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Evening Horde! Say, have all Morons in areas hit by the hurricanes checked in?

Fido Friday: Ducking around

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We used to be a proper country

That's one hell of a warranty

Ouch

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Brazil

Feel good story of the day

This is cool

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That kid is hardcore

Medical question

This is also cool

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Utopia

Why is it so hard to see that both are equally bad?

Boink!

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Tonight's joke

Kamala's accomplishments

Baseball is so gay

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A match made in hell

How candies got their name

I want this guy on my team

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How to bake

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1 rst.

Posted by: Reforger at October 11, 2024 10:00 PM (xcIvR)

2 I'm early.

Posted by: Rex B at October 11, 2024 10:00 PM (592Pr)

3 Yikes! Content!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:00 PM (6RYcT)

4 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 11, 2024 10:00 PM (Q3Jz2)

5 I've claimed the roost!

Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - Backstroking. Barely. at October 11, 2024 10:01 PM (gWAUD)

6 First

Posted by: jmel at October 11, 2024 10:02 PM (bVhJi)

7 20th?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 11, 2024 10:03 PM (v6JzV)

8 The designers sort of Georgia O'Keefed those Shirt Suit Supremes, didn't they?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2024 10:03 PM (WXNFJ)

9 Will read content, just in case there's a test later.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 11, 2024 10:03 PM (vJiyU)

10 Yay WD, yay ONT!!

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at October 11, 2024 10:04 PM (qszVh)

11 "The Herculoids" was the best and most pure Saturday morning cartoon ever. You can fight me on this, but I have The Herculoids on my side and based on the cartoon, you will lose. And not in a fun "whoops!" way.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 11, 2024 10:04 PM (CHHv1)

12 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 11, 2024 10:04 PM (v6JzV)

13 Robert the Cat (TM) is the worst of all the animals. He *might* defeat the Herculoids, but only if he could distract them with cute cat videos or something like that.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 11, 2024 10:06 PM (CHHv1)

14 King Harv is certainly looking in fine fettle tonight. I should go get some socks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:06 PM (JkO4W)

15 Herculoids? Puh-leeze....

Posted by: Thundarr the Barbarian at October 11, 2024 10:06 PM (WLkJ+)

16 Dark Journalist doing good work as usual. NASA = Never A Straight Answer. Programs going darkkkkkk...

Dark Journalist
@darkjournalist
Gemini Astronaut Gordon Cooper said in his autobiography that he had been tasked with setting up a mission to Mars with Dr. von Braun and that he was going to lead the mission.

At a certain point he was told never to discuss it again. Later he got the word inside NASA that it was going to take place in 1981...but it never happened...publicly...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 11, 2024 10:07 PM (TGPs7)

17 Nicely done ONT WD!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at October 11, 2024 10:08 PM (hOUT3)

18 Okay, how many of you stone foxes had those disco pirate ensembles back in the day?

'Fess up!

Posted by: Bela Lugosi at October 11, 2024 10:09 PM (kpS4V)

19 @15 Gloop and Gleep would strangle you easily.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 11, 2024 10:09 PM (CHHv1)

20 Second FIRST I missed on today due to assuming I was not first and read content. I need to put my AOSHQ training wheels back on.

I have several dozen firsts in the 9 years since I found this place. Nearly all were by accident. Surfing the web and returning to AOSHQ to check what's new and finding a new thread just popped up. Not from hitting F9 repeatedly looking for a new thread.

How about everyone else whose had some firsts - how did you typically become FIRST?

Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2024 10:10 PM (aBgBM)

21 Alas, there is no explanation for the name Oh Henry! It could have been titillating.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:10 PM (JkO4W)

22 Vampire sock off'

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Cat Slave at October 11, 2024 10:10 PM (kpS4V)

23 That wasn't ace with the drill, was it.

Posted by: davidt at October 11, 2024 10:10 PM (i0F8b)

24 That 'this is also cool'? I would have used the heck out of that thing back in my tower climbing days. Nothing like hauling your butt, gear, and tools up a 120 ft tower at 10k feet ASL.

