Mid-Morning Art Thread

Village Savvinskaya near Zvenigorod
Isaac Levitan

I saw a couple of different titles, so I chose the one that was pretty clearly done by an on-line translator.

Or if you prefer Cyrillic... Саввинская слобода под Звенигородом

This exposes the limitations of the internet. Absent a link to the museum in which the artwork is displayed or held, it is difficult to get reasonable information or even reasonable reproductions of the piece.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 ART

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 26, 2024 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 That's art!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 26, 2024 09:30 AM (hOUT3)

3 Wow! THAT'S a painting!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 09:30 AM (WXNFJ)

4 July, in Russia.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2024 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)

5 First

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 26, 2024 09:31 AM (RUMEY)

6 Damn y'all are caffeine quick.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 26, 2024 09:31 AM (RUMEY)

7 Life of a lonely chicken.

Posted by: BignJames at September 26, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

8 It doesn't appear to have been impacted by artillery yet, so it's prolly all good ...

Posted by: Dr_No at September 26, 2024 09:32 AM (ayRl+)

9 > Damn y'all are caffeine quick.
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Coke

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2024 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

10 Life of a lonely chicken.
Posted by: BignJames

But he's a good egg.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 09:32 AM (WXNFJ)

11 Looks like that tree had been severely cut back once and then regrew from the trunk over a couple years.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 09:32 AM (VoAdT)

12 Truly captures the depressing landscape of the Soviet world.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 26, 2024 09:32 AM (RUMEY)

13 Chickens

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 26, 2024 09:32 AM (4Med0)

14 This is at least art.

I wouldn't hang it, but it's art.

Also, what's up with the chicken that looks like a statue?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 26, 2024 09:32 AM (N1DT3)

15 Pleasant little village. Pretty painting.

Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2024 09:32 AM (oaGWv)

16 Nice painting. Thanks, CBD.

The English translation you have is correct.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

17 Someone needs to fire their arborist.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2024 09:32 AM (6ohhg)

18 ... I've been for a walk, on a Savvinskaya day.

Posted by: Comrade Mamma & Pappas at September 26, 2024 09:33 AM (Aqu9a)

19
Someone is flaunting their "V" privilege.

Posted by: Jealous at September 26, 2024 09:33 AM (DobEs)

20 Someone needs to fire their arborist.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Or at least branch out into other fields.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 09:33 AM (WXNFJ)

21 One can hardly tell that it's a 'Potemkin Village', yes ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at September 26, 2024 09:34 AM (ayRl+)

22 Very very nice. It kind of reminds me, if you ignore the houses, of the way Chalmette Battlefield Park looked when I was a kid. That was before they tarted it up with breastworks (don't giggle) and repro cannon, razed a small neighborhood to the southeast, and created a much larger park with a driveway through it.

More specifically, this reminds me of Sunday afternoons in winter, when my brother and I would play there with the sentence of School Tomorrow hanging over our heads.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 26, 2024 09:34 AM (J2vNu)

23 There's a little bird in that tree watching the world go by.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 26, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

24 Is that a chicken or a duck in the center foreground?

Doesn't matter; both are tasty. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Sick Unto Death of Hurricanes at September 26, 2024 09:35 AM (J2vNu)

25 20 Someone needs to fire their arborist.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Or at least branch out into other fields.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 09:33 AM (WXNFJ

Please, let's nip these puns in the bud.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 26, 2024 09:35 AM (RUMEY)

26 Looks like that tree had been severely cut back once and then regrew from the trunk over a couple years.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 09:32 AM (VoAdT)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2024 09:35 AM (IUd0M)

27 Someone needs to fire their arborist.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Or at least branch out into other fields.
Posted by: Tonypete

Or leave it alone.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 26, 2024 09:35 AM (4Med0)

28 More specifically, this reminds me of Sunday afternoons in winter, when my brother and I would play there with the sentence of School Tomorrow hanging over our heads.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

During my school and then work career, I always found Sundays depressing for just that reason.

Now, they are joyful.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 09:36 AM (WXNFJ)

29 Tevye should be along any moment with the milk wagon. I need to ask him something.

Posted by: Motel at September 26, 2024 09:36 AM (Aqu9a)

30 Here, chicky, chicky, chicky . . .

Posted by: Col. Sanders at September 26, 2024 09:36 AM (J2vNu)

31 When you embiggen it on a large monitor the bark on the tree in the foreground is amazingly detailed.

The chickens, not so much.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2024 09:36 AM (Q4IgG)

32 Or at least branch out into other fields.
Posted by: Tonypete

They could join a tree-ring circus.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 09:36 AM (v6JzV)

33 It's pretty in a depressing sort of way.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at September 26, 2024 09:36 AM (YiKO5)

34 I like this for some reason

would hang this in the game room at the country estate

Posted by: Don 'vote early and often' Black at September 26, 2024 09:37 AM (/7KEl)

35 Is peaceful little village, da ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at September 26, 2024 09:37 AM (ayRl+)

36 Someone needs to fire their arborist.
Posted by: nurse ratched

And get to the root cause.

Posted by: Jealous at September 26, 2024 09:37 AM (DobEs)

37 Stark, but graceful and elegant. Very texturally rich.

My sister studied in Leningrad back in 90s, and some of the paintings she bought from student artists selling their work on the street was gorgeous -- just like this one.

And here we are, celebrating bananas taped to walls, wondering why our culture is in decline.

Posted by: red speck at September 26, 2024 09:37 AM (0Id0S)

38 Kind of like a Russian version of Wyeth. I like it, would hang

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2024 09:37 AM (BVwxa)

39 The chickens, not so much.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2024

***
You're right, there are more than one in the painting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 09:37 AM (J2vNu)

40 Another painter I've not heard of. Enjoying looking at his other paintings. He died young.

Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2024 09:38 AM (oaGWv)

41 They could join a tree-ring circus.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Are tree rings xylem or phloem?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 09:38 AM (WXNFJ)

42 Is that a chicken or a duck in the center foreground?

Doesn't matter; both are tasty. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Duck >>>>>>>> Chicken
-- Haitians in Springfield, OH

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 09:38 AM (v6JzV)

43 I think this one is aesthetically pleasing.

Posted by: American Hawkman at September 26, 2024 09:38 AM (9VDxG)

44 Stop barking about the tree puns.

Posted by: Oops at September 26, 2024 09:38 AM (DobEs)

45 yeah that foreground tree has been thru some changes

Posted by: Don 'vote early and often' Black at September 26, 2024 09:39 AM (/7KEl)

46 Kind of like a Russian version of Wyeth. I like it, would hang
Posted by: Smell the Glove

No crippled woman that can't crawl away from the painter's pervy attentions though.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 09:39 AM (WXNFJ)

47 A Russian Thomas Kincaid?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 26, 2024 09:39 AM (BWZBD)

48 41 They could join a tree-ring circus.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Are tree rings xylem or phloem?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 09:38 AM (WXNFJ

Winter colds are the worst.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 26, 2024 09:39 AM (RUMEY)

49 This exposes the limitations of the internet. Absent a link to the museum in which the artwork is displayed or held, it is difficult to get reasonable information or even reasonable reproductions of the piece.
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But you'll get a dozen reasonable answers, another several dozen unreasonable answers, manifold reproductions - asserted or real - and passionate defense of all of them. Makes it easier to just pick your truth!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 09:39 AM (HnUIn)

50 I like this. I could see hanging it in my office, if I had more than one wall that could take a picture and if I didn't already have a picture hanging on it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 09:40 AM (HnUIn)

51 Are tree rings xylem or phloem?
Posted by: Tonypete

Don't know. You've stumped me with that one.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 09:40 AM (v6JzV)

52 Green grass, what looks like buds on the trees in the distance and a few green leaves on the tree in the foreground. Is this early Spring? Life renewed? Hope for a new beginning?

Posted by: red speck at September 26, 2024 09:40 AM (0Id0S)

53 Russian intervention in the art thread!

I like this so I looked him up, he has so many really beautiful, moody landscapes. The strange tree taking the focus and drawing all the lines to it makes this one stand out.

Posted by: LizLem at September 26, 2024 09:41 AM (P88/O)

54 I like it.

I don't get depressing. I get peaceful.

Anyway: Why did the chicken cross the road?

In my experience (free range chickens in a few neighborhood yards), chickens NEVER cross the road. They know exactly where the property lines are. HOW do they know that?

Guess that's a burning question.

Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at September 26, 2024 09:41 AM (JCLJi)

55 Since the big tree is leafless, I'm guessing this is late fall, or maybe early spring. The town of the title sits near Moscow at about 55 deg. N. latitude. Almost certainly it would see serious snow in the winter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 09:41 AM (J2vNu)

56 This piece, along with the village from weeks ago that was in the snow... beautiful sky, orange with clouds... I think Kris might have posted it, would be interesting side by side.

Then add similar styled/themed fall and summer pieces.

Call it "The Four Seasons"

I'll show myself out....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2024 09:42 AM (Q4IgG)

57 >>> And here we are, celebrating bananas taped to walls, wondering why our culture is in decline.

If a custodian can mistake your art for trash and accidentally throw it away, it's probably not art. But that's the low bar we are at now.

Posted by: LizLem at September 26, 2024 09:43 AM (0+96D)

58 One village is much alike another. My maternal grandfather was from a village in what is now Eastern Poland that borders Belarus, he was conscripted by the Russians in 1905 to go fight the Japanese. Just another warm body that could ride a horse, hold a rifle and swing a saber.

Posted by: I Got Your Perogies Right Here at September 26, 2024 09:44 AM (ptsC5)

59 Looks like that tree had been severely cut back once and then regrew from the trunk over a couple years.

I'd say coppicing, but why would you want the regrowth being out of your reach? You have to climb the tree every time you need some wood.

Great painting. What isolation- you and a few neighbors barely connected to the rest of the world by a mud road.

Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2024 09:45 AM (Nf1pZ)

60 Is that drone, Ivan??

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 09:45 AM (CEzQx)

61 I'm having chicken salad for lunch today.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 26, 2024 09:45 AM (NpAcC)

62 His March is great for a winter scene. And he could do portraits too. His painting of his on-again, off-again mistress, Sofia Kuvshinnikova, is a detailed and accurate portrait, judging by a photo (or daguerreotype?) atop her Wiki entry.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 09:46 AM (J2vNu)

63 This exposes the limitations of the internet. Absent a link to the museum in which the artwork is displayed or held, it is difficult to get reasonable information or even reasonable reproductions of the piece.

==

CBD , it's at the world famous Tretyakov Gallery.

Posted by: runner at September 26, 2024 09:46 AM (V13WU)

64 Love the big, fluffy clouds

Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 09:47 AM (scDBq)

65 Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н; 30 August [O.S. 18 August] 1860 – 4 August [O.S. 22 July] 1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".

Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kibarty, Augustów Governorate in Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania) into a poor but educated Jewish family. His father Elyashiv Levitan was the son of a rabbi, completed a Yeshiva and was self-educated. He taught German and French in Kowno and later worked as a translator at a railway bridge construction for a French building company. At the beginning of 1870 the Levitan family moved to Moscow.

450 works at WikiArt!
https://www.wikiart.org/en/isaac-levitan/

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 09:47 AM (CEzQx)

66 his on-again, off-again mistress, . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Heh. Oh to be young and carefree again.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 09:47 AM (WXNFJ)

67 There’s been some good essays over the years on why and how modern art turned to trash. Began when it became popular to be “outrageous” but that inevitably led to the long slide into meaningless vulgarity. And then the Art World became totally ingrown and divorced itself from any connection to the common culture.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2024 09:48 AM (S6gqv)

68 *concerning the on-again, off-again part*

NOT the mistress.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 09:48 AM (WXNFJ)

69 would hang. Wonderful attention to detail.

