Mid-Morning Art Thread

Bonjour Monsieur Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 I first for vengeance!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 14, 2024 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

3 "YOU DREW FIRST BLOOD"

coming soon.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Assault beard!

Posted by: The Insignificance Of The Passage Of gp at August 14, 2024 09:31 AM (DvCQ+)

5 His beard has quite the erection.

*giggle*
*snort*

Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 14, 2024 09:31 AM (htA5W)

6 Howdy pilgtim!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 14, 2024 09:31 AM (hOUT3)

7 Hi ya.

Posted by: BignJames at August 14, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

8 WTF is happening here?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 14, 2024 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

9 Pointy stick.

Posted by: pawn at August 14, 2024 09:31 AM (QB+5g)

10 Beardy seems douche-esque.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

11 curses (sotto voce)!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 14, 2024 09:31 AM (hOUT3)

12 Dog, therefore art.

Boring art, but still art.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:31 AM (v6JzV)

13 His dog up and died.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (FmapG)

14 French Mormons.

Posted by: BignJames at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (AwYPR)

15 "How much for the dog and the depressed manservant?"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (jdHxK)

16 And all these lands now belong to you dear migrant.

Posted by: Kier Stermer at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (Y8lzz)

17 This has all the makings of a Monty Python short.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

18 Dogs make every painting better.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

19 Hello good sir!

Have you given thought to thine automobile's extended warrenty?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (q7hip)

20 That's quite the backpack. I bet he could update it and some decent hiking boots at REI.

Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (htA5W)

21 Bonjour Monsieur Courbet,

Do you perchance happen to have some Grey Poupon?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (2KFCy)

22 Let's stand in the shadow of this tree, and make this poor traveler stand in the sun on this repressively hot day.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (w9Wax)

23 Artist Gustave Courbet
Year 1854
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 129 cm × 149 cm (4 x 5)
Location Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

24 Notice doggie is standing up wind from this trio. Good idea.

Posted by: Pepe LePew at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (CV8a5)

25 It's got a dog, but it's still a long way from art.

Posted by: spindrift at August 14, 2024 09:33 AM (OguvZ)

26 The guy on the right would look so much cuter without that beard.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 14, 2024 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

27 Hey, my great grandpappy from the Old Country. Jacques Pépin de Pomme!

Posted by: Johnny Appleseed at August 14, 2024 09:33 AM (JCZqz)

28 Which one is Courbet?

Posted by: dantesed at August 14, 2024 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)

29 ... and his humble manservant, Jeeves.

Just ask him.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 14, 2024 09:34 AM (2KFCy)

30 Dude on the right: "You call that a stick?!"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2024 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)

31 Don't you point your beard at me, sirrah, or my associate shall raise a lump on your head with his fine brass walloping stick.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 14, 2024 09:34 AM (U7wke)

32 Why is this dude wearing spats?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:34 AM (q7hip)

33 I like the random horse and carriage thrown in there for good measure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

34 "Trust me, my beard has never failed to point the way to riches."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2024 09:34 AM (jdHxK)

35 At least no man-buns.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 14, 2024 09:34 AM (bNf8H)

36 The painting is inspired by a popular print engraved by Pierre Leloup du Mans in 1831, named The bourgeois of the city talking to the wandering Jew.

I saw the Wandering Jews open for the Talking Heads at the TCCC in 1985.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 14, 2024 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

37 Huh. It's French, but there are are no labor protests, wilding hordes of border-jumpers or fashionable people in ugly clothes on a small cafe patio. If I couldn't recognize the French language, I'd never even know it was supposed to be France.

Do better, Monsieur Courbet. Be better.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 09:35 AM (HnUIn)

38 Long after Courbet died, some art prankster added that beard as a joke. (I can tell by looking at the pixels.) Maybe Banksy.

Posted by: The Insignificance Of The Passage Of gp at August 14, 2024 09:35 AM (DvCQ+)

39 Doggie says, "There's bacon in that backpack. I know it!"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 14, 2024 09:35 AM (PiwSw)

40 Dog is the most interesting thing in the picture

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2024 09:36 AM (oqcgA)

41 Men back then, and even now, are often enamored with their beards. Me, its just fucking hair that I shave off regularly, and I don't hold a going away party for the stubble as I wash it down the sink.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 14, 2024 09:36 AM (pohLc)

42 I figure the two gentlemen just got off the coach that is leaving. This is some prearranged meeting. Dog is probably with Beardo.

Posted by: pawn at August 14, 2024 09:36 AM (QB+5g)

43 Clearly, Monsieur Courbet is a vampire hunter.

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 14, 2024 09:36 AM (i0CiB)

44 Jacques, shall we plant lines of trees here, so the Germans can march in the shade?

Posted by: Goosesteppin' Away... at August 14, 2024 09:36 AM (CV8a5)

45 Bonjour Monsieur Courbet. Would you have any Laura Prepon?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 14, 2024 09:36 AM (q2NNn)

46 Wonder why men quit wearing hats everywhere.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:37 AM (q7hip)

47 "It is on this blessed site that Bernardo and I shall build a McDonalds franchise."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2024 09:37 AM (jdHxK)

48
Dog, therefore art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2024 09:37 AM (1Nxff)

49 "Backcountry Permit!? I don't need no backcountry permit. F U!"

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 09:37 AM (cMU4o)

50 I do like the formality of the greeting. Hats off, open body language. Respectful and agreeable.

Now people don't even look each other in the eye.

Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 14, 2024 09:38 AM (htA5W)

51 Wonder why men quit wearing hats everywhere.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:37 AM (q7hip)

Baseball caps. Backwards. Wearing sunglasses. Using their hand to shade their eyes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

52 "I surrender!"

"I surrendered first!"

"Nuh uh, it was me. Tell him, Jean Pierre Jean Pierre."

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 14, 2024 09:38 AM (hCxGu)

53 For some reason, the dude on the left reminds me of one of my favorite terrible army manual covers.

https://tinyurl.com/5n852r7k

I guess he has a similar expression and head-tilt as the guy on the left of the cover image.

Posted by: Military Moron at August 14, 2024 09:38 AM (JCZqz)

54 I dig the early mobile home in the background.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2024 09:38 AM (Q4IgG)

55
Now people don't even look each other in the eye.
Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 14, 2024 09:38 AM (htA5W)

Crips and Bloods initiations ruined all that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

56 Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 14, 2024 09:32 AM (2KFCy)

*shakes fist* Ya beat me to it. *sotto voice* well played!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 14, 2024 09:38 AM (q2NNn)

57 50
Now people don't even look each other in the eye.

Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 14, 2024 09:38 AM (htA5W

In all fairness, her rack was amazing.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:39 AM (q7hip)

58 46 Wonder why men quit wearing hats everywhere.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:37 AM (q7hip)

I wear a fedora in winter, and woven sun helmet in summer. But I am old fashioned. Some things improve as time passes, some do not.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 14, 2024 09:39 AM (pohLc)

59 46 I blame J eFfingK for that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:39 AM (v6JzV)

60 The guy on the far left is thinking why I'm following this idiot.

Posted by: dantesed at August 14, 2024 09:39 AM (Oy/m2)

61 Dude in the brown coat looks exhausted. Dude with the backpack looks rarin' to go.

In my mind, the guy with the backback is just setting out and the other two are finishing a long trek. The dude with the backback just informed them that the village up ahead doesn't have an inn, so they had better get ready to set up camp. Also, it's probably going to rain tonight. It's the rainy season, after all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 09:39 AM (HnUIn)

62 Wonder why men quit wearing hats everywhere.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:37 AM (q7hip)
********
Wonder why men quit using walking sticks.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 14, 2024 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

63 This is my BOOM stick.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2024 09:40 AM (VwHCD)

64 Valderee, valderah, valderahahahaha.

Posted by: huerfano at August 14, 2024 09:40 AM (VGOMa)

65 All three dudes have a stick. Dog wants a stick too. Do they give the dog a stick? Nooooo.

Posted by: The Insignificance Of The Passage Of gp at August 14, 2024 09:40 AM (DvCQ+)

66 "My good sir, I am not a toff, but a dandy."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2024 09:40 AM (jdHxK)

67 I wave my hat to all I meet,
And they wave back to me,
And blackbirds call so loud and sweet
From ev'ry green wood tree.

Val-deri, Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-deri, Val-dera.
My knapsack on my back.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Wandering Happily at August 14, 2024 09:41 AM (q2NNn)

68 "Nuthin' beats a fine piece of hickory."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

69 Our hats we doff
To General Joffre

Posted by: spindrift at August 14, 2024 09:41 AM (OguvZ)

70
Wonder why men quit wearing hats everywhere.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:37 AM

men should wear hats

think about when society started down the slippery slope: it was about the time men's hats went out of vouge

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 14, 2024 09:42 AM (bEb2S)

71 Nuthin' beats like a fine piece of hickory."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
Fixed it for you.

Posted by: Irish beat cop, thumping his nightstick menacingly at August 14, 2024 09:42 AM (HnUIn)

72 The evolution of backpacks revolutionized hiking. Generations of Boy Scouts carried canvas packs with shoulder straps, or "Trapper Nelson" style packboards.

All of the weight is carried on the shoulders. This is quickly very tiring. Improvements started small, with the addition of a thin waist strap. In the 1960s, with the widespread adoption of Nylon, gear makers settled on elaborately padded and wrap-around waist belt, which moves the weight bearing or center of gravity centered on the waist, and only a small part carried on the shoulders.

Backpacking would never have become a hobby without this. I preferred Jansport backpacks, though Kelty and Trailwise were very, very good.

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 09:42 AM (cMU4o)

73 Posted by: huerfano at August 14, 2024 09:40 AM (VGOMa)

Foiled again. I am too slow today.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Wandering Happily at August 14, 2024 09:42 AM (q2NNn)

74 Hey Bob! How you doin??

Great! Great. Just got done whittlin a stick.

She's a sharp one.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:42 AM (q7hip)

75 I suppose wearing spats on your shoes was like having plastic slipcovers on your sofa.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2024 09:42 AM (jdHxK)

76 Note that the path is unpaved. A walking stick is helpful on rough and uneven terrain. I use one when traipsing through the Ozarks, as it helps keep me on my feet, rather than busting my ass on rocks.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 14, 2024 09:43 AM (pohLc)

77
I blame J eFfingK for that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:39 AM

Spot.On.

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 14, 2024 09:43 AM (bEb2S)

78
think about when society started down the slippery slope: it was about the time men's hats went out of vouge
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 14, 2024 09:42 AM (bEb2S)

Yeah, but I don't like "hat head."

The red strip across your forehead and the band mark across your hair in the back......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

79 It's a fine day to be standing in a sand trap.

Posted by: DaveA at August 14, 2024 09:43 AM (FhXTo)

80
Ah! Bonjour Monsieur Courbet
Tucking pants in your boots is quite gay
With that pack on your back
You're a bearded nutsack
And with that I'll say, "Sir, Good day!"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 14, 2024 09:43 AM (eDfFs)

81 68 "Nuthin' beats a fine piece of hickory."
Posted by: Sponge

Ain't that the truth!

Posted by: Andrew Jackson at August 14, 2024 09:43 AM (JCZqz)

82 So, do the guys on the left use Fop or Dapper Dan?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:43 AM (v6JzV)

83 Valderee, valderah, valderahahahaha.
Posted by: huerfano at August 14, 2024 09:40 AM (VGOMa)

The Muppet Show did it best:

https://youtu.be/r4m4daLo0Lc

Posted by: spindrift at August 14, 2024 09:44 AM (OguvZ)

84 X-ray analysis of the painting reveals that the beard originally stretched all the way to the left border of the painting, but the artist didn't like the balance of compositional juxtaposition, so redid it. Artistic license.

Posted by: The Insignificance Of The Passage Of gp at August 14, 2024 09:44 AM (DvCQ+)

85 Kennedy is widely credited, sort of, with the "Men Without Hats" thing, didn't he attend the inauguration sans headgear? Maybe I'm misremembering my history books.