In the winter.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at October 11, 2024 10:11 PM (l7Kbv)

25 Off, cartoon barbarian sock...

I made a couple of wonderful prime grade filet mignons for dinner with roasted potatoes and asparagus. No, I don't have leftovers, but I do have a good chunk of Rogue Creamery bleu cheese remaining.

Happy Pablo.

Posted by: PabloD at October 11, 2024 10:11 PM (WLkJ+)

26 The Willie Brown Bar remains unremarked upon as well. Kamala, could you enlighten us?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:11 PM (JkO4W)

27 The ONT has a video playing Rocky Top?
Best.ONT.Ever!

Posted by: Grateful at October 11, 2024 10:12 PM (3+mkZ)

28 11 "The Herculoids" was the best and most pure Saturday morning cartoon ever. You can fight me on this, but I have The Herculoids on my side and based on the cartoon, you will lose. And not in a fun "whoops!" way.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 11, 2024 10:04 PM (CHHv1)

No....

Posted by: Space Ghost at October 11, 2024 10:12 PM (QAkQ3)

29 Evenin', y'all. The memeiest ONT of the week. Yay.

Posted by: mindful webworker - me me ist at October 11, 2024 10:13 PM (txGor)

30 KitKat has the best candy back story and it involves a smoky London club, the Royal Family, Nazi spies, the Merovingian
Dynasty in France and the final burial place of Mary Magdalene.

They call it The KitKat Code...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 11, 2024 10:14 PM (TGPs7)

31 Dark Journalist
@darkjournalist
Gemini Astronaut Gordon Cooper said in his autobiography that he had been tasked with setting up a mission to Mars with Dr. von Braun and that he was going to lead the mission.

At a certain point he was told never to discuss it again. Later he got the word inside NASA that it was going to take place in 1981...but it never happened...publicly...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 11, 2024 10:07 PM (TGPs7)
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In that crazypants Nazis In Space book "Dark Fleet", it stated that Von Braun did in fact have a Mars mission drawn up. Heck, he had a book on it...in German.

The Nazis have probably been on the Red Planet for decades. Won't Elon be surprised!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Cat Slave at October 11, 2024 10:14 PM (kpS4V)

32 21 Alas, there is no explanation for the name Oh Henry! It could have been titillating.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:10 PM (JkO4W)

How did Salted Nut Roll get its name? We're stumped!

Posted by: Harris and Walz at October 11, 2024 10:14 PM (aBgBM)

33 Fence made out of stretchers: Near the local USAF base, which has closed and reopened a couple of times, there were farmer's fences made of old steel GI bedframes with the bed springs still in them.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 11, 2024 10:14 PM (gm511)

34 The, uh, "male" model in the black suit looks a little like Leonard Nimoy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:14 PM (6RYcT)

35 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2024 10:15 PM (EweRc)

36 I think you can go Flamenco dancing with the shirt suit supreme...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:15 PM (ynpvh)

37 The best candy in that list is KitKat. Followed by Twix.

All other answers are wrong.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2024 10:15 PM (q7hip)

38 I made a couple of wonderful prime grade filet mignons for dinner with roasted potatoes and asparagus. No, I don't have leftovers, but I do have a good chunk of Rogue Creamery bleu cheese remaining.

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Riddle me this: Prime represents about 3% of graded beef and sells at a big premium over Choice. Yet the grading has to do with the distribution of marbling in the meat.

Unlike say, a ribeye, a filet has essentially no marbling. So, is there any reason to spring for the Prime when you're buying filets?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:15 PM (JkO4W)

39 Herculoids shout out!

Fortunately downloaded them from the IA before the latest hacking...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 11, 2024 10:16 PM (TGPs7)

40 Ok, that was cool.

I was watching my alma mater's men's soccer team on their youtube stream. BYU scores a goal, a nice fast strike.

