted by: Le Mikleuse

They would deliver but they can't get out!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2024 12:27 AM (63Dwl)

438 Good evening morons and thanks mh

The brisket was fantastic.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 23, 2024 12:28 AM (RIvkX)

439 Interesting equivalence by Biden.

1) Condemn to anti-Semitic riots. Ok, all well and good. Engaging in hate.

2) Also condemn those who do not understand what is going on with the Palestinians. Wait, ignorance is a crime now? Inaction is a crime? So... they should all be rioting and killing Jews?

Pick a side dude.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:28 AM (di6C2)

440 HA! I slid easily into retirement during the ride home from my last day at the office.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2024 11:26 PM (WXNFJ)

Same here - I rediscovered the joy of getting at least 7 hours of sleep again. And reclaimed Sunday nights (I recall the gloom as the weekend drew to a close).

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 12:28 AM (w6EFb)

441 Same here - I rediscovered the joy of getting at least 7 hours of sleep again. And reclaimed Sunday nights (I recall the gloom as the weekend drew to a close).
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 12:28 AM (w6EFb)

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Sleep is overrated.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2024 12:30 AM (bo7UB)

442 429 Yes, LenNeal, sorry.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:30 AM (9yWhg)

443 436 No proper English word should use foreign diacritical marks.

Looking at you, French loanwords.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:27 AM (9yWhg)

To be fair, that spelling of Turkey is a proper name. Plus, it's a little late in the game. Uranus, Genghis Khan and Peking would all like a word with you.

Posted by: Constantinople at April 23, 2024 12:30 AM (di6C2)

444 I read once when Motley Crue first played Germany the crowd pronounced the umlaut.

Muttley Cruh! Muttley Cruh!

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:30 AM (9yXr+)

445 LenNeal, if you're still here - how long does Divine Liturgy usually run on Sundays? One hour, 2 hours, 4 hours?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 23, 2024 12:31 AM (q2svT)

446 443 None of the proper names you cite contain diacritical marks.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:32 AM (9yWhg)

447 At the end of the day, Putin has done nothing to harm the United States. It's our own political elites that are destroying the United States.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 23, 2024 12:32 AM (ofJjy)

448 Denying a dying man food and the company of his family and friends is fucked in the head.

Having just had an elderly relative who died because he refused to eat, I do understand the difference between that and whatever this is. Smells like the dancing nurses who had a gay old time during coof when they got to force their elderly charges to die under similar conditions.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 23, 2024 12:32 AM (4NH9g)

449 The Mimeworker's Union failed, as they were unable to articulate their demands.

Jim

The one vote to strike resulted in *OH*

Posted by: Inspector Mikleuseau at April 23, 2024 12:33 AM (oGyF9)

450 444 I read once when Motley Crue first played Germany the crowd pronounced the umlaut.

Muttley Cruh! Muttley Cruh!
Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:30 AM (9yXr+)

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I'll bet the introduction of Haagen Dazs im Deutschland was a total clusterfuck.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2024 12:33 AM (bo7UB)

451 447 Yes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:34 AM (9yWhg)

452 To be fair, that spelling of Turkey is a proper name. Plus, it's a little late in the game. Uranus, Genghis Khan and Peking would all like a word with you.
Posted by: Constantinople at April 23, 2024 12:30 AM (di6C2)

That's Peiping!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 23, 2024 12:34 AM (0eaVi)

453 None of the proper names you cite contain diacritical marks.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Aye. None o' that crap

Posted by: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch at April 23, 2024 12:34 AM (oGyF9)

454 That's Peiping!
Posted by: OrangeEnt

DUCK!

Posted by: Lao peng jo Miklos at April 23, 2024 12:35 AM (oGyF9)

455 445

That has to do with with Greek or Russian Orthodoxies as I am not either.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 23, 2024 12:36 AM (TDvv2)

456 LenNeal, if you're still here - how long does Divine Liturgy usually run on Sundays? One hour, 2 hours, 4 hours?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion'

At my Church in Serbia? About 2 hours. But to be honest, Churches where I'm based there are open 24 hours a day so people wander in and out all the time at all hours of the day or night. There is always a priest available.
Services during busy times often resemble more a Punk show at a bowling alley than what most people know as a Church service. Most people stand but not always, people wander out to smoke, it's hard to explain. Kids cry, etc.
About 2 hours for your question.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:36 AM (9yXr+)

457 Last thing before retiring...
CO gov Polismoker seriously (and literally) sucks.
I honestly don't want to move - I love living on my mountain.
But this California Jr. thing is really starting to suck...
Ok. Good night good friends. Luv youz!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 23, 2024 12:37 AM (XvPG9)

458 ...Aye. None o' that crap. Posted by: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch at April 23, 2024 12:34 AM (oGyF9)

Don't you DARE Welsh on your deal !!!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 12:38 AM (e6UQI)

459 Oy, don’t get me started on the stupid Wade-Giles transcriptions of Chinese.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:38 AM (9yWhg)

460 446 443 None of the proper names you cite contain diacritical marks.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:32 AM (9yWhg)

*sigh* What I am saying is that pronunciations or even complete name changes are a thing as old as time (hello Maleventum* to Beneventum!- and that was done internally!) Loan words often use the accent marks of the native tongue (like those tasty pastries... kun-something.) Yes, it is silly, like a poncy news reader saying El Salvador in the most douchebaggy exaggerated hispanic way they can think of. They're idiots, they brand themselves so on their own without help.

*I always wondered what was so bad you have to name a town 'Bad Events.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:38 AM (di6C2)

461 Some YouTube nitwit goes recently closed 0aokland In-N-Out. Within minutes and while filming his video, some thug came up and busted the window and tried to loot the car
.
https://youtu.be/Lhm3RnGuuMc

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 23, 2024 12:40 AM (+zECz)

462 459 Oy, don’t get me started on the stupid Wade-Giles transcriptions of Chinese.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:38 AM (9yWhg)

---------

Hangchow is so much cooler than Guangzhou, don't you think?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2024 12:40 AM (bo7UB)

463 About 2 hours for your question.
Posted by: LenNeal

that's a long time for modern attention spans

Thanks

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 23, 2024 12:40 AM (q2svT)

464 If he were from the 3rd. world then most likely he'd be standing on it, in a squat. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Ciampino - Cleat marks on the seat at April 22, 2024 11:53 PM (qfLjt)

That's what the Turks did at the Volvo factory.

Hey, at least they were productive.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 12:41 AM (w6EFb)

465 Oy, don’t get me started on the stupid Wade-Giles transcriptions of Chinese.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Hey, Fanni paid good for that work

Posted by: Nathan Sweetcum Wade, attorney and cunning linguist at April 23, 2024 12:41 AM (oGyF9)

466 Real Orthodox Churches, the village ones, are constantly immersive rather than observant, if that makes any sense. It's just always there, nobody thinks about it much.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:42 AM (9yXr+)

467 460 Fine, call places what you want. But English is under no obligation to use those stupid diacritical marks.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:42 AM (9yWhg)

468 And as a nurse that was not involved in hospital based medicine during COOF. I will state that EVIL was done in many of the major hospitals sucking Federal funds during the fake pandemic.

FRENCH LAUNDRY BITCHES!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 23, 2024 12:42 AM (TDvv2)

469 To the recently closed Oakland*

https://youtu.be/Lhm3RnGuuMc?si=Tv--VxB7MVYbtJfA

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 23, 2024 12:43 AM (+zECz)

470 *I always wondered what was so bad you have to name a town 'Bad Events.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Hungary has a town called Nagyszombat (Big Saturday).

Sounds more funner.

But there is another village called Nagybajom (My Big Problem).

Posted by: Miklos has Stories at April 23, 2024 12:44 AM (oGyF9)

471 Fine, call places what you want. But English is under no obligation to use those stupid diacritical marks.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Sure, everybody's a diacritic.

Posted by: Linguage Nazi Miklos sez NO UMLAUTS FOR YOU at April 23, 2024 12:46 AM (oGyF9)

472 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR APRIL 22nd.

Rocket Lab - Electron - Beginning Of The Swarm - LC-1B - Mahia Peninsula, NZ
6:00 PM EDT, (22:00 UTC)
https://www.youtube.com/live/_RsjdotByms
______
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 6-53
6:15 p.m. EDT, 22:15 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/live/-gGzs9MSqq0

NOTE: very close launch times, 15 minutes apart.

Posted by: Ciampino - Rocket Engineering at April 23, 2024 12:46 AM (qfLjt)

473 It's done with the Ikons, anywhere in any Orthodox Place you will find images, everywhere. It freaks out Westerners conditioned to believe that is idolatry. The entire point of the Churches is the imagery within them. The music, sermon, even the gathering of human beings, whatever, it's all about the images.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:46 AM (9yXr+)

474 Sure, everybody's a diacritic.
Posted by: Linguage Nazi Miklos'

Stolen.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:48 AM (9yXr+)

475 You all realize that top photo is fixed, right? Dolly Varden don't get that big in real life.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 23, 2024 12:48 AM (sRfrW)

476 That's what the Turks did at the Volvo factory.

They make Vulvas in factories?

Just....WOW

Posted by: Miklos should learn some Turkish maybe at April 23, 2024 12:48 AM (oGyF9)

477
Why would the world be a worse place if Putin ran Europe rather than the EU and Nato?

Posted by: Methos at April 22, 2024 11:14 PM (Dnobf)

The EU and NATO are probably* more evil than Putin.

---
*just kidding, they definitely are
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

=============

I'd never thought of it that way.

I wonder how fond Putin is of wind power and cricket burgers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 23, 2024 12:48 AM (ny95y)

478 473 yes, I've read that - the icons are to be read symbolically.
Like medieval church art. (Kris could explain )

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 23, 2024 12:49 AM (q2svT)

479 {{{DDS}}}

Posted by: Some Rat at April 23, 2024 12:50 AM (vJiyU)

480 Hungary has a town called Nagyszombat (Big Saturday).

Sounds more funner.

