Sea Cruise Open Thread

Octopus going stealth mode pic.twitter.com/HTFwkUWJGP
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) June 22, 2024

Crazy to think this is how humans explored the world for thousands of years pic.twitter.com/nD9GFYLMsR
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) June 20, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:30 PM

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1 A rookie FIRST!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 06:35 PM (JhIYV)

2 I'll fetch the others.

Thanks for the threads Ace.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 06:35 PM (JhIYV)

3 Never saw the movie but just saw the"She-Hulk" actress.
A little green paint and sheis ready for the role, no amendments or CGI needed.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (cOq4q)

4 1 A rookie FIRST!
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A nap too far.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (Jh5b+)

5 https://x.com/ClownWorld_/
status/1808873456592900114

oooh wee
oooh wee baby

Let take you on sea cruise

Make them swim home

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (ENQN6)

6 Fetched them.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (JhIYV)

7 Mostly Peaceful Memes @MostlyPeacefull Jul 4
Biden right now

https://is.gd/96UxDi
IMAGE

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:36 PM (Jh5b+)

8 So the crypt keeper is doing his free campaign ad, I mean interview now... Not gonna watch

Posted by: It's me donna at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (IyPmt)

9 Biden commits to a second debate:

(spaces, video at link)

https://x.com/LauraLoomer/
status/1809352253473714567

Posted by: Ann at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (4neFu)

10 https://x.com/ClownWorld_/
status/1808873456592900114

oooh wee
oooh wee baby

Let take you on sea cruise

Make them swim home
Posted by: rhennigantx

I didn't know Amish even did cruises.

Posted by: Miklos admits surprise at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (XIkHl)

11 Gary O @TaipanGSO 3h Replying to @zhenryaz @WallStreetSilv
If Kamala were to become POTUS, “Head of State” would have new meaning.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 16h
Her new campaign theme will be "Slightly better than a braindead guy"

LOL:
Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur Jul 4
What’s the point of forcing out Biden, if we’re going to go with Kamala? Winning is so much more important than one person’s feelings.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 16h
Diversity is more important than winning.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (Jh5b+)

12 I have years at sea, never got seasick but once. Ironically it was when the ship had a barely perceptible bow to stern roll going on. The heavy seas, no problem, but the slow pitch in calm waters had me over the rail.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (MeG8a)

13 Octopuses and their entire phylum originated off-planet.

CHANGE MY MIND

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (dDmld)

14 Wait...did people sail in ships for thousands of years?

Ummm....

Posted by: eleven at July 05, 2024 06:39 PM (fV+MH)

15 NGL, that octopus video made me hungry.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 06:39 PM (BAEGB)

16 Ananay @ananayarora Jul 4
waymo's non existent driver rolling down the window when pulled over by Phoenix PD is wild 😭

https://tinyurl.com/3dw528tb
48 seconds; self-driving car BTW

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:39 PM (Jh5b+)

17 I didn't know Amish even did cruises.
Posted by: Miklos admits surprise at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (XIkHl)

Coal fire steam sail

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:40 PM (ENQN6)

18 Any proper Sea Cruise includes panel discussions on the Lido Deck, correct?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (/nIbP)

19 Octostealth, is awesome. i miss scuba diving.

And gees. Watched all vids and here I am.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (GPtBB)

20 12 I have years at sea, never got seasick but once. Ironically it was when the ship had a barely perceptible bow to stern roll going on. The heavy seas, no problem, but the slow pitch in calm waters had me over the rail.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 06:38 PM (MeG8a)

I have had to comfort many a cabin boy at the rails.

Posted by: Capn Ned (Raging Queen) at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (ENQN6)

21 Well,yeah. I guess they did.

Posted by: eleven at July 05, 2024 06:42 PM (fV+MH)

22 Octopi are pretty amazing critters.

And yeah, it's crazy that humans sailed the oceans for thousands of years in very primitive boats by modern standards.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2024 06:42 PM (BpYfr)

23 Two things: 1- had calamari for lunch, 2- ponied up 80 bucks for an official Toyota oil change.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 05, 2024 06:42 PM (Z8Yh2)

24 Somehow the people who are saying Joe needs to step down for the good of the country, am not really persuaded they care about the good of the country. They are the same people who said he was fine and "best" Joe Biden was on display just a week ago.

I don't understand what exactly needs to happen here, and nobody else does either is what it looks like. Presidential succession is kind of interesting.

I think Bill Harrison should automatically get the nod for "Best President", because he died before taking office. April to May, 1840

Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 06:43 PM (XDSQR)

25 For a cackle see here

https://tinyurl.com/yc4dj2rx

Posted by: Ciampino - Yes Inspecteur, it was the Vice President at July 05, 2024 06:43 PM (qfLjt)

26 Hey Cannibal Bob, have any reviews from your network surfaced about Brandon's uncle?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 06:43 PM (/nIbP)

27 I have years at sea, never got seasick but once. Ironically it was when the ship had a barely perceptible bow to stern roll going on. The heavy seas, no problem, but the slow pitch in calm waters had me over the rail.
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My dad threw up in a North Atlantic storm in the crow's-nest of his Algerine Class minesweeper -- unfortunately, into the wind.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:44 PM (Jh5b+)

28 23 Two things: 1- had calamari for lunch, 2- ponied up 80 bucks for an official Toyota oil change.
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 05, 2024 06:42 PM (Z8Yh2)

I would want a jap bath and bj for that much yen.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:44 PM (ENQN6)

29 Really.. for reals. WHH is my (So many) great grandfather..

Posted by: catman at July 05, 2024 06:45 PM (4HMlb)

30 It's the last money of mine they will be getting.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 05, 2024 06:45 PM (Z8Yh2)

31 CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk 11h
President Biden told Democratic governors that he plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m. so he can get more sleep, sources say cnn.it/3VTs3TB

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7h
He’s a better president when he is asleep.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7h
Maybe Stalin only had a stutter and a cold too. Apparently, the side effects are impossible to predict.

Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar 8h
“Longtime friends of the Biden family, who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, were shocked to find that the president did not remember their names. At a White House event last year, a guest recalled, with horror, realizing that the president would not be able to stay for the reception because, it was clear, he would not be able to make it through the reception.”
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7h
It’s funnier if you say, “It’s just a cold” with a heavy Monty Python accent.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:45 PM (Jh5b+)

32 Ananay @ananayarora Jul 4
waymo's non existent driver rolling down the window when pulled over by Phoenix PD is wild 😭

https://tinyurl.com/3dw528tb
48 seconds; self-driving car BTW
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:39 PM (Jh5b+)

Johnny Cab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 06:45 PM (AiZBA)

33
I'm surprised at how fast they edited up that interview. ABC just said it'll be on at 8:30 EST.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2024 06:45 PM (lCaJd)

34
Mistah Christian!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 06:45 PM (1Nxff)

35 Sea Cruise Open Thread

! Let me grab my leather, latex, lash, and....

Oh, wait. This isn't a National Review/Bulwark cruise with Cap'n Bill Kristol and Friends? Damn.

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at July 05, 2024 06:46 PM (ycI94)

36 Thanks for all the threads, Ace! have a chill weekend!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 06:46 PM (MKEsG)

37 I can help with the editing!

Posted by: Katie Couric at July 05, 2024 06:46 PM (dDmld)

38 Hey Cannibal Bob, have any reviews from your network surfaced about Brandon's uncle?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 06:43 PM (/nIbP)

The word around the kettle is that he was cannibal by necessity not choice. Not in the right club.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 06:47 PM (GPtBB)

39 That boat footage...Columbus' ships were not even that big. It's been awhile.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 05, 2024 06:47 PM (Z8Yh2)

40 The Death of Stalin was a comedy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:48 PM (ENQN6)

41 I have asked many times if sea sickness happens every time or if you didn't get effected you were fairly safe the next time.
I only been on a ship once in a storm and was fine. Being 40 years ago n I doubt has no bearing on now

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:48 PM (fwDg9)

42 Nothing to see here. Move along.

Posted by: Undercover Octopus at July 05, 2024 06:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

43 And the comments stopped in the last thread.

Sure sign of a nood.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 06:48 PM (5p7BC)

44 As of yesterday, the actual interview was hours ago

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:48 PM (fwDg9)

45 Navigation, they used the stars to locate and fix position when they went into outer space to the moon and beyond.

Sailors of old, even landlubbers like Lewis and Clark had to make "celestial observations" that took a lot of training and practice.

This spring I found some neat benchmarks and things like that along the San Juan river goosenecks. It was actually a section marker or whatever it is called. Not for elevation. Marked 1909, it must have been an expedition in those days just to get everything surveyed accurately. Maybe they did it from the river, I suppose. Probably no roads at the time.

The Antikytheria mechanism shows that the heavens have been understood for a really long time. Not by me. If I can find the Big Dipper and the North Star, we're doing pretty well. What day is it again?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 06:49 PM (XDSQR)

46 Octopus going stealth mode

Water jet propulsion, low drag cruise configuration, eight extendable variable-size drag fins, and adaptive camouflage skin!

Aliens!

Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 06:49 PM (5fDan)

47 I have asked many times if sea sickness happens every time or if you didn't get effected you were fairly safe the next time...
Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:48 PM (fwDg9)

One gets used to it. The funny thing is that once back on land the rockin and rollin keep on going.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 06:50 PM (AiZBA)

48 How do keep all that rigging straight. Which rope goes to which sail?

Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 06:50 PM (oaGWv)

49 I was at one time immune to sea sickness until I was on opiates for chronic pain for an extended time. After I "removed the monkey" I was seasick for the first time. I think it fucked with my inner ear.

Posted by: catman at July 05, 2024 06:50 PM (4HMlb)

50 have a chill weekend!

Chill? With carrots?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (PgeR7)

51 Seasick once. On boat waiting excruciatingly long to drop over the side to dive. Long rolling swells. Coupla babes on a boat drifting near us. Hurled right at them. Impression made.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (GPtBB)

52 Don't forget the small brain in each tentacle.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (MeG8a)

53 Mistah Christian!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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SCTV ~ SWISHBUCKLER promo, 1977

https://tinyurl.com/y3xatwdr
2:12 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (Jh5b+)

54 How humans sailed the sea for thousands of years... they stuck close to the coast until Columbus had that crazy idea.
There were exceptions like lost Scandis who somehow found their ways back, but until Columbus humans stayed as close to shore as they could with few shortcuts when the know sea was fully mapped all around.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (cOq4q)

55 I love my Slymap app

Look up at night and see what is there

I wish I knew it by sight

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (ENQN6)

56 >As of yesterday, the actual interview was hours ago
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tomorrow it'll be even older
crazy, right?

Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (/7KEl)

57 >>I have years at sea, never got seasick but once. Ironically it was when the ship had a barely perceptible bow to stern roll going on. The heavy seas, no problem, but the slow pitch in calm waters had me over the rail.

Years ago I got together with a bunch of friends to go tuna fishing. You have to go about 40 miles offshore here to get into the pelagics and it was a windy, rough day.

We hadn't been together in a couple years so naturally we had to go out the night before which bled into the morning. Left the dock at 4 am and by 5 all of us had hurled. Our buddy who was driving from the fly bridge had a bucket between his legs so he didn't have to leave the wheel.