The announcer calls it a "hammer blow! I feel like Nancy Pelosi's husband's temple!"

https://youtu.be/dBSSPlp8pbo about minute 37:50 in the 2st half.

Most random call out I've ever heard! And hysterical!

Posted by: SimoHayha at October 11, 2024 10:16 PM (KfVMM)

41 Heh. Just realized that top pic is a still from Rambo, First Blood. Filmed near Hope, B.C.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:16 PM (6RYcT)

42 Changed the controls from ISO to SAE on the mini excavator....Man the build quality on those machines is serious third world.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 11, 2024 10:17 PM (vJiyU)

43 The designers sort of Georgia O'Keefed those Shirt Suit Supremes, didn't they?
Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2024 10:03 PM (WXNFJ)

Those, my friend are Jabots. once the one sartorial item a young man of good culture could not be seen without, any more than he would be found without a snuffbox.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2024 10:17 PM (D7oie)

44 Cicero - I got the filets at Costco, and they were definitely well-marbled (especially for filets). The pan was positively awash with buttery fat. I usually get choice filets, but for just a little bit more they were totally worth it.

Posted by: PabloD at October 11, 2024 10:18 PM (WLkJ+)

45 16 Gemini Astronaut Gordon Cooper said in his autobiography that he had been tasked with setting up a mission to Mars with Dr. von Braun and that he was going to lead the mission.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 11, 2024 10:07 PM
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Dr. von Braun did a lot of thinking about Mars and laid out a plan. Do an interweb search for "Project Mars: A technical tale."

Posted by: TRex at October 11, 2024 10:18 PM (3+mkZ)

46 The Nazis, unlikely made it to Mars, but were hunkered down one way or another in Antarctica for awhile...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 11, 2024 10:19 PM (TGPs7)

47 Gordon Cooper was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.

He was a great guy, but his business sense was very, very poor. He upset a great many people in his home state of Oklahoma. At one point those with long memories may recall seeing those advertisements for improving fuel mileage by putting magnets around the fuel line, things like that. Mr. Cooper lent his name to things like that.

He also was used by unscrupulous types "wearing" his bona fides as an astronaut with respect to UFO phenomenon. For his part, Cooper never claimed to have seen very many UFOs, I think he mentioned one incident in Europe in his book when they were all scrambled one night for something in the post war cold war that was pretty strange.

Another interesting claim in his book, he did talk to some people at Edwards or Rogers dry lake, photography technicians he knew well who said they witnessed something really weird, a UFO land just a few hundred yards from them. They filmed it, and processed the film and Cooper claims he saw that, and said it was consistent with what they described. It was sent off to Washington, he said, and they never heard anything about it ever again.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 11, 2024 10:19 PM (cMU4o)

48 @39 They look great and sound awesome in the Warner Archive blue-ray.

The one caveat is that every story is the same story.

Bad guys decide attacking The Herculoids is a good idea.

Bad guys get hit with mayhem and mostly die.

Sometimes, bad guys come back and say "This time for sure!"

Doesn't end well for them.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 11, 2024 10:20 PM (CHHv1)

49 "Slacks are bonded to 100% Nylon Tricot and have 21" flare bottoms."

Not recommended for use around campfires or other open flames.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:20 PM (JkO4W)

50 49 "Slacks are bonded to 100% Nylon Tricot and have 21" flare bottoms."

Not recommended for use around campfires or other open flames.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:20 PM (JkO4W)

It's shockingly impressive just how flammable the 70s were.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2024 10:21 PM (q7hip)

51 Not recommended for use around campfires or other open flames.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Or straight men.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 11, 2024 10:22 PM (vJiyU)

52 The Nazis have probably been on the Red Planet for decades. Won't Elon be surprised!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Cat Slave at October 11, 2024 10:14 PM (kpS4V)

If we make it to Mars I suspect we will find a lot of surprising things.