Also cars - the head room, particularly post-war was a lot less. A man couldn't hardly wear a hat in his car, as God intended, any longer.

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 09:44 AM (cMU4o)

86 ... All of the weight is carried on the shoulders. This is quickly very tiring. ...
Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 09:42 AM (cMU4o)
++++
All this bellyaching about some tired shoulders. You rotten kids don't know how good you have - and had - it. I'd have *killed* for mere shoulder pain.

Posted by: Hobo with a bindle at August 14, 2024 09:44 AM (HnUIn)

87 Battle of the beards commences at noon, gentlemen!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 14, 2024 09:45 AM (Zz+N5)

88

And then I converted to Islam, and discover the joys of livestock and terrorism!

Posted by: Muslim Gent at August 14, 2024 09:45 AM (ycpZt)

89 ...and then I said to the man, 'milk her? I barely know her!!'

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:45 AM (q7hip)

90 Backpacking would never have become a hobby without this.

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 09:42 AM (cMU4o)

Sadly, day pack design never caught up! I never carry enough to use a backpack large enough to need a waist belt, but day packs are irritating after a few hours.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 09:45 AM (d9fT1)

91 All of the weight is carried on the shoulders. This is quickly very tiring.

My dear boy! It's hardly any trouble at all...just hire a few more coolie porters!

Posted by: English Gentlemen, hunting Darkest Africa at August 14, 2024 09:45 AM (JCZqz)

92 I'd like to bite a hunk out of all their surrender monkey asses.

Soon ...

Posted by: The Dog at August 14, 2024 09:46 AM (jvE7q)

93 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 09:45 AM (d9fT1)

Your nick link. It fails.

What happened?!?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

94 The artist as a young man.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 14, 2024 09:46 AM (aD39U)

95 A hiking stick is also very useful as a last ditch defense against feral dogs or other critters, cat ladies, et al.

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 09:46 AM (cMU4o)

96 Ze Peugeot is in the shoppe again. Timing belt. We will have to proceed on foot.

Posted by: Hovercraft Sales and Service at August 14, 2024 09:46 AM (CV8a5)

97 Tomorrow you should post Paul Gauguin's answer to this painting (you're probably way ahead of me), the notorious "Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin." Just a thought.

Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at August 14, 2024 09:46 AM (wwf+q)

98 95 A hiking stick is also very useful as a last ditch defense against feral dogs or other critters, cat ladies, et al.
Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 09:46 AM (cMU4o

I have fought off a pack of feral cat ladies before.

Thank god I had my trusty stick.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:47 AM (q7hip)

99 The guy on the right appears to be carrying luggage on his back along with some stakes for pitching a tent.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 14, 2024 09:47 AM (NpAcC)

100 The guy on the right appears to be carrying luggage on his back along with some stakes for pitching a tent.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 14, 2024 09:47 AM (NpAcC)

She said 'pitching a tent.'

Hehehehehehehehehe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

101 The trail seems to have come to a dead end. We'll build here.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2024 09:48 AM (jdHxK)

102 The guy on the right appears to be carrying luggage on his back along with some stakes for pitching a tent.
Posted by: redridinghood

And a derringer in his facial hair.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 14, 2024 09:48 AM (Zz+N5)

103 He on the right has no coat. Perhaps folded in the backpack?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e una bella pittura #01 at August 14, 2024 09:48 AM (qfLjt)

104 96 Ze Peugeot is in the shoppe again. Timing belt. We will have to proceed on foot.
Posted by: Hovercraft Sales and Service at August 14, 2024 09:46 AM (CV8a5)

In Hell the cars are French.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 14, 2024 09:48 AM (gbOdA)

105 The guy on the right appears to be carrying luggage on his back along with some stakes for ~~pitching a tent~~ slaying vampires.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 14, 2024 09:47 AM (NpAcC)
++++
FIFY. This is the Old World. They were *everywhere.*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 09:49 AM (HnUIn)

106 The Feral Cat Ladies opened for Godsmack at Alpine Valley in 2012

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 09:49 AM (cMU4o)

107 The trail seems to have come to a dead end. We'll build here.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2024 09:48 AM (jdHxK)

"And we shall call it, Palestine!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

108 hiking stick is also very useful as a last ditch defense against feral dogs or other critters, cat ladies, et al.
Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 09:46 AM (cMU4o)
******
I've seen people in my neighborhood carrying golf clubs in case they run into a loose pit bull.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 14, 2024 09:49 AM (NpAcC)

109 97 Wherewife?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:49 AM (v6JzV)

110 think about when society started down the slippery slope: it was about the time men's hats went out of vouge

An interesting spelling of "when women were allowed to vote". Judges ?

Posted by: People Do What They Do at August 14, 2024 09:49 AM (jvE7q)

111 Valderee, valderah, valderahahahaha.
Posted by: huerfano at August 14, 2024 09:40 AM (VGOMa)

The Muppet Show did it best:

https://youtu.be/r4m4daLo0Lc
Posted by: spindrift at August 14, 2024 09:44 AM (OguvZ)

Wrong!

Regardez vous...Brave Combo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPkouJmjVs

Posted by: naturalfake at August 14, 2024 09:50 AM (eDfFs)

112 "I tell ya, Genr'l, I got the position of the Yankee army! All seven corps, just down the road! Put it all on the map for ya if ya want."

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 14, 2024 09:50 AM (LxER7)

113 8 WTF is happening here?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 14, 2024 09:31 AM
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Courbet's theme is how wealthy, important, possibly even titled Gentlemen of High-Born Blood recognize The Artist as their spiritual and intellectual superior. There's a funny anecdote about how Beethoven schooled Goethe in that idea, which got really big and popular at the turn of the 19th century.

Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at August 14, 2024 09:50 AM (wwf+q)

114 Why is this dude wearing spats?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:34 AM (q7hip)

Are they spats or puttees?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2024 09:50 AM (66G1t)

115 Good luck today Bulgaroctonus!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 14, 2024 09:50 AM (hOUT3)

116 I use one when traipsing through the Ozarks, as it helps keep me on my feet, rather than busting my ass on rocks.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

"Traipsing through the Ozarks". Who are you, Jed Clampett?

Posted by: Bubblin' Crude at August 14, 2024 09:50 AM (CV8a5)

117 And a derringer in his facial hair.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 14, 2024 09:48 AM (Zz+N5)
******
Good eye.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (NpAcC)

118 The trail seems to have come to a dead end. We'll build here.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2024 09:48 AM (jdHxK)

They never went further, they never went back.

Posted by: spindrift at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (OguvZ)

119 114 Why is this dude wearing spats?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:34 AM (q7hip)

Are they spats or puttees?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2024 09:50 AM (66G1t)

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

Primitive gaiters?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (jdHxK)

120 Your nick link. It fails.

What happened?!?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

The hosting company f*cked up. I am on with their "support" team right now!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (d9fT1)

121 Never heard of this painter. But then I'm not well versed in such matters unless they painted nudes, which a young boy always found fascinating that they could get away with it publicly but somehow Playboy was frowned upon.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e una bella pittura #02 at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (qfLjt)

122 I saw Traipsing Through the Ozarks open for Alabama at Tiger Stadium in '94.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (HnUIn)

123 115 Thanks, Hrothgar!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (v6JzV)

124 The Muppet Show did it best:

This is likely to be a true statement no matter what you're talking about.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (/y8xj)

125 Good luck today Bulgaroctonus!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 14, 2024 09:50 AM (hOUT3)
******
Ditto!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 14, 2024 09:52 AM (NpAcC)

126
The hosting company f*cked up. I am on with their "support" team right now!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (d9fT1)

Godspeed, sir.

"Hello for you. My name is Bill. How for I might be to helping you today?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

127 I don't like Courbet. Almost all modern art can be traced back to him. Especially the bad stuff.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 14, 2024 09:52 AM (WPL6O)

128 121 Never heard of this painter. But then I'm not well versed in such matters unless they painted nudes, which a young boy always found fascinating that they could get away with it publicly but somehow Playboy was frowned upon.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e una bella pittura #02 at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (qfLjt)

Interesting Man.. Had run ins with the Gendarmes... And he has nudes

Posted by: It's me donna at August 14, 2024 09:52 AM (IyPmt)

129
Another syphilitic, alcoholic French artist.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2024 09:52 AM (1Nxff)

130 123 115 Thanks, Hrothgar!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Hope you memorized Piper's clues to immediate employment!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 14, 2024 09:52 AM (hOUT3)

131
Animals Gone Wild - a limerick

"Bonjour to you Courbet!" said Toulouse!
"I have suffered a terrible abuse
If you ask why my beard
Is looking so weird
I was assaulted by a big bunch of mousse!"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 14, 2024 09:52 AM (uCfKO)

132 Caleb Williams' great-great-grandfather is chosen with the first draft pick by the Virginia Ramblers.

Posted by: Roy at August 14, 2024 09:52 AM (z+ik4)

133 The guy on the right appears to be carrying luggage on his back along with some stakes for pitching a tent.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 14, 2024 09:47 AM (NpAcC)

I was assuming that is all part of his easel. Interesting that they meet exactly at the milestone.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 14, 2024 09:52 AM (aD39U)

134 Is Courbet
Thisbe's pet?
Or Courbet
Is simply gay?

Posted by: Pronouncing Courbet at August 14, 2024 09:52 AM (ufFY8)

135
This is likely to be a true statement no matter what you're talking about.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (/y8xj)

As I age, I find myself becoming the grumpy old men in the skybox.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

136 Oh, so the dude with the pointy beard is the artist, then.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:53 AM (v6JzV)

137 The hosting company f*cked up. I am on with their "support" team right now!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Did you try turning it off then back on?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 14, 2024 09:53 AM (Zz+N5)

138 I have hiking poles, and as stupid as they sound...they are helpful. I just use one...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 09:53 AM (d9fT1)

139 137 The hosting company f*cked up. I am on with their "support" team right now!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Did you try turning it off then back on?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 14, 2024 09:53 AM (Zz+N5

Wise horde is wise.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:53 AM (q7hip)

140 138 I have hiking poles, and as stupid as they sound...they are helpful. I just use one...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 09:53 AM (d9fT1

But what if you tip over the other side?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:54 AM (q7hip)

141 ------------

Primitive gaiters?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (jdHxK)

"Sixty-eight pounds, ten shillings for a pair of GAITERS??"

(My very favorite episode of Flying Circus)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 14, 2024 09:54 AM (LxER7)

142 "The painting is inspired by a popular print engraved by Pierre Leloup du Mans in 1831, named The bourgeois of the city talking to the wandering Jew."

https://tinyurl.com/mr2p29wv

Posted by: The Insignificance Of The Passage Of gp at August 14, 2024 09:54 AM (DvCQ+)

143 In My art history classes they considered him the pre-impressionist because he painted common folks doing common things

Posted by: It's me donna at August 14, 2024 09:54 AM (IyPmt)

144 Etch-a-sketch 5. The dog is the best part.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 14, 2024 09:54 AM (nDGMq)

145 Did you try turning it off then back on?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 14, 2024 09:53 AM (Zz+N5)

Or take the can of pop out of the CD cup holder?

Posted by: Tech Support Guy #2 at August 14, 2024 09:54 AM (ufFY8)

146 Colin Fletcher was a WWII veteran of the Royal Marines, ended up in the US and decided the best way to see America was to walk. He hiked the length of California south to north, in 1958 when nobody did that sort of thing. He wrote several books on hiking, documenting his adventures. He also became one of the first to hike the entire length of Grand Canyon.

Since he was Welsh he could eat anything, I guess. Settled on Wilson's certified meat bars, gravy and mashed potatoes. Every. Day. Rounded it out with lots and lots of carbs, as he was hiking up to 18 or 20 miles a day carrying 60 pound pack. He did take kind of a scientific approach to protein/fats/carbs. He published his weekly ration, and it came out to 4 pounds of pure sugar if you count the pound of Raisins, and chocolate, and powdered lemonade and things like that.

