Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Monongahela River Valley, Pennsylvania
John Kane

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Howdy, CBD!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 09:30 AM (RhGG0)

2 cool

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 03, 2024 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

3 Hm. Interesting. Kinda cartoony, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 03, 2024 09:30 AM (v6JzV)

4 Trains, so ART!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 03, 2024 09:31 AM (hOUT3)

5 Socialist Realism?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2024 09:31 AM (RIvkX)

6 Darn it Doof!
But well done!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 03, 2024 09:31 AM (hOUT3)

7 Busy place, that Monongahela River Valley.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2024 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)

8 I like this, will hang.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at September 03, 2024 09:31 AM (ZtyUu)

9 The Monongahela and Allegany become the Ohio.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 03, 2024 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

10 Small trains.

Posted by: dantesed at September 03, 2024 09:32 AM (Oy/m2)

11 Needs some rust

Posted by: one hour sober at September 03, 2024 09:32 AM (Y1sOo)

12 Where's Scranton Joe in all this?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 03, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

13 "The Monongahela River Valley, Pennsylvania"

Before Prohibition, there was a lot of rye whiskey produced in those parts. Old Overholt is an homage to a distillery in the area. That's why you chose this one, right??

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 09:32 AM (RhGG0)

14 Wish had more detail, but it's ok

Posted by: Skip at September 03, 2024 09:32 AM (fwDg9)

15 The MET

Title: The Monongahela River Valley, Pennsylvania

Artist: John Kane (America, West Calder, Scotland 1860–1934 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Date: 1931

Culture: American

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28 x 38 in. (71.1 x 96.5 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 03, 2024 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

16 I don't know if there's a prettier area in the U.S. than Pennsylvania farm country. Tennessee might come close.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 03, 2024 09:32 AM (B0mGw)

17 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 03, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

18 Grandpa's model train table, viewed through a child's eyes. A child on a low dose of LSD.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 03, 2024 09:33 AM (JCZqz)

19 Unpleasant place.

Posted by: Charles Dickens at September 03, 2024 09:33 AM (hP2FM)

20 This painting should be banned for its obvious contributions to gorebal warmening.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 03, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

21 No rust?
No blue?

Posted by: Confused at September 03, 2024 09:33 AM (DobEs)

22 Look at all the CO2 being spewed willy-nilly and dooming the entire earth by 2025!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 03, 2024 09:33 AM (hOUT3)

23 Love this - would definitely hang. Grew up in steel country so - it's like home.

Those workers whom owned a vehicle didn't even bitch much about the ash and scale falling on their cars. They knew that was the price of working.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2024 09:33 AM (WXNFJ)

24 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. That looks like some of the water hazards on the golf course. Would not hang. But might throw my 4 iron into it. Lousy club.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2024 09:33 AM (W/lyH)

25 IDK if there are any working blast furnaces left on the Mon? Some are parks.

Posted by: DaveA at September 03, 2024 09:34 AM (FhXTo)

26 Workers being exploited there.

Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 09:34 AM (AwYPR)

27 Despite the loss of part of a leg in a railroad-related accident, his enthusiasm for Pittsburgh's industry and landscape was never extinguished.

part of leg WTF

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 03, 2024 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

28 Where's all the cancer from it raining oil?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 03, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

29 If you look closely you can see Scott Presler.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 03, 2024 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

30 Darn it Doof!
But well done!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 03, 2024 09:31 AM (hOUT3)

Thanks for your display of good sportsmanship!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 09:35 AM (RhGG0)

31 Train wreck pending.

Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 09:35 AM (AwYPR)

32 Last time I drove through there on I-70 to go to the kids' graduations, it was through a series of pouring thunderstorms. My arms ached for two days from grasping the steering wheel so tightly.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 03, 2024 09:35 AM (LxER7)

33 Thanks for your display of good sportsmanship!
Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 09:35 AM (RhGG0)

I must be doing it wrong then!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 03, 2024 09:36 AM (hOUT3)

34 John Kane was born of Irish parentage in West Calder, Scotland. At the age of nineteen he came to America, eventually taking up residence in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a city famous for its steel refineries.

His family was most likely abused by Uncle Joes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 03, 2024 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

35 16 I don't know if there's a prettier area in the U.S. than Pennsylvania farm country. Tennessee might come close.
Posted by: Ribbed

This painting is BORING. You want an interesting, spectacular view? Guess what I can do!

Posted by: Cuyahoga River at September 03, 2024 09:36 AM (JCZqz)

36 Look close and you'll see all the dead people voting.

Posted by: Twice. at September 03, 2024 09:36 AM (DobEs)

37
No dog, not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2024 09:36 AM (FLlbx)

38 too busy
no hang

Posted by: Don Black at September 03, 2024 09:36 AM (/7KEl)

39 9 The Monongahela and Allegany become the Ohio.
Posted by: rhennigantx

A very astute comment, but it is mandatory to use the word-CONFLUENCE-in connection with it.

Posted by: PA State Confluence Board at September 03, 2024 09:37 AM (CV8a5)

40 Avoid me like the plague.

Posted by: Breezewood at September 03, 2024 09:37 AM (DobEs)

41 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a city famous for its steel refineries.

His family was most likely abused by Uncle Joes.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 03, 2024 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

Steel refineries?

Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 09:37 AM (AwYPR)

42 What was that song that mentions the Allegheny and the Monongahela? I've been to Pittsburgh, and that's where those two rivers meet to form the Ohio.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 09:38 AM (J2vNu)

43 Oh yeah where's Gomez Addams to stage a train wreck

Posted by: Don Black at September 03, 2024 09:38 AM (/7KEl)

44
Not enough pollution

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2024 09:38 AM (FLlbx)

45 Scranton Joe

Scranton is NE PA.
The Mon is SW.

All the steel plants were right on the river. Usually not farm country.

Posted by: DaveA at September 03, 2024 09:38 AM (FhXTo)

46 I don't know if there's a prettier area in the U.S. than Pennsylvania farm country. Tennessee might come close.
Posted by: Ribbed

Lived in both - PA committed suicide. TN still has hope.

All the steel valleys I found exciting. When they were going strong, they gave off the feeling of muscle, prosperity, and high activity. The noise and flames of the open hearths and blast furnaces felt, I don't know, 'elemental' for lack of a better word.

But, after they all shut down, no place is sadder.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2024 09:38 AM (WXNFJ)

47 Somewhere in there, Lea Thompson is taking off her top, and Tom Cruise is pretending to be interested.

Posted by: spindrift at September 03, 2024 09:38 AM (OguvZ)

48
Steel refineries?
Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 09:37 AM (AwYPR)

__________

Right next to the oil mills.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2024 09:39 AM (FLlbx)

49 Not a fan of the style called naivism. Too flat and no subtle use of color. But the scene and subject are interesting and it does get the point across of a lot of activity.

Posted by: JTB at September 03, 2024 09:40 AM (zudum)

50 Right next to the oil mills.
___
And the corn factories.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at September 03, 2024 09:41 AM (DobEs)

51 Had an aunt and uncle who lived just outside Pittsburg. Probably the first 'big city' I visited until a NYC trip with the 8th grade. To visit art museums of all things.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2024 09:41 AM (Q4IgG)

52 Somewhere in there, Lea Thompson is taking off her top, and Tom Cruise is pretending to be interested.
Posted by: spindrift

What movie is this a reference to?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 03, 2024 09:41 AM (v6JzV)

53 "Monongahela."

Just one of those funny place names, like "Walla Walla." Or "Keokuk." Or "Cucamonga."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2024 09:41 AM (Q0kLU)

54 The Monongahela is but one of the Three Rivers. The "Three Rivers" concept is inclusive, and thus the appellation - and the colloquial name for Pittsburgh - is inclusive. Despite the apparent progressivism in the description, however, the ideal has never been achieved and has in fact backslid in recent years as well as historically.

This is a painting not rooted in the inclusivity of the "Three Rivers" concept, but in the arrogant and divisive worship of the singular. Monongahelan Supremacy defines this work, and the Allegheny and the Ohio are necessarily reduced. The co-equal triad was sacrificed to the ideal of the single, shattering the inclusive concept down to its core.

It is arguable that divisive paintings like this are counterweights to Allegheny dominance (Pittsburgh is in "Allegheny County," after all), but two wrongs do NOT make a right. The county name should be made inclusive rather than the art being made exclusive.

We still see this. "Three Rivers Stadium" was sacrificed on the altar of capital and corporate naming rights. Western culture has never prioritized inclusivity, and there's been barely any progress in the past century. We must redouble our efforts.

