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59 years before the movie Jaws was released, there was a series of shark attacks on the Jersey Shore. One of them happened in Matawan Creek, which seemed to be an inspiration for one of the terrifying scenes in the movie Jaws. “2 weeks, 4 deaths, and the start of America's fear of sharks” [National Geographic] In the twilight of July 1, 1916, 25-year-old Charles Vansant bled to death in a beachfront hotel in New Jersey. Several men had pulled his maimed body from the water. Five days later, bellhop Charles Bruder, 27, was killed during an afternoon swim along the Jersey Shore. Beachgoers gathered around his legless remains. The following week, 10-year-old Lester Stilwell was swimming in Matawan Creek (also in New Jersey) with his friends when he was eaten alive. Naked and covered in mud, the terrified boys ran down Main Street screaming that there was a shark in the water. But people were skeptical. They thought Stilwell, who was epileptic, had drowned. Some had been dismissive of the newspaper reports that said sharks had killed swimmers on the coast, because Americans at this time were fairly certain … sharks didn't bite people. When Watson Fisher, a tailor, went into the creek to look for Stilwell, he was attacked as well. He later died of blood loss. Thirty minutes later, a shark bit 14-year-old Joseph Dunn’s leg. Dunn’s brother and a local sea captain pulled him to safety. On the day Stilwell’s body was found, President Woodrow Wilson called a Cabinet meeting. The White House agreed to give federal aid to “drive away all the ferocious man-eating sharks which have been making prey of bathers,” according to a July 14, 1916 article in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Eventually, an eight-foot juvenile great white shark was pulled from the New Jersey waters. Its stomach contained human remains. Now I've heard him with Merle, Waylon, and Cash
Here’s one more without the upright bass, but it’s still great, with just an acoustic guitar and Ledger’s Orbison-esque pipes. “I’m Gonna Get Over This Some Day” ![]() Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Get a grip on yourself
Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #09 at May 14, 2024 09:57 PM (qfLjt) 2
Damn the torpedoes!!!
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 14, 2024 09:57 PM (duT0u) 3
Pro-tip, do NOT bring home cute baby sharks for your pond!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 14, 2024 10:00 PM (hOUT3) 4
Ah, Petra...
Last known location of the Holy Grail, if Hollywood documentaries featuring adventurous archaeologists are to be believed... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2024 10:00 PM (BpYfr) 5
Top 500?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2024 10:01 PM (QXQ4l) 6
Worst first pitch? Thrown by the other girl. The one from Kenya.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 10:02 PM (0eaVi) 7
Petra was where the end of the third Raiders movie was set.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:02 PM (iu0dJ) 8
Good evening everyone.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2024 10:02 PM (NReIw) 9
Good job, Buck Throckmorton.
I hope this was planned, and not because Misanthropic Humanitarian is in a health crisis. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:03 PM (u82oZ) Posted by: davidt at May 14, 2024 10:03 PM (SYTee) 11
Ah, Petra...
Last known location of the Holy Grail, if Hollywood documentaries featuring adventurous archaeologists are to be believed... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2024 10:00 PM (BpYfr) Also last known location of that blond Nazi chick who kept it in the family, IYKWIM.... Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2024 10:03 PM (g0Y4p) 12
Sorry I'm late, but it turns out strategic placement of the silkworms does not Cut down on loom time.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2024 10:03 PM (+AOBR) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:04 PM (u82oZ) 14
Pro-tip, do NOT bring home cute baby sharks for your pond!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar Speaking from experience? Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2024 10:04 PM (QXQ4l) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:04 PM (u82oZ) 16
On the day Stilwell's body was found, President Woodrow Wilson called a Cabinet meeting. The White House agreed to give federal aid to "drive away all the ferocious man-eating sharks which have been making prey of bathers," according to a July 14, 1916 article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Is there ANYTING Wilson didn't fck up? Jackass. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2024 10:04 PM (llON8) 17
Also last known location of that blond Nazi chick who kept it in the family, IYKWIM....
Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2024 10:03 PM (g0Y4p) --- Gotta admit...she was pretty hot. For an insane, power-mad Nazi, of course. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2024 10:04 PM (BpYfr) 18
Ol Willie. It’s going to be sad when he goes to the great beyond.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2024 10:05 PM (p4NUW) 19
"Perfessor" Squirrel
You all set for the summer? Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:04 PM (u82oZ) --- Oh, yeah! Got a summer reading list all ready to go! (Check out this weekend's Sunday Morning Book Thread!) ![]() Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2024 10:05 PM (BpYfr) 20
BTW:
Harvard Business School, we have decided to let your buildings burn to the ground with no rescue attempts. Posted by: Cambridge Firefighters at May 14, 2024 10:06 PM (u82oZ) 21
Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo,
Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo… Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:06 PM (iu0dJ) 22
Pro-tip, do NOT bring home cute baby sharks for your pond!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar "Baby shark - do do do do do. . . " Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2024 10:06 PM (NReIw) 23
14 Pro-tip, do NOT bring home cute baby sharks for your pond!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar Speaking from experience? Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Lets just say things went swimmingly for a bit... Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 14, 2024 10:06 PM (hOUT3) 24
I missed it by that much, B!
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2024 10:07 PM (NReIw) 25
King Charles III has had an official portrait commissioned, and it's about what you'd expect from our Lunatic Current Year:
https://tinyurl.com/Demon-splat It looks like a shitty painting of a clown in uniform with a bucket of demon menstrual blood thrown all over it. What an absolute abomination. Posted by: Sharkman at May 14, 2024 10:07 PM (VFNTF) Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 14, 2024 10:07 PM (U3L4U) 27
3 Pro-tip, do NOT bring home cute baby sharks for your pond!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 14, 2024 10:00 PM Pro-parenting tip, do NOT bring home the Baby Shark video for your children if you wish to retain your sanity! Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:08 PM (HlyYF) 28
"Perfessor" Squirrel
When I was in grad school, summers were when you really turned on the effort in the lab, trying to get enough results for that HIH / NSF funding. Posted by: Cambridge Firefighters at May 14, 2024 10:08 PM (u82oZ) 29
Has Willie Nelson ever done a duet with Placido Domingo?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:08 PM (iu0dJ) 30
So, does the gun store in the last photo carry reduced size (shrimp) firearms? Nugs at shrimp prices?
Inquiring minds want to know! Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2024 10:08 PM (VNX3d) 31
Off, inconvenient sock.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:09 PM (u82oZ) 32
It looks like a shitty painting of a clown in uniform with a bucket of demon menstrual blood thrown all over it.
What an absolute abomination. Posted by: Sharkman at May 14, 2024 10:07 PM (VFNTF) I saw that earlier today, but I thought it must be either a rough preliminary sketch, or else an elaborate prank. In other words, I forgot it was 2024. Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2024 10:09 PM (g0Y4p) 33
24 🙂
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:09 PM (iu0dJ) 34
U.S. firefighters are overwhelmingly white and male. Here’s why that needs to change. ___________ Just wondering, is this 96% of professional and volunteer? Some 65% of all firefighters in the US are volunteers, who cover, geographically, far more area than professionals, who are largely urban. Draw your own conclusions from that bit. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 10:10 PM (MoZTd) 35
5 Top 500?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2024 10:01 PM (QXQ4l) Way to go! I knew you could do it. Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2024 10:10 PM (+AOBR) 36
Worst first pitch? Thrown by the other girl. The one from Kenya.
I'm sure that's what everyone expected. I know I did. Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2024 10:10 PM (CsUN+) 37
I am not a huge country person, but I appreciate music and singing. I love someone who controls their notes through their diaphragm and with an open throat versus through their nose. Thanks, Buck.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2024 10:11 PM (p4NUW) 38
Last known location of the Holy Grail, if Hollywood documentaries featuring adventurous archaeologists are to be believed...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2024 10:00 PM I frequently discuss science, history, archeology, etc. with my Leftist friends. It is amazing how often they say I am wrong ... because they know differently from a movie. They have finally learned to dread the phrase, "Go ahead, let's google it." Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:11 PM (HlyYF) 39
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It looks like a shitty painting of a clown in uniform with a bucket of demon menstrual blood thrown all over it. - You say that like it should be a bad thing. Posted by: Modern Art Expert at May 14, 2024 10:11 PM (s3qw3) 40
King Charles III has had an official portrait commissioned, and it's about what you'd expect from our Lunatic Current Year:
https://tinyurl.com/Demon-splat It looks like a shitty painting of a clown in uniform with a bucket of demon menstrual blood thrown all over it. What an absolute abomination. Posted by: Sharkman at May 14, 2024 10:07 PM (VFNTF) --- Wow. That is just BAD. Even worse than that terrible portrait of BHO as he's fading into a bush. This has King Charles III fading into the background of his own portrait. Goes to show just how much influence he has in England right now, i.e., NONE. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2024 10:12 PM (BpYfr) 41
Alison Doody was OK, but I still maintain that Kate Capshaw was the hottest Indie girl.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:12 PM (iu0dJ) Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at May 14, 2024 10:12 PM (YoS4M) 43
15 Are you collecting your excuses for a book? You should.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:04 PM (u82oZ) I didn't think to write them down until after I had been doing the gimmick for about ten days or so. Started keeping a list mostly because I didn't want to repeat myself. Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2024 10:12 PM (+AOBR) 44
>>> 20 BTW:
Harvard Business School, we have decided to let your buildings burn to the ground with no rescue attempts. Posted by: Cambridge Firefighters at May 14, 2024 10:06 PM (u82oZ) Maybe some retard protestor *there* will light something, since the losers at Columbia refuse to do so. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2024 10:13 PM (llON8) Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 10:13 PM (lCWOD) 46
29 Has Willie Nelson ever done a duet with Placido Domingo?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14 Those would be very interesting vocal blends. Willie’s sound is unique and I like it, but his range is limited. Placido Doming is Placido Domingo. Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2024 10:13 PM (p4NUW) 47
Did that Cecilia Gimenez chick work on King Tampon’s portrait?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:14 PM (iu0dJ) 48
Alison Doody was OK, but I still maintain that Kate Capshaw was the hottest Indie girl.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:12 PM (iu0dJ) Couldn't act her way out of a paper bag, though. Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2024 10:14 PM (g0Y4p) 49
"Perfessor" Squirrel
When I was in grad school, summers were when you really turned on the effort in the lab, trying to get enough results for that HIH / NSF funding. Posted by: Cambridge Firefighters at May 14, 2024 10:08 PM (u82oZ) --- That's still true in STEM schools. A buddy of mine is a research tech and he's working hard this summer on a faculty research project. As for me, I have my own assigned Summer Task List now that we have time to work on such things... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2024 10:14 PM (BpYfr) 50
41 Alison Doody was OK, but I still maintain that Kate Capshaw was the hottest Indie girl.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:12 PM Good think Capshaw was cute, because I have owned several dogs that are better actors. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:14 PM (HlyYF) Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at May 14, 2024 10:14 PM (uDtSY) 52
I have a copy of Lowell Thomas' book, "With Lawrence in Arabia". It has many spectacular photos in it. I think he devoted an entire chapter to Petra, calling it a "rose-red city, half as old as Time."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2024 10:14 PM (JrPVg) 53
Hey, Piper. You really going to Japan?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:15 PM (iu0dJ) 54
Nice job Mr. Throckmorton
Looks like you're gunning for the ONT slot My agent says not much Cash & future considerations it could be tours Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2024 10:15 PM (QXQ4l) 55
I frequently discuss science, history, archeology, etc. with my Leftist friends. It is amazing how often they say I am wrong ... because they know differently from a movie.
They have finally learned to dread the phrase, "Go ahead, let's google it." Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:11 PM (HlyYF) The Historical Documents are inaccurate? (Commence moaning and wailing) Posted by: Thermians at May 14, 2024 10:15 PM (4I/2K) Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2024 10:15 PM (D7oie) 57
King Charles III's official portrait makes Lucian Freud look skilled.