Evidence for Large Planetary Climate Altering Thermonuclear Explosions on Mars in the Past

https://tinyurl.com/mryw7zkv

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2024 10:23 PM (D7oie)

53 You do not vote for Kamala.....................

Then you ain't black............You hear me boy !!!!!

Posted by: Tim Walz at October 11, 2024 10:23 PM (VYql4)

54 Posted by: PabloD at October 11, 2024 10:18 PM (WLkJ+)

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I see the Costco ones sometimes. I will give them a try when I have 10 other people coming over for dinner.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:23 PM (JkO4W)

55 It's shockingly impressive just how flammable the 70s were.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2024 10:21 PM (q7hip)

Nylons burns, but it won't (usually) sustain a flame. But it melts into sticky black goo that makes a fair imitation of napalm.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:23 PM (6RYcT)

56 >>> 31
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In that crazypants Nazis In Space book "Dark Fleet", it stated that Von Braun did in fact have a Mars mission drawn up. Heck, he had a book on it...in German.

The Nazis have probably been on the Red Planet for decades. Won't Elon be surprised!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Cat Slave at October 11, 2024 10:14 PM (kpS4V)

Not to worry, he has space lasers.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2024 10:23 PM (FnneF)

57 Nylons burns, but it won't (usually) sustain a flame. But it melts into sticky black goo that makes a fair imitation of napalm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:23 PM (6RYcT)

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That's why they were marketed as "the pants you might never take off."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:25 PM (JkO4W)

58 Right, the VAB has four doors. Huge doors. Take about 5 hours to open or something like that. The plan was to have an assembly line or pipeline of Saturn V rockets in different phases of assembly. They could have launched once or twice a month probably. At least 100 launches were envisioned, maybe 10 or 12 were built.

If you look at the big crawlerway out to 39A, you can see where it doglegs a couple miles out. There were more launchpads going to be built. Lots of heavy lift capability was seen as necessary to put a lot of stuff in earth orbit for staging. The earliest practical window for a crewed Mars mission was around 1985 to 1987 or something like that.

I betcha there would be tourist flights to the Moon by now, if congress hadn't just thrown the entire space exploration program away. I could see it. Maybe not landing, but tourist fly-bys. Maybe a little spendy, but after 60 years like anything else, economies of scale and continual policy of improvement and refinement.

It would be SUPER COOL to zook along the moonscape about 200 feet off the deck going 4000 feet per second or whatever. Can you imagine? Or hover around the old Apollo launch sites, spent booster clusters

Posted by: Common Tater at October 11, 2024 10:26 PM (cMU4o)

59 von Braun had worked up the mission to Mars, pretty much fully in the 30's when he was part of the VfR in Berlin. It pulls from the Homann transfer orbit, and a certain amount of hand waving about inventing technology to meet the mission.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2024 10:27 PM (D7oie)

60 I must have much more than ten thousand posts here, but only one First!! I've never gambled either. Guess I don't like life on the edge.

Posted by: Fair To Middlin' at October 11, 2024 10:28 PM (CV8a5)

61 Nazis on Mars? All dead, pulled into the void by the Sleeper in the Pyramid.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 11, 2024 10:28 PM (/HDaX)

62 "The Media could not be played."

For all the embeds.

Anyone else get that message? I reloaded the page. Nada.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 11, 2024 10:29 PM (Rbu5d)

63 I think that Rambo pic is showing the approach to Hop from the North, near Lake of the Woods. Or else from the West. Big mountain in the background might be Mt. Cheam.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:29 PM (6RYcT)

64 48 @39 They look great and sound awesome in the Warner Archive blue-ray.

The one caveat is that every story is the same story.

Bad guys decide attacking The Herculoids is a good idea.

Bad guys get hit with mayhem and mostly die.

Sometimes, bad guys come back and say "This time for sure!"

