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Peale Johnston.jpg

John Johnston
Rembrandt Peale

This is an oil painting, and I find it astounding in every way.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 13, 2024 09:31 AM (rbKZ6)

2 This is an oil painting, and I find it astounding in every way.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Oh, so it's a CBD Oil.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 13, 2024 09:31 AM (0eaVi)

3 His sleeves are kinda puffy.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 13, 2024 09:31 AM (xJpub)

4
ESPONJA!!!1!!1!111!

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 13, 2024 09:32 AM (bEb2S)

5 This guy saw the future of B&W photography.

Posted by: BignJames at June 13, 2024 09:32 AM (AwYPR)

6 Looks like a photograph.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 13, 2024 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

7 Does he live in Wisconstin?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 13, 2024 09:32 AM (FPYvM)

8 Need this high collar to hide the hickies from last night's activity.

Posted by: John Johnston at June 13, 2024 09:33 AM (dg+HA)

9 My name is John Johnson, I live in Wisconsin, I work in a lumbermill there.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 13, 2024 09:33 AM (WPL6O)

10 Could be as good as a B&W photo, outstanding

Posted by: Skip at June 13, 2024 09:33 AM (8nsxw)

11 "NOOO!!! You don't have to call me Johnson! My name is John J. Johnson Jr. Now you can call me John, or you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Junior; now you can call me John J, or you can call me JJ, or you can call me JJJ, or you can call me JJJ Jr. . . but you doesn't hasta call me Johnson!"

Posted by: Tonypete at June 13, 2024 09:33 AM (8u1Ia)

12 Sometimes I refer to my wang as my "Jay Johnny Johnson"

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 13, 2024 09:33 AM (sJHOI)

13 The lace collar is well rendered!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:33 AM (J2vNu)

14 His sleeves are kinda puffy.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 13, 2024 09:31 AM

During Pride Month, young lady?! During Pride Month?!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 13, 2024 09:34 AM (FPYvM)

15 Bet he was a Lady killer

Posted by: Skip at June 13, 2024 09:34 AM (8nsxw)

16 3 His sleeves are kinda puffy.

But I don't wanna be a pirate!

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at June 13, 2024 09:34 AM (dg+HA)

17 Is it really black-and-white or are the colors just *very* subtle?

The way he gave the impression of the cravat is quite impressive.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 13, 2024 09:34 AM (XjtdB)

18 I wondered what paintings looked like before they invented color.

Posted by: red speck at June 13, 2024 09:34 AM (0Id0S)

19 John Johnston? Please tell me his middle name is Johnson

Posted by: 18-1 at June 13, 2024 09:34 AM (ibTVg)

20 Tomorrow: David Davidson

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 13, 2024 09:35 AM (qZEuM)

21 Its one of dem old dead white guys! He's oppressing me!

Posted by: Some lefty at June 13, 2024 09:35 AM (ibTVg)

22 Tomorrow: David Davidson
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 13, 2024

***
Paolo Paulson

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:35 AM (J2vNu)

23 Is it really black-and-white or are the colors just *very* subtle?

The way he gave the impression of the cravat is quite impressive.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 13, 2024 09:34 AM (XjtdB)

muted

Posted by: BignJames at June 13, 2024 09:35 AM (AwYPR)

24 Black and white is all he had left in the paint box.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 13, 2024 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

25 I guess when your parents name you Rembrandt, a job as a CPA isn't in your future.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 13, 2024 09:36 AM (jdHxK)

26 His sleeves are kinda puffy.
Posted by: She Hobbit

It's a Puffy Shirt?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 13, 2024 09:36 AM (8u1Ia)

27 Ahem.

Posted by: Daniel Danielson at June 13, 2024 09:36 AM (dg+HA)

28 -Don't call me Johnston, you can call me Ray, or Ray J., or Ray J.J. ... but you doesn't have to call me Johnston!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 13, 2024 09:36 AM (Q4IgG)

29 /color monitor broken

/buys new monitor

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 13, 2024 09:37 AM (6Xyqy)

30 Too slow Martini Farmer! HA!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 13, 2024 09:37 AM (8u1Ia)

31 So, we missed Aaron Aaronson then

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 13, 2024 09:37 AM (WPL6O)

32 I was gonna make a reference to Blazing Saddles, but the people of Rock Ridge were all named Johnson, not Johnston.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 13, 2024 09:37 AM (BHrzb)

33 John Johnston
-

The forerunner to Dex Dexter?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 13, 2024 09:38 AM (6Xyqy)

34 Ahem.

Posted by: Daniel Danielson at June 13, 2024 09:36 AM (dg+HA)

What?

Posted by: James Jamison at June 13, 2024 09:38 AM (AwYPR)

35 Peale was born during the American Revolution, saw the War of 1812 (no mention of his fighting in it), and died just before the Civil War. "A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:38 AM (J2vNu)

36

There is a very small midget strapped to his inner thigh, flicking his nads...

Posted by: Pauline at June 13, 2024 09:38 AM (JZWH/)

37 Ahem.
Posted by: Daniel Danielson at June 13, 2024 09:36 AM (dg+HA)

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Step aside, junior.

Posted by: Dick Dickerson at June 13, 2024 09:38 AM (jdHxK)

38 Searching for "John Johnston" brings up someone named Liver-Eating Johnson who killed and ate 300 Crow Indians...

He had a reason though, they killed his Flat Head tribe wife. And...that tribe had about the worst name I think...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 13, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

39 The Chrysler Cravat was intended to compete with the Ford Edsel, but thankfully never went into production. "Dodged" a bullet there.

Posted by: Car nerd at June 13, 2024 09:39 AM (dg+HA)

40 >John Johnston
Rembrandt Peale


Different from the works of Picasso Jones

Posted by: Don Black at June 13, 2024 09:39 AM (/7KEl)

41 Too slow Martini Farmer! HA!
Posted by: Tonypete at June 13, 2024 09:37 AM (8u1Ia)

Always bad form to gloat, old boy!

3 His sleeves are kinda puffy.

But I don't wanna be a pirate!
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at June 13, 2024 09:34 AM (dg+HA)

His sleeves are kinda puffy.
Posted by: She Hobbit

It's a Puffy Shirt?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 13, 2024 09:36 AM (8u1Ia)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 13, 2024 09:39 AM (0eaVi)

42 I guess when your parents name you Rembrandt, a job as a CPA isn't in your future.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 13, 2024 09:36 AM (jdHxK)

Wiki sez his father was an artist, and named all his kids after artists - Raphaelle, Titian, Rubens.

Rubens disappointed his father by going on to drive Formula 1 cars for Ferrari instead.

Posted by: spindrift at June 13, 2024 09:40 AM (OguvZ)

43 I can't find any online [the last time I looked] but there are a few skilled, model diorama makers who paint the tank/s, terrain and soldier models all in black & white monochrome to make the diorama look like a WW2 b&w photo.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024 09:40 AM (ZdexC)

44 I guess when your parents name you Rembrandt, a job as a CPA isn't in your future.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 13, 2024

***
According to the Wiki entry, his father was a portrait painter too, and young Rembrandt did a portrait of Washington (the guy, that is) when he was only 17.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

45 What year did paintings in full color get invented?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 13, 2024 09:40 AM (jdHxK)

46 I would not hang this, but I can appreciate the skill of the artist.

Very well done.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 13, 2024 09:41 AM (7fElN)

47 Boring.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 09:41 AM (v6JzV)

48 There is a very small midget strapped to his inner thigh, flicking his nads...
Posted by: Pauline

Bridget the Midget.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 13, 2024 09:41 AM (qZEuM)

49 This reminds me of a story told by Bob Ross. He got a letter from a fan who was color blind and was sad he couldn't enjoy Ross's paintings. So, Ross painted a completely B/W landscape.

Posted by: Kris at June 13, 2024 09:41 AM (EwaUh)

50 25 I guess when your parents name you Rembrandt, a job as a CPA isn't in your future.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 13, 2024 09:36 AM

Kind of funny- according to Wiki, Johnston was an accountant so I guess his boring name sealed his fate. He was also a cofounder of NYU and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I wonder what he would think of NYU today.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 13, 2024 09:41 AM (rbKZ6)

51 I had a classmate in college whose name was 'Thomas Thomas Thomas'.

He told anyone who'd listen - "One day, I'm gonna kill my parents."