Only time I've been seasick but at least I was in good company.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 06:52 PM (LkLld)

58 How do keep all that rigging straight. Which rope goes to which sail?
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 06:50 PM (oaGWv)

There are no ropes on a boat, they're LINES! -- Pedantic Napoleon XIV

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 06:52 PM (AiZBA)

59 48 How do keep all that rigging straight. Which rope goes to which sail?
Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 06:50 PM (oaGWv)

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*ahem*

"Sheets." Those "ropes" are called sheets.

Posted by: Yer Good Capn at July 05, 2024 06:52 PM (dDmld)

60 so the octopus has a cloaking device

Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 06:52 PM (/7KEl)

61 Skip, I can say hangovers and high temps do not make one less prone to seasickness or airsickness. That's what I've heard anyway. Probably dehydration too. Being focused inside, instead of being able to observe the horizon or stable reference seems to help kick it off.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 06:53 PM (XDSQR)

62 I see Wisconsin is going to allow expanded ballot drop boxes now. Loos like Wisconsin is lost.

Posted by: InZona at July 05, 2024 06:53 PM (qz1Fg)

63 the Big Dipper

That's what she used to call me.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 05, 2024 06:53 PM (PgeR7)

64 So in the middle east US GPS is getting worthless.

Spoofs
Blocks
Dead zones

And we have no plan to replace as we have to home shothole people and give them EBT.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:53 PM (ENQN6)

65 How do keep all that rigging straight. Which rope goes to which sail?
Posted by: Tuna

Each rope had a sailor assigned to it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 05, 2024 06:54 PM (cOq4q)

66 "Sheets." Those "ropes" are called sheets.
Posted by: Yer Good Capn

Do tell

Posted by: Epstein at July 05, 2024 06:54 PM (XIkHl)

67 Octopus on finding Dory best actor

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 06:55 PM (ENQN6)

68 >>"Sheets." Those "ropes" are called sheets.

Some of them are stays.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 06:55 PM (LkLld)

69 18 Any proper Sea Cruise includes panel discussions on the Lido Deck, correct?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (/nIbP)

I have literally years on ships on the Ocean...

And have never found the Lido Deck...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 05, 2024 06:56 PM (xaFKb)

70
Belay th' scupper! Holystone th' topgallant! Poop th' orlop!

(*how'd I do?*)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 06:56 PM (1Nxff)

71 No ropes on a boat. Got to keep track of the lines.
Ropes are for hanging people.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 05, 2024 06:56 PM (4780s)

72 68 >>"Sheets." Those "ropes" are called sheets.

Some of them are stays.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 06:55 PM (LkLld)

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True. They hold up the masts.

But the lines attached to the sails are sheets.

As in, "he's three sheets to the wind."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 06:57 PM (dDmld)

73 A taped and probably heavily-edited 30 minute (or less) interview from 1 or 2 days ago is not going to convince anyone with an IQ above 75 that Joe has "turned it around" after "a bad debate."

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 05, 2024 06:57 PM (qUkBO)

74 What you gonna do with a drunken sailor?

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 06:58 PM (AiZBA)

75 Told before, took a cruise ship England to Sweden, coming back overnight was a bad storm, a buddy and me and a few ship crew were only ones not sick, buddy and me were quite drunk though

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 06:58 PM (fwDg9)

76 Keel haul the bastard.

Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 06:58 PM (v0R5T)

77 Loos like Wisconsin is lost.
Posted by: InZona

Did math on this 2 threads back. 2020 they had these drop boxes, and Biden was only able to win by 20K votes, after much late night (non dropbox) cheating in Milwaukee.

This year, they will need an extra 130K fake ballots.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 06:58 PM (5p7BC)

78 18 Any proper Sea Cruise includes panel discussions on the Lido Deck, correct?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 06:41 PM (/nIbP)

I have literally years on ships on the Ocean...

And have never found the Lido Deck...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 05, 2024 06:56 PM (xaFKb)

It's where the passengers are doing the Lido Shuffle.

Posted by: Boz Scaggs at July 05, 2024 06:59 PM (6gW4D)

79 And the comments stopped in the last thread.

Sure sign of a nood.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

lol, I warned you at #232.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 06:59 PM (JhIYV)

80 The Lido Deck is where all the action takes place in The Love Boat TV show.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 06:59 PM (dDmld)

81 Anyone ever notice a relationship with Vertigo or dizziness and their overweight or obesity? Marked improvement after losing the fat - but I still stay pretty far from cliff edges and great heights. I still love the views, but...

A few years back I went to a particularly bizarre overlook along the Colorado and I couldn't process it. They had very stout railings and the rest of it, I didn't even want to get near those even. Just made me disoriented looking at the view. When I was younger I was hopping around the hoodoos and crazy stuff like that.

Now I ruminate too much. "Geologically speaking, it's impossible... But this cliff edge I'm camped on could fall down into the valley below. Wouldn't that suck...."

Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 07:00 PM (XDSQR)

82 >>>Loos like Wisconsin is lost

Wisconsin is like a loo?

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 05, 2024 07:00 PM (xPl2J)

83 "How do keep all that rigging straight"

It's not a lie if you believe it.

Posted by: Wisconsin Supreme Court at July 05, 2024 07:00 PM (qUkBO)

84 48 How do keep all that rigging straight. Which rope goes to which sail?

Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 06:50 PM (oaGWv)

Intense on-the-job training by longtime seamen

Reading the 'Master and Commander' book series, most officers went to sea as midshipmen at a pretty young age, to learn navigation, command, gunnery, and sailing skills from long-time officers. Rookie seamen were initially assigned to deck and below deck drudge tasks while they were taught sailing and gunnery skills at the rate they could learn.

Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 07:01 PM (5fDan)

85 The Lido Deck is where all the action takes place in The Love Boat TV show.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 06:59 PM (dDmld)

Hey Jack. The poop deck is where it's at.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 05, 2024 07:01 PM (AiZBA)

86 How do keep all that rigging straight. Which rope goes to which sail?
Posted by: Tuna

Heh, heh, heh. The 'ropes'(!) are attached to the sails... you can just look at them!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 07:01 PM (JhIYV)

87 77 Loos like Wisconsin is lost.
Posted by: InZona

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It was last seen headed west, leaving a trail of cheese curds and beer through North Dakota.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 07:02 PM (dDmld)

88 >>True. They hold up the masts.

>>But the lines attached to the sails are sheets.

Yep.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 07:02 PM (LkLld)

89 *ahem*
"Sheets." Those "ropes" are called sheets.
Posted by: Yer Good Capn

Some of them are stays.
Posted by: JackStraw
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By coincidence just yesterday I watched a Doc Martin where the schoolteacher-wife had a group of kids on a sailboat getting their certification [the show is set in Cornwall] and the instructor was telling her to pull on the stays, although she didn't know how hard to pull!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7426764/

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:02 PM (Jh5b+)

90 Skip. The ship was already rolling (because drunk) and therefore, cancelled out the rolling of the ship itself.

An intriguing discovery!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 07:02 PM (XDSQR)

91 Willowed:

234 I just can't see how a party can run a man who half of their own members have already said is incompetent.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 04:35

GOP ads write themselves: one Dem legislator after another saying Biden's unfit for office.

Posted by: Philip at July 05, 2024 07:03 PM (fwIBJ)

92 Boats go on a ship. This I know. Thus endeth my nautical knowledge base.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:04 PM (6gW4D)

93 Skip. The ship was already rolling (because drunk) and therefore, cancelled out the rolling of the ship itself.

An intriguing discovery!
Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 07:02 PM (XDSQR)

They could have passed a sobriety test on that boat.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 07:04 PM (AiZBA)

94 The Robed Overlords declare open ballot box season, vote early, often or drop in a thousand, no one is looking or Care because every vote counts

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:04 PM (fwDg9)

95 Yeah, he’s Maverick and Viper tells Joker to keep send ing him up. Aaaaaaand he , in contrast forgets________________.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:04 PM (QSrLX)

96 What you gonna do with a drunken sailor?
Posted by: Napoleon XIV
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There was another recent Doc Martin where the grade school choir was singing that for Pirates Day. [It is Cornwall, after all.]

I sang along with them!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:05 PM (Jh5b+)

97 "Sheets." Those "ropes" are called sheets.

Some of them are stays.
Posted by: JackStraw

belay that

Posted by: Cap'm Miklos and the One eyed Dog at July 05, 2024 07:05 PM (XIkHl)

98 >>>Loos like Wisconsin is lost

Wisconsin is like a loo?
Posted by: Mark1971

Don't let MisHum hear/see you imply that!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (JhIYV)

99 STARBOARD!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (81wK+)

100 92 Boats go on a ship. This I know. Thus endeth my nautical knowledge base.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:04 PM (6gW4D)

???

Posted by: Submarine officers and seamen at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (5fDan)

101 What you gonna do with a drunken sailor?
Posted by: Napoleon XIV
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There was another recent Doc Martin where the grade school choir was singing that for Pirates Day. [It is Cornwall, after all.]

I sang along with them!
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:05 PM (Jh5b+)

It is impossible not to sing along to that tune.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (AiZBA)

102 ROOM AT THE MARK!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (81wK+)

103 "Hey Steph, you wanna know when Beau died? Because I can tell you."

-- The Cadaver-in-Chief

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (dDmld)

104 FUCK YOU SENATOR KENNEDY!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:07 PM (81wK+)

105 MAST ABEAM!

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 07:07 PM (AiZBA)

106 This election season is a shitshow. Our nation is truly screwed!

Posted by: Unkaren at July 05, 2024 07:07 PM (2nlEB)

107 Col. Klinck says cut the blue wire.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:07 PM (QSrLX)

108 what is happening

Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 07:08 PM (/7KEl)

109 @45, yeah, I love finding benchmarks out in the middle of nowhere; USGS, Corps of Engineers are commonest out in real wilderness.
ones near roads are often state DOT, at least around here.

not all those who wander are lost.

but if one were, a nice benchmark and even rudimentary navigation could put one back on track.

a few years ago I bought a dozen little 1/2" diameter compasses like they used to hide inside uniform buttons, just a little needle in a housing; I have one in just about every hiking pack and jacket pocket as a layer of fallback under the just-in-case clause.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 07:08 PM (MKEsG)

110 FUCK YOU SENATOR KENNEDY!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:07 PM (81wK+)

YEAH! What nurse said !!!!

Uh, why this time?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:08 PM (GPtBB)

111 You don't Hawk Tuah into the wind
And you don't mess around with Jim.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:08 PM (6gW4D)

112 what is happening
Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 07:08 PM (/7KEl)

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I haven't had a clue since Obama took office.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 07:08 PM (dDmld)

113
GOP ads write themselves: one Dem legislator after another saying Biden's unfit for office.
Posted by: Philip

And another set of ads showing which dim Dem says Brandon isn't a demented dimwit.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 07:09 PM (JhIYV)

114 Wisconsin is like a loo?

Thought that was San Francisco these days

Posted by: or Denver, or most of Canada at July 05, 2024 07:09 PM (gKWVE)

115 Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 07:01

Just watching the movie "Master and Commander"
Now. But I'm posting because I didn't want to see one of the seamen got flogged

Great movie and great series,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 07:09 PM (s2uvR)

116 Every presidential campaign year is a shitshow

America at its worst

Posted by: Don Black at July 05, 2024 07:09 PM (/7KEl)

117 This “cadaver” in office saying was what Rush Limbaugh used to say about US Senator from California Alan Cranston. Good times.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:09 PM (QSrLX)

118 Don't forget the small brain in each tentacle.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM

Sadly, men only have enough blood to supply and operate one brain at at time.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 07:10 PM (/nIbP)

119 STARBOARD!
Posted by: nurse ratched

PORT wine is RED and if I had any I'd only have a little bit LEFT.