Posted by: Your Kid's Geography Professor at September 03, 2024 09:42 AM (HnUIn)

55 Trains, so ART!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 03, 2024 09:31 AM (hOUT3)

I can't keep up with these rules!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 03, 2024 09:42 AM (d9fT1)

56
Somewhere in there, Lea Thompson is taking off her top, and Tom Cruise is pretending to be interested.
Posted by: spindrift at September 03, 2024 09:38 AM (OguvZ)

She was smokin' hot in Casual Sex.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 03, 2024 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

57 Was his grandad Virgil Kane??

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 03, 2024 09:42 AM (CEzQx)

58
I can't keep up with these rules!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 03, 2024 09:42 AM (d9fT1)

The first rule of Art Thread is.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 03, 2024 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

59 Those workers whom owned a vehicle didn't even bitch much about the ash and scale falling on their cars. They knew that was the price of working.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2024

***
In early '02 I interviewed for an IT job at a manufacturing plant a little ways up the river. They warned me, and I saw evidence of it on the parked cars, that stuff was going to fall on my car if I worked there. When they didn't hire me I was rather glad; I cherished my fine-condition '86 Mercedes 420SEL and would not have wanted the finish ruined. I'd have had to buy a beater car for commuting.

Anyway, this does look rather like a model train setup except for the silvery ribbon of the water.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 09:42 AM (J2vNu)

60 Avoid me like the plague.
Posted by: Breezewood

Ah, the 'city of motels' back in the day. If anyone needs a lesson in governmental/commission rules and regs guaranteeing boneheaded decisions (in this case, ramps and connectors between superhighways), Breezewood is your unincorporated area.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2024 09:43 AM (WXNFJ)

61 The Monongahela River Valley, Pennsylvania

"That place really sucks."

- Gen. Edward Braddock

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 03, 2024 09:43 AM (LxER7)

62 Fun piece of sports trivia.
There is only one city in the US where fans can use the same two colors of face paint for all three professional sports teams.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at September 03, 2024 09:43 AM (DobEs)

63 don't you love our river names?

Allegheny, Monongahela, Susquehanna, Schuylkill ...

blame the dutch for that last one

anyway we do have fantastic rivers. Pitt area is so pretty in its way. this painting shows "its way"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:43 AM (s3qiR)

64 I can't keep up with these rules!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Me neither. What's that one -- the 20-comment rule? The 60-comment rule? I can never keep that one straight.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 03, 2024 09:43 AM (v6JzV)

65 I don't know if there's a prettier area in the U.S. than Pennsylvania farm country. Tennessee might come close.
Posted by: Ribbed

Meh. Every time I'm in Pennsylvania, I get an eerie feeling

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 09:44 AM (RhGG0)

66
I can't keep up with these rules!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 03, 2024 09:42 AM (d9fT1)

__________

Art:
Dog
Cat
Horse
Trains
Boobs

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2024 09:44 AM (FLlbx)

67 In the 50s, the Pittsburgh Pirates had a $24,000 infield. All four position players made the Major League minimum of $6,000. Pirates had Ralph Kiner and not much else. Well, they had coal and smokestacks, too.

Posted by: Basement Dweller at September 03, 2024 09:44 AM (CV8a5)

68 The first rule of Art Thread is.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 03, 2024 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
To loudly and publicly discuss the art thread!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 03, 2024 09:44 AM (HnUIn)

69 >>Somewhere in there, Lea Thompson is taking off her top, and Tom Cruise is pretending to be interested.

Sixty-two stack monster. Ready...BREAK!

Posted by: Ampipe Bulldogs Football at September 03, 2024 09:44 AM (Y1sOo)

70
Meh. Every time I'm in Pennsylvania, I get an eerie feeling
Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 09:44 AM (RhGG0)

Intercourse!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 03, 2024 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

71 Just one of those funny place names, like "Walla Walla." Or "Keokuk." Or "Cucamonga."

they're Native American names - like the river here by me, the Delaware.

Schuylkill no that's Dutch

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:45 AM (s3qiR)

72 Scranton Joe

Scranton is NE PA.
The Mon is SW.

All the steel plants were right on the river. Usually not farm country.
Posted by: DaveA

Don't tell me where Scranon is, Jack! I grew up there! Originally, my pappy worked in the steel mills of Scranton in SW Pennsylvania, but then we moved to the Scranton of NE Pennsylvania today, where we both worked in a coal mine AND a steel plant. Beau, my son, bless him, worked there, too, until the drunk driver killed him and my wife while on combat duties 300 feet underground fighting the Morlocks...

Posted by: Lyin' Joe Biden, confabulator extraordinaire at September 03, 2024 09:45 AM (JCZqz)

73 62 Fun piece of sports trivia.
There is only one city in the US where fans can use the same two colors of face paint for all three professional sports teams.
Posted by: Cliff Clavin at September 03, 2024 09:43 AM (DobEs)

Yup. That little bit of knowledge cost me on a trivia night. Now I'll never forget it.

Posted by: Kris at September 03, 2024 09:45 AM (EwaUh)

74 Meh. Every time I'm in Pennsylvania, I get an eerie feeling
Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 09:44 AM (RhGG0)

Intercourse!

and if not that, Blue Ball!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:45 AM (s3qiR)

75 Tummy Rub Tuesday!
Tummy Rub Tuesday!
Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Best day of the week!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 03, 2024 09:45 AM (tEB0M)

76 I kinda like Breezewood, actually. The epicenter of American roadside kitsch.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 03, 2024 09:46 AM (v6JzV)

77 Meh. Every time I'm in Pennsylvania, I get an eerie feeling
Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 09:44 AM (RhGG0)

Intercourse!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 03, 2024 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

I prefer to spend time in New Freedom

Posted by: Tim Walz at September 03, 2024 09:46 AM (RhGG0)

78 Gaze upon me, Pennsylvania, and behold your future.

Posted by: Centralia at September 03, 2024 09:46 AM (HnUIn)

79
Terry, Franco & Ben - a limerick

Where the Allegheny meets the Monongahelas
You'll find burglars, thieves and sneaky bottom-dealers
Pickpockets, pillagers, grifters
Looters, con men, shoplifters
Collectively they're called the Pittsburgh Stealers

Posted by: Muldoon at September 03, 2024 09:47 AM (991eG)

80 Philly in the east.
Pittsburgh in the west.
Alabama in between.

Posted by: As any school child can tell you at September 03, 2024 09:47 AM (DobEs)

81 what's wrong with Breezewood?

the places like that shown in the painting, that are dilapidated - Chester City, Norristown, Reading, Easton - well they try. they are worse than Breezewood tho.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:47 AM (s3qiR)

82 ...its going to take a lot of river to keep this broken heart a float, gonna take the Mississsippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio...

Dating myself rather badly with that song reference...

Posted by: FrozenTech at September 03, 2024 09:47 AM (ESZMY)

83
Schuylkill no that's Dutch
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:45 AM (s3qiR)

_________

Welsh:
Bala Cynwyd
Bryn Mawr

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2024 09:48 AM (FLlbx)

84 I do recall getting around Pittsburg and its environs during winter could be a real adventure. Never heard my dad cuss so much as that one time we were up there for Thanksgiving and it snowed... bigly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2024 09:48 AM (Q4IgG)

85
More like The Meshugaas River Valley, Pennsylvania.

Amirite?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 03, 2024 09:48 AM (eDfFs)

86 Monongahela looks nice, but it's no Kill van Kull.

Posted by: Dire Strait at September 03, 2024 09:48 AM (CV8a5)

87 they're Native American names - like the river here by me, the Delaware.
Posted by: BlackOrchid

"Delaware" isn't (feather) Indian.

From Wiki:
Delaware was named after its location on the Delaware Bay, which in turn derived its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577–161

, the first governor of the Colony of Virginia.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 03, 2024 09:48 AM (v6JzV)

88 "Monongahela."

Just one of those funny place names, like "Walla Walla." Or "Keokuk." Or "Cucamonga."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2024 09:41 AM (Q0kLU)

Been to Rancho Cucamonga...it's where Rt. 66 starts/ends.

Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 09:49 AM (AwYPR)

89 Welsh:
Bala Cynwyd
Bryn Mawr

ah yes we have bunches of welsh stuff too!

l'm partial to the Native American stuff - Lenape, Mauchunk, that sort of thing. fits better here than dutch or welsh.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:49 AM (s3qiR)

90 "Delaware" isn't (feather) Indian.

really! I assumed, since we talk about a Delaware tribe here but we must have given them that name!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:50 AM (s3qiR)

91 What movie is this a reference to?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 03, 2024 09:41 AM (v6JzV)

All The Right Moves.

Posted by: spindrift at September 03, 2024 09:50 AM (OguvZ)

92 "All the steel valleys I found exciting. When they were going strong, they gave off the feeling of muscle, prosperity, and high activity. The noise and flames of the open hearths and blast furnaces felt, I don't know, 'elemental' for lack of a better word."