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 09:55 AM (cMU4o)

147 Did you try turning it off then back on?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 14, 2024 09:53 AM (Zz+N5)

cPanel doesn't give me the option, so I am currently wading through their on-line support. I am in a chat...which may be the most irritating construct in the modern world.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 09:55 AM (d9fT1)

148 125 Thanks, Redridinghood!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:55 AM (v6JzV)

149 Strange weather in that place. Not a cloud to be seen but also no blue sky, almost as if there's a low mist a few hundred feet up. No birds flying? I'm expecting a few llamas to appear in the distance and approach (hint llamas).

Posted by: Carl Wheezer - still hoping for gentle llamas at August 14, 2024 09:55 AM (qfLjt)

150 Gee, I'd like to have a beard like the guy on the right. Or even the one in the middle.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2024 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

151 Most of us would never have heard of the myth of The Wandering Jew in public school or religious education classes. My MIL (who says "Redbird" instead of "Cardinal" because in her day Old Order would not use Catholic words) calls that garden vine "Wandering Jewel" -- since saying "Jew" in any form in the 30's was taken as an epithet, out in the country.

After a review of the catalogue, it strikes me that Mel Brooks' and Carl Reiner's classic "2000 Year Old Man" routines were worked-over Wandering Jew jokes. And you don't drink it, ya schmuck, you soak your feet in it!

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 14, 2024 09:55 AM (zdLoL)

152 Valderee, valderah, valderahahahaha.
Posted by: huerfano at August 14, 2024 09:40 AM (VGOMa)

I'll see your Valderee, valderah, and raise you a yodel-odel LaDY Whoooooo.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 14, 2024 09:55 AM (JCLJi)

153 Should we let Fred know Muttonchops stole his neckerchief from the Mystery Machine?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 14, 2024 09:55 AM (pIfcn)

154

I'll see your Valderee, valderah, and raise you a yodel-odel LaDY Whoooooo.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 14, 2024 09:55 AM (JCLJi)

And people wonder why I come here.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:56 AM (q7hip)

155 But what if you tip over the other side?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:54 AM (q7hip)

I always hop on one leg. That corrects my balance.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 09:56 AM (d9fT1)

156
I always hop on one leg. That corrects my balance.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 09:56 AM (d9fT1)

Jerk!!!

Posted by: One Legged Man at an Ass Kicking Contest at August 14, 2024 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

157 A recent study has found that 94% of spreadsheets used in business decision-making contain errors.

The other 11% can be trusted.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 14, 2024 09:57 AM (gbOdA)

158 Former Clinton Pollster Says Walz’s Ties To Hitler-Promoting Cleric Add To Jewish Voters’ ‘Doubts’ About Dem Ticket

-
Donks praising Hitler: This is just fine!

Musk interviews Trump: The end of democracy!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 09:58 AM (L/fGl)

159 Well, later folks. Gotta go shower and get gussied up for the interview.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:58 AM (v6JzV)

160 It looks like it's about to go down on Shreeder's Hill.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 09:58 AM (Ectld)

161 Morning.

The guy on the left is ashamed at his lack of a magnificent beard.

Posted by: Robert at August 14, 2024 09:58 AM (pIV+n)

162 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:58 AM

Good luck

Posted by: It's me donna at August 14, 2024 09:58 AM (IyPmt)

163 If you want to get to Heaven . . .

Posted by: Ozark Mountain Daredevils at August 14, 2024 09:58 AM (q2NNn)

164 159 Well, later folks. Gotta go shower and get gussied up for the interview.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:58 AM (v6JzV)

Hope you've learned how to dress for your interview today.

Spats. A hat. A pointy stick and a day pack.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:59 AM (q7hip)

165 Gloomy day here. Much of it is forest fire smoke. Can't really see the sky to tell if it is overcast, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2024 09:59 AM (66G1t)

166 159 Well, later folks. Gotta go shower and get gussied up for the interview.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:58 AM (v6JzV)

That's an interesting way to prepare. Not even sure how one gets-- Oh. You said "gussied."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 14, 2024 09:59 AM (KbCG3)

167 I have a set of "trekking" poles. The idea is to adjust the height to a specific tailored to your size or height. I often just use an old ski pole. Very helpful and helps I think with maintaining rhythm or pace. The trick is to be able to maintain a pace without having to pause all the time to rest or "catch your breath". Like Fletcher, I take a 10 minute break or so every hour whether needed or not.

Slow and steady definitely wins the race when long haul hiking or up mountains. Watch the young guy take off like a jack rabbit up the mountain, he will get lapped by people who know what they are doing.

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 09:59 AM (cMU4o)

168 Courbet's theme is how wealthy, important, possibly even titled Gentlemen of High-Born Blood recognize The Artist as their spiritual and intellectual superior. There's a funny anecdote about how Beethoven schooled Goethe in that idea, which got really big and popular at the turn of the 19th century.
Posted by: werewife

Pfff. That's nuthin'.

Posted by: Diogenes, telling Alexander the Great to stop blocking his sun at August 14, 2024 10:00 AM (JCZqz)

169 137 The hosting company f*cked up. I am on with their "support" team right now!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Did you try turning it off then back on?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 14, 2024 09:53 AM (Zz+N5)

BRB
big red button

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 14, 2024 10:00 AM (gbOdA)

170 The guy on the left is ashamed at his lack of a magnificent beard.
Posted by: Rober

My thought exactly

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 14, 2024 10:00 AM (EGSGm)

171 Anyone notice that DOJ has Google bent over a barrel and Google is allowing Dems to stealth edit actual headlines at the same time?

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:00 AM (Ectld)

172 Well, later folks. Gotta go shower and get gussied up for the interview.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 09:58 AM (v6JzV)

Old & Busted: Power Tie

New Hotness: Power Monocle

Good luck!

Posted by: Robert at August 14, 2024 10:00 AM (pIV+n)

173 "Traipsing through the Ozarks". Who are you, Jed Clampett?
Posted by: Bubblin' Crude at August 14, 2024 09:50 AM (CV8a5)

Jed was too modern for me. I would never move to Beverly Hills.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (pohLc)

174 The sequel to this painting - Dog Opens Whole Can of Whoop-Ass on Unsuspecting Hiker - wasn't quite as well received.

Posted by: People Do What They Do at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (jvE7q)

175 First, the word ‘gussie’. This was first used in Australia in the early 20th century as a name for a foppish dandy. The Australian feminist novelist Miles Franklin used it in her best-known work My Brilliant Career, 1901, to describe a soppy Lothario to whom she gives the unambiguous but mocking name of Everard Grey:

“I’ll show him [Everard] I think no more of him than of the caterpillars on the old tree there. I’m not a booby that will fall in love with every gussie I see. I hate and detest men!”

‘Gussie’ was a contraction of the name Augustus, which was the generic name for Roman emperors.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (q7hip)

176 Monsieur you look somewhat like Martin Guerre
Like it , would hang

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (daNLI)

177 Lunch today will be sirloin steak. It will also be breakfast tomorrow. Probably dinner tomorrow, too. I vacuum pack them in pairs, so it'll be a few meals.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (HnUIn)

178 A recent study has found that 94% of spreadsheets used in business decision-making contain errors.

The other 11% can be trusted.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 14, 2024 09:57 AM (gbOdA)

94% seems low. Better run the numbers again *F9* *F9* *F9*

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (q2NNn)

179 Former Clinton Pollster Says Walz’s Ties To Hitler-Promoting Cleric Add To Jewish Voters’ ‘Doubts’ About Dem Ticket

Gotta love the sneer quotes. Yeah, those silly little Jews with their silly little 'doubts.'

Posted by: Oddbob at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (/y8xj)

180 142 "The painting is inspired by a popular print engraved by Pierre Leloup du Mans in 1831, named The bourgeois of the city talking to the wandering Jew."

https://tinyurl.com/mr2p29wv

Posted by: The Insignificance Of The Passage Of gp at August 14, 2024 09:54 AM (DvCQ+)
----
Ah! The legendary Wandering Jew. He should meet the Legendary Flying Dutchman. Not a person you say? Hmm we learn every day.

Posted by: Ciampino - Wed Update #01 at August 14, 2024 10:02 AM (qfLjt)

181 Outstanding work

Posted by: The Dog at August 14, 2024 10:02 AM (lIBIk)

182 In Hell the cars are French.

Camus died in a Facel-Vega. You might call that
existential.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 14, 2024 10:02 AM (zdLoL)

183 On an old Gunsmoke episode, some old feller was complaining about some lowlifes "I bet they get all slickered up, and part their hair down the middle", he didn't call them queers, but I suspect there was some skepticism as to their utility on the prarie.

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 10:02 AM (cMU4o)

184 Ginger: "Pardonnez moi... Ahh geev you dees hat and dees doggo for your steek."

Traveler: "Absolument no! Zees steek beelong-ed to mah fahzer! Ees varrry especial steek! Geev me your servant boy also!"

Ginger: "Stupide! When I say 'doggo,' I was talking aboot my servant boy! The chien stays weeth me!"

Posted by: red speck at August 14, 2024 10:02 AM (0Id0S)

185 "Gotta love the sneer quotes. "

You guys gotta quit letting them troll you.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:02 AM (Ectld)

186 which may be the most irritating construct in the modern world.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 09:55
----------------

Sounds like a FWP.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 14, 2024 10:03 AM (5LrV6)

187 ... The Australian feminist novelist Miles Franklin used it in her best-known work My Brilliant Career, 1901, ...
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (q7hip)
++++
I've never seen the name "Miles" attached to a woman.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:03 AM (HnUIn)

188 He published his weekly ration, and it came out to 4 pounds of pure sugar if you count the pound of Raisins, and chocolate, and powdered lemonade and things like that.
Posted by: O.W. Holmes

Sounds super healthy. Someone should send it over to Justice Sotomayor!

Posted by: Weekly(?) GAINZZZZ advice at August 14, 2024 10:03 AM (JCZqz)

189 I've never seen the name "Miles" attached to a woman.
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Nor "brilliant career" attached to a feminist.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:03 AM (Ectld)

190 Please note the figure at the center of the painting is often the focus of the art. The most important subject, as it were.

Posted by: The Dog at August 14, 2024 10:04 AM (lIBIk)

191 Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 14, 2024 09:54 AM (LxER7)

You Sir are a scourge!

Posted by: Carl Wheezer - still hoping for gentle llamas everywhere at August 14, 2024 10:04 AM (qfLjt)

192 Nor "brilliant career" attached to a feminist.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:03 AM (Ectld)
++++
That one is common. They hand out that description like pennycandy. To each other, anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:04 AM (HnUIn)

193 ‘Gussie’ was a contraction of the name Augustus, which was the generic name for Roman emperors.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (q7hip)

"Gussied up" is derived from "gusset," which is used to tailor clothing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 10:04 AM (d9fT1)

194 "Please note the figure at the center of the painting is often the focus of the art. The most important subject, as it were."

It is a nice hat.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:04 AM (Ectld)

195 In Hell the cars are French.

The mechanics are Italian?

Posted by: BignJames at August 14, 2024 10:05 AM (AwYPR)

196 I have hiking poles, and as stupid as they sound...they are helpful. I just use one...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 09:53 AM (d9fT1

And that's so he's able to climb the 3 stairs to his front door!

Poor fellow. Another victim with ruined health due to stirred Manhattans.

Fortunately, there's a cure! The Shaken Manhattan is the avatar of class, quality, and good health.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 14, 2024 10:05 AM (eDfFs)

197 Say what you will about Kamala Harris, she knows how to handle the press.

Karli Bonne’
@KarluskaP
Kamala Harris literally ditched the press pool on her trip you can’t make this up!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:05 AM (L/fGl)

198
"Gussied up" is derived from "gusset," which is used to tailor clothing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 10:04 AM (d9fT1

*removes glove*

*slaps CBD across the chin*

How dare you question me, good sir!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:05 AM (q7hip)

199 Kamala Harris literally ditched the press pool on her trip you can’t make this up!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:05 AM (L/fGl)

Why does he even have one ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 14, 2024 10:05 AM (IyPmt)

200 In Hell the cars are French.

The mechanics are Italian?
Posted by: BignJames at August 14, 2024 10:05 AM (AwYPR)

The police are German ...