Doesn't end well for them.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 11, 2024 10:20 PM (CHHv1)

I don't understand why they were always after his wife. You'd think with space travel, there'd be plenty of girls in the universe...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:29 PM (ynpvh)

65 Damn, that feel good story of the day go me a little dusty.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2024 10:29 PM (mH6SG)

66 51 Not recommended for use around campfires or other open flames.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Or straight men.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 11, 2024 10:22 PM (vJiyU)

That baseball player might like them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:30 PM (ynpvh)

67 There was a serious film about von Braun in the 1960s called I Aim For The Stars.

Some 60's comedian added the subtitle, "But Sometimes I Hit London."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:30 PM (JkO4W)

68 7 Nylons burns, but it won't (usually) sustain a flame. But it melts into sticky black goo that makes a fair imitation of napalm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

So, Jack Cassidy Specials then.

Posted by: Pants On Fire at October 11, 2024 10:30 PM (CV8a5)

69
Any comment of mine is a First.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2024 10:30 PM (BkEzK)

70 got

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2024 10:30 PM (mH6SG)

71 69
Any comment of mine is a First.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2024 10:30 PM (BkEzK)

And here I woulda thought 7th...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:31 PM (ynpvh)

72 I think I need to replace my keyboard.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2024 10:31 PM (mH6SG)

73 It's shockingly impressive just how flammable the 70s were.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2024 10:21 PM (q7hip)
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Between the triple knit leisure suits, the Brut aftershave, and napalm, I'm surprised the planet isn't a smoking cinder.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Cat Slave at October 11, 2024 10:31 PM (kpS4V)

74 Italian woman beats us purse stealing migrant. Also, bonus points for wearing a very short dress...

http://tiny.cc/cl0qzz

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 11, 2024 10:32 PM (TGPs7)

75 When the closed Camp Adair after the war, they sold off the base housing which was either disassembled for wood and nails (there were shortages, natch) or were put on trucks or barges and shipped up and down the valley for housing (which there was a shortage for)
They are still around, I lived in one that was cut into a duplex for too long, and there are others around and about.
Dad had a friend who grew up her, as a kid he used to straighten out nails for resale as his dad tore apart the base housing for the lumber and plumbing.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2024 10:32 PM (D7oie)

76 72 I think I need to replace my keyboard.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2024 10:31 PM (mH6SG)

mine has lost almost all the text on A, S, C, and L for some reason...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:33 PM (ynpvh)

77 Not to worry, he has space lasers.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2024 10:23 PM (FnneF)
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JEWISH space lasers!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Cat Slave at October 11, 2024 10:33 PM (kpS4V)

78 I saw something very similiar to the rope drill rig on Mythbusters for one of their superhero episodes. Jamie designed it for his grappling hook. I swear, that guy was born in a machine shop.

Posted by: pookysgirl has too much Mythbusting knowledge at October 11, 2024 10:33 PM (dtlDP)

79 It's shockingly impressive just how flammable the 70s were.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

How else would your Rayon sleeves melt onto you when some lovely coed discoed right into your arm with her cigarette?

I can still smell those places: Beer, sweat, weed, girls, cheap perfume and hair products. Wow - what a night!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2024 10:33 PM (WXNFJ)

80 I can still smell those places: Beer, sweat, weed, girls, cheap perfume and hair products. Wow - what a night!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2024 10:33 PM (WXNFJ)

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Don't stop believing!

Posted by: Journey at October 11, 2024 10:35 PM (JkO4W)

81 What about the hundred thousand dollar bar?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2024 10:35 PM (63Dwl)

82 Fun fact: you can burn Wildroot Cream Oil in a kerosene heater. Makes your trailer smell like an old timey barber shop.