I grew up in farm country in Ohio. I get that. Pennsylvania seems like a more picturesque version of Ohio farm country.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 03, 2024 09:50 AM (iFMeW)

93 Whitewater rafting? Call me.

Posted by: The Youghiogheny River at September 03, 2024 09:50 AM (DobEs)

94 What was the city in PA that Fetterman was mayor of?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 03, 2024 09:50 AM (v6JzV)

95 Industrialism. CO2. Global warming. Pollution. Wow. What a way to start the day.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 03, 2024 09:51 AM (SpgZO)

96 really! I assumed, since we talk about a Delaware tribe here but we must have given them that name!
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Yep, we did. Their name was the Lenapi.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 03, 2024 09:51 AM (v6JzV)

97 I can't keep up with these rules!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

***********

In a subtle twist of irony CBD has just posted the first...

...100 rule comment

Posted by: Muldoon at September 03, 2024 09:52 AM (991eG)

98 I grew up in farm country in Ohio. I get that. Pennsylvania seems like a more picturesque version of Ohio farm country.

well if you find hills picturesque? Ohio is pretty but I do like hills. we were just up in northern New England and it's surprising how it's like - totally flat (farm areas) then totally mountainous. PA is nicer kind of, not really any flat areas that much. everything rolls around. prevents too much flooding which is nice.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:52 AM (s3qiR)

99 its going to take a lot of river to keep this broken heart a float, gonna take the Mississsippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio...

Dating myself rather badly with that song reference...
Posted by: FrozenTech at September 03, 2024

***
That must be the song I was thinking of.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 09:52 AM (J2vNu)

100 Pennsylvania, or as I call it: Rocks and Rain.

Posted by: The Appalachian Trail at September 03, 2024 09:52 AM (DobEs)

101 52 Somewhere in there, Lea Thompson is taking off her top, and Tom Cruise is pretending to be interested.
Posted by: spindrift

What movie is this a reference to?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonu

Google search says "All the Right Moves". Never heard of it.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8cnvkk

Lea Thompson certainly looks fine to me in the images I've found. My brain has been so fried with current controversy, I first thought you meant Lia Thomas, which would explain Cruise's disinterest lol.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 03, 2024 09:53 AM (JCZqz)

102 Those early steelworker were all smoking coke.

Posted by: Muldoon at September 03, 2024 09:53 AM (991eG)

103 Meh. Every time I'm in Pennsylvania, I get an eerie feeling
Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 09:44 AM (RhGG0)

Intercourse!
Posted by: Sponge

Every state can claim some pretty unique town names but wow, PA in near the front, if not leading the pack.

Tamaqua
Kutztown
Big Beaver
Blue Ball
Bala Cynwyd

Lots more. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2024 09:53 AM (WXNFJ)

104 Braddock is John F's town

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:53 AM (s3qiR)

105 Picture makes me feel as if I need glasses or the photographer put Vaseline over his lens.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 03, 2024 09:54 AM (ah1Jo)

106 Tamaqua

best pies in the state are here

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:54 AM (s3qiR)

107 PA is nicer kind of, not really any flat areas that much. everything rolls around. prevents too much flooding which is nice.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:52 AM (s3qiR)

Johnstown says "hi".

Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 09:54 AM (AwYPR)

108 All The Right Moves.
Posted by: spindrift

Was that before or after she was in Howard the Duck?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 03, 2024 09:54 AM (v6JzV)

109 btw All the Right Moves is GREAT

and Lea T still looks fantastic

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:54 AM (s3qiR)

110 49ers First-Round Pick Shot During Robbery Attempt in San Francisco

-
By an other than legal alien.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 03, 2024 09:55 AM (L/fGl)

111 Went grocery shopping Saturday and W.T.A.F?

Shop at Aldi, and I buy consistent items there. Eggs had come back down to earth at $1.99 a dozen two weeks ago, now they are $3.77? Other items were similarly way up.

Posted by: blaster at September 03, 2024 09:55 AM (xhfG9)

112 Johnstown says "hi".

ha! well there are exceptions. but I mean VT keeps sliding into big muddy swamps

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:55 AM (s3qiR)

113 blaster you are so right. this weekend food prices went up again. I was in pain watching the register.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:56 AM (s3qiR)

114 Tummy Rub Tuesday!
Tummy Rub Tuesday!
Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Best day of the week!
Posted by: nurse ratched
***

*removes shirt*

Where'd everyone go?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2024 09:56 AM (W/lyH)

115 Bulgaroctonus, I hae finally realized the source of your nic! This weekend, reading de Camp's Great Cities of the Ancient World, he mentions in his "Constantinople" chapter the Eastern emperor Basil II, who was known as "Bulgaroctonus" or "Bulgar Slayer."

("Those bloody Bulgars."
-- Darko Kerim to James Bond in From Russia With Love)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

116 Johnstown says "hi".

Well, dam.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 03, 2024 09:56 AM (B0mGw)

117 Kamala Harris slammed for deploying a ‘fake accent’ in Detroit speech

-
She was keeping it real!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 03, 2024 09:56 AM (L/fGl)

118 If I was just a typing teacher, how did I get the job at Cal Poly?

Huh, Stef? Huh?

You self-absorbed little shit.

Posted by: Coach Nickerson at September 03, 2024 09:56 AM (Y1sOo)

119 and Lea T still looks fantastic
Posted by: BlackOrchid

She had the best dimples in Hollywood.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 03, 2024 09:56 AM (v6JzV)

120 117 Kamala Harris slammed for deploying a ‘fake accent’ in Detroit speech

we need a post on this - it was HILARIOUS

and one on Walz running away bravely from an actual reporter's question (about the murder of 6 hostages by Hamas)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:57 AM (s3qiR)

121 We rented a house in Amish country for Thanksgiving one year. Our boys were 14 and riding with my mother through Intercourse.

She was tickled (she taught middle school for 20 years so she knows)

Posted by: blaster at September 03, 2024 09:57 AM (xhfG9)

122 Shop at Aldi, and I buy consistent items there. Eggs had come back down to earth at $1.99 a dozen two weeks ago, now they are $3.77? Other items were similarly way up.
Posted by: blaster at September 03, 2024

***
I noticed that, $1.52/doz. the last two weeks, and now zoom! Even a 1/2 dozen at Walmart was $2.50. Have the hens gone on strike everywhere?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 09:57 AM (J2vNu)

123 Huh. Industrial.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 03, 2024 09:58 AM (y31cs)

124 and Lea T still looks fantastic
Posted by: BlackOrchid

I'd tap that!

Posted by: George McFly at September 03, 2024 09:58 AM (RhGG0)

125 Collectively they're called the Pittsburgh Stealers
Posted by: Muldoon at September 03, 2024 09:47 AM (991eG)

And Seattle is still pissed about that Super Bowl.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2024 09:58 AM (W/lyH)

126 Robert “Third” Reich is asshoe.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at September 03, 2024 09:58 AM (mrNzE)

127 that's not Lea Thompson

Posted by: Don Black at September 03, 2024 09:59 AM (/7KEl)

128 For industrial themed art, look into the work of Grif Teller.

Posted by: cappercaillie4901 at September 03, 2024 09:59 AM (5zRyn)

129 btw welcome back I hope you all had a nice long weekend! we were doing FH stuff and it went great - lots of fun, the girls played so well, one win one loss but both awesome tight games.

got thru preseason and the starting tourney with no injuries so that is my version of a "big win" for my kid lol. they're in a pretty tough conference

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:59 AM (s3qiR)

130 113 blaster you are so right. this weekend food prices went up again. I was in pain watching the register.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:56 AM (s3qiR)

Where did this sudden toot of inflation come from?

Posted by: blaster at September 03, 2024 10:00 AM (xhfG9)

131 Bulgaroctonus, I hae finally realized the source of your nic! This weekend, reading de Camp's Great Cities of the Ancient World, he mentions in his "Constantinople" chapter the Eastern emperor Basil II, who was known as "Bulgaroctonus" or "Bulgar Slayer."

("Those bloody Bulgars."
-- Darko Kerim to James Bond in From Russia With Love)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I really got into the Byzantine Empire when I was stationed in Turkey. Basil II was the last of the really great emperors before the Turks and Normans started dismantling it.

But last weekend, I decided that I should just shorten it to "Bulg," since that's what everyone calls me anyway. I did that on my phone, but now I'm doing it on my laptop.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:00 AM (v6JzV)

132 120 117 Kamala Harris slammed for deploying a ‘fake accent’ in Detroit speech

Oh the fun that could be had by everyday people trying to 'outblack' Kamala....

Posted by: Stateless at September 03, 2024 10:00 AM (jvJvP)

133 blaster you are so right. this weekend food prices went up again. I was in pain watching the register.
Posted by: BlackOrchid
---
That's dangerous misinformation that has not been verified by authorities.
You risk jail by spreading such falsehoods.
/s/ The American Left

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 03, 2024 10:00 AM (gflp+)

134 All the steel plants were right on the river. Usually not farm country.
Posted by: DaveA

Don't tell me where Scranon is, Jack! I grew up there! Originally, my pappy worked in the steel mills of Scranton in SW Pennsylvania, but then we moved to the Scranton of NE Pennsylvania today, where we both worked in a coal mine AND a steel plant. Beau, my son, bless him, worked there, too, until the drunk driver killed him and my wife while on combat duties 300 feet underground fighting the Morlocks...