Posted by: spindrift at August 14, 2024 10:06 AM (OguvZ)

201 197 Say what you will about Kamala Harris, she knows how to handle the press.

Karli Bonne’
@KarluskaP
Kamala Harris literally ditched the press pool on her trip you can’t make this up!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:05 AM (L/fGl)

Democracy dies in ditchness.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 14, 2024 10:06 AM (KbCG3)

202 Yeah, those silly little Jews with their silly little 'doubts.'

Posted by: Oddbob at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (/y8xj)

Yeah...this Jew has "doubts" about an America run by these democrats. That's why I need more ammo storage.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 10:06 AM (d9fT1)

203 Hiding from the press isn't handling them, any more that a rabbit running down a hole is handling a fox.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 14, 2024 10:06 AM (pohLc)

204 . The Australian feminist novelist Miles Franklin used it in her best-known work My Brilliant Career, 1901, ...
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (q7hip)
++++
I've never seen the name "Miles" attached to a woman.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:03 AM (HnUIn)

It's a nickname. She got it in college after taking miles and miles of...well...ya know.

Posted by: Robert at August 14, 2024 10:07 AM (wFwxI)

205 "Kamala Harris literally ditched the press pool on her trip you can’t make this up!"

Must have run out of rope to corral them with.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:07 AM (Ectld)

206 In Hell the cars are French.

The mechanics are Italian?
Posted by: BignJames at August 14, 2024 10:05 AM (AwYPR)

The police are German ...
Posted by: spindrift at August 14, 2024 10:06 AM (OguvZ)

The chefs are British.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 14, 2024 10:07 AM (q2NNn)

207 Let's hope the media's vanity and self importance gets the better of them and they start attacking Cumala

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:07 AM (q7hip)

208 "Ok, Monsieur. That dog better not have monkeypox. I know how y'all roll down in Gay Paris."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 14, 2024 10:08 AM (0FoWg)

209 207 Let's hope the media's vanity and self importance gets the better of them and they start attacking Cumala
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:07 AM (q7hip)

Don't see that happening

Posted by: It's me donna at August 14, 2024 10:08 AM (IyPmt)

210 "Let's hope the media's vanity and self importance gets the better of them and they start attacking Cumala"

They would never want to risk the ire of the Great Black Hope himself.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:08 AM (Ectld)

211 Eric Swalwell
@ericswalwell
Last night’s Twitter interview — heard by no one — shows Trump is dodging the swing states. He just can’t get the crowds. But I heard he is popping into the Boca Book Club tonight.

-
Heard by no one except those billion clickers!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:08 AM (L/fGl)

212 Wow. This week, the 26-week T-Bill yield is a whopping 0.419 points *lower* than the 4-week.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:08 AM (HnUIn)

213 Swalwell is such a gas.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:08 AM (Ectld)

214
Their Post-Royal Highnesses, by the grace of God former Duke and Duchess of Suffolk, Landswains of Monticito, defenders of the bullied and slightly darker shade of extreme pale, have given their gracious consent to visit Columbia this week in an almost state level lending of their august presence to an expected offer of becoming cocaine drug mules for some cartel.

I shouldn't care, but having Princess Di ranked as the third most important Englishperson by that degenerate population is setting me off.

Posted by: Auspex at August 14, 2024 10:09 AM (j4U/Z)

215 It's a nickname. She got it in college after taking miles and miles of...well...ya know.
Posted by: Robert at August 14, 2024 10:07 AM (wFwxI)
++++
*snort*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:09 AM (HnUIn)

216 If I painted a picture of someone interested in meeting me, it would look like this except, 1. The beard would be white 2. There wouldn't be anyone else in the painting - as the guy living on my couch is the only person who cares if I'm alive, and he's only interested as long as I have enough money to buy him beer.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 14, 2024 10:09 AM (Da7Vv)

217 211 Eric Swalwell
@ericswalwell
Last night’s Twitter interview — heard by no one — shows Trump is dodging the swing states. He just can’t get the crowds. But I heard he is popping into the Boca Book Club tonight.

That's from the Bee right ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 14, 2024 10:09 AM (IyPmt)

218 211 Eric Swalwell
@ericswalwell
Last night’s Twitter interview — heard by no one — shows Trump is dodging the swing states. He just can’t get the crowds. But I heard he is popping into the Boca Book Club tonight

More gaslighting. It wasn't a billion people. It was no one!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:09 AM (q7hip)

219 Well that's just it, isn't it? He was eating healthy, since he was carrying a 60 pound backpack up to 20 miles a day, he was still losing weight.

4 pounds of sugar over the coure of a week isn't bad at all, in this context. He was burning as much as 4,000 or 5,000 calories a day. In fact, refined carbs were the only way to physically carry enough calories, more or less in digestible form. Sugar is deadly to the sedentary, that's the problem.

What was predictable perhaps, in later editions of his book he disavowed the food list in his '68 book, and was a proponent of low-fat and low-calorie, and decided Spirulina tablets, a type of algae, was the wave of the future. By the 1980s, dietary quackery was in full swing, and even Fletcher (or perhaps the editors/publisher) was not immune.

California rots yer brain, unfortunately. There is no way he could have completed his trek without a diet providing enough calories. Spirulina ain't gonna do it.

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 10:09 AM (cMU4o)

220 In Hell the cars are French.

The mechanics are Italian?
Posted by: BignJames at August 14, 2024 10:05 AM (AwYPR)

The police are German ...
Posted by: spindrift at August 14, 2024 10:06 AM (OguvZ)

The civil rights protectors are British.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:10 AM (L/fGl)

221 Nothing better than online "chatting" with an AI bot. A digital circle jerk.

- Hi, I'm Jenny how can I assist you?
- I need to opt-out of the reminder calls to order supplies.
- You want to order supplies?
- No. I want to stop the phone calls.
- You want to change your contact info? Is this correct?
- No
- Press 1 for yes and 2 for no.
- 'hits 1 on the keyboard'
- I'm sorry, I don't understand that. Do you want to order supplies?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2024 10:10 AM (Q4IgG)

222 That's an interesting way to prepare. Not even sure how one gets-- Oh. You said "gussied."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

He said Gussy!

Posted by: CNN at August 14, 2024 10:10 AM (w9Wax)

223 And here we see two bearded bros encountering each other. What you are witnessing is both of them attempting to establish dominance while the one on the left knows better than to even try to compete just yet.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2024 10:10 AM (/8Il0)

224 223 And here we see two bearded bros encountering each other. What you are witnessing is both of them attempting to establish dominance while the one on the left knows better than to even try to compete just yet.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2024 10:10 AM (/8Il0)

And then there's the dog in the middle saying, "Eh, whaddya want from me?"

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 14, 2024 10:11 AM (KbCG3)

225 Lunch today will be sirloin steak. It will also be breakfast tomorrow. Probably dinner tomorrow, too. I vacuum pack them in pairs, so it'll be a few meals.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (HnUIn)

But if you separate them in the bag, you can take them out one at a time.

Touches nose, and winks.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 14, 2024 10:11 AM (JCLJi)

226 221 I'm sorry, I don't understand that. Do you want to order supplies?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2024 10:10 AM (Q4IgG)

"Get a human on this chat before I make a road trip to burn down your company's building as a tribute to my dark god."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2024 10:12 AM (/8Il0)

227 Kamala Harris literally ditched the press pool on her trip you can’t make this up!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:05 AM (L/fGl)

A YouTube headline from the Toronto Red Star yesterday sneered that the Trump/Musk interview was Trump staying in his "comfort zone".

Cacklin' Kamala's complete press embargo never gets mentioned by the Communists, of course.

Posted by: spindrift at August 14, 2024 10:12 AM (OguvZ)

228 Annual inflation rate slows to 2.9% in July, lowest since 2021
Source: CNBC

Wage growth was still at 3.6% last month, so wage growth is still easily outpacing inflation and has been for over a year and a half.

Covid made low wage workers re-evaluate their priorities, they weren't going to risk their lives for starvation wages anymore. The wage growth has been significantly more pronounced with lower wage workers. In fact, the bottom 10% of earners saw the biggest growth in wages, the top 10% actually saw wages go down.

My entire life, I was told that "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and nothing will change that." Well, the numbers show that the last 4 years that wasn't true. The bottom 50% saw their net worth increase by more than the top 1%. The bottom 10% wage earners saw raises while the top 10% saw wages go down.

There is still a worker shortage, especially highly skilled workers. My company is doing everything they can to retain talent. Robust raises, expanded bonuses, stock awards, etc. etc. You cannot afford to let top end talent leave.

This may mean 50 point interest rate cut September! Economic surge, just in time for election day!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 14, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

229 That's an interesting way to prepare. Not even sure how one gets-- Oh. You said "gussied."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

He said Gussy!
Posted by: CNN at August 14, 2024 10:10 AM (w9Wax)

Oh! Hiho! Did anyone call me?

Posted by: Gussie Fink-Nottle at August 14, 2024 10:12 AM (eDfFs)

230 @ericswalwell
Last night’s Twitter interview — heard by no one — shows Trump is dodging the swing states. He just can’t get the crowds. But I heard he is popping into the Boca Book Club tonight.

Chynee hookerf*cker says WHAT!??

Oh yeah....lies. All you have is lies and gaslighting.

EABOD, asshole.

Posted by: One Legged Man at an Ass Kicking Contest at August 14, 2024 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)

231 "A YouTube headline from the Toronto Red Star yesterday sneered that the Trump/Musk interview was Trump staying in his "comfort zone". Cacklin' Kamala's complete press embargo never gets mentioned by the Communists, of course."

Pure projection. Flip the script on them. They aren't very bright.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:12 AM (Ectld)

232 Oh wait, never mind. "Vacuum pack..."

Mine are always in Ziplocs.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 14, 2024 10:13 AM (JCLJi)

233 Real inflation is not 2.9%.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:13 AM (q7hip)

234 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 14, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

Once again delusional

Posted by: It's me donna at August 14, 2024 10:13 AM (IyPmt)

235 Nothing better than online "chatting" with an AI bot. A digital circle jerk.

- Hi, I'm Jenny how can I assist you?
- I need to opt-out of the reminder calls to order supplies.
- You want to order supplies?
- No. I want to stop the phone calls.
- You want to change your contact info? Is this correct?
- No
- Press 1 for yes and 2 for no.
- 'hits 1 on the keyboard'
- I'm sorry, I don't understand that. Do you want to order supplies?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2024 10:10 AM (Q4IgG)

AI? I'd have guessed you were talking to a Dotted Indian.

Posted by: Robert at August 14, 2024 10:13 AM (wFwxI)

236 "Real inflation is not 2.9%."

Said the racist.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:13 AM (Ectld)

237 Major cyber attack on Iranian banks happening now.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 14, 2024 10:13 AM (nDGMq)

238 237 Major cyber attack on Iranian banks happening now.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 14, 2024 10:13 AM (nDGMq)

A little "payback"?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 14, 2024 10:14 AM (IyPmt)

239 237 Major cyber attack on Iranian banks happening now.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 14, 2024 10:13 AM (nDGMq)

The hacker is unknown but rumor is his nic is 'the Jewish Hammer'.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:14 AM (q7hip)

240 Strike one......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

241 ... My entire life, I was told that "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and nothing will change that." Well, the numbers show that the last 4 years that wasn't true. The bottom 50% saw their net worth increase by more than the top 1%. The bottom 10% wage earners saw raises while the top 10% saw wages go down. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 14, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)
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This is more nuanced than one usually sees from DU, but I wonder what it looks like if you segment by liquidity. It's awfully hard to eat your net worth if it's in your house (crazy stupid appreciation) and your retirement portfolio (crazy stupid appreciation).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:15 AM (HnUIn)

242 178
94% seems low. Better run the numbers again *F9* *F9* *F9*

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 14, 2024 10:01 AM (q2NNn)
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Reminds me of when a pleasure cruiser, MTS Oceanos, sank off the coast of South Africa. Everybody made it so lots of jokes. One of them was:
People in the water were all shouting 'Help! Help!' but the computer tech was shouting 'F1 F1 F1'. There was one WordPerfect user who belted out 'F2 F2 F2'.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il gabinetto e pronto at August 14, 2024 10:15 AM (qfLjt)

243 Would the do trunp poll slid ever ended?
8 ball says: don't

🤣

Posted by: MAGA is weird (But I like to eat my own shit) at August 14, 2024 10:15 AM (94NDA)

244 Real inflation is not 2.9%.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:13 AM (q7hip)
++++
Yes it is. That's what it says on the paper. As I once heard a lawyer put it, "reality is on paper. Everything else is just hearsay."