STARBOARD is the other side.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 05, 2024 07:11 PM (JhIYV)

120 ???
Posted by: Submarine officers and seamen at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (5fDan)

Subs are boats. As in WWII pig boats.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:11 PM (6gW4D)

121 Now. But I'm posting because I didn't want to see one of the seamen got flogged

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Onboard, usually it's the chicken that gets flogged.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 05, 2024 07:11 PM (dDmld)

122 GOP ads write themselves: one Dem legislator after another saying Biden's unfit for office.
Posted by: Philip at July 05, 2024 07:03 PM (fwIBJ)

Nonsense! That's Not Who We Are!

We're gonna stage a fake massacre and then run on gun rights!

And if that don't work.... Abortion!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 07:12 PM (BAEGB)

123 Just listened to the ABC interview preview. They are going to claim it is a homerun.

It isn't.

He is able to string sentences together, but the meaning behind them is nonsense.

I think this is the best outcome possible for us. It keeps him in the race, doesn't quell any criticism, keeps the donors on the sidelines, and the state of the race continues its slow slide in Trump's direction.

Much better for us to have them boil the frog slowly.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:12 PM (5p7BC)

124 So….interview drinking game? Medically supervised?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:13 PM (QSrLX)

125 Holly Toledo, most carnivals are more sophisticated. Just don't have any nukes.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 05, 2024 07:13 PM (J8LnB)

126 Doc Martin is still on?

Good gravy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 07:14 PM (BAEGB)

127 but no kidding, if you can find the Big Dipper and the North Star, you're doing better than a whole helluva lot of people these days; even slaves back in the day knew the song about "follow the drinkin' gourd".
(we sang that song in grade school, lol)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 07:14 PM (MKEsG)

128
Boats go on a ship. This I know. Thus endeth my nautical knowledge base.
Posted by: Count de Monet

But they call a submarine a boat.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 07:14 PM (63Dwl)

129 >>By coincidence just yesterday I watched a Doc Martin where the schoolteacher-wife had a group of kids on a sailboat getting their certification [the show is set in Cornwall] and the instructor was telling her to pull on the stays, although she didn't know how hard to pull!

My best friends son was on the team that built American Magic, America's Cup yacht. I've been sailing all my life but that thing is like a space ship compared to what I sailed. I'd have to learn a whole new way to sail on one of those things.

https://tinyurl.com/h7p5r24j

Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 07:14 PM (LkLld)

130 Just roll Jake Blues at gunpoint.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:15 PM (QSrLX)

131 If this Biden* interview is so critical, why did they schedule it to air on a Friday night the day after a major holiday?

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 05, 2024 07:15 PM (qUkBO)

132 Don't forget the small brain in each tentacle.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM

Sadly, men only have enough blood to supply and operate one brain at at time.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2024 07:10 PM (/nIbP)

Only under ideal and optimum conditions. Even that is debatable.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:15 PM (6gW4D)

133 Stringing nonsensical sentences together is the fons et origo of the Democrat Party.

Biden should be fine.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 07:15 PM (BAEGB)

134 Been away most of the day, what will be released tonight, the full interview or a portion?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 05, 2024 07:16 PM (2NHgQ)

135 JOE BIDEN IS BACK, BABY!

Posted by: ABC News at July 05, 2024 07:16 PM (dDmld)

136 My buddy once explained to me that the difference between ships and boats is that ships are targets.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (BAEGB)

137 "GOP ads write themselves: one Dem legislator after another saying Biden's unfit for office."

Which we'll only be able to watch on X and Truth because the Corrupt Media and Facebook won't allow them to be aired. "Misinformation" or something.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (qUkBO)

138 But they call a submarine a boat.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 07:14 PM (63Dwl)

Before missile boats and nuke boats, they were a lot smaller.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (6gW4D)

139 Been away most of the day, what will be released tonight, the full interview or a portion?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 05, 2024 07:16 PM (2NHgQ)

Every other sentence with uuuuuuhmmmm in between.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (GPtBB)

140 @119

the rubric I learned long ago associated the length of the words:
red - port - left
green - starboard - right

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (MKEsG)

141 The comeback kid comes back, Jack!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (63Dwl)

142 Billy Budd is a good if sad movie on sailing ship

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:18 PM (fwDg9)

143 110 FUCK YOU SENATOR KENNEDY!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:07 PM (81wK+)

YEAH! What nurse said !!!!

Uh, why this time?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at

Sailboat racing on the Cape. Beautiful boat. He's as much a jackass on the water as he was in the senate.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:18 PM (81wK+)

144 73
'not going to convince anyone with an IQ above 75 '

That still gets the democrats 90% of their votes.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 05, 2024 07:18 PM (3wi/L)

145 Before missile boats and nuke boats, they were a lot smaller.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (6gW4D)

Takes a lot less oomph to fire a torpedo at an Ironside than it does to huck a rocket halfway around the planet.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 05, 2024 07:18 PM (BAEGB)

146 Every other sentence with uuuuuuhmmmm in between.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:17 PM (GPtBB)

Wait a sec. That's Obama's schtick.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 07:18 PM (AiZBA)

147 Good gravy.
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No, I was watching repeats.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:19 PM (Jh5b+)

148 ???
Posted by: Submarine officers and seamen at July 05, 2024 07:06 PM (5fDan)

Subs are boats. As in WWII pig boats.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:11 PM (6gW4D)

Something taught to me by my mom and dad since I was a wee lad. Dad was on subs since 1937. He once told me Das Boot was the most realistic sub movie he had seen.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 07:19 PM (W/lyH)

149 Sailboat racing on the Cape. Beautiful boat. He's as much a jackass on the water as he was in the senate.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:18 PM (81wK+)

Got. Semen. Not seaman.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:19 PM (GPtBB)

150 Did Hunter fire the staff because that might explain

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (QSrLX)

151 Question for the Horde:
Do people send fraudulent letters pretending to be from the IRS?
My 19 year old son got one saying his return was filed wrong. He used Turbo Tax, paid what he owed (no quibble about him owing money) and was signed by a Mr. Petru

Posted by: Jmel at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (bVhJi)

152 Got it. Gees.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (GPtBB)

153 ABC and Byedum campaign has promised a 15 minute interview. Whatever they show will be the absolute best they have. Remember that as all the talking heads are spinning their careers away.