Ya betta thank a union memba

Posted by: Lucky Ned Pepper at September 03, 2024 10:00 AM (og5mY)

135 And Seattle is still pissed about that Super Bowl.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2024 09:58 AM (W/lyH)

Yeah, but they should have gotten over it after beating the Patriots on that easy 2-yard TD run by Marshawn Lynch -- whoops!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 10:01 AM (RhGG0)

136 I bought some motor oil yesterday. What used to cost $11 a quart is now $8. The cheap Napa brand is down to $6 a quart.

Prices are coming back down to reality in some sectors.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at September 03, 2024 10:01 AM (mrNzE)

137 Hitting the long road, see you out there

Posted by: Skip at September 03, 2024 10:01 AM (fwDg9)

138 130 113 blaster you are so right. this weekend food prices went up again. I was in pain watching the register.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 03, 2024 09:56 AM (s3qiR)

Where did this sudden toot of inflation come from?

Corporate greed ?

Posted by: Lucky Ned Pepper at September 03, 2024 10:02 AM (og5mY)

139 Earthquake: Anti-Mass Migration Populists Win Big in European State Elections.

-
Boy! A few bombings, knifings, arsons, and shootings and, right away, backlash!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 03, 2024 10:03 AM (L/fGl)

140 This weekend, I had breakfast at a nice suburbanplace famed for its charbroiled oysters. You could have those, or more traditional fare; I opted for a ham & cheese omelet. The I walked across the street to about the only real cigar-and-pipe shop in town, bought an ounce of a new blend, and sat smoking it while chatting with a cigar smoker.

Sunday was good, especially the part about knowing I was off on Monday. And on Monday itself I pretended it was the first day of my retirement. Good weekend all around.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

141 Cloudy cool morning on the beach.

Supposed to hit high 80s on Thursday. Yuck.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 03, 2024 10:03 AM (sbGbc)

142 Home ! Would hang.

Minor criticisms: Needs a lot more smoke, which should shroud the sun so no sunny days and no green hillsides the chemicals falling out of the sky would kill the plants.

Still, brings back memories of when we made stuff here.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at September 03, 2024 10:03 AM (tA1/w)

143 Corporate greed ?
Posted by: Lucky Ned Pepper at September 03, 2024 10:02 AM (og5mY)

Robber barons trying to get all their stealin' in befo Kamala the Cop comes to get 'em.

Posted by: blaster at September 03, 2024 10:04 AM (xhfG9)

144 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Edgar_Thomson_Steel_Works

says ET still runs 2 furnaces.

from Braddock ET looked like the painting.
from South Oakland the J&L works looked similar.

Posted by: DaveA at September 03, 2024 10:04 AM (FhXTo)

145 I noticed that, $1.52/doz. the last two weeks, and now zoom! Even a 1/2 dozen at Walmart was $2.50. Have the hens gone on strike everywhere?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

That's the evil of corporate greed, artificially increasing prices to pad profits on the backs of hard working American families. In a Harris-Walz administration, a dozen eggs will be priced controlled to $1.50, just as the Founders intended. To save Democracy!

Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 03, 2024 10:04 AM (JCZqz)

146 Pittsburgh and no one mentioned 'yinz' yet?

Wow people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2024 10:05 AM (WXNFJ)

147 Very brown and lumpy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:05 AM (FmapG)

148 from Braddock ET looked like the painting.
from South Oakland the J&L works looked similar.
Posted by: DaveA at September 03, 2024 10:04 AM (FhXTo)

I see you are familiar with the area.

Posted by: The Honeydipper at September 03, 2024 10:05 AM (uSGfh)

149 Whelp. Off to work.

Be excellent to each other.

God Bless you all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 03, 2024 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

150 Yinz.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 03, 2024 10:06 AM (uSGfh)

151 140 This weekend, I had breakfast at a nice suburbanplace famed for its charbroiled oysters. You could have those, or more traditional fare; I opted for a ham & cheese omelet.
---------------
Why would you charbroil oysters?

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:06 AM (FmapG)

152 God Bless you all.
Posted by: Sponge

And you and your wife and father, Sponge.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:06 AM (v6JzV)

153 In a Harris-Walz administration, a dozen eggs will be priced controlled to $1.50, just as the Founders intended. To save Democracy!
Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 03, 2024

***
How about price-controlling the eggs and everything else to what they were in 1960, but leaving our wages intact? How about dat?

[Dead silence]

Didn't think so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

154 Yinz.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Yeet!

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:07 AM (v6JzV)

155 But last weekend, I decided that I should just shorten it to "Bulg," since that's what everyone calls me anyway. I did that on my phone, but now I'm doing it on my laptop.
Posted by: Bulg

Exactly. Embrace the bulge!!!

Posted by: Radical Transwomen Acceptance Activists at September 03, 2024 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

156 Smelter?

I hardly even knew 'er!

(~150 comments to get there. Who are you people and what have you done with the Horde?)

Posted by: Muldoon at September 03, 2024 10:08 AM (991eG)

157 This weekend, I had breakfast at a nice suburban place famed for its charbroiled oysters. You could have those, or more traditional fare; I opted for a ham & cheese omelet.
---------------
Why would you charbroil oysters?
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024

***
I've never had them, but I guess, for extra flavor? A raw oyster without salt, pepper, and some cocktail sauce is kinda bland.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:08 AM (J2vNu)

158 Minor criticisms: Needs a lot more smoke, which should shroud the sun so no sunny days and no green hillsides the chemicals falling out of the sky would kill the plants.
Posted by: Next2Nothing

After my time at Youngstown Sheet and Tube in Y-town was done, I went out to YS&T in East Chicago, IN. No grass at all around the plants - just 4-5 inches of red scale.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2024 10:08 AM (WXNFJ)

159 There is some truth to the “corporate greed” thing. Look at cars for instance. Dealers were selling cars for $10k or more over msrp in 2021. That was pure profit taking on their part.

Should the govt put a price caps on cars? No of course not. But let’s also not pretend shit like that didn’t exist.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at September 03, 2024 10:09 AM (mrNzE)

160 Yinz.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
*
Yeet!
Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024

***
"Jeet jet?"
"No, joo?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:09 AM (J2vNu)

161 Smelter?

I hardly even knew 'er!

(~150 comments to get there. Who are you people and what have you done with the Horde?)
Posted by: Muldoon

Is that where the fish comes from?

Are they anything like plaicer mines?

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:09 AM (v6JzV)

162 I've never had them, but I guess, for extra flavor? A raw oyster without salt, pepper, and some cocktail sauce is kinda bland.
--------------
That's why we have spices and cocktail sauce. No need to bring fire into the mix.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:09 AM (FmapG)

163 Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:06 AM (FmapG)

Grilled oysters, maybe? Pretty good depending on the species. Malpeques, not so much. Bubba Gumps, definitely so.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 03, 2024 10:09 AM (lHzme)

164 But last weekend, I decided that I should just shorten it to "Bulg,"

**********

Fair enough. That does seem more noticeable.

Posted by: Muldoon at September 03, 2024 10:09 AM (991eG)

165 That's why we have spices and cocktail sauce. No need to bring fire into the mix.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:09 AM (FmapG)

smoked oysters

Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 10:10 AM (AwYPR)

166 That's the evil of corporate greed, artificially increasing prices to pad profits on the backs of hard working American families. In a Harris-Walz administration, a dozen eggs will be priced controlled to $1.50, just as the Founders intended. To save Democracy!

Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 03, 2024 10:04 AM (JCZqz)

They use chickens as slaves. It's a fowl business I tell you!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 03, 2024 10:10 AM (SpgZO)

167 Oysters turn my stomach just looking at them.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:10 AM (v6JzV)

168 I've baked oysters just to make opening them easier. I've had fried oysters on an oyster po-boy. Never thought they belonged on a grill, though. Do they make oyster grills?

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:11 AM (FmapG)

169 Grilled oysters, maybe? Pretty good depending on the species. Malpeques, not so much. Bubba Gumps, definitely so.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 03, 2024

***
"Charbroiled" is what they say on their website. It's $15 for half a dozen; I'll wait until another special occasion to try 'em.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:12 AM (J2vNu)

170 Morn' all.. What's new ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 03, 2024 10:12 AM (IyPmt)

171 Is there such a thing as oyster chowder?

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:12 AM (v6JzV)

172 This weekend, I had breakfast at a nice suburban place famed for its charbroiled oysters. You could have those, or more traditional fare; I opted for a ham & cheese omelet.
---------------
Why would you charbroil oysters?
Posted by: Pudinhead

You don't want to eat raw Rocky Mountain oysters, believe me...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 03, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

173 Oh the fun that could be had by everyday people trying to 'outblack' Kamala....
Posted by: Stateless

Haiku for Kamala.

https://is.gd/E8FwfO

See also, a celebrity comments on Kamala’s accent.

https://is.gd/PTxZyQ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 03, 2024 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

174 familiar with the area.