Of course, as my grandma put it, "piece of paper lie still, let you write anything on it."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:15 AM (HnUIn)

245 Thought I smelled something.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:16 AM (q7hip)

246 The bottom 50% saw their net worth increase by more than the top 1%. The bottom 10% wage earners saw raises while the top 10% saw wages go down. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 14, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

As my account sits in the negative for the first time in a decade, I can assure you, this is NOT the case.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

247 *sniff*

Who shit?!?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

248 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Dudes got a weird beard.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 14, 2024 10:16 AM (W/lyH)

249 Wage growth was still at 3.6% last month, so wage growth is still easily outpacing inflation and has been for over a year and a half.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 14, 2024 10:12

Wife and I were going over our monthly spend last week. I mentioned to her that we routinely spend $7K a month now when three years ago we were more like $4K. What the hell changed?

We have a young family, kids with their sports, life expenses, yada, yada. But nope, biggest thing was groceries. And it wasn't even close.

And my salary has not kept up. Delusion will destroy us all.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 14, 2024 10:16 AM (KbCG3)

250 🎵Goin' down the road with a pack on my back

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2024 10:17 AM (63Dwl)

251 More gaslighting. It wasn't a billion people. It was no one!

It isn't gaslighting if you believe it, Jerry!

Posted by: Oddbob at August 14, 2024 10:17 AM (/y8xj)

252 "This is my divining rod ... and this is my walking stick."

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 14, 2024 10:18 AM (CeERx)

253 221 I'm sorry, I don't understand that. Do you want to order supplies?
Posted by: Martini Farmer

====

"Thank you for contacting Tech Support, where we are measured by the time it takes to address your issue, regardless of complexity. May we close your ticket?"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 14, 2024 10:18 AM (hCxGu)

254 The biden years take see incredibrue growing on both paid and wealth of common people. That�s why are republicans am angry.

inflation is don't longer an issue. You are a guys am stick on 2022

Posted by: MAGA is weird (But I like to eat my own shit) at August 14, 2024 10:19 AM (94NDA)

255 Inflation is no longer an issue. You guys are stuck in 2022.

Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 14, 2024 10:19 AM (94NDA)

That's weird. We were told inflation was never an issue.

What changed?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 14, 2024 10:20 AM (KbCG3)

256 *looks at bottom of shoe*

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:20 AM (q7hip)

257 That's weird. We were told inflation was never an issue.

What changed?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 14, 2024 10:20 AM (KbCG3)
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Programming.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:20 AM (HnUIn)

258 Want to know why they call Disney's new Snow White a fairy tale? Otherwise how could you have the mirror tell Gal Gadot that Rachel Zegler is better looking than she is. When you put the two of them in the same room nobody even notices Rachel is there.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 14, 2024 10:20 AM (Da7Vv)

259 Troll is full of shit.

Gaslight some more. I live in this country under the Biden administration. I have less money. My money does less for me than it ever has.

You're a lying sack of shit and I hope you become homeless very soon. ESAD, prick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

260 DO NOT QUOTE Trolls.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:21 AM (q7hip)

261 It's like swiftboating squared!

-
Dustin Grage
@GrageDustin
JUST RECOVERED: Tim Walz lied to John Kerry about his service record.
In this endorsement letter from Kerry he states Walz’s incorrect rank of Command Sergeant Major—and that he served IN Operation Enduring Freedom, not in SUPPORT of.
Did somebody say Swiftboat 2.0?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:21 AM (L/fGl)

262 Oh! Hiho! Did anyone call me?
Posted by: Gussie Fink-Nottle at August 14, 2024 10:12 AM

Fink-Nottle!!!!

Posted by: Roderick Spode at August 14, 2024 10:21 AM (ZANHd)

263 257 That's weird. We were told inflation was never an issue.

What changed?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 14, 2024 10:20 AM (KbCG3)

++++
Programming.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:20 AM (HnUIn)

"We have solved all the problems that never existed. You're welcome."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 14, 2024 10:21 AM (KbCG3)

264 Good luck today Bulgaroctonus, I think the whole Horde is 'Ra-ring' for you today. Ra Ra.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il gabinetto e pronto #01 at August 14, 2024 10:21 AM (qfLjt)

265 The bottom 50% saw their net worth increase by more than the top 1%. The bottom 10% wage earners saw raises while the top 10% saw wages go down.
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Inflation, mutha-fucka! Do you speak it?!

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 14, 2024 10:21 AM (i0CiB)

266 🎵Goin' down the road with a pack on my back
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

My poor old sacroiliac!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 14, 2024 10:21 AM (2KFCy)

267 AI? I'd have guessed you were talking to a Dotted Indian.

How do you think they train the AI?

Posted by: Oddbob at August 14, 2024 10:21 AM (/y8xj)

268 Once in a while, in my more uncharitable moments, I will query the AI chatbot about say, fixing my car, with pleas for assistance.

"I am locked in the car. It is on fire. What should I do, the flames and smoke are becoming intense" etc.

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 10:22 AM (cMU4o)

269 If a dollar buys a dollar worth of valuables, the. Inflation is zero.

If a dollar buys half a dollar of valuables, that's inflation.

If you give me two dollars to make up for it, it still only buys one dollar of valuables.

Wages don't fix inflation.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 10:23 AM (q7hip)

270 Retired British train driver who chanted “Who the [bleep] is Allah?” sentenced to 18 months in jail for "violent disorder"

-
Mohammad sucks Satan's cock in Hell! So will the British government!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

271 KamalaHQLies @KamalaHQLies
Kamala HQ Lies has surpassed 100,000 followers, with 70,000 of you following today.

We will soon be ratioing and out-reaching every false and misleading post coming from the KamalaHQ account.

The only way to beat them is to drown them out with the truth.

Thank you all for following and sharing.

We are just getting started.

KamalaHQLies @KamalaHQLies
Welcome to Kamala HQ Lies.

This is the rapid response page of holding Kamala HQ accountable for their misinformation on X.

https://xcancel.com/KamalaHQLies
====
For X account holders, delete the 'cancel' from the URL before cut & pasting it.

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 14, 2024 10:23 AM (i0CiB)

272 119 114 Why is this dude wearing spats?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2024 09:34 AM (q7hip)

Are they spats or puttees?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2024 09:50 AM (66G1t)

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Primitive gaiters?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2024 09:51 AM (jdHxK)
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Always wear primitive gaiters when setting up a rudimentary lathe.

Posted by: Ciampino - The Red Shirt Guy at August 14, 2024 10:23 AM (qfLjt)

273 Are they spats or puttees?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2024 09:50 AM

I'd go with puttees or gaiters. Too high for spats.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 14, 2024 10:25 AM (ZANHd)

274 I swear to God I get a phone call every fucking day about my CPAP supplies. I've got enough horded for a year. I went crazy when COVID hit thinking that stuff would be hard to get. I reorder the monthly consumables like nose pillows, filters, etc. on a schedule. My schedule, not theirs.

And the company cannot get it through their corporate skull that my insurance doesn't cover "durable medical supplies" until my astronomical deductible is reached.

Which is always never.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2024 10:25 AM (Q4IgG)

275 "Inflation isn't happening, and it's good that it is!"

Monetary inflation is a permanent reduction in the purchasing power of the exchange medium.

It doesn't get "better". Ever. Stupid fucks want to conflate rising prices - due to supply and demand - as monetary inflation. They are not related in any way, except as higher prices at the register.

Inflation is always and ever a monetary phenomenon. Leftists don't want you to know this, and want to blame business owners - grocery stores or "corporations" and "greed". It is to laugh.

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 10:26 AM (cMU4o)

276 DO NOT QUOTE Trolls.

To be fair, when the nics keep changing, it can be hard to keep track of who is a troll vs who is just stupid.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 14, 2024 10:26 AM (/y8xj)

277 Once in a while, in my more uncharitable moments, I will query the AI chatbot about say, fixing my car, with pleas for assistance.

"I am locked in the car. It is on fire. What should I do, the flames and smoke are becoming intense" etc.
Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 10:22 AM (cMU4o)

I'm trying this now.

I told it my eyes have melted. It just came back and said if I'm able to communicate my eyes have not literally melted. Fucking attitude on this thing.

Posted by: Robert at August 14, 2024 10:28 AM (YF/ER)

278 To be fair, when the nics keep changing, it can be hard to keep track of who is a troll vs who is just stupid.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 14, 2024 10:26 AM (/y8xj)
++++
Hey, now, some of us are both.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:28 AM (HnUIn)

279 The LA Times account of the protest:

"Traffic was affected for about 15 to 20 minutes. Nine people were arrested on suspicion of unlawful assembly and failure to disperse, the CHP said. . . . The Los Angeles chapter of If Not Now shared images of the protesters holding up signs on the freeway to commemorate a Jewish day of mourning and fasting.

'To all those stuck in traffic, we sincerely apologize for the disruption to your day,' the group said in its Instagram post. 'We are especially sorry to the working class people whose lives have been affected. As a cross-class organization, we have a deep understanding of the impact of this kind of action. However, we also know that what hurts working class people more than standstill traffic is our tax money being spent on military aid to Israel while working families struggle to make ends meet in our own communities.' . . . The group said its protest was directed at Vice President Kamala Harris as it calls for the Democratic Party to reject the the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee."

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 14, 2024 10:29 AM (i0CiB)

280 I'm trying this now.

I told it my eyes have melted. It just came back and said if I'm able to communicate my eyes have not literally melted. Fucking attitude on this thing.
Posted by: Robert

Tell it you are using braille.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 14, 2024 10:29 AM (2KFCy)

281 Wages don't fix inflation.

Posted by: AlaBAMA

===

They can't be reasoned with. The flow chart is "What do the MAGA Jesus People believe?", "The opposite is Truth"

There is no room for observation in their belief system.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 14, 2024 10:29 AM (hCxGu)

282 I wonder how much longer xcancel will work?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2024 10:29 AM (63Dwl)

283 To be fair, when the nics keep changing, it can be hard to keep track of who is a troll vs who is just stupid.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 14, 2024 10:26 AM (/y8xj)

It's why I'm allowed to stick around, most times.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

284 Retired British train driver who chanted “Who the [bleep] is Allah?” sentenced to 18 months in jail for "violent disorder"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

But raping a 10-year-old is just A-Okay in the UK.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 10:30 AM (d9fT1)

285 I told it my eyes have melted. It just came back and said if I'm able to communicate my eyes have not literally melted. Fucking attitude on this thing.
Posted by: Robert at August 14, 2024 10:28 AM (YF/ER)
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Ask it whether someone in the process of being arrested saying "I can't breathe" is a statement of literal fact.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:30 AM (HnUIn)

286 As a cross-class organization, we have a deep understanding of the impact of this kind of action. However, we also know that what hurts working class people more than standstill traffic is our tax money being spent on military aid to Israel while working families struggle to make ends meet in our own communities.' .

QUIT GIVING WETBACKS MONEY!!!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 14, 2024 10:30 AM (2KFCy)

287 "There is no room for observation in their belief system."

Observation gets in the way of Utopia.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:30 AM (Ectld)

288
So John Kerry "stepped aside" as Climate Envoy Plenipotentiary Extraordinaire to help with the Biden re-election campaign.

Wonder how that's working out.

Posted by: Auspex at August 14, 2024 10:30 AM (j4U/Z)

289 So John Kerry "stepped aside" as Climate Envoy Plenipotentiary Extraordinaire to help with the Biden re-election campaign.