Posted by: Ciampino - the grass is realistic at September 26, 2024 09:49 AM (qfLjt)

70 >>> And here we are, celebrating bananas taped to walls, wondering why our culture is in decline.

There's a social media prank where people will set down something in a modern art gallery - a pair of glasses, etc. - then watch/film people mistaking it for "art."

Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 09:49 AM (scDBq)

71 I see the name "Levitan" and I think of the warehouse-style but good-quality furniture store we had here for decades, Levitz. TV spots would trumpet, "You're gonna love it at Levitz!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 09:50 AM (J2vNu)

72 Matchmaker, matchmaker,
Make me a match,
Find me a catch!

https://tinyurl.com/bp9pxyc7

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 09:51 AM (CEzQx)

73 Crepe myrder

Posted by: banana Dream at September 26, 2024 09:51 AM (Y6IkP)

74 If a custodian can mistake your art for trash and accidentally throw it away, it's probably not art. But that's the low bar we are at now.
Posted by: LizLem at September 26, 2024 09:43 AM (0+96D)
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That was the point. Destroying art is difficult. Art appears to be actually fundamental to the human experience, and so is a big thing to try to destroy in the name of whichever revolutionary ideology the destroyer subscribes to.

The communists and their fellow travelers hit on a solid strategy to do it, and have been implementing it - largely successfully - for a few generations now: don't attack it directly. Great things get defended, so don't attack greatness. Just ignore it and elevate mediocrity or offensiveness to the same plane as the great, then supplant it.

It's hard to destroy greatness and quality with a frontal assault, because too many people notice and if they're not on board (like they were in Afghanistan, where frontal assault was successful), the assault will fail. Elevating mediocrity until everything is reduced to common noise, however, will destroy it all the same. Then you have the ashes of civilization, ready to be ruled by your revolutionaries.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 09:53 AM (HnUIn)

75 Beam me up, Captain!!!

https://tinyurl.com/35atkfra

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 09:53 AM (CEzQx)

76 Looks like a tree from the early works of Van Gogn. Nice painting.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2024 09:54 AM (qU497)

77 Savvinskaya Dreaming...

Great song by the Mamochkas And The Papochkas.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2024 09:54 AM (d9fT1)

78 “One day, Russian is hearing of knock on door. Russian is asking, ‘Who is?’ Answering, ‘Is potato man. I come around to give free potato.’ Russian is very excite and is opening of door. Is no potato man. Is secret police.”

Posted by: brak at September 26, 2024 09:54 AM (NGHTx)

79 Love the clouds, the pollarded trees, mud road, buildings. Not a serf's property.

Do most Russian village names have the feminine "a" at the end. I like that feature of their language.

Posted by: M. Gaga at September 26, 2024 09:55 AM (OOvTI)

80
A Soviet collectivist farm worker greets Joseph Stalin at a Soviet collectivist potato farm.

"How goes the harvest?" asks Stalin.

“Comrade Stalin, we have so many potatoes that, piled one on top of the other, they would reach all the way to God,” the Soviet collectivist farm worker excitedly tells his leader.

“But God does not exist,” replies Stalin.

“Exactly,” says the Soviet collectivist farm worker.

“Neither do the potatoes.”

Posted by: Old classic at September 26, 2024 09:55 AM (DobEs)

81 Art, music, pop culture is always representative of the society at large. That is my firm belief. Not an original thought, I am sure there are volumes written about it, but I subscribe to it.

Posted by: runner at September 26, 2024 09:55 AM (V13WU)

82 Beam me up, Captain!!!

https://tinyurl.com/35atkfra
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024

***
The portrait of Chekhov there looks like actor Mandy Patinkin The Princess Bride, Dead Like Me).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

83 I like it. It gives off a very "beginning of spring after a long Russian winter" vibe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2024 09:56 AM (kgE5c)

84 CBD , it's at the world famous Tretyakov Gallery.

Posted by: runner at September 26, 2024 09:46 AM (V13WU)

I have a sh*tty cold and am phoning it in this week.

That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!

[runner ain't joking...that's an important Russian art museum]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2024 09:56 AM (d9fT1)

85 Bob Ross would be proud:
https://tinyurl.com/yns42mrz

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 09:56 AM (CEzQx)

86 Posted by: Old classic at September 26, 2024 09:55 AM (DobEs)
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Heh. I had forgotten that one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 09:57 AM (HnUIn)

87 Is a coppiced tree a happy tree?

Posted by: tubal at September 26, 2024 09:57 AM (PCK5/)

88 “One day, Russian is hearing of knock on door. Russian is asking, ‘Who is?’ Answering, ‘Is potato man. I come around to give free potato.’ Russian is very excite and is opening of door. Is no potato man. Is secret police.”
Posted by: brak at September 26, 2024

***
"Plumber is coming in the morning."

Posted by: Just the Punchline at September 26, 2024 09:57 AM (J2vNu)

89 I was afraid to count the chickens, because some may not have hatched.

Posted by: Roy at September 26, 2024 09:58 AM (z+ik4)

90 CBD has a Man Cold.

Poor thing. You'll live.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2024 09:59 AM (5ecWR)

91 Do most Russian village names have the feminine "a" at the end. I like that feature of their language.
Posted by: M. Gaga

In this case, the village name is in adjectival form, and ends in "-aya" to agree with the gender of the word "sloboda" ("village"), which is feminine. Same with another word for "village," derevnya," also feminine.

There is yet another word for "village," "selo," which is neuter gender, so the name of that village would have the neuter adjectival ending "-oye."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 09:59 AM (v6JzV)

92 CBD has a Man Cold.

Poor thing. You'll live.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2024 09:59 AM

Man Cold...the struggle is real.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2024 09:59 AM (kgE5c)

93 "...after a long Russian winter..."

Are there ever any short ones?

Posted by: Gotta wonder at September 26, 2024 10:00 AM (DobEs)

94 The man, himself:
https://tinyurl.com/yc6ty8jh

Although a bit sketchy.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:01 AM (CEzQx)

95 *bang*

*shakes fist*

Damn you Jude Law

*bang*

Bwahahahahahah
- Ed Harris

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 26, 2024 10:01 AM (mTt0v)

96 91 Do most Russian village names have the feminine "a" at the end. I like that feature of their language.
Posted by: M. Gaga

In this case, the village name is in adjectival form, and ends in "-aya" to agree with the gender of the word "sloboda" ("village"), which is feminine. Same with another word for "village," derevnya," also feminine.

There is yet another word for "village," "selo," which is neuter gender, so the name of that village would have the neuter adjectival ending "-oye."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 09:59 AM (v6JzV)

Rules like those are why I have only rudimentary knowledge of foreign languages.

Posted by: tubal at September 26, 2024 10:01 AM (PCK5/)

97 “One day, Russian is hearing of knock on door. Russian is asking, ‘Who is?’ Answering, ‘Is potato man. I come around to give free potato.’ Russian is very excite and is opening of door. Is no potato man. Is secret police.”
Posted by: brak at September 26, 2024 09:54 AM (NGHTx)
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Well, at least it wasn't a Land Shark.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2024 10:02 AM (7fElN)

98
Chickens but no dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2024 10:02 AM (BkEzK)

99
Tiger tanks off to the right!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2024 10:02 AM (x0n13)

100 Rules like those are why I have only rudimentary knowledge of foreign languages.
Posted by: tubal

I'm a language geek.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:02 AM (v6JzV)

101 The short Russian winter is called "Spring".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 10:03 AM (VoAdT)

102 450 works at WikiArt!
https://www.wikiart.org/en/isaac-levitan/

He is so good. 450 works and he didn't even see his 40th birthday.

Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2024 10:03 AM (4SKzt)

103 Nicely bucolic. Back in the USSR, boy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2024 10:03 AM (c711F)

104 Chickens but no dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

He ran a fowl of the rules.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 26, 2024 10:04 AM (4Med0)

105 Also travelled to northern Italy and southern France but not many of these works at WikiArt. [Then-Russian province Finland ones too.]

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:04 AM (CEzQx)

106 Tiger tanks off to the right!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2024 10:02 AM (x0n13)

1000 T-34s behind the house!

Posted by: BignJames at September 26, 2024 10:04 AM (AwYPR)

107 101 The short Russian winter is called "Spring".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 10:03 AM (VoAdT)

Similar to the line about Maine.

Only two seasons in Maine. Winter and Getting Ready for Winter.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2024 10:04 AM (x0n13)

108 “One day, Russian is hearing of knock on door. Russian is asking, ‘Who is?’ Answering, ‘Is potato man. I come around to give free potato.’ Russian is very excite and is opening of door. Is no potato man. Is secret police.”
Posted by: brak at September 26, 2024 09:54 AM (NGHTx)
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Well, at least it wasn't a Land Shark.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Speaking of knocking on doors . . .

Democrat Door-To-Door Firm Seeks “People With a Criminal Record” to Apply for Canvassing Work

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

109 Great things get defended, so don't attack greatness. Just ignore it and elevate mediocrity or offensiveness to the same plane as the great, then supplant it.

Elevating mediocrity until everything is reduced to common noise, however, will destroy it all the same. Then you have the ashes of civilization, ready to be ruled by your revolutionaries.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 09:53 AM (HnUIn)
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That works for people as well as for art.

All part of the plan, comrade!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2024 10:04 AM (7fElN)

110 Hands down, my favorite Soviet joke:

An old man dreamed of seeing the capital city and finally got an internal passport to visit Moscow. He arrived at night, but didn't know about Moscow's new curfew and he was stopped by the police as he was walking to his hotel from the train station.

The cop demanded the man's papers and asked, "where were you born?"
"Saint Petersburg, comrade officer," the man replied.

The cop's eyes hardened. "Where did you go to school?"
"Petrograd, comrade officer," the man replied.

The cop got more agitated. "Where do you live?"
"Leningrad, comrade officer," the man replied.

The officer grabbed the man's lapels and snapped, "do you want to go live in gulag, asshole?"
The man replied, "Nyet, comrade officer. I want to live in Saint Petersburg."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:05 AM (HnUIn)

111 Tiger tanks off to the right!
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Disappointed no "Kursk"s in his portfolio.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:05 AM (CEzQx)

112 MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle is defending Vice President Kamala Harris for transparent idiocy after a preview clip of their interview aired on Wednesday.

In the pre-recorded interview, Ruhle pressed Harris over where she would "get the money" to fund her economic proposals if Republicans on Capitol Hill block her plan to raise corporate tax rates.

"Do you still go forward with those plans and borrow?" Ruhle asked, to which Harris couldn't formulate a cogent reply.

.. two idiots .. you have to get Congressional approval to spend any money .. doesn't matter where is come from.

The Antideficiency Act is legislation enacted by the United States Congress to prevent the incurring of obligations or the making of expenditures in excess of amounts available in appropriations or funds. It prohibits spending money and then sending the bill to Congress.

Posted by: SMOD at September 26, 2024 10:05 AM (RHGPo)

113 Democrat Door-To-Door Firm Seeks “People With a Criminal Record” to Apply for Canvassing Work

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

Burglary gang?