DadA worked at ET.
I'm Pitt81.
Haven't lived there in >29 years.

There's probably a posts worth of cruelty re: US Steels pending sale to Nippon if we haven't already done it.

Posted by: DaveA at September 03, 2024 10:12 AM (FhXTo)

175 167 Oysters turn my stomach just looking at them.
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Just suck up some snot and let it roll on your tongue and enjoy the salty taste of the sea. Ambrosia.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:13 AM (FmapG)

176 Is there such a thing as oyster chowder?

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:12 AM (v6JzV)

Oyster stew.

Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 10:13 AM (AwYPR)

177 171 Is there such a thing as oyster chowder?
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Yes.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:13 AM (FmapG)

178 Chargrilled oysters are a thing in the South Carolina lowcountry. A very wonderful thing!! Making some this weekend.

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 10:14 AM (RhGG0)

179 Most people cannot say "Monongahela" with garbling it up.

It's true. Lots on online vids prove it...

Posted by: you don't say! at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (dH3Sc)

180 I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??

Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (PCK5/)

181 Chargrilled oysters are a thing in the South Carolina lowcountry. A very wonderful thing!! Making some this weekend.
Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024

***
Is there a difference between chargrilled and charbroiled? Or are they just different names for the same thing?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (J2vNu)

182 Why would you charbroil oysters?

And why don't they slip between the grates and fall onto the charcoal?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (/y8xj)

183 178 Chargrilled oysters are a thing in the South Carolina lowcountry. A very wonderful thing!! Making some this weekend.
Posted by: Doof

Nice! When should
I arrive then?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (pzN/K)

184 smoked oysters
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I used to eat them for lunch. Too much smoke overwhelms the oyster flavor.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (FmapG)

185 Raw oysters and boiled okra...slicker than eel snot.

Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 10:16 AM (AwYPR)

186 You don't want to eat raw Rocky Mountain oysters, believe me...
Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 03, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

I've had them. Visited Colorado so many times for work that it became a dare.
Then I thought of the "sometimes the bull wins" joke and kinda threw up in my mouth!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 10:16 AM (RhGG0)

187 185 Raw oysters and boiled okra...slicker than eel snot.
Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 10:16 AM (AwYPR)

Really disgusting…

Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:17 AM (PCK5/)

188 180 I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??
Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (PCK5/)

Hunger ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 03, 2024 10:17 AM (IyPmt)

189 I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??
Posted by: tubal

My standard answer to any "what possessed the first human to eat _____?" question is that someone saw an animal eat it first. If the animal didn't immediately keel over, they figured it was good to go.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:17 AM (v6JzV)

190 I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??

Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (PCK5/)

a dare?...bet?

Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 10:17 AM (AwYPR)

191 185 Raw oysters and boiled okra...slicker than eel snot.
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Okra is delicious either fried or pickled. Boiling is something Yankees do to food. Hideous.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:17 AM (FmapG)

192 188 180 I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??
Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (PCK5/)

Hunger ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 03, 2024 10:17 AM (IyPmt)

I was going to go with starvation…

Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:18 AM (PCK5/)

193 I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??
Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024

***
Starvation? On the other hand, they are not obviously edible; you have to pry the casing open. Maybe the children of some beach-dwelling tribe found them and flung them at each other for fun. Some broke open, and the tribe's class clown said, "Watch me eat that thing!"

From little acorns, mighty oaks grow. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

194 Chargrilled oysters are a thing in the South Carolina lowcountry. A very wonderful thing!! Making some this weekend.
Posted by: Doof

Nice! When should
I arrive then?
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (pzN/K)

Saturday around 5pm Eastern time. Will you be bringing any of your otter friends? If so, I probably need to make more!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 10:18 AM (RhGG0)

195 189 I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??
Posted by: tubal
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They were hungry, maybe?

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:18 AM (FmapG)

196 check this out
Kammie is so dumb, that she...

https://x.com/TimMurtaugh/status/1830925578809102504

Posted by: Don Black at September 03, 2024 10:18 AM (/7KEl)

197 From the archives:

SOUNDS DIRTY BUT IT’S NOT

There once was a girl from Nantucket
Who carried her clams in a bucket
Eating oysters and mussels
Became such a tussle
Frustrated she muttered, "Just shuck it!"

Posted by: Muldoon at September 03, 2024 10:19 AM (991eG)

198 Is there a difference between chargrilled and charbroiled? Or are they just different names for the same thing?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (J2vNu)

Probably the same thing. But I'm obtuse so don't trust me

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 10:19 AM (RhGG0)

199 Thx CBD . This painting will be banned by the government oversight board for the arts for advocating global warming. Would hang though, kind of interesting

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2024 10:19 AM (O8bOp)

200 Boiling is something Yankees do to food. Hideous.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:17 AM (FmapG)

Louisiana seafood has entered the chat

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 10:20 AM (RhGG0)

201 Will you be bringing any of your otter friends? If so, I probably need to make more!
Posted by: Doof

You'd better have some abalone on hand, then.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:20 AM (v6JzV)

202 198 Is there a difference between chargrilled and charbroiled? Or are they just different names for the same thing?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (J2vNu

Chargrilled... grill... charbroiled... oven

Posted by: It's me donna at September 03, 2024 10:20 AM (IyPmt)

203
Last summer, the dainty and globe-trotting Mrs naturalfake and I were in Japan, and got some-

fresh oysters freshly grilled over binchotan (bamboo) charcoal. YUM!

as a lunchtime snack from a street vendor.

A couple of beers, a few hibachi grilled oysters and we were good to go.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 03, 2024 10:20 AM (eDfFs)

204 Most people cannot say "Monongahela" with garbling it up.

It's true. Lots on online vids prove it...
Posted by: you don't say!

Sheeeeeeet. Bostonians can't say 'car' properly.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2024 10:20 AM (WXNFJ)

205 I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??
Posted by: tubal

*********

Freemason's initiation rite

Posted by: Muldoon at September 03, 2024 10:21 AM (991eG)

206 When every day is a fight for survival, you eat whatever is available. The whole “eww that looks gross” thing with regards to food, is a luxury attitude that people didn’t have for hundreds of thousands of years.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at September 03, 2024 10:21 AM (mrNzE)

207 I've never had them, but I guess, for extra flavor? A raw oyster without salt, pepper, and some cocktail sauce is kinda bland.
--------------
That's why we have spices and cocktail sauce. No need to bring fire into the mix.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:09 AM (FmapG)

I've had them cooked on grill on the half shell. It is not worth the trouble to get an inferior result over just fresh with a little lemon,Tabasco, and some black pepper.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 03, 2024 10:21 AM (GqnhC)

208 Sheeeeeeet. Bostonians can't say 'car' properly.
----------------
Roundheads are all kind of fucked up.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:21 AM (FmapG)

209 Why would you charbroil oysters?
*
And why don't they slip between the grates and fall onto the charcoal?
Posted by: Oddbob at September 03, 2024

***
Aluminum foil, is my guess. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:21 AM (J2vNu)

210 I've had them cooked on grill on the half shell. It is not worth the trouble to get an inferior result over just fresh with a little lemon,Tabasco, and some black pepper.
----------------
Try them with a dip in Malt Vinegar. Think you'll like that.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:22 AM (FmapG)

211 Mo-non-gah-hala.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 03, 2024 10:23 AM (cVI8s)

212 Sheeeeeeet. Bostonians can't say 'car' properly.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2024 10:20 AM (WXNFJ)

"I lost my khakis"

To most people, that means you are pantsless.

To Bostonians, you better know how to hotwire your vehicle!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 10:23 AM (RhGG0)

213 Or maybe

Mah-non-gah-hala.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 03, 2024 10:23 AM (cVI8s)

214 I smoked oysters. Saw God.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 03, 2024 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

215 That was pure profit taking on their part.

Not just profiting. But pure profit taking!

Posted by: I Came Here To Laugh At You at September 03, 2024 10:23 AM (Dk0oQ)

216 I've had them cooked on grill on the half shell. It is not worth the trouble to get an inferior result over just fresh with a little lemon,Tabasco, and some black pepper.
----------------
The reason you bake them is to open the shell fast. This is needed if you have a half bushel of oysters and are hungry.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:24 AM (FmapG)

217 It was the third of September,
A day I'll always remember...

Posted by: Papa Was, You Know at September 03, 2024 10:24 AM (CV8a5)

218 Oysters should be cooked in small batches, because they're difficult to scallop.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:24 AM (v6JzV)

219 Steamed oysters
you steam them til the shell pops open, then you scoop out the morsel, add a dash of hot sauce, and you're in business

Posted by: Don Black at September 03, 2024 10:24 AM (/7KEl)

220 Try them with a dip in Malt Vinegar. Think you'll like that.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:22 AM (FmapG)

I'd give that a go. I don't trust oysters this far inland, however. So it will have to wait until I travel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 03, 2024 10:24 AM (GqnhC)

221 I've tried Tabasco sauce. Too much vinegar taste in it for me. (But then, I don't really belong in this benighted state.) I'd rather put salt, pepper, and lemon on the fresh raw oyster.