Wonder how that's working out.
Posted by: Auspex at August 14, 2024 10:30 AM (j4U/Z)

Someone should tell him Biden isn't running for re-election. Pelosi forced him out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

290 Driver who chanted “Who the [bleep] is Allah?” sentenced to 18 months in jail for "violent disorder"

But raping a 10-year-old is just A-Okay in the UK.
-------
Is there a solution to what's going on in England?

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:31 AM (Ectld)

291 I've never seen the name "Miles" attached to a woman.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

*******

Sarah Miles?
Vera Miles?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 14, 2024 10:31 AM (uCfKO)

292 Retired British train driver who chanted “Who the [bleep] is Allah?” sentenced to 18 months in jail for "violent disorder"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

But raping a 10-year-old is just A-Okay in the UK.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Dear Great Britain,

Who the fuck is allah? Sounds sus.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 14, 2024 10:31 AM (2KFCy)

293 Retired British train driver who chanted “Who the [bleep] is Allah?” sentenced to 18 months in jail for "violent disorder"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

But raping a 10-year-old is just A-Okay in the UK.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2024 10:30 AM (d9fT1)

*Puts on a turban*

BRB

Posted by: Robert at August 14, 2024 10:31 AM (YF/ER)

294 -------
Is there a solution to what's going on in England?
Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:31 AM (Ectld)

War.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

295 278 To be fair, when the nics keep changing, it can be hard to keep track of who is a troll vs who is just stupid.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 14, 2024 10:26 AM (/y8xj)
++++
Hey, now, some of us are both.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

If we follow Mannix's lead, and add "(Not a troll)" to our nics, I think we'll have them whipped!

Posted by: Moron Analyst (Not a Troll) at August 14, 2024 10:32 AM (JCZqz)

296 1. Government stops printing and borrowing money.

2. Drill Baby Drill.

Posted by: Close to Utopia As We Get at August 14, 2024 10:32 AM (YdEcD)

297 Kamala HQ Lies has surpassed 100,000 followers, with 70,000 of you following today.

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Almost as many followers as lies.

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 14, 2024 10:32 AM (CeERx)

298 Sarah Miles?
Vera Miles?
Posted by: Muldoon at August 14, 2024 10:31 AM (uCfKO)
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Fine, fine.

Given name.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:32 AM (HnUIn)

299 Snow Biege speaks!

rachel zegler (she/her/hers)
@rachelzegler
and always remember, free palestine.

-
Apparently, she going to do Romeo and Juliet. I guess we're not allowed to notice that she's a dinner theater 5.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:33 AM (L/fGl)

300 If we follow Mannix's lead, and add "(Not a troll)" to our nics, I think we'll have them whipped!

Good idea.

Posted by: Oddbob (Just Stupid) at August 14, 2024 10:33 AM (/y8xj)

301 rachel zegler (she/her/hers)
@rachelzegler
and always remember, free palestine.

What's a 'palestine?' Why would I want it for free?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

302 Is there a solution to what's going on in England?
Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:31 AM (Ectld)

War.
Posted by: Sponge

That sounds pretty hateful. How about capitulation and conversion to Islam? Sounds a lot easier, and more inclusive. And the local imam said Islam respects women, minorities and ALL faiths!!!

Posted by: British Leadership at August 14, 2024 10:33 AM (JCZqz)

303 282 I wonder how much longer xcancel will work?
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The Nitter version lasted for a fair bit of time and still works for most sites although not as well as xcancel, so far.

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 14, 2024 10:33 AM (i0CiB)

304
...and then shortly after this painting was made, World War 1 destroyed everything.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 14, 2024 10:33 AM (biznJ)

305 Rachel Zegler is no Thisbe

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2024 10:34 AM (z2JEU)

306 Art: why have they all removed their hats?

Posted by: Is it a code? at August 14, 2024 10:34 AM (DobEs)

307 Title of the piece should have been "A Momentous Day In Music History".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 14, 2024 10:34 AM (U7wke)

308 I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

309 I dated a very nonchalant lady once.
Her name was Miles Stand-off-ish.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 14, 2024 10:34 AM (w9Wax)

310 Dear @KamalaHQ:

I was told that calling her Kamala was racist and sexist.

Please advise

Posted by: blaster at August 14, 2024 10:34 AM (xhfG9)

311 Inflation were that thing of around that year. Which were offset by wage growing. You are a guys appreciation always am living on an alternate universe. Inflation is currently 2-3%. It’s why are nobody listens to right wingers, you are a take don't clue around anything

Posted by: MAGA is weird (But I like to eat my own shit) at August 14, 2024 10:35 AM (SLNT+)

312 >>> 289 So John Kerry "stepped aside" as Climate Envoy Plenipotentiary Extraordinaire to help with the Biden re-election campaign.

Wonder how that's working out.
Posted by: Auspex at August 14, 2024 10:30 AM (j4U/Z)

Someone should tell him Biden isn't running for re-election. Pelosi forced him out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

If Jawn Cary is no longer Climate Envoy Plenipotentiary Extraordinaire, does that mean we're all going to die of glowball warmening?!
Also, why the fck has that lazy bastard Poo Tin *STILL* not confiscated, or better yet sunk with JK on it, JK's yacht?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 14, 2024 10:35 AM (FnneF)

313 I've never seen the name "Miles" attached to a woman.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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

Next you'll be telling me that Miles Davis wasn't a black lesbian transgender woman.

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 14, 2024 10:36 AM (CeERx)

314 Dear @KamalaHQ:

I was told that calling her Kamala was racist and sexist.

Please advise
Posted by: blaster at August 14, 2024 10:34 AM (xhfG9)

Yes, it is. Henceforth she shall be known as Cackleface McSucksCock. -- KamalaHQ

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 14, 2024 10:36 AM (U7wke)

315 Speaking of money.
Well, somebody upthread was.
Anyway, Geezer Golf yesterday, we played a four man scramble. My team won. Pocketed $22 !!!
Woohoo!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 14, 2024 10:36 AM (W/lyH)

316 If I lost track of time, was behind schedule or hate drawing background, I'd make everything foggy too.....

Posted by: Stateless at August 14, 2024 10:36 AM (jvJvP)

317 The pieman becomes concerned for his pies.

Posted by: Eromero at August 14, 2024 10:36 AM (LHPAg)

318 Tonight we are Thisbeans!

Posted by: Some gay musical at August 14, 2024 10:36 AM (DobEs)

319 Next you'll be telling me that Miles Davis wasn't a black lesbian transgender woman.
Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 14, 2024 10:36 AM (CeERx)
++++
One out of four ain't bad.

Posted by: Not Meat Loaf at August 14, 2024 10:36 AM (HnUIn)

320 What's the latest from Never A Straight Answer on the Space Edsel?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2024 10:37 AM (z2JEU)

321 301 rachel zegler (she/her/hers)

Pronouns listed, opinion discarded.

What's a 'palestine?' Why would I want it for free?

I'm still trying to figure out what I have to buy to get a free Palestine and why a city in Texas so important to college students.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 14, 2024 10:37 AM (/8Il0)

322 20 francs, same as in town.

Posted by: Monsieur Courbet at August 14, 2024 10:37 AM (a3Q+t)

323 What's a 'palestine?' Why would I want it for free?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

I already got more palestine than I want now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

324 What about East Palestine?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2024 10:38 AM (z2JEU)

325

Q:“Who the [bleep] is Allah?”
A: The new ruler of the UK

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2024 10:38 AM (63Dwl)

326 305 Rachel Zegler is no Thisbe
Posted by: Anna Puma

https://tinyurl.com/53xz5r62

Or zero-G Kate Upton.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 14, 2024 10:38 AM (JCZqz)

327 With two you get egg roll.

Posted by: Just the punchline at August 14, 2024 10:39 AM (DobEs)

328 What's the latest from Never A Straight Answer on the Space Edsel?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2024 10:37 AM (z2JEU)

If 2 astronauts are stranded...are the other astronauts stranded, too?

Posted by: BignJames at August 14, 2024 10:39 AM (AwYPR)

329 What about East Palestine?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2024 10:38 AM (z2JEU)
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You mean the West Bank? We can't build a pier in the West Bank! There's no ocean!

Posted by: Media Analyst at August 14, 2024 10:39 AM (HnUIn)

330 I don't want to think about a halal egg roll.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2024 10:39 AM (z2JEU)

331 We can assure you that all of our Palace forks have tines.

Posted by: Royal Fork Manufacturing Ltd. at August 14, 2024 10:39 AM (w9Wax)

332 The Junta now says Iran will refrain from attacking Israel only if they stop killing Hamas. Our government, acting n our names, is supporting Iran with a statement aimed at Israel.

Michael Oren, meanwhile published an essay begging the US to support Israel. Pure fantasy, as he knew when he wrote it, so I figure he is writing to remind American Jews what a supportive policy once was, and could be again (with new leadership). That is probably ss close as an Israeli diplomat can get to endorsing Trump.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 14, 2024 10:39 AM (arJAs)

333 323 What's a 'palestine?' Why would I want it for free?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

I already got more palestine than I want now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

Tell Joey it's "Palace Teen" and watch him perk up!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 14, 2024 10:40 AM (x0n13)

334 I love it when "experts" tell us poor folks out here in the cheap seats that we never had it so good.

Yeah. Go with that.

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 10:40 AM (cMU4o)

335 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 14, 2024 10:38 AM (JCZqz)
++++
I'm calling it.

The dude pictured is a grifter. He can't possibly actually mean it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:40 AM (HnUIn)

336 You could come to Indiana and get a New Palestine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2024 10:40 AM (63Dwl)

337 The dude pictured is a grifter. He can't possibly actually mean it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

He?!?! It's ma'am!!!!!!

Posted by: The Dude Pictured at August 14, 2024 10:41 AM (JCZqz)

338 You could come to Indiana and get a New Palestine.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2024 10:40 AM (63Dwl)
++++
Stick with the classics.

Posted by: Lebanon (Ohio) at August 14, 2024 10:41 AM (HnUIn)

339 He?!?! It's ma'am!!!!!!
Posted by: The Dude Pictured at August 14, 2024 10:41 AM (JCZqz)
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LOL. Sure it is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:41 AM (HnUIn)

340 Guess we'll never get Tyre of this.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2024 10:42 AM (z2JEU)

341 "Dear @KamalaHQ: I was told that calling her Kamala was racist and sexist. Please advise."

Stop looking me in the eyes!

Posted by: Kumula at August 14, 2024 10:42 AM (Ectld)

342 Thank you, Donna, Robert, and Ciampino for the
good wishes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 10:42 AM (v6JzV)

343 The DU retards are comparing net worth to wages. Do they even have the slightest comprehension of economics or logic? (That's a rhetorical question.)

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 14, 2024 10:42 AM (XMwZJ)

344 338 You could come to Indiana and get a New Palestine.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2024 10:40 AM (63Dwl)
++++
Stick with the classics.
Posted by: Lebanon (Ohio)

You were saying?

Posted by: Delphi (Indiana) at August 14, 2024 10:42 AM (JCZqz)

345 Serendipity answers the troll:

New York Post @nypost 1h
US inflation hits 2.9% in July, paving way for Fed to finally start cutting rates

Catturd ™ @catturd2 1h
Nice fake number -- but I live in the real world -- my grocery and pet food bills have doubled under Biden and gas prices have more than doubled.

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 14, 2024 10:43 AM (i0CiB)

346 I like how the ambulatory flounder can't even be bothered to capitalize the place she wants us to always remember to free, whatever that retarded phrasing means.

Posted by: spindrift at August 14, 2024 10:43 AM (OguvZ)

347 More Than 1,000 Anti-Mass Migration Protestors and Social Media Posters Arrested in Britain

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A thousand here, a thousand there, pretty soon it begins to add up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:43 AM (L/fGl)

348 Art: why have they all removed their hats?
Posted by: Is it a code? at August 14, 2024 10:34 AM

Good job. An advanced art critic (such as your Kris) would also note no bats, cats, fats, mats, gnats, oats, pats, rats, tats, or vats, and given their poor back development, lats.