Posted by: BignJames at September 26, 2024 10:06 AM (AwYPR)

114 A rock and a hard place.

Harris’ Silence Is Hurting Her Campaign, But It Gets Even Worse When She Speaks

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

115 Democrat Door-To-Door Firm Seeks “People With a Criminal Record” to Apply for Canvassing Work
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There are just so many retards. Time to widen the field.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2024 10:06 AM (c711F)

116 A nice warm, nukular, glow from one of the homes windows would be a welcome addition. And a water wheel.

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Kinkade at September 26, 2024 10:07 AM (CV8a5)

117 CBD has a Man Cold.

Poor thing. You'll live.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2024 09:59 AM (5ecWR)

Hopefully. You have no idea how we suffer!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2024 10:07 AM (d9fT1)

118 ". . . Is no potato man. Is secret police.”
Posted by: brak at September 26, 2024
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Well, at least it wasn't a Land Shark.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2024

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Even Land Sharks fear the secret police!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

119 Disappointed no "Kursk"s in his portfolio.
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Has it ever been determined who leaked the German Kursk plans to the Soviets?

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2024 10:08 AM (c711F)

120 The officer grabbed the man's lapels and snapped, "do you want to go live in gulag, asshole?"
The man replied, "Nyet, comrade officer. I want to live in Saint Petersburg."
Posted by: Joe Mannix

DUDE, THIS JOKE IS TOO DEEP FOR ME TO EXPLAIN WITHIN THE PIXY-IMPOSED CHARACTER LIMITS.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 26, 2024 10:08 AM (JCZqz)

121 ". . . Is no potato man. Is secret police.”
Posted by: brak at September 26, 2024
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Well, at least it wasn't a Land Shark.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Clearly not the Spanish Inquisition.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 10:08 AM (WXNFJ)

122 ... The Antideficiency Act is legislation enacted by the United States Congress to prevent the incurring of obligations or the making of expenditures in excess of amounts available in appropriations or funds. It prohibits spending money and then sending the bill to Congress.
Posted by: SMOD at September 26, 2024 10:05 AM (RHGPo)
++++
They skirt this during "government shutdowns" by playing "hot potato" with the books and issuing new securities anyway, pretending that it's all fine and that Congress will approve it all. So far, that play has worked. It will keep working until the bond market says, "nah, we're not buying your vague paper without a decidedly non-vague premium to offset the risks of what is essentially fraudulent issuance."

During a "government shutdown" scenario, this doesn't happen. Would it happen in a "we're just doing it anyway, Congress be damned" scenario? No clue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:08 AM (HnUIn)

123

Can''t remember the name but there was a really good Russian War movie I saw on YouTUbe. Something about a ghost Tiger tank?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2024 10:08 AM (x0n13)

124 >>CBD has a Man Cold.

Guys from Berkely have been known to get the 'Man Flu'.

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:09 AM (/0Jj5)

125 Nice place to visit

Posted by: Skip at September 26, 2024 10:09 AM (Ky9/9)

126 119 Disappointed no "Kursk"s in his portfolio.
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Has it ever been determined who leaked the German Kursk plans to the Soviets?
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2024 10:08 AM (c711F)

Lucy Spy Ring?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2024 10:09 AM (x0n13)

127 DUDE, THIS JOKE IS TOO DEEP FOR ME TO EXPLAIN WITHIN THE PIXY-IMPOSED CHARACTER LIMITS.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 26, 2024 10:08 AM (JCZqz)
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LOL. I know. It might be the perfect joke - but *only* if you have the background knowledge to understand it.

I have noticed that there is a firm cutoff age for that joke. Very, very few people under 45 will get it. Older people howl with laughter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:09 AM (HnUIn)

128 114 A rock and a hard place.

Harris’ Silence Is Hurting Her Campaign, But It Gets Even Worse When She Speaks
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Seems a common problem for Dems, recently. I hope Walz gets out in public more, so we can see how he fares lol.

Posted by: Hillary! and Biden at September 26, 2024 10:09 AM (JCZqz)

129 123

Can''t remember the name but there was a really good Russian War movie I saw on YouTUbe. Something about a ghost Tiger tank?
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Just another Ghost Ship script.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2024 10:10 AM (c711F)

130 Oh look, here's one of Tim Walz's education appointees talking about how America needs to be "overthrown" because it's "irreversibly racist"

https://is.gd/Zokwf2

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Tomorrow Belongs To Me!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:10 AM (L/fGl)

131 The cabin on the right with the birch trees out front is where Nathan Wade is holed-up.

Posted by: TJ the Snitch at September 26, 2024 10:10 AM (CV8a5)

132 Possible "100 year flood" forecast here....prepping my ark.

Posted by: BignJames at September 26, 2024 10:10 AM (AwYPR)

133
One thing you can say favors this place -- you can always summon a troop of Cossacks to roust any Haitians someone dropped upon you without your say so.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 26, 2024 10:11 AM (xG4kz)

134 I have noticed that there is a firm cutoff age for that joke. Very, very few people under 45 will get it. Older people howl with laughter.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:09 AM

That one is never not funny.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2024 10:11 AM (kgE5c)

135 That works for people as well as for art.

All part of the plan, comrade!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2024 10:04 AM (7fElN)

It's the fundamental flaw of Liberalism and democratic governance.

Expecting peasants to be their own lords.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 10:11 AM (VoAdT)

136 Seems a common problem for Dems, recently. I hope Walz gets out in public more, so we can see how he fares lol.
Posted by: Hillary! and Biden

I'm not generally interested in 'debates' but I AM looking forward to Vance eviscerating Walz.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 10:11 AM (WXNFJ)

137 450 works at WikiArt!
https://www.wikiart.org/en/isaac-levitan/
*
He is so good. 450 works and he didn't even see his 40th birthday.
Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2024

***
One every two weeks, for twenty years. Wow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:11 AM (J2vNu)

138 "Truly captures the depressing landscape of the Soviet world."

Posted by: AlaBAMA

...

I'm a bit of a Russia fanbois. I've studied up on their history going back to Medeival times. After all the Russians have been through, they retain a conservative national character and pride which I envy.

But God, it's a depressing place. Endlessly flat and swampy with horrible weather, and I read somewhere they don't tolerate even the slightest hint of pungency in their food.

Posted by: Tom Perry at September 26, 2024 10:11 AM (MX0bI)

139 The Chrysler Coppice was a whimsical concept vehicle that emerged from Lee Iacocca's imagination after a night of heavy drinking. Three wheeled and belt driven by an air cooled two cylinder engine it died a quiet death on a crumpled cocktail napkin.
As well it should have.

Posted by: Car Nerd at September 26, 2024 10:11 AM (DobEs)

140 130 Oh look, here's one of Tim Walz's education appointees talking about how America needs to be "overthrown" because it's "irreversibly racist"

https://is.gd/Zokwf2

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Tomorrow Belongs To Me!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:10 AM (L/fGl)

Black Polish guy?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2024 10:11 AM (x0n13)

141 127

LOL. I know. It might be the perfect joke - but *only* if you have the background knowledge to understand it.

I have noticed that there is a firm cutoff age for that joke. Very, very few people under 45 will get it. Older people howl with laughter.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:09 AM (HnUIn)

So only 7 Hordians won’t get it then..

Posted by: tubal at September 26, 2024 10:11 AM (PCK5/)

142 Possible "100 year flood" forecast here....prepping my ark.
Posted by: BignJames

We got some crazy rainstorms last night. At one point my wife said, "Should we build an ark?"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:12 AM (v6JzV)

143 123

Can''t remember the name but there was a really good Russian War movie I saw on YouTUbe. Something about a ghost Tiger tank?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

White Tiger, I think.

Posted by: Military Moron at September 26, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

144 >> Oh look, here's one of Tim Walz's education appointees talking about how America needs to be "overthrown" because it's "irreversibly racist"

Anyone else noticed that Walz refers to himself as a Teacher...but when he refers to his students he always numbers them in the 20s.

Did he teach one class, once?

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:13 AM (/0Jj5)

145 @ 71 I see the name "Levitan" and I think of the warehouse-style but good-quality furniture store we had here for decades, Levitz. TV spots would trumpet, "You're gonna love it at Levitz!"
______________________________

If you remember Levitz, you also remember 'Wozenburg's' (Rosenberg's ... "18-25 ... TU-lane!"). And who doesn't remember Al Scramuzza and his daughters, Spot and Rover ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at September 26, 2024 10:13 AM (ayRl+)

146 Sure, there's a tree, therefore, art. However, the dog is implied. He's eating hiding because he's eating one of the chickens!

Posted by: Pete in Texas at September 26, 2024 10:13 AM (qpQEt)

147 Guys from Berkely have been known to get the 'Man Flu'.

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:09 AM (/0Jj5)

Listen Croc-boi, I know where you are from, and a more effete place is hard to find in America.

How many messenger bag stores are there in your hometown?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2024 10:13 AM (d9fT1)

148 Full English-language bio at Tretyakov Gallery's magazine:

Isaac Levitan's Life and Work Timeline
https://tinyurl.com/y4wpmf8p

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:13 AM (CEzQx)

149 Or if you prefer Cyrillic...

Actually I prefer the pre-Ming Mandarin, but thanks for asking.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 26, 2024 10:13 AM (IG4Id)

150 Good tank movies… The Beast, Fury.

Posted by: tubal at September 26, 2024 10:13 AM (PCK5/)

151 Ban knives now!

Man dies after accidentally stabbing himself while separating two frozen burger patties

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Better ban hamburgers, too, while we're at it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:13 AM (L/fGl)

152 The stonewalling of the DOJ IG is amazing, like something straight out of a movie on government corruption:

https://youtu.be/aItGIPk0eKA

That’s about the FBI having assets in the crowd on J6.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2024 10:13 AM (NBIe0)

153 >>But God, it's a depressing place.

We have Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan...

The Russians have Baba Yaga.

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:15 AM (/0Jj5)

154 My favorite non-USSR Cold War joke is from East Germany.

Erich Honecker, the head man of the GDR, was known for his dedication and work ethic. He started work every day long before the sun rose. Each morning, at sunrise, he would step out onto his office's balcony and cry out to they sky, "good morning, sun!"

Every morning, the sun would cheerfully call back, "good morning, comrade Honecker!"

Honecker would then step back inside and get back to the people's work. One day, he was very sick and slept until 10:00 in the morning before dragging himself to the office. He worked all day, missing his morning greeting. At sunset, he stepped out onto his balcony and cried out to the sky, "good night, sun!"

There was no answer. He cried again, more firmly, "GOOD NIGHT, SUN!"

The sun called back, "Fuck you, Erich. I'm in the West now."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:15 AM (HnUIn)

155 Soon Category 53 Superhurricyclonestorm Helene will physically eliminate the entire state of Florida, destroying America's penis once and for all. America will at last be fully transified, physically as well as spiritually.

Posted by: America has no balls anyway at September 26, 2024 10:15 AM (QK4hQ)

156 The Russians have Baba Yaga.
Posted by: garrett

John Wick?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 10:15 AM (WXNFJ)

157 Man Cold...the struggle is real.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2024 09:59 AM (kgE5c)

Woman cold.

Doesn't exist.

Power through, Baby. Hope the kids don't make you TOO crazy today. Hey. Maybe you can make some chicken soup for dinner.

See ya after work!

Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at September 26, 2024 10:15 AM (JCLJi)

158 I remember the "You'll love it at Levitz!" commercial when I lived in Cincinnati.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at September 26, 2024 10:15 AM (qpQEt)

159 143 123

Can''t remember the name but there was a really good Russian War movie I saw on YouTUbe. Something about a ghost Tiger tank?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

White Tiger, I think.
Posted by: Military Moron at September 26, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

I believe that's the one!