But there is another village called Nagybajom (My Big Problem).
Posted by: Miklos has Stories at April 23, 2024 12:44 AM (oGyF9)

Well, Maleventum was renamed Beneventum because they defeated (or at least fought to a standstill) Pyrrhus near there.

From wiki:
It is probable that the Oscan or Samnite name was Maloeis, or Malieis (Μαλιείς in Ancient Greek), whence the form Maleventum would derive, like Agrigentum from Acragas (now Agrigento), Selinuntium from Selinus (the ruins of which are at now Selinunte), etc.[13]

Me: which is unsatisfying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:50 AM (di6C2)

481 >>>Biden Admin Mulling Plan To Give Legal Status To Illegal Alien Spouses: REPORT

They're just giving us the finger.

"And what do you think you're gonna do about it?"

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 12:50 AM (w6EFb)

482 ..The music, sermon, even the gathering of human beings, whatever, it's all about the images. Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:46 AM (9yXr+)

Zeiss had that name copyrighted for anything Photographic.

And the Zeiss Ikon remains a highly collectible, early-era, 35mm camera, even to this day.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 12:50 AM (e6UQI)

483 471 Fine, call places what you want. But English is under no obligation to use those stupid diacritical marks.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Sure, everybody's a diacritic.
Posted by: Linguage Nazi Miklos sez NO UMLAUTS FOR YOU at April 23, 2024 12:46 AM (oGyF9)

Dianetics! by L Ron Hubbard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:51 AM (di6C2)

484 OK, All. Mr. Grumpy is out. Goodnight, and sleep well.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:51 AM (9yWhg)

485 Here's the thing - love him or hate him, Putin is a "strong horse"

Biden is a decrepit walking glue stick

Zelaznyyyy is a jackass

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 23, 2024 12:51 AM (q2svT)

486 They make Vulvas in factories?

Just....WOW'

...and bodies to go with them! We can get married!

Posted by: Japanese Hikikomori at April 23, 2024 12:51 AM (9yXr+)

487 NATO spelled backwards is OTAN.

Which is also the French acronym.

Coincidence?

Posted by: Miklos making secret Rosicrucian Templar signs at April 23, 2024 12:51 AM (oGyF9)

488 Night Bulgar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:53 AM (di6C2)

489 yes, I've read that - the icons are to be read symbolically.
Like medieval church art. (Kris could explain )
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion'

Hmmm

I will let this go for right now. No Ikon is symbolic.

Posted by: Japanese Hikikomori at April 23, 2024 12:53 AM (9yXr+)

490 472
Correction: Tuesday April 23rd.

Posted by: Ciampino - Rocket Engineering at April 23, 2024 12:54 AM (qfLjt)

491 Night Horde.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 23, 2024 12:54 AM (TDvv2)

492 >>>The Governor of CO quietly signed HB1071 aka “Tiara’s Law.”
The law will make it easier for trans criminals to change their name, evade identification, & hide their criminal record.

Until they do it again, because of course they will, and under the new identity.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 12:55 AM (w6EFb)

493 Miklos backwards is

SOLKIM!

Coincidence?

Posted by: LenNeal call your Rosicrucian and raises Kabbalah at April 23, 2024 12:56 AM (9yXr+)

494 Miklos backwards is

SOLKIM!

Coincidence?
Posted by: LenNeal

IXNAY

Posted by: Iklosmay at April 23, 2024 12:57 AM (oGyF9)

495 IXNAY
Posted by: Iklosmay'

I'm not good at word games. I defer to your Magyar excellence.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:58 AM (9yXr+)

496 Cok guzel.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 23, 2024 12:17 AM (9yWhg)

I love to do that!

Posted by: Kamala at April 23, 2024 12:58 AM (w6EFb)

497 The Governor of CO quietly signed HB1071 aka “Tiara’s Law.”
The law will make it easier for trans criminals to change their name, evade identification, & hide their criminal record.

Do you have to wear an actual tiara? Like forever? They give you one? Nail it to your head?

Posted by: Inquiring Mind of SOLKIM at April 23, 2024 12:59 AM (oGyF9)

498 I wonder how fond Putin is of wind power and cricket burgers.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia'

I'd guess, not very. All the Russians I've met lately are big on oil, meat, and guns.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:00 AM (9yXr+)

499 I love to do that!
Posted by: Kamala

Can I get a....no wait

Posted by: Brown Willie at April 23, 2024 01:02 AM (oGyF9)

500 I'd guess, not very. All the Russians I've met lately are big on oil, meat, and guns.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:00 AM (9yXr+)

Oh... wow... you mean like all us Hetero White male Americans?

oh... shit...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 23, 2024 01:03 AM (xaFKb)

501 Sleep is overrated.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2024 12:30 AM (bo7UB)

Not getting enough is linked to Disease.

Posted by: Kamala at April 23, 2024 01:05 AM (w6EFb)

502 Oh, a heads-up: I'm getting rumblings there is a game afoot to destabilize not just dollars or whatever, but the concept, the idea, of money itself.
This I find very, VERY interesting for reasons I can go into but not right now and it explains why Westerners can mock Russia for having an economy 'the size of Texas', but if you can't measure it with money, it's illegible, invisible, and therefore a money-transformational economy can't see it until it's too late.
It's not like I'm giving the Big Game Away, people wholly invested in money as a concept can't see a world without it.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:06 AM (9yXr+)

503 I love to do that!
Posted by: Kamala

Can I get a....no wait
Posted by: Brown Willie'

You KNOW she did a blumpkin.
You KNOW she did.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:07 AM (9yXr+)

504 At my Church in Serbia? About 2 hours. But to be honest, Churches where I'm based there are open 24 hours a day so people wander in and out all the time at all hours of the day or night. There is always a priest available.
Services during busy times often resemble more a Punk show at a bowling alley than what most people know as a Church service. Most people stand but not always, people wander out to smoke, it's hard to explain. Kids cry, etc.
About 2 hours for your question.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 12:36 AM (9yXr+)

I think I could enjoy a service like that.

Posted by: Kamala at April 23, 2024 01:08 AM (w6EFb)

505 501 Sleep is overrated.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2024 12:30 AM (bo7UB)

Not getting enough is linked to Disease.
Posted by: Kamala at April 23, 2024 01:05 AM (w6EFb)

I dont get enough, I get a righteous headache

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 23, 2024 01:09 AM (+I6Y/)

506
LDP Vice President Taro Aso is going to meet with Trump on the 24th to build ties and address issues in the event of reelection, w0000t.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 23, 2024 01:10 AM (ny95y)

507 Yes, it is silly, like a poncy news reader saying El Salvador in the most douchebaggy exaggerated hispanic way they can think of.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2024 12:38 AM (di6C2)

El Thalbador!

Posted by: Poncy New Reader at April 23, 2024 01:12 AM (w6EFb)

508 El Thalbador!
Posted by: Poncy New Reader

Now do "Kudder"

Posted by: Pony Middle East News Reader at April 23, 2024 01:14 AM (oGyF9)

509 Hey and good night, Some Rat, I am exhausted.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 23, 2024 01:15 AM (Sgq8y)

510 Serbian Orthodox, my outfit, is infamous for being both half-assed and intense. I have a Japanese colleague who visited and admits the place terrified him, like really scared him the whole time, due to the bizarre mix of extreme religiousity and wildness.
Dude is from Hokkaido! I went there, Hokkaido scared me.
Churches are there to tame or channel the worst of the human, and it's through constant presence and the windows to Heaven the Ikons enable.
There is no effort at perfection, that is stupid. No Utopia, it's all about dealing with the inevitable human behavior. EOC doesn't deal in hard and fast rules.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:16 AM (9yXr+)

511 39 I swear there was a Neil Young song I liked but I must have been drinking heavily when I did!

I am still partial to Cinnamon Girl, Down By The River, Cowgirl In The Sand, Cortez The Killer, and Farmer John. Of course he also recorded about 1135 other songs of lesser quality and NOONE should look to musicians for anything but music.

Posted by: azjaeger at April 23, 2024 01:16 AM (3/XaG)

512 People dump on Cake but they did a kickass cover of War Pigs.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:18 AM (9yXr+)

513 I listen to Cake on my Italian leather sofa.

Posted by: Miklos has Taste at April 23, 2024 01:20 AM (oGyF9)

514 What truly blows me away is the hive mentality. Stalin did put himself at the mercy of his cabinet and told them if they wanted to, to shoot him dead. They did not. THAT just blows my mind. I can sometimes, in my work, what I do, get a glimpse of what might cause that kind of behavior but I can never, never understand it. I'd have shot him in the face without any hesitation and anyone who has ever been around me knows I would. The absence of individuality.
Posted by: LenNeal

Brought to mind The Death of Stalin. Watched it recently. Worthy of a couple hours of your time. Steve Buscemi does a noteworthy Krushchev.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 23, 2024 01:20 AM (hKZ+8)

515 I am still partial to Cinnamon Girl, Down By The River, Cowgirl In The Sand, Cortez The Killer, and Farmer John. Of course he also recorded about 1135 other songs of lesser quality and NOONE should look to musicians for anything but music.
Posted by: azjaeger'

Old Man is a masterpiece.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:21 AM (9yXr+)

516 I listen to Cake on my Italian leather sofa.
Posted by: Miklos has Taste'

That you bought from an Algerian criminal in Naples, don't lie.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:22 AM (9yXr+)

517 Away, people wholly invested in money as a concept can't see a world without it.
Posted by: LenNeal

Bullion is your friend.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * waterwings fer sale at April 23, 2024 01:22 AM (hKZ+8)

518 The Governor of CO quietly signed HB1071 aka “Tiara’s Law.”
The law will make it easier for trans criminals to change their name, evade identification, & hide their criminal record.