This should be burned, like the bad portrait of Churchill. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:16 PM (u82oZ) 58
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29 Has Willie Nelson ever done a duet with Placido Domingo? - Is that different that Julio Iglesias? Posted by: irright at May 14, 2024 10:16 PM (s3qw3) 59
Isn't 18% Black FF more than the Black population %?
Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #10 at May 14, 2024 10:17 PM (qfLjt) 60
This should be burned, like the bad portrait of Churchill.
Posted by: NaCly Dog --- Where are the art-defacing climate activists when we need them? Posted by: screaming in digital at May 14, 2024 10:17 PM (xQ/4D) 61
I mentioned it on the previous thread, but my son ordered shrimp and grits at a restaurant today. He said they were really good. They looked it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:17 PM (iu0dJ) 62
...Pro-parenting tip, do NOT bring home the Baby Shark video for your children if you wish to retain your sanity!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:08 PM (HlyYF) But... DO give copies of the Baby Shark video to all your (d) acquaintances, who might have kids in that age zone. *pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS! Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at May 14, 2024 10:17 PM (e6UQI) 63
53 Hey, Piper. You really going to Japan?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:15 I will eventually, nothing planned. In the next 5 years, it will happen. I hope. Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2024 10:18 PM (p4NUW) 64
29 Has Willie Nelson ever done a duet with Placido Domingo?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:08 PM (iu0dJ) Yes, and it was glorious. https://tinyurl.com/yfnbzr9j https://tinyurl.com/wd8w7xxc Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2024 10:18 PM (+AOBR) Posted by: Pete Seria at May 14, 2024 10:18 PM (7ZQe3) 66
Just got home from a goodbye dinner for my daughter who reports tomorrow to start a deployment with her unit to East Africa. Not sure why we need the PA National Guard over there but that's just me. Her last deployment was with Trump as C-in-C. I'm not happy with whose running the show now. I'm going to be doing a lot more praying than usual for awhile.
Posted by: Cosda at May 14, 2024 10:18 PM (YkHMv) 67
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29 Has Willie Nelson ever done a duet with Placido Domingo? - Is that different that Julio Iglesias? Posted by: irright at May 14, 2024 10:16 I am crying. Someone hand me a Kleenex, please. Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2024 10:19 PM (p4NUW) 68
The best worst first pitch was by Bababooey. Howard Stern show had great material for months.
Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 10:19 PM (MNhXM) 69
It's the biggest spy scandal since Alger Hiss. Iranian spies have infiltrated the Biden Administration
https://tinyurl.com/3m3k96c7 I wouldn't say infiltrated, more by invitation. Then there's Val Jarrett. Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #11 at May 14, 2024 10:19 PM (qfLjt) 70
Leave the gun, take the shrimp. Posted by: Peter Clemenza at May 14, 2024 10:19 PM (XeU6L) 71
"Perfessor" Squirrel
Hope the faculty you coach become better teachers, because we do need skilled teachers in universities. Secondary education is a massive fail. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:19 PM (u82oZ) 72
A long time ago I was a vol FF/EMT. As a 5' 3" 'ette I can tell you there is a reason the vast majority of FFs are male. I would bet money that the writers of that article have not even visited a fire station.
Posted by: Lirio100 at May 14, 2024 10:19 PM (I5U35) 73
It looks like a shitty painting of a clown in uniform with a bucket of demon menstrual blood thrown all over it.
What an absolute abomination. Posted by: Sharkman at May 14, 2024 10:07 PM (VFNTF) Well, he is a tampon, you know. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 10:20 PM (0eaVi) 74
This should be burned, like the bad portrait of Churchill. Posted by: NaCly Dog _______ "It looks like I'm having a difficult stool." - WSC on Sutherland's portrait Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 10:20 PM (MoZTd) 75
Yay, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 14, 2024 10:20 PM (dZVON) 76
66 Best wishes for your daughter, Cosda. I am so sorry for the kids in the military today.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:20 PM (iu0dJ) 77
The girls in my HS Spanish class really had a thing for Iglesias.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:21 PM (iu0dJ) 78
I used to live in New Jersey and always rooted for the sharks.
Posted by: Lenny from Lodi at May 14, 2024 10:21 PM (V5BDR) 79
>>> 66 Just got home from a goodbye dinner for my daughter who reports tomorrow to start a deployment with her unit to East Africa. Not sure why we need the PA National Guard over there but that's just me. Her last deployment was with Trump as C-in-C. I'm not happy with whose running the show now. I'm going to be doing a lot more praying than usual for awhile.
Posted by: Cosda at May 14, 2024 10:18 PM (YkHMv) Ugh. Stupid Brandon. Prayers up. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2024 10:21 PM (llON8) 80
Evenin'
25 King Charles III has had an official portrait commissioned, and it's about what you'd expect from our Lunatic Current Year: https://tinyurl.com/Demon-splat It looks like a shitty painting of a clown in uniform with a bucket of demon menstrual blood thrown all over it. What an absolute abomination. Posted by: Sharkman Please tell me the music they used to reveal that was Slayer. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 14, 2024 10:21 PM (sAmhv) 81
The Historical Documents are inaccurate? (Commence moaning and wailing)
Posted by: Thermians at May 14, 2024 10:15 PM That movie was surprisingly entertaining. We still use "Oh *that's* not right!" (Shaloub making out with the alien) for gross things around the house. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:21 PM (HlyYF) 82
We need to make Buck a trophy. Remember the "singing Billy Bass" wall plaques with a plastic bass that would squirm and sing? Build one with the bass standing on its tail, and have it "sing" bass lines cribbed from classic songs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2024 10:22 PM (JrPVg) 83
"Perfessor" Squirrel
Hope the faculty you coach become better teachers, because we do need skilled teachers in universities. Secondary education is a massive fail. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:19 PM (u82oZ) --- That is the plan! Word from on high is that anyone who wants to teach an online course now has to go through some basic training on "best practices" before they'll be allowed to do that. Also, their courses have to go through a quality review process. The faculty don't like it much at first, but once you show them how these things improve the student experience (and lead to better outcomes), they usually come around. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2024 10:22 PM (BpYfr) 84
I frequently discuss science, history, archeology, etc. with my Leftist friends. It is amazing how often they say I am wrong ... because they know differently from a movie.
-------- Worse. I had an AWFL say to me, 'All that I need to know about American history I learned from Howard Zinn'. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2024 10:22 PM (XeU6L) 85
Good evening horde. Great ONT content.
Posted by: TRex at May 14, 2024 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq) 86
Wow. That is just BAD. Even worse than that terrible portrait of BHO as he's fading into a bush. This has King Charles III fading into the background of his own portrait. Goes to show just how much influence he has in England right now, i.e., NONE.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2024 10:12 PM (BpYfr) Yeah, Perfessor. Like O has ever been in a bush.... Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 10:22 PM (0eaVi) 87
Indy girls - I always had a thing for Karen Allen, personally.
I mean, it didn't get personal per se.. although that would have been ok too. Posted by: 496 at May 14, 2024 10:23 PM (eNHAR) 88
>>> 84 I frequently discuss science, history, archeology, etc. with my Leftist friends. It is amazing how often they say I am wrong ... because they know differently from a movie.
-------- Worse. I had an AWFL say to me, 'All that I need to know about American history I learned from Howard Zinn'. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2024 10:22 PM (XeU6L) Heh. "Oh, I never knew you were special ed. That explains so much." Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2024 10:23 PM (llON8) 89
Come Mr. Shrimpboat, carry my square grouper.
Coast Guard come and I wanna get gone. Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2024 10:23 PM (NxC5+) 90
The hatred Americans feel toward journalists isn’t necessarily a good thing, but it has been earned.
===== As others have said, we don't hate them enough. Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 14, 2024 10:24 PM (8AONa) 91
Don Rickles had an idea or two on who makes the best firemen.
https://youtu.be/I2RhDh-r2S4 Scroll forward to 9:36. Or just watch the whole thing; he was on fire by end of getting roasted that night. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2024 10:24 PM (VNX3d) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:25 PM (u82oZ) 93
But... DO give copies of the Baby Shark video to all your (d) acquaintances, who might have kids in that age zone.
*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS! Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Imagine PI singing (in his best Thurl Ravenscroft voice), "You're a cruel one ... Mr. Grinch." Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:25 PM (HlyYF) 94
Where are the art-defacing climate activists when we need them?
Posted by: screaming in digital at May 14, 2024 10:17 PM (xQ/4D) ------- Amen. Posted by: 496 at May 14, 2024 10:25 PM (aLdtK) 95
Wasn’t Karen Allen also in The Crystal Skull?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:25 PM (iu0dJ) 96
At least Station 51 had Firefighter Marco Lopez.
Posted by: Emergency! at May 14, 2024 10:25 PM (V5BDR) 97
Heh. "Oh, I never knew you were special ed. That explains so much."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2024 10:23 PM (llON ![]() Well done HH! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 14, 2024 10:25 PM (hOUT3) 98
Hey MisHum: Thank you for letting me keep your seat warm. I hope the croc shopping is going well.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 14, 2024 10:26 PM (d9Cw3) 99
Scientists discover ancient HERPES in 50,000-year-old Neanderthal bones found in a Russian cave... and they want to bring virus back to life
https://mol.im/a/13416603 WHY!! Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #12 at May 14, 2024 10:26 PM (qfLjt) 100
The hatred Americans feel toward journalists isn’t necessarily a good thing, but it has been earned. ___________ Institutions lose respect when they abandon the standards that earned them that respect. Journalism forfeited theirs years ago. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 10:26 PM (MoZTd) 101
Some of us just want firefighters who can carry an adult out of a building.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2024 10:26 PM (0Htd1) 102
I am off to bed, taught 2 weight classes in a row tonight and have 2 more starting at 6. Literally and figuratively kicks my tail. Nightsie noodles!
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2024 10:27 PM (p4NUW) 103
I own an upright bass. It sounds great. I can only play it "Cecil Taylor" style. It's very large. It's like having a silent roommate who takes up a lot of space and doesn't contribute to expenses.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 14, 2024 10:27 PM (CHHv1) 104
Wasn’t Karen Allen also in The Crystal Skull?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:25 PM (iu0dJ) What's that? Oh, was that the rumored fourth Indy movie they were thinking of making, but didn't because they realized an Indy movie with aliens would be really stupid? Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2024 10:28 PM (g0Y4p) 105
Night, Piper. Sleep well.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:28 PM (iu0dJ) 106
I would really like the King Charles portrait if Yeo had chosen a different color than red. I don’t know what he was trying to signify. Maybe it was a shout out to the CCP.
Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 10:29 PM (MNhXM) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:29 PM (u82oZ) 108
What's that? Oh, was that the rumored fourth Indy movie they were thinking of making, but didn't because they realized an Indy movie with aliens would be really stupid?
Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2024 10:28 PM (g0Y4p) -- Sadly, we exist in the alternate universe where they DID make that movie... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2024 10:29 PM (BpYfr) 109
94 Where are the art-defacing climate activists when we need them?
Posted by: screaming in digital at May 14, 2024 10:17 PM ------- Amen. Posted by: 496 at May 14, 2024 10:25 PM Hold it, I thought that was a picture AFTER they performed their usual vandalism. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:30 PM (HlyYF) 110
Corb Lund usually has an upright bass in his band, and he doesn't do that wretched "bro country".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2024 10:30 PM (JrPVg) 111
Good grief, Chuckles’ portrait is bad.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:31 PM (iu0dJ) 112
11th New York Infantry, the Fire Zouaves. No DEI.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2024 10:31 PM (V5eKu) 113
when we watch the hearings in Congress on anti-semitism on campus [...] what I see is a right-wing campaign against higher education that is weaponized
- Masha Gessen She’s a Jewish woman who lives in NY and writes for the New Yorker among others. This is the Jew ish intelligentsia view of things. Republicans are the bad guys for standing up for Jews, Democrats who shout Gas the Jews, are the good guys. Posted by: Montec at May 14, 2024 10:32 PM (/9E2w) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:32 PM (u82oZ) 115
101 Some of us just want firefighters who can carry an adult out of a building.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2024 10:26 PM I saw a video (UK maybe?) of some DEI firefighters. They were two frumpy ladies that were both about 5'2". I bet the two combined could drag you out the door by the ankles bumping your head down every single stair. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:33 PM (HlyYF) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:33 PM (u82oZ) 117
I would really like the King Charles portrait if Yeo had chosen a different color than red. I don’t know what he was trying to signify. Maybe it was a shout out to the CCP.
Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 10:29 PM (MNhXM) Lose the butterfly, and the face would be fine for postage stamps. The Yeo is one weird-looking dude. Looks like he came from an African tribe that practiced skull binding on their children. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2024 10:33 PM (JrPVg) 118
Ugh. Stupid Brandon.
Prayers up. Posted by: Helena Handbasket ********* Thanks. All prayers are appreciated. Posted by: Cosda at May 14, 2024 10:34 PM (YkHMv) 119
California parents blast school for giving fifth graders transgender book 'My Shadow is Pink' then forcing them to explain it to kindergartners
https://mol.im/a/13417011 Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #13 at May 14, 2024 10:34 PM (qfLjt) 120
Corb Lund was the artist that did Horse Soldier? I liked that video.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2024 10:32 PM (u82oZ) Yes. He has a sense of humor, too. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2024 10:35 PM (JrPVg) 121
>>> 115 101 Some of us just want firefighters who can carry an adult out of a building.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2024 10:26 PM I saw a video (UK maybe?) of some DEI firefighters. They were two frumpy ladies that were both about 5'2". I bet the two combined could drag you out the door by the ankles bumping your head down every single stair. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:33 PM (HlyYF) Wasn't it the UK where an apartment tower had a pretty nasty fire, exacerbated by the shitty "green" refrigerators which used some flammable (propane or butane) agent for cooling? Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2024 10:35 PM (llON8) 122
She’s a Jewish woman who lives in NY and writes for the New Yorker among others. This is the Jew ish intelligentsia view of things. Republicans are the bad guys for standing up for Jews, Democrats who shout Gas the Jews, are the good guys.
Posted by: Montec at May 14, 2024 10:32 PM There are some things that are so stupid that only a highly educated Democrat can possibly believe them. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:35 PM (HlyYF) Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #14 at May 14, 2024 10:35 PM (qfLjt) 124
Thanks, AOP.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 14, 2024 10:36 PM (d9Cw3) 125
'Night Salty.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2024 10:36 PM (g0Y4p) 126
We have the shrimp and gun combo, shrimp shrimp and shrimp, gun gun and shrimp, shrimp with shrimpy guns. What'll it be?
Reminds me of a dish at our local eatery - boom boom bang shrimp. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 14, 2024 10:37 PM (w6EFb) 127
The crowd at Westminster is pathetic. Fox Sports tries to make you think the show is in downtown Manhattan, but it's at the tennis center in Queens. When they moved breed judging from MSG, Westminster became just another dog show. There was something thrilling about stepping out on that green carpet. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 10:37 PM (MoZTd) Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #15 at May 14, 2024 10:38 PM (qfLjt) 129
I'm a gonna wager that somewhere in the Throckmorton household is a cowboy hat. Only question is John Wayne or Clint Eastwood. Thanks BT, job well done.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, 2nd class at May 14, 2024 10:39 PM (i7KoL) 130
Wasn't it the UK where an apartment tower had a pretty nasty fire, exacerbated by the shitty "green" refrigerators which used some flammable (propane or butane) agent for cooling?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2024 10:35 PM I don't remember that one, but do remember one where they clad the building with some "green" insulation to save 1% on their energy usage, but that crap went up like a roman candle. Nothing like DEI engineers combined with DEI firefighters to really run up the body count! Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:39 PM (HlyYF) 131
Marco Lopez might be a white Hispanic, or maybe just white-adjacent.
Posted by: Keeping Score at May 14, 2024 10:39 PM (V5BDR) 132
112 11th New York Infantry, the Fire Zouaves. No DEI.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 14, 2024 10:31 PM (V5eKu) There were New Orleans Zouaves on the 'other' side. Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2024 10:40 PM (NxC5+) Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2024 10:40 PM (RIvkX) 134
Nothing like DEI engineers combined with DEI firefighters to really run up the body count!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot Now, you need a DEI power grid and hydrant system, and you too can recreate the Great London Fire of 1666! Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2024 10:41 PM (VNX3d) 135
California parents blast school for giving fifth graders transgender book 'My Shadow is Pink' then forcing them to explain it to kindergartners
https://mol.im/a/13417011 Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #13 at May 14, 2024 10:34 PM (qfLjt) Until these people are taken outside and publically horsewhipped, it will not stop. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 10:41 PM (0eaVi) 136
Also, when they started asking the dogs what their one wish would be, and they all said “world peace.”
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:41 PM (iu0dJ) 137
Wasn't it the UK where an apartment tower had a pretty nasty fire, exacerbated by the shitty "green" refrigerators which used some flammable (propane or butane) agent for cooling?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2024 10:35 PM (llON ![]() The outer sheathing and insulation for the building was flammable, and the refrigerant that is now allowed is essentially propane. Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2024 10:41 PM (D7oie) 138
It's probably a good thing I'm not King of England.
If someone painted a portrait of ME that looked that bad (while I was King), that artist would spend the next 20 years learning how to paint the rats in their prison cell in the Tower of London. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2024 10:41 PM (BpYfr) 139
The King Charles painting is worse than the first official Obama painting where he was sitting in front of the flowered vine wall .
Damn the choice of that color palette is insane. Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 10:43 PM (MNhXM) 140
California parents blast school for giving fifth graders transgender book 'My Shadow is Pink' then forcing them to explain it to kindergartners
https://mol.im/a/13417011 Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #13 at May 14, 2024 10:34 PM (qfLjt) Until these people are taken outside and publically horsewhipped, it will not stop. Posted by: OrangeEnt Tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rough-sawn rail. Of course, at least one will insist on a matching boa. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2024 10:43 PM (VNX3d) 141
Baseball field I and hundreds of other kids played at for years was condemned as unsafe by Helicopter City. There was no other land big enough for a field so that ended baseball in the neighborhood.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 10:44 PM (lCWOD) Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:44 PM (iu0dJ) 143
Hey Kulak. My cowboy hat is straw John Wayne style. But i prefer Eastwood movies to Wayne movies. It kills me that I didn't save my teenage, Urban Cowboy era western name belt.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 14, 2024 10:44 PM (d9Cw3) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2024 10:44 PM (XeU6L) 145
Of course, at least one will insist on a matching boa.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2024 10:43 PM (VNX3d) We can get one perfectly sized for their neck at Greg's Reptile Emporium. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 10:44 PM (0eaVi) 146
That's pretty funny about the shit-canned 'journalist' getting all the hate online.
Sometimes I think there's still hope for America. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2024 10:45 PM (bo7UB) 147
US suffers radio blackouts after being hit by ANOTHER solar storm
https://mol.im/a/13418021 Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #15 at May 14, 2024 10:38 PM (qfLjt) Sun rotates about every 27 days. If that big-ass sunspot is still perking, it could have another shot at us in about 2 weeks. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2024 10:45 PM (JrPVg) 148
"You yell 'Barracuda' and everybody says 'Huh? What?'. But you yell 'Cat!'...and we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July."
https://tinyurl.com/bdh8t82c Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 14, 2024 10:45 PM (FkUwd) 149
I was on a firefighting team (never had to fight a real one) and we had a few females (very fit), but it's physically taxing. The turnout gear and tank weigh a lot. Spend time toting a charged hose line and you're dead at the end of the day. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 10:45 PM (MoZTd) 150
That was a great first pitch.
Posted by: Kratwurst at May 14, 2024 10:46 PM (fcDpY) 151
The hatred Americans feel toward journalists isn’t necessarily a good thing, but it's been earned.
------------------- Not seeing it, sorry. It is not only a good thing, it is the best thing. Journalists are trash. And the abject machine propagandists we have are even worse. Posted by: ... at May 14, 2024 10:46 PM (lX8VI) 152
66 Just got home from a goodbye dinner for my daughter who reports tomorrow to start a deployment with her unit to East Africa.
Posted by: Cosda at May 14, 2024 10:18 PM (YkHMv) ---- Any specific country, city, area? I went there as a baby and only left after high school so I have an attachment. Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #16 at May 14, 2024 10:46 PM (qfLjt) 153
Yeah, I've been to Petra, about 14 or so years back while supporting & defending. You hike thru the desert, stand back and look at it, then you hike back. No going inside, no touching anything. You see it better in the movie.
Posted by: Build your own damn stadium!!! at May 14, 2024 10:47 PM (fIRVI) 154
Jim Fowler often wrestled with the matching boa question on Wild Kingdom.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:47 PM (iu0dJ) 155
Tonight’s overnight thread has been brought to you by Guns & Shrimp
No, that's not quite it..... give me a few minutes to think about it. Posted by: Axl Rose at May 14, 2024 10:47 PM (DgGvY) 156
California parents blast school for giving fifth graders transgender book 'My Shadow is Pink' then forcing them to explain it to kindergartners
Posted by: Ciampino ----- I need it explained to me... Posted by: lin-duh at May 14, 2024 10:47 PM (PZo5T) 157
Also, when they started asking the dogs what their one wish would be, and they all said “world peace.”
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:41 PM (iu0dJ) I distinctly recall demanding whirled peas. Posted by: Yorkie at May 14, 2024 10:47 PM (JrPVg) Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2024 10:47 PM (cOq4q) 159
I saw an article somewhere that actors from the latest Planet of the Apes movie would prefer the apes. If they're serious, they should emigrate to a country in Africa with a large ape population. Go into the wilderness with two knives (I'm feeling generous) in natural sheaths, and little to nothing else. Certainly no technology that apes don't have. They can spend the rest of their lives pretending that they too are apes.
Am I being too generous with these fools? Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2024 10:48 PM (VNX3d) 160
No sane person says anything to a journalist except, "Go to hell." Anything you say might be distorted beyond recognizing and what are you going to do about it? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 10:48 PM (MoZTd) 161
My favorite dinner combo: Shrimp and Guns...or is it Guns and Shrimp?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 14, 2024 10:49 PM (TcRmE) 162
PETRA FUN FACT: You have a choice of how to traverse the Siq. You can walk (I did it) or take a donkey cart, but you have to be okay with looking like a dork. The high-rollers go on camel back.
