Mid-Morning Art Thread

Tea Leaves
William McGregor Paxton

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 sqrt(-First)

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 08, 2024 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 I’m reading them.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at October 08, 2024 09:31 AM (Aoykm)

3 I don't think it's tea....seated lady looks sloshed.

Posted by: BignJames at October 08, 2024 09:31 AM (Yj6Os)

4 sqrt(-First)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 08, 2024 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

You're not imagining things. It's real.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 08, 2024 09:31 AM (VoAdT)

5 This is very nice

Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2024 09:31 AM (oWirM)

6 Tea Time, as opposed to Tee Time.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2024 09:32 AM (ynpvh)

7 Lemons are the most colorful things in the painting. Zes-tea!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 08, 2024 09:32 AM (w9Wax)

8 With fresh lemons!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at October 08, 2024 09:32 AM (hOUT3)

9 Lovely

Posted by: Tuna at October 08, 2024 09:32 AM (oaGWv)

10 My tea leaves tell me that you're bi-curious. -- seated lady

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2024 09:32 AM (U7wke)

11 This is nice

Posted by: redridinghood at October 08, 2024 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

12 A wonderful, almost photographic quality to this . . . as if a master cinematographer has been at work.

The redhead, I suspect, looks like Annette O'Toole. Her dark-haired friend looks like the sulky type who pouts when things don't go her way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:32 AM (J2vNu)

13 10 My tea leaves tell me that you're bi-curious. -- seated lady

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2024 09:32 AM (U7wke)

Put a cell phone in her hands and it could be today (if not for the clothing)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2024 09:33 AM (ynpvh)

14 Tea Leaves. And goes where??

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2024 09:33 AM (RIT1U)

15 1 sqrt(-First)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at October 08, 2024 09:33 AM (hOUT3)

16 sqrt(-First) robot

Posted by: Roy at October 08, 2024 09:33 AM (z+ik4)

17 Paxton lived and flourished into the twentieth century. This painting is from 1909.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:33 AM (J2vNu)

18 This is one of my favorite paintings. The subtle colors teased out of those "white" dresses are amazing when you see it in person.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at October 08, 2024 09:34 AM (BHrzb)

19 Wow… a painting that is in focus… painter had, you know, ability !

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2024 09:34 AM (PCK5/)

20 4 sqrt(-First)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 08, 2024 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

You're not imagining things. It's real.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 08, 2024 09:31 AM (VoAdT)

At least it wasn't a complex result.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2024 09:34 AM (ynpvh)

21 No tea leaves visible in artwork. Art FAIL.

Posted by: gp Feels So Smoochie at October 08, 2024 09:34 AM (X1vg/)

22 Lady on the right is on her cell phone.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 08, 2024 09:35 AM (SfhV1)

23 15
And I meant congratulations, a well done post, but it violated the no math proscription!!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at October 08, 2024 09:35 AM (hOUT3)

24 Early smartphone sighting?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 08, 2024 09:35 AM (Q4IgG)

25 Paxton also did one of a bunch of lovely nude girls at play called Nausicaa. I think CBD has featured it at some time.

Off to look up "Nausicaa" -- the name is familiar, perhaps from Homer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:35 AM (J2vNu)

26 kinda frumpy

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

27 Gal serving tea must be wearing some super tight corset.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 08, 2024 09:36 AM (MjcH7)

28 The MET

Title: Tea Leaves

Artist: William McGregor Paxton (American, Baltimore, Maryland 1869–1941 Boston, Massachusetts)

Date: 1909

Culture: American

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 36 1/8 x 28 3/4 in. (91.6 x 71.9 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

29 Love this.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 08, 2024 09:36 AM (EQvEk)

30 Gal serving tea must be wearing some super tight corset.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth)

Yeah, that waist is teeny tiny.

Posted by: Tuna at October 08, 2024 09:37 AM (oaGWv)

31 Rich and bored.

Posted by: But attractive at October 08, 2024 09:37 AM (dg+HA)

32 Not Mannix girls, not Ackbar "girls," not FenSpoke girls but...

...MP4 girls!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 09:37 AM (v6JzV)

33 Nausicaä is in The Odyssey: "Nausicaä is presented as a potential love interest for Odysseus: she tells her friend that she would like her husband to be like him, and her father tells Odysseus that he would let him marry her. The two do not have a romantic relationship, however[.]"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:37 AM (J2vNu)

34 By equating women with the precious aesthetic trappings that surrounded them, Paxton echoed the spirit of the novelist Henry James, who portrayed women as collectible objects in novels such as Portrait of a Lady (1881).

I cannot think of a more expensive hobby than collecting women.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

35 Lady on the right is on her cell phone.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 08, 2024

***
Nowadays she would be.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:38 AM (J2vNu)

36 I wonder if they are chatting about a certain suitor and the girl on the right is trying to determine if he will propose marriage.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 08, 2024 09:38 AM (EQvEk)

37 "I'll have camomile."
"Sorry, out of that."
"Earl Grey?"
"Nope."
"St John's Wort?"
"We have Liptons, hippie. Want some or not?"

Posted by: gp Feels So Smoochie at October 08, 2024 09:38 AM (X1vg/)

38 I cannot think of a more expensive hobby than collecting women.
Posted by: rhennigantx a

Lots of evidence to support your hypothesis!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at October 08, 2024 09:39 AM (hOUT3)

39 Nausicaa is from The Odessey. She is the princess who finds a nude Odysseus washed upon the shore.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 09:39 AM (rOxFH)

40

There are very small midgets under the table, flicking their beans...

Posted by: Rod Porkmore at October 08, 2024 09:39 AM (S3qms)

41 I cannot think of a more expensive hobby than collecting women.
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024

***
As the old saw has it: "Never buy yourself anything that eats." (Cats eat, but at least they're small and require fairly small portions)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

42 Nausicaa is from The Odessey. She is the princess who finds a nude Odysseus washed upon the shore.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 09:39 AM (rOxFH)

What happens next?

Posted by: BignJames at October 08, 2024 09:40 AM (Yj6Os)

43 Just swap out the cup in the lady's hands with a cell phone, and her posture and expression still fit.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 08, 2024 09:40 AM (JCZqz)

44 Love the skin tone and red hair-just lovely.

Posted by: Can Pick'em at October 08, 2024 09:41 AM (CV8a5)

45 I cannot think of a more expensive hobby than collecting women.
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024

Thoroughbred racehorses

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 09:42 AM (v6JzV)

46 What happens next?

Nothing since Odysseus is the paragon of marital fidelity who only wishes to return to his wife Penelope.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 09:42 AM (rOxFH)

47 "Nausicaä" -- another example of the diaeresis/umlaut thing we were discussing a week or two back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:42 AM (J2vNu)

48 William McGregor Paxton

Bill Paxton. Loved him in Twisters.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 09:42 AM (aKxz7)

49 What, no nekkid ladies?
I don't know you people anymore.

Posted by: Ciampino - Rubens was a jerk at October 08, 2024 09:42 AM (qfLjt)

50 The artist does a beautiful job capturing the gauzy fabric of the lady pouring the tea.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 08, 2024 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

51 This guy is good. Nice, natural lighting.

Posted by: t-bird at October 08, 2024 09:43 AM (0ljUU)

52 Is that a big painting behind the dividing wall or whatever it's called?

Posted by: dantesed at October 08, 2024 09:43 AM (Oy/m2)

53 William McGregor Paxton

Bill Paxton. Loved him in Twisters.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 09:42 AM (aKxz7)
*****
Ken Paxton. Love my Texas AG.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 08, 2024 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

54 What happens next with Odysseus and Nausicaa? "During his stay, Odysseus recounts his adventures to Alcinous [Nausicaä's father] and his court. . . . Alcinous then generously provides Odysseus with the ships that finally bring him home to Ithaca."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:44 AM (J2vNu)

55 Very nicely done

Posted by: It's me donna at October 08, 2024 09:44 AM (IyPmt)

56 Is that a big painting behind the dividing wall or whatever it's called?
Posted by: dantesed

Looks like a Chinese/Japanese screen. Maybe with a landscape painting on it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)

57 8 With fresh lemons!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at October 08, 2024 09:32 AM (hOUT3)
----
Where's the coconut?

Posted by: Ciampino - Nielsen, Schnielsen at October 08, 2024 09:44 AM (qfLjt)

58 42 Nausicaa is from The Odessey. She is the princess who finds a nude Odysseus washed upon the shore.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 09:39 AM (rOxFH)

What happens next?

Posted by: BignJames at October 08, 2024 09:40 AM (Yj6Os)

Dear Penthouse,
You'll never believed what happened. I woke up naked on a beach and...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 08, 2024 09:44 AM (ynpvh)

59 Oh, this is so beautiful.

I want to wrap my arms around the waist of the woman in white and kiss the nape of her neck.