I should look him up. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 13, 2024 09:42 AM (8u1Ia)

52 Would proudly affix this to the side of my van.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 13, 2024 09:42 AM (jdHxK)

53 Searching for "John Johnston" brings up someone named Liver-Eating Johnson who killed and ate 300 Crow Indians...

He had a reason though, they killed his Flat Head tribe wife. And...that tribe had about the worst name I think...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 13, 2024

***
The basis for the 1972 film Jeremiah Johnson with Robert Redford.

Nez Perce Indians didn't get a charming moniker either. "Pierced Nose"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:42 AM (J2vNu)

54 I'm really impressed with almost all of his works, like this self-portrait:

https://tinyurl.com/mabf4u87

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024 09:42 AM (ZdexC)

55 The Flat Heads weren't, they didn't practice head-flattening routines with the boards and such. That was the Kootenai or whomever. Lewis and Clark never mentioned them, I don't believe. And they would have had they seen it.

What's interesting to me, is all the extended-noggin mummies and skulls they find down in Peru, prehistoric stuff. The original Cone Heads, apparently. The woo-woo folks, the conspiracy theorists indeed, maintain the north American indians were mimicing this, a kind of cargo cult operation, as it were. Trying to capture the Big Medicine of the big heads. Hm.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 13, 2024 09:42 AM (V8N8h)

56 But I don't wanna be a pirate!
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference

One of the funniest Seinfeld episodes. Puffy shirt, low talker and George's stint as a hand model IIRC.

Posted by: Tuna at June 13, 2024 09:42 AM (oaGWv)

57 I don't like this guy. He looks smarmy. I bet he's an uber progressive who looks down his nose at normal people because they're too stupid to understand how things really should be. I've met his type.

He needs a drink thrown in his face.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024 09:42 AM (HXGNm)

58 I was gonna make a reference to Blazing Saddles, but the people of Rock Ridge were all named Johnson, not Johnston.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 13, 2024 09:37 AM

We would have allowed it.

Posted by: The Judges at June 13, 2024 09:42 AM (Wnv9h)

59 I can't find any online [the last time I looked] but there are a few skilled, model diorama makers who paint the tank/s, terrain and soldier models all in black & white monochrome to make the diorama look like a WW2 b&w photo.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024 09:40 AM (ZdexC)

Clever idea.

Posted by: spindrift at June 13, 2024 09:43 AM (OguvZ)

60 This is an oil painting, and I find it astounding in every way.
++++
Yeah. My first thought was, "I didn't know CBD ever did photographs."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 09:43 AM (d04cU)

61 So Rembrandt Peale is an American artist.

With a name like that his destiny to be an artist was decided by his parents.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 13, 2024 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

62 "Well, you don't have to call me Johnston!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 13, 2024 09:43 AM (RIvkX)

63 John Johnston
Rembrandt Peale

Thanks for the reminder, John. I haven't thought of Emma Peel in a while, but I'm remembering her now...

https://tinyurl.com/zhnw7w8t

...and I like it!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 13, 2024 09:43 AM (JCZqz)

64 He needs a drink thrown in his face.
Posted by: nurse ratched


Fred MacMurray has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)

65 So if you rotate it ninety degrees is it a landscape?

Posted by: And use the legal sized paper tray at June 13, 2024 09:44 AM (dg+HA)

66 I don't do beards.

Posted by: R. Peale, Portraitist at June 13, 2024 09:44 AM (jdHxK)

67 I had a classmate in college whose name was 'Thomas Thomas Thomas'.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 13, 2024 09:42 AM (8u1Ia)

Oh, yeah?

Posted by: Major Major Major at June 13, 2024 09:44 AM (AwYPR)

68 On a more serious note, this is extremely well executed, and I would certainly hang in my 18th c. home. If I had one. Which I don't.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 13, 2024 09:45 AM (Wnv9h)

69 The Peales were a family of artists, like the Wythes.

https://shorturl.at/yFrM3

Posted by: Kris at June 13, 2024 09:45 AM (EwaUh)

70 Rembrandt Peale's brother was named "Titian," IIRC.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 09:45 AM (v6JzV)

71 According to the Wiki entry, his father was a portrait painter too, and young Rembrandt did a portrait of Washington (the guy, that is) when he was only 17.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

I've seen it. Don't bother looking it up. It's a hatchet job.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 13, 2024 09:45 AM (0eaVi)

72 Very life like. Wouldn't hang though his eyes would follow me whatever I did

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 13, 2024 09:45 AM (FTjSO)

73 So if you rotate it ninety degrees is it a landscape?
Posted by: And use the legal sized paper tray at June 13, 2024

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No. It looks funny and you get a crick in your neck viewing it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:46 AM (J2vNu)

74 Who needs a camera with this guy around? I have never seen a portrait like this monotone painting. It is damn near photo-realistic. His ability to meld the many levels of gray and the smooth application of the oil paint is incredible. Looking at his other portraits, in color, shows the same approach. No wonder he was so much in demand in his time.

I couldn't find information but would love to learn how he applied the techniques he used so effectively.

Posted by: JTB at June 13, 2024 09:46 AM (zudum)

75 Oh wait are we complaining about names?

Well I have some complaints. And so do me 10 sibilings and 30 cousins all with the same name.

Do you know how hard it is when they call one of our names to go blow up some Jews?

Posted by: Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed at June 13, 2024 09:46 AM (ibTVg)

76 70 Rembrandt Peale's brother was named "Titian," IIRC.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 09:45 AM (v6JzV)

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*sulks*

Posted by: Rothko Peale at June 13, 2024 09:47 AM (jdHxK)

77 I'm really impressed with almost all of his works...

Yeah, we slag enough "artists" on this thread that it's worth praising the ones who really deserve it.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 13, 2024 09:47 AM (/y8xj)

78 Very nice.
Enlarge the painting and look at the artist's technique, on the left sideburn, and his hairline.
Wow.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 13, 2024 09:47 AM (pUmP9)

79 John Johnston
Rembrandt Peale

**********

Ir's Right There in the Name, Duh - a limerick

This man's art possesses great zeal
And his brush strokes? A delicate feel
The skin tones? Alabaster!
This evokes a great master
Allin all it has a Rembrandt appeal


Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 09:47 AM (uCfKO)

80 On a more serious note, this is extremely well executed, and I would certainly hang in my 18th c. home. If I had one. Which I don't.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

You'd also have to come up with a story of how you are a descendant of Mr. Johnston and his inheritor of his legacy. Or something.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 13, 2024 09:47 AM (xJpub)

81 Boring.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 09:41 AM (v6JzV)

It's much more exciting over at the hotair.com Art Thread.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 13, 2024 09:48 AM (d9fT1)

82 I know Peale comes from a family of artists but I wonder if they knew something at his birth when they named him Rembrandt.

Posted by: JTB at June 13, 2024 09:48 AM (zudum)

83 "As soon as he's finished I'm going to kill that fly."

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2024 09:49 AM (rGvnI)

84 69 The Peales were a family of artists, like the Wythes.

https://shorturl.at/yFrM3
Posted by: Kris at June 13, 2024 09:45 AM (EwaUh)

The father, Charles, also an artist, named his children after Old Masters. There was Raphaelle, Rembrandt, Titian, Sophonisba, Angelica Kauffman, and Rubens.

Posted by: Kris at June 13, 2024 09:49 AM (EwaUh)

85 I know Peale comes from a family of artists but I wonder if they knew something at his birth when they named him Rembrandt.

That his teeth were going to be very white?

Posted by: SOme Dentist at June 13, 2024 09:49 AM (ibTVg)

86 The father, Charles, also an artist, named his children after Old Masters. There was Raphaelle, Rembrandt, Titian, Sophonisba, Angelica Kauffman, and Rubens.
Posted by: Kris at June 13, 2024

***
It's as if I were to name my cats Rooster, Mattie, and LaBoeuf.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:50 AM (J2vNu)

87 Shouldn't "Titian" be the name given to a female?

Posted by: Because, well, you know at June 13, 2024 09:50 AM (dg+HA)

88 Look up Peale's self portrait from 1824.

I've often thought that period in America, 1820 through 1840, Peale's America, might have been the finest couple of decades to have been alive.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at June 13, 2024 09:50 AM (ZtgZZ)

89 Shouldn't "Titian" be the name given to a female?
Posted by: Because, well, you know at June 13, 2024

***
Well, he *was* a guy. Even though we use the term "Titian-haired" to refer to redheaded women like the ones he liked to paint.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:51 AM (J2vNu)

90 Would proudly affix this to the side of my van.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 13, 2024 09:42 AM (jdHxK)
-

Does you van go?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 13, 2024 09:52 AM (6Xyqy)

91 His name is John Johnston. At least that's what he told the motel clerk.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 13, 2024 09:52 AM (L/fGl)

92 It's much more exciting over at the hotair.com Art Thread.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Who's enough of a masochist to go over there?!?!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 13, 2024 09:52 AM (JCZqz)

93 87 Shouldn't "Titian" be the name given to a female?
Posted by: Because, well, you know at June 13, 2024 09:50 AM (dg+HA)

I know, right?