Do you have to wear an actual tiara? Like forever? They give you one? Nail it to your head?
Posted by: Inquiring Mind of SOLKIM

They Gorilla Glue a tiara to your scalp. If you’re lucky, they don’t make a mess and leave you with a gorilla Glue mullet.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 23, 2024 01:23 AM (VNX3d)

519 I'd never thought of it that way.

I wonder how fond Putin is of wind power and cricket burgers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 23, 2024 12:48 AM (ny95y)

My guess would be that Putin rationally attempts to encourage some behaviors and discourage other behaviors, for his vision of the betterment of Russia.

BUT Biden's puppet masters are deliberately destroying the country they control. And yet the left, whether it be academia, political leaders or just the slimy little university rats and street thugs, don't seem to notice that. Don't you find that odd?

NATO has a hardon for death. EU wants to stop farming and animal husbandry.

It may be hard to swallow, but which country has the better leader?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 01:23 AM (w6EFb)

520
Aren't the people who want to kill all the Jews the Nazis? Did I read it wrong?

There was another party switch. The Nazis became conservatives, and the liberals became the Nazis

Posted by: azjaeger at April 23, 2024 01:25 AM (3/XaG)

521 >>> 447 At the end of the day, Putin has done nothing to harm the United States. It's our own political elites that are destroying the United States.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 23, 2024 12:32 AM (ofJjy)

Akshually it's alleged that Poo Tin and the OMG Russians have continued / resumed funding of our greentard groups like the Soviet Union did, since after all Russia benefits when we produce less.

...so, how does OrangeManBad compare to Brandon in Spite Russia By Producing More OOYYYYYAL? One would think if the Brandon faction *really* wanted to help KEEEEV...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 23, 2024 01:26 AM (llON8)

522 That you bought from an Algerian criminal in Naples, don't lie.
Posted by: LenNeal

Albanian and Tirana.

Posted by: Miklos I Leka Zogu, Rightful King of All the Albanias at April 23, 2024 01:26 AM (oGyF9)

523 Both sides of my biological family were and are Socialists. I learned the hard way to have to be willing to cut people off if they turn or are destructive, you have to be willing to not just distance yourself but to kill them if need be.

I learned that in Yugo. You cannot think, 'Well, they're family'.

You have to be willing to put them down like rabid dogs.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:28 AM (9yXr+)

524 NATO has a hardon for death. EU wants to stop farming and animal husbandry.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

NOT TRUE

In the EU, you can have an animal as a husband, or wife (Inshallah).

Posted by: so fix Norte Dame, we will burn it again (Inshallah) at April 23, 2024 01:28 AM (oGyF9)

525 >>> 502 Oh, a heads-up: I'm getting rumblings there is a game afoot to destabilize not just dollars or whatever, but the concept, the idea, of money itself.
This I find very, VERY interesting for reasons I can go into but not right now and it explains why Westerners can mock Russia for having an economy 'the size of Texas', but if you can't measure it with money, it's illegible, invisible, and therefore a money-transformational economy can't see it until it's too late.
It's not like I'm giving the Big Game Away, people wholly invested in money as a concept can't see a world without it.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:06 AM (9yXr+)

The WEFtards are certainly pushing hard on the idea of digital currencies; I hadn't heard anything about 'no money at all'.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 23, 2024 01:28 AM (llON8)

526 Albanian and Tirana.
Posted by: Miklos I Leka Zogu, Rightful King of All the Albanias '

Then I assume it was a far better deal.
Was it delivered?

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:30 AM (9yXr+)

527 BREAKING

The Real Decision Maker in the Biden administration revealed by James O'Keefe-

Todd

Posted by: MiklosWatch at April 23, 2024 01:31 AM (oGyF9)

528 Then I assume it was a far better deal.
Was it delivered?
Posted by: LenNeal

Well sure, after they got it in the stolen Mercedes.

Posted by: Miklos also has many Adibas items at April 23, 2024 01:33 AM (oGyF9)

529 The WEFtards are certainly pushing hard on the idea of digital currencies; I hadn't heard anything about 'no money at all'.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket'

I mean, the concept of what money does.
It's been debated for centuries. The general use at the moment is alchemic: it is a solvent and adhesive. George Soros went to the trouble of telling everyone what he was up to with his confessional that nobody read, 'The Alchemy Of Finance'. Money to him is The Philosopher's Stone: it transforms any Thing it touches into other Things. It transforms societies.

If you stop using money as an Alchemic Solution, make it... un-fluid, it becomes simply another unit of subjective measure.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:34 AM (9yXr+)

530 512 I was gonna say WHAT NO HORN?! but there it was in the last 30 seconds. Never heard their cover before, thanks.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 01:36 AM (w6EFb)

531 Well sure, after they got it in the stolen Mercedes.
Posted by: Miklos also has many Adibas items'

I got my sofa delivered from Moldova on top of a Chinese assembled Mazda from a guy who owed me a favor.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:36 AM (9yXr+)

532 I got my sofa delivered from Moldova on top of a Chinese assembled Mazda from a guy who owed me a favor.
Posted by: LenNeal

A favor and a sofa.

Posted by: Miklos like good biznis at April 23, 2024 01:38 AM (oGyF9)

533 A favor and a sofa.
Posted by: Miklos like good biznis'

He tried to give the woman too but it seemed weird and I'm not into black eyes as a turn on.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:40 AM (9yXr+)

534 He tried to give the woman too but it seemed weird and I'm not into black eyes as a turn on.
Posted by: LenNeal

Asking "how much for the women" is just polite in some cultures.

Posted by: Miklos, burping because Etiquette at April 23, 2024 01:42 AM (oGyF9)

535 The WEFtards are certainly pushing hard on the idea of digital currencies; I hadn't heard anything about 'no money at all'.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 23, 2024 01:28 AM (llON

I heard something something about no money on youtewb in the past few days. Who, can't say. Probably a stacker channel.

Probably some uberklass twit coming up with a way to dupe the rubes to buy time. Whatever it is, I'm not having it. You need goods, services; barter, cash or credit are the only options.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 01:44 AM (w6EFb)

536 Asking "how much for the women" is just polite in some cultures.
Posted by: Miklos, burping because Etiquette'

Me: Well, what?

Balkan Criminal: Well?

Me: I'm not paying for that.

Balkan Criminal: You are faggot.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:45 AM (9yXr+)

537 You need goods, services; barter, cash or credit are the only options.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

HIRED

Posted by: Miklos from Bartertown mangement at April 23, 2024 01:45 AM (oGyF9)

538 Haha! Two years later:

Balkan Criminal: Urk

Me: I didn't tell you to do that.

Associate: Don't worry about it.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:46 AM (9yXr+)

539 535 p.s. theft is always an option. I forgot that since I'm not a thief.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 01:47 AM (w6EFb)

540 theft is always an option. I forgot that since I'm not a thief.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

You're hired already.

But NO CREDIT OR OVERNIGHT TABS

Posted by: Miklos from Bartertown mangement at April 23, 2024 01:48 AM (oGyF9)

541 I wonder what it would be like to work for a company run by Miklos and Len Neal.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 01:50 AM (w6EFb)

542
That damned T. Cornae Borealis. It was supposed to go nova on my birthday, but it didn't. Am disappoint, butt-hurt and ass-mad.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 23, 2024 01:51 AM (w6EFb)

543 *thinks it would be good to have the Taurus in a stocking garter*

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 01:51 AM (w6EFb)

544 Oo! Oo!! The greatest intro/theme song of all time.
Posted by: Tonypete

Lotsa respect for the OG Johnny Quest - not least for the way they got away with plots and dialogue that would make politically-correct heads explode today: I still remember one scene where Race is shooting at hostile natives (*at* them - no warning shots) and snarling "Take that, you filthy heathens!"

But best theme song ever? No love for, say, The Wild, Wild West, or the original Hawaii Five-O, or Miami Vice, or Peter Gunn? Mission Impossible? That score alone has earned Lalo Schriffin a spot in popular culture that has endured for nearly six decades. Magnum PI? Greatest American Hero? Cheers? The X Files? Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Angel? Millennium? The Mary Tyler Moore Show? Star Trek OS and NG? Mannix? (not to mention unique mood-setting scores like that for The NBC Mystery Movie?)

Yes, I watched too much television. Get Smart? Bewitched? M.A.S.H.?

Posted by: John Drake at April 23, 2024 01:52 AM (9Uomk)

545
Probably some uberklass twit coming up with a way to dupe the rubes to buy time. Whatever it is, I'm not having it. You need goods, services; barter, cash or credit are the only options.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 01:44 AM (w6EFb)

The Cubans have handy little ration booklets to make sure the wreckers don't go above their allotted four eggs per month. I think that number might even be accurate.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 23, 2024 01:52 AM (z+89e)

546 I swear the funniest thing I've ever had happen was walking back to my luxury hotel at 3 AM in BG past a Gypsy City and this little Jack Russell Terrier ran out and nailed me in the ankle.
I was furious but then the little shit ran away, turned, and the expression on its face!
Happiest dog I've ever seen.
I'd couldn't even stay mad. Didn't break skin, just scarred up the left shoe of a bespoke pair, and tore a hole in my custom wool dress sock.
That dog was so happy.
Little shit.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:52 AM (9yXr+)

547 Am disappoint, butt-hurt and ass-mad.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 23, 2024 01:51 AM (w6EFb)

Come in here, sweetheart - I'll try to make it up to you.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 01:53 AM (w6EFb)

548 I wonder what it would be like to work for a company run by Miklos and Len Neal.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist'

You have to marry our cousin. Now you are sister. Nobody fuck with you. Our cousin is retard. Is okay. He is good provider.