Posted by: tbodie, Lurker. Unless you are reading this at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (OOnTd)

154
>>the rubric I learned long ago associated the length of the words:
red - port - left
green - starboard - right

Viking ships had a steering board on the right, rear side of their ship. It protruded so the boats landed in port on a dock on the left side.

Starboard - Port.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (LkLld)

155 How humans sailed the sea for thousands of years... they stuck close to the coast until Columbus had that crazy idea.
There were exceptions like lost Scandis who somehow found their ways back, but until Columbus humans stayed as close to shore as they could with few shortcuts when the know sea was fully mapped all around.

There is plenty of evidence that not only Vikings, but a millennia before them Roman soldiers crossed the Atlantic and explored deep into the North American continent.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (rHxhM)

156 My best friends son was on the team that built American Magic, America's Cup yacht. I've been sailing all my life but that thing is like a space ship compared to what I sailed. I'd have to learn a whole new way to sail on one of those things.

I don't believe those boats are real. They're another hoax by the people who brought us the "moon landings".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (xCA6C)

157 134 Been away most of the day, what will be released tonight, the full interview or a portion?
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I think a portion with the full airing on Sunday. [Preplanned questions/answers; heavily edited with multiple 'takes' etc.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (Jh5b+)

158 Barry Diller announced that he will no longer donate to Biden.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (5p7BC)

159 115 Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2024 07:01

Just watching the movie "Master and Commander"
Now. But I'm posting because I didn't want to see one of the seamen got flogged

Great movie and great series,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 07:09 PM (s2uvR)

Alert - Master and Commander spoiler below -

The movie is a combination of plots and vignettes from of several of the books in the series. It is not a film representation of the first book in the Aubrey/Maturin series, "Master and Commander"

Posted by: Submarine officers and seamen at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (5fDan)

160 Tuna,
I had a however-many-greats grandfather who was a seaman on a whaler pre Civil War, and I've inherited his needles. They are made of wood, almost a foot long, plus one like a ruler that looks like the shuttle of a loom.

Posted by: Wenda at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (4GhzG)

161 In a sailboat race, boat with their mainsail on the starboard side has the right of way.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:22 PM (81wK+)

162 It’s got to be AI especially if the Clinton Obama, “Besides it’s all your fault,” has not yet been deployed.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 05, 2024 07:22 PM (QSrLX)

163 "Take Seven!"

"Good evening Mr. President."

"Goo mooning, buschevemut. Oh dang."

"Cut!"

Posted by: Interview with an Idiot at July 05, 2024 07:23 PM (qUkBO)

164
Roman soldiers crossed the Atlantic and explored deep into the North American continent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (rHxhM)

___________

"Chicago? What kind of name is that? Let's go home."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2024 07:23 PM (1Nxff)

165 All of the Tiki Torches have been set up, the deck chairs are appointed, going to have a low-key pool party to kick off the pool opening.

Got a late start, but I am intent on making up for it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 05, 2024 07:23 PM (XV/Pl)

166 Call the IRS independently of whatever phone number came on the letter to verify if it is genuine.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 05, 2024 07:24 PM (MeG8a)

167 Roman soldiers crossed the Atlantic and explored deep into the North American continent.

And thus, Little Italy was born.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2024 07:24 PM (xCA6C)

168 Something taught to me by my mom and dad since I was a wee lad. Dad was on subs since 1937. He once told me Das Boot was the most realistic sub movie he had seen.
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Das Boobs Part 1 - SCTV

https://tinyurl.com/mv57b7ut
6:21 minutes; one of the NBC ones so it's two parts

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:24 PM (Jh5b+)

169 Posted by: Submarine officers and seamen at July 05, 2024 07:21 PM (5fDan)

I read the book about 20 years ago so I don't recall all of the bits. I'm still enjoying it, however.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 07:24 PM (ZXzgl)

170 Do people send fraudulent letters pretending to be from the IRS?
My 19 year old son got one saying his return was filed wrong. He used Turbo Tax, paid what he owed (no quibble about him owing money) and was signed by a Mr. Petru
Posted by: Jmel

Yes they do but the IRS will send you a letter if there was something wrong with a return. Usually because they want you to pay more. I'd call your local IRS office on Monday and double check.

Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 07:24 PM (oaGWv)

171 158 Barry Diller announced that he will no longer donate to Biden.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

ALL IS WELL

Posted by: Chip at July 05, 2024 07:25 PM (gKWVE)

172 Something taught to me by my mom and dad since I was a wee lad. Dad was on subs since 1937. He once told me Das Boot was the most realistic sub movie he had seen.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 07:19 PM (W/lyH)

Respect to your Dad for serving and to your Mom for waiting on his return.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:25 PM (6gW4D)

173 In a sailboat race, boat with their mainsail on the starboard side has the right of way.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:22 PM (81wK+)

I'm not refuting the nurse but, starboard tack is when the wind is coming from starboard which means the main is on the port side.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 05, 2024 07:25 PM (AiZBA)

174 >>I don't believe those boats are real. They're another hoax by the people who brought us the "moon landings".