Posted by: Two Birds at October 11, 2024 10:36 PM (CV8a5)

83 11
'I have The Herculoids on my side'

I had them on my rear end but they went away with a change in diet.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 11, 2024 10:37 PM (3wi/L)

84 81 What about the hundred thousand dollar bar?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2024 10:35 PM (63Dwl)

Inflation ruined it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2024 10:37 PM (q7hip)

85 81 What about the hundred thousand dollar bar?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2024 10:35 PM (63Dwl)

Is that used on showers on a submarine?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:37 PM (ynpvh)

86 83 11
'I have The Herculoids on my side'

I had them on my rear end but they went away with a change in diet.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 11, 2024 10:37 PM (3wi/L)

Sounds like a ring of fire...

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Cash at October 11, 2024 10:38 PM (ynpvh)

87 Basically the world discovered plastics in the 70s and the race was on to make everything out of plastic they could.

Carpet. Clothes. Cars. Appliances. Everything.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2024 10:38 PM (q7hip)

88 37 The best candy in that list is KitKat. Followed by Twix.

That's only because the Midnight Dark Milky Way is not on the list.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (0Htd1)

89 Fun fact: you can burn Wildroot Cream Oil in a kerosene heater. Makes your trailer smell like an old timey barber shop.
Posted by: Two Birds at October 11, 2024 10:36 PM (CV8a5)

L'il Abner's favorite comic-strip hero cop, Fearless Fosdick, was a big promoter of Wildroot Cream Oil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (6RYcT)

90 How about everyone else whose had some firsts - how did you typically become FIRST?

Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2024 10:10 PM (aBgBM)

I've made Ace laugh twice. Once was a Moby Dick reference and the other was a dehydration and DnD joke.

Posted by: pookysgirl tries to keep it lighthearted at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (dtlDP)

91 87 Basically the world discovered plastics in the 70s and the race was on to make everything out of plastic they could.

Carpet. Clothes. Cars. Appliances. Everything.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2024 10:38 PM (q7hip)

Boobs...oh, that was silicone. NVM.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (ynpvh)

92 88 37 The best candy in that list is KitKat. Followed by Twix.

That's only because the Midnight Dark Milky Way is not on the list.
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (0Htd1

Heresy.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2024 10:40 PM (q7hip)

93 90 How about everyone else whose had some firsts - how did you typically become FIRST?

Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2024 10:10 PM (aBgBM)

I've made Ace laugh twice. Once was a Moby Dick reference and the other was a dehydration and DnD joke.

Posted by: pookysgirl tries to keep it lighthearted at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (dtlDP)

Accidentally. Check the latest thread on the post, do some reading, then find out I was first to comment. YMMV

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:40 PM (ynpvh)

94 92 88 37 The best candy in that list is KitKat. Followed by Twix.

That's only because the Midnight Dark Milky Way is not on the list.
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (0Htd1

Heresy.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2024 10:40 PM (q7hip)

Never had a Heresy bar. Is it any good?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:41 PM (ynpvh)

95 Boobs...oh, that was silicone. NVM.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (ynpvh)

Silicone is plastic. There are many, many kinds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:41 PM (6RYcT)

96 Brian Dennehy sightin in top pic. Excellent ONT, WD.

Posted by: scampydog at October 11, 2024 10:41 PM (41CYW)

97 >>> 88 37 The best candy in that list is KitKat. Followed by Twix.

That's only because the Midnight Dark Milky Way is not on the list.
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (0Htd1)

nerdygirl Johnson is right!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 11, 2024 10:41 PM (FnneF)

98 94 92 88 37 The best candy in that list is KitKat. Followed by Twix.

That's only because the Midnight Dark Milky Way is not on the list.
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (0Htd1

Heresy.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2024 10:40 PM (q7hip)

Never had a Heresy bar. Is it any good?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:41 PM (ynpvh

It's to die for.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2024 10:42 PM (q7hip)

99 L'il Abner's favorite comic-strip hero cop, Fearless Fosdick, was a big promoter of Wildroot Cream Oil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (6RYcT)

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Dapper Dan's is the only brand I'll use.