**sighs**

Thanks for the depression, CBD.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 09:44 AM (Q0kLU)

60 39 Nausicaa is from The Odessey. She is the princess who finds a nude Odysseus washed upon the shore.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 09:39 AM (rOxFH)

She found out about shrinkage.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 09:45 AM (gbOdA)

61 The lady of the house must not like the painting if she has put up a screen before it. Her husband on tour of Europe probably bought and brought back a huge nude painting of dryads and fauns while she wasn't looking.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 09:45 AM (rOxFH)

62 You gotta drink a lot of liquids to move your poo through that bottleneck.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 08, 2024 09:45 AM (vCRHt)

63 Is that a big painting behind the dividing wall or whatever it's called?
Posted by: dantesed at October 08, 2024

***
A screen, I think it's called. That could be a huge doorway behind it, but why would you put a screen *in front of* a doorway? Probably a huge family portrait or a landscape of some kind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:46 AM (J2vNu)

64 Oh, this is so beautiful.

I want to wrap my arms around the waist of the woman in white and kiss the nape of her neck.

**sighs**
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I called this at Comment #32.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 09:46 AM (v6JzV)

65 Is that some kind of "samovar"...to make tea?

Posted by: BignJames at October 08, 2024 09:46 AM (Yj6Os)

66 Not Mannix girls, not Ackbar "girls," not FenSpoke girls but...

...MP4 girls!

Something for everybody, somebody for everything.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 08, 2024 09:46 AM (/y8xj)

67 Just swap out the cup in the lady's hands with a cell phone, and her posture and expression still fit.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 08, 2024 09:40 AM (JCZqz)

"Horse paste. Twitter. These are the things I now hate today, Millicent. Don't you hate them, too?"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 08, 2024 09:47 AM (awTae)

68 My niece's hair is exactly the color of the woman's on the left.

Posted by: huerfano at October 08, 2024 09:47 AM (VGOMa)

69 This artist is of the "hey, John Singer Sargent sure does make a lot of money" school.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 08, 2024 09:47 AM (whk/K)

70 If it flies, floats, or f***s, rent it.

Posted by: Grandad's advice at October 08, 2024 09:47 AM (dg+HA)

71 Nausicaa is from The Odessey. She is the princess who finds a nude Odysseus washed upon the shore.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024
*
She found out about shrinkage.
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024

***
If Odysseus looked like the young Kirk Douglas, I presume she would have gotten over her disappointment very quickly.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:47 AM (J2vNu)

72 37 "I'll have camomile."
"Sorry, out of that."
"Earl Grey?"
"Nope."
"St John's Wort?"
"We have Liptons, hippie. Want some or not?"

Posted by: gp Feels So Smoochie at October 08, 2024 09:38 AM (X1vg/)
----
"Look Bwana, the Memsahib made chai and that's all you get."

Posted by: Ciampino - Women rule the tea table at October 08, 2024 09:48 AM (qfLjt)

73 Her waist looks impossibly skinny.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 08, 2024 09:48 AM (whk/K)

74 The Van De Graaff generator will make some great party fun later.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 09:49 AM (gbOdA)

75 Her waist looks impossibly skinny.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 08, 2024

***
They didn't need Jardiance or Wegovy to stay slim.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:49 AM (J2vNu)

76 Penelope, Odysseus' wife, later invented a new type of footwear that became all the rage among young ladies in ancient Greece.

Penelopers.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 09:49 AM (v6JzV)

77 Almost photographic. Seems bemused by her leaves.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 08, 2024 09:49 AM (4780s)

78 >> want to wrap my arms around the waist of the woman in white...
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 09:44 AM

--

Thumb and forefinger would do.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 08, 2024 09:49 AM (vCRHt)

79 So what is the waist measurement? 14"?

Posted by: Martin Tell at October 08, 2024 09:50 AM (sFNX2)

80 Well, dear, that's enough cucumber sandwiches. Time to break out the laudanum.

Posted by: PabloD at October 08, 2024 09:50 AM (NGHh4)

81 I see no dog.

Wassup with that?!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 08, 2024 09:51 AM (whk/K)

82 If i saw a naked Greek guy washed up on the beach, I'd be nausicated, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 08, 2024 09:51 AM (VoAdT)

83 Have any of you seen the Arabic thing of reading the dregs at the bottom of your coffee cup?

They seem to take it seriously.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 08, 2024 09:51 AM (8Kx9y)

84 A Japanese screen would be decorated.

Like this one depicted in Alfred Stevens' The Visit from 1869.

https://tinyurl.com/32uf8j7x

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 09:52 AM (rOxFH)

85 She's got a wasp waist.

Posted by: fd at October 08, 2024 09:52 AM (cuqfS)

86 81 I see no dog.

Wassup with that?!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 08, 2024 09:51 AM (whk/K)
----
It's licking its balls under the table.

Posted by: Ciampino - Women rule the table at October 08, 2024 09:52 AM (qfLjt)

87 How long until that layabout moocher Freddy Eynsford-Hill shows up?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 09:52 AM (v6JzV)

88 "Ain't nobody got a waist like mah lamb!" Mammy beamed.

Posted by: Beverly at October 08, 2024 09:53 AM (Epeb0)

89 Title: Tea Leaves
Artist: William McGregor Paxton (American, Baltimore, Maryland 1869–1941 Boston, Massachusetts)
Date: 1909
Culture: American
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 1/8 x 28 3/4 in. (91.6 x 71.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of George A. Hearn, 1910
Accession Number: 10.64.8

Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 09:53 AM (RHGPo)

90 Is this afternoon tea? There are liquids, and what look like cakes and butter on the table, plus the lemons for the tea. But there's nothing more substantial like breakfast or lunch foods.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:53 AM (J2vNu)

91 "I see no dog."

Maybe she is facing away.

Posted by: fd at October 08, 2024 09:53 AM (cuqfS)

92 Paxton does wonderful portraits with his ability to capture skin tones and clothing. The poses of the people are natural and portray pleasant domestic scenes, nothing dramatic. I can imagine they would be very popular with Boston society of the time. Not things I would hang but his talent is obvious.

I was surprised at his "Nausicaa" painting. Although the nude young women show the same lovely skin tones and natural poses, their expressions and reactions to Odysseus' appearance is rather melodramatic. Also, the background of the sea and mountains is less detailed than his portraits. It looks like an illustration in a young persons version of The Odyssey from the 1890s.

Posted by: JTB at October 08, 2024 09:54 AM (yTvNw)

93 Have any of you seen the Arabic thing of reading the dregs at the bottom of your coffee cup?

They seem to take it seriously.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 08, 2024 09:51 AM (8Kx9y)

My coffee says I shall be blown up. -- Muhhammed
My coffee says I shall be blown up. -- Mohhammed
My coffee says I shall be blown up. -- Muhammmed
My coffee says I shall be supplying you with pagers. -- Schlomo aka Achmed

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2024 09:54 AM (U7wke)

94 Tea Leaves
William McGregor Paxton

*************

Afterparty - a limerick

The tale of the flirty Miss Winters
Who was one of those durned one-percenters
A secret pas de deux
Followed every Tea for Two
Tea leaves...Paramour enters!

Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 09:55 AM (uCfKO)

95 Have any of you seen the Arabic thing of reading the dregs at the bottom of your coffee cup?

They seem to take it seriously.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

The Grim!
-Sybill Trelawney

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 08, 2024 09:55 AM (CIS44)

96
I'd hit 'em...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 08, 2024 09:55 AM (5hfjS)

97 Nice.

From the size of the waist of the one standing, I'd say she's pre-childbirth for sure.

Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at October 08, 2024 09:56 AM (JCLJi)

98 Perhaps they're sisters. The redhead has always been considered the homely one, the one most likely to remain single and stay at home to care for their parents. The brunette has made "a good marriage" and has stopped by out of familial duty to be served tea by her younger sister.

Little does she know the joke is on her: Her well-to-do husband is secretly having an affair with the red-haired sister. She'll do . . . stuff . . . his wife won't!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

99 Paxton did several portraits of a very pretty redhead. Perhaps she is the model for the lady on the left.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 09:57 AM (v6JzV)

100 The most wonderful thing about this painting is the total lack of Pumpkin Spice products.

Posted by: Down With the Spice! at October 08, 2024 09:58 AM (CV8a5)

101 It looks like an illustration in a young persons version of The Odyssey from the 1890s.
Posted by: JTB at October 08, 2024

***
Wouldn't that be pretty racy for the 1890s?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:58 AM (J2vNu)

102 Why Do All These 15-Year-Old Boys Want to Smell Like the 1990s?

Men’s fragrances, including some dating back 30 years, are now hot among Gen Zers

For high-school boys, it’s suddenly cool to smell old.

Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 09:59 AM (RHGPo)

103 Contrary to Ms. Harris’s claim, no abortion statute in the country requires doctors to “wait until the patient is at death’s door” to intervene. Several states with restrictive abortion laws—including Georgia, Florida and Texas—have taken formal actions to counter this misinformation. Other states with similar laws ought to communicate directly with hospitals and doctors to do the same.

Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 09:59 AM (RHGPo)

104 BREAKING: @fema 's Disaster Relief Fund monthly report reveals that nearly $4 BILLION was spent on "COVID-19 aid" in September of 2024, the most of any month since October 2023.

Billions of dollars are being spent on a pandemic that's been over for years while Helene victims are struggling.

See for yourself where the priorities lie in Kamala's America.

Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 09:59 AM (RHGPo)

105 Why Do All These 15-Year-Old Boys Want to Smell Like the 1990s?

Men’s fragrances, including some dating back 30 years, are now hot among Gen Zers

For high-school boys, it’s suddenly cool to smell old.
Posted by: SMOD

Smells like Teen Spirit

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 08, 2024 10:00 AM (CIS44)

106 Paxton did several portraits of a very pretty redhead. Perhaps she is the model for the lady on the left.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 09:57 AM (v6JzV)

One o them Earp brothers ain't he?....gamblers and whoremongers.

Posted by: BignJames at October 08, 2024 10:00 AM (Yj6Os)

107 Paxton's self-portrait from 1910 makes him look rather like the fellow with the mop in yesterday's painting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:00 AM (J2vNu)

108 " sqrt(-First)"

Oh, we are dealing with imaginary numbers.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 08, 2024 10:01 AM (+H2BX)

109 She's wearing a hat in the house.

Posted by: Is that OK? at October 08, 2024 10:01 AM (dg+HA)

110 I think the redhead that Paxton painted so frequently was his wife.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:01 AM (v6JzV)

111 She's wearing a hat in the house.
Posted by: Is that OK? at October 08, 2024

***
Women could get away with that, whereas a man keeping his fedora, bowler, or homburg on indoors would be frowned at.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:02 AM (J2vNu)

112 I reckon both o them ladies are nude under those draperies there.

Posted by: Some Feller From Arkansas at October 08, 2024 10:02 AM (vCzKG)

113 Brut for the win!

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 08, 2024 10:02 AM (+H2BX)

114 What happens next?

*********

If memory serves, he pokes her eye out with a sharp stick from the fire and escapes from the cave by clinging to the underbelly of a ram.

Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 10:03 AM (uCfKO)

115 When Impressionism meets Japan

"Camille Monet in Japanese Costume" by Claude Monet. 1876.

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/33556

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 10:03 AM (rOxFH)

116 WTF? These women aren't naked.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 08, 2024 10:03 AM (c711F)

117 She's wearing a hat in the house.
Posted by: Is that OK?

Probably on her last courtesy call of the day. She looks tired and bored.

Posted by: Tuna at October 08, 2024 10:04 AM (oaGWv)

118

She can leave her hat on!

Posted by: Rod Porkmore at October 08, 2024 10:04 AM (S3qms)

119 I remember reading about the mutation that leads to red/blonde hair and the argument is that since it doesn't really do anything to improve your chances of survival it is a pure atheistic thing - that on average men will choose a woman with those hair colors over brown/black and so 6000 years later it is common in some areas where there is a lot of nordic ancestry.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2024 10:04 AM (oZhjI)

120 I think the redhead that Paxton painted so frequently was his wife.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024

***
The Wiki entry says, ". . . His works often present idealized views of women, such as this portrait (The Red Fan) of his wife Elizabeth[.]"

Here's The Red Fan: https://tinyurl.com/mr4cvuez

She looks more like the brunette in this painting than she does a redhead.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

121 he pokes her eye out with a sharp stick from the fire....
Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 10:03 AM (uCfKO)

"Would I?!?!"

"Hunchback!!!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 08, 2024 10:05 AM (VoAdT)

122 > For high-school boys, it’s suddenly cool to smell old.
------
Bengay and mothballs?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 08, 2024 10:05 AM (Q4IgG)

123 See for yourself where the priorities lie in Kamala's America.

The point of the federal government is to take as much money from the taxpayers as possible for its own benefit. Anything else it does is incidental.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2024 10:06 AM (oZhjI)

124 it is a pure atheistic thing

Because redheads steal souls?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:06 AM (v6JzV)

125 For high-school boys, it’s suddenly cool to smell old.

You can't go wrong with a stiff dose of original Old Spice.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:06 AM (Q0kLU)

126 William liked the ladies.

Posted by: javems at October 08, 2024 10:06 AM (8I4hW)

127 Brut for the win!

Pfffft. You call that an old fragrance? THIS is an old fragrance.

Posted by: Hai Karate at October 08, 2024 10:06 AM (xCA6C)

128 Women could get away with that, whereas a man keeping his fedora, bowler, or homburg on indoors would be frowned at.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:02 AM (J2vNu)

Catholics women cover head
Jews men

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 10:06 AM (gbOdA)

129 For high-school boys, it’s suddenly cool to smell old. /i]

TBH if you can get them to not smell like sweat and doritos you should call it a win

Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2024 10:06 AM (oZhjI)

130 It's not a super tight corset or a wasp waist. It's an illusion. Clothing of the day made the hips and bust look bigger, which makes the waist look smaller.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 08, 2024 10:07 AM (gfViB)

131 I reckon both o them ladies are nude under those draperies there.
Posted by: Some Feller From Arkansas at October 08, 2024 10:02 AM (vCzKG)

They're headed to the No. 6 dance.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 08, 2024 10:07 AM (ulrun)

132 . . . on average men will choose a woman with those hair colors over brown/black and so 6000 years later it is common in some areas where there is a lot of nordic ancestry.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2024

***
Such hair was unusual -- it reminded men of the color of the sun, which people often worshiped.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

133 Contrary to Ms. Harris’s claim, no abortion statute in the country requires doctors to “wait until the patient is at death’s door” to intervene.

Doesn't matter. A certain sect of women want the right to kill their children - right up until birth. Then they want the right to kill the child if that attempt doesn't work.

They form a large voting bloc, so the modern Democrats - as well as some men - will cater to that bloc. For the Democrats, its political expediency. For many men, its social expediency.

Posted by: Taking Notes at October 08, 2024 10:07 AM (Guh80)

134 Can somebody please post a link to the Nausicaa painting with the naked wimminz in it?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:07 AM (v6JzV)

135
She looks more like the brunette in this painting than she does a redhead.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

My Sister was a redhead but her red was more burgundy.. Very striking.. I'm a blond... I say that because my grey hair never went grey... Stayed a blond color

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

136
My coffee says I shall be blown up. -- Muhhammed
My coffee says I shall be blown up. -- Mohhammed
My coffee says I shall be blown up. -- Muhammmed
My coffee says I shall be supplying you with pagers. -- Schlomo aka Achmed
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 08, 2024 09:54 AM (U7wke)

I hope Schlomo had some fast Mo' getting out of town before all the warranty claims came in about exploding lagers.

Posted by: Fox2! at October 08, 2024 10:08 AM (DGcmP)

137 For high-school boys, it’s suddenly cool to smell old.
------
Bengay and mothballs?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 08, 2024

***
Violets and Aspercreme!

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

138 Lagers == pagers

Posted by: Fox2! at October 08, 2024 10:08 AM (DGcmP)

139 I feel good tonight. I finally got something I always wanted and that's important. It really is.

I finally got some hostages.

Well, you see so many people with hostages nowadays and you say "Hey, I'd like some, too!" So I've got three of 'em, they're really nice people. We get along great, they're tied in a sack outside at the top of the flagpole. And I'm gonna blow 'em up at midnight, too.

Unless, of course, I get my three demands.
A hundred thousand in cash,
getaway car
and I want the letter M stricken from the English language.

See, you have to make one crazy demand, that way, if you get caught, you can plead insanity.

Ha.... Getaway car.

Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 10:09 AM (RHGPo)

140 Paxton[s Nausicaa: https://tinyurl.com/34uwm9em

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:09 AM (J2vNu)

141 axton[s Nausicaa: https://tinyurl.com/34uwm9em
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

This one is much better

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 08, 2024 10:09 AM (CIS44)

142 I just learned that Elon Musk went to University of Pennsylvania and lived in PA for three years. No wonder he was so happy at the Butler rally.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 08, 2024 10:10 AM (gfViB)

143 >>@fema 's Disaster Relief Fund monthly report reveals that nearly $4 BILLION was spent on "COVID-19 aid" in September of 2024, the most of any month since October 2023.

Billions of dollars are being spent on a pandemic that's been over for years while Helene victims are struggling.