The inaugural event is in Barcelona. The boat was built here in RI right up the bay. Completely custom, everything purpose built. I forget how much it cost but it was well into 8 figures. When it was finished they trucked it to TF Green Airport in Warwick and hired one of those old Russia cargo planes to fly it to Spain.

It takes some serious coin to play that game.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 07:25 PM (LkLld)

175 Starboard > Port.

Too soon?

Posted by: Key Bridge at July 05, 2024 07:25 PM (qUkBO)

176 David Axelrod - "I don't know that it's going to relieve anyone ... it seemed a little disjointed ... nothing about that brief clip in the interview that would give people confidence."

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 05, 2024 07:26 PM (5p7BC)

177 According to my TVs guide screen the interview is on ABC in 34 minutes. (8pm EST)

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (63Dwl)

178 Do people send fraudulent letters pretending to be from the IRS?
My 19 year old son got one saying his return was filed wrong. He used Turbo Tax, paid what he owed (no quibble about him owing money) and was signed by a Mr. Petru
Posted by: Jmel at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (bVhJi)

Maybe, the IRS doesn't call they send letters (state revenue is some states do call)

The letter should have an ID number. Look the IRS number up in a phone book or from the IRS website, and call to ask

turbo tax is notoriously lax about taxes, they don't really care. Also check with the state revenue to make sure there is not any problems as well, sometimes TurboTax doesn't get the state return mailed and no one notices for a couple of years.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (D7oie)

179 I'm not refuting the nurse but, starboard tack is when the wind is coming from starboard which means the main is on the port side.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV

You are absolutely correct.

I am three sheets to the wind.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (81wK+)

180 Tuna,
I had a however-many-greats grandfather who was a seaman on a whaler pre Civil War, and I've inherited his needles. They are made of wood, almost a foot long, plus one like a ruler that looks like the shuttle of a loom.
Posted by: Wenda

Wow. It must be amazing to touch something that an actual ancestor used 100+ years ago.

Posted by: Tuna at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (oaGWv)

181 The port breast is usually a little larger than the starboard breast.

Posted by: Count de Monet, nautical lore at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (6gW4D)

182 Any port in a storm. Thus ends my nautical knowledge.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (xpCR0)

183 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at July 05, 2024 07:28 PM (P+D4R)

184 Question for the Horde:
Do people send fraudulent letters pretending to be from the IRS?
My 19 year old son got one saying his return was filed wrong. He used Turbo Tax, paid what he owed (no quibble about him owing money) and was signed by a Mr. Petru
Posted by: Jmel at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (bVhJi)

Also check the envelope. Is it a government envelope?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 07:28 PM (W/lyH)

185 This election season is a shitshow. Our nation is truly screwed!
Posted by: Unkaren
.......

The show must go on.

Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 07:29 PM (v0R5T)

186 The Robed Overlords declare open ballot box season, vote early, often or drop in a thousand, no one is looking or Care because every vote counts

Or Honor System voting. Unfortunately the "elected" people we are trying to banish from office have no honor.

And the country has decidedly slid into the typical low trust society model where it is expected that people lie, cheat and steal because their is no moral conscience to act in a manner that is inconsistent with immediate lusts.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 05, 2024 07:29 PM (rHxhM)

187 If keeping Joe under wraps was the plan, the spell has been broken. I watched some of the after action reports and the press was not happy, this was not some grand strategy insofar as they aren't that good at acting. I think they saw the potential for replacement, but they are dimly aware that this ain't as easy as it sounds. The press is being reactive here, not proactive?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 07:29 PM (XDSQR)

188 ZOD!

*scurries to pinch cheeks, floof hair, smooth dress*

*curtsies*.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:30 PM (81wK+)

189 Blow me down! Thus ends my nautical knowledge.

Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at July 05, 2024 07:30 PM (5fDan)

190 You are absolutely correct.

I am three sheets to the wind.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (81wK+)

Well, I like the cut of your jib!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:31 PM (GPtBB)

191 Respect to your Dad for serving and to your Mom for waiting on his return.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2024 07:25 PM (6gW4D)

They were a good couple. Both were at Pearl Harbor along with my oldest brother who was in diapers then. (I came along real late.)

Posted by: Diogenes at July 05, 2024 07:31 PM (W/lyH)

192 Tuna,
Yes. I have them framed. No idea why I'm the lucky one who inherited them, and I hope one of my kids/grandkids value them properly.

Posted by: Wenda at July 05, 2024 07:31 PM (4GhzG)

193 Working from home=early happy hour.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:31 PM (81wK+)

194 Joe Biden and Son
Specializing in custom governmental solutions.
Monday to Friday - 10 am to 4 pm
Note: Lunch/Nap time daily from 12 pm to 2 pm

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 07:31 PM (RUmyk)

195 151 Question for the Horde:
Do people send fraudulent letters pretending to be from the IRS?
My 19 year old son got one saying his return was filed wrong. He used Turbo Tax, paid what he owed (no quibble about him owing money) and was signed by a Mr. Petru
Posted by: Jmel at July 05, 2024 07:20 PM (bVhJi)

Do not type in web address
Do not enter data
Call and ask
Do you know last 4 of SS

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 05, 2024 07:31 PM (ENQN6)

196 I thought Das Boot was the most boring thing I ever saw, no matter how realistic. Submarine duty must suck, I don't remember the movie

Posted by: Common Tater at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (XDSQR)

197 Peg legs and eyepatches.
This sailing must be dangerous business.

Posted by: wth at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (v0R5T)

198 The movie is a combination of plots and vignettes from of several of the books in the series. It is not a film representation of the first book in the Aubrey/Maturin series, "Master and Commander"
Posted by: Submarine officers and seamen
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The book series is superior to the movie, IMHO.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (XeU6L)

199 @166, this

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (MKEsG)

200 sometimes the IRS wants better documentation, so be prepared to dig that out too.
If there is an IRS change in the tax return the state one will be changed automatically so once your kid is done with the IRS he gets to do it all over again with the IRS. this is the secondary value of providing all the proof the IRS needs to show that he and not the IRS is correct in the tax return.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (D7oie)

201 nood café

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (Jh5b+)

202 >>161 In a sailboat race, boat with their mainsail on the starboard side has the right of way.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:22 PM (81wK+)

This is (mostly) correct. The boat that takes the first windward tack 'wins' the tack until the leeward boat gains the wind.