There wasn't a horse in sight, Indiana Jones and Sean Connery notwithstanding. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2024 10:49 PM (bo7UB) 163
Perfesser S
I volunteered to be an adult literacy teacher, i.e., free (of course) one-on-one instruction. What I discovered was that there are more volunteer instructors than there are wannabe readers! The people I met didn't want to learn to read really-- they wanted help dealing with their medical correspondence. That's perfectly cool. Perfectly legitimate, & I'm happy to help with that. It's just not what I expected. Totally unrelated to that: I believe MN really IS honest-to-God in play. New SUSA (Survey USA) poll today has Biden +2, 44-42. RCP avg for MN is Biden +2.2. Posted by: mnw at May 14, 2024 10:49 PM (NLIak) 164
Pro-Palestine Harvard protesters announce they're ending campus encampment after demands were ignored - and have now demanded the college reinstate them
https://mol.im/a/13417039 I don't think that's how it works. Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #17 at May 14, 2024 10:49 PM (qfLjt) 165
Never been to Petra. Son has. He has been on two tours of the Holy Land and the path of St. Paul.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at May 14, 2024 10:50 PM (hZc6Q) 166
Pro-Palestine Harvard protesters announce they're ending campus encampment after demands were ignored - and have now demanded the college reinstate them ____________ "I have a summer job at Debevoise that starts in two weeks." Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 10:51 PM (MoZTd) 167
When they moved breed judging from MSG, Westminster became just another dog show. There was something thrilling about stepping out on that green carpet.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 10:37 PM (MoZTd) ----------- Arf! Posted by: Sandy at May 14, 2024 10:51 PM (bo7UB) 168
Pro-Palestine Harvard protesters announce they're ending campus encampment after demands were ignored - and have now demanded the college reinstate them
https://mol.im/a/13417039 I don't think that's how it works. Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #17 Does Harvard need additional janitors? How about Harferd University? Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2024 10:51 PM (VNX3d) 169
"When the topic of female firefighters came up, the importance of physical strength was consistently and spontaneously invoked to justify the relative absence of women in the fire service, but the importance of compassion (a female-stereotyped trait) was rarely, if ever, brought up to argue for bringing more women into the profession.”
WTF? I can assure you from experience that "physical strength" is absolutely more important than "compassion." I usually went with the medic unit because of that. Posted by: Lirio100 at May 14, 2024 10:52 PM (I5U35) 170
I first fell in love with Petra from an old Richard Halliburton book, "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World", from the 30's. "A Rose Red City, half as old as time."
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2024 10:52 PM (S6gqv) 171
PETRA FUN FACT: You have a choice of how to traverse the Siq. You can walk (I did it) or take a donkey cart, but you have to be okay with looking like a dork. The high-rollers go on camel back.
There wasn't a horse in sight, Indiana Jones and Sean Connery notwithstanding. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2024 10:49 PM (bo7UB) There is a narrow defile with rock walls like that near Florence, AZ. It's called "Box Canyon" and it's a popular Jeep excursion. No city, but there is a vintage stage coach stop, with stone walls. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2024 10:52 PM (JrPVg) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 10:52 PM (MoZTd) 173
Baseball field I and hundreds of other kids played at for years was condemned as unsafe by Helicopter City. There was no other land big enough for a field so that ended baseball in the neighborhood.
Posted by: Braenyard How the heck do you condemn a grassy field? Sinkholes? Unexploded mines? Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2024 10:52 PM (DgGvY) Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2024 10:53 PM (SVX08) 175
Worst ceremonial pitch ever.
Didn't Obama limpwrist it? Girl was just not over the plate. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2024 10:47 PM (cOq4q) Of course. Because he's a fa..., I mean, not manly. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 10:53 PM (0eaVi) 176
why is it called a pitch, when it is more of an arc?
Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2024 10:54 PM (D7oie) 177
Kaz and the Mini Poodle win it. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 10:54 PM (MoZTd) 178
Hey Kulak. My cowboy hat is straw John Wayne style. But i prefer Eastwood movies to Wayne movies. It kills me that I didn't save my teenage, Urban Cowboy era western name belt.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 14, 2024 10:44 PM (d9Cw3) I went to Gilley’s when I was 17 years old in 1978 before Urban Cowboy. We got to as far as the front door and got turned away. I think that was fortunate for us looking back. Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 10:54 PM (MNhXM) Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 14, 2024 10:54 PM (FkUwd) 180
The turnout gear and tank weigh a lot. Spend time toting a charged hose line and you're dead at the end of the day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 10:45 PM (MoZTd) --------- The Paolo, he consider toting the very heavy hose a, how do you say, occupational hazard. Posted by: The Paolo at May 14, 2024 10:54 PM (bo7UB) 181
117 I would really like the King Charles portrait if Yeo had chosen a different color than red. I don’t know what he was trying to signify. Maybe it was a shout out to the CCP.
Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 10:29 PM (MNhXM) down with Bloody Mary! Up with Bloody Charles! Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2024 10:55 PM (S6gqv) 182
I'm going to be doing a lot more praying than usual for awhile.
Posted by: Cosda I'm betting Djibouti. No one ever talks about Djibouti. Had a family member who did a stint there. Not his favorite place. Your daughter is on my prayer list C. Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, 2nd class at May 14, 2024 10:55 PM (i7KoL) 183
That Ledger fellow sounds somewhat like Raul Malo, and that's a good thing. Clear voice.
Nice ONT, Buck! Posted by: LRob in OK at May 14, 2024 10:55 PM (TSQkU) 184
I believe MN really IS honest-to-God in play. New SUSA (Survey USA) poll today has Biden +2, 44-42. RCP avg for MN is Biden +2.2.
Posted by: mnw at May 14, 2024 10:49 PM Agree to disagree Posted by: Former Sen Norm Coleman at May 14, 2024 10:56 PM (QXQ4l) 185
140 California parents blast school for giving fifth graders transgender book 'My Shadow is Pink' then forcing them to explain it to kindergartners
https://mol.im/a/13417011 Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #13 ------------------------- There's a fella running for president who thinks this sordid stuff is disgusting. Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 10:57 PM (lCWOD) 186
81 The Historical Documents are inaccurate? (Commence moaning and wailing)
Posted by: Thermians at May 14, 2024 10:15 PM That movie was surprisingly entertaining. We still use "Oh *that's* not right!" (Shaloub making out with the alien) for gross things around the house. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:21 PM (HlyYF) LOL!!! We do the same thing at the TiFW house 🤣🤣🤣 And yes, that movie was a total blast 😊♥️ Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 14, 2024 10:57 PM (SRRAx) 187
How did the shark survive a freshwater creek? It didn''t. The creeks near the Atlantic pour into the ocean., and are tidewater. Tide goes out' creek in full of fresh water. Tide comes in, creek is full of seawater. And the tide water creeks come very close to rivers.
Many years abo, more than she is willing to admit, my daughter was invited to join an Omaha special league volleyball team. Take my word for ir: those teams are expensive and time consuming. Daughter and I agreed to skip it. Posted by: Livia Drusilla at May 14, 2024 10:58 PM (zbGp6) 188
How did 1,000 Hamas terrorists end up in Turkey? If this is true it’s incredibly concerning and shows the systematic way that the Hamas massacre has been backed.
https://tinyurl.com/2v67fccf Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #18 at May 14, 2024 10:58 PM (qfLjt) 189
Fucking poodle won.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 14, 2024 10:59 PM (ufFY8) 190
The Fireman Games are a sight to see. I don’t know if they still do them as I haven’t seen it on TV in over a decade.
My uncles and cousins on both sides of the family were FDNY. They all had thriving side businesses. Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 10:59 PM (MNhXM) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 10:59 PM (MoZTd) 192
There is a narrow defile with rock walls like that near Florence, AZ. It's called "Box Canyon" and it's a popular Jeep excursion. No city, but there is a vintage stage coach stop, with stone walls.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2024 10:52 PM (JrPVg) There's a canyon on the Utah/Arizona border near Lake Powell, called Pariah Canyon. I've hiked through it, there are many places where you can touch both walls at the same time, but the canyon walls are 200' straight over your head. You don't want to be there when there's rain upstream; I remember seeing a tree wedged sideways in between the canyon walls 30' up. Every couple of years I'll see a news item where a hiking party gets wiped out there because they don't pay attention to that. Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2024 10:59 PM (S6gqv) Posted by: Airedale Terriers at May 14, 2024 11:00 PM (IQ6Gq) Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2024 11:00 PM (VNX3d) 195
How the heck do you condemn a grassy field? Sinkholes? Unexploded mines?
Posted by: mikeski --------------------------- It backed up to a railroad track. Unsafe. Twenty years that field was there and never a mishap with the train. Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:01 PM (lCWOD) 196
Dear Harvard Business Review: Headline writing is a lost art. This is why it needs to change.
I read “headlines” now and see just how far we have fallen in terms of writing. Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2024 11:01 PM (84PaW) 197
193 189 Fucking poodle won.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 14, 2024 10:59 PM *** Rigged. Posted by: Airedale Terriers at May 14, 2024 11:00 PM (IQ6Gq) ------------ Cry me a river. Posted by: The Wiener Dogs at May 14, 2024 11:01 PM (bo7UB) 198
The gear I wore, plus bottle, weighed about 65 pounds. And yeah, working a fire with that was exhausting. I admitted at the time that I couldn't do it full time as a job.
I am old enough to remember when the draft for women was being pushed, it was pushed by women who would not be subject to it. When combat roles were opened to women some women in the military spoke up against it for valid reasons, yet were ignored by by those who would not be taking those jobs. And, dare I say, the same is true here. Posted by: Lirio100 at May 14, 2024 11:02 PM (I5U35) 199
I always had a thing for Karen Allen, personally.
I mean, it didn't get personal per se.. although that would have been ok too. Posted by: 496 at May 14, 2024 10:23 PM (eNHAR) I especially liked her in the boat scene Posted by: javems at May 14, 2024 11:02 PM (8I4hW) 200
Rhodesian Ridgebacks should win every dog show.
Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 11:03 PM (MNhXM) 201
That movie was surprisingly entertaining. We still use "Oh *that's* not right!" (Shaloub making out with the alien) for gross things around the house. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:21 PM (HlyYF) LOL!!! We do the same thing at the TiFW house 🤣🤣🤣 And yes, that movie was a total blast 😊♥️ Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 14, 2024 10:57 PM (SRRAx) Oh yes, best Trek movie after Wrath of Khan! Because they loved the source material, and had great respect for the fans. Should have taken a lesson from that, Lucas. Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2024 11:03 PM (S6gqv) 202
On the Willie-Strait video, is that Kris Kristofferson on the guitar to the left side of the screen behind Willie?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2024 11:03 PM (ek8ec) 203
The current King Charles looks like a king, & I'm sorry he's ill. But he's an eco-scold. Greta in an ermine cape & fancy hat.
Now... the last King Charles BEFORE this one was much more interesting! The one with the eponymous spaniels. The most popular British kings seem to have been the ones who were notorious skirt chasers. Vicarious satisfaction, I guess. Posted by: mnw at May 14, 2024 11:03 PM (NLIak) 204
LOL!!! We do the same thing at the TiFW house 🤣🤣🤣
And yes, that movie was a total blast 😊♥️ Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 14, 2024 10:57 PM Last night people were discussing the brilliance of Gary Larson and a Moron mentioned that they still wrote "cat fud" on the shopping list. I responded that I still write it that way also. The Moron "hive mind" is an impressive display of interconnected neurons. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 11:04 PM (HlyYF) 205
Wasn't it the UK where an apartment tower had a pretty nasty fire, exacerbated by the shitty "green" refrigerators which used some flammable (propane or butane) agent for cooling?
Grenfell Towers. 72 dead. Eggs, omelettes. Posted by: Obey Your Green Betters, you peasant! at May 14, 2024 11:04 PM (yOPBE) 206
I'm betting Djibouti. No one ever talks about Djibouti. . . .
Posted by: Sock Monkey Zappa did - Sheik Yerbouti. Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2024 11:06 PM (NReIw) Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 11:07 PM (MNhXM) 208
193 189 Fucking poodle won.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 14, 2024 10:59 PM That Fifi, she's always in heat! Posted by: Ralph & Herbie at May 14, 2024 11:07 PM (4I/2K) Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:08 PM (lCWOD) 210
So, Turkey is giving aid, comfort and rehabilitation to 1,000 hamas terrorists. Again, why are they in NATO?
Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:09 PM (lCWOD) 211
Cry me a river.
Posted by: The Wiener Dogs at May 14, 2024 11:01 PM (bo7UB) *** At least you have spiffy Halloween hot dog costumes coming your way in a few months... Posted by: Airedale Terriers at May 14, 2024 11:09 PM (IQ6Gq) 212
Last night people were discussing the brilliance of Gary Larson and a Moron mentioned that they still wrote "cat fud" on the shopping list. I responded that I still write it that way also.