On a different note, one of the most harrowing Holocaust-themed ar films I have seen is called "Come and See" also Russian. Brilliantly done.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2024 10:16 AM (x0n13)

160 I'm a bit of a Russia fanbois. I've studied up on their history going back to Medeival times. After all the Russians have been through, they retain a conservative national character and pride which I envy.
Posted by: Tom Perry

Speaking of, the ancient settlers of Moscow, where did they originate ?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 26, 2024 10:16 AM (IG4Id)

161 >> I know where you are from, and a more effete place is hard to find in America.

I come from a long line of effete stone masons. This is true.

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:16 AM (/0Jj5)

162 Man dies after accidentally stabbing himself while separating two frozen burger patties
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This happens. So does women falling on upright knives while filling the dishwasher. Life is a gamble.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2024 10:16 AM (c711F)

163 Oh for the love of... Gavin Newscum has signed a bill banning single use propane canisters.

"Democrats say that negotiations with manufacturers failed, and therefore Newsom decided to ban the cylinders."

So they didn't bribe him enough, got it. Going to tick off a lot of campers trying to enjoy the great California outdoors.

Posted by: LizLem at September 26, 2024 10:16 AM (8DBGI)

164 Has it ever been determined who leaked the German Kursk plans to the Soviets?
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Sir Anthony Blunt leaked the Arnhem Plan to the Germans two days before Market Garden. Don't/didn't know about Kursk.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:16 AM (CEzQx)

165 I used to like him.

Never Trump Lincoln Project Drops New Ad Voiced By Sam Elliott: "Be A Man, Vote For A Woman"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:16 AM (L/fGl)

166 On a different note, one of the most harrowing Holocaust-themed ar films I have seen is called "Come and See" also Russian. Brilliantly done.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Absolutely fantastic. And probably the most realistically portrayed of those events.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 10:17 AM (WXNFJ)

167 >>Never Trump Lincoln Project Drops New Ad Voiced By Sam Elliott: "Be A Man, Vote For A Woman"

Cowboys are fags.
I have been telling you all this for years.

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:18 AM (/0Jj5)

168 Speaking of, the ancient settlers of Moscow, where did they originate ?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

They were probably speakers of a Uralic language (think Finns).

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:18 AM (v6JzV)

169 Morning.

Ooohhh, very nice art!

Posted by: Robert at September 26, 2024 10:18 AM (z2/o0)

170 Kursk? Plans. Leaked.

Look up the Red Orchestra

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 26, 2024 10:18 AM (MnC2P)

171 165 I used to like him.

Never Trump Lincoln Project Drops New Ad Voiced By Sam Elliott: "Be A Man, Vote For A Woman"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:16 AM (L/fGl)

=======

The whole, "vote for someone because of their gender" always, always feels awkward at absolute best.

Hillary made her entire damn campaign about it. And people think she lost because Putin changed vote totals in voting machines in Michigan through the internet (and then didn't change anything 4 years later).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

172
***
One every two weeks, for twenty years. Wow.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Tis nothing. I worked for a man who could paint an entire apartment in one day-two coats! And he was a terrific dancer!

Posted by: Franz Liebkind at September 26, 2024 10:18 AM (CV8a5)

173 If you remember Levitz, you also remember 'Wozenburg's' (Rosenberg's ... "18-25 ... TU-lane!"). And who doesn't remember Al Scramuzza and his daughters, Spot and Rover ... ?
Posted by: Dr_No at September 26, 2024

***
Oh, Lord, yes. "Seafood City . . . Very Pretty!" This from one of the ugliest merchants ever to appear on local TV (and considering the population here, that's saying something).

We also had Frankie & Johnny's Furniture, with the terrifically low-budget spots trumpeting their credit terms. "I've declared bankruptcy." "You gotta see The Special Man!"

Cut to a shot of a heavy-set black fellow in a suit and a white cowboy hat. He removes his cigar from his mouth long enough to say in a gravelly voice, "Let 'er have it."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

174 Figured I'd ask here since most of y'all are pretty plugged in.

Anything happen with that affidavit purporting Kamala and ABC had a deal where she wouldn't be fact checked during the debate?

That went away might quick.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 26, 2024 10:18 AM (KbCG3)

175 Can't remember the name but there was a really good Russian War movie I saw on YouTube. Something about a ghost Tiger tank?
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Born Frei??

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:19 AM (CEzQx)

176 The Russians have Baba Yaga.

* waves *

Posted by: Marie Laveau at September 26, 2024 10:19 AM (/y8xj)

177 Man dies after accidentally stabbing himself while separating two frozen burger patties

Fer cryin' out loud, just move 'em to the fridge to thaw out a little. Or run some hot water over them.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:19 AM (v6JzV)

178 Actors have a way of wearing personas like some people wear shirts… chameleons are embarassed by them..

Posted by: tubal at September 26, 2024 10:20 AM (PCK5/)

179 >>Fer cryin' out loud, just move 'em to the fridge to thaw out a little. Or run some hot water over them.

Or, have a Double Burger. Like a fuckin' man.

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:20 AM (/0Jj5)

180 177 Man dies after accidentally stabbing himself while separating two frozen burger patties

Fer cryin' out loud, just move 'em to the fridge to thaw out a little. Or run some hot water over them.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:19 AM (v6JzV)

"ROFLMAO!!!!"

- - Donald Manes, formerly from Queens

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2024 10:20 AM (x0n13)

181 Speaking of, the ancient settlers of Moscow, where did they originate ?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 26, 2024

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Weren't they Scandi adventurers, next door to Vikings -- the Rus?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:20 AM (J2vNu)

182
That tree looks like Asplundh topped it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 26, 2024 10:20 AM (RKVpM)

183 >>> Never Trump Lincoln Project Drops New Ad Voiced By Sam Elliott: "Be A Man, Vote For A Woman"

Disappointing. They tried to cancel him for thoughtcrimes if I recall, this must be his penance.

Crowder played the original, then did his own parody of it on one of his recent shows. Really good imitation of Elliot. But honestly, the original sounds like a parody!

Posted by: LizLem at September 26, 2024 10:20 AM (8DBGI)

184 141 127

LOL. I know. It might be the perfect joke - but *only* if you have the background knowledge to understand it.

I have noticed that there is a firm cutoff age for that joke. Very, very few people under 45 will get it. Older people howl with laughter.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:09 AM (HnUIn)

So only 7 Hordians won’t get it then..
Posted by: tubal at September 26, 2024 10:11 AM (PCK5/)

To steal from TJM, I don't get it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 26, 2024 10:20 AM (KbCG3)

185 This exposes the limitations of the internet.

I'm not sure the internet is limited, as much as it is being limited, vis a vis Russia.

Russians are non-people, every man, woman and child. They are worthy of being on the receiving end of the worst human brutality by the hands of your children, who will be heroes for killing anyone with Russian DNA.

Your children, in their graves, will be remembered for the sacrifice they made to kill these Russians. We will say of your dead kids, "they died to protect democracy."

And more importantly, their deaths will not have been in vain, for we will begin taking Russian natural resources at a reduced price and put what remains of their people in our system of usury.

Posted by: Central Bankers at September 26, 2024 10:20 AM (fTA29)

186 Fer cryin' out loud, just move 'em to the fridge to thaw out a little. Or run some hot water over them.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:19 AM (v6JzV)
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Don't want to par-cook 'em. Cold water will also work.

But they were probably the "cook from frozen" type and he just wanted to get 'em on the grill. I've been there. "Come apart, dammit! People are waiting! &*%)&_#*_(*#"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:20 AM (HnUIn)

187 Anything happen with that affidavit purporting Kamala and ABC had a deal where she wouldn't be fact checked during the debate?

That went away might quick.

ABC News investigated ABC News and determined that ABC News did nothing wrong. You can always trust ABC News.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 26, 2024 10:21 AM (/y8xj)

188 Burger Splitter, Darwin Candidate.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 26, 2024 10:21 AM (MnC2P)

189 you know who else considered himself a stone mason ??

Posted by: runner at September 26, 2024 10:21 AM (V13WU)

190 Hillary made her entire damn campaign about it. And people think she lost because Putin changed vote totals in voting machines in Michigan through the internet (and then didn't change anything 4 years later).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

One of the greatest lessons in marketing and branding:

Make America Great Again vs. I'm with Her

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 26, 2024 10:21 AM (KbCG3)

191 Spent the morning at Palace of Versailles. You're not gonna believe this but they have art there. Actually a very cool place. Gardens were amazing too. Also, CBD not the food thread but thanks for the recommendation of Atelier Maitre Albert. It was delicious food.

Posted by: scampydog at September 26, 2024 10:21 AM (uJ65b)

192 Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:09 AM (/0Jj5)

Listen Croc-boi, I know where you are from, and a more effete place is hard to find in America.

How many messenger bag stores are there in your hometown?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2024 10:13 AM

Garrett's from Provincetown?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2024 10:22 AM (Wnv9h)

193 Frozen Bagels get a lot of people, too.

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:22 AM (/0Jj5)

194 #154 East German dictator Erich Honecker is talking to Erich Mielke, head of the Stasi.

Honecker: I have a hobby. I collect the jokes that people tell about me.

Mielke: I have a hobby too. I collect the people who tell the jokes.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:22 AM (CEzQx)

195 >>>>Never Trump Lincoln Project Drops New Ad Voiced By Sam Elliott: "Be A Man, Vote For A Woman"

It's funny because it's a tell: Kamala must NOT be polling well with men.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:22 AM (scDBq)

196 Where there is a will, there is a way.

Town Mayor in Maine Tells Seniors in City Overrun by Migrants to Get Reverse Mortgages If They Can’t Afford Rising Taxes

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

197 East German dictator Erich Honecker is talking to Erich Mielke, head of the Stasi.

Honecker: I have a hobby. I collect the jokes that people tell about me.

Mielke: I have a hobby too. I collect the people who tell the jokes.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:22 AM (CEzQx)
++++
Another excellent joke from the same era, and another one of my favorites.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:22 AM (HnUIn)

198 190 One of the greatest lessons in marketing and branding:

Make America Great Again vs. I'm with Her

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 26, 2024 10:21 AM (KbCG3)

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One is about the people voting. The other is about the person running.

Let's look at how the campaigns are running things today, shall we? Any similarities?

Joy? It's a selling point for Kamala's cackle and nothing else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

199 193 Frozen Bagels get a lot of people, too.
Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:22 AM (/0Jj5)

Serrated bread knife, and rotating the bagel as you go.

And if it's stale, nuke it for a few seconds to soften it up first.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2024 10:23 AM (x0n13)

200
It's funny because it's a tell: Kamala must NOT be polling well with men.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:22 AM (scDBq)

____________

But all we hear is, "BRAWWWK! Trump losing with women. BRAWWWK!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2024 10:23 AM (BkEzK)

201 "Absent a link to the museum in which the artwork is displayed or held, it is difficult to get reasonable information..."

And now that the Art Institute of Chicago has fired all its white volunteer docents (to give POC the oppotunity to do something none of them can do or want to do), you can't get information there, either.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 26, 2024 10:23 AM (Rbu5d)

202 189 you know who else considered himself a stone mason ??
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Socrates?

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2024 10:24 AM (c711F)

203 Just don't ChemJeff the steak.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 26, 2024 10:24 AM (MnC2P)

204 >>Frozen Bagels get a lot of people, too.

Avocados. People try to emulate chefs by holding a half in their palm and then, using a big knife, try to whack it into the pit to get it out. Stupid!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:24 AM (scDBq)

205 195 >>>>Never Trump Lincoln Project Drops New Ad Voiced By Sam Elliott: "Be A Man, Vote For A Woman"

It's funny because it's a tell: Kamala must NOT be polling well with men.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:22 AM (scDBq)

=======

If you want to believe polls, the gender gap for men is bigger than the gender gap for women.