Posted by: Jean Courbet at August 14, 2024 10:43 AM (a3Q+t)

349 That feMale boxer has filed a lawsuit against Musk and JK Rowling.

Discovery is gonna be a bitch.

Bwahahahahahahaha!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 14, 2024 10:44 AM (2KFCy)

350 343 The DU retards are comparing net worth to wages. Do they even have the slightest comprehension of economics or logic? (That's a rhetorical question.)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent
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Seeing as many if not most of them are government employees, present or retired, to them, money comes from government.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2024 10:44 AM (7nYLv)

351 You were saying?
Posted by: Delphi (Indiana) at August 14, 2024 10:42 AM (JCZqz)
+++++
Pffft.

Posted by: Troy (New York) at August 14, 2024 10:44 AM (HnUIn)

352 343 The DU retards are comparing net worth to wages. Do they even have the slightest comprehension of economics or logic? (That's a rhetorical question.)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 14, 2024 10:42 AM (XMwZJ
They ain’t had their cookies took yet.

Posted by: Eromero at August 14, 2024 10:44 AM (LHPAg)

353 "That feMale boxer has filed a lawsuit against Musk and JK Rowling."

The new attack is apparently to claim all your internet are belong to us.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:44 AM (Ectld)

354 Why do Democrats openly support Russia's strategic ally Iran? 👀

Posted by: ... at August 14, 2024 10:44 AM (JrF6z)

355 *Ithaca chambers a round*

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2024 10:45 AM (z2JEU)

356 Doesn't nearly every state have a town named "Palestine?"

My wife's from Palestine, WV. Same place Jessica Lynch's from.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2024 10:45 AM (Q4IgG)

357 Catturd ™ @catturd2 1h
Nice fake number -- but I live in the real world -- my grocery and pet food bills have doubled under Biden and gas prices have more than doubled.
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB)

Now do insurance.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 14, 2024 10:45 AM (CIS44)

358 What's a 'palestine?' Why would I want it for free?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 14, 2024 10:33 AM

It might as well be. You can't even give those things away these days.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 14, 2024 10:45 AM (ZANHd)

359 This is SPARTA!!!

Posted by: Sparta, GA at August 14, 2024 10:45 AM (i0CiB)

360 More Than 1,000 Anti-Mass Migration Protestors and Social Media Posters Arrested in Britain

-
A thousand here, a thousand there, pretty soon it begins to add up.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:43 AM (L/fGl)
***

Pity they couldnt own weapons.
Be making your plans now folks.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 14, 2024 10:45 AM (W/lyH)

361 Bonjour Monsieur Courbet
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I had presumed it was Dr. Livingstone.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 14, 2024 10:46 AM (dZE4s)

362 To all those stuck in traffic, we sincerely apologize for the disruption to juggle to make ends meet in our own communities.' . . . The group said its protest was directed at Vice President Kamala American Israel Public Affairs Committee."
Posted by: andycanuck

IOW: please don't throw us in jail. We were never held accountable before.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 14, 2024 10:46 AM (FxH7T)

363
Please watch Donald Trump and Elon Musk dance moves

"Stayin' Alive"

https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1823581650653204750

Posted by: Don Black at August 14, 2024 10:46 AM (/7KEl)

364 never seen the name "Miles" attached to a woman.

As in that woman has a lot of miles on her?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 14, 2024 10:47 AM (vcrYA)

365 You could come to Indiana and get a New Palestine.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2024 10:40 AM (63Dwl)
++++
Stick with the classics.
Posted by: Lebanon (Ohio)

You were saying?
Posted by: Delphi (Indiana) at August 14, 2024 10:42 AM

Que?

Posted by: Mexico, NY at August 14, 2024 10:47 AM (ZANHd)

366 Somebody started a meme saying the Starliner/ISS thing reminds them of those old word problems where you have a raft, two chickens, two foxes, and have to get to the other side kind of thing.

They aren't too sure about the safety risk of a crewed undocking. At the same time, the capability for an uncrewed undocking and re-entry - autonomous - is not incorporated into the current software.

In theory, all sorts of things can potentially happen, that need to be considered. A crewed or uncrewed undocking that went seriously awry could damage the ISS itself, or the docking ring.

They don't have press conferences any longer? Because everyone has to be NASA-ologists now, reverse engineering cryptic statements to try and figure out what's going on. Very weasel word-ish pronouncements, vague and third person kind of word salad.

They keep talking about "test" this and that, yet they did send a crew up on it. Is it safe, or not? Clearly "not" has the upper hand here. I can't imagine (at this point) they send the Starliner back crewed, so this means after a 7 year delay, the astronauts will be coming back to Earth on a different spacecraft. Maybe not, but we're gonna find out soon.

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 10:47 AM (cMU4o)

367 This is about me, isn’t it?

Posted by: Pella, Iowa at August 14, 2024 10:47 AM (v6JzV)

368 Biden Bizarrely Starts Screaming at Cancer Event, Seems to Forget What Year It Is and Obama's Name

https://is.gd/MIeQiT

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Fit as a fiddle!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

369 Bonjour Monsieur Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet

About
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. Wikipedia
Born: June 10, 1819, Ornans, France
Died: December 31, 1877 (age 58 years), La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
Influenced: Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, James McNeill Whistler, MORE
Period: Realism
Influenced by: Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, Hokusai, Francisco de Zurbarán, Diego Velázquez
Parents: Régis Courbet, Sylvie Oudot
Wikipedia

Like the realism movement; Courbet was a brilliant artist.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 14, 2024 10:48 AM (NFX2v)

370
What's a 'palestine?' Why would I want it for free?
Posted by: Sponge

It might as well be. You can't even give those things away these days.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Proof that there is no inflation.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2024 10:48 AM (63Dwl)

371 I love the "inflation was offset by wage growth" argument. Wage growth drives higher costs for goods and services.

As an aside, Canada's current outrage is that grocery chains are making "record profits", according to CBC. But according to an agricultural market report, so are their suppliers and various workers in the supply chain.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 14, 2024 10:48 AM (gJoNf)

372 Now do insurance.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 14, 2024 10:45 AM (CIS44)

I carry USAA. Excellent insurance. But even they are getting pricey. Mrs D was asking about that. I told her its two things: Bidenomics/Inflation; and there are 50,000 illegals driving on out roads within a 75 mile radius. All uninsured.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 14, 2024 10:48 AM (W/lyH)

373 Off, sock.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 10:48 AM (v6JzV)

374 356 Doesn't nearly every state have a town named "Palestine?"

My wife's from Palestine, WV. Same place Jessica Lynch's from.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2024 10:45 AM (Q4IgG
Wonder how Jessica Lynch is today?

Posted by: Eromero at August 14, 2024 10:48 AM (LHPAg)

375 The DU retards are comparing net worth to wages. Do they even have the slightest comprehension of economics or logic? (That's a rhetorical question.)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 14, 2024 10:42 AM (XMwZJ)
++++
This is extremely common, and it is not a lefty/prog thing or exclusively their problem.

There is a serious, widespread problem of people conflating income (affluence) with wealth (net worth) with liquidity (cash or easily-convertible assets). "He earns $125k, he's rich" is a terrible assessment. Affluent people are more *likely* to be wealthy, but affluence and wealth are not the same things, and wealth isn't necessarily spendable without a lot of friction and discounting.

There are plenty of affluent people who are broke as hell (I know some of them) and plenty of middle-income people who have a decent net worth and can weather a financial storm and have an emergency fund.

It's better to be middle-income and responsible with some money in the bank than to be affluent and broke, with liabilities piled to the moon and no liquid capital cushion - but the affluent guy with no money is "rich" and the middle-income guy who can survive a problem is just a rube.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:49 AM (HnUIn)

376 Pffft. Mecca is in California.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 14, 2024 10:49 AM (vcrYA)

377 The question I have for Disney is why they hired Rachel Zegler for the Snow White role opposite Gal Gadot, when they could have gotten Lizzo. The scenes of her dancing with the 7 little people would have burned out kid's brains for years.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 14, 2024 10:49 AM (Da7Vv)

378 Palestiner will come.

Posted by: ... at August 14, 2024 10:49 AM (JrF6z)

379 276 DO NOT QUOTE Trolls.

To be fair, when the nics keep changing, it can be hard to keep track of who is a troll vs who is just stupid.
Posted by: Oddbob
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That tis the rub. One can prevent that but that also prevents AOS trademark sock puppetry. Or one can do registration that creates a database identifying who the posters are. Third is to charge per post which doubtless would be popular. So far, option four which is to allow the trolls but permit them to be relentlessly treated as chew toys for the real commenters.

The primitive and proprietary nature of AOS software prevents the really bad robotrolling you see on Breitbart or Insty. Conservative Treehouse also rolled their own software to prevent all sorts of poo flinging troll monkeys.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2024 10:49 AM (7nYLv)

380 I carry USAA. Excellent insurance. But even they are getting pricey. Mrs D was asking about that. I told her its two things: Bidenomics/Inflation; and there are 50,000 illegals driving on out roads within a 75 mile radius. All uninsured.
Posted by: Diogenes

Auto has gone bonkers like 53% and our homeowners is outpacing that. What my parents are paying for their condo in FL has gone super insane.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 14, 2024 10:50 AM (CIS44)

381 "I love the "inflation was offset by wage growth" argument. Wage growth drives higher costs for goods and services."

The technical term is red herring. It works on people who don't really follow economics at all or debate on line because they know things are broke but aren't really sure how to fix it.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:50 AM (Ectld)

382 Daddy issues.

Harris Wants to Incentivize Fatherless Homes

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

383 Speaking of Delphi... The trial of the guy who's charged with abducting and murdering those tween girls on that weirdly warm (almost) Valentine's day. Weird, weird case. "Odinism". Wth?

https://shorturl.at/EAbcS

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 14, 2024 10:51 AM (JCLJi)

384 Palestiner will come.

Posted by: ... at August 14, 2024 10:49 AM (JrF6z)

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

And Hell is coming with him ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 14, 2024 10:51 AM (Z9zQK)

385 rachel zegler (she/her/hers)
@rachelzegler
and always remember, free palestine.
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Come and get it, bitch!

Regards from Jerusalem, the eternal capital city of the Jewish nation!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 14, 2024 10:52 AM (dZE4s)

386 The media that was so upset they were "fooled" by Joe Biden's team are now publishing everything Kamala's team says as gospel.

🤔

Posted by: ... at August 14, 2024 10:52 AM (JrF6z)

387 There are plenty of affluent people who are broke as hell (I know some of them) and plenty of middle-income people who have a decent net worth and can weather a financial storm and have an emergency fund.

It's better to be middle-income and responsible with some money in the bank than to be affluent and broke, with liabilities piled to the moon and no liquid capital cushion - but the affluent guy with no money is "rich" and the middle-income guy who can survive a problem is just a rube.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Debt, either public or private, is a lever that can either help one on the upside if done for investing purposes or screw a person royally if on the wrong side of it. Done for consumption reasons, it is almost always a source for evil because you may eat today but will starve tomorrow.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2024 10:52 AM (7nYLv)

388 Harris Wants to Incentivize Fatherless Homes
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:51 AM

Too late.

Posted by: The Great Society at August 14, 2024 10:52 AM (ZANHd)

389 Harris Wants to Incentivize Fatherless Homes

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

I thought they already were?

Posted by: BignJames at August 14, 2024 10:52 AM (AwYPR)

390 Now do insurance.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 14, 2024 10:45 AM (CIS44)

Seriously. I pay more now for two vehicles/drivers than we used to pay for three.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 14, 2024 10:53 AM (JCLJi)

391 Jessica Lynch?? The serial killer from Cabot Cove, Maine??

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 14, 2024 10:53 AM (i0CiB)

392 Sarah Miles

Posted by: Don Black at August 14, 2024 10:53 AM (/7KEl)

393 385 rachel zegler (she/her/hers)
@rachelzegler
and always remember, free palestine.