The Moron "hive mind" is an impressive display of interconnected neurons. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 11:04 PM (HlyYF) Add another one, LOL. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2024 11:10 PM (JrPVg) 213
That Fifi, she's always in heat!
Posted by: Ralph & Herbie What a bitch!! And I mean that in the nicest way possible! Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2024 11:10 PM (NReIw) 214
First pitch take two. _this girl likes baseball.
https://youtu.be/wxQS53_2Hok?t=144 Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:08 PM (lCWOD) Meow! Like a coworker once said,"Her pants are so tight, I can see her ovaries pumping." Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 14, 2024 11:10 PM (ufFY8) 215
Obey Your Green Betters
*moozys down the hill, lights burn barrel * Up yers betters, I happen to enjoy my size 14 carbon footprint. Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, 2nd class at May 14, 2024 11:10 PM (i7KoL) 216
So, Turkey is giving aid, comfort and rehabilitation to 1,000 hamas terrorists. Again, why are they in NATO?
Posted by: Braenyard A better question is why are we still in NATO. Turkey can stay if we leave. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2024 11:11 PM (VNX3d) 217
184 Cats & Rockets
Norm Coleman, huh? Get in the wayback machine much? MN is many bad things, but it has a reputation for clean elections. Posted by: mnw at May 14, 2024 11:12 PM (NLIak) 218
Again, why are they in NATO?
Posted by: Braenyard Because NATO is run by the military/industrial complex and the Euro Weenies. Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, 2nd class at May 14, 2024 11:14 PM (i7KoL) 219
Posted by: Cosda at May 14, 2024 10:18 PM (YkHMv)
Well, at least it's not Niger. If our bloodthirsty regime starts another senseless war this year, that's a strong contender. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 14, 2024 11:14 PM (0FoWg) 220
202 On the Willie-Strait video, is that Kris Kristofferson on the guitar to the left side of the screen behind Willie?
Posted by: Darrell Harris ------------------------ Looks like him but a little too young? Read that he's not performing because of dementia. - College rugby. Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:14 PM (lCWOD) Posted by: m at May 14, 2024 11:14 PM (o3SCB) 222
Pro-Palestine Harvard protesters announce they're ending campus encampment after demands were ignored - and have now demanded the college reinstate them
https://mol.im/a/13417039 I don't think that's how it works. Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #17 at May 14, 2024 10:49 PM (qfLjt) === Quitters. Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2024 11:14 PM (RIvkX) 223
>>>The hatred Americans feel toward journalists isn’t necessarily a good thing, but it has been earned.
Indeed. Posted by: m at May 14, 2024 11:17 PM (o3SCB) 224
I frequently discuss science, history, archeology, etc. with my Leftist friends. It is amazing how often they say I am wrong ... because they know differently from a movie. They have finally learned to dread the phrase, "Go ahead, let's google it." Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 10:11 PM (HlyYF) wait wait wait So, you're really not an idiot? Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2024 11:17 PM (ek8ec) 225
222 Pro-Palestine Harvard protesters announce they're ending campus encampment after demands were ignored - and have now demanded the college reinstate them
https://mol.im/a/13417039 I don't think that's how it works. Posted by: Ciampino - ------------------------------ They should get serious and burn the school down. Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:17 PM (lCWOD) 226
MN is many bad things, but it has a reputation for clean elections.
Posted by: mnw at May 14, 2024 11:12 PM (NLIak) Does not necessarily contradict what you said but I was reminded of this on the Sunday gun thread that feature a photo of Ma Barker. Look at St Paul during the 30’s. It was the sanctuary city for criminals. Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 11:17 PM (MNhXM) 227
My personal standard for evaluating country music is: "Would they play this at Gruene Hall? Or Fischer Hall? Would you hear it at an SPJST hall?" If not, then it's crappy tractor rap/hick hop and people are just jumping around like a bunch of Kansas City fa&&ots.
Posted by: Stacy0311 at May 14, 2024 11:17 PM (KdYSA) Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:18 PM (lCWOD) 229
Was the first photo and last photo intentionally paired?
Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 11:20 PM (MNhXM) 230
That's not the one I thought it was.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:20 PM (lCWOD) 231
Pro-Palestine Harvard protesters announce they're ending campus encampment after demands were ignored - and have now demanded the college reinstate them
https://mol.im/a/13417039 I don't think that's how it works. Posted by: Ciampino - ------------------------------ They should get serious and burn the school down. Posted by: Braenyard We're sorry. Your application for reinstatement has been denied, as we have no open seats. We were, however, able to get you admission to the Joe Biden Diaper Changing program. For $12000 a trimester, you too can learn how to change Depends on unruly adults! Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2024 11:21 PM (VNX3d) 232
Hey Polynikes: Shrimp at the beginning and end, sharks and baseball in between, seasoned with country music.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 14, 2024 11:23 PM (d9Cw3) 233
179 Nurse! *smoochies*
How are you? Posted by: All Hail Eris Honestly, I'm struggling a bit. Used to being supermom and crashing through life getting everything done. Now im weak and I hurt. And im not supposed to lift 10# for a month. Oh well. This too shall pass. Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2024 11:23 PM (xv0Yz) 234
Hey, Horde. Some of you probably recognize me as an occasional poster. Asking for prayers that God will lead the way as my severance pay runs out in a month and a half.
The job market isn't kind to those of over 29. It seems 'they' would like us to wait until at minimum age 65 before drawing Social Security, but 'they' also feel we are too old to work anywhere except the grocery store after age 60. If my math is correct, that's a five-year gap. I'm feeling discouraged right now. I have an interview tomorrow with HR. HR always loves me on the phone (no video) interview but hiring managers don't call back. I'm not overweight or unhealthy, simply older and Caucasion. Thank you, all, for keeping me sane(r). Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at May 14, 2024 11:23 PM (s6PBU) 235
Hey Polynikes: Shrimp at the beginning and end, sharks and baseball in between, seasoned with country music.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 14, 2024 11:23 PM (d9Cw3) 👍 Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 11:24 PM (MNhXM) 236
215 Obey Your Green Betters
*moozys down the hill, lights burn barrel * Up yers betters, I happen to enjoy my size 14 carbon footprint. Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, 2nd class at May 14, 2024 11:10 PM (i7KoL) ---- I read that as Carbon-14, an isotope of carbon. (formed in the ionosphere from cosmic radiation on nitrogen-14) Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #19 at May 14, 2024 11:25 PM (qfLjt) 237
plate o' shrimp > guns & shrimp
Posted by: otto partes at May 14, 2024 11:26 PM (edU/H) 238
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at May 14, 2024 11:23 PM (s6PBU)
Prayers up. For what it’s worth I took my SS at 62. Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 11:27 PM (MNhXM) 239
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Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at May 14, 2024 11:23 PM (s6PBU) ---- Keeping you in our prayers. Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #20 at May 14, 2024 11:27 PM (qfLjt) 240
BarcelonaCarmen - I feel you. Perhaps try this if you don't yet want to tap into your SSI just yet - file for your State's Workman's Comp. Where I was, the only thing I had to do was apply for 2-3 jobs a week and I was eligible. Is that an option as a temporary measure?
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2024 11:28 PM (NReIw) 241
Ugh - not workman's comp. But rather, unemployment.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2024 11:28 PM (NReIw) 242
I read that as Carbon-14, an isotope of carbon. (formed in the ionosphere from cosmic radiation on nitrogen-14)
Posted by: Ciampino Ok Sheldon. Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, 2nd class at May 14, 2024 11:29 PM (i7KoL) 243
Thank you, all, for keeping me sane(r). Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen __________ Hope something positive arises soon. Don't lurk with this. Sure we're a bunch of drunks, depressives, layabouts and impecunious wastrels but we're the best support group there is. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2024 11:29 PM (MoZTd) 244
wait wait wait
So, you're really not an idiot? Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2024 11:17 PM Well, I am an Idiot with an upper case "I". I think that means I am still in my probationary period to determine if I can eventually advance to "Moron". Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 11:29 PM (HlyYF) 245
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2024 11:28 PM (NReIw)
You mean unemployment? You have to have an on job injury for WC. Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 11:30 PM (MNhXM) 246
Thank you, all, for keeping me sane(r).
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen __________ Hope something positive arises soon. Don't lurk with this. Sure we're a bunch of drunks, depressives, layabouts and impecunious wastrels but we're the best support group there is. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh I concur with H7. Some of us here are in the same boat. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2024 11:31 PM (VNX3d) 247
I see you corrected yourself TP.
Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 11:31 PM (MNhXM) 248
Thank you, all, for keeping me sane(r).
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at May 14, 2024 11:23 PM Prayers sent! Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2024 11:32 PM (HlyYF) 249
73 It looks like a shitty painting of a clown in uniform with a bucket of demon menstrual blood thrown all over it.
What an absolute abomination. Posted by: Sharkman at May 14, 2024 10:07 PM (VFNTF) Well, he is a tampon, you know. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 10:20 PM (0eaVi) omigosh Posted by: m at May 14, 2024 11:33 PM (o3SCB) 250
214 First pitch take two. _this girl likes baseball.
https://youtu.be/wxQS53_2Hok?t=144 Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:08 PM (lCWOD) Meow! Like a coworker once said,"Her pants are so tight, I can see her ovaries pumping." Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 14, 2024 11:10 PM (ufFY ![]() I loved a comment on that page - "Perfect Form! Maybe not for baseball, but Perfect!" Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2024 11:33 PM (S6gqv) 251
59 Isn't 18% Black FF more than the Black population %?
Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #10 at May 14, 2024 10:17 PM (qfLjt) The only group in the USA with a Leftist-acceptable percentage of black members is the Congressional Black Caucus. Posted by: Gref at May 14, 2024 11:33 PM (5fDan) 252
Prayers BC.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, 2nd class at May 14, 2024 11:33 PM (i7KoL) 253
I have got an hosepipe, I have got an hosepipe, I have got an hosepipe, What shall I do with it?
Stick it up the chimney, and let's put out the fire. Posted by: Firefighter Fred Scuttle at May 14, 2024 11:35 PM (V5BDR) 254
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 14, 2024 11:10 PM (ufFY
I loved a comment on that page - "Perfect Form! Maybe not for baseball, but Perfect!" Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2024 11:33 PM (S6gqv) -------------- Throws better than Obama. Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:38 PM (lCWOD) 255
Ann Coulter (ugh) pointed out long ago that all the black Democrat reps came from majority black areas while black Republican reps came from majority white areas. Always thought that was an awesome observation.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2024 11:40 PM (lX8VI) 256
For your portrait:
You want: John Singer Sargent You'll settle for: Bob Ross You'll get: Jonathan Yeo Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 14, 2024 11:41 PM (Be/+i) 257
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at May 14, 2024 11:23 PM (s6PBU)
Prayers up. For what it’s worth I took my SS at 62. Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2024 11:27 PM (MNhXM) Yep. Get my first check tomorrow. (or, so they say). If you can afford to, take it. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 11:42 PM (0eaVi) 258
I am not a huge country person, but I appreciate music and singing. I love someone who controls their notes through their diaphragm and with an open throat versus through their nose. Thanks, Buck.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2024 10:11 PM (p4NUW) Who sings through their nose ? Does snot fly out ? Posted by: JT at May 14, 2024 11:42 PM (T4tVD) 259
And im not supposed to lift 10# for a month. Oh well. This too shall pass.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2024 11:23 PM (xv0Yz) What do you mean "not supposed to". You're not going to. Capiche? Posted by: ... at May 14, 2024 11:42 PM (lX8VI) 260
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Do White Democrats come from majority criminal areas? Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #21 at May 14, 2024 11:43 PM (qfLjt) 261
Hubby is golfing in MI, near the small town where we owned a cottage for several years. In our conversation this evening he was telling me about the restaurants and businesses we frequented that are now gone. Is the economy that bad in rural MI, worse than other states?