Posted by: E. Buzz Miller at June 13, 2024 09:52 AM (DTX3h)

94 We are from Remulac... in Peru.

Posted by: Beldar Conehead at June 13, 2024 09:52 AM (ZdexC)

95 I thought they were all named after teenage cartoon turtles.

Posted by: From the days of my misspent yute at June 13, 2024 09:52 AM (dg+HA)

96 87 Shouldn't "Titian" be the name given to a female?
Posted by: Because, well, you know at June 13, 2024 09:50 AM (dg+HA)

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Given the inevitable nickname "Tits" you're probably right.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 13, 2024 09:52 AM (jdHxK)

97 It's much more exciting over at the hotair.com Art Thread.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


Ed Morrisey's not nearly as much fun to needle as you are.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 09:52 AM (v6JzV)

98 Just gazed at it again.

I want to slap that smirk off his face.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024 09:53 AM (bCGNx)

99 It's as if I were to name my cats Rooster, Mattie, and LaBoeuf.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:50 AM (J2vNu)

Mine are named Girlie, Bugs, and Junior.

Posted by: BignJames at June 13, 2024 09:53 AM (AwYPR)

100 Ed Morrisey's not nearly as much fun to needle as you are.

Pop'n fresh? But the sound he makes when you poke his belly...

Posted by: Some Bread Fan... at June 13, 2024 09:53 AM (ibTVg)

101 Fred MacMurray has entered the chat.
-----
The Mad Magazine parody has the film end with them going out onto the patio to settle it... throwing drinks in each other's face.

Posted by: Beldar Conehead at June 13, 2024 09:54 AM (ZdexC)

102 I've often thought that period in America, 1820 through 1840, Peale's America, might have been the finest couple of decades to have been alive.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at June 13, 2024

***
Cons: no air conditioning, anesthetics, or penicillin. Pro: No Federal leviathan, no income tax, immigration only from western and northern Europe. And America was not yet *bitterly* divided over North vs. South.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:54 AM (J2vNu)

103 BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024 09:54 AM (bCGNx)

104 Ready good at shaving.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 13, 2024 09:55 AM (J8LnB)

105 Biden: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

American worker: “Well, sure — under Trump I only had one job but now I have three!”

Posted by: SMOD at June 13, 2024 09:55 AM (RHGPo)

106 Fred MacMurray has entered the chat.
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The Mad Magazine parody has the film end with them going out onto the patio to settle it... throwing drinks in each other's face.
Posted by: Beldar Conehead at June 13, 2024

***
What movie was that?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

107 Mine are named Girlie, Bugs, and Junior.
Posted by: BignJames at June 13, 2024 09:53 AM (AwYPR)

I have a cat named Junior. He is wrapped up in my boot laces right now preventing me from tying them.
This routine sometimes ends in bloodshed.

Posted by: Reforger at June 13, 2024 09:56 AM (xcIvR)

108 I want to slap that smirk off his face.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024 09:53 AM (bCGNx)

Wow! Does he look like your prom date or something?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 13, 2024 09:56 AM (d9fT1)

109 But his friends call him Jack Jackson!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 13, 2024 09:56 AM (iDYbI)

110 99 It's as if I were to name my cats Rooster, Mattie, and LaBoeuf.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:50 AM (J2vNu)

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May I see the manager? I would like to report a gross violation of the Hundred Comment Rule.

Posted by: The AoSHQ House Karen at June 13, 2024 09:56 AM (jdHxK)

111 68 On a more serious note, this is extremely well executed, and I would certainly hang in my 18th c. home. If I had one. Which I don't.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

You know what painting I hung up in my 18th century home?

https://tinyurl.com/3yn4pwmt

Posted by: Obama at June 13, 2024 09:56 AM (JCZqz)

112 Titian McGee had the fits
He called all his buddies nitwits
For as hard as he pleaded
He never succeeded
At making them not call him "Tits"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2024 09:56 AM (BpZ5k)

113 It's much more exciting over at the hotair.com Art Thread.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

********


They have a commenter there named Poltroon who writes haiku.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 09:56 AM (uCfKO)

114 Off, SNL sock.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024 09:57 AM (ZdexC)

115 *It's as if I were to name my cats Rooster, Mattie, and LaBoeuf.*


"Mr. Rat, I have a writ here that says you are to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now, It's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same!"

Posted by: Rooster Cogburn at June 13, 2024 09:57 AM (dg+HA)

116 This painting was done back before they had color paint.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 13, 2024 09:57 AM (FCbAQ)

117 Dude looks like he could really smell up the crapper...

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 13, 2024 09:57 AM (XRpj3)

118 What movie was that?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


The Caine Mutiny. Great flick.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 09:57 AM (v6JzV)

119 Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2024 09:56 AM (BpZ5k)

Nice!

Positively Muldoonesque!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 13, 2024 09:58 AM (d9fT1)

120 BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024 09:54 AM (bCGNx)

You forgot the "Ping!"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 13, 2024 09:58 AM (0eaVi)

121 Who's enough of a masochist to go over there?!?!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 13, 2024 09:52 AM (JCZqz)
++++
LOL. Well played.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 09:58 AM (d04cU)

122 They have a commenter there named Poltroon who writes haiku.
Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 09:56 AM (uCfKO)

We got you. Nuf said.

Posted by: Reforger at June 13, 2024 09:58 AM (xcIvR)

123 The painting looks exactly like a black and white photograph.

The subject, John Taylor Johnston, became one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mt Vernon Org, library, digital history has an article about Rembrandt Peale and George Washington; how Washington agreed to three sittings of 3 hours each, and the outcome.

Very nice painting and history lesson, once again. Thanks.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 13, 2024 09:58 AM (NFX2v)

124 What movie was that?
---------
The Caine Mutiny

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024 09:58 AM (ZdexC)

125 Wow! Does he look like your prom date or something?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I never went to prom. Was at a gymnastics meet instead.

He's slick and arrogant. Just look at his stupid smirking face. What a narcissistic bastard.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024 09:58 AM (bCGNx)

126 *It's as if I were to name my cats Rooster, Mattie, and LaBoeuf.*
*
"Mr. Rat, I have a writ here that says you are to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now, It's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same!"
Posted by: Rooster Cogburn at June 13, 2024

***
Followed by, "See, he don't listen." BLAM!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 09:58 AM (J2vNu)

127 Thought I vaguely recall reading in History classes, even the Renaiisance painters, didn't they have pinhole cameras, or lenses, that could be used to display a near perfect image of a scene. The artist would then proceed to trace around it, and color it in on canvas for a permanent image-copy.

That's how they made "photorealistic" paintings. They pretty much were photographs.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 13, 2024 09:59 AM (V8N8h)

128 I've often thought that period in America, 1820 through 1840, Peale's America, might have been the finest couple of decades to have been alive.

For you, maybe.

Posted by: Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole at June 13, 2024 09:59 AM (xCA6C)

129 This one by Peale is... interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/3uztfph8

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 13, 2024 09:59 AM (xJpub)

130 There is a very small midget strapped to his inner thigh, flicking his nads...
Posted by: Pauline at June 13, 2024 09:38 AM (JZWH/)

Usually that costs extra.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 13, 2024 09:59 AM (FCbAQ)

131 He's slick and arrogant. Just look at his stupid smirking face. What a narcissistic bastard.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024 09:58 AM (bCGNx)

----------

*puts down clipboard*

*edges toward door*

Posted by: S. Freud at June 13, 2024 10:00 AM (jdHxK)

132 Thought I vaguely recall reading in History classes, even the Renaiisance painters, didn't they have pinhole cameras, or lenses, that could be used to display a near perfect image of a scene. The artist would then proceed to trace around it, and color it in on canvas for a permanent image-copy.

That's how they made "photorealistic" paintings. They pretty much were photographs.

Camera Oscura

Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2024 10:00 AM (xCA6C)

133 BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
Posted by: nurse ratched
---------

Posted by: zombie John Johnston at June 13, 2024 10:00 AM (ZdexC)

134 Very nice painting and history lesson, once again. Thanks.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 13, 2024 09:58 AM (NFX2v)

It is! I saw it and immediately thought, "Why have I never seen this?"