Well, sure it is, now that the Israelis have leveled it. Seems like a no-brainer, but if you take the property, you're responsible for all the clean up!

Posted by: Real Estate Investor at August 14, 2024 10:54 AM (JCZqz)

394 385 rachel zegler (she/her/hers)
@rachelzegler
and always remember, free palestine.
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Is it just me or is she actually creepy looking ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 14, 2024 10:54 AM (IyPmt)

395 Debt, either public or private, is a lever that can either help one on the upside if done for investing purposes or screw a person royally if on the wrong side of it. Done for consumption reasons, it is almost always a source for evil because you may eat today but will starve tomorrow.
Posted by: whig at August 14, 2024 10:52 AM (7nYLv)
++++
Yup. Debt-fueled consumption is a recipe for disaster. You can more easily get away with it if you're young, because you're likely at the bottom of your earnings and can afford to cheat a bit because you're probably going to be earning significantly more in the relatively near future and can pull out of the dive.

It gets more and more dangerous the more you earn and the older you get. If you're earning $150k and spending every penny of it and then some in your 30s or 40s, you're probably boned. Jobs paying that much are *very* hard to come by, and your high-rate wage growth is behind you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 10:54 AM (HnUIn)

396 Please watch Donald Trump and Elon Musk dance moves
"Stayin' Alive"
https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1823581650653204750
Posted by: Don Black at August 14, 2024 10:46 AM (/7KEl)

To steal a phrase from Sponge:

That's hot.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 14, 2024 10:55 AM (JCLJi)

397 Auto has gone bonkers like 53% and our homeowners is outpacing that. What my parents are paying for their condo in FL has gone super insane.
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Hurricane damage and conflating buying a new roof with insurance is what is driving Florida's home insurance problems.

You want beachfront living, sooner or later a hurricane comes calling and between the storm surge and the wind, something is gonna break.

We have the technology to build relatively bombproof dwellings for hurricane prone places but most people don't want to live in an elevated reinforced concrete hut with few windows.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2024 10:55 AM (7nYLv)

398 Richard Gere and his gerbils vacation here!

Posted by: Colon, Michigan at August 14, 2024 10:55 AM (Y1sOo)

399 Daddy issues.

Harris Wants to Incentivize Fatherless Homes

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

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She's about 60 years too late.

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 14, 2024 10:55 AM (Z9zQK)

400 391 The baby that they rescued from the well became a serial killer? Must’ve really traumatized her.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2024 10:56 AM (v6JzV)

401 She owns ALL of the Biden-Harris administration's policies. No wiggling out from under.

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Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 14, 2024 10:56 AM (NFX2v)

402
"Your pronouns or your life!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 14, 2024 10:56 AM (xG4kz)

403 Sarah Miles

Posted by: Don Black at August 14, 2024 10:53 AM (/7KEl)

Kristofferson put some miles on her.

Posted by: BignJames at August 14, 2024 10:56 AM (AwYPR)

404 What could possibly go wrong?

California Democrats Revive Legislation Allowing Murderers Sentenced to Life to Be Released Early

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

405 Hurricane damage and conflating buying a new roof with insurance is what is driving Florida's home insurance problems.

You want beachfront living, sooner or later a hurricane comes calling and between the storm surge and the wind, something is gonna break.

We have the technology to build relatively bombproof dwellings for hurricane prone places but most people don't want to live in an elevated reinforced concrete hut with few windows.

Posted by: whig a

It also has to do with the condo collapse that led to govt intervention into the insurance market there.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 14, 2024 10:57 AM (CIS44)

406
California Democrats Revive Legislation Allowing Murderers Sentenced to Life to Be Released Early
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

I guess there's too much murdering needing to be done out there.

Posted by: It's me donna at August 14, 2024 10:57 AM (IyPmt)

407 Driver who chanted “Who the [bleep] is Allah?” sentenced to 18 months in jail for "violent disorder."

Christianity has been denigrated in far worse terms for a very long time, and we were always told that's just freedom.

Posted by: Free To Do What You Are Told at August 14, 2024 10:57 AM (mFz+I)

408 398 Richard Gere and his gerbils vacation here!
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Heads up, Gerbils from Kazakhstan is where the Black Plague came from.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 14, 2024 10:57 AM (FmapG)

409
Mrs. Auspex has informed me that Medicare will set us back $3,500 more in 2025 due to implementation of the inflation reduction act.

Posted by: Auspex at August 14, 2024 10:57 AM (j4U/Z)

410 From a sociological perspective, nothing destroyed the family - basic building block of any society - more thoroughly than "Welfare" of the 1960s.

Quite literally, intact families were ineligible for "assistance", and thus fatherless homes headed by "single mothers" dependent on the kindness of strangers for the very fiber of their being became the norm, and not just for "minorities". Such an arrangement can only be devised or considered acceptable by outright monsters. We're living in the result of this, and other "inexplicable" government rules, procedures, laws, etc.

It is nice to live under the delusion that government will allow us to live at the expense of someone else. It "works" for a little while. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you got.

Humans have to re-learn pretty much everything, every generation? Democrats at the national level, rhetoric wise are like the slow kid who really belongs in a separate class for the short bus people.

We waste decades explaining stupid shit to them, that they should already know, shit that was gamed out 3000 years ago, but they insist "this time it's different".

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 10:58 AM (cMU4o)

411 > Wonder how Jessica Lynch is today?
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Teaching 5th graders in WV.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2024 10:58 AM (Q4IgG)

412 California Democrats Revive Legislation Allowing Murderers Sentenced to Life to Be Released Early
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 14, 2024 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

The legislature assumes that the murderers will leave Cali like everyone else. Then it's not their problem.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 14, 2024 10:58 AM (U7wke)

413 There is one by Gaugin, titled "Bonjour, Monsieur Gauguin". Painted in 1889 (vs one above by Courbet painted in 1854) Isn't that interesting ? Where is Kris to make sense of it all ?!!

Posted by: runner at August 14, 2024 10:58 AM (V13WU)

414
Please watch Donald Trump and Elon Musk dance moves
"Stayin' Alive"

Amazing stuff.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 14, 2024 10:59 AM (RKVpM)

415 391 Jessica Lynch?? The serial killer from Cabot Cove, Maine??

well, she's always referred to as "mrs. fletcher"; it's certainly possible that her maiden name is "lynch"

Posted by: anachronda at August 14, 2024 10:59 AM (oY6Yp)

416 353 "That feMale boxer has filed a lawsuit against Musk and JK Rowling."

The new attack is apparently to claim all your internet are belong to us.
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That stupid boxer and her cohorts probably never have heard of SLAAP laws that allow the person to countersue. Never sue an individual that can hire lawyers by the truckload--they will always find a way to screw you via lawfare.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2024 10:59 AM (7nYLv)

417 California Democrats Revive Legislation Allowing Murderers Sentenced to Life to Be Released Early
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems

Which is what I always said my problem with shelving the death penalty is. They will inevitably claim life in prison is wrong and then finally that prison itself is wrong.

Posted by: ... at August 14, 2024 11:00 AM (JrF6z)

418 Of course it's way too late to say this now:

You sure took your sweet time getting here, Godot.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 14, 2024 11:00 AM (0eaVi)

419 One of my favorite writers, Roger Kimball, has an appropriate essay for the Art thread (via Insy link):

"What the Right Gets Wrong About Art"

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/yuxb93v5

Posted by: mrp at August 14, 2024 11:00 AM (rj6Yv)

420 Ah, that belle epoque where one went exploring wearing spats and a vest!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 14, 2024 11:01 AM (D7oie)

421 then finally that prison itself is wrong.
Posted by: ... at August 14, 2024 11:00 AM (JrF6z)

Unless you're Trump

Posted by: It's me donna at August 14, 2024 11:01 AM (IyPmt)

422 That stupid boxer and her cohorts probably never have heard of SLAAP laws that allow the person to countersue. Never sue an individual that can hire lawyers by the truckload--they will always find a way to screw you via lawfare.
Posted by: whig

Even moreso. Never file a lawsuit when you are actively trying to hide something.

Discovery is a bitch.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 14, 2024 11:01 AM (2KFCy)

423 Mrs. Auspex has informed me that Medicare will set us back $3,500 more in 2025 due to implementation of the inflation reduction act.

Posted by: Auspex at August 14, 2024 10:57 AM (j4U/Z)

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There's a Trump Campaign ad.

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 14, 2024 11:02 AM (Z9zQK)

424 We have the technology to build relatively bombproof dwellings for hurricane prone places but most people don't want to live in an elevated reinforced concrete hut with few windows.
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How about having Vauban-fortress style outer ramparts? As far as I know the Castillo de San Marcos hasn't blown over into the sea yet.

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 14, 2024 11:02 AM (i0CiB)

425 Done for consumption reasons, it is almost always a source for evil because you may eat today but will starve tomorrow.
Posted by: whig at August 14, 2024 10:52 AM (7nYLv)

In the long run, we're all dead.

Posted by: zombie john maynard keynes at August 14, 2024 11:02 AM (mFz+I)

426 Yeah, they shut down the insane asylums. One reason the US is an open air zoo in places.

50 years later, now they want to empty the Prisons.

What could go wrong? I mean, I'm sure this is fine. Right? The expert on the TV wouldn't lie to me

Posted by: O.W. Holmes at August 14, 2024 11:03 AM (cMU4o)

427 We're here from the EU and we've read your social media posts.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump/Vance 2024 at August 14, 2024 11:03 AM (wGerL)

428 408 Heads up, Gerbils from Kazakhstan is where the Black Plague came from.

eddies in the space-time continuum > gerbils from kazakhstan

Posted by: anachronda at August 14, 2024 11:03 AM (oY6Yp)

429 It's uncouth to call one's own thread, but the degenerates upstairs didn't do it so,

NOOD ME

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 14, 2024 11:03 AM (HnUIn)

430 It also has to do with the condo collapse that led to govt intervention into the insurance market there.
Posted by: BruceWayne

The government involvement in insurance is because commercial insurers want no part in it. Already, in most of the US, commercial insurers are essentially paying for roofing repairs from normal wind, hail, etc. and elevated houses in small lot subdivisions with no large trees suffer a lot of damage. Home designs are a lot more 'sophisticated' regarding rooflines, multi-level, etc. than the humble ranch style homes and as a result--suffer more wind damage to roofing and it is more expensive to fix.

So, condo owners of well designed modern hurricane resistant construction, wise home owners that did likewise, etc. are all thrown into the pot for determining rates because you will pay rates on the lowest common denominator.

That is why No Fault car insurance states have literally insane premium levels compared to at fault.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2024 11:05 AM (7nYLv)

431 But first you will nood me!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 14, 2024 11:07 AM (i0CiB)

432 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at August 14, 2024 11:17 AM (/y8xj)

433 273 Are they spats or puttees?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2024 09:50 AM

I'd go with puttees or gaiters. Too high for spats.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 14, 2024 10:25 AM (ZANHd)
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Gaiters. We wore those when we did Cadets at school - full British Army uniform. In the band they were white. The others wore green.

Posted by: Ciampino - The Red Shirt Guy #01 at August 14, 2024 11:18 AM (qfLjt)

434 By Courbet, I do prefere L'origine du Monde.

Posted by: Anacleto Mitraglia at August 14, 2024 11:30 AM (nnVk5)

435 Pardonne-moi...do you have any Grey Poupon?

Posted by: connertown at August 14, 2024 12:02 PM (Xo5AT)

436 Is there a solution to what's going on in England?
Posted by: Ribbed at August 14, 2024 10:31 AM (Ectld)

Yeah, but it involves loud noises and fireballs and stuff. Ya, know...scary stuff.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 14, 2024 12:58 PM (iODuv)

437 Lots of apple orchards in Medina Texas.

Posted by: Faux News at August 14, 2024 03:03 PM (nvKZ7)

438 His theme song should be I,M a Travleing Man

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 14, 2024 04:25 PM (wGqjj)

439 Geet off me land, you smelleee heepster!!

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at August 14, 2024 11:35 PM (LKMDZ)

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