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 14, 2024 11:44 PM (2NHgQ) 262
Heck of an ONT, Buck. Thanks. Evening, Horde.
Nice pic of the Bubba Gump Shrimp boat. Ran youth softball program for a decade..... a decade ago. Parents were nutz. I imagine it's worse nowadays. Posted by: scampydog at May 14, 2024 11:44 PM (41CYW) Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 11:44 PM (0eaVi) 264
For what it’s worth I took my SS at 62.
Posted by: polynikes Took mine at 63 1/2. Did the math. 841/2 is the break over point. Decided at that age I won't care. Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, 2nd class at May 14, 2024 11:45 PM (i7KoL) 265
Who sings through their nose ?
Does snot fly out ? Posted by: JT at May 14, 2024 11:42 PM (T4tVD) Duh, Honkeys. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 11:45 PM (0eaVi) 266
Hiya
Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2024 11:45 PM (fwDg9) 267
King Charles' portrait looks like it came out of a Roger Corman movie.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2024 11:47 PM (S6gqv) 268
Congressional Black Caucus is a communist organization.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:49 PM (lCWOD) 269
Outrage as migrants who beat up cops in Times Square are all offered plea deals that would land some in jail for less than a year
https://mol.im/a/13418463 Well let's see, they're illegal aliens now with a rap sheet - should be automagically deported at end of sentence. Right? Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #22 at May 14, 2024 11:50 PM (qfLjt) 270
Your daughter is on my prayer list C.
****** Thanks. Not Djibouti. They are headed to a camp in Kenya were we lost some guys to rebel attack in 2020. Posted by: Cosda at May 14, 2024 11:50 PM (YkHMv) 271
268 Congressional Black Caucus is a communist organization.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:49 PM (lCWOD) ---- Yes. At least in the obummer years they were all CPUSA members. Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #23 at May 14, 2024 11:51 PM (qfLjt) 272
Don't lurk with this. Sure we're a bunch of drunks, depressives, layabouts and impecunious wastrels but we're the best support group there is.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh --------- Seconded. I look to hire folks like you. No drama, less supervision, great output, and no nonsense. Keep plugging and keep the faith. You'll land something. Posted by: scampydog at May 14, 2024 11:52 PM (41CYW) 273
Thanks Buck for the great ONT!
'Doctor Who' was on Pluto tv. It just plays. You can't pause, you can't rewind. Live channel. But they played 'The Chase' with the very first Doctor Who, Hartnell. The Daleks created a time machine and were going to chase the Doctor through eternity to exterminate him and the Tardis. I've seen parts before but caught this broadcast near the beginning. It was very cool. Do you remember that excitement after the first time you saw 'Star Trek' for the first time. Yeah, it was like that!! The Daleks chased them to an alien planet, bad crap happened, then to New York on the Empire State Building, where they kind of made fun of Alabama, but dude was cool . An area of human nightmares and then Mechanoid where they made there last stand. Like 'Star Trek', very sophisticated telling great stories with the tech they had at the time. The Daleks did create a robot Doctor to infiltrate and kill and that may have been the first time that was done. And his companions were really cool. Ian...smart action hero. Vicky....new planet..let's go and explore and Barbara..a mixture. At the end...spoilers...Ian and Barbera get back home. Fun show. Posted by: Stateless at May 14, 2024 11:53 PM (jvJvP) 274
Appendix? Beau removed my appendix with his bayonet and sewed me up with a bootlace while he and I were pinned-down in a fox hole on Iwo Jima! It happened shortly after Beau single-handedly killed 15,000 Jap snipers on Seppukubachi then raised Old Glory on top! No joke! My word as a Biden!
Uncle Bosey would have been proud of him, if his appendix and the rest of him hadn't been eaten a year earlier on New Guinness. Posted by: Joe "I was raised as a Jew and a Muslim, no joke" Biden at May 14, 2024 11:53 PM (5fDan) 275
Good luck tomorrow BC. Remember, poise counts!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2024 11:53 PM (RIvkX) 276
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Do White Democrats come from majority criminal areas? Posted by: Ciampino - -------------------------- Like cockroaches, they are everywhere. Posted by: Braenyard at May 14, 2024 11:53 PM (lCWOD) 277
off, sock
Posted by: Chuck C at May 14, 2024 11:55 PM (yOPBE) 278
Night, Piper. Sleep well.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:28 PM (iu0dJ) Don't let the bedbugs yell. Or sumpin' Posted by: JT at May 14, 2024 11:55 PM (T4tVD) 279
Fun show.
Posted by: Stateless Rick and Morty season 7 DVD showed up today. Have to wait for Mrs. Sock to hit the hay. She doesn't appreciate the language. Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, 2nd class at May 14, 2024 11:57 PM (i7KoL) 280
Seconded. I look to hire folks like you. No drama, less supervision, great output, and no nonsense. Keep plugging and keep the faith. You'll land something.
Posted by: scampydog at May 14, 2024 11:52 PM (41CYW) === Work/life balance Mental health day Party planning committee Smoke breaks Coffee breaks Hangover "I just couldn't make it" "My dog is sick" "My dog died" "My girlfriend's dog died" Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2024 11:57 PM (RIvkX) 281
...Well, he wanted to be Camilla's.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 11:44 PM (0eaVi) Propah Graffiti on that Portrait, would be his shoelaces extending out of the frame as a long white string. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at May 14, 2024 11:57 PM (e6UQI) 282
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Ma was a long way from home (OK) if she was up in MN. I always thought "Ma Barker" would be a funny name for a female dog. Only problem is, nobody knows who Ma Barker was any more. Posted by: mnw at May 14, 2024 11:58 PM (NLIak) 283
Work/life balance
Mental health day Party planning committee Smoke breaks Coffee breaks Hangover "I just couldn't make it" "My dog is sick" "My dog died" "My girlfriend's dog died" Posted by: San Franpsycho --------- Hey!!! That's my applicant pool. Posted by: scampydog at May 14, 2024 11:58 PM (41CYW) 284
>>I read that as Carbon-14, an isotope of carbon.
Solar flares, CMEs and the resulting geomagnetic storms cause a spike in Carbon-14 production, and that's a why to identify them in the record. They call these spikes Miyake events, after the Japanese physicist that first discovered it. This weekend's little auroral display produced a small one of those. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 14, 2024 11:58 PM (w6EFb) 285
Alison Doody was OK, but I still maintain that Kate Capshaw was the hottest Indie girl.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 14, 2024 10:12 PM (iu0dJ) Alison DOODY ? Is that her real name ? Wonder why Hollywood didn't make her change it to something less obvious. Like Brown ? Posted by: JT at May 14, 2024 11:59 PM (T4tVD) 286
There was a big one around 770AD or so, which was bigger than even Carrington. There are some accounts from the period of the sky on fire and stuff like that. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 14, 2024 11:59 PM (w6EFb) 287
No, thank you, Elsa. Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben.
Posted by: Dr. Bones at May 15, 2024 12:01 AM (fY84s) 288
255 Ann Coulter (ugh) pointed out long ago that all the black Democrat reps came from majority black areas while black Republican reps came from majority white areas. Always thought that was an awesome observation.
Posted by: ... ----------------------- It was done because of the voting rights act. Blacks were 'underrepresented' so each state carved out districts that would gurantee a Black or in some cases Brown to be the rep. Gene Greene (very whiteboy) in east Houston, only one in US, to defied that plan until he retired. Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 12:01 AM (lCWOD) 289
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Ma was a long way from home (OK) if she was up in MN. I always thought "Ma Barker" would be a funny name for a female dog. Only problem is, nobody knows who Ma Barker was any more. Posted by: mnw at May 14, 2024 11:58 PM (NLIak) ---- Peple will think you misspelt that as they just might be more familiar with Boney M's "Ma Baker". Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #24 at May 15, 2024 12:02 AM (qfLjt) 290
There was a big one around 770AD or so, which was bigger than even Carrington.
There are some accounts from the period of the sky on fire and stuff like that. May have inspired this: https://youtu.be/L40QtUe2WG8 Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 15, 2024 12:02 AM (dZVON) Posted by: Adriane the Obvious Critic . . . at May 15, 2024 12:03 AM (oKXrs) 292
269 Cats & Rockets
That's the way it USED to work. Not that long ago, either. Today, blue states release illegal alien prisoners without notifying ICE to come pick them up. Posted by: mnw at May 15, 2024 12:04 AM (NLIak) 293
9/10 overcast, light rain showers here Alberta Peon Country. If there is an aurora tonight, I shan't be seeing it.
Farmers here are seeding up a storm, though. Saw many tractors out pulling seeders last night on my road trip home. I guess a little rain right after seeding is a good thing. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 12:07 AM (QpSHc) 294
I think this happens probably every day -- Migrants storm onto California beach after landing in boat as stunned crowds look on - with only a lifeguard vehicle on patrol
https://mol.im/a/13412227 Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #25 at May 15, 2024 12:09 AM (qfLjt) Posted by: mnw at May 15, 2024 12:09 AM (NLIak) 296
"My dog is sick"
"My dog died" "My girlfriend's dog died" Posted by: San Franpsycho If his girlfriend is sick tomorrow, fire him and save a life. Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2024 12:09 AM (DgGvY) 297
If Willie Nelson isn't the most overrated musician in the US, he's certainly the second most. And if he lives any longer, clearly buoyed by his stash of magic hash, he'll reach number one by Christmas.
Everyone keeps saying how great he is. I don't see it at all. Posted by: AnonybotymousDrivel at May 15, 2024 12:10 AM (aXxgO) 298
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Ma was a long way from home (OK) if she was up in MN. I always thought "Ma Barker" would be a funny name for a female dog. Only problem is, nobody knows who Ma Barker was any more. Posted by: mnw at May 14, 2024 11:58 PM (NLIak) She was. St Paul had a crooked sheriff that helped the gang after their string of bank robberies. He also helped them set up other robberies. As long as you know it’s cool. My kittehs are named Bogie and Bacall . No one but those over 29 knows the basis for the names. Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 12:11 AM (MNhXM) 299
Can the Oilers hang on?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 15, 2024 12:12 AM (ufFY8) 300
263 omigosh
Posted by: m at May 14, 2024 11:33 PM (o3SCB) Well, he wanted to be Camilla's. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 11:44 PM (0eaVi) I know! I know! I meant the omigosh to be a congratulations for your joke! Posted by: m at May 15, 2024 12:12 AM (o3SCB) 301
He wrote "Crazy," one of Patsy Cline's biggest hits. Nice song.
Posted by: mnw at May 15, 2024 12:12 AM (NLIak) 302
Nope. tie game.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 15, 2024 12:13 AM (ufFY8) 303
Willie was a good song writer. Personally I like his unique voice.
Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 12:15 AM (MNhXM) 304
It's not over until the fat lady sings!
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 15, 2024 12:16 AM (ZdexC) Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 15, 2024 12:16 AM (ufFY8) 306
Aurora is pretty quiet now. You might see some on Hudson Bay right now. There was a whopper of a flare today, but any CME associated with it will miss earth. Here are today's solar farts as seen from SOHO: https://tinyurl.com/y5yljunm The two bright spots on the LASCO 3 images on the right are Mercury and Venus. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 12:16 AM (w6EFb) 307
38 seconds left.
Bedlam in Alberta. Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 15, 2024 12:16 AM (ufFY8) 308
He wrote "Crazy," one of Patsy Cline's biggest hits. Nice song.
Posted by: mnw at May 15, 2024 12:12 AM (NLIak) Willie Nelson also wrote, "Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away". He is a darned good songwriter, and a fair singer. I think the wacky tobacky has taken its toll on him, though. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 12:17 AM (QpSHc) 309
Out of curiosity, these ONT threads used to go to about 1000.