Of course there are one or two complainers in the commentariat...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 13, 2024 10:00 AM (d9fT1)

135 This one by Peale is... interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/3uztfph8
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 13, 2024 09:59 AM (xJpub)

"And here is where the drill slipped."

Posted by: spindrift at June 13, 2024 10:00 AM (OguvZ)

136 He looks psycho.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 13, 2024 10:00 AM (qZEuM)

137 He's the guy who takes you out on a date and "forgets" his wallet.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024 10:01 AM (bCGNx)

138 Of course there are one or two complainers in the commentariat...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


Really? Where?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:01 AM (v6JzV)

139 Thoughts on the G7 group: https://tinyurl.com/bce7pj3x

Macron has better lifts than DeNiro, Meloni looked gorgeous, Biden grimaced (his people can't even get his tie straight), von der Leyen did her best imitation of a woman.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 13, 2024 10:01 AM (K7/OQ)

140 He's the guy who takes you out on a date and "forgets" his wallet.
Posted by: nurse ratched


But enough about my college days...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:02 AM (v6JzV)

141 He's slick and arrogant. Just look at his stupid smirking face. What a narcissistic bastard.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024 09:58 AM (bCGNx)

Takes talent to get that to come out in a painting.
There is also a zit above his left eyebrow.

Posted by: Reforger at June 13, 2024 10:02 AM (xcIvR)

142 I think the dude looks ordinary. Done up, as one would be for a portrait - but I don't get a visceral "this man must be destroyed" vibe off of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:02 AM (d04cU)

143 128 I've often thought that period in America, 1820 through 1840, Peale's America, might have been the finest couple of decades to have been alive.

Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high...

Posted by: The O'Hara family at June 13, 2024 10:02 AM (dg+HA)

144 His name is John Johnston. At least that's what he told the motel clerk.

I knew a John Smith in high school. We used to say that when he got married, he'd have to make up a fake name to check into the honeymoon suite.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 13, 2024 10:02 AM (/y8xj)

145 He's the guy who takes you out on a date and "forgets" his wallet.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024 10:01 AM (bCGNx)

He's half otter IYKWIM.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2024 10:03 AM (nR2nR)

146 Haiku is limericks for people who can't rhyme and have no sense of humor...

...show me I'm wrong.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 10:03 AM (uCfKO)

147 Elon Musk says Tesla shareholders re-approved his pay package worth billions that a Delaware judge struck down.
Tesla’s incorporation is going from Delaware to Texas.
Delaware’s reputation for trustworthiness in matters of corporate law — cultivated over more than a century — is now trashed.

Posted by: SMOD at June 13, 2024 10:03 AM (RHGPo)

148 What movie was that?
---------
The Caine Mutiny
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024

***
Ah! I'd forgotten that bit. One of MacMurray's best roles. We remember him fondly now as the uber-TV Dad from My Three Sons -- but he was remarkable at playing rotten guys like Keefer in that film and Sheldrake in The Apartment, and the lead, a murderer, in Double Indemnity. And the criminal who reforms very believably in the Western Face of a Fugitive.

The story goes that after The Apartment came out, a woman accosted him in the grocery and took him to task for his role. She'd brought her kids to it, thinking it was a family film, and was shocked at his character. He said he determined never to play another rotter after that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 10:04 AM (J2vNu)

149 That's how they made "photorealistic" paintings. They pretty much were photographs.

Camera Oscura
Posted by: Archimedes
--------------------------

They also had a device that reflected the forward image onto the work table.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 13, 2024 10:04 AM (K7/OQ)

150 Johnston was #2.

Posted by: Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen at June 13, 2024 10:04 AM (a+UVc)

151 Democracy dies in Delaware.

Posted by: Joe knows at June 13, 2024 10:05 AM (dg+HA)

152 Very little art in fact, exceeds whatever epic masterpieces by 3 or 4 year olds adorn every gramma and grandpa refrigerators. Seriously. I mean, that's a standard of excellence anyhow.

I sure wish they invented cameras earlier than they did. Lewis and Clark didn't even bring a painter or illustrator, much less even a doctor, though they were trained pretty well in the techniques of the time. (There was one doctor who agreed to go, and promptly went out and got drunk, and missed his opportunity)

I took a couple Art appreciation classes or courses. Photography interests me more, though it would be cool to Catlin or Remington stuff, or others who were roaming the West in the earliest. Photographers had to have whole wagons full of darkroom material, the film was sandwiched between glass plates, took 15 minute exposures and an hour to develop.

I can see why floating down the Colorado was a pain in the arse back then.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 13, 2024 10:05 AM (V8N8h)

153 Huh. Calvin's dad was right. The world really was black and white way back when.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 13, 2024 10:05 AM (vKsMT)

154 Haiku is limericks for people who can't rhyme and have no sense of humor...

...show me I'm wrong.
Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 10:03 AM (uCfKO)
++++
Haiku not clever?
'Tis hard to work in structure
Embrace the constraint

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:05 AM (d04cU)

155 Haiku is limericks for people who can't rhyme and have no sense of humor...

...show me I'm wrong.
Posted by: Muldoon


Muldoon hates haiku.
He hates it so very much.
Like Sponge hates flip-flops.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:05 AM (v6JzV)

156 Huh. Calvin's dad was right. The world really was black and white way back when.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 13, 2024 10:05 AM (vKsMT)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:06 AM (d04cU)

157 Haiku!!! - a limerick

I went to a Haiku fest last night
And I stayed til 10, just to be polite
Five syllables, seven, five
Well goodness sakes alive
My response when I hear "Haiku"?

... "Gesundheit!"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 10:09 AM (uCfKO)

158 I think the dude looks ordinary. Done up, as one would be for a portrait - but I don't get a visceral "this man must be destroyed" vibe off of it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:02 AM (d04cU)


The "manosphere" claims that women lump men into one of three categories immediately on sight: fuck, marry, kill.

Who can explain why, but this dude ended up in the latter.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 13, 2024 10:09 AM (FCbAQ)

159 Anti-Israel Activists Vandalize Homes Of People Associated With Brooklyn Museum, UN

NEW YORK (AP) — Palestinian protesters vandalized locations associated with the Brooklyn Museum and the United Nations in New York City, throwing red paint across their entrances in opposition to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Mayor Eric Adams posted on the social platform X on Wednesday that police were investigating after the homes of museum director Anne Pasternak and members of the museum’s board of trustees were hit.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024 10:10 AM (ZdexC)

160 The "manosphere" claims that women lump men into one of three categories immediately on sight: fuck, marry, kill.

Who can explain why, but this dude ended up in the latter.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 13, 2024 10:09 AM (FCbAQ)
++++
LOL. Perhaps. That leaves out the fourth category, though, which is the largest: "does not exist." To get into one of the other three categories, you have to get past that big 'ole first-pass filter.

This poor dude got past the first pass, only to tumble through Door Number Three.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:11 AM (d04cU)

161 Hey, this might be a good look for me.

Posted by: John "Beetlejuice" Johnston at June 13, 2024 10:12 AM (Qxjyq)

162 NEW YORK (AP) — Palestinian protesters vandalized locations associated with the Brooklyn Museum and the United Nations in New York City, throwing red paint across their entrances in opposition to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024 10:10 AM (ZdexC)
++++
There was a time when I'd read something like this and be confused. "Why would you piss on your own allies at the UN? They're on your side. Why poke the bear?"

I understand it now, or least I have some ability to interpret it. It's never enough.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:12 AM (d04cU)

163 The "manosphere" claims that women lump men into one of three categories immediately on sight: fuck, marry, kill.

Who can explain why, but this dude ended up in the latter.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 13, 2024 10:09 AM (FCbAQ)
++++
LOL. Perhaps. That leaves out the fourth category, though, which is the largest: "does not exist." To get into one of the other three categories, you have to get past that big 'ole first-pass filter.

This poor dude got past the first pass, only to tumble through Door Number Three.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Says a bit about those who make one of those decisions...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 13, 2024 10:12 AM (pUmP9)

164
Muldoon's doggerels
are barbaric monkey jokes
NIPPON IS SUPREME

Posted by: Hai Kurate at June 13, 2024 10:12 AM (0FoWg)

165 Oklahoma Supreme Court Rejects Reparations Claim for Tulsa Race Massacre

-
I saw a "documentary" on this that white washed this. A black guy who worked in a white area was allowed to use a particular restroom. To get there, he had to take an elevator run by a white girl. Something happened in the elevator which the girl interpreted as a sex assault. The documentarian assured us that the bitch was either lying or crazy or both. Anyway, he was arrested which caused considerable community interest. A boisterous group of evil white men appeared at the jail who, explained the documentarian, were going to lynch the suspect (even though there is no actual evidence of their intention). They were physically attacked by a group of blacks (who were obviously well justified). That's how the riot started. So the lesson is blacks can attack whites but not vice versa.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 13, 2024 10:14 AM (L/fGl)

166 Muldoon's doggerels
are barbaric monkey jokes
NIPPON IS SUPREME
Posted by: Hai Kurate at June 13, 2024 10:12 AM (0FoWg)
++++
That got dark quickly.
And it didn't start out tame.
Also, I laughed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:14 AM (d04cU)

167 "Bet he was a lady killer."