Posted by: Ulysses Everett McGill at October 11, 2024 10:42 PM (JkO4W)

100 Snickers, Heath. (M&M peanuts, but they're missing in action)

Posted by: Some Rat at October 11, 2024 10:42 PM (vJiyU)

101 Italian woman beats us purse stealing migrant. Also, bonus points for wearing a very short dress...

http://tiny.cc/cl0qzz
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 11, 2024 10:32 PM (TGPs7)

That's hot.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at October 11, 2024 10:42 PM (ufFY8)

102 74 Italian woman beats us purse stealing migrant. Also, bonus points for wearing a very short dress...

http://tiny.cc/cl0qzz
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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She's got legs and she knows how to use them.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 11, 2024 10:42 PM (wSFOB)

103 All these worlds are yours except Mars. Attempt no landings there.

Posted by: Marvin the Martian at October 11, 2024 10:43 PM (IDphi)

104 95 Boobs...oh, that was silicone. NVM.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (ynpvh)

Silicone is plastic. There are many, many kinds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:41 PM (6RYcT)

Intertubes say Silicone is a repeating chain of Siloxanes, basically Silicon and Oxygen.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:43 PM (ynpvh)

105 104 95 Boobs...oh, that was silicone. NVM.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:39 PM (ynpvh)

Silicone is plastic. There are many, many kinds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:41 PM (6RYcT)

Intertubes say Silicone is a repeating chain of Siloxanes, basically Silicon and Oxygen.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:43 PM (ynpvh)

With some organics in it

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:43 PM (ynpvh)

106 Italian woman beats us purse stealing migrant. Also, bonus points for wearing a very short dress...

http://tiny.cc/cl0qzz
Posted by: Mister Ghost

That's HOT!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 11, 2024 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)

107 Not recommended for use around campfires or other open flames.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:20 PM (JkO4W)
It's shockingly impressive just how flammable the 70s were.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

In the seventies I had a polyester blouse which I laid on a radiator because it was slightly damp. It melted like plastic.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 11, 2024 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

108 I've stumbled into all my firsts.
I don't try.

Posted by: Reforger at October 11, 2024 10:44 PM (xcIvR)

109 Snickers.
Then Milky Way.

KitKat sucks.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 11, 2024 10:44 PM (ufFY8)

110 107 Not recommended for use around campfires or other open flames.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:20 PM (JkO4W)
It's shockingly impressive just how flammable the 70s were.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

In the seventies I had a polyester blouse which I laid on a radiator because it was slightly damp. It melted like plastic.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 11, 2024 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

It was being true to its nature.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:44 PM (ynpvh)

111 109 Snickers.
Then Milky Way.

KitKat sucks.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 11, 2024 10:44 PM (ufFY

Avoid Kamala Joy then.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:45 PM (ynpvh)

112 74 Italian woman beats us purse stealing migrant. Also, bonus points for wearing a very short dress...

http://tiny.cc/cl0qzz
Posted by: Mister Ghost

Are you sure that's a woman?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2024 10:45 PM (EweRc)

113 ::: off to grab an Apple Fritter :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:45 PM (ynpvh)

114 It was being true to its nature.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:44 PM (ynpvh)

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Thanks Aristotle.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:45 PM (JkO4W)

115 Wildroot Cream Oil was a major sponsor of Perry Mason around 60-62.

Posted by: Hamilton Burger at October 11, 2024 10:45 PM (CV8a5)

116 That's a spicy meat a ball.

Posted by: Archer at October 11, 2024 10:46 PM (IDphi)

117 If I had to guess I’d say 90% of the US population doesn’t know that the Soviet Union attacked Poland at about the same time as Nazi Germany.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 10:46 PM (D6PGr)

118 88/
Oh, the midnight dark Milky Way was the best!

Posted by: Grateful at October 11, 2024 10:46 PM (3+mkZ)

119 86 83

'Sounds like a ring of fire...'