Szeged & Subotica LLC, is us.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:55 AM (9yXr+)

549 I wonder what it would be like to work for a company run by Miklos and Len Neal.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Hmmm...an HR kind of position

Until morale improves, you will be busy.

Posted by: GlobalMiklosCorp at April 23, 2024 01:56 AM (oGyF9)

550 Am disappoint, butt-hurt and ass-mad.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Ummmm.....take it up with the Designer/CEO?

Posted by: Miklos figures He works 24/7 at April 23, 2024 01:57 AM (oGyF9)

551 Posted by: John Drake at April 23, 2024 01:52 AM (9Uomk)
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I really liked the theme song from Hill Street Blues

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 01:57 AM (njWTi)

552 Posted by: John Drake at April 23, 2024 01:52 AM (9Uomk)

Get your kicks, on route 66....

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 23, 2024 01:58 AM (xaFKb)

553 548 Somehow that makes crazy sense. *shrugs*

You know if you can shrug you won't have to scream your throat raw then pass out.

Shrugging will be a Survival Skill during the Dark Days of America.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 01:58 AM (w6EFb)

554
But best theme song ever?'

Cutie Honey.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:58 AM (9yXr+)

555 Happy Birfday, Publius!

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 01:58 AM (njWTi)

556 554
But best theme song ever?'

Cutie Honey.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 01:58 AM (9yXr+)

It's about time
It's about space
about two men in the strangest place...

or... should we do Super Chicken instead...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 23, 2024 02:00 AM (xaFKb)

557 Szeged & Subotica LLC, is us.

Posted by: LenNeal

I have been to Szeged (famous for fish soup, nice small city) and through Subotica many times.

Hungarian for LLC is Kft., by the way.

Posted by: Miklos on the overnight train from Budapest to Split at April 23, 2024 02:00 AM (oGyF9)

558 Hawaii Five Oh has, without a doubt, the most compelling and captivating of all the T.V. theme songs.

You're going to be riveted down, listening to it the very last note. No matter how many times you've heard it.

Is it the BEST Teevee theme song? Well, I kinda doubt it. There's those with lyrics, sentiments, more lighthearted melodies and all that.

You might *know* the Cheers theme, better. It might evoke all the best feelings of your '80s times.

But you'll STOP what you're doing, and groove to the Five Oh rip, any time you're able.

There should've been a three minute AM pop radio version of it, and a ten minute FM late night freelance D.J. version of it for those of us in the early Pirate FM days.

Question:

Advent Heritage speakers or JVC Zero Five or Zero Six speakers?

(I can find the Advents online. The JVCs, I'd have to import from Japan. But, once you've heard them, you would, too....)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 02:01 AM (e6UQI)

559 I wonder what it would be like to work for a company run by Miklos and Len Neal.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist'

Allow me to introduce you to Slavko from BIA and Uros from Zemun Klan, don't worry, they're cool guys.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:01 AM (9yXr+)

560 Shrugging will be a Survival Skill during the Dark Days of America.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I learnt to do the Shrug at an elite private academy. In EUROPE

Posted by: Miklos, shrugging like a Frenchman with an Italian grandfather at April 23, 2024 02:03 AM (oGyF9)

561 Advent Heritage speakers or JVC Zero Five or Zero Six speakers?

(I can find the Advents online. The JVCs, I'd have to import from Japan. But, once you've heard them, you would, too....)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 02:01 AM (e6UQI)

A bit pricey, but my neighbors really enjoy my Klipsch speakers.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 23, 2024 02:03 AM (xaFKb)

562 Allow me to introduce you to Slavko from BIA and Uros from Zemun Klan, don't worry, they're cool guys.
Posted by: LenNeal

When they were in Customer Service and Dispute Resolution, never a problem.

NOT.ONE.

Posted by: Miklos, Zlatko was pretty good too at April 23, 2024 02:05 AM (oGyF9)

563 Had a pair of really nice Sansui speakers, stored at my sibling's house while I was searching for my own place after a cross-country move...

He fking FRIED them, hooked them up to his stereo & watching movies at full volume.

Did he ask me, if he could use them? No.

Did he tell me, that he'd unboxed them and was using them? No.

Did he offer to reimburse me for the fact that he'd ruined them? No.

Did he apologize at all? No.

For this, and many other reasons.... we no longer stay in touch.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:06 AM (njWTi)

564 Hmmm...an HR kind of position

Until morale improves, you will be busy.

Posted by: GlobalMiklosCorp at April 23, 2024 01:56 AM (oGyF9)

That's where the Taurus comes in.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:07 AM (w6EFb)

565
Ventures original Hawaii Five-O theme:
https://tinyurl.com/kuab3u7

That is fitting for the hair. Jack Lord's that is. That hair needed a proper theme song.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 23, 2024 02:07 AM (w6EFb)

566 That damned T. Cornae Borealis. It was supposed to go nova on my birthday, but it didn't. Am disappoint, butt-hurt and ass-mad.
Posted by: publius
---------------
You are a fluke Of the universe. You have no right to be here. And whether you can hear it or not The universe is laughing behind your back.

Posted by: Deteriorata at April 23, 2024 02:08 AM (XeU6L)

567 I have been to Szeged (famous for fish soup, nice small city) and through Subotica many times.'

First time for me was in Sanctions, I had a ticket to Athens on the Balkan Express I had a transit visa. I got into Yugo and walked off the train and ran out the transit visa.
I wrote up that entry and it got published in VREME, it's online #1316.
There is a Communist-era hunting club there.
I know them too.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:08 AM (9yXr+)

568 Had a pair of really nice Sansui speakers

Sansui speakers are rare. The last truly native Sansui speaker died in 1978.

Posted by: Miklos, who could claim to speak Sanui and how would you know? at April 23, 2024 02:09 AM (oGyF9)

569 Miklos, shrugging like a Frenchman with an Italian grandfather'

Damn, that's a shrug that can be felt from Outer Space.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:09 AM (9yXr+)

570 Driveby to say hello and good night.

That said, be safe and sleep well, good people, always remembering to hold that head HIGH and PROUD. because as Americans it is befitting.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 23, 2024 02:10 AM (hKoQL)

571 That is fitting for the hair. Jack Lord's that is. That hair needed a proper theme song.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Uplifting.

Posted by: Miklos, who, like mark Twain, failed at surfing at April 23, 2024 02:11 AM (oGyF9)

572 An elegant shrug is nice, but the shrug I speak of is a state of mind.

"Eh, I've seen worse."

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:11 AM (w6EFb)

573 SPZ9-II

Expensive. Rated for 320W (?) iirc.

A-hole bro, waaaay over-amp'd them. Fried!

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:11 AM (njWTi)

574 That's where the Taurus comes in.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist'

Our cousin, you marry, he is retard, you blowjob maybe once in a while, we take care of you.
You get nice sofa from Moldova.
And we get you China Mazda.
You like.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:11 AM (9yXr+)

575 Five-O is compelling for sure, but not when played by the NAHS band at half time.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:12 AM (w6EFb)

576 >> Posted by: Deteriorata

And two wrongs don't make a right...but three do.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 23, 2024 02:12 AM (w6EFb)

577 Damn, that's a shrug that can be felt from Outer Space.
Posted by: LenNeal

Actually, I learned it at the Marseille Extension Campus of Wossamotta U.

Posted by: Miklos, wh majored in Wild Gesticulation at April 23, 2024 02:13 AM (oGyF9)

578 Sofas and Mazdas and bj's, huh? Not the future I'd imagined.

I think I'll make my last stand here at Haunch Holler.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:15 AM (w6EFb)

579 An elegant shrug is nice, but the shrug I speak of is a state of mind.

"Eh, I've seen worse."
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

So.

You have seen me dance the Frug.

Posted by: Miklos, unapologetically from the State of the Shag at April 23, 2024 02:15 AM (oGyF9)

580 Posted by: Deteriorata

And two wrongs don't make a right...but three do.
Posted by: publius
-------
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls
would scarcely get your feet wet.

Posted by: Deteriorata at April 23, 2024 02:15 AM (XeU6L)

581 Miklos, wh majored in Wild Gesticulation'

I think you meant, Wild Gesticulation STUDIES.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:16 AM (9yXr+)

582 Publius, tell the Hugh Brown story about the hat.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:16 AM (w6EFb)

583 Sofas and Mazdas and bj's, huh? Not the future I'd imagined.

I think I'll make my last stand here at Haunch Holler.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist'

It was obviously a joke but really, how many marriages are built on less.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:17 AM (9yXr+)

584 I think I'll make my last stand here at Haunch Holler.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Tryina make a dollar
Gimme a swaller
And I'll pay you back someday

Posted by: Miklos, to the tune of "Dooley" because that is what it is at April 23, 2024 02:17 AM (oGyF9)

585 Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls
would scarcely get your feet wet.

Posted by: Deteriorata at April 23, 2024 02:15 AM (XeU6L)

I read "ocean of moist souls"

Great album title.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:18 AM (w6EFb)

586 Publius, tell the Hugh Brown story about the hat.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Who the hell is this here Hugh Brown feller?

Posted by: Spud at April 23, 2024 02:18 AM (oGyF9)

587 It was obviously a joke but really, how many marriages are built on less.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:17 AM (9yXr+)

Sometimes you gotta shrug and say "I could do worse."

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:19 AM (w6EFb)

588 >> Publius, tell the Hugh Brown story about the hat.

What's the name of those types of hats, I forget?

Anyway, an uncle of mine was wearing this type of hat. Ol' Red said, "Alvin, you need to get two of those hats."

"Why for?"

"So I can take a shit in one and cover it up with the other."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 23, 2024 02:19 AM (w6EFb)

589 Sometimes you gotta shrug and say "I could do worse."
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
-----------

HAHAHAHA, true!