"Acquitted!"

Posted by: Gomez Addams at June 13, 2024 10:15 AM (ntp+a)

168 [ ] dog
[ ] tree
[ ] boobs

....but, I must agree with the Horde that this is very well done, and Nurse's reaction is as much fun as anything on the art thread for a while now! Nice selection CBD.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 13, 2024 10:15 AM (llON8)

169 From the blog which gave us

.45 vs 9mm
Ginger vs Maryann
longbows vs crossbows
Betty vs Wilma

we now present

Limericks vs haiku

Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 10:15 AM (uCfKO)

170 Be careful how you use it.

https://youtu.be/Rru2rYtCgUY

Posted by: Hai Karate aftershave at June 13, 2024 10:16 AM (dg+HA)

171 And just to be clear, I really have no doggerel in this fight.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 10:16 AM (uCfKO)

172 So the latest Star Wars centers around lesbian space witches giving each other babies through the force?

This really is the dumbest timeline isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 13, 2024 10:16 AM (ibTVg)

173 CBD's chili:
It will never have carrots
Or maple syrup.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:16 AM (v6JzV)

174 Painter got some serious skill.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 13, 2024 10:16 AM (VwHCD)

175 In lacy cravat
Johnston swaggered to her door.
Nurse sent him packing.

He tried once again
Smirking coolly as he bowed
SLAP! was all he got.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 13, 2024 10:17 AM (xJpub)

176 Once there was a man
Nantucket he did come from
Beyond that, nothing.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez fuck cancer at June 13, 2024 10:17 AM (OUMaO)

177 Something happened in the elevator which the girl interpreted as a sex assault. The documentarian assured us that the bitch was either lying or crazy or both.

The way the left bounces between "Believe all women" and "Chicks always claim someone sexually assaulted them because they are cray cray" amazes me.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 13, 2024 10:18 AM (ibTVg)

178 172 So the latest Star Wars centers around lesbian space witches giving each other babies through the force?

This really is the dumbest timeline isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 13, 2024 10:16 AM (ibTVg)

=========

"I loved Star Wars growing up because of all the adventure. I'm going to love Star Wars even more when it's about lesbians fighting for acceptance."
-Apparently?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 13, 2024 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

179
*A boisterous group of evil white men appeared at the jail who, explained the documentarian, were going to lynch the suspect (even though there is no actual evidence of their intention).*

I'll handle this.

Posted by: Atticus Finch at June 13, 2024 10:19 AM (dg+HA)

180 we now present

Limericks vs haiku
Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 10:15 AM (uCfKO)
++++
Limerick wins, easy
but pointless fights are funny
Minutia deathmatch

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:19 AM (d04cU)

181 Ginger's boobs were nice,
And Mary Anne was no slouch.
Mrs. Howell, though...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:19 AM (v6JzV)

182 179
*A boisterous group of evil white men appeared at the jail who, explained the documentarian, were going to lynch the suspect (even though there is no actual evidence of their intention).*

I'll handle this.
Posted by: Atticus Finch at June 13, 2024 10:19 AM (dg+HA)

=======

"Nah, bruh. I gots dis."
-Young Mr. Lincoln

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 13, 2024 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

183 The "manosphere" claims that women lump men into one of three categories immediately on sight: fuck, marry, kill.

Who can explain why, but this dude ended up in the latter.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 13, 2024 10:09 AM (FCbAQ)

Date the right type of crazy chick and you'll be all 3 at the same time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 13, 2024 10:19 AM (VwHCD)

184 Troll say what??

||Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden post-conviction, recent national surveys found.

A survey from the Economist/YouGov — taken well after the Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict — asked registered voters, “In November 2024, who do you plan to vote for in the presidential election?”||

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024 10:20 AM (ZdexC)

185 Joe, you're so right about that fourth category.
So many people fall into "object that must be walked around"

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 13, 2024 10:20 AM (FCbAQ)

186 So the latest Star Wars centers around lesbian space witches giving each other babies through the force?

This really is the dumbest timeline isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 13, 2024

***
Not an *impossible* storyline for high fantasy w/ magic. But SW is supposed to fall into the "science fiction" category.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 10:21 AM (J2vNu)

187 I can dress up, but Ginger can't cook.

Posted by: Mary Ann at June 13, 2024 10:21 AM (dg+HA)

188 Ah! I'd forgotten that bit. One of MacMurray's best roles. We remember him fondly now as the uber-TV Dad from My Three Sons -- but he was remarkable at playing rotten guys like Keefer in that film and Sheldrake in The Apartment, and the lead, a murderer, in Double Indemnity. And the criminal who reforms very believably in the Western Face of a Fugitive.

-
He also played a corrupt, murderous cop in Pushover. Of course, he was corrupted by his lust for Kim Novak so it's kind of understandable.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 13, 2024 10:21 AM (L/fGl)

189 186 But SW is supposed to fall into the "science fiction" category.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 10:21 AM (J2vNu)

======

It's about a wizard who gives a kid a quest and uses magic.

It's fantasy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 13, 2024 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

190 This really is the dumbest timeline isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 13, 2024 10:16 AM (ibTVg)
++++
So far

Dumbest timeline *so far.*

You're welcome.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:22 AM (d04cU)

191 The "manosphere" claims that women lump men into one of three categories immediately on sight: fuck, marry, kill.

Who can explain why, but this dude ended up in the latter.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 13, 2024
*
Date the right type of crazy chick and you'll be all 3 at the same time.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 13, 2024

***
I got the next-level jackpot, the first two simultaneously.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 10:22 AM (J2vNu)

192 He also played a corrupt, murderous cop in Pushover. Of course, he was corrupted by his lust for Kim Novak so it's kind of understandable.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Damn, she was hot.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:22 AM (v6JzV)

193 I got the next-level jackpot, the first two simultaneously.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 10:22 AM (J2vNu)
++++
There's high latency until the third hits!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:23 AM (d04cU)

194 >>> 180 we now present

Limericks vs haiku
Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 10:15 AM (uCfKO)
++++
Limerick wins, easy
but pointless fights are funny
Minutia deathmatch
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:19 AM (d04cU)

Maryanne, Ginger?
9 mm or forty-five
'and' is always right


also bacon, but that doesn't rhyme or fit the meter, but BACON so shutup

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 13, 2024 10:24 AM (llON8)

195 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Interesting art. Don't recognize him though.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2024 10:24 AM (W/lyH)

196 One of MacMurray's best roles. We remember him fondly now as the uber-TV Dad from My Three Sons -- but he was remarkable at playing rotten guys like Keefer in that film and Sheldrake in The Apartment, and the lead, a murderer, in Double Indemnity. And the criminal who reforms very believably in the Western Face of a Fugitive.
-
He also played a corrupt, murderous cop in Pushover. Of course, he was corrupted by his lust for Kim Novak so it's kind of understandable.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 13, 2024

***
Right, only a few years after Indemnity. And I seem to recall him as cynical newspaper reporter in a film with religious overtones in the Forties -- he's investigating a woman who was supposed to perform miracles, or something like that?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 10:25 AM (J2vNu)

197 NEW YORK (AP) — Palestinian protesters vandalized locations associated with the Brooklyn Museum and the United Nations in New York City, throwing red paint across their entrances in opposition to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024 10:10 AM (ZdexC)
-

What you need to know about those red triangles: They are symbols to target someone for murder.

x.com/aziz0nomics/status/1801177524342264279

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 13, 2024 10:25 AM (6Xyqy)

198 Not an *impossible* storyline for high fantasy w/ magic. But SW is supposed to fall into the "science fiction" category.

Yeah, no. The Force was always woo-woo magic even though they tried to retcon into some kind of magic virus or something.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 13, 2024 10:25 AM (/y8xj)

199 I can dress up, but Ginger can't cook.
Posted by: Mary Ann at June 13, 2024 10:21 AM (dg+HA)

Ginger can pay for a chef.