See for yourself where the priorities lie in Kamala's America.
Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 09:59 AM

---

Back-assward planning + use-it-or-lose-it budget management. The most charitable arguments for privatization, right there.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 08, 2024 10:10 AM (vCRHt)

144 NV Voter Roles

Invalid address: 53,840

Commercial address: 2,540

Wrong or missing apt. number: 341,930

Door not accessible to mail: 144,990

Receives mail as bulk drop: 106,440

Errors with address: 995,310

Address cannot be confirmed: 231,238

MI is 3X worse.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 10:10 AM (gbOdA)

145 Can somebody please post a link to the Nausicaa painting with the naked wimminz in it?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Just go to the Wikipedia entry on the artist. It's there along with a number of his paintings.

Posted by: Tuna at October 08, 2024 10:10 AM (oaGWv)

146 and I want the letter M stricken from the English language.

See, you have to make one crazy demand, that way, if you get caught, you can plead insanity.

Ha.... Getaway car.
Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024

***
And so you can bargain. "Okay, never mind the 'M' business. But I still want the cash and the getaway car!"

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

147 For Puddinhead...

https://museoarteponce.org/obras/bano-japones/

"Japanese Toilette" 1873. Marie-Francois Firmin-Girard.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 10:10 AM (rOxFH)

148 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Wow, thanks Wolfus. I couldn't find it online -- probably had the Safe Search one.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)

149 axton[s Nausicaa: https://tinyurl.com/34uwm9em

Who knew there were brazillians living in ancient greece?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2024 10:11 AM (oZhjI)

150 DeSantis says he has a looming crisis to manage and doesn’t have time to engage with Harris as she plays election season politics with hurricanes.

heh

Posted by: one hour sober at October 08, 2024 10:11 AM (Y1sOo)

151 150 DeSantis says he has a looming crisis to manage and doesn’t have time to engage with Harris as she plays election season politics with hurricanes.

heh
Posted by: one hour sober at October 08, 2024 10:11 AM (Y1sOo)

Nice smackdown

Posted by: It's me donna at October 08, 2024 10:12 AM (IyPmt)

152 DeSantis says he has a looming crisis to manage and doesn’t have time to engage with Harris as she plays election season politics with hurricanes.

heh
Posted by: one hour sober at October 08, 2024
*
Nice smackdown
Posted by: It's me donna at October 08,

***
More governors should ignore the Feds this way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:12 AM (J2vNu)

153 Nice smackdown

Smackdown? Come on that amateur hour.

/crackle knuckles

Posted by: Doug Emhoff at October 08, 2024 10:13 AM (oZhjI)

154 Re: the sidebar,
I would absolutely be down for a group listen of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio shows, but the link in the sidebar isn’t just missing episodes, it’s not even the original BBC version to begin with. It appears to be some amateur enthusiast group’s remake.

Be forewarned that the original broadcast aired in the late 70s and was only 12 episodes and sort of ends without a denouement. Adams then went on to turn the story into his series of novels (that’s right, the radio shows actually came first). The first two books are mainly a retelling of those 12 episodes, with some changes made.

In the early 2000s, the BBC produced radio dramatizations of the later books. The “Tertiary Phase,” based on “Life, the Universe, and Everything,” picks up where the original episodes left off (replacing the original narrator, who had passed), and tells a complete story with a proper ending. I generally recommend stopping there.

Worth noting that after the Tertiary Phase, the BBC replaced the original theme song, “Journey of the Sorcerer” by the Eagles, with a re-recorded version that’s not as good. They even went back and replaced it on reissues of the originals.

Posted by: Caiwyn at October 08, 2024 10:13 AM (UwBs6)

155 I wear a thick coating of Brut to cover the odor of my Wildroot Cream Oil.

Posted by: Beau Brummell at October 08, 2024 10:13 AM (CV8a5)

156 Former CNN host Don Lemon suggested that Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary, was a “sort of gay guy” who smuggled her to Bethlehem to avoid persecution for being pregnant and unmarried.

... this seems to be in conflict with those stories that Jesus had siblings

Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 10:13 AM (RHGPo)

157 Shots Fired at Texas Church After Armed Men in ‘White Clothes and Headgear’ Are Spotted

A test?

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 10:14 AM (gbOdA)

158 Who knew there were brazillians living in ancient greece?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2024

***
They had ways to shave, probably dry and painful (though they could use olive or other oils). Plucking out the hairs would be pretty extreme.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:14 AM (J2vNu)

159 Errors with address: 995,310

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 10:10 AM (gbOdA)

It is such obvious fraud. How many sentient humans screw up their own address on forms?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 08, 2024 10:14 AM (d9fT1)

160 It is such obvious fraud. How many sentient humans screw up their own address on forms?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Well, to be fair, Democrats aren't all that sentient.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:16 AM (v6JzV)

161 Nice smackdown

Smackdown? Come on that amateur hour.

/crackle knuckles
Posted by: Doug Emhoff at October 08, 2024

***
Shakedown, breakdown --
Everybody wants into the crowded light!
Breakdown, takedown --
You're busted!"

Posted by: Bob Seger, Lo, These Many Years Ago at October 08, 2024 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

162 Said in previous storms (under both Trump and Biden administrations) that he deals with presidents and the heads of FEMA and that vice-presidents are not in that loop.

heh

Posted by: one hour sober at October 08, 2024 10:17 AM (Y1sOo)

163 For high-school boys, it’s suddenly cool to smell old.

Virginia Slims and Jean Nate for the win!

- Hillary

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:17 AM (Q0kLU)

164 *keeps flipping through The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art 1854 - 1918 and recoils in horror*

Futanari? Ack... And from 1988. That should not even be in this book. Stupid political hacks.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 10:17 AM (rOxFH)

165
No canine. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 08, 2024 10:18 AM (BkEzK)

166 More governors should ignore the Feds this way.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:12 AM (J2vNu)

Everyone should ignore the feds. And stop paying them.

You're FIRED!

Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at October 08, 2024 10:18 AM (JCLJi)

167 For high-school boys, it’s suddenly cool to smell old.

Virginia Slims and Jean Nate for the win!

- Hillary
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024

***
No love for Vitalis?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

168 104 BREAKING: @fema 's Disaster Relief Fund monthly report reveals that nearly $4 BILLION was spent on "COVID-19 aid" in September of 2024, the most of any month since October 2023.

Billions of dollars are being spent on a pandemic that's been over for years while Helene victims are struggling.

See for yourself where the priorities lie in Kamala's America.
Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 09:59 AM (RHGPo)

Well, that helps answer one of my recurring questions: how are all these unemployed and underemployed people getting by while I go to work everyday?

I wonder how much more money is being spent this way? Probably not Ukraine money, but still real money.

Posted by: every able-bodied man ought to be expected to work at October 08, 2024 10:18 AM (4/BuS)

169
Hurricane pron:

https://is.gd/ryHZPS

/ You're all gonna die!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 08, 2024 10:18 AM (RKVpM)

170 Futanari? Ack... And from 1988. That should not even be in this book. Stupid political hacks.

I assume China's ban on effeminate men would ban this crap as well. I wonder if/when Xi will get the Putin treatment?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2024 10:19 AM (oZhjI)

171 Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 10:13 AM (RHGPo)

Not for nothing did Trump call LeMon the dumbest man on television.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:19 AM (Q0kLU)

172 It is such obvious fraud. How many sentient humans screw up their own address on forms?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 08, 2024 10:14 AM (d9fT1)

There are around 20 independent address verification groups like Accuzip that can see into the USPS data as well as look up addresses by the property tax records.
It can be a little as 2 cents per validation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 10:19 AM (gbOdA)

173 They had ways to shave, probably dry and painful (though they could use olive or other oils). Plucking out the hairs would be pretty extreme.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Why is shaving "down there" such a big thing, anyway? Neatly trimmed, yeah, I can see that. But shaving it all off?
Does it increase her pleasure? Because it does nothing for me as a guy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:19 AM (v6JzV)

174 157 Shots Fired at Texas Church After Armed Men in ‘White Clothes and Headgear’ Are Spotted

A test?
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 10:14 AM (gbOdA)

Houses of worship need to wake up, no matter what denomination or faith tradition. For the Catholic churches I've attended over recent years - there is no forethought in security beyond an alarm system should someone attempt a breakin during the night.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 08, 2024 10:19 AM (N39Ws)

175 25 Paxton also did one of a bunch of lovely nude girls at play called Nausicaa. I think CBD has featured it at some time.

Off to look up "Nausicaa" -- the name is familiar, perhaps from Homer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:35 AM (J2vNu)
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Waaaay late to the thread but not passing up the Nausicaa reference without mentioning that Robert Graves (of I, Claudius fame) wrote a novel called Homer's Daughter which is a retelling of The Odyssey from the viewpoint of Nausicaa. (It's a bit more complicated than that.) As with most of Graves's historic fiction, a very enjoyable read.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 08, 2024 10:20 AM (LxER7)

176 Ben Gay?

Well, just that one time at summer camp.

Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 10:20 AM (uCfKO)

177 159 - "How many sentient humans screw up their own address on forms?"