The restaurant offered, and Miss Linda chose, an oyster omelet. I tried an oyster from it, and it was quite good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:24 AM (J2vNu)

222 193 I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??
Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024

Well, its not snot.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 03, 2024 10:24 AM (N39Ws)

223 Aluminum foil, is my guess. . . .

Then why does it matter what the heat source is?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 03, 2024 10:25 AM (/y8xj)

224 Dow down 440 pts . Bidenomics is amazing.

Posted by: dantesed at September 03, 2024 10:25 AM (Oy/m2)

225 The reason you bake them is to open the shell fast. This is needed if you have a half bushel of oysters and are hungry.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:24 AM (FmapG)

These were shucked, prepared with a manner of condiments and stuff, and then grilled. No endorsement here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 03, 2024 10:25 AM (GqnhC)

226 > I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??

a Triple Dog Dare

Posted by: Don Black at September 03, 2024 10:26 AM (/7KEl)

227 And why don't they slip between the grates and fall onto the charcoal?
Posted by: Oddbob at September 03, 2024

***
Aluminum foil, is my guess. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

And then you can carry them around in your hat!

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:26 AM (v6JzV)

228 224 Dow down 440 pts . Bidenomics is amazing.
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I guess Wall Street wants cheaper money.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:26 AM (FmapG)

229 @180

>>I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??

Uhmm, hunger.

An abundance of food is a relatively recent phenomenon, like, a last hundred years phenomenon.

So people would pretty much eat anything they could get their hands on to survive.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 03, 2024 10:26 AM (XV/Pl)

230 Mignonette sauce (primary ingredients are vinegar and shallots) on raw oysters is AMAZING!!!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 10:27 AM (RhGG0)

231 224 Dow down 440 pts . Bidenomics is amazing.

Ras is showing Kamala in front. Two months out, the stock market is now strictly correlated with polling.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 03, 2024 10:27 AM (YIxO9)

232 230 Mignonette sauce (primary ingredients are vinegar and shallots) on raw oysters is AMAZING!!!
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Precisely. The French may be fagz but they know some stuff.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:27 AM (FmapG)

233 Mignonette sauce (primary ingredients are vinegar and shallots) on raw oysters is AMAZING!!!
Posted by: Doof

I just realized that your nic backwards is "food."

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:28 AM (v6JzV)

234 See also, a celebrity comments on Kamala’s accent.

https://is.gd/PTxZyQ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 03, 2024 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

I Kamala is Foghorn Leghorn, does that make Walz Henery Hawk, the chickenhawk?

Posted by: spindrift at September 03, 2024 10:28 AM (OguvZ)

235 Aluminum foil, is my guess. . . .

Then why does it matter what the heat source is?
Posted by: Oddbob

*********

I'm telling you Officer, THAT is when the fight started.

Posted by: Muldoon at September 03, 2024 10:28 AM (991eG)

236
>>I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??
*
Uhmm, hunger.

An abundance of food is a relatively recent phenomenon, like, a last hundred years phenomenon.

So people would pretty much eat anything they could get their hands on to survive.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 03, 2024 1

***
Aren't there other animal species who actually bang the shell open to get to the oyster inside? Otters, maybe, or raccoons? If so, an early tribe of littoral-dwelling humans might have seen that, and said . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

237 There's a big difference between cold and warm water oysters.

Warm water oysters need to be cooked.
Cold water oysters are magnificent raw with some fresh ground pepper and a squeeze of lemon.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 03, 2024 10:29 AM (pzN/K)

238 Mignonette sauce (primary ingredients are vinegar and shallots) on raw oysters is AMAZING!!!
Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024

***
Little-Little sauce?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:29 AM (J2vNu)

239 Aren't there other animal species who actually bang the shell open to get to the oyster inside? Otters, maybe, or raccoons? If so, an early tribe of littoral-dwelling humans might have seen that, and said . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

See my comment at 189.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:29 AM (v6JzV)

240
Ras is showing Kamala in front. Two months out, the stock market is now strictly correlated with polling.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 03, 2024 10:27 AM (YIxO9)

If true Americans are more stupid than I thought

Posted by: It's me donna at September 03, 2024 10:29 AM (IyPmt)

241 I just realized that your nic backwards is "food."
Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:28 AM (v6JzV)

And yours is now "glub" -- much better than mine!!

Posted by: Doof at September 03, 2024 10:29 AM (RhGG0)

242 Little-Little sauce?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:29 AM (J2vNu)

Just a little.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 03, 2024 10:30 AM (GqnhC)

243 If so, an early tribe of littoral-dwelling humans might have seen that, and said . . .

It is now accepted by most Anthropologists that-

most early tribes were composed of figuratively-dwelling humans.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 03, 2024 10:31 AM (eDfFs)

244 Aren't there other animal species who actually bang the shell open to get to the oyster inside? Otters, maybe, or raccoons? If so, an early tribe of littoral-dwelling humans might have seen that, and said . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

monkeys...maquaques

Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 10:31 AM (AwYPR)

245 He who delta smelta.

Posted by: California Envirowack at September 03, 2024 10:31 AM (yrQaA)

246 244 Aren't there other animal species who actually bang the shell open to get to the oyster inside? Otters, maybe, or raccoons? If so, an early tribe of littoral-dwelling humans might have seen that, and said . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

monkeys...maquaques
Posted by: BignJames at September 03, 2024 10:31 AM (AwYPR)

Human-See, Human-Do….

Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:32 AM (PCK5/)

247 >>>If true Americans are more stupid than I thought
Posted by: It's me donna
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Polls are designed to shape opinion. Use that metric to determine their (the purchaser's) thoughts.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 03, 2024 10:32 AM (ah1Jo)

248 Nobody eats oyster legs any more.

Posted by: Muldoon at September 03, 2024 10:32 AM (991eG)

249 @240 -- very much so.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 03, 2024 10:33 AM (YIxO9)

250 244 Aren't there other animal species who actually bang the shell open to get to the oyster inside? Otters, maybe, or raccoons? If so, an early tribe of littoral-dwelling humans might have seen that, and said . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

monkeys...maquaques
--------------
Otters do it with a stone tool on their chest while floating about. Otters are smart.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:33 AM (FmapG)

251 247 >>>If true Americans are more stupid than I thought
Posted by: It's me donna
-----------------------------

Polls are designed to shape opinion. Use that metric to determine their (the purchaser's) thoughts.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 03, 2024 10:32 AM (ah1Jo)

So, Marketing??

Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:33 AM (PCK5/)

252 I Kamala is Foghorn Leghorn, does that make Walz Henery Hawk, the chickenhawk?
Posted by: spindrift at September 03, 2024 10:28 AM (OguvZ)

Miss Prissy.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 03, 2024 10:33 AM (PiwSw)

253 Ras is showing Kamala in front. Two months out, the stock market is now strictly correlated with polling.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 03, 2024 10:27 AM (YIxO9)

eh, there's a bunch of economic/economic adjacent info/numbers coming out this week that are expected to be *cough* not great.

This is probably the market jumping ahead a bit on what's expected.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 03, 2024 10:33 AM (eDfFs)

254 Musk has some interesting posts to scroll through today.
This address should be good for all.

https://nitter.privacydev.net/elonmusk

Posted by: Braenyard at September 03, 2024 10:33 AM (ah1Jo)

255 250

Otters do it with a stone tool on their chest while floating about. Otters are smart.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:33 AM (FmapG)

And Licentious…

Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:34 AM (PCK5/)

256 Otters do it with a stone tool on their chest while floating about. Otters are smart.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024

***
I thought I recalled something like that. Or monkeys could have banged them on rocks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:35 AM (J2vNu)

257 I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??

Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:15 AM (PCK5/)

Some people just won't resort to cannibalism on moral grounds.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 03, 2024 10:35 AM (XjaL8)

258 And then the otter will stow their favorite rock in their pocket under their armpits.

They are one of the very few animals who use tools.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 03, 2024 10:36 AM (yHA2r)

259 This is probably the market jumping ahead a bit on what's expected.
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Given we've seen both Nasty Pelosi and Mark Zuckerberg give a mia culpa CYA announcement it maybe that Deep State has decided to pull the plug on Kamala and seek refuge in the kindness of strangers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:36 AM (FmapG)

260 >>I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??

Uhmm, hunger.

An abundance of food is a relatively recent phenomenon, like, a last hundred years phenomenon.

So people would pretty much eat anything they could get their hands on to survive.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Yeah, look at YouTube videos of street vendors in China. Fried silkworms, braised dog lungs, etc. When food is limited, you can't be picky.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 03, 2024 10:36 AM (JCZqz)

261 256 Otters do it with a stone tool on their chest while floating about. Otters are smart.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024

***
I thought I recalled something like that. Or monkeys could have banged them on rocks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:35 AM (J2vNu)

Interspecies Sex…

Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:36 AM (PCK5/)

262 257 I wonder what possessed the first human to eat oysters??