The Democrat Party is becoming exclusively the party of women, and the Republican Party is significantly less exclusive by gender, though Democrats really want to make it so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

206 Looks like Hurricane Helene, to borrow a phrase from the late great John D. MacDonald, has "picked up her great gray skirts and hustled." The weather mavens are seeing 12 mph forward speed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:24 AM (J2vNu)

207 >>And if it's stale, nuke it for a few seconds to soften it up first.

I have never lived in a house with a microwave. Ever.

Aluminum foil packet and a 150 degree oven will do wonders for a frozen bagel.

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:25 AM (/0Jj5)

208 Slicing veggies using a mandolin is… risky..

Posted by: tubal at September 26, 2024 10:25 AM (PCK5/)

209 >>> And people think she lost because Putin changed vote totals in voting machines in Michigan through the internet (and then didn't change anything 4 years later).

I think Patrick Bet-David had a voting machine expert on recently and showed how easy it was to manipulate them. Plugged a memory stick in with code to hack it, and then could tally the votes however he wanted. The left screamed about all of this until they didn't. Funny, that.

Posted by: LizLem at September 26, 2024 10:25 AM (8DBGI)

210 you know who else considered himself a stone mason ??
-------------
Socrates?
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2024

***
James?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:25 AM (J2vNu)

211 Helene has been moving at 12mph since yesterday.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 26, 2024 10:25 AM (MnC2P)

212 One is about the people voting. The other is about the person running.

Let's look at how the campaigns are running things today, shall we? Any similarities?

Joy? It's a selling point for Kamala's cackle and nothing else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

"I'm here to bring back the prosperity we enjoyed just a few short years ago."

"Those guys are weird and I'm very happy!"

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 26, 2024 10:25 AM (KbCG3)

213 >>Avocados. People try to emulate chefs by holding a half in their palm and then, using a big knife, try to whack it into the pit to get it out.

Another good way to visit the ER.

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:25 AM (/0Jj5)

214
Seconds later an artillery shell, personally signed by Pennsylvania Governor Joshua Shapiro, roared across the landscape and the shrapnel amputated the legs of the nearby children at play.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 26, 2024 10:26 AM (RKVpM)

215 Avocados. People try to emulate chefs by holding a half in their palm and then, using a big knife, try to whack it into the pit to get it out. Stupid!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:24 AM (scDBq)
++++
If pits are coming out, you're whackin' the wrong thing!

Posted by: Terse reminders from The Solo Romantic's Handbook, 3rd Edition at September 26, 2024 10:26 AM (HnUIn)

216 I have never lived in a house with a microwave. Ever. . . .

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 1

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Until a few years ago, neither did I. I was missing out.
It's great for cooking certain things, but even better for reheating.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

217 "Be a man, vote for a woman"....

This will convince a negative number of people to vote for her. If there even is a single person whose only rationale for not voting Harris is her genitals, what possible mechanism of persuasion is in this message to make them change their preference?

It's pure cheerleading, and cheerleading has never convinced anyone of anything, ever.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 10:27 AM (VoAdT)

218 >>Joy? It's a selling point for Kamala's cackle and nothing else.

Particularly when things are so bad: you can't afford groceries, the heating bill, to insure your car or fill the tank with gas, and may lose your job or life to illegals - but, hey, let's dance and giggle along with the woman who helped create this mess!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:27 AM (scDBq)

219
It's morning. Honecker says, "Good morning, Sun." The Sun says, "Good morning, Dear Leader."

It's noon. Honecker says, "Good day, Sun." The Sun says, "Good day, Dear Leader."

It's evening. Honecker says, "Good evening, Sun." The Sun says, "Kiss my ass, I'm in the West now."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2024 10:27 AM (BkEzK)

220 Never Trump Lincoln Project Drops New Ad Voiced By Sam Elliott: "Be A Man, Vote For A Woman"

He gets manly roles due to his looks and voice but he's an actor. It's all about getting paid to pretend.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2024 10:28 AM (IUd0M)

221 I remember a joke from the Reagan era. An American and I Soviet are talking.

The American, says, "We are free in America. Why, I could walk right into the Oval Office, pound my fist on his desk, and tell the president, 'Mr. President, I don't like the way you're running the country!'"

The Soviet replies, "We have the same freedom in the Soviet Union. I can walk into the General Secretary's office, pound my fist on his desk, and tell him, 'Mr. General Secretary, I don't like the way the American President is running his country!"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:28 AM (v6JzV)

222 Sam Elliot should have started singing, "man, I feel like a woman" then.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 26, 2024 10:28 AM (MnC2P)

223 Lizzy, I may or may not have a scar on my hand from slicing avocados...

Posted by: LizLem at September 26, 2024 10:28 AM (ZO36C)

224 Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 09:51 AM (CEzQx)

I hate you. I now have an earworm.

Bastard.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2024 10:28 AM (d9fT1)

225 I see no dog.....
Biggified, it's a nice picture.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 26, 2024 10:28 AM (5C3tc)

226 Particularly when things are so bad: you can't afford groceries, the heating bill, to insure your car or fill the tank with gas, and may lose your job or life to illegals - but, hey, let's dance and giggle along with the woman who helped create this mess!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:27 AM (scDBq)

Seems you have forgotten that the other guys are weird.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 26, 2024 10:28 AM (KbCG3)

227 you know who else considered himself a stone mason ??
-------------
Socrates?
Posted by: Pudinhead

James?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Aliens. I've been assured it's all aliens.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 26, 2024 10:29 AM (IG4Id)

228 zerohedge @zerohedge 1h
Mark Cuban: "The mainstream media truly leans right"

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Mark Cuban

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:29 AM (CEzQx)

229 228 zerohedge @zerohedge 1h
Mark Cuban: "The mainstream media truly leans right"

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:29 AM (CEzQx)

=======

Theory:

Mark Cuban comments at DU.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

230 216 I have never lived in a house with a microwave. Ever. . . .

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 1

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Until a few years ago, neither did I. I was missing out.
It's great for cooking certain things, but even better for reheating.

Also, excellent for storing cellphones in during meetings when OpSec is crucial.

Posted by: Just sayin' at September 26, 2024 10:30 AM (fTA29)

231 This will convince a negative number of people to vote for her. If there even is a single person whose only rationale for not voting Harris is her genitals, what possible mechanism of persuasion is in this message to make them change their preference? ...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 10:27 AM (VoAdT)
++++
Right. A man who says, "no women as President. That's a hard a line and I will never vote for a dame to sit in the big chair" is *not* going to be convinced to change his mind by calling him a sissy, nor will he be shamed into pretending to change his mind for the same reason - after all, that would actually *make* him a sissy in his own mind. This is an extremely stupid approach.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:30 AM (HnUIn)

232 Google Gemini > Mark Cuban

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 26, 2024 10:30 AM (MnC2P)

233 158 I remember the "You'll love it at Levitz!" commercial when I lived in Cincinnati.

.. their US headquarter was in Pottstown, PA

Posted by: SMOD at September 26, 2024 10:30 AM (RHGPo)

234 Slicing veggies using a mandolin is… risky..
Posted by: tubal at September 26, 2024 10:25 AM (PCK5/)

Why is all this squash red? And where did my fingertip go?

Posted by: Robert at September 26, 2024 10:30 AM (NP7B5)

235 11 Looks like that tree had been severely cut back once and then regrew from the trunk over a couple years.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 09:32 AM (VoAdT)

The technique is called "pollarding" and is used to reinvigorate trees and to grow usefully-sized wood for firewood, fence posts, etc. (Although it doesn't look like that was done on that tree, to my eyes.)

The Wiki has a couple of good photos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 26, 2024 10:30 AM (Rbu5d)

236 I actually have an Instron in my kitchen for slicing frozen bagels.

But i took that stupid plexiglass safety shroud off because i like to have sex with women.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 10:30 AM (VoAdT)

237 229 228 zerohedge @zerohedge 1h
Mark Cuban: "The mainstream media truly leans right"

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:29 AM (CEzQx)

=======

Theory:

Mark Cuban comments at DU.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

Mark Cuban's team had one of the more high-profile sex scandals and he came away scot free.

Meanwhile, the Clippers owner had to sell his team because someone thought he was a racist.

Mark Cuban knows who he answers to.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 26, 2024 10:30 AM (KbCG3)

238 Speaking of, the ancient settlers of Moscow, where did they originate?

weft-cut loop

...

Is that a trick question? Kiev was supposed to have been founded by Askold and Dir. Rurik is supposed to have founded Novgorod. They were Varangians who came from "Sweden", which in those days pretty much included Finland. When they raided across the Black Sea into the suburbs of Constantinople, they were Vikings.

There were a lot of Slavs around, and the Varangian warlords soon became so slavicized that some jealous historians insist it was just Slavs the whole time.

If there's something specific about "ancient" and "Moscow", I don't know it. Moscow wasn't called that in ancient times.

Posted by: Tom Perry at September 26, 2024 10:31 AM (MX0bI)

239 I have never lived in a house with a microwave. Ever.

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:25 AM (/0Jj5)

Well, because the chef always had hot food and drink ready to go for you.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2024 10:31 AM (d9fT1)

240 FBI Claims It Doesn't Have DNC's Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Footage

"We can only conclude that either the FBI is lying and did have footage, or they’re telling the truth and for some reason deleted the footage..."

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at September 26, 2024 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

241 Also, excellent for storing cellphones in during meetings when OpSec is crucial.
Posted by: Just sayin' at September 26, 2024

***
A good idea, then, to unplug the microwave first!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:31 AM (J2vNu)

242 I hate you. I now have an earworm.

Bastard.
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It's a Tradition!, CBD!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:32 AM (CEzQx)

243 ZeroHedge:

MSNBC Host Defends Harris' Idiot Non-Answer Over Inflation

Unburdened by brain cells...

Posted by: SMOD at September 26, 2024 10:32 AM (RHGPo)

244 >>Lizzy, I may or may not have a scar on my hand from slicing avocados...

Oh no!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:32 AM (scDBq)

245 If the GDR didn't exist for almost a half century, would we have gotten to know and love Katarina Witt and Nina Hagen?

Posted by: Fan Boy at September 26, 2024 10:33 AM (CV8a5)

246 It's pure cheerleading, and cheerleading has never convinced anyone of anything, ever.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 10:27 AM (VoAdT)

I'm guessing you've never seen the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, cuz they convinced me that they're hot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 26, 2024 10:33 AM (IUd0M)

247 Final Q2 GDP Beats Estimates On Inventory, Government Boosts; Second Half 2023 Revised Lower

Second half of 2023 was indeed revised lower, but the revisions were not as drastic as Goldman expected.

Posted by: SMOD at September 26, 2024 10:33 AM (RHGPo)

248 @zerohedge
Mark Cuban: "The mainstream media truly leans right" ...
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:29 AM (CEzQx)
++++
Well, he's not wrong.

Absent a fixed standard, the slant of anything depends entirely on where the observer is standing. Mark Cuban stands way, way, way over on the ragged edge of the Left Pole. From that standpoint, the Press *is* right-wing, since it's binary. Something either conforms to the position of the Left Pole in all dimensions, or the thing is Literally Hitler. There is no middle ground.