Never, then I got older, now I mess it up quite frequently - always double check it !

Posted by: Next2Nothing at October 08, 2024 10:20 AM (tA1/w)

178
Well, that helps answer one of my recurring questions: how are all these unemployed and underemployed people getting by while I go to work everyday?

With both NAFTA and later outsourcing/bringing in illegals the government has claimed this will free Americans to work on higher paying work but mostly it just pushed a bunch of people on to various forms of government handouts.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2024 10:20 AM (oZhjI)

179 Former CNN host Don Lemon suggested that Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary, was a “sort of gay guy” who smuggled her to Bethlehem to avoid persecution for being pregnant and unmarried.

... this seems to be in conflict with those stories that Jesus had siblings
Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 10:13 AM (RHGPo)

I thought they were avoiding the tax man....and Jesus had a bro named James.

Posted by: BignJames at October 08, 2024 10:21 AM (Yj6Os)

180 Alternate title:

"Oh, my goodness, Matilda! You're not a woman after all. You have a penis!"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 08, 2024 10:21 AM (eDfFs)

181 Art, hurricanes, pubic hair…. the HQ is a many splendored thing…

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2024 10:21 AM (PCK5/)

182 They're headed to the No. 6 dance.

Is this one of those "anything said with the right inflection can be made to sound salacious" things or is it something actually salacious that I'm ignorant of?

Posted by: Oddbob at October 08, 2024 10:21 AM (/y8xj)

183 Didja see Mayor Johnson fiscal responsibility?

Jeff Orr
@JeffO773
NEW: Chicago's mayor Brandon Johnson says being fiscally responsible is the same as supporting slavery. The most disingenuous straw man argument ever.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 08, 2024 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

184 MI with raw numbers and percent of registered voters:
Commercial Address: 858 0.05%

Door Not Accessible: 10,666 0.60%

Receives mail as bulk drop: 32,737 1.83%

2nd part of address missing: 229,075 12.82%

No match of address per USPS: 357,882 20.02%

Primary No. missing or wrong: 92,411 5.17%

Note: Some have multiple errors.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 10:22 AM (gbOdA)

185 A little dab'll do ya.

Posted by: Brylcreem at October 08, 2024 10:22 AM (dg+HA)

186 Former CNN host Don Lemon suggested that Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary, was a “sort of gay guy” who smuggled her to Bethlehem to avoid persecution for being pregnant and unmarried.

... this seems to be in conflict with those stories that Jesus had siblings

Well, to be fair, he's an extremely stupid person.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 08, 2024 10:22 AM (/y8xj)

187 Why is shaving "down there" such a big thing, anyway? Neatly trimmed, yeah, I can see that. But shaving it all off? /i]

I think it came from two sources:

1) Brazilian type beach fashion - you can't have any hair and wear that kind of bikini

2) Pron - if they are going to "show everything" well hardwood works a lot better then even a trimmed region.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2024 10:22 AM (oZhjI)

188 Brylcreem!

A little dab'll do ya!

Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 10:23 AM (uCfKO)

189 183 Didja see Mayor Johnson fiscal responsibility?

Jeff Orr
@JeffO773
NEW: Chicago's mayor Brandon Johnson says being fiscally responsible is the same as supporting slavery. The most disingenuous straw man argument ever.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 08, 2024 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

We can balance the budget with slaves is what Democrats are preaching with the illegals.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 10:23 AM (gbOdA)

190 There wa no storm yesterday. But last evening as I was preparing dinner, I heard a loud THUMP from outside. Couldn't imagine what it was. Went to look.

Big branches, some as big around as my leg, had broken off the tree just outside my door and landed on the walkway and grass. Again, no wind, no rain. The wood must have been softened by all the rain we had with Helene and the downpours on Thursday and Friday last week. Ka-CHUMP!

Good thing it wasn't near my car. From now on I'm going to park away from trees at my home dump.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:23 AM (J2vNu)

191 "Oh, my goodness, Matilda! You're not a woman after all. You have a penis!"

That's kind of hateful don't you thing? Anyway Matilda if you need a shoulder to put your penis on I'll be here

Posted by: David French at October 08, 2024 10:24 AM (oZhjI)

192 I like them shaved. If you know what I mean.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 08, 2024 10:24 AM (7dTrs)

193 After this election there needs to be a concerted effort in each state, in each county to correct information the voting records. It is well over due.

Posted by: just saying at October 08, 2024 10:25 AM (Uy/WF)

194 101 ... "Wouldn't that be pretty racy for the 1890s?"

Hi Wolfus,

It might been a bit racy for the time but as it was from a classic like The Odyssey, it could have been acceptable. Especially as the painting was done for adults. The young persons comment was just an impression I had after looking at it. (I do wonder if he just wanted to paint some nudes after all those acceptable fancy dress 'society' portraits. Maybe he was just having fun for a change.)

Posted by: JTB at October 08, 2024 10:25 AM (yTvNw)

195 Art, Hurricanes and Pubic Hair had a fairly decent run off Broadway in the early 90s. Drew a mostly lesbian audience.

Posted by: Snooty Theater Critic at October 08, 2024 10:25 AM (dg+HA)

196 NV is a lost cause. Reid set the system up to be frauded. Between mail in ballots everywhere and the electronic voting machines, there is no election integrity.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 08, 2024 10:25 AM (7PziG)

197 Why is shaving "down there" such a big thing, anyway? Neatly trimmed, yeah, I can see that. But shaving it all off?
Does it increase her pleasure? Because it does nothing for me as a guy.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024

***
Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 trimmed her hedge nicely. I appreciated that, a lot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:25 AM (J2vNu)

198 Well, Stelter is a sex machine.

Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
So much ugly misogyny on this site today reacting to Harris going on "Call Her Daddy." If the people insulting Harris and slut-shaming Cooper actually listen to the episode, they'll find it's full of personal and political insights, and they'll get why Cooper is filthy rich.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 08, 2024 10:26 AM (L/fGl)

199 I like them shaved. If you know what I mean.
Posted by: Joe Biden at October 08, 2024

***
You like 'em pre-hair, you old pedo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

200 Do they have voting machines in the Casinos in Vegas?? Next to the slots and ATM’s???

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2024 10:26 AM (PCK5/)

201 A little dab'll do ya.
Posted by: Brylcreem

*********

Beat me by just THAT much.

*shakes tiny fist impotently*

Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 10:26 AM (uCfKO)

202 Easiest way to fix the voter base is make everyone re register every election. It’s ridiculous that you’re registerer to vote once and then you’re registered for life.

You need to renew a car registration every year. Renew your voter registration too.

Posted by: Settled Science at October 08, 2024 10:27 AM (7dTrs)

203 Deranged Michael Cohen Claims Trump Will Use Navy Seals To "Round Up" Political Opponents

Without providing a shred of evidence, Cohen made the claim, specifically that Trump has said he would use SEAL Team Six to target his enemies, and MSNBC host and former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki provided zero pushback.

Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 10:27 AM (RHGPo)

204 So much ugly misogyny on this site today reacting to Harris going on "Call Her Daddy." If the people insulting Harris and slut-shaming Cooper actually listen to the episode, they'll find it's full of personal and political insights, and they'll get why Cooper is filthy rich.

Did Harris discuss the best ways to keep your sugar daddy coming back for more instead of going back to his wife?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2024 10:27 AM (oZhjI)

205 Oh goodness, not the brother of Jesus cr@p again. Talpiot Tomb controversy again...

https://tinyurl.com/63vw2393

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 10:27 AM (rOxFH)

206 Why is shaving "down there" such a big thing, anyway? Neatly trimmed, yeah, I can see that. But shaving it all off?
Does it increase her pleasure? Because it does nothing for me as a guy.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:19 AM (v6JzV)

Muldoon can correct me on this, but body hair - especially in the underarm and pubic areas - is a breeding ground for microbes that cause body odor. So shaving it off would at least cut down on that, so long as one practices good hygiene.

As far as feminine pleasure, I couldn't tell you. I haven't had the experience. But I've never liked pubic hair on a woman, ever since I first knew what it was.

YMMV.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:27 AM (Q0kLU)

207 Oh duh!

I just realized why many states and counties use the paper forms to register.
It allows for fake addresses. No software or app today would allow 123 Main as it would force you to accept 124 Main St or 123 S. Main St.
The paper is what gets typed into the system. And whoever wrote that system turned of the address validation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 08, 2024 10:27 AM (gbOdA)

208 Now *that's* a tiny waist!

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at October 08, 2024 10:28 AM (Hw6WF)

209 196 NV is a lost cause. Reid set the system up to be frauded. Between mail in ballots everywhere and the electronic voting machines, there is no election integrity.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 08, 2024 10:25 AM (7PziG

Plus NV is easily 20% illegal aliens now which vote. And vote often.