Thanks for the chuckle!

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:19 AM (njWTi)

590 Miklos, this is a different hat story.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:20 AM (w6EFb)

591 I think you meant, Wild Gesticulation STUDIES.
Posted by: LenNeal

I was flunked out for plagiarism from the guys over at the Mime School.

Posted by: Miklos, me learn long time at April 23, 2024 02:20 AM (oGyF9)

592 Miklos, this is a different hat story.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

A hat of a different color.

Posted by: Miklos, who has a point and needs hats at April 23, 2024 02:21 AM (oGyF9)

593
Hugh Brown = Ol' Red. A local legend. When he died, the receiving of friends was the biggest ever in this town. Damndest thing I ever saw. All walks, all classes came from the lowest to the big shot local politicians. They all came.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 23, 2024 02:21 AM (w6EFb)

594 Those flat hats that don't cover the back of your head but have a bill what you can snap the top onto.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:22 AM (w6EFb)

595 Miklos, this is a different hat story.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

There's more than one way to spin a hat.

Posted by: Miklos, upon instant reconsideration at April 23, 2024 02:22 AM (oGyF9)

596 Hugh Brown was the one guy I wish I could've met.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:23 AM (w6EFb)

597 Sansui speakers are rare. The last truly native Sansui speaker died in 1978.'

I understand, from South East Asia Anthropological Journal, he drowned in fresh water due to falling into a puddle while drunk on taro root, and was therefore One With The Mother Ocean, giver of all things. His family then ate his brain to absorb his knowledge and they all subsequently died of Kuru.

Very tragic.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:23 AM (9yXr+)

598 HAHAHAHA, true!

Thanks for the chuckle!

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:19 AM (njWTi)

I guess giving the occasional bj to a retard is better than a brute who beats you, or worse.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:24 AM (w6EFb)

599 Those flat hats that don't cover the back of your head but have a bill what you can snap the top onto.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Don't like those. Too small.

My scalp is allergic to tinfoil. The tinfoil is only effective if it in precisely 0.016 inch from the head.

Which you have to install yourself.

Posted by: Miklos has Sources at April 23, 2024 02:26 AM (oGyF9)

600 I guess giving the occasional bj to a retard is better than a brute who beats you, or worse.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Screenshot.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:27 AM (9yXr+)

601 I guess giving the occasional bj to a retard is better than a brute who beats you, or worse.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
------

Oh.

Oh, my gosh...

Uh...

Nevermind, eh?

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:27 AM (njWTi)

602 Klipsch is legendary. But which model?

As with Bose, Klipsch is a bit... particular, as to room dimensions and placement. All speakers are, to a degree, but Bose is KNOWN for this, and Klipsch, with it's horn design, is, too.

Hence the Advent Heritage (best of ALL Advent designs, before The Fall), and the JVC zip Five and zip Six.

Those are the Massage Chairs of all speakers, regardless of placement or dimension. They just DO, and you gotta just ENJOY.

Audio snobs are the wine snobs of cigar snobs of pipe snobs of bourbon snobs of scotch snobs, everywhere.

Optics snobs are exempt from this conversation. Because THEY start in with Nikon vs Canon or Nightforce vs... *plonk, bullet hit*....

...wars.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 02:28 AM (e6UQI)

603 I'm married. No more bj's HAHAHAHA

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:28 AM (njWTi)

604 Hugh Brown = Ol' Red. A local legend. When he died, the receiving of friends was the biggest ever in this town. Damndest thing I ever saw. All walks, all classes came from the lowest to the big shot local politicians. They all came.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Sure looks like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5hVdHRFztk

Posted by: Miklos is Impressed at April 23, 2024 02:29 AM (oGyF9)

605 You all can believe this or not but I'm reading this incredible exchange while drinking Mike's Lemonade and playing Prodigy 'Smack My Bitch Up'.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:30 AM (9yXr+)

606 My cousin did unspeakable things in Center City Philly in exchange for drugs. Did prison time, too, because she wouldn't rat out the people who would've killed her.

Heartbreaking, but she actually did redeem herself after all of that. Became a nurse, actually nursed her dying mother who was probably much like Miklos' Old Mama (maybe worse). Married her first bf from junior high.

But I digress. In the presumed Bad Times to Come, many clueless women with absolutely no practical skills will be desperate. The feminists (if any survive Round One) will come to understand that they need men much, much more than fish need bicycles.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:30 AM (w6EFb)

607 Jim, SND---

All I know 'bout my damn speakers is:

They sounded great. Didn't matter what room or how they were placed...

And my f'ing bro fried them, using without permission.

I haz sadz

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:30 AM (njWTi)

608 I'm sorry about your speakers, JQ.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:34 AM (w6EFb)

609 much more than fish need bicycles.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I also have a bicycle.

Lay-tees?

Posted by: Miklos is Eligible, of so the junk mail tells me at April 23, 2024 02:35 AM (oGyF9)

610 Heartbreaking, but she actually did redeem herself after all of that. Became a nurse, actually nursed her dying mother who was probably much like Miklos' Old Mama (maybe worse). Married her first bf from junior high.

But I digress. In the presumed Bad Times to Come, many clueless women with absolutely no practical skills will be desperate. The feminists (if any survive Round One) will come to understand that they need men much, much more than fish need bicycles.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist'

In the Balkan War, I watched a desperate refugee woman suck off a guy I worked with for a single loaf of bread to feed her child. At the time I felt nothing. I'm not sure I feel anything about it now.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:35 AM (9yXr+)

611 Sorry your cousin went thru such hard times, Miley. Glad she overcame her troubles and became a nurse!

Yeah, if the hard times come... I ain't no clueless feminazi.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:35 AM (njWTi)

612 And my f'ing bro fried them, using without permission.

I haz sadz
Posted by: JQ

Sell one of his kidneys and get even better ones.

It is the Balkan Way.

Posted by: Miklos from the North Balkans at April 23, 2024 02:37 AM (oGyF9)

613 In the Balkan War, I watched a desperate refugee woman suck off a guy I worked with for a single loaf of bread to feed her child. At the time I felt nothing. I'm not sure I feel anything about it now.
Posted by: LenNeal

I would sh**t the mf'er and steal his bread.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:38 AM (njWTi)

614 I would sh**t the mf'er and steal his bread.
Posted by: JQ

This, too is the Balkan Way.

Posted by: Miklos from the North Balkans at April 23, 2024 02:39 AM (oGyF9)

615 At the time I felt nothing. I'm not sure I feel anything about it now.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:35 AM (9yXr+)

Feelings are a luxury one cannot afford in very desperate times.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:39 AM (w6EFb)

616 I would sh**t the mf'er and steal his bread.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:38 AM (njWTi)

Hence the Taurus.

Practice ammo would do, wouldn't waste hollow points for a loaf of bread.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:40 AM (w6EFb)

617 Dude I worked with told the story of them living in Texas in a apartment. Had one of those old console furniture stereos with the massive woofers. Came home to a breaking and entering and the bastages kicked out the speakers. They assumed it was neighbors as they rocked out Eminence Front LOUD frequently

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 23, 2024 02:40 AM (+I6Y/)

618 Sell one of his kidneys and get even better ones.
-------

LOL, Miley! Hahaha...

Nah. Better he & I just keep going our separate ways. We have nothing in common but DNA.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:40 AM (njWTi)

619 JQ, that was Miklos. I can't steal credit. Damn funny tho.

You should bring it up to your brother. Tell him you know a pair of surgeons from the Balkans who will do it for free.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:43 AM (w6EFb)

620 They assumed it was neighbors as they rocked out Eminence Front LOUD frequently
Posted by: a dude in MI
---------

Wow. That's just pathetic.

Eminence Front? WTH could be wrong with that song? I'd be rockin' out to it also!

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:43 AM (njWTi)

621 JQ.

Some of those vintage Sansui speakers fetch Big Wampum, now.

Most, don't. Being basic 'consumer grade' drek. But Sansui really did make some Very Serious Audio Grade stuff.

Their G Series receivers were, and are, legendary. And are appreciating assets, even now.

You get into the REAL UPPER range of Sansui, JVC, Pioneer, Kenwood, Marantz... all taht '70s Silver Face audio. Those receivers still fetch +$1,000 in great condition, even to this day.

TOP of their lines? Bring $3,00 to start. And more, if you're serious.

Remember, folks. Thats just for the RECEIVER. From the 1970s. Quality of anything newer DECLINED with the increase of Integrated Circuitry. (chips)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 02:45 AM (e6UQI)

622 Feelings are a luxury one cannot afford in very desperate times.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Who would trade anything of value for an 8-track of Morris Albert singing "Feelings" anyway?

Posted by: Miklos, End Times Economist at April 23, 2024 02:45 AM (oGyF9)

623 A major reason I do War Crimes analysis is because people have requested I do so. They ask me questions, so many questions.
"Why did this guy do this?"
I always tell these academics and the inexperienced, "Come with me, meet what is left of my friends. We will tell you."
And they NEVER do. They NEVER do it.
They don't want to get dirty.
I'm working on a piece that is going worldwide, that I worked on, it's very serious, and anytime I show up in person these people just look... awkward.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:45 AM (9yXr+)

624 Ooops. LOL, Miley

Nah, bro & I have nothing further to discuss, ever. It's done.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:46 AM (njWTi)

625 Tell him you know a pair of surgeons from the Balkans who will do it for free.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

No free

But we cut costs TO THE BONE

Posted by: Balkan Surgeons S.r.o.o at April 23, 2024 02:47 AM (oGyF9)

626 Who would trade anything of value for an 8-track of Morris Albert singing "Feelings" anyway?
Posted by: Miklos, End Times Economist'

I have an 8-track of ABBA Gold. And a player.