Posted by: tubal
---------------------

If you're hungry enough you'll eat anything.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 03, 2024 10:36 AM (ah1Jo)

263 I guess armed taking of apartment buildings is a thing now.

The Calvin Coolidge Project
@TheCalvinCooli1
Just in: A group of 32 armed Venezualans have taken over an apartment building in Chicago tonight.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 03, 2024 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

264 There's a Grant Wood vibe here, only with factories. I like this.

Posted by: creeper at September 03, 2024 10:38 AM (M6moH)

265 Musk has some interesting posts to scroll through today.
This address should be good for all.

https://nitter.privacydev.net/elonmusk
Posted by: Braenyard at September 03, 2024

***
Elon, just block every IP address in Brazil.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:39 AM (J2vNu)

266 If you're hungry enough you'll eat anything.

Could I tell you stories. . .

Posted by: Huma at September 03, 2024 10:39 AM (Q0kLU)

267 263 I guess armed taking of apartment buildings is a thing now.
The Calvin Coolidge Project
@TheCalvinCooli1
Just in: A group of 32 armed Venezualans have taken over an apartment building in Chicago tonight.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
------------------------------

Lead by example.
Pretty soon it will be a fad.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 03, 2024 10:39 AM (ah1Jo)

268 Just in: A group of 32 armed Venezualans have taken over an apartment building in Chicago tonight.
---------------
The New World Empire of Ghettoes is always a series of Slave Rebellions and Indian Attacks. Get used to it H8TR.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 03, 2024 10:39 AM (FmapG)

269 This painting was not appreciated until I was drafted.

Posted by: The Blond Bomber at September 03, 2024 10:39 AM (yrQaA)

270 "A group of 32 armed Venezualans have taken over an apartment building in Chicago tonight."

Controlled burn.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 03, 2024 10:39 AM (B0mGw)

271 The painting is very nice but I wouldn't hang it.

The rebirth of many areas; the Three Rivers area, the vibe of The Strip District, mansions of Shadyside, great museums, etc. I love visiting the city & surrounding areas; it seems 'for the young.' But I prefer there & back (same as Reading, Allentown, certainly Philly, etc.)

Even given C19, Pittsburgh as a whole seems to have come farther than written about in the following article but it's still interesting & onpoint, and I'm not a resident.

Medium, February 2018: American Dream Sequence: Left Behind in the Monongahela River Valley, Matthew Newton

Thank you.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at September 03, 2024 10:40 AM (NFX2v)

272 So I went to look up the guy running against that lunatic Baldwin and can someone get Hovde to shave off his mustache? That abomination has to be costing him at least 5 points in the polls.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 03, 2024 10:40 AM (oZhjI)

273 Just in: A group of 32 armed Venezualans have taken over an apartment building in Chicago tonight.

It's Trump and his worshipers in the GOP who caused this by not agreeing to Biden's border bill.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 03, 2024 10:40 AM (Q0kLU)

274 Musk has some interesting posts to scroll through today.
This address should be good for all.

https://nitter.privacydev.net/elonmusk
Posted by: Braenyard at September 03, 2024

***
In one of EM's posts there's a pic of Walz that makes him look like a frog wearing eyeglasses.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:41 AM (J2vNu)

275 @240

>>If true Americans are more stupid than I thought

A. most Americans don't vote and..

B. The majority of Americans are drugged up, out of their mind lunatics, led by AWFL's and Suburban wine Karens whose primary concern is making sure they and their daughters, if they've bothered to even have children, maintain access to infanticide and prevent the coming Handmaid's Tale Hellscape their polluted minds have convinced them is right there over the horizon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 03, 2024 10:42 AM (XV/Pl)

276 The Church of the Immaculate Conception of Saint-Omer just burned down, the latest in a string of churches that have caught fire in France

-
It's a miracle!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 03, 2024 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

277 So people would pretty much eat anything they could get their hands on to survive.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 03, 2024 10:26 AM (XV/Pl)
And if there were Democrats they would have eaten glue.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 03, 2024 10:43 AM (FfSAJ)

278 In one of EM's posts there's a pic of Walz that makes him look like a frog wearing eyeglasses.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:41 AM (J2vNu)

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Posted by: Hans Moleman at September 03, 2024 10:43 AM (PiwSw)

279 Just in: A group of 32 armed Venezualans have taken over an apartment building in Chicago tonight.

No one is allowed to have peace or security kulaks!!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at September 03, 2024 10:43 AM (Aoykm)

280 As for the apartment buildings in Aurora and Chicago: Cut all utilities. Then use tear gas. Anybody who shoots at the cops gets a lead gift and six feet of earth. No apologies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:43 AM (J2vNu)

281 276 The Church of the Immaculate Conception of Saint-Omer just burned down, the latest in a string of churches that have caught fire in France

-
It's a miracle!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 03, 2024 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

A case of spontaneous combustion, no doubt..

Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:43 AM (PCK5/)

282 A group of 32 armed Venezualans have taken over an apartment building in Chicago tonight.

No one is allowed to have peace or security kulaks!!
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On the plus side, shootings are down.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 03, 2024 10:44 AM (B0mGw)

283 In one of EM's posts there's a pic of Walz that makes him look like a frog wearing eyeglasses.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024
*
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Posted by: Hans Moleman at September 03, 2024

***
A *bad-tempered* frog in eyeglasses!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2024 10:44 AM (J2vNu)

284 SRI's have a deleterious effect on the cogent public.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 03, 2024 10:44 AM (ah1Jo)

285 282 A group of 32 armed Venezualans have taken over an apartment building in Chicago tonight.

No one is allowed to have peace or security kulaks!!
-------
On the plus side, shootings are down.
Posted by: Ribbed at September 03, 2024 10:44 AM (B0mGw)

An iteration of the Replacemnt Theory, I guess…

Posted by: tubal at September 03, 2024 10:45 AM (PCK5/)

286
Just in: A group of 32 armed Venezualans have taken over an apartment building in Chicago tonight.

Is that confirmed?
Any word from Jabba the Pritzker?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 03, 2024 10:45 AM (63Dwl)

287 A. most Americans don't vote and..

Thousands of people showed up at the polls in 2020 to be told they had already voted by mail.

What possible explanation is for this other then someone else voted for them and since the current government refused to investigate it you know who is behind it...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 03, 2024 10:46 AM (oZhjI)

288 SRI's have a deleterious effect on the cogent public.
Posted by: Braenyard

I've been told that they're great on oysters, though.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:47 AM (v6JzV)

289 Salon Magazine thinks Tim Waltz is so manly that MAGA is threatened.

Salon Magazine. Ok, Karen.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 03, 2024 10:47 AM (B0mGw)

290 The Church of the Immaculate Conception of Saint-Omer just burned down, the latest in a string of churches that have caught fire in France

You know, sometimes I think we're not going to get WWIII, so much as a batch civil wars simultaneously occurring world wide trying to re-establish normalcy over the woke-madness and Green-lunatic contingent that seemed to have taken over most countries.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 03, 2024 10:47 AM (eDfFs)

291
Democrats have been pushing to "regulate social media platforms" — censor speech — for years. Days before Biden announced the "Disinformation Governance Board," Obama said our democracy depended on censorship and proposed amending the Constitution to weaken the First Amendment.
_Michael Shellenberger

Posted by: Braenyard at September 03, 2024 10:48 AM (ah1Jo)

292 I think before they replace all the Dems with South American socialists, the progs would do well to read some Atlas Shrugged. It's got a funny twist on that mentality.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 03, 2024 10:48 AM (B0mGw)

293

The “neurological burden of climate change is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid,” writes Clayton Page Aldern, a former neuroscientist turned environmental journalist. Global warming is not only destroying the planet, it is also causing “the spread of brain disease,” contends Aldern, author of the 2024 book The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains.

Related ???

Why Elon Musk Won’t Stop Talking About a ‘Woke Mind Virus’
The billionaire’s attacks against Disney are just the latest in a battle with what he sees as political correctness and overzealous progressive ideals

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2024 10:48 AM (RHGPo)

294 @287

>>What possible explanation is for this other then someone else voted for them and since the current government refused to investigate it you know who is behind it...

As noted, most Americans don't vote, that does not mean their ballots aren't being harvested or counted.

2020 was an anomaly as voters came out and voted for Trump in margins that had never been seen, unfortunately, the donks ability to conjure and count votes was superior.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 03, 2024 10:49 AM (XV/Pl)

295 Just in: A group of 32 armed Venezualans have taken over an apartment building in Chicago tonight.

It's all just so unfair!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at September 03, 2024 10:50 AM (GqnhC)

296 2020 was an anomaly as voters came out and voted for Trump in margins that had never been seen, unfortunately, the donks ability to conjure and count votes was superior.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 03, 2024 10:49 AM (XV/Pl)

He, Jack.. I got 81 million votes !