Posted by: Settled Science at October 08, 2024 10:28 AM (7dTrs)

210 Former CNN host Don Lemon suggested that Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary, was a “sort of gay guy” who smuggled her to Bethlehem to avoid persecution for being pregnant and unmarried.

Sort of a gay guy?? "Sort of"???

Don Lemon is a clown and an idiot.

Posted by: dantesed at October 08, 2024 10:29 AM (Oy/m2)

211 Sweat, and sebum, MP4…

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2024 10:29 AM (PCK5/)

212 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:19 AM

MP4, if you're still around, check your email.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2024 10:29 AM (kgE5c)

213 Deranged Michael Cohen Claims Trump Will Use Navy Seals To "Round Up" Political Opponents

—

Mikey,
I’m already voting for him no need to keep campaigning to me.

Posted by: Settled Science at October 08, 2024 10:30 AM (7dTrs)

214 Today it would be titled waist training.

CA hamas protesters bloody a man carrying Israeli flag.

https://tinyurl.com/362bd8wx

Posted by: Braenyard at October 08, 2024 10:31 AM (RH5d9)

215 Deranged Michael Cohen Claims Trump Will Use Navy Seals To "Round Up" Political Opponents

I could die a happy man if I saw Scankles being dragged, screaming and pissing herself, off to Gitmo for a lifetime in solitary fed only on cockroaches and urine.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:31 AM (Q0kLU)

216 183 Didja see Mayor Johnson fiscal responsibility?

Jeff Orr
@JeffO773
NEW: Chicago's mayor Brandon Johnson says being fiscally responsible is the same as supporting slavery. The most disingenuous straw man argument ever.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 08, 2024 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

As usual, the opposite is true. That money comes from us, taken by force. More spending = more forced labor for the government.

Posted by: every able-bodied man ought to be expected to work at October 08, 2024 10:32 AM (4/BuS)

217 *giggles at headline*

"Divers discover the 'lost highway to Atlantis'"

Dudes... that has been known for ages.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 10:32 AM (rOxFH)

218 Well, it's not a Venn diagram but I think Kamala would like it.

https://is.gd/FRY3rt

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 08, 2024 10:33 AM (L/fGl)

219 ACDC's Highway to Hell > Highway to Atlantis > Actual Highway to Hell > Going to Hell in a Handbasket

Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2024 10:33 AM (oZhjI)

220 Doesn’t I-20 take you directly into Atlanta? I didn’t realize it had been lost .

Posted by: Settled Science at October 08, 2024 10:33 AM (7dTrs)

221 CA hamas protesters bloody a man carrying Israeli flag.

https://tinyurl.com/362bd8wx

They aren't "protesters". They're a mob of thugs. Words matter.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 08, 2024 10:33 AM (xCA6C)

222 MP4, if you're still around, check your email.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2024 10:29 AM (kgE5c)

I'm not going to TX, no. But Monday at the range sounds good. Let me just check my schedule and I will let you know.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:33 AM (Q0kLU)

223 @150

>>heh

More importantly, she's not The President and the current pretend President is heading off to Germany, so he's going to continue being MIA.

What DeSantis should do is go on TV and ask in a public way, who's actually running the show, because it ain't these two limp dick ass clowns.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 08, 2024 10:33 AM (XV/Pl)

224 It is amazing how the teapot is the center of the composition. The entire tableau is arranged in a spiral pattern converging on that silvery grey globe.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2024 10:33 AM (D7oie)

225 Well many would like to see Atlanta get lost.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 10:34 AM (rOxFH)

226 Lots of people are filthy rich. Doesn’t mean they’re political takes mean shit. Tater is bigly asshoe.

Posted by: Settled Science at October 08, 2024 10:34 AM (7dTrs)

227 Deranged Michael Cohen Claims Trump Will Use Navy Seals To "Round Up" Political Opponents

—
Posted by: Settled Science at October 08, 2024

--

Absurd. Posses will handle that.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 08, 2024 10:34 AM (vCRHt)

228 224 It is amazing how the teapot is the center of the composition. The entire tableau is arranged in a spiral pattern converging on that silvery grey globe.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2024 10:33 AM (D7oie)

I notice the teapot is little, short and stout…

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2024 10:34 AM (PCK5/)

229 I'm not going to TX, no. But Monday at the range sounds good. Let me just check my schedule and I will let you know.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:33 AM

Not coming to TX? Boo....

Let me know what your calendar is like.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2024 10:35 AM (kgE5c)

230 Michael Cohen is afraid he will be forgotten.

Don't worry Mikey, you won't be missed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 10:35 AM (rOxFH)

231 Well many would like to see Atlanta get lost.
Posted by: Anna Puma

But what about the Gold Club?

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 08, 2024 10:36 AM (CIS44)

232 Leonard Cohen>>Michael Cohen.

Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2024 10:36 AM (PCK5/)

233 228 224 It is amazing how the teapot is the center of the composition. The entire tableau is arranged in a spiral pattern converging on that silvery grey globe.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2024 10:33 AM (D7oie)

I notice the teapot is little, short and stout…
Posted by: tubal at October 08, 2024 10:34 AM (PCK5/)

Here is the handle, here is its spout.

Posted by: flasher in a trenchcoat at October 08, 2024 10:36 AM (4/BuS)

234
Ace is going to take Columbus Day Week off, starting now.

Posted by: soothie at October 08, 2024 10:36 AM (0Xcb9)

235 Do you wonder why the two lemons are in the lower right corner?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 10:36 AM (rOxFH)

236 Muldoon can correct me on this, but body hair - especially in the underarm and pubic areas - is a breeding ground for microbes that cause body odor...
Posted by: Mary Poppins'

*********

Egads! Don't throw me in that particular briar patch, MP$..I have no desire to enter that conversation..

Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 10:36 AM (uCfKO)

237 "Woman accusing Vince McMahon of sexual abuse asks WWE to waive confidentiality agreements"

---

Oh no! Not Vince McMahon. If you can't trust Vince McMahon, who can you trust.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 08, 2024 10:36 AM (HV2Ek)

238 Briar patch!

Heh!

Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 10:37 AM (uCfKO)

239 >>> 222 MP4, if you're still around, check your email.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2024 10:29 AM (kgE5c)

I'm not going to TX, no. But Monday at the range sounds good. Let me just check my schedule and I will let you know.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:33 AM (Q0kLU)

*has sad*

Next year will be the 10th...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 08, 2024 10:37 AM (FnneF)

240 Do you wonder why the two lemons are in the lower right corner?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2024 10:36 AM

There appear to be lemon slices on a plate, so, back up?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2024 10:37 AM (kgE5c)

241 Egads! Don't throw me in that particular briar patch, MP$..I have no desire to enter that conversation..
Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 10:36 AM (uCfKO)

It's the pits!

Posted by: BurtTC at October 08, 2024 10:37 AM (HV2Ek)

242 We had another (almost certainly pro-Pali) "protest" out in front of my work yesterday around noon. I was worried the cops would put up the gate across the pathway I use to leave, and I would have to walk a quarter mile around several blocks just to get to my car. Fortunately the fuzzheads finished their protest quickly and the cops took the barricades down.

I asked one cop, "What's the reason for the barricades?"

"Protest."

I nodded. "My suggestion is two words. Tear gas."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:38 AM (J2vNu)

243 Is this painting a repeat, CBD?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 08, 2024 10:38 AM (I7Wj0)

244 Muldoon can correct me on this, but body hair - especially in the underarm and pubic areas - is a breeding ground for microbes that cause body odor...
Posted by: Mary Poppins'

Misinformation! If that were true, the French would be particularly sm...never mind.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 08, 2024 10:38 AM (xCA6C)

245 Sammy Basso, progeria advocate, has died at 28.

https://tinyurl.com/37weuxxc

Progeria is the genetic disorder in which children age prematurely.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:38 AM (v6JzV)

246 >>Former CNN host Don Lemon suggested that Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary, was a “sort of gay guy” who smuggled her to Bethlehem to avoid persecution for being pregnant and unmarried.

... this seems to be in conflict with those stories that Jesus had siblings
Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 10:13

--

Don just skims the content before commenting. Must be a Methodist.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 08, 2024 10:38 AM (vCRHt)

247 237 "Woman accusing Vince McMahon of sexual abuse asks WWE to waive confidentiality agreements"

---

Oh no! Not Vince McMahon. If you can't trust Vince McMahon, who can you trust.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 08, 2024 10:36 AM (HV2Ek

So they want to keep the money they were paid, but have all terms they don't like waived?

What's the incentive to settle in an environment like that?

Posted by: none at October 08, 2024 10:38 AM (4/BuS)

248 Talked to a fellow who claimed de-nuding the nether region is a form of initialization.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 08, 2024 10:39 AM (RH5d9)

249 I'm not going to TX, no. But Monday at the range sounds good. Let me just check my schedule and I will let you know.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:33 AM (Q0kLU)

C'mon, MP4 -- all the cool kids will be there. And some no so cool ones, such as me.