Shall I?

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:49 AM (9yXr+)

627 And they NEVER do. They NEVER do it.
They don't want to get dirty.
I'm working on a piece that is going worldwide, that I worked on, it's very serious, and anytime I show up in person these people just look... awkward.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:45 AM (9yXr+)

Blood and miscellaneous matter is for action movies, not reality.

I imagine they have soft, pale hands.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 02:51 AM (w6EFb)

628 Jim SND

Well it's good then, that bro didn't destroy *the best* stuff, right? Think I'd paid less than $500 for the pair, back then...

Still. It's just that: it wasn't HIS stuff.

He agreed to let me store things. In boxes. For four months. In basement space that he wasn't actively using. Said it was no big deal. Didn't tell me he'd paw thru the stuff....

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:52 AM (njWTi)

629
It is near Corona Borealis noon, it's about over the meridian. If you want to see the spot where this nova is supposed to happen (sometime before Oct), go out and look.

You'll see the near full Moon. Which is mostly made of gasses, which is why people can live there. Cover up the Moon with your thumb, and close one eye. This will kill the glare. To the right(west) you'll see a bright start. That's Spica (Alpha Virginis).

Now, keeping the glare of the Moon covered, look up higher, to the left (east). You'll see a bright reddish star. That's Arcturus (Alpha Bootis).

You'll see that makes sort of squat isosceles triangle with two other bright-ish stars to the east. The one is the middle on top is Izar, Epsilon Bootis. The one to the left is Gemma(or Alphecca), which is Alpha Corona Borealis.

That's the one we want. If the Moon weren't so bright, you'd easily see the little crown of Corona Borealis.

Anyway, a bit to the east and below Gemma is our guy, T. Coronae Borealis. You can't see, too dim. But when it goes nova, it will be as bright as Gemma there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 23, 2024 02:53 AM (w6EFb)

630 Balkan medical isn't bad.
I got a lateral sprain in my left foot, which I thought might be a break, it swelled up like a balloon, and went to an Apoteka, a walk-in clinic, where a crabby old lady at 01:00 grabbed my foot and yanked it around (Yeouch), declared it 'Dobro' and turned me loose.
I bought some anti-inflammatory pills, total cost about USD$15.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:53 AM (9yXr+)

631 Sorry, I'm way behind, but this an earlier thread today had me laughing...
"As a wee Jewish lad, if one wanted to misbehave and experiment with booze on holidays while the grown-ups were busy with synagogue activities, the choices available were MD and Manischewitz. Mine was a Manischewitz congregation.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

We've secretly replaced the Manischewitz with Jägermeister. Let's see if anyone noticed when they get home from Temple.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2024 09:53"

Posted by: Farmer at April 23, 2024 02:55 AM (55Qr6)

632 I have an 8-track of ABBA Gold. And a player.
--------

Dude! I have a copy of Abba's Greatest Hits Vol. 2!

Didn't know they made enough music to even have a second LP...at all.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:57 AM (njWTi)

633 And they NEVER do. They NEVER do it.

I used to know a guy named Eduardo Flores.

Fought with the Croats in the Balkan wars. Then lived in Budapest and wrote poetry. Said he had seen horrible things, done horrible things.

Ended up dead in Bolivia under very odd circumstances.

https://tinyurl.com/ybv59zvh

Posted by: Miklos has met some interesting people at April 23, 2024 02:58 AM (oGyF9)

634 Holy shit! 631? High score for an ONT

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:58 AM (9yXr+)

635 You THINK you might know who the "monsters" are, in your midst.

You don't.

Len Neal will attest. Some of the "nicest", "most affable" people you've ever known, ARE the monsters among you.

Basic psychopathy. They can fake it so very well.

Ever meet a Special Forces type, or Merc, who has "been downrange" a time or three? They'll have a bodycount. Sometimes, a triple digit one, at that.

One, I'm friends with, is one of the greatest Family Men you'd wanna know.

But I've spent enough range time with him to also know that he plays for keeps and makes finishing shots a habit, too.

Those are the friends you want as FRIENDS.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 02:59 AM (e6UQI)

636 Ended up dead in Bolivia under very odd circumstances.'

Haha! I'm still alive under very odd circumstances

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:59 AM (9yXr+)

637 Holy shit! 631? High score for an ONT
Posted by: LenNeal
----------

Just like the olden times....

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:59 AM (njWTi)

638 I have an 8-track of ABBA Gold. And a player.
--------

Dude! I have a copy of Abba's Greatest Hits Vol. 2!

Posted by: JQ

Two enter the Abbadome....only ONE emerges

Posted by: Miklos nods, let the Play begin at April 23, 2024 02:59 AM (oGyF9)

639
It's interesting. When you watch the sky like this for a few hours, you can easily see how fast the Moon's proper motion is. When I first looked at the Moon tonight, it was so close to Spica, I couldn't see Spica without covering the Moon with my thumb.

The Moon has now moved east enough relative to Spica over the past few hours, that I can see Spica well now, even in the Moon glare.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 23, 2024 02:59 AM (w6EFb)

640 Dude! I have a copy of Abba's Greatest Hits Vol. 2!

Didn't know they made enough music to even have a second LP...at all.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:57 AM (njWTi)

OMG, JQ - ABBA was prolific!! They were the biggest export Sweden had at the time.

I love their stuff.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:00 AM (w6EFb)

641 What's the name of those types of hats, I forget?

They're just called "flat caps."

Wiki says "English cap" as an alternative. I've heard "Irish cap," so I guess it depends who lives around you. Fair number of Irish in MN.

Posted by: mikeski at April 23, 2024 03:02 AM (DgGvY)

642 I don't care what anyone says, Cake, 'The Distance', is an awesome video.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:03 AM (9yXr+)

643 Cake at their best is very Dada.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:03 AM (9yXr+)

644 ABBA was prolific!! They were the biggest export Sweden had at the time.

I love their stuff.
Posted by: Miley
-------

Hahaha. Abba was okay, when I was in HS... kinda... Not my kinda music really.

It's hubby's ex's record, I think.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 03:04 AM (njWTi)

645 Just like the olden times....

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 02:59 AM (njWTi)

The olden, golden times of yore.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:04 AM (w6EFb)

646 JQ. I mourn

If you'd paid anywhere near $500 for those Sansui speakers back then, well...yes.

He fried some of the Good Stuff.

Some of the REALLY. Good. Stuff.

Go surfing Craigslist in different U.S. cities. Click on "electronics", then type in "Sansui". You'll eventually find "your" speakers.

Brace yourself, Bridget. At the prices the Good Stuff now fetches.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 03:04 AM (e6UQI)

647 FUN FACT

ABBA's career ended abruptly when Ingmar Bergman was named to direct their first concert movie

Posted by: Mikløs at April 23, 2024 03:04 AM (oGyF9)

648 Haha! I'm still alive under very odd circumstances

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 02:59 AM (9yXr+)

Yes, yes you are. God has big plans for YOU.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:05 AM (w6EFb)

649 ONT is still tickin'. Good deal. Can't sleep.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 23, 2024 03:06 AM (V8he0)

650 Cake at their best is very Dada.
Posted by: LenNeal

Pfft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqTBlft8gQA

Posted by: Trio at April 23, 2024 03:07 AM (oGyF9)

651 Well, WTF, I looked up ABBA greatest hits 2, and it's all their best songs. Oh, it's ABBA Gold, then ABBA vol. 2, and apparently there is a vol 3! Which is also a bunch of duplicates. What a ripoff.
Then I got a commercial about sloths.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:07 AM (9yXr+)

652 642 Slap introduced me to Cake. I'd missed most of the 80s music. I like it because it has no sad associations for me.

The Distance video is art.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:08 AM (w6EFb)

653
ABBA's career ended abruptly when Ingmar Bergman was named to direct their first concert movie
Posted by: Mikløs'

HAHA

damn yeah that explains it

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:08 AM (9yXr+)

654 But you'll STOP what you're doing, and groove to the Five Oh rip, any time you're able.
Posted by: Jim

That may be the key (pardon the pun) right there. A TV theme song that grabs you with all the verve and intensity that an arrangement of notes can provide.

Plus, a theme song that says "What you are about to see is epic and awesome and you're going to look back later in despair if you don't watch it." Mission Impossible had that - even now, those first few notes signal sophisticated, intricate, exciting, suspenseful, high-stakes shenanigans are going to go down.

The Wild, Wild West had that element as well, for me at least, but it works best when Jim West or Artemus Gordon are about to pull some nineteenth century high tech spy gizmo out and escape whatever terrible fate Dr. Loveless has in mind for them. (And I still love the gimmick of phasing the final shot of each act into a sepia tinged image of the perils faced by our heroes. They did an homage to that on The Tick (Spoooon!) and MST3K during the season when the Mads were trapped in Ancient Rome.

Posted by: John Drake at April 23, 2024 03:08 AM (9Uomk)

655 "Flat caps" are what elderly men wear, while driving their sports car convertibles.

The young dudes envy them. The young ladies laugh (or see a potential a Sugar Daddy)

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 03:08 AM (njWTi)

656 ONT is still tickin'. Good deal. Can't sleep.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

If we make it to 1000 comments, Skip might call in sick for the first time since 1985.

Posted by: Miklos, nose to the shoulder of the grindstone at April 23, 2024 03:08 AM (oGyF9)

657 Notorious, I ain't slept the last two nights, and not missed a bit of work, either.

Somewhere, around the globe, the drums have just stopped, and it's too quiet.....