Posted by: spindrift at June 13, 2024 10:25 AM (OguvZ)

200 Diogenes, tell,
How went the geezer fleecing,
On last Tuesday's links?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:26 AM (v6JzV)

201 Ginger's boobs were nice,
And Mary Anne was no slouch.
Mrs. Howell, though...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:19 AM (v6JzV)

Lovey had experience. She knew how to treat a man.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2024 10:26 AM (nR2nR)

202 198 Not an *impossible* storyline for high fantasy w/ magic. But SW is supposed to fall into the "science fiction" category.

Yeah, no. The Force was always woo-woo magic even though they tried to retcon into some kind of magic virus or something.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 13, 2024 10:25 AM (/y8xj)

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Even those who push the distinction towards storytelling tropes and structure have to put SW in the fantasy column.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 13, 2024 10:26 AM (GBKbO)

203 The bunny in the pot.

https://youtu.be/7jHTGNPOYGQ

Posted by: The Hot-Crazy Matrix at June 13, 2024 10:26 AM (dg+HA)

204 The clip I saw of the space witches looks like it was made in an intro to film making class.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 13, 2024 10:27 AM (ibTVg)

205 Very well. Where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, an Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking I suggest you try it."

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024 10:27 AM (dZgSa)

206 >>> 198 Not an *impossible* storyline for high fantasy w/ magic. But SW is supposed to fall into the "science fiction" category.
==
Yeah, no. The Force was always woo-woo magic even though they tried to retcon into some kind of magic virus or something.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 13, 2024 10:25 AM (/y8xj)

...but you see, "force" is totally like mansplaining and stuff, and the "force" is LITERALLY FEMALE...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 13, 2024 10:28 AM (llON8)

207 This is an oil painting, and I find it astounding in every way.

--

Hey, it's no Andy Warhol soup can art. Now that's some talent! /s

But seriously, this is some very impressive, artistic talent.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 13, 2024 10:28 AM (mupln)

208 At the age of 14, an Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles.

VILMA?!?

Posted by: Scooby Doo at June 13, 2024 10:28 AM (ibTVg)

209 I loved Star Wars growing up because of all the adventure.

-
I am such a video game slut! I promised myself I wouldn't buy Star Wars: Outlaws because it was Star Wars and also too expensive but I saw a game play video on YouTube and, next thing you know, I'm waking up alone in a cheap motel without my dignity.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 13, 2024 10:28 AM (L/fGl)

210 Very well. Where do I begin?
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Is L3nN3al socking nurse ratched??

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024 10:29 AM (ZdexC)

211 I ran out of color oil paints, OK??!

---Rembrandt Peale

Posted by: runner at June 13, 2024 10:29 AM (9pFgx)

212 To tell the truth officer, it's hard to say exactly when the fight started!

Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 10:29 AM (uCfKO)

213 Let's check up on France shall we?


Dear lord.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 13, 2024 10:29 AM (cf/0E)

214 Huh...

I'd never questioned how Gollum got on the Fellowship's tail in Moria and suddenly I had questions.

Turns out, Tolkien had answers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 13, 2024 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

215 Very well. Where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, an Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking I suggest you try it."
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024 10:27 AM (dZgSa)
++++
One of the funniest performances ever put to film.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:30 AM (d04cU)

216 *At the age of 14, an Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles.*

Wilma!!

Posted by: Fred Flintstone at June 13, 2024 10:30 AM (dg+HA)

217 The last star wars video game clip I saw had some gender fluid thing fighting Darth Vader.

And basically Vader would stand there and the player character would hit him several times with a light saber then Vader would push the PC back and start over again.

It looked like something from the early 00s in video quality and the 1980s in terms of game play

Posted by: 18-1 at June 13, 2024 10:31 AM (ibTVg)

218 Everyone knows the higgledy-piggley is the pinnacle of Erato's demesne.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2024 10:32 AM (BpZ5k)

219 some gender fluid thing fighting Darth Vader.



Hey!!!
-- Zombie Alec Guiness

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:32 AM (v6JzV)

220 That is an oil painting? Really. OK, I'm impressed. And no where even close to painting like that. Wonder how long it took him, that is, how long the subject had to sit for it....

Posted by: Grateful at June 13, 2024 10:32 AM (IQ6Gq)

221 191 The "manosphere" claims that women lump men into one of three categories immediately on sight: fuck, marry, kill.



There has to be a fourth category:
Fuck, marry, kill or ignore.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2024 10:33 AM (9eII4)

222 There has to be a fourth category:
Fuck, marry, kill or ignore.
Posted by: rickb223


See Joe Mannix upthread.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:33 AM (v6JzV)

223 Fuck, marry, kill or ignore.

Pfft one category is enough for some of us

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 13, 2024 10:33 AM (ibTVg)

224
There has to be a fourth category:
Fuck, marry, kill or ignore.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2024 10:33 AM

can confirm the "ignore" category

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 13, 2024 10:34 AM (bEb2S)

225 224 can confirm the "ignore" category
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 13, 2024 10:34 AM (bEb2S)

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Married?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 13, 2024 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

226 >>> 221 191 The "manosphere" claims that women lump men into one of three categories immediately on sight: fuck, marry, kill.



There has to be a fourth category:
Fuck, marry, kill or ignore.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2024 10:33 AM (9eII4)

Glenn Close's character and Greta Greentard Princess strenuously object.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 13, 2024 10:35 AM (llON8)

227 Four categories:
Fuck, marry, kill, or ignore.
Women are quite strange.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:36 AM (v6JzV)

228 One of the funniest performances ever put to film.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2024 10:30 AM (d04cU)
----
One book, entitled: Swedish Penis Pumps and Me - That Sort of Thing is Definitely my Bag, Baby.

By, Austin Powers

Posted by: ballistic at June 13, 2024 10:37 AM (oqH4h)

229 It looked like something from the early 00s in video quality and the 1980s in terms of game play
Posted by: 18-1


Oooh. Call of Duty 3. Shoot a jap 6 times in the head with an M1 Garand before he goes down.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2024 10:37 AM (9eII4)

230 When I looked at this my first thought was why is CBD posting g a photo on the art thread?"

(I can hardly wait to see if this embarrels me)

Posted by: creeper at June 13, 2024 10:37 AM (M6moH)

231 Women are quite strange
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Except those who spend alot of time at the range.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024 10:38 AM (ZdexC)

232 >>> 146 Haiku is limericks for people who can't rhyme and have no sense of humor...

...show me I'm wrong.
Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 10:03 AM (uCfKO)

No sense of humor?!
I bet you put carrots in
your chili you $@)(%&)*(#&!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 13, 2024 10:38 AM (llON8)

233 There has to be a fourth category:
Fuck, marry, kill or ignore.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2024 10:33 AM (9eII4)

Glenn Close's character and Greta Greentard Princess strenuously object.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket


My lived experiences beg to differ.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2024 10:39 AM (9eII4)

234 The French Connection
was my best movie ever
I played Popeye Doyle

Posted by: Gene Haiku-man at June 13, 2024 10:40 AM (uCfKO)

235 Fuck, marry, kill or ignore.

Pfft one category is enough for some of us
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 13, 2024 10:33 AM (ibTVg)

She is a pretty gigantic or.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2024 10:40 AM (BpZ5k)

236 Portrait is boring,
But at least it's not nekkid
Ottoman lardass.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:40 AM (v6JzV)

237 Diogenes, tell,
How went the geezer fleecing,
On last Tuesday's links?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:26 AM (v6JzV)

Brutal.
It was sunny and nice out so wearing typical.golfing attire. By the third hole.it was blowing rain in my face. Stopped on 8 and headed for the clubhouse. I'm too old to golf in that crap.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 13, 2024 10:41 AM (W/lyH)

238 I bet you put carrots in
your chili you $@)(%&)*(#&!

*********

Snort!

Posted by: Muldoon at June 13, 2024 10:41 AM (uCfKO)

239
... of the lumber milling Johnstons, of course.

I have a great granduncle who lived in Stevens Point, WI, whose employment in the late Nineteenth Century was to travel from logging camp to sawmill, to logging camp, and so forth in order to sharpen their saw blades.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 13, 2024 10:41 AM (xG4kz)

240
A great, great granduncle, actually

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 13, 2024 10:42 AM (xG4kz)

241 in order to sharpen their saw blades.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)


Wow, that sounds like quite the euphemism.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:42 AM (v6JzV)

242 The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the abortion pill mifepristone, meaning the commonly used drug can remain widely available. The court found unanimously that the group of anti-abortion doctors who questioned the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions making it easier to access the pill did not have legal standing to sue.

This means any deaths due to usage of these drugs can be laid at the feet of the SCOTUS.