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2024 10:39 AM (RIT1U)

250 Who you gonna believe, the Democrats or your lying eyes? Springfield resident videos Haitian butchering an animal.

https://is.gd/DqqbAe

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 08, 2024 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

251 >>> 242 We had another (almost certainly pro-Pali) "protest" out in front of my work yesterday around noon. I was worried the cops would put up the gate across the pathway I use to leave, and I would have to walk a quarter mile around several blocks just to get to my car. Fortunately the fuzzheads finished their protest quickly and the cops took the barricades down.

I asked one cop, "What's the reason for the barricades?"

"Protest."

I nodded. "My suggestion is two words. Tear gas."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:38 AM (J2vNu)

Awww, I can help too!

Posted by: night stick at October 08, 2024 10:39 AM (FnneF)

252 Who you gonna believe, the Democrats or your lying eyes? Springfield resident videos Haitian butchering an animal.

https://is.gd/DqqbAe
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, No

Shoulda shot him.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 08, 2024 10:40 AM (CIS44)

253 What's the incentive to settle in an environment like that?
Posted by: none at October 08, 2024 10:38 AM (4/BuS)

What's the incentive to allow them to live in an environment like that?

Posted by: BurtTC at October 08, 2024 10:40 AM (HV2Ek)

254 More importantly, she's not The President and the current pretend President is heading off to Germany, so he's going to continue being MIA. . . .

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 08, 2024

***
F. Joke is going to be on vacation until January. After that, Jill will let him decline and die.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:40 AM (J2vNu)

255 C'mon, MP4 -- all the cool kids will be there. And some no so cool ones, such as me.
Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2024 10:39 AM

Don't worry, Doof. I'll be sporting the Orange Hat of Dorkiness, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2024 10:41 AM (kgE5c)

256 C'mon, MP4 -- all the cool kids will be there. And some no so cool ones, such as me.
Posted by: Doof

Well, Regular Doof may not be so cool. Disco Doof, on the other hand...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:41 AM (v6JzV)

257 Going to a new doctor next week. Asked me to fill out a new patient info sheet. Under the question, Are you sexually active?

I wrote, "I try to be."

I am now marked as "one of those."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 08, 2024 10:41 AM (KbCG3)

258 You should try a little Burlcream.

Posted by: Burl Ives at October 08, 2024 10:42 AM (vCzKG)

259 C'mon, MP4 -- all the cool kids will be there. And some no so cool ones, such as me.
Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2024 10:39 AM

Don't worry, Doof. I'll be sporting the Orange Hat of Dorkiness, too.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2024 10:41 AM (kgE5c)

OHOD for the win!!!
Looking forward to seeing you, brother! RMBS-Mom coming, too?

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2024 10:42 AM (RIT1U)

260 A screen, I think it's called. That could be a huge doorway behind it, but why would you put a screen *in front of* a doorway? Probably a huge family portrait or a landscape of some kind.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 09:46 AM (J2vNu)

It is to block drafts, mostly. Those lovely old houses tended to be drafty. the windows and walls were not well sealed, and any fireplace drawing tended to suck heat up the chimney. It does serve to break larger areas into smaller spaces, and it was very stylish at the time; here it looks like the arch is blocked off to make the tea party more cozy

Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2024 10:42 AM (D7oie)

261
William McGregor Paxton

FUN FACT:

William McGregor Paxton was both an artist and the real life model for James Bond.

His name was a Spy Pseudonym, which when unscrambled reads:

I'm Gorilla Tampon Crew XC.

Well, I think we've all heard of the famous Gorilla Tampon Crew, the real reason we won WWII.

And XC stands for "extra crunchy" meaning that WMP had a license to kill.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 08, 2024 10:42 AM (eDfFs)

262 Well, Regular Doof may not be so cool. Disco Doof, on the other hand...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:41 AM (v6JzV)

You sir are another one who needs to get his hind quarters to Texas!!!

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2024 10:43 AM (RIT1U)

263 Very impressive on the details in the painting. Clothing, chair pattern, wood table. All well done.

Posted by: scampydog at October 08, 2024 10:44 AM (2bFN5)

264 I asked one cop, "What's the reason for the barricades?"

"Protest."

I nodded. "My suggestion is two words. Tear gas."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024
*
Awww, I can help too!
Posted by: night stick at October 08, 2024

***
Heh! The cop did not seem displeased by my suggestion.

To be fair, these knuckleheads were not impeding traffic or harassing anybody by their presence, just chanting and brandishing signs. Back in May, though, a bunch did block the main avenue -- actually blocking traffic -- for quite a while one afternoon. That was when a swift dispersal technique would have been called for.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:44 AM (J2vNu)

265 262 You sir are another one who needs to get his hind quarters to Texas!!!
Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2024 10:43 AM (RIT1U)

=====

Is Doof supposed to be a Phineas and Ferb reference?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

266 I'm late to the tea party but I love that dress and the other lady's hat.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 08, 2024 10:45 AM (4XwPj)

267 Is Doof supposed to be a Phineas and Ferb reference?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

If it was, you wouldn't get it anyway.

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2024 10:46 AM (RIT1U)

268 You sir are another one who needs to get his hind quarters to Texas!!!
Posted by: Doof

Honestly, I'd love to go. But only after I find full-time employment and can pay for it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:46 AM (v6JzV)

269 *has sad*

Next year will be the 10th...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 08, 2024 10:37 AM (FnneF)

You're very kind, dear lady.

Next year, perhaps, I will have lost the weight I want and have fixed a few other personal imperfections. And, God willing, there are no more unexpected inroads on my finances, I might be cruising to retirement. In that case, I would come.

Hope you all have a lovely time. Give nurse ratched a hug for me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:46 AM (Q0kLU)

270 Going to a new doctor next week. Asked me to fill out a new patient info sheet. Under the question, Are you sexually active?

I wrote, "I try to be."

I am now marked as "one of those."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
------------
Can relate. Was asked if I had any trouble getting an erection. I replied, no... just finding a place to put it. They didn't find it as funny as it sounded in my brain.

Posted by: scampydog at October 08, 2024 10:46 AM (2bFN5)

271 Is Doof supposed to be a Phineas and Ferb reference?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

If you had met him you would understand.

It's short for "Doofus."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 08, 2024 10:46 AM (d9fT1)

272 CBS DEI expert on Senator Tim Scott.

https://is.gd/6i3Ga1

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 08, 2024 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

273 271 Is Doof supposed to be a Phineas and Ferb reference?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

If you had met him you would understand.

It's short for "Doofus."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 08, 2024 10:46 AM (d9fT1)

=====

I HAVE met Doof!

We had food at Jack's Cosmic Dogs in Mount Pleasant with VIA and Mrs. VIA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

274 Are you sexually active?

*********

Not since the time I fell off the trampoline.

Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 10:48 AM (uCfKO)

275 Going to a new doctor next week. Asked me to fill out a new patient info sheet. Under the question, Are you sexually active?

I wrote, "I try to be."

I am now marked as "one of those."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
------------
Can relate. Was asked if I had any trouble getting an erection. I replied, no... just finding a place to put it. They didn't find it as funny as it sounded in my brain.
Posted by: scampydog

Gee, these medical geniuses ask questions about a guy's sex life and are then surprised/offended when the guy gives a teenage boy response?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:49 AM (v6JzV)

276 Going to a new doctor next week. Asked me to fill out a new patient info sheet. Under the question, Are you sexually active?

I wrote, "I try to be."

I am now marked as "one of those."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

At least you didn't say "Ask your mom"

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 08, 2024 10:50 AM (CIS44)

277 I HAVE met Doof!

We had food at Jack's Cosmic Dogs in Mount Pleasant with VIA and Mrs. VIA.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Those were the unsuccessful peace negotiations between you and him, I take it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:50 AM (v6JzV)

278 Going to a new doctor next week. Asked me to fill out a new patient info sheet. Under the question, Are you sexually active?

I wrote, "I try to be."

I am now marked as "one of those."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

***
"Difficult"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:50 AM (J2vNu)

279 If you had met him you would understand.

It's short for "Doofus."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 08, 2024 10:46 AM (d9fT1)

=====

I HAVE met Doof!

We had food at Jack's Cosmic Dogs in Mount Pleasant with VIA and Mrs. VIA.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

A micro MoMe. Was a very nice time! Before you were a full COB. Soon enough, you'll treat me the same way CBD does.

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2024 10:51 AM (RIT1U)

280 🚨 Breaking: Sheikh Ibrahim Amin REFUSED nomination as the next Hezbollah leader.

Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 10:51 AM (RHGPo)

281 >>>276 Going to a new doctor next week. Asked me to fill out a new patient info sheet. Under the question, Are you sexually active?

I wrote, "I try to be."

I am now marked as "one of those."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

At least you didn't say "Ask your mom"
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 08, 2024 10:50 AM

--

That's how it's done.