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 03:08 AM (e6UQI)

658 If we make it to 1000 comments, Skip might call in sick for the first time since 1985.

lol

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 23, 2024 03:09 AM (V8he0)

659 The young ladies laugh (or see a potential a Sugar Daddy)
Posted by: JQ

I...see

Posted by: Miklos, adjusting ascot that matches the both the Jag upholstry AND the smoking jacket at April 23, 2024 03:10 AM (oGyF9)

660 I would stoop to having sex with Agnetha Fältskog.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:11 AM (9yXr+)

661 Somewhere, around the globe, the drums have just stopped, and it's too quiet.....

Yes...way too quiet.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 23, 2024 03:11 AM (V8he0)

662 Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 03:04 AM

Oh, no! Seriously?

Yeah, I bought them while living in Japan, '84 I think. MUCH CHEAPER over there. I want to say they were $250 apiece? Maybe $275... Sold per each, in dollars, at Pony Co. just off-base.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 03:12 AM (njWTi)

663 635: Some of the "nicest", "most affable" people you've ever known, ARE the monsters among you.

The oddest story I heard in the USAF was what happened to a co-worker after he transferred. This guy was a bit introverted, nice enough, a bit odd but harmless. Gets orders to Incirlik in Turkey. Months pass, and someone who used to work with him called Incirlik to see how he's doing. Well, he was arrested. Apparently, he was leading a drug smuggling operation and had gang connections in Houston. He was a major player, apparently. The OSI had been investigating him for a while. I, to the day, am still trying to wrap my brain around the guy I remember, daft and affable, with criminal mastermind. It was like the end of 'Usual Suspects' except I never figured it out.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 23, 2024 03:12 AM (sAmhv)

664
ABBA, Eurovision 1974. When the Magic Began:
https://tinyurl.com/2cya4b4u

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 23, 2024 03:13 AM (w6EFb)

665 The young dudes envy them. The young ladies laugh (or see a potential a Sugar Daddy)
Posted by: JQ'

(Winks in weird, salacious Hungarian fashion, while reeking of goulash)

Posted by: Miklos who thinks he still gots it at April 23, 2024 03:14 AM (9yXr+)

666 Somewhere, around the globe, the drums have just stopped, and it's too quiet.....

Yes...way too quiet.
Posted by: Notorious

Babaloo...BABA LOO Aya!!

Posted by: Miklos, in congo drumming Desi Arnaz mode at April 23, 2024 03:14 AM (oGyF9)

667 It is near Corona Borealis noon...yadda...yadda...
Anyway, a bit to the east and below Gemma is our guy, T. Coronae Borealis. You can't see, too dim. But when it goes nova, it will be as bright as Gemma there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 23, 2024 02:53

Sounds like you've had a happy birfday publius. Best wishes for many more.

Posted by: Farmer at April 23, 2024 03:14 AM (55Qr6)

668 After all of these 29 years, it still amazes me a tad how very still it can be at at 1500.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 23, 2024 03:15 AM (V8he0)

669 ABBA's career ended abruptly when Ingmar Bergman was named to direct their first concert movie
Posted by: Mikløs'

Darling, the Swedes do not have the ø.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:15 AM (w6EFb)

670 Well, dang it. Don't need any reason to resent bro *more* than I already do... Meh.

What's done is done.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 03:16 AM (njWTi)

671 (Winks in weird, salacious Hungarian fashion, while reeking of goulash)
Posted by: Miklos who thinks he still gots it

I gots it all right

But only Darleen wants it

Posted by: Miklos, well Marleen and Charleen are not insignificant neither at April 23, 2024 03:16 AM (oGyF9)

672 >> Best wishes for many more.

Thank you, and all above.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 23, 2024 03:17 AM (w6EFb)

673 The oddest story I heard in the USAF was what happened to a co-worker after he transferred. This guy was a bit introverted, nice enough, a bit odd but harmless. Gets orders to Incirlik in Turkey. Months pass, and someone who used to work with him called Incirlik to see how he's doing. Well, he was arrested. Apparently, he was leading a drug smuggling operation
Posted by: Puddleglum'

I had all my shit torn apart in USA on arrival from Turkey (It works!) and after they were all done wrecking my shit, they told me they were looking for drugs. I could not even believe it. What kind of retard tries to get drugs from Turkey (!) into the USA in carry-on or checked bags.
I was offended, I don't need to do that.

Posted by: Miklos who thinks he still gots it at April 23, 2024 03:18 AM (9yXr+)

674 After all of these 29 years, it still amazes me a tad how very still it can be at at 1500.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Whadda you talk?

Ina 1492, I already sail-a da Ocean Blue

Posted by: Cristoforo Colombo at April 23, 2024 03:19 AM (oGyF9)

675 Darling, the Swedes do not have the ø.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist'

Really? Is that a Norway thing?
Well, shit, so it is!

Posted by: Miklos who thinks he still gots it at April 23, 2024 03:21 AM (9yXr+)

676 Happy Belated Birthday, publius!

...and JQ. what's done is done, you're right.

And now I'm on a quest for speakers to match the glory of the 1979 Sansui G-5700 receiver.

Most of what's on today's market, is utter shit.

Until suddenly, you find yourself in an AUDIO BOUTIQUE. The Wine Snobs, of $ound.

Fusk'em. I'm buying vintage, but QUALITY vintage, at that.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2024 03:21 AM (e6UQI)

677 (9yXr+)

Russian bot

Or Macedonian

Stop now

Posted by: A Miklos is a Miklos is a Miklos (paraphrasing G. Stein paraphrasing W. Shakespeare at April 23, 2024 03:22 AM (oGyF9)

678 Ina 1492, I already sail-a da Ocean Blue
Posted by: Cristoforo Colombo'

Christofuh!

Posted by: Christofuh's annoying girlfriend I''m glad she's dead at April 23, 2024 03:22 AM (9yXr+)

679 And I second the votes for Route 66 and Hill Street Blues. The former was a huge favorite for my father and myself, and I still think Route 66 had the best series finale ever - Not only does Martin Milner hold onto his much-prized Corvette (which morphed from a 1960 model to a 1961 model to a ... by the end, it's a '64), defeat all the con artists and swindlers who were dead-cert guaranteed to bring him down; no, he does all of that and then drives off to even greater adventures with an adoring Barbara Eden as his new co-pilot. How many of us in 1964 might have wished for just such an ending - kick-ass car, one of the most beautiful women on the planet madly in love with you, and the promise of more excitement to come. Those two show every sign that, when it strikes them, they can park the Vette, acquire a home, and live their best lives as husband and wife, mom and dad in their fictional never-never world.

Posted by: John Drake at April 23, 2024 03:23 AM (9Uomk)

680 Are there CoBs around?

Posted by: Miklos is not optimistic at April 23, 2024 03:23 AM (oGyF9)

681 (9yXr+)

Russian bot

Or Macedonian

Stop now'

That's me, LenNeal sorry. I think.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:24 AM (9yXr+)

682 ABBA, Eurovision 1974. When the Magic Began:
https://tinyurl.com/2cya4b4u

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 23, 2024 03:13 AM (w6EFb)

The young girls at the circuit board factory said they fell in love with ABBA because of the clothes. Pfft.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:24 AM (w6EFb)

683 Or Macedonian'

Or is it...

NORTH Macedonia??!!

Posted by: LenNeal says enquiring minds at April 23, 2024 03:24 AM (9yXr+)

684 The young girls at the circuit board factory said they fell in love with ABBA because of the clothes. Pfft.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Were their clothes made from patterns?

Posted by: Miklos from Redbook at April 23, 2024 03:25 AM (oGyF9)

685 LenNeal---

Not cool to sock a regular. Not even a little.

Miklos uses many different... suffixes... so, maybe don't use the "Miklos" again.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 03:27 AM (njWTi)

686 Woke up after 3 solid hours of sleep. Blew some of the crud out of my head and lungs, time for another nap.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2024 03:27 AM (tkR6S)

687 After all of these 29 years, it still amazes me a tad how very still it can be at at 1500.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 23, 2024 03:15 AM (V8he0)

It's the time when there's the most energy available for ME. 3 am has always been my most creative time.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:28 AM (w6EFb)

688 Abba costumes were somewhere between 'hippie' and 'sci-fi' LOL.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 03:29 AM (njWTi)

689 Were their clothes made from patterns?
Posted by: Miklos from Redbook'

Believe it or not, I found the obvious Butterick patterns in the Nancy Drew Movie hot.

Some guys do tan lines.

Eh.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:29 AM (9yXr+)

690 Not cool to sock a regular. Not even a little.

Miklos uses many different... suffixes... so, maybe don't use the "Miklos" again.
Posted by: JQ'

I'll keep that in mind.

Posted by: LenNeal... or IS IT at April 23, 2024 03:30 AM (9yXr+)

691 It's the time when there's the most energy available for ME. 3 am has always been my most creative time.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Publius has developed a clever device that captures the heat and sparks that fly from Miley's knitting needles.

Posted by: Miklos is Impressed at April 23, 2024 03:30 AM (oGyF9)

692 What kind of retard tries to get drugs from Turkey (!) into the USA in carry-on or checked bags.
I was offended, I don't need to do that.

Posted by: Miklos who thinks he still gots it at April 23, 2024 03:18 AM (9yXr+)

I once enacted the boobs-against-the-glass scene from Midnight Express.

It was a happy occasion.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:31 AM (w6EFb)

693 I remember Hill Street Blues and The Greatest American Hero being regular fixtures on FM broadcasts where I lived, (FM had finally shoved its way onstage past AM in NE Mississippi) and there wasn't a place where both couldn't be found on the jukeboxes, which lingered up there far longer than other parts of these United States. Magnum PI had its stay on radio and jukebox for a while as well, and there were a few others, such as Happy Days, The Bob Newhart Show, S.W.A.T., St. Elsewhere, and LA Law.