For a full-time Left Pole resident like Cuban to say this underscores just how much it is not true. He didn't call them Nazis, which he should if there is much deviation from the Left Pole. He put it as, "leans right." For such a passive description, the thing *must* be extremely close to the Pole.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:33 AM (HnUIn)

249 >>> nor will he be shamed into pretending to change his mind for the same reason - after all, that would actually *make* him a sissy in his own mind. This is an extremely stupid approach.

It's not for him... it's for ME, to swallow blindly and then use against him to get him to vote for her.

Posted by: Daughter of the man who won't vote for Kamala, brainwashed in college and now won't let him see the at September 26, 2024 10:33 AM (jL1XR)

250 "We can only conclude that either the FBI is lying and did have footage, or they’re telling the truth and for some reason deleted the footage..."

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at September 26, 2024 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

I'd go w/lying.

Posted by: BignJames at September 26, 2024 10:34 AM (AwYPR)

251 >>"We can only conclude that either the FBI is lying and did have footage, or they’re telling the truth and for some reason deleted the footage..."

Probably because it shows Kamala's car driving right by it. Darren Beattie at Revolver News has been all over the pipe bomb hoax, and there's some funny business about Kamala being at the DNC hq that day. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:34 AM (scDBq)

252 Two words: blimp crash.

https://is.gd/ywz834

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

253
Outside of the obvious spousal abuse cases on Super Bowl Sunday, the number one cause of emergency room visits is injuries incurred slicing bagels.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at September 26, 2024 10:35 AM (RKVpM)

254 If you had an IoT microwave, and put your phone in there, then scheduled the phone app to turn your microwave on, you could make your microwave call itself just to say "HIGH".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 10:35 AM (VoAdT)

255 Outside of the obvious spousal abuse cases on Super Bowl Sunday, the number one cause of emergency room visits is injuries incurred slicing bagels.
Posted by: Cliff Clavin at September 26, 2024 10:35 AM (RKVpM)
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Maybe in flyover country with the rest of the squares.

Posted by: San Franciscan at September 26, 2024 10:36 AM (HnUIn)

256 I wasn't sure what Katarina Witt looked like, so just did an image search.

She had a great rack for a figure skater. Must have made her topheavy. She must've been really good to compensate for that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:36 AM (v6JzV)

257 255 Outside of the obvious spousal abuse cases on Super Bowl Sunday, the number one cause of emergency room visits is injuries incurred slicing bagels.
Posted by: Cliff Clavin at September 26, 2024 10:35 AM (RKVpM)
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Maybe in flyover country with the rest of the squares.
Posted by: San Franciscan at September 26, 2024 10:36 AM (HnUIn)

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In SF, it's biting into sourdough bread.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

258 Hoda Kotb is leaving NBC’s ‘Today’

who ?

Posted by: SMOD at September 26, 2024 10:36 AM (RHGPo)

259 The best book I read in the last 5 years and they made a series about it: A Gentleman In Moscow.

And Amor Towles, the author, is from Boston.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:37 AM (TGPs7)

260 Someone messed with that tree years ago

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 26, 2024 10:37 AM (ufFY8)

261 Two words: blimp crash.

https://is.gd/ywz834
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

OH THE HUMANITY!

Posted by: Robert at September 26, 2024 10:37 AM (NP7B5)

262 I'd like to be first to chip in to buy Garrett a Raytheon Radarange from 1947. Sure it leaks a bit, but it was only 5 feet high.

Posted by: Willing To Help at September 26, 2024 10:37 AM (CV8a5)

263 Outside of the obvious spousal abuse cases on Super Bowl Sunday, the number one cause of emergency room visits is injuries incurred slicing bagels.
Posted by: Cliff Clavin at September 26, 2024

***
Up next: The causes of the Gender Pay Gap! Stay tuned after this word from the Harris-Walz campaign!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:38 AM (J2vNu)

264 Hoda Kotb is leaving NBC’s ‘Today’

who ?
Posted by: SMOD at September 26, 2024 10:36 AM (RHGPo)

No idea. Probably from one of those Extended Universe books.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 10:38 AM (VoAdT)

265 You will thank me for this, and they truly need to make
a series about this...

https://tinyurl.com/yc4msn9z

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:38 AM (TGPs7)

266 261 Two words: blimp crash.

https://is.gd/ywz834
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

OH THE HUMANITY!
Posted by: Robert at September 26, 2024 10:37 AM (NP7B5)

My wife wanted us to do a hot air balloon in Napa the morning after our wedding. I said the last thing I'd ever want is to get to Heaven, meet some soul who asked how I died, and be forced to say that I died in a hot air balloon crash.

Thankfully, you had to be at the place by 6 AM. Aw, dang. Maybe next time we get married, dear.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 26, 2024 10:39 AM (KbCG3)

267 But God, it's a depressing place. Endlessly flat and swampy with horrible weather,

Is it? Look at the word being used for 'village' here - it means freedom. You were freed from taxes in these remote settlements. Can you imagine?

Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2024 10:39 AM (L3CGb)

268 Julia @Jules31415 3h
After being indicted by a federal grand jury, NYC Mayor Eric Adams released a video statement defiantly asserting he's a "target," and says "I will fight these injustices with every ounce of my strength and my spirit," adding, "I am innocent."

He plans to request an "immediate trial so New Yorkers can hear the truth."

Adams is the first mayor in city history to be charged while in office.

https://tinyurl.com/2at8uk2v
2:25 minutes
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Says the Federal government is lying, implies due to Migrant complaints IMHO.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:39 AM (CEzQx)

269 >>> Meanwhile, the Clippers owner had to sell his team because someone thought he was a racist.

Macklemore has joint ownership connections to some sports teams, and because of his "Eff America!" rant at a concert for Gaza, his ownership might be put into jeopardy. Also got ousted from headlining some festival. He put out some eating crow statement to try and salvage things.

It's weird to see the anti-Americans get the same cancel treatment that the right has gotten all these years. There's a shift.

Also the Coke boycott will be interesting.

Posted by: Daughter of the man who won't vote for Kamala, brainwashed in college and now won't let him see the at September 26, 2024 10:39 AM (4eVRO)

270 There's a Wikipedia page about artist Isaac Levitan, and other pages featuring several paintings from that particular village at various times of the year. They're lovely and I'd find room for hanging.

He was born in Poland of a poor but educated Jewish family and had a very interesting life during which he produced >400 paintings.

During the year after his death an exhibit of several hundred Levitan paintings was shown in Moscow and then in St. Petersburg.

Thanks

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at September 26, 2024 10:39 AM (NFX2v)

271
With the country obviously in dire financial straits wouldn't it be better to have a woman President paid at only 80% of a man?

Posted by: Deep Thoughts at September 26, 2024 10:39 AM (RKVpM)

272 Speaking of Russia, I recently found out that the famous Russian Turkish Baths in New York City has (have?) an Instagram account!

One post points out that Dr. Andrew Huberman recommends the services offered there (steam baths, dry sauna, ice water baths, etc.) and he has six girlfriends!

Posted by: Pete in Texas at September 26, 2024 10:40 AM (qpQEt)

273 Got a spam phone call with a spoofed caller ID and number, one of many every day - thank goodness for voice mail. The caller was pretending to be a Komatsu Co. Looked them up for fun and discovered they make machinery. Have you ever heard of an underwater electric bulldozer? Fascinating.
It's not a John Deere I tell you.

Posted by: Ciampino - it's not a Caterpillar either at September 26, 2024 10:40 AM (qfLjt)

274 sniper

Posted by: m at September 26, 2024 10:41 AM (64Zez)

275 Hoda Kotb is leaving NBC’s ‘Today’
*
who ?
Posted by: SMOD at September 26, 2024

***
She started her career here in Noo Awlins as a feature reporter and/or news anchor on, I think, the local CBS outlet. We're talking the 1990s. When she moved up to national level, I recall David Letterman stumbling comically over her name. (It's Egyptian, I think, and is pronounced "Kot-bee.")

She's still remembered fondly here, unlike the Susan Roesgen creature who embarrassed herself on national TV during the Obongo years and came back here for a while. Not sure if she's still around.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:41 AM (J2vNu)

276 Kirk: What does God need with a starship?

Posted by: SMOD at September 26, 2024 10:41 AM (RHGPo)

277 The polycule fugly that helped steal $8B got 2 years.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 26, 2024 10:42 AM (cf/0E)

278 276 Kirk: What does God need with a starship?
Posted by: SMOD at September 26, 2024 10:41 AM (RHGPo)

=======

To go, "whoosh! pew pew pew! bang! spssshhh!" when He gets bored.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

279 Says the Federal government is lying, implies due to Migrant complaints IMHO.

I wonder will we see Adams come out and point out he's the now the third big name NY pol to be persecuted by the Harris led Junta after Trump and Guiliani

Unlike the latter two I have little doubt Adams is guilty of something. But I also doubt its any different from what his predecessors and the people prosecuting him have been doing.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:42 AM (oZhjI)

280 273 Have you ever heard of an underwater electric bulldozer? Fascinating.
It's not a John Deere I tell you.
Posted by: Ciampino - it's not a Caterpillar either at September 26, 2024 10:40 AM (qfLjt)

"Glug glug glug, squish!"

- - Rachel Corrie as she speaks with Luca Brasi.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2024 10:42 AM (x0n13)

281 Got a spam phone call with a spoofed caller ID and number, one of many every day - thank goodness for voice mail. The caller was pretending to be a Komatsu Co. Looked them up for fun and discovered they make machinery. Have you ever heard of an underwater electric bulldozer? Fascinating.
It's not a John Deere I tell you.
Posted by: Ciampino - it's not a Caterpillar either at September 26, 2024 10:40 AM (qfLjt)
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Elon Musk must be using them to build his undersea supervillain lair.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2024 10:42 AM (7fElN)

282 The polycule fugly that helped steal $8B got 2 years.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

Caroline Ellison?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:43 AM (v6JzV)

283 279 Unlike the latter two I have little doubt Adams is guilty of something. But I also doubt its any different from what his predecessors and the people prosecuting him have been doing.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:42 AM (oZhjI)

=======

Adams is guilty of doing things that everyone else at his level and above do, except that he pissed off the powers that be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

284 I saw The Polycule Fugly open for The Mars Volta at the Nokia Center in '14.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 10:43 AM (VoAdT)

285 With the country obviously in dire financial straits wouldn't it be better to have a woman President paid at only 80% of a man?
Posted by: Deep Thoughts at September 26, 2024

***
F. Joe at his best was only worth 50% of a real president, so KH should be paid at 80% of *that*, or 40% the Trump rate.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:43 AM (J2vNu)

286 Lizzy, I may or may not have a scar on my hand from slicing avocados...
Posted by: LizLem at September 26, 2024 10:28 AM (ZO36C)

And I... may or may not have a scar on the top of my foot from dropping a butcher knife on my foot while washing dishes in my first apartment at age 17.

Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at September 26, 2024 10:43 AM (JCLJi)

287 I wasn't sure what Katarina Witt looked like, so just did an image search.

She had a great rack for a figure skater. Must have made her topheavy. She must've been really good to compensate for that.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:36 AM (v6JzV)

I saw her in person once while on a business trip to Memphis. She arrived at B B King's with Oksana Baiul (sp?) and other skaters. We watched them dance on the dance floor while ESPN people filmed them. (They were in for some skating show.)

I forget the dud's name (an ESPN talking head) was creeping on her.

Oir business associate messed up our hotel rooms, so he had to put us all up at the Peabody at 2am, where the skaters were.