Posted by: SMOD at June 13, 2024 10:42 AM (RHGPo)

243 So the latest Star Wars centers around lesbian space witches giving each other babies through the force?

This really is the dumbest timeline isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1

Even worse; space occult lesbians. The neo-marxists are trying to defend it by the fact that the novels from the '90s had a sect of space witches already. BUuuuut, the show is portraying the Jedi as the baddies and the witches as holy, pure, just misunderstood goodies.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 13, 2024 10:43 AM (IG4Id)

244 Wow, that sounds like quite the euphemism.
---------
$20 -- the same as in town.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 13, 2024 10:43 AM (ZdexC)

245 Brutal.
It was sunny and nice out so wearing typical.golfing attire. By the third hole.it was blowing rain in my face. Stopped on 8 and headed for the clubhouse. I'm too old to golf in that crap.
Posted by: Diogenes


If you are ever caught out in a thunderstorm, stand on the green and hold a 1 iron over your head.

Because even God can't hit a 1 iron.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2024 10:43 AM (9eII4)

246 I am such a video game slut! I promised myself I wouldn't buy Star Wars: Outlaws because it was Star Wars and also too expensive but I saw a game play video on YouTube and, next thing you know, I'm waking up alone in a cheap motel without my dignity.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Just do your research before you buy. It's Ubisoft. It appears to be DEI infested. But we don't know for sure and it could turn out to be a good game.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 13, 2024 10:44 AM (hCzfy)

247
My name is John Johnston
I come from Wisconsin
I make 5 dollars a day
I go see my Lucy
And play with her pucy
she takes my 5 dollars away
Ole!

Posted by: naturalfake at age 11 at June 13, 2024 10:44 AM (eDfFs)

248 Grisaille

Posted by: polynikes at June 13, 2024 10:44 AM (SHMXB)

249 And now, some good news:
MELTDOWN: SPLC Terminates a Quarter of Staff, ‘Decimates’ 3 Departments, Union Claims

The union noted that the SPLC has “nearly a billion dollars in reserves” and received an “F” rating from nonprofit watchdog CharityWatch, in part for hoarding donations. CharityWatch warned that the SPLC may not use donors’ money for 7.3 years, because its reserves can keep the center running for that long.

It remains unclear exactly why the SPLC decided to terminate so many staff. As of 2022, the center had an endowment of $731.9 million and accounts in the Cayman Islands. It seems it should be able to hold on to its employees.

“An organization with this much money has no excuse,” Hannah Gais, an SPLC Union member who apparently did not lose her job, wrote on X.


https://tinyurl.com/4jredk3k

Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2024 10:45 AM (xCA6C)

250 Re: my 196 . . . MIracle of the Bells, and MacMurray was a press agent, and Sinatra played a young priest.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 10:45 AM (J2vNu)

251
I've often thought that period in America, 1820 through 1840, Peale's America, might have been the finest couple of decades to have been alive.

Don't worry, the Democrats were around back then doing everything they could to destroy it. Only now are people starting to catch on to their game.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at June 13, 2024 10:45 AM (CecP5)

252 243 Even worse; space occult lesbians. The neo-marxists are trying to defend it by the fact that the novels from the '90s had a sect of space witches already. BUuuuut, the show is portraying the Jedi as the baddies and the witches as holy, pure, just misunderstood goodies.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 13, 2024 10:43 AM (IG4Id)

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I think there's a way to portray the jedi order of the Old Republic as the baddies.

They were insular, myopic, and controlling while also growing so weak that they let Palpatine rise to power right under their nose.

Turning the jedi into bad guys doesn't irritate me. Star Wars being used as self-discovery and done poorly irritates me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 13, 2024 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

253 I made a couple inopportune blunders, verbal "gaffe" before I realized the extent of the perpetually offended. I offhandedly made some remark about a particular female being 'high maintenance' (as opposed to more capable exemplars of the female species). This remark in passing could not pass unchallenged, and I was invited to more fully explain what "high maintenance" might entail, etc. LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at June 13, 2024 10:46 AM (V8N8h)

254 The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the abortion pill mifepristone, meaning the commonly used drug can remain widely available. The court found unanimously that the group of anti-abortion doctors who questioned the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions making it easier to access the pill did not have legal standing to sue.

This means any deaths due to usage of these drugs can be laid at the feet of the SCOTUS.
Posted by: SMOD


And their estates STILL won't have legal standing to sue SCROTUS.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2024 10:46 AM (9eII4)

255 Morning.

The past had no color. Everything was literally in black and white until the 1930s and even then the color was sporadic.

Posted by: Robert at June 13, 2024 10:46 AM (PdQdn)

256 Crime has gotten so bad in New Jersey that some retail stores are going to put body cameras on employees as another deterrent for potential shoplifters.

TJX, the owners of HomeGoods, HomeSense, Marshalls, Sierra and TJ Maxx, said that not all employees would be wearing body cameras, but specifically those trained in loss prevention.

Posted by: SMOD at June 13, 2024 10:47 AM (RHGPo)

257 At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, an Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking I suggest you try it."
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2024
++++
One of the funniest performances ever put to film.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 202

***
Woody Allen?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 10:47 AM (J2vNu)

258
I'm going to make a bold, but tragic, prediction right now --

NASA's Artemis program for future landings on the Moon will have one of its craft scatter itself all over the lunar landscape because they were not keeping their eyes and minds on the only truly important goal -- safe space flights, landings, and exploration of the Moon. DEI is going to get someone killed at NASA.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 13, 2024 10:47 AM (xG4kz)

259 Turning the jedi into bad guys doesn't irritate me. Star Wars being used as self-discovery and done poorly irritates me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 13, 2024 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

I'll keep it simple.

Star Wars sucks.

Posted by: Robert at June 13, 2024 10:48 AM (PdQdn)

260 I am thinking one of the "outstanding" qualities of this painting is that it is in Black and White. We have grown accustomed to it but back then there were no media that I can think of that rendering things solely in B&W.

This was Peele's own, very unique concept. It was probably considered remarkable by the people of the time.

Posted by: pawn at June 13, 2024 10:48 AM (QB+5g)

261 Woody Allen?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Mike Myers as Dr. Evil.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 13, 2024 10:49 AM (xJpub)

262 Painting is oil on canvas. Bet it's in color, but I can only find B&W versions of it online. Wonder why...
The MET has it, but it's not on display.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 13, 2024 10:49 AM (ynpvh)

263 It remains unclear exactly why the SPLC decided to terminate so many staff. As of 2022, the center had an endowment of $731.9 million and accounts in the Cayman Islands. It seems it should be able to hold on to its employees.

“An organization with this much money has no excuse,” Hannah Gais, an SPLC Union member who apparently did not lose her job, wrote on X.


https://tinyurl.com/4jredk3k
Posted by: Archimedes


Someone is preparing to flee the country. Along with $731.9 million dollars.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2024 10:49 AM (9eII4)

264 The past had no color. Everything was literally in black and white until the 1930s and even then the color was sporadic.
Posted by: Robert


Until Dorothy brought it back from Oz.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:49 AM (v6JzV)

265 Once you got into the prequels it became pretty clear the Jedi were bad guys if not THE bad guys.

The prequels could have been much much better if they had focused on this instead of having Palpatine controlling everyone and everything.

But I don't think Lucas wanted to go in this direction he just blundered into it

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 13, 2024 10:50 AM (ibTVg)

266 Just do your research before you buy. It's Ubisoft.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor

With Cialis/Viagra/Hims, you don't have to worry about being soft when the moment is right...regardless of how your partner(s) identify!!!

Posted by: Every annoying ED ad imaginable at June 13, 2024 10:50 AM (JCZqz)

267 For the children!

California elementary teacher with blood-alcohol level at twice the legal level has charges dropped as it's "not illegal to teach drunk"

-
It does explain student achievement scores.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 13, 2024 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

268 Woody Allen?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Mike Myers as Dr. Evil.
Posted by: She Hobbit


Get in muh belly!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 13, 2024 10:51 AM (9eII4)

269 DEI is going to get someone killed at NASA.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 13, 2024 10:47 AM (xG4kz)

Well, it's been fun.

Posted by: Guys watching the Helium leak from the starliner at June 13, 2024 10:51 AM (xcIvR)

270 265 Once you got into the prequels it became pretty clear the Jedi were bad guys if not THE bad guys.

The prequels could have been much much better if they had focused on this instead of having Palpatine controlling everyone and everything.

But I don't think Lucas wanted to go in this direction he just blundered into it
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 13, 2024 10:50 AM (ibTVg)

=======

Lucas wanted to use his techno-fantasy and turn it into high art, showing the downfall of democracy to totalitarianism.