Mutated.

Posted by: ZOD at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (P+D4R)

203 LeCAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (fwDg9)

204 Working from home=early happy hour.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Now see?

We can have nice things.

Posted by: Miklos has implemented this policy at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (XIkHl)

205 02 >>161 In a sailboat race, boat with their mainsail on the starboard side has the right of way.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:22 PM (81wK+)

This is (mostly) correct. The boat that takes the first windward tack 'wins' the tack until the leeward boat gains the wind.

Mutated.
Posted by: ZOD at July 05, 2024 07:32 PM (P+D4R)

Waht if they have cannons?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 05, 2024 07:33 PM (GPtBB)

206 Blow me down! Thus ends my nautical knowledge.
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton

All men aft!

Posted by: Mayo Pete at July 05, 2024 07:33 PM (v0R5T)

207 Captains Courageous is the best sailing book . The movie is good too though they changed it up a bit.

Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 07:35 PM (SHMXB)

208 Tarnation. Seen bugs on my windshield with better sense.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at July 05, 2024 07:36 PM (J8LnB)

209 A proper sailboat has a V-8 and a sea otter. Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 05, 2024 07:37 PM (RUmyk)

210 America's Cup boats have always been pretty far-out machines; back 40 years ago when I lived in Chi there was one on the Lake: every year, Mackinac Race, first to arrive ... but the handicaps on her were so big there was no way she could ever actually win the race.
I can NOT remember the name ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 05, 2024 07:37 PM (MKEsG)

211 Nood cafe

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 05, 2024 07:38 PM (u82oZ)

212 54 How humans sailed the sea for thousands of years... they stuck close to the coast until Columbus had that crazy idea.
There were exceptions like lost Scandis who somehow found their ways back, but until Columbus humans stayed as close to shore as they could with few shortcuts when the know sea was fully mapped all around.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 05, 2024 06:51 PM (cOq4q)

You’ve got to add the Polynesians in there somewhere. Not only did they not stick to the coasts they colonized most of the Pacific and some scholars think they made it all the way to Chile.

All that in little more than glorified dugout canoes and catarmarans. Much props.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 05, 2024 07:38 PM (6ydKt)

213 68 >>"Sheets." Those "ropes" are called sheets.

Some of them are stays.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 06:55 PM (LkLld)
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"Belay those stays" is a thing, right?

Posted by: Ciampino - Yes Inspecteur, it was an actual sailing ship at July 05, 2024 07:39 PM (qfLjt)

214 I recently watched the IMOCA for the race in Manhattan Bay . I have to admit it was very interesting and exciting and I’m not a sailor.

Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2024 07:41 PM (SHMXB)

215
[Klaxon sounds]

Rig for collision!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2024 07:41 PM (XeU6L)

216 I’ve been wading through the Aubrey Maturin book series. The quarterdeck is the place to be.

A sailors life was difficult even in good weather.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 05, 2024 07:41 PM (zOtcE)

217 turbo tax is notoriously lax about taxes, they don't really care. Also check with the state revenue to make sure there is not any problems as well, sometimes TurboTax doesn't get the state return mailed and no one notices for a couple of years.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (D7oie)
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I had the state contact me about unpaid taxes once. But then I sent them the bank statement showing they cashed the check. Never heard from them again.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2024 07:42 PM (BpYfr)

218 "Sheets." Those "ropes" are called sheets.

Some of them are stays.

Posted by: JackStraw
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Halyards, stays and lines enter the chat.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2024 07:43 PM (XeU6L)

219
Dammit! No one talks about me anymore.

Posted by: Hawsers at July 05, 2024 07:44 PM (XeU6L)

220 I'm glad all my ancestors who sailed that way made it to their one particular harbor.
I always wanted to be a sailor, just couldn't stomach the uniform.
Had a promise of a job once in Savannah as a Shrimper, when the boat got back. They're still missing.
I left for the desert.

Posted by: Reforger at July 05, 2024 07:44 PM (xcIvR)

221 >>Halyards, stays and lines enter the chat.

Don't forget guys.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 07:45 PM (LkLld)

222 A sailors life was difficult even in good weather.
Posted by: Pete Bog
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It's remarkable that anyone who did not *have* to do it, went to sea.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2024 07:46 PM (XeU6L)

223 Had a promise of a job once in Savannah as a Shrimper, when the boat got back. They're still missing.
I left for the desert.
Posted by: Reforger
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I know of a shrimper that caught fire, and went down in Calibogue sound. A rescuer who dived got caught in the rigging and drowned.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2024 07:48 PM (XeU6L)

224 I am three sheets to the wind.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 05, 2024 07:27 PM (81wK+)

Close hauled?

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 05, 2024 07:49 PM (zOtcE)

225 4000 years ago a Chinese junk floundered on a beach at the top of the North Island New Zealand. It's still there buried in the sand. Europeans arrived in NZ at least 2000 years ago. 1300 years before the documented arrival of moari.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at July 05, 2024 08:06 PM (m62GY)

226 signing in

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 05, 2024 08:22 PM (Jh5b+)

227 It's really amazing listening to the media, they are openly pulling for Democrats against Trump. Not even a hint of objectivity.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2024 08:25 PM (LkLld)

228 I wonder what Steffy really thought and whether he's telling anyone that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (oUxZc)

229 Posted wrong place. Sorry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2024 09:10 PM (oUxZc)

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