Posted by: JOE at September 03, 2024 10:50 AM (IyPmt)

297 Another fake endorsement of Kamala.

https://is.gd/1C066n

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 03, 2024 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

298
Salon Magazine thinks Tim Waltz is so manly that MAGA is threatened.

Salon Magazine. Ok, Karen.
Posted by: Ribbed

Fozzie Bear is more masculine than Timpon. More honest, too.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 03, 2024 10:51 AM (xG4kz)

299 "Fozzie Bear is more masculine than Timpon. More honest, too."

Waka-Waka!

Posted by: Ribbed at September 03, 2024 10:52 AM (B0mGw)

300 We've been rewatching the "Dexter" series on Netflix and the 4th season "guest" serial killer antagonist, played by John Lithgow, reminds me a lot of Timmy Walz.

Something particularly in the mannerisms and fake joy and friendliness until crossed or questioned. The whole arm-jerking incident also comes to mind.

YMMV. But I find it creepy.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 03, 2024 10:52 AM (eDfFs)

301 This seems like an insult to Fozzie .

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 03, 2024 10:52 AM (cVI8s)

302 @298

>>Fozzie Bear is more masculine than Timpon. More honest, too.

Paul Lynde in the center square is more manly than Tampon Tim Walnutz.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 03, 2024 10:52 AM (XV/Pl)

303 Nobody eats oyster legs any more.

Posted by: Muldoon at September 03, 2024 10:32 AM (991eG)

Untying all of those little shoes is a pain in the ass.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 03, 2024 10:52 AM (d9fT1)

304 Just in: A group of 32 armed Venezualans have taken over an apartment building in Chicago tonight.

Given the reports over the weekend of Hell's Angels rolling into Colorado to deal with the instances there, things are going to get spicy.

Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at September 03, 2024 10:52 AM (OUMaO)

305
That painting looks like the Mon near Braddock (our side) and Homestead (the other side).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 03, 2024 10:53 AM (xG4kz)

306 Paul Lynde in the center square is more manly than Tampon Tim Walnutz.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

Bruce villanch too.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 03, 2024 10:53 AM (CIS44)

307 Fozzie Bear is more masculine than Timpon. More honest, too.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Miss Piggy is more masculine than Walz.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:54 AM (v6JzV)

308 304 Given the reports over the weekend of Hell's Angels rolling into Colorado to deal with the instances there, things are going to get spicy.
Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at September 03, 2024 10:52 AM (OUMaO)

=======

Are the black gangs going to just sit back and take that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at September 03, 2024 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

309 A *bad-tempered* frog in eyeglasses!

With poor grammar.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 03, 2024 10:55 AM (/y8xj)

310 @306

>>Bruce villanch too.

Uggh, at least Paul Lynde looks like a human being and not a compilation of random, misshapen body parts.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 03, 2024 10:55 AM (XV/Pl)

311
IDK if there are any working blast furnaces left on the Mon? Some are parks.
Posted by: DaveA

I don't think so. All are electric arc now. BiL retired as a salesman for the carbon electrodes for them.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 03, 2024 10:55 AM (xG4kz)

312 Busy painting. Perspective looks a little forced. Notice the gasometer at center left.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2024 10:56 AM (Jlh1S)

313 Netanyahu: Biden-Harris’ Weak Response Sends Clear Message To Hamas to Kill More Hostages

-
True.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 03, 2024 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

314 Just in: A group of 32 armed Venezualans have taken over an apartment building in Chicago tonight.

It's all just so unfair!
Posted by: Michelle Fields

====

What the world needs is a webcrawler AI which.finds
every instance/variation of "arm" and post similar comments.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 03, 2024 10:57 AM (/lPRQ)

315 @rawsalerts has the 911 dispatcher's comms. Says it took Chicago PD an hour to show up. They found nothing.

https://tinyurl.com/f65yd3ay

Posted by: one hour sober at September 03, 2024 10:58 AM (Y1sOo)

316 Uggh, at least Paul Lynde looks like a human being a
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Well, maybe not so much anymore.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 10:58 AM (v6JzV)

317 32-armed Venezuelans sound scary.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 03, 2024 10:59 AM (FfSAJ)

318
Where's all the cancer from it raining oil?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 03, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

That's Marcus Hook, on the other side of the state.

I know people who live in that area who were mightily pissed at J'Blowme's "raining oil" lie.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 03, 2024 10:59 AM (xG4kz)

319 Ras is showing Kamala in front.
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Well.
That's not good.
In 2020, from now to mid-Oct was as close as Trump got in the national average, down 7.
By mid-Oct, it jumped to down 10. Then closed to 8.4

Debates were 9/30/2020 and 10/23/2020.

Let's see how the polling from this week shakes out.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 03, 2024 10:59 AM (gflp+)

320 It's art. And it has vast tracts of land.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2024 11:00 AM (64Zez)

321
32-armed Venezuelans sound scary.
Posted by: Northernlurker

Sounds like something from India.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 03, 2024 11:00 AM (63Dwl)

322 32-armed Venezuelans sound scary.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 03, 2024 10:59 AM (FfSAJ)

It's not so bad.

Posted by: Dr. Octopus at September 03, 2024 11:00 AM (OguvZ)

323 As for the apartment buildings in Aurora and Chicago: Cut all utilities. Then use tear gas. Anybody who shoots at the cops gets a lead gift and six feet of earth. No apologies.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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Where is Philly Mayor Wilson Goode when you need him?

Posted by: Cosda at September 03, 2024 11:01 AM (xumkT)

324 "Are the black gangs going to just sit back and take that?"

It is MAGA country.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 03, 2024 11:02 AM (B0mGw)

325 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2024 11:03 AM (v6JzV)

326 >>>Why Elon Musk Won’t Stop Talking About a ‘Woke Mind Virus’
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They killed his son. He is their reckoning.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 03, 2024 11:03 AM (ah1Jo)

327 Are the black gangs going to just sit back and take that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles

One would expect not. But I think we're at the start of the spiral right now.

Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at September 03, 2024 11:04 AM (OUMaO)

328
32 armed Venezuelans

The 16 armed Venezuelans knew that their days were numbered once the 32 armed Venezuelans showed up.

Michelle Fields hardest hit ... by all 32 arms.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 03, 2024 11:06 AM (xG4kz)

329 54 The Monongahela is but one of the Three Rivers. The "Three Rivers" concept is inclusive, and thus the appellation - and the colloquial name for Pittsburgh - is inclusive. Despite the apparent progressivism in the description, however, the ideal has never been achieved and has in fact backslid in recent years as well as historically.
. . .
Posted by: Your Kid's Geography Professor at September 03, 2024 09:42 AM (HnUIn)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at September 03, 2024 11:08 AM (64Zez)

330 293
The “neurological burden of climate change is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid,” writes Clayton Page Aldern, a former neuroscientist turned environmental journalist. Global warming is not only destroying the planet, it is also causing “the spread of brain disease,” contends Aldern, author of the 2024 book The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains.
Posted by: SMOD
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OR stop having sex with people carrying certain viruses, etc. & get yourself tested.

For example:

Neurological and psychiatric effects of hepatitis C virus infection

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is widespread and affects 71 million people worldwide. Although hepatic manifestations are the most frequent, ranging from chronic hepatitis to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, it is also associated with several extrahepatic manifestations. Infected patients may present non-specific neurological symptoms, regardless of the presence of liver cirrhosis. Several pathogenetic mechanisms underlying neurological symptoms have been hypothesized: neuroinvasion, immune-mediated damage, neurotransmitter alterations and cryoglobulinemia. Alterations of the central nervous system ...

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at September 03, 2024 11:09 AM (NFX2v)

331
Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio
Gonna take a lot of river
To wash these blues away.

Posted by: m at September 03, 2024 11:16 AM (64Zez)

332 I grew up near there, and recall seeing the steel mills on the drive into Pittsburgh in the 60's. The coal rail cars and barges full of coal going up and down the river. The trucks hauling steel.

All gone now.

Posted by: ruralcounsel at September 03, 2024 12:18 PM (diMhW)

333 HEAR THAT WHSTLE BLOW,SEE THE PADDLE GO,WHO KNOWN WHAT WERE HEADING FOR

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at September 03, 2024 04:19 PM (wGqjj)

334 Fine way of telling, and nice piece of writing to take facts about my presentation topic,
which i am going to deliver in college.

Posted by: Times of Netherland at September 03, 2024 09:03 PM (NAvuo)

335 If you would like to see an interesting story from The Mon Valley, look up “Donora Death Smog” on YouTube.

The video is pretty good. It’s much more detailed than the story my dad told. He wa sin high school in Donora at the time.

Posted by: Misanthropic Misanthrope at September 03, 2024 11:25 PM (sJSth)

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