Posted by: Ryan O'Neal at October 08, 2024 10:52 AM (wzAuc)

282 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

TJM, I'm sure you figured it out by now, but I won't be doing a post on Vampyr.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:52 AM (Q0kLU)

283 Looking forward to seeing you, brother! RMBS-Mom coming, too?
Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2024 10:42 AM

The RMBS Mom is coming, too. She's been looking forward to it, and I've had her out on the range getting in some practice.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2024 10:52 AM (kgE5c)

284 🚨 Breaking: Sheikh Ibrahim Amin REFUSED nomination as the next Hezbollah leader.

Posted by: SMOD at October 08, 2024 10:51 AM (RHGPo)

Eh...blow him up anyway. Just becuz.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 08, 2024 10:52 AM (eDfFs)

285 Sheikh Ibrahim Amin REFUSED nomination as the next Hezbollah leader.

********

Smart.

Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 10:52 AM (uCfKO)

286 argh. 3rd sock fail this month.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 08, 2024 10:53 AM (wzAuc)

287 "Nah, she just kind of lays there"

---Just the Punchline

Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2024 10:53 AM (D7oie)

288 Next year, perhaps, I will have lost the weight I want and have fixed a few other personal imperfections. And, God willing, there are no more unexpected inroads on my finances, I might be cruising to retirement. In that case, I would come.

Hope you all have a lovely time. Give nurse ratched a hug for me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
---
When did being thin and physically perfect become a requirement? I'll go cancel my trip now.

Posted by: screaming in digital at October 08, 2024 10:54 AM (EaPW0)

289 282 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

TJM, I'm sure you figured it out by now, but I won't be doing a post on Vampyr.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 08, 2024 10:52 AM (Q0kLU)

=======

Alrighty. Halloween's incoherence as a franchise it is!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

290 I only now noticed that the artist printed his name and the date of the painting in the upper-left-hand corner. Ellery Queen would be ashamed of me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 10:56 AM (J2vNu)

291 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I get my tea from the Empress Hotel in Victoria. Very good!
Goes looking for tea!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 08, 2024 10:56 AM (W/lyH)

292 When did being thin and physically perfect become a requirement? I'll go cancel my trip now.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 08, 2024 10:54 AM (EaPW0)

You will do no such cancelling!

Posted by: Doof at October 08, 2024 10:56 AM (RIT1U)

293 The RMBS Mom is coming, too. She's been looking forward to it, and I've had her out on the range getting in some practice.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 08, 2024 10:52 AM (kgE5c)

Awesome! I look forward to seeing her again.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 08, 2024 10:57 AM (s9EYN)

294 Today's art is exquiste

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 08, 2024 10:57 AM (xcxpd)

295 hen did being thin and physically perfect become a requirement? I'll go cancel my trip now.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 08, 2024 10:54 AM (EaPW0)

You will do no such cancelling!
Posted by: Doof

Doof will kidnap you in the DoofMobile.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 08, 2024 10:57 AM (CIS44)

296 Goes looking for tea!
Posted by: Diogenes

*********

In a stunning break with tradition...

Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 10:58 AM (uCfKO)

297 Goes looking for tea!
Posted by: Diogenes

*********

It's right next to the coffee!

Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 10:58 AM (uCfKO)

298 >>@brianstelter
So much ugly misogyny on this site today reacting to Harris going on "Call Her Daddy." If the people insulting Harris and slut-shaming Cooper actually listen to the episode, they'll find it's full of personal and political insights, and they'll get why Cooper is filthy rich.

Or maybe - just maybe! - people are critical of Harris talking about sex with some random podcaster when the country is crumbling around her - inflation, open border, escalating war in ME and several states recovering from devastating hurricane?

This is not the behavior of a leader, of someone who's been right there with the president implementing a lot of the policies that created this mess. Normal people see this as avoidance and proof that she's not up for the responsibilities of the job, she's simply seeking the prestige and power of it.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2024 10:58 AM (scDBq)

299 > Sheikh Ibrahim Amin REFUSED nomination as the next Hezbollah leader.
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Offered no health insurance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 08, 2024 10:58 AM (Q4IgG)

300 Alrighty. Halloween's incoherence as a franchise it is!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

Incoherence?

Oh, I'm calling bullshite on that right now!!!

Posted by: Conal Cochran, President, Silver Sharock Mask Corp. LLC at October 08, 2024 10:58 AM (eDfFs)

301
Gee, these medical geniuses ask questions about a guy's sex life and are then surprised/offended when the guy gives a teenage boy response?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 10:49 AM

Doc: "Sex life?"
Me: "Infrequently."
Doc: "One word or two?"

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 08, 2024 10:59 AM (RKVpM)

302 This is not the behavior of a leader, but of someone who's been right there with the president implementing a lot of the policies that created this mess. Normal people see this as avoidance and proof that she's not up for the responsibilities of the job, she's simply seeking the prestige and power of it.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2024

***
FTFY

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

303 300 Incoherence?

Oh, I'm calling bullshite on that right now!!!
Posted by: Conal Cochran, President, Silver Sharock Mask Corp. LLC at October 08, 2024 10:58 AM (eDfFs)

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*shits self*
-The Thorne Cycle

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)

304 Noodus simianus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

305 The Monkey is NOOD

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 08, 2024 11:00 AM (CIS44)

306 Doof will kidnap you in the DoofMobile.
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Is the Doofmobile like the Scooby van?

Posted by: screaming in digital at October 08, 2024 11:01 AM (EaPW0)

307 Punk Chimp up.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 08, 2024 11:01 AM (LxER7)

308 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 08, 2024 11:01 AM (v6JzV)

309 Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
So much ugly misogyny on this site today reacting to Harris going on "Call Her Daddy." If the people insulting Harris and slut-shaming Cooper actually listen to the episode, they'll find it's full of personal and political insights, and they'll get why Cooper is filthy rich.
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There's this worship of the rich by the left.
They believe that "rich = smart/good" if the rich person is a liberal.
It's creepy how reflexively they'll follow the words of a rich person.

Hey Potato: There are OnlyFan girls making tens of thousands a week. "Cash me outside" girl was pulling like a million in a week. I'm not going to take any political advice from them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 08, 2024 11:01 AM (8Kx9y)

310 I do like this painting, as I do tea services and ballerina dresses, and so on, even as the woman being served in the painting looks like she could use a good dressing down.

Tea Leaves
William McGregor Paxton American, 1909
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 768

Paxton often depicted refined women—such as his patrons’ wives and daughters—at leisure in handsome Boston interiors of the sort they would have decorated and occupied. By equating women with the precious aesthetic trappings that surrounded them, Paxton echoed the spirit of the novelist Henry James, who portrayed women as collectible objects in novels such as Portrait of a Lady (1881). Paxton’s restrained palette and precise rendering of figures and setting here and elsewhere allied him to the academic tradition of his Parisian teacher, Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Might hang. Thanks.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 08, 2024 11:04 AM (NFX2v)

311 The lady sitting is looking at her Steampunk iPhone.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at October 08, 2024 11:37 AM (Twnsy)

312 A lovely painting, very skillfully done. However, the standing woman looks to have been corseted to within an inch of her life to get that "wasp waist" effect. It must be brutally painful.

Posted by: Nemo at October 08, 2024 12:58 PM (S6ArX)

313 ))) Hot girls are waiting for you on -- www.Nu21.eu

Posted by: Lerra at October 08, 2024 01:17 PM (cSUYB)

314 One or two Lumps?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 08, 2024 04:24 PM (wGqjj)

315 Gibson Girls hairdos were hot. And are still hot.

Charles Dana Gibson (1967-1944) was the famed early 20th century illustrator from Roxbury, MA. He married a pretty wife from the Langhorne railroad fortune family of 5 daughters. Buried at Mount Auburn Street Cemetery, Cambridge, MA. Honorary Harvard Lampoon editor 1910 (along with James Montgomery Flagg). His great nephew what Charles Gibson (b. 1943) the host of Good Morning America. 1987-2006.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at October 08, 2024 07:57 PM (LKMDZ)

316 Excellent painting. If the Longshoremen strike doesn't occur, a good Christmas gift to your loved ones would be a tea set with a nice assortment of loose-leaf tea tins from Fortnum & Mason (1703) the famed and long-lived luxury department store. They will ship your gift in a wicker basket as a tradition started by Queen Victoria who shipped personal gift packages to her brave soldiers in Crimea in 1856.

A good afternoon tea with proper finger sandwiches and scones (with jam and clotted cream) makes life with family and friends much more enjoyable.

Mr. Fortnum was a butler to Queen Anne who insisted that all the candles be fresh and not 1/2 burned each evening so he took the half-burned candles and sold them to the public for pretty pennies as they were candles from the Palace.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at October 08, 2024 08:03 PM (LKMDZ)

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