Posted by: John Drake at April 23, 2024 03:32 AM (9Uomk)

694 I once enacted the boobs-against-the-glass scene from Midnight Express.

It was a happy occasion.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Technically, it was 11:38

Posted by: Or so one hears at April 23, 2024 03:33 AM (oGyF9)

695 Really? Is that a Norway thing?
Well, shit, so it is!

Posted by: Miklos who thinks he still gots it at April 23, 2024 03:21 AM (9yXr+)

The Danes, too.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:34 AM (w6EFb)

696 I once enacted the boobs-against-the-glass scene from Midnight Express.

It was a happy occasion.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist'

The Kid took me out for coffee this morning and I pointed out to her a routine occurrence that happens all the time at my supermarket employment. A well-endowed employee, a woman, came out into the eating area on her break, sat down, hefted up her boobs, and dumped them onto the table with a huge sigh of relief.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:34 AM (9yXr+)

697 It's chilly out tonight. So chilly, that Cat decided to snooze indoors for a while. He's being hubby's Little Buddy now. So funny, 'cause hubby claims to dislike cats...

Riiiiiight. That's why he gives Cat the nice skritches and rubbys. Uh huh.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 03:35 AM (njWTi)

698 The Danes, too.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist'

Faroe Islands!
Everyone goes there.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:36 AM (9yXr+)

699 That's me, LenNeal sorry. I think.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:24 AM (9yXr+)

First commandment: Never to sock other commenters. Bannable offense. We wouldn't want that.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:37 AM (w6EFb)

700 I'm done with this Scandi alphabet stuff.

Finnished.

Posted by: Suomiklos at April 23, 2024 03:38 AM (oGyF9)

701 I read some time ago that ABBA had their outrageous costumes due to Sweden's confiscatory tax rates. They spent earnings on costumes, sets, and makeup for tax purposes.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:39 AM (9yXr+)

702 (w6EFb)
(9yXr+)
(oGyF9)

Fair enough.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:40 AM (9yXr+)

703 Sorry, JQ already took care of that.

Anyway, I was hoping we might make it to 700. And so we have.

1000 is unlikely, because Pixy arrives around 4 am. Back in the day we could go until 6 am.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:40 AM (w6EFb)

704 Weird. Just had an interruption in internet.

Just about time for the annual hash-change, so let's see now

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 03:41 AM (njWTi)

705 Hmm. Guess that didn't do it. Meh.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 03:42 AM (njWTi)

706 Finnished.

Posted by: Suomiklos at April 23, 2024 03:38 AM (oGyF9)

That's good, because you probably know that the Finns are not Scandi.

Herregud, mikä jalkahiki!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:44 AM (w6EFb)

707 Well I done kilt it daid.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:47 AM (w6EFb)

708 Back in the day we could go until 6 am.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I still can.

Just need reading glasses and remember where the hell I put the damn Viagra.

First where are the damn glasses....ow my knee

Posted by: Miklos, a Sprightly 29 or so at April 23, 2024 03:47 AM (oGyF9)

709 And if Cutie Honey allows us to open the door to anime themes, then I counter with Cowboy Bebop. Opening theme song Tank stirs the spirit and really plays into the jazz aesthetic the show was shooting for, and Real Folk Blues wrings your heart out with the loss and despair that the lyrics only lightly touch upon. This extended into individual scene scoring such as the use of the moody, foreboding Rain as Spike walks into an abandoned cathedral to free his friend Faye. That music, plus a tense stand-off that conventional TV has yet to echo, opens the ball for an epic gun battle that leads to the top of the cathedral and (for Spike) a plunge from a stained glass window.

Then there's the unfortunately-titled Big-O, whose theme promised sci-fi intrigue, giant Mechas, a plot which pre-dated many of the concepts of memory and reality in the Matrix films. The curiously romantic closing number suggests a William Gibson-esque angle where the hero, Roger (a mixture of Bruce Wayne and James Bond) is in this weird romance with R-Dorothy, an artificially intelligent android who seems to reciprocate his feelings. It's weird, but this is Japan, and it kind of ... works, I guess.

Posted by: John Drake at April 23, 2024 03:48 AM (9Uomk)

710 They spent earnings on costumes, sets, and makeup for tax purposes.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 23, 2024 03:39 AM (9yXr+)

That's a lot of makeup and costumes and sets. Wouldn't it be write-offs?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:49 AM (w6EFb)

711 Anyway, I was hoping we might make it to 700. And so we have.
1000 is unlikely, because Pixy arrives around 4 am. Back in the day we could go until 6 am.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 03:40

Those were the days my griend, we thought they'd never end...

Posted by: Farmer at April 23, 2024 03:51 AM (55Qr6)

712 Other brother is another pain in my a$$... but that's different than first bro. At least other bro isn't deliberately a jerk. He's just... kind of a doofus. Naive? Hahaha

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 03:51 AM (njWTi)

713 Chance to see the space station at 5am if it's clear

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2024 03:53 AM (fwDg9)

714 That's good, because you probably know that the Finns are not Scandi.

Herregud, mikä jalkahiki!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

There was a young lass from Helsinki
Who seemed, in a word, quite randy
I made an approach
Was met with reproach
"Do I look look like some piece of trash Scandi?"

Posted by: Miklos, thinking Helsinki is easier than Jyväskylä for example at April 23, 2024 03:53 AM (oGyF9)

715 Morning, insomaniacals!

JQ writes, "It's chilly out tonight. So chilly, that Cat decided to snooze indoors for a while. . . ."

Morning to you, JQ! It's actually, and oddly, cool here this morning, 58 with humidity down (for here). This is prob. the last morning of its kind Da Swamp will see until maybe December. Soon enough it will be a stifling 78-82 *before dawn*, with daytime temps above 90.

Over 700 comments from a short ONT? Wow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 23, 2024 03:54 AM (omVj0)

716 Over 700 comments from a short ONT? Wow.
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Mornin' Wolfus!

Yeah, we had to make our own content tonight.

See? We can do it!! LOL

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 03:56 AM (njWTi)

717 Plus Samurai Champloo and Space Dandy, Battleship Yamamoto, Phoenix Force, and, even though it's not anime, it is Japanese (albeit cycled through American editing, re-shoots, and recutting, the original Power Rangers theme. My son and all his friends loved that opening, and it captivated them the way the Bruce Timm Batman animated series did.

Anyone remember, by the way, the parody of Ultraman that USA Night Flight did in the late eighties? Those were a delight to behold and their access to current popular music was the icing on the cake. I still fondly remember where the Ultraman team's mentor was leading off a group of Japanese children to watch a WWII move. One of the kids is whining "Not World War II again!" But the mentor promises that this time "there's a new exciting ending!"

Posted by: John Drake at April 23, 2024 03:58 AM (9Uomk)

718 Over 700 comments from a short ONT? Wow.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Not "short".

Length Challenged due to the Patriarchy and Stuff

Posted by: Title VII for Smart Military Blogs at April 23, 2024 03:58 AM (oGyF9)

719 We've been watching the 1996 (?) TV miniseries of Streets of Laredo, the Larry McMurtry sequel to Lonesome Dove. Good casting and pacing, and since LM himself co-wrote the teleplay, faithful to his original down to dialogue. Strange to see George Carlin doing a dramatic role as a limping former Ranger. And as in LM's Western novels, the villains are savage serial killers, and memorable . . . as if Hannibal Lecter and Jame Gumb were to be installed in the Old West with all their evil intact.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 23, 2024 03:58 AM (omVj0)

720 I'll just bet you all made your own entertainment. I wish I had time to read over it all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 23, 2024 04:00 AM (omVj0)

721 Welp, Cat decided it's time to go back out...

And I need sleeeeeep.

Pixy will be here soon.

Posted by: JQ at April 23, 2024 04:04 AM (njWTi)

722 Wolfus, I know people who read the ONT over breakfast.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 04:05 AM (w6EFb)

723 'Night, JQ!

I had to make a middle-of-the-night snack for Mama Publius.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 04:06 AM (w6EFb)

724 711 Those were the days my griend
Posted by: Farmer at April 23, 2024 03:51 AM (55Qr6)

Would you like to buy an "f"?

Posted by: m at April 23, 2024 04:07 AM (o3SCB)

725 Who is m to be hawking f?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 04:08 AM (w6EFb)

726 Those were the days my griend
Posted by: Farmer at April 23, 2024 03:51 AM (55Qr6)

Would you like to buy an "f"?
Posted by: m

Just don't give griend an "l"

Posted by: Beowulf at April 23, 2024 04:09 AM (oGyF9)

727 Wolfus, you'll find some dark stuff in the comments.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 04:09 AM (w6EFb)

728 727 Wolfus, you'll find some dark stuff in the comments.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 04:09 AM (w6EFb)

A little dab of toothpaste will take that out.

Posted by: m at April 23, 2024 04:11 AM (o3SCB)

729 Wolfus, you'll find some dark stuff in the comments.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I read read in a Barnabas Collins Dark Shadows voice.

Posted by: Miklos, who does keep odd hours at April 23, 2024 04:12 AM (oGyF9)

730 Barney-bus

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 04:13 AM (w6EFb)

731 Pixy is being assaulted by Wombats. I hope he survives and puts up the Tech Thread.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 23, 2024 04:14 AM (sAmhv)

732 Well, the least we can do is carry on bravely, since we can't help with the wombats.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 04:15 AM (w6EFb)

733 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at April 23, 2024 04:15 AM (o3SCB)

734 Wombats defeated -- noodus pixyana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 23, 2024 04:16 AM (omVj0)

735 Pixy is being assaulted by Wombats. I hope he survives and puts up the Tech Thread.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Ace will send some of his loyal Ewoks if needed.

Posted by: Miklos, and that would be fun to watch, if you can tell which is which at April 23, 2024 04:16 AM (oGyF9)

736 It was fun, you guys! Like the olden, golden days...

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 23, 2024 04:16 AM (w6EFb)

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