And it burns, burns, burns...

Posted by: The ring of fire at October 11, 2024 10:46 PM (3wi/L)

120 Are you sure that's a woman?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2024 10:45 PM (EweRc)

She is solid.

I wanted to see her kick the dipshit's ass some more. I was half hoping he would get hit in traffic.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 11, 2024 10:47 PM (ufFY8)

121 IIRC , Galaxy is the Greek word for Milky.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 10:47 PM (D6PGr)

122 Are you sure that's a woman?
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Nice rump for a guy.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 11, 2024 10:47 PM (wSFOB)

123 108 I've stumbled into all my firsts.
I don't try.
Posted by: Reforger at October 11, 2024 10:44 PM (xcIvR)

Think the 'first'. Be the first.

Nananananana. Nanananana.

Kind of works like that. Or randomly. That works too.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 11, 2024 10:47 PM (q9BQ1)

124 112 74 Italian woman beats us purse stealing migrant. Also, bonus points for wearing a very short dress...

http://tiny.cc/cl0qzz
Posted by: Mister Ghost

Are you sure that's a woman?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2024 10:45 PM (EweRc)

Well she had balls taking on the thief...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:47 PM (ynpvh)

125 117 If I had to guess I’d say 90% of the US population doesn’t know that the Soviet Union attacked Poland at about the same time as Nazi Germany.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 10:46 PM (D6PGr)

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That's a sucker bet. 90% of the US population has never heard of Poland, the Soviet Union or WWII.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:48 PM (JkO4W)

126 Turtles are my favorite and obviously gets the name from its appearance.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 10:48 PM (D6PGr)

127 120 Are you sure that's a woman?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2024 10:45 PM (EweRc)

She is solid.

I wanted to see her kick the dipshit's ass some more. I was half hoping he would get hit in traffic.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 11, 2024 10:47 PM (ufFY

Same here.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

128 I once had the first, second, third, fourth ... to about the 15th. I happened on a post that had gone live then withdrawn and I was the only one there. I just kept on counting coup. When it went live again my comments were all there. It was epic.

I have been on the wall of shame a few times, too, but quite a while ago. I have not been commenting much in recent years but still am lurking fairly regularly in case anyone cares.

Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 10:49 PM (QjbX7)

129 Traffic doesn't stop, photographer doesn't stop, guy on scooter doesn't stop; no one helps. It's an you're on you're on world.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 11, 2024 10:49 PM (wSFOB)

130 126 Turtles are my favorite and obviously gets the name from its appearance.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 10:48 PM (D6PGr)

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FUN FACT: The company almost went out of business with the original name: The Mitch.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:50 PM (JkO4W)

131 L'il Abner's favorite comic-strip hero cop, Fearless Fosdick, was a big promoter of Wildroot Cream Oil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I miss Al Capp. He did a series of cartoons where he viciously mocked Joan Baez.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 11, 2024 10:50 PM (0Htd1)

132 FUN FACT: The company almost went out of business with the original name: The Mitch.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:50 PM (JkO4W)

And their advertising:

.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 11, 2024 10:50 PM (ufFY8)

133 I remember the cheap knock-off Greasy Kid's Stuff!

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at October 11, 2024 10:50 PM (iNp3L)

134 129 Traffic doesn't stop, photographer doesn't stop, guy on scooter doesn't stop; no one helps. It's an you're on you're on world.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 11, 2024 10:49 PM (wSFOB)

in some corners of the world, attacking the thief would result in a larger fine and jail time than being a thief...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:50 PM (ynpvh)

135 The Italian woman? Is definitely mma trained.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 10:51 PM (D6PGr)

136
If I had to guess I’d say 90% of the US population doesn’t know that the Soviet Union attacked Poland at about the same time as Nazi Germany.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 10:46 PM (D6PGr)

__________

99.9% don't know that the CPUSA backed the Soviet Union doing it. Or that