He's just...not that smart and couldn't pull it off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 13, 2024 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

271 Old masters often used the grisaille technique for the underpainting and used build up of color glazes to complete the painting.

Posted by: polynikes at June 13, 2024 10:51 AM (SHMXB)

272 I'll keep it simple.

Star Wars sucks.
Posted by: Robert

Are they trying to get Dem votes, too?

Posted by: Madonna at June 13, 2024 10:51 AM (JCZqz)

273 The point being of course, that she was objecting to the concept of "high maintenance", something not ordinarily in dispute, nor particular cause for comment in any case.

Just a wistful sigh or tacit acknowledgement by any male within earshot. Is it an "offensive" phrase? I suppose anyone can find anything offensive, so that won't work.

I think it said more about her, than anything else. Males learn at an early age that the female of the species is highly unpredictable, and dangerous. As I recall in grade school, the thinking went "If it weren't for tits and ass, there'd be a Bounty on 'em." Remarkably, we weren't suspended for Life in those days.

A few of the old battle axes left. Miss Moore was a Marine Corps veteran, a dead ringer for Miss Hathaway on Beverly Hillbillies in deportment. "I'm sure you can" she would intone "But you May Not" when asked if a bathroom break was acceptable.

But while we were then raised by women, literally - they did not try to treat us as mutant defective girl creatures.

Like they do today

Posted by: Common Tater at June 13, 2024 10:52 AM (V8N8h)

274 Not an *impossible* storyline for high fantasy w/ magic. But SW is supposed to fall into the "science fiction" category.
*
Yeah, no. The Force was always woo-woo magic even though they tried to retcon into some kind of magic virus or something.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 13, 2024

***
It's psi powers, the kind of thing John Campbell championed in Astounding in his later years. No, there's no real scientific basis for it, but that is usually considered SF rather than fantasy. And the techno trappings of SW move it into that column too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 10:52 AM (J2vNu)

275 It's psi powers
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Pounds per square inch powers? Sounds like something the Paolo would know about.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:54 AM (v6JzV)

276 The past had no color. Everything was literally in black and white until the 1930s and even then the color was sporadic.
Posted by: Robert

Until Dorothy brought it back from Oz.

And when the moms in Pleasantville discovered how to rub one out and mobs began to destroy local businesses.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 13, 2024 10:54 AM (/y8xj)

277 AP has a video, 'G7 leaders pose for photographers as they prepare to tackle global issues'

It's a hoot. JB is positioned in one spot and all other leaders must go to that spot to greet him.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 13, 2024 10:55 AM (NFX2v)

278 Did he paint it in black and white?

Posted by: Fisht at June 13, 2024 10:55 AM (BHEHK)

279 Woody Allen?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
Mike Myers as Dr. Evil.
Posted by: She Hobbit

***
Then Myers was inspired by Woody. The specifics of that speech ("a predilection for buggery"? "A Zoroastrian named Vilma"?) sound *exactly* like his writing in his short essays, and some of the speeches he gave himself in his early comic films.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 10:55 AM (J2vNu)

280
Lucas wanted to use his techno-fantasy and turn it into high art, showing the downfall of democracy to totalitarianism.


And he was trying to make Palpatine a combo of Dick Cheney and Shrub

Posted by: 18-1 at June 13, 2024 10:55 AM (ibTVg)

281 280
Lucas wanted to use his techno-fantasy and turn it into high art, showing the downfall of democracy to totalitarianism.


And he was trying to make Palpatine a combo of Dick Cheney and Shrub
Posted by: 18-1 at June 13, 2024 10:55 AM (ibTVg)

======

By III, definitely, but it should be noted that he started writing around 97, well before W and the War on Terror.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 13, 2024 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

282 I'll keep it simple.

Star Wars sucks.
Posted by: Robert

So does The Odyssey, but we're still debating that one, right?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 13, 2024 10:57 AM (IG4Id)

283 But SW is supposed to fall into the "science fiction" category.

I think that's wishful thinking by fans. It's always been fantasy. the first movie was just a fairy tale with wizards. They subbed space ships for dragons. Futuristic scientific progress wasn't really a part of it.

Posted by: take the black pill at June 13, 2024 10:57 AM (AR07F)

284 It remains unclear exactly why the SPLC decided to terminate so many staff. As of 2022, the center had an endowment of $731.9 million and accounts in the Cayman Islands. It seems it should be able to hold on to its employees.

“An organization with this much money has no excuse,” Hannah Gais, an SPLC Union member who apparently did not lose her job, wrote on X.


https://tinyurl.com/4jredk3k
Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2024 10:45 AM (xCA6C)

They're missing the whole point of the SPLC.
It is a grift, fleecing well to do liberals out of their money on the flimsiest of causes.
It is not and was never meant to be a make-work project for the masses.
Those mansions don't build themselves, but they do make work for somebody. Same with yacht builders.

The rest can pound sand.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 13, 2024 10:57 AM (FCbAQ)

285 space occult lesbians

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Funny cruel comment I can't copy, can only link.

https://shorturl.at/xCmwA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 13, 2024 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

286 Futuristic scientific progress wasn't really a part of it.
Posted by: take the black pill


Well, it was set a long time ago...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 10:58 AM (v6JzV)

287 >>>This remark in passing could not pass unchallenged, and I was invited to more fully explain what "high maintenance" might entail, etc. LOL
Posted by: Common Tater
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Inexperienced, was he.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 13, 2024 10:58 AM (K7/OQ)

288 Bet it's in color

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 13, 2024 10:49 AM (ynpvh)

I'll take that bet.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 13, 2024 10:59 AM (d9fT1)

289 BUuuuut, the show is portraying the Jedi as the baddies and the witches as holy, pure, just misunderstood goodies.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 13, 2024 10:43 AM (IG4Id)

The idea that the Jedi were the true villains in Star Wars has been around for a long time and there are a number of interesting reads on it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2024 10:59 AM (nR2nR)

290 So does The Odyssey, but we're still debating that one, right?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 13, 2024 10:57 AM (IG4Id)

The Odyssey was great.

Fight me.

Posted by: Robert at June 13, 2024 11:00 AM (PdQdn)

291 289 The idea that the Jedi were the true villains in Star Wars has been around for a long time and there are a number of interesting reads on it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2024 10:59 AM (nR2nR)

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"I AM SO ANGRY THAT THE JEDI ARE CONSIDERED THE BAD GUYS! THIS DESTROYS EVERYTHING!"
-Doomcock

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 13, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)

292 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 13, 2024 11:00 AM (v6JzV)

293 witches as holy, pure, just misunderstood goodies.

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You know. Like trannies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 13, 2024 11:01 AM (L/fGl)

294 290 The Odyssey was great.

Fight me.
Posted by: Robert at June 13, 2024 11:00 AM (PdQdn)

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It's no O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 13, 2024 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

295 I almost forgot - trash day.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 13, 2024 11:01 AM (8u1Ia)

296 John Johnston (1781-1851) was a Scot who sailed to NYC in 1804. Married a Miss Margaret Howard. He was a bookkeeper and merchant. He helped to found New York University. His son, John Taylor Johnston, helped to found the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was so much easier to do things like that back then!!!

Apparently he WAS VERY PALE and was the founder of the American Goth-Scottish Society.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at June 13, 2024 11:01 AM (LKMDZ)

297 The Odyssey was great.

Fight me.

Posted by: Robert at June 13, 2024 11:00 AM (PdQdn)

Wait...I thought the story was called the No Manessey.

Posted by: Polyphemus at June 13, 2024 11:02 AM (ibTVg)

298 Noodus simianus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 13, 2024 11:07 AM (J2vNu)

299 Dear CBD -

I don't know where else to post this so here goes: I am so sick and tired of Dirty Frank and now this Pauline person writing these disgusting "Midget strapped" posts on your art threads. I love these threads and try to read the poster's name before the comments but sometimes I get that horrid surprise. So I'm done with these art threads, alas. When I see some lovely portrait or a person-filled picture now, all I can see is my dread of some stupid commentator doing the strapped to the thigh crud.

Call me a major prude. I suppose it's warranted. But this goes way beyond Boobies! and those comments. Just destroys one's enjoyment of some awesome art.

OK, rant off. Thanks.

mac :]

Posted by: macbrooks at June 13, 2024 12:36 PM (sWzaJ)

300 300! Is he a sniper?

Posted by: m at June 13, 2024 02:20 PM (NHMTR)

301 Its not easy to sit still for Hours

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 13, 2024 05:56 PM (FLiOE)

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