What happened? Schism? Jab deaths? I'm timelessly young? Posted by: Stateless at May 15, 2024 12:17 AM (jvJvP) 310
I think it's funny that we're not getting once-every-minute score reports from our resident AVs fan any more... because the AVs have choked themselves to the edge of elimination.
Posted by: mnw at May 15, 2024 12:18 AM (NLIak) Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 12:18 AM (lCWOD) 312
Bedlam in Alberta.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 15, 2024 12:16 AM (ufFY ![]() Well, maybe in Garlic Gulch. Peaceful and quiet here. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 12:19 AM (QpSHc) Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, 2nd class at May 15, 2024 12:20 AM (i7KoL) 314
I don't remember ONT threads ever going to 1000 posts. Before my time, perhaps.
Posted by: mnw at May 15, 2024 12:22 AM (NLIak) 315
Hiya
Posted by: Skip Don't tell me....you rad that "Skip Breakfast suggestion" and now ya can't sleep ? Posted by: JT at May 15, 2024 12:22 AM (T4tVD) 316
308 He wrote "Crazy," one of Patsy Cline's biggest hits. Nice song.
Posted by: mnw at May 15, 2024 12:12 AM (NLIak) Willie Nelson also wrote, "Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away". He is a darned good songwriter, and a fair singer. I think the wacky tobacky has taken its toll on him, though. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ----------------------- Night Life Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 12:23 AM (lCWOD) 317
Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 12:18 AM (lCWOD)
Key Largo is my favorite Bogie and Bacall movie. I think there is even a one hit wonder song in the 80’s called Key Largo . Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 12:23 AM (MNhXM) 318
If Willie Nelson isn't the most overrated musician in the US, he's certainly the second most. And if he lives any longer, clearly buoyed by his stash of magic hash, he'll reach number one by Christmas.
Everyone keeps saying how great he is. I don't see it at all. Posted by: AnonybotymousDrivel at May 15, 2024 12:10 AM (aXxgO) Yoko fan ? Posted by: JT at May 15, 2024 12:24 AM (T4tVD) 319
No, that's Jupiter to the left on that SOHO image. Mercury is way over the right, out of the field of view now. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 12:24 AM (w6EFb) 320
I don't remember ONT threads ever going to 1000 posts. Before my time, perhaps.
Posted by: mnw --------- Only ones I recall over 1,000 were the Christopher Dorner threads. His asymmetric comments and such. Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2024 12:25 AM (41CYW) 321
You're just trying to trick me into going outside.
Posted by: JT at May 15, 2024 12:26 AM (T4tVD) 322
210 So, Turkey is giving aid, comfort and rehabilitation to 1,000 hamas terrorists. Again, why are they in NATO?
Why is there even still NATO?. No more Warsaw Pact, no more Soviet Union, and the only action over there is two parts of Russia fighting each other. Posted by: azjaeger at May 15, 2024 12:27 AM (3/XaG) 323
Nytol
Posted by: mnw at May 15, 2024 12:27 AM (NLIak) Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 12:28 AM (lCWOD) 325
Willie also wrote Always On My Mind. I think that was one of his best.
Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 12:29 AM (MNhXM) 326
I can recall seeing threads get to 750 or so. Nothing like that since the 2020 Steal. FJB's a downer.
Posted by: chris+opher at May 15, 2024 12:30 AM (dSco/) 327
Jaws movie up top. 1976 in Gold Beach, OR, movie theater I discovered that white men (boys) could in fact jump. Scared the crap outta me and gave me a lifetime of healthy/ignorant fear of the ocean and what may be swimming around.
Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2024 12:30 AM (41CYW) 328
I always regarded Emmylou's recording of 'Pancho and Lefty' as the best. Found it annoying when Willie rasped it out...but got lots of airplay.
Here's Emmylou, live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scX50O2hDkI Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2024 12:31 AM (XeU6L) 329
Always On My Mind. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain. Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground.
Know what? Don't bother listing 'em. Just buy the L.P. or C.D. "Willie Nelson. Ballads" This is Whiskey SIPPIN' Music. Slammin a shot to the Ballads would be low, crude and base. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2024 12:32 AM (e6UQI) 330
Maybe not 1000. But much longer than the recent few I've seen.
Hey, I'm thrilled to be wrong. If everything and everyone here is good, great. I'm just about to create salted top soda cracker, bread and butter pickle and roast beef slice 'sandwiches.' I should save that for the food thread. Sophisticated tastes.... Posted by: Stateless at May 15, 2024 12:33 AM (jvJvP) 331
Ray Charles and Willie doing Seven Spanish Angels is another winner.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 12:33 AM (QpSHc) 332
I know! I know! I meant the omigosh to be a congratulations for your joke!
Posted by: m at May 15, 2024 12:12 AM (o3SCB) OK! Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 12:33 AM (0eaVi) 333
Hoagy Carmichael sprinkling his own special brand of star dust.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 15, 2024 12:35 AM (55boN) 334
I don't remember ONT threads ever going to 1000 posts. Before my time, perhaps.
Posted by: mnw at May 15, 2024 12:22 AM (NLIak) No, you just need Miklos here. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 12:35 AM (0eaVi) 335
I don't remember ONT threads ever going to 1000 posts. Before my time, perhaps.
Posted by: mnw ------ I would not say that it has happened often, but it has certainly happened. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2024 12:36 AM (XeU6L) Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #26 at May 15, 2024 12:36 AM (qfLjt) 337
..Ray Charles and Willie doing Seven Spanish Angels is another winner. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 12:33 AM (QpSHc)
And those astonishingly deep, thumb-picked base notes out of the basement of Willie's guitar don't tear the guts out of your speakers, then upgrade your system! Those notes right THERE, explain everything you'd wanna know, about why Mr. Nelson charged into a burning house, to save one thing, and ONLY one thing. That. GUITAR. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2024 12:37 AM (e6UQI) 338
I can recall seeing threads get to 750 or so. Nothing like that since the 2020 Steal. FJB's a downer.
Posted by: chris+opher Many ladies have wandered away from aoshq in the past few years. Chique, LadyL, Gushka, Bebe, Tammy-al Thor, Creeper, Lou's a girl (was that her nic?), etc. Some comment every now and then, but, not like the ont old days. Posted by: old chick at May 15, 2024 12:37 AM (F3Dlr) 339
I would not say that it has happened often, but it has certainly happened.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2024 12:36 AM (XeU6L) It happened two days in a row once. Once. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 12:38 AM (0eaVi) 340
Maybe not 1000. But much longer than the recent few I've seen. Many have left. The Trump Wars of 2016 took their toll. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2024 12:39 AM (63Dwl) 341
I don't remember ONT threads ever going to 1000 posts. Before my time, perhaps.
Posted by: mnw I would not say that it has happened often, but it has certainly happened. Posted by: Mike Hammer The ONT used to run longer, too. Now Pixy crossposts his tech news from Ambient Irony here, so the ONT comments end 2 or 3 hours earlier than they used to, rather than running all the way to the Morning Report. Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2024 12:39 AM (DgGvY) 342
I posted this already but Jaws:
Jaws star Susan Backlinie dies aged 77: Actress played the first shark victim in Steven Spielberg's iconic movie https://mol.im/a/13409863 Posted by: Ciampino - News Update #27 at May 15, 2024 12:40 AM (qfLjt) 343
Evening.
*Holds ice cream cone high over head* From my cold! Dead! Hands!!!!!! *Licks aggressively* Posted by: Robert at May 15, 2024 12:40 AM (1Yy3c) 344
It happened two days in a row once. Once.
Posted by: OrangeEnt ---------------- I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves. Posted by: Roman Moroni at May 15, 2024 12:40 AM (41CYW) 345
I've been at a couple of 1000s. Die Hards stayed behind and pushed them over the line.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 12:41 AM (lCWOD) 346
Many ladies have wandered away from aoshq in the past few years. Chique, LadyL, Gushka, Bebe, Tammy-al Thor, Creeper, Lou's a girl (was that her nic?), etc.
------ I think SMH was here this week. But not so often as previously. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2024 12:41 AM (XeU6L) 347
Two times now I've gotten a 'this page is unavailable' when posting. Are we having a flameout?
Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 12:42 AM (lCWOD) 348
Two times now I've gotten a 'this page is unavailable' when posting. Are we having a flameout?
Posted by: Braenyard ------------ Ditto on the refresh. Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2024 12:42 AM (41CYW) 349
"Not available" twice for me. Twice.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 12:44 AM (0eaVi) 350
>>>Many have left. The Trump Wars of 2016 took their toll. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2024 12:39 AM (63Dwl)
---- That certainly accounts for some of it. Did we lose many to the covid freakout? Posted by: chris+opher at May 15, 2024 12:44 AM (dSco/) 351
I think they get tired of boobs and racism.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 12:44 AM (lCWOD) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 12:44 AM (w6EFb) 353
Everyone stop posting?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 12:47 AM (0eaVi) 354
Roddenberry just made up the stardate thing to sound cool and futuristic and made it sound like the Julian date system. A number with a decimal point. There was originally no rhyme or reason to it, really, just to sound all technical and space-y. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 12:47 AM (w6EFb) 355
Yeah, several 'not available notices'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2024 12:48 AM (XeU6L) 356
I think SMH was here this week. But not so often as previously.
Posted by: Mike Hammer Yes and it's good to see her nic and read her comments. I'd say in the Obama years ont comments 700-800 a night were nothing out of the ordinary. People like stuck-on-stupid could spin a yarn, sven and anna could rapid fire those numbers themselves, lol. Going back to read some of those threads and seeing all the nics that aren't around anymore ... Posted by: old chick at May 15, 2024 12:51 AM (F3Dlr) 357
Two times now I've gotten a 'this page is unavailable' when posting. Are we having a flameout?
Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 12:42 AM (lCWOD) Has happened to me tonight, too. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 12:53 AM (jYEBg) 358
334 I don't remember ONT threads ever going to 1000 posts. Before my time, perhaps.
Posted by: mnw at May 15, 2024 12:22 AM (NLIak) No, you just need Miklos here. Posted by: OrangeEnt -------- Mik and that wild brain does some lifting. Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2024 12:54 AM (41CYW) 359
Doing okay with the intertubes so far. All this talk of eclipses and solar flares makes me wistful for playing my WoW druid. Come to think of it, that was the same character that did the "kitty quest": daily training of a purple-striped saber mount that a very young Pookette would help me with. "KITTY POUNCE! YAY!" (I may have kept playing that game just for Pookette's joy in that daily quest.)
Posted by: pookysgirl's family loves kittehs at May 15, 2024 12:56 AM (dtlDP) 360
Well, I am going to call it a night. Need to catch up on my sleep. Later, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 12:58 AM (jYEBg) 361
334 I don't remember ONT threads ever going to 1000 posts. Before my time, perhaps.
Posted by: mnw at May 15, 2024 12:22 AM (NLIak) No, you just need Miklos here. Posted by: OrangeEnt -------- Mik and that wild brain does some lifting. Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2024 12:54 AM (41CYW) Don't laugh...you'll only encourage him ! Posted by: JT at May 15, 2024 01:04 AM (T4tVD) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 01:05 AM (w6EFb) 363
Yeah, several 'not available notices'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2024 12:48 AM (XeU6L) Is it because Pixy moved to New Zealand, or Old Zealand or Middle Aged Zealand ? Posted by: JT at May 15, 2024 01:06 AM (T4tVD) 364
Current Julian Date number: 2460445.71181
Modified Julian Date: 60445.21181 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley ---------- That looks like math. Posted by: Rachel Jeantel at May 15, 2024 01:07 AM (41CYW) 365
The witching hour is here and I'm trying to get back on schedule.
See y'all on the flip side. Good night. Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 01:08 AM (lCWOD) 366
Is it because Pixy moved to New Zealand, or Old Zealand or Middle Aged Zealand ?