So, I can say I slept with her, lol.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 26, 2024 10:44 AM (ufFY8)

288 If you are into mysteries, paranormal and UFOs of Russia and Central Asia, a must see is Paul Stonehill's Youtube page. Paul is from The Ukraine and he's authored several books on the subject...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:44 AM (TGPs7)

289 Caroline Ellison… the Startled Rodent Girl.

Posted by: tubal at September 26, 2024 10:44 AM (PCK5/)

290 I saw Polycule She-Gobin open for GWAR at the Wexler Center in '89.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 26, 2024 10:44 AM (cf/0E)

291 The polycule fugly that helped steal $8B got 2 years.

The way we handle financial crimes is ridiculous.

As guidance let's say 1 year in jail for every year of Average American salary stolen.

Yes, I know that would give her lifetime in prison but shouldn't stealing something like 10000x times the average American's lifetime earnings lead to such a penalty?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:45 AM (oZhjI)

292 The best book I read in the last 5 years and they made a series about it: A Gentleman In Moscow.

And Amor Towles, the author, is from Boston.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:37 AM (TGPs7)

Huzzah!

Great book! And the series is also excellent. Worth a watch.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2024 10:45 AM (d9fT1)

293 287 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 26, 2024 10:44 AM (ufFY

Kept referring to Oksana Baiul as Howza By-You?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2024 10:45 AM (x0n13)

294 Elon Musk must be using them to build his undersea supervillain lair.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2024 10:42 AM (7fElN)
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No chance. There's no way Musk is building an undersea lair.

Musk would obviously build two lairs. One would be underground, constructed as a proof of concept for The Boring Company and as a test bed for his eventual Martian imperial palace. The other would be a dual-purpose combination of office complex and lair, built in orbit by SpaceX for publicity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:45 AM (HnUIn)

295 >>Right. A man who says, "no women as President.

Except I think it's not quite that -- it's instinctively deciding to not vote for *that* woman.

If Hillary was likened to every man's awful first wife (that voice! the arrogant lecturing!), what is Kamala? Like the woman at work who managed to be promoted quickly, far beyond her capabilities, and now she screams at everyone when she fails?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:45 AM (scDBq)

296 Jinks Warai-otoko!

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 26, 2024 10:45 AM (cf/0E)

297 Witt had a nice layout in Playboy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (4Med0)

298 Yes, I know that would give her lifetime in prison but shouldn't stealing something like 10000x times the average American's lifetime earnings lead to such a penalty?
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The IRS uses the 300% rule if you cheat on your taxes. Cuz Joyous.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (c711F)

299 291 The polycule fugly that helped steal $8B got 2 years.

The way we handle financial crimes is ridiculous.

As guidance let's say 1 year in jail for every year of Average American salary stolen.

Yes, I know that would give her lifetime in prison but shouldn't stealing something like 10000x times the average American's lifetime earnings lead to such a penalty?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:45 AM (oZhjI)

"She stole $8B!"

"My stars."

"But she also donated millions to democrats."

"Oh, well, in that case..."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (KbCG3)

300
And I... may or may not have a scar on the top of my foot from dropping a butcher knife on my foot while washing dishes in my first apartment at age 17.

Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at September 26, 2024 10:43 AM

Wow! Never happened to me, but then according to my lease the butchering of cattle in my first apartment was prohibited. Gotta read the small print.

Posted by: Deep Thoughts at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (RKVpM)

301 You were freed from taxes in these remote settlements. Can you imagine?

Posted by: t-bird

...

I can imagine that the economics of survival in such a remote settlement would be terribly lean. Taxation might be fatal.

But yeah, there would be a measure of pride and joy in being exempted.

Posted by: Tom Perry at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (MX0bI)

302 If you are into mysteries, paranormal and UFOs of Russia and Central Asia, a must see is Paul Stonehill's Youtube page. Paul is from The Ukraine and he's authored several books on the subject...

The American UFO craze has mostly just been a cover for DoD and such experiments and prototypes.

I suspect Russian/Central Asian UFOs are also mostly going to be Russian/Chinese experiments as well

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (oZhjI)

303 Caroline Ellison… the Startled Rodent Girl.
Posted by: tubal at September 26, 2024

***
* Does image search *

Ohmigod yes. Rattus rattus everywhere are insulted at such an implication.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (J2vNu)

304 295 If Hillary was likened to every man's awful first wife (that voice! the arrogant lecturing!), what is Kamala? Like the woman at work who managed to be promoted quickly, far beyond her capabilities, and now she screams at everyone when she fails?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:45 AM (scDBq)

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I knew that woman.

She was apparently banging one of the top execs. He got fired for misusing a company credit card. Apparently prostitutes were involved. She always traveled with him.

She also liked to yell at people when she got an email from someone above her asking why something hadn't been done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (GBKbO)

305 Request for all you classical music fans: what is the background music for this short? I should know it, but can't place it.

https://tinyurl.com/yh2k5789

Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (xCA6C)

306 Jinks Warai-otoko!
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 26, 2024 10:45 AM (cf/0E)

I'm not buying you a coke.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 10:47 AM (VoAdT)

307 > Mark Cuban: "The mainstream media truly leans right"
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I can only guess how far left this turd of misery actually is with a comment like that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2024 10:47 AM (Q4IgG)

308 Komatsu Co. Looked them up for fun and discovered they make machinery. Have you ever heard of an underwater electric bulldozer? Fascinating.
It's not a John Deere I tell you.
Posted by: Ciampino

You obviously don't own land, do you?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 26, 2024 10:47 AM (IG4Id)

309 305 Request for all you classical music fans: what is the background music for this short? I should know it, but can't place it.

https://tinyurl.com/yh2k5789
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (xCA6C)

Sounds like Claire de Lune, Debussy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2024 10:47 AM (x0n13)

310 When I was growing up, my family had Christmas-tree farms. Every summer, we'd have to go out and prune back the new growth to give them the traditional funnel-like shape. We used machetes. One day, I swung my machete so hard that it flew out of my hand, and then came down on my fingers. I still have the scars from that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:47 AM (v6JzV)

311 Except I think it's not quite that -- it's instinctively deciding to not vote for *that* woman.

If Hillary was likened to every man's awful first wife (that voice! the arrogant lecturing!), what is Kamala? Like the woman at work who managed to be promoted quickly, far beyond her capabilities, and now she screams at everyone when she fails?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:45 AM (scDBq)
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Sure, but not in the smooth brains of the hard left. There is no "that woman" anymore than there is "that man" (other than Demon Trump, of course) or "that black person" or "that white person." There are no "thats" anywhere. Individuals don't exist. Everyone reduces to the group. It's the core precept of their social theory.

The problem is not that someone might not vote for "that woman," because "that woman" doesn't exist. The problem, by definition, *must* be that someone won't vote for any woman. After all, socially, Harris doesn't exist. No individual does.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:48 AM (HnUIn)

312 >>Mark Cuban: "The mainstream media truly leans right"

'...of Mao', he added.

Posted by: garrett at September 26, 2024 10:48 AM (/0Jj5)

313
Figen
@TheFigen_
Some Turkish male accounts are messing with me because I'm the number 1 X account in Turkiye.
And I'm the 23rd account in the world ranking. (For now)

Before Elon Musk started giving money from here, they didn't care about me for years!
When Elon Musk started giving money, the characters of the men who are bitches came out!

If a male is constantly messing with a woman he has never even seen her face, he is a natural born bitch male!

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:48 AM (TGPs7)

314 311
The problem is not that someone might not vote for "that woman," because "that woman" doesn't exist. The problem, by definition, *must* be that someone won't vote for any woman. After all, socially, Harris doesn't exist. No individual does.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:48 AM (HnUIn)

===

Also, Sarah Palin is a cvnt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

315 If you are into mysteries, paranormal and UFOs of Russia and Central Asia, a must see is Paul Stonehill's Youtube page. Paul is from The Ukraine and he's authored several books on the subject...

The American UFO craze has mostly just been a cover for DoD and such experiments and prototypes.

I suspect Russian/Central Asian UFOs are also mostly going to be Russian/Chinese experiments as well
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (oZhjI)

Now that I think about it you never hear about UFOs in Africa.

Posted by: Robert at September 26, 2024 10:49 AM (8smwF)

316 I was feeling surprisingly upbeat, even after reading the Morning Report links and seeing this depressing Russian painting. The news though, that Hoda Kotb is leaving has thrown me into a serious funk. Donald Manes might have had the right idea.

Posted by: Ready For My Homegoing at September 26, 2024 10:49 AM (CV8a5)

317 Wow! Never happened to me, but then according to my lease the butchering of cattle in my first apartment was prohibited. Gotta read the small print.
Posted by: Deep Thoughts at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (RKVpM)
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Was "cattle" defined? Was it exclusively bovine, or was it generalized to all livestock? Could you have butchered a sheep and been okay on a technicality?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024 10:49 AM (HnUIn)

318 Didja see Robocop take a bad guy down?

https://is.gd/waAadU

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 26, 2024 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

319 Macklemore should be cancelled. He's a fucking hack, and his music is bottom-tier shite.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2024 10:50 AM (awTae)

320 Now that I think about it you never hear about UFOs in Africa.
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Africa didn't get any NAZI Scientists.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2024 10:51 AM (c711F)

321 I was feeling surprisingly upbeat, even after reading the Morning Report links and seeing this depressing Russian painting. The news though, that Hoda Kotb is leaving has thrown me into a serious funk. Donald Manes might have had the right idea.
Posted by: Ready For My Homegoing at September 26, 2024

***
I still miss Hugh Downs and Joe Garagiola.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:51 AM (J2vNu)

322 Macklemore should be cancelled. He's a fucking hack, and his music is bottom-tier shite. /i]

Like our VP he sucked all the right penises to get to where he is today

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:51 AM (oZhjI)

323 60 Is that drone, Ivan??
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 09:45 AM (CEzQx)

LOL canuck.
Are you a comedian in your day job?

Posted by: m at September 26, 2024 10:51 AM (64Zez)

324 Now that I think about it you never hear about UFOs in Africa.

How about the rains?

Posted by: Toto at September 26, 2024 10:52 AM (oZhjI)

325 Never happened to me, but then according to my lease the butchering of cattle in my first apartment was prohibited. Gotta read the small print.
Posted by: Deep Thoughts at September 26, 2024
++++
Was "cattle" defined? Was it exclusively bovine, or was it generalized to all livestock? Could you have butchered a sheep and been okay on a technicality?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2024

***
It's a challenge to get sheep lymph out of one's carpet, though

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2024 10:52 AM (J2vNu)

326 324 Now that I think about it you never hear about UFOs in Africa.

How about the rains?
Posted by: Toto at September 26, 2024 10:52 AM (oZhjI)

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Do they need blessing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

327 Request for all you classical music fans: what is the background music for this short? I should know it, but can't place it.

https://tinyurl.com/yh2k5789

Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (xCA6C)

Dunno....but that's a lot of trouble for a little strong coffee.

Posted by: BignJames at September 26, 2024 10:52 AM (AwYPR)

328 >>The problem is not that someone might not vote for "that woman," because "that woman" doesn't exist. The problem, by definition, *must* be that someone won't vote for any woman. After all, socially, Harris doesn't exist. No individual does.

Very middle school girl thinking, at that.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:52 AM (scDBq)

329 I bet on Thanksgiving, even his relatives tell him "look, Macklemore... Please stop making those songs of yours. It's not cool. It sucks, man."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2024 10:53 AM (awTae)

330 450 works at WikiArt!

I'm in the 300's now. This guy blows me away. He must have single-handedly depressed the price for excellent landscapes by producing so much of it.

Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2024 10:53 AM (4SKzt)

331 Has anyone heard of Mutual Art? It is a website for (supposedly) buying original works of art but there is an almost $400 per year membership in order to bid. Is this legit? If not, is there another option for looking for original art (especially these Russian landscape artists) to buy or bid one?

Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 26, 2024 10:54 AM (3AwA+)

332 329 I bet on Thanksgiving, even his relatives tell him "look, Macklemore... Please stop making those songs of yours. It's not cool. It sucks, man."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2024 10:53 AM (awTae)

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"I'M GONNA WRITE ANOTHER SONG ABOUT HOW RACIST YOU ARE, DAD!"
-I don't know any of Macklemore's songs, btw

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 26, 2024 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

333 256 I wasn't sure what Katarina Witt looked like, so just did an image search.

Katarina Witt. As an American I had to hate her because she represented East Germany. But dang... she was as good a reason to "tear down that wall" as any. Hummana-hummana.

Posted by: red speck at September 26, 2024 10:54 AM (0Id0S)

334 Africa has the Nandi Bear and lots of other cryptids. It doesn't need UFOs.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:54 AM (v6JzV)

335 After all, socially, Harris doesn't exist. No individual does.

They are trying to thread a needle here since they are telling people Harris will fix all of the messes she and Biden created. Which would mean she's going to reverse the last 4 years.

But you are right, there are no individual leftwingers anymore, or at least none the public sees and can vote on. The junta determines what any lefty pol says and does and if they don't they are cancelled/kicked out of the party

Posted by: Toto at September 26, 2024 10:55 AM (oZhjI)

336
I'd occasionally see these really nice looking women in my first apartment. Just in the hallway for mere seconds or letting a man in or out the door.

After I moved out it was reported that a 'ring' of prostitutes was using the building.

I guess like a 'murder' of crows indicates more then one, there's a 'ring' of prostitutes.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 26, 2024 10:56 AM (RKVpM)

337 Is Mackeralmore still a thing?

He's the white guy that rapped about being gay because there's nothing more important than being gay, right?

Posted by: Robert at September 26, 2024 10:56 AM (8smwF)

338 @greg_price11
Stephanie Ruhle reacts to her interview with Kamala:

"One could watch and say she didn't give a clear and direct answer. And that's okay, because we're not talking about clear and direct issues."
_____

I was born into a middle-class family....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 26, 2024 10:56 AM (OQ50T)

339 I would like to hear Werner Herzog's thoughts on this.

Posted by: m at September 26, 2024 10:57 AM (64Zez)

340 Wow! Never happened to me, but then according to my lease the butchering of cattle in my first apartment was prohibited. Gotta read the small print.
Posted by: Deep Thoughts at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (RKVpM)

Butchering large mammals was grandfathered in!

Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at September 26, 2024 10:57 AM (JCLJi)

341 Sounds like Claire de Lune, Debussy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Close, but I don't think so.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2024 10:57 AM (xCA6C)

342 I guess like a 'murder' of crows indicates more then one, there's a 'ring' of prostitutes.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

What do you call a bunch of blondes standing in a circle?

A dope ring.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 10:57 AM (v6JzV)

343 "One could watch and say she didn't give a clear and direct answer. And that's okay, because we're not talking about clear and direct issues."

They are embracing the fact she's an idiot and easily led. Its an amazing strategy.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:57 AM (oZhjI)

344 #323 No, m, I just play one on the internet.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:57 AM (CEzQx)

345 >>The American UFO craze has mostly just been a cover for DoD and such experiments and prototypes.

I saw one of the Starlink satellites with my sister one night. Didn't what it was at the time, so we were initial shocked. Just a second or two of WTF!?! So we immediately binged LEO satellites and found Starlink video others had filmed.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 10:58 AM (scDBq)

346 343 "One could watch and say she didn't give a clear and direct answer. And that's okay, because we're not talking about clear and direct issues."

They are embracing the fact she's an idiot and easily led. Its an amazing strategy.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:57 AM (oZhjI)

Look, we all know she's a borderline retard. But she's also a she. Somehow we were able to deduce that fact. So obviously, we need to vote for her. Go blue!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 26, 2024 10:58 AM (KbCG3)

347 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Am I late?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2024 10:58 AM (W/lyH)

348 Please don't eat my cat

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 26, 2024 10:58 AM (ufFY8)

349 ***
I still miss Hugh Downs and Joe Garagiola.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

No love for Dave Garroway and the chimp?

Posted by: J. Fred Muggs at September 26, 2024 10:59 AM (CV8a5)

350 Kamala cons: She's stupid and knows nothing

Kamala pros: She's a woman, and black-ish

Seriously that's their campaign right there.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:59 AM (oZhjI)

351 Nancy Pelosi’s husband made a questionable stock transaction concerning Visa. Members of congress are exempt from prosecution, but are their spouses also exempt?

Posted by: Ron at September 26, 2024 10:59 AM (KDtr3)

352 Please don't eat my cat

Words you'll never hear me say sailor!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at September 26, 2024 10:59 AM (oZhjI)

353 So some stupid cop on a weed raid, barged into an MRI room and promptly lost his rifle.

The Los Angeles Police Department damaged equipment at a medical center in the San Fernando Valley after an officer lost his gun to an MRI machine, according to a report.

Citing a lawsuit filed by the NoHo Diagnostic Center against the city, SFGate reported that a raid intended to find illegal cannabis cultivation in October 2023 discovered nothing but medical imaging equipment and items normal for such a facility.

https://tinyurl.com/ykw2epx2

How does one test for the presence/absence of a 'ho' in SF?

Posted by: Ciampino - I'm all tongue & cheek at September 26, 2024 10:59 AM (qfLjt)

354 Saw a string of starlink satellites one evening.
About 30 of them in a conga line. Pretty cool.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 26, 2024 11:00 AM (ufFY8)

355 Look, we all know she's a borderline retard. But she's also a she.

And where'd you get your biology degree?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 11:00 AM (v6JzV)

356 Nancy Pelosi’s husband made a questionable stock transaction concerning Visa. Members of congress are exempt from prosecution, but are their spouses also exempt?

The ETF that mirrors her stock picks is up 3X over the market in the last year...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 11:00 AM (oZhjI)

357 Question asked

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174 Figured I'd ask here since most of y'all are pretty plugged in.

Anything happen with that affidavit purporting Kamala and ABC had a deal where she wouldn't be fact checked during the debate?

That went away might quick.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 26, 2024 10:18 AM (KbCG3)

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Question Answered

———-

Man dies after accidentally stabbing himself while separating two frozen burger patties

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2024 11:00 AM (NBIe0)

358 >>He's the white guy that rapped about being gay because there's nothing more important than being gay, right?

Yes, and he did a duet with some lesbian about lgbt love, and when they performed it at the Grammy, 50+ gay couples walked out into the aisles and were gay married, thus forcing all Grammys attendees to participate in a mass gay wedding.

a$$hole

Posted by: Lizzy at September 26, 2024 11:00 AM (scDBq)

359 He's the white guy that rapped about being gay because there's nothing more important than being gay, right?
Posted by: Robert at September 26, 2024 10:56 AM (8smwF)

Yeah and he also did some song about how hard it is to live with the guilt of being white in a country where blacks are hunted for sport.

It's all really cringey pandering. But also just really low grade dross. Woke music is as almost bad as woke comedy. Socialist art sucks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2024 11:01 AM (awTae)

360 I can only guess how far left this turd of misery actually is with a comment like that.
______

I saw Turds of Misery open for Hole at Portland's Revolution Hall in 1991.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 26, 2024 11:01 AM (OQ50T)

361 nood minkey

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 11:02 AM (CEzQx)

362 The wife insists that it is "turd o'misery".

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 26, 2024 11:02 AM (ufFY8)

363 Man dies after accidentally stabbing himself while separating two frozen burger patties
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

That's why you ruin your wife's best butter knives, kids.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 26, 2024 11:02 AM (IG4Id)

364 Man dies after accidentally stabbing himself while separating two frozen burger patties
____

You're supposed to use a butter knife.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 26, 2024 11:02 AM (OQ50T)

365 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2024 11:03 AM (v6JzV)

366 Now that I think about it you never hear about UFOs in Africa.
Posted by: Robert at September 26, 2024 10:49 AM (8smwF)

That's surprising.

Those people suck at identifying things.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2024 11:03 AM (VoAdT)

367 I was wondering about the ABC whistleblower myself and went to the Black Insurrectionist X page. A complaint has been filed to the FEC and Congress but no action will be taken until after the election. No law was broken so it's not considered essential.

Posted by: Megthered at September 26, 2024 11:06 AM (VihIQ)

368 271
With the country obviously in dire financial straits wouldn't it be better to have a woman President paid at only 80% of a man?
Posted by: Deep Thoughts

Heh.

The 80% arose years ago if/when women stayed home for childbirth, care of family members. Alas, that does not appear to apply to the current, democratic presidential candidate.

However, we seem to keep no such statistics for men though they have become more involved in 'family care.' Maybe there's much more equally nowadays?

How about Joey give back his VP & President salaries AND also provide reimbursement for the multitude of excessive days off from government service; taking family on worldwide junkets throughout his 'career,' and the unknown cost benefits of having relatives appointed to substantial governmental and private industry positions.

Could a nice chunk of change. 🤔😉

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at September 26, 2024 11:14 AM (NFX2v)

369 343 >>> "One could watch and say she didn't give a clear and direct answer. And that's okay, because we're not talking about clear and direct issues."

They are embracing the fact she's an idiot and easily led. Its an amazing strategy.

In my 59 years, I cannot recall a single time so much leeway was given to any political candidate, in order to save them from themselves and foist them onto the public, despite many, many well-founded misgivings. I honestly can't think of any comparison other than what you'd do for a child who was scared to go onstage for a talent show -- to encourage them, and to further tell the children in the audience that little Kammy is scared, so please be kind and supportive, even though perhaps little Kammy really stinks at singing.

Posted by: red speck at September 26, 2024 11:23 AM (0Id0S)

370 Hey Giorgy... everyone's favorite Cossack... The Uzbeks have
drank my battery fluid...

https://tinyurl.com/yrcbk3me

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 11:25 AM (TGPs7)

371 327 >>>Request for all you classical music fans: what is the background music for this short? I should know it, but can't place it.

https://tinyurl.com/yh2k5789

Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2024 10:46 AM (xCA6C)

Chopin nocturne op. 9 no. 2

Posted by: red speck at September 26, 2024 11:27 AM (0Id0S)

372 The Night Chicago Died
Come And Get Your Love
Safety Dance
Seasons In The Sun
Your Woman
The one by Primitive Radio Gods
Too Shy
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
One Night In Bangkok

Pop Crave
@PopCrave
In honor of National One-Hit Wonder Day, what's your favorite one-hit wonder?

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 11:32 AM (TGPs7)

373 361 nood minkey
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 11:02 AM (CEzQx)

Posted by: m at September 26, 2024 11:51 AM (64Zez)

374 I should know it, but can't place it.

Posted by: Archimedes

...

Chopin, Nocturne no. 9 Opus 2

Posted by: Tom Perry at September 26, 2024 12:31 PM (MX0bI)

375 Here's how I know that. Years ago, I tried to learn the Chopin number nine and gave up on it: too hard. When I heard it again just now I could barely remember but it had to be Chopin, so I searched for Chopin Sonata sheet music, without success.

Then it hit me: I tried to learn this piece one time and I gave up. Turns out, I had a local PDF of the score.

Posted by: Tom Perry at September 26, 2024 02:00 PM (MX0bI)

376 Must be fall the tree has no leaves

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at September 26, 2024 04:38 PM (wGqjj)

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