Posted by: JT at May 15, 2024 01:06 AM (T4tVD) Middle Zealand is the one with the hobbit holes. Not sure if Pixy could get decent wifi there, but a decent cup of tea is possible. Posted by: pookysgirl doesn't know where the precious is at May 15, 2024 01:12 AM (dtlDP) 367
Well, he is a tampon, you know.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 10:20 PM (0eaVi) He aspires to be Camilla's tampon. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 01:12 AM (w6EFb) 368
Maga terrorist beth clendaniels pleads guilty to trying to blow up power stations around Baltimore in retaliation for dump prosecution trying to start a race war like dillon roof.
Posted by: raimondo at May 15, 2024 01:14 AM (M6sym) 369
Well, he is a tampon, you know.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2024 10:20 PM (0eaVi) He aspires to be Camilla's tampon. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist ---------- That's a string joke. Posted by: Apologies at May 15, 2024 01:15 AM (41CYW) 370
Posted by: raimondo at May 15, 2024 01:14 AM (M6sym)
You and her have things in common. You should plead guilty to trying to blow trannies. Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 01:17 AM (MNhXM) 371
Posted by: raimondo at May 15, 2024 01:14 AM (M6sym)
-------- Which bathroom to use is not a complicated matter. Yet, you remain confused. Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2024 01:18 AM (41CYW) 372
We could have a 1000 post ONT party.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 01:20 AM (w6EFb) 373
...He aspires to be Camilla's tampon.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist ---------- That's a string joke. Posted by: Apologies at May 15, 2024 01:15 AM (41CYW) Comment #281. Go, and read. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2024 01:22 AM (e6UQI) 374
We could have a 1000 post ONT party.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 01:20 AM (w6EFb) We're over half way through and nowhere near half way to 1k. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 01:23 AM (0eaVi) Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2024 01:23 AM (41CYW) 376
Comment #281. Go, and read.
Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim ------- Tip O the Cap to you. I missed that. And you said it much better. Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2024 01:24 AM (41CYW) 377
Ok, let's try this:
Look at 2020 and above Mazda CX 5s. Any good? Seems to be a few in my area around 20-22k. Low mileage too. Don't want turbo or leather seats. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 01:24 AM (0eaVi) 378
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 01:24 AM (0eaVi)
My buddy bought his son a 2023 CX 5 . He usually does research before making a purchase. I don’t know if they’ve had any trouble with it since though. Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 01:29 AM (MNhXM) 379
G'night good people. And rapscallions. Always an education 'round here.
Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2024 01:29 AM (41CYW) 380
OrangeEnt. Mazda is running neck n' neck with Honda in all of the ratings. Well deserved. I'm driving a 2015 Mazda 5 (3/4 scale minivan). Flawless.
More power and carrying power than one would think. But, for the CX5? Don't fear the turbo. But High Quality oil changes will be your friend. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2024 01:33 AM (e6UQI) 381
But, for the CX5? Don't fear the turbo. But High Quality oil changes will be your friend.
Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2024 01:33 AM (e6UQI) Thanks, Jim. All I know is a turbo wears out the engine faster. I don't think any that I'm considering have one. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 01:43 AM (0eaVi) 382
My buddy bought his son a 2023 CX 5 . He usually does research before making a purchase. I don’t know if they’ve had any trouble with it since though.
Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 01:29 AM (MNhXM) That's what I'm trying to do. Scotty Kilmer told me to look at 2020 and newer. I've never been a fan of leather seats. It's way too hot here for anything but cloth. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 01:44 AM (0eaVi) 383
Somebody broke the blog.
Posted by: m at May 15, 2024 01:47 AM (o3SCB) 384
uh-oh
Posted by: m at May 15, 2024 01:48 AM (o3SCB) 385
Orange Ent.
Our fleet of 2015 Ford Transit vans have the 3.5 ltr. Eco Boost, Twin Turbo engines. They're in the 201,000 mile range, all of 'em. ONLY problems, have been ignition coils, brake vacuum boosters and center-carrier drive shaft bearings (under recall). The engines remain as strong as new. 375 hp. 400 ft. lb torque. A FULLY LOADED Transit, can merge with any traffic, any highway, anywhere, anytime. This is a great Safety Factor, much overlooked, elsewhere. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2024 01:49 AM (e6UQI) 386
Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2024 01:49 AM (e6UQI)
I'd like the power of a turbo, but still not sure. Don't think any I have on my list to check out have it. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 01:56 AM (0eaVi) 387
Here's another: Looks like a division of VW is putting out a new International Scout 4x4. Guess VW owns the Scout name, and they're going to bring it out in two years as a.....
electric only. ![]() Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 01:59 AM (0eaVi) 388
@DaveAtherton20
Hamas operatives have been filmed inside a UN facility, driving UN cars, while firing at the IDF. Twitter video link. https://shorturl.at/ciuwy Posted by: 13times at May 15, 2024 01:59 AM (Vtuzc) 389
We could have a 1000 post ONT party.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 01:20 AM (w6EFb) We're over half way through and nowhere near half way to 1k. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 01:23 AM (0eaVi) Oh, not tonight - we could recruit a core group to sustain it. Crazy outta the gate like the Kentucky Derby. If you make it, they will come. Is Saturday night the best night for most people? Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 02:05 AM (w6EFb) 390
Is Saturday night the best night for most people?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 02:05 AM (w6EFb) I usually conk out way before the thread ends.... Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 02:08 AM (0eaVi) 391
You can still play a part, though! I'll bet Miklos will get psyched for something like that.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 02:15 AM (w6EFb) 392
I don’t believe they found a 8 foot Great White with human remains in its stomach
Only bull sharks can swim in fresh water I believe that’s been pretty much proven Posted by: Gonzotx at May 15, 2024 02:18 AM (MwHgU) 393
You can still play a part, though! I'll bet Miklos will get psyched for something like that.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 02:15 AM (w6EFb) I think the last two had some kind of meme, like changing the title of a movie with one or two words. There was a lot of action on that. A general one with a bunch of different topics doesn't generate as much interest. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 02:18 AM (0eaVi) 394
261 Hubby is golfing in MI, near the small town where we owned a cottage for several years. In our conversation this evening he was telling me about the restaurants and businesses we frequented that are now gone. Is the economy that bad in rural MI, worse than other states?
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine I've been visiting Western PA for years now. I have family up there. It's also a cheap place to golf and there used to be lots of golf courses. The problem now is not only are the restaurants and businesses disappearing, but the golf courses are disappearing. Every year I go up and there is one less in that area (New Castle). It's sad. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 15, 2024 02:20 AM (sAmhv) 395
388 @DaveAtherton20
Hamas operatives have been filmed inside a UN facility, driving UN cars, while firing at the IDF. Twitter video link. https://shorturl.at/ciuwy Posted by: 13times at May 15, 2024 01:59 AM (Vtuzc) UNRWA ≠ UN Hamas operatives have been filmed inside a UNRWA facility, driving UN cars, while firing at the IDF. https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/ article-801171 Posted by: m at May 15, 2024 02:22 AM (o3SCB) 396
@370 Thats ted cruz if their underage black trannies. (D.C. madam)
Posted by: raimondo at May 15, 2024 02:24 AM (M6sym) 397
I think the last two had some kind of meme, like changing the title of a movie with one or two words. There was a lot of action on that. A general one with a bunch of different topics doesn't generate as much interest.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 02:18 AM (0eaVi) Back in the days of frequent 1000-comment ONTs, we made our own content. Was more dependent on the commenters having a good time with each other than the ONT post itself. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 02:25 AM (w6EFb) 398
I've been visiting Western PA for years now. I have family up there. It's also a cheap place to golf and there used to be lots of golf courses. The problem now is not only are the restaurants and businesses disappearing, but the golf courses are disappearing. Every year I go up and there is one less in that area (New Castle). It's sad.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 15, 2024 02:20 AM (sAmhv) So do I (Greenville), but I haven't been there since 1993, I think. Only a few cousins left. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 02:28 AM (w6EFb) 399
399
Posted by: m at May 15, 2024 02:28 AM (o3SCB) 400
>I think it's funny that we're not getting once-every-minute score reports from our resident AVs fan any more... because the AVs have choked themselves to the edge of elimination.
Posted by: mnw --- don't know if you mean me or not, but I was getting zero feedback, so I stopped and yes, I think the Avs get eliminated tonight- they are not physical enough to compete with Dallas Posted by: Don Black is up in thew middle of the night at May 15, 2024 02:48 AM (/7KEl) 401
398 I've been visiting Western PA for years now. I have family up there. It's also a cheap place to golf and there used to be lots of golf courses. The problem now is not only are the restaurants and businesses disappearing, but the golf courses are disappearing. Every year I go up and there is one less in that area (New Castle). It's sad.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 15, 2024 02:20 AM (sAmhv) So do I (Greenville), but I haven't been there since 1993, I think. Only a few cousins left. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist The Greens of Greenville, formerly Greenville Country Club, was one of my favorites. Pretty course. Now gone. Closed during the covid madness. Another town that's seen better days. Still has Thiel College though. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 15, 2024 02:54 AM (sAmhv) 402
I seem to be up already again
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2024 03:11 AM (fwDg9) 403
Keep getting page isn't working,
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2024 03:12 AM (fwDg9) 404
Thiel College is a mile and a half away from my grandparents' house.
Yeah, Grampa played golf a lot, until he was 83 or so. Couldn't take the sun anymore, so he focused on bowling. My dad and uncles on both sides liked to golf, and a fair numbers of my cousins, too. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 03:19 AM (w6EFb) 405
I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open and people are having a wonderful time. Amity, as you know, means "friendship".
Posted by: President Woodrow Wilson at May 15, 2024 03:20 AM (xverI) 406
Not sure what Skip Breakfast will be, probably stove top oatmeal and toaster strudel
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2024 03:21 AM (fwDg9) 407
I may have mentioned it already but Taylor Swift is utterly unknown in Serbia. It's as if she doesn't exist. The only image I've seen of TayTay is on a cheap paperback of crossword puzzles at a gas station.
The Kid asked for some outrageous tacky Balkan Taylor Swift souvenir and there simply aren't any. Posted by: LenNeal at May 15, 2024 03:23 AM (EP4y/) 408
I'm just about to create salted top soda cracker, bread and butter pickle and roast beef slice 'sandwiches.' I should save that for the food thread. Sophisticated tastes....
Posted by: Stateless ------- Sounds like a Weasel Approved™ snack! Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2024 03:34 AM (njWTi) Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2024 03:39 AM (njWTi) 410
It posts sometimes, sometimes not
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2024 03:41 AM (fwDg9) 411
Tonight's Weasel Approved™ midnight snack, was a left-over bratwurst...
Wrapped in paper towel & zapped for 30 seconds. Mmm-mmm! Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2024 04:07 AM (njWTi) Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2024 04:08 AM (njWTi) 413
PIXY'S TECH THREAD IS NOOD
If you can post Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2024 04:22 AM (fwDg9) 414
NOOD !
Posted by: JT at May 15, 2024 04:23 AM (T4tVD) 415
HTTP 502, Bad Gateway. That's something on Pixy's end.
Yep, just got that. Should be fixed now. Busy setting up a new server because this one is slowly going south. Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 15, 2024 04:32 AM (BLOW1) 416
The hatred Americans feel towards journalists isn’t necessarily a good thing, huh? Well, journalists hate us. Americans need to return the favor.
That’s like Michael Berry’s constant demand that we respect police officers. I contend the problem is the exact opposite: police officers need to respect US (the hearts and minds thing). They don’t. Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 15, 2024 06:20 AM (84PaW) 417
from "Texas Tuna" the play: business named DeeDee's Knife and Guns, If DeeDee cant kill it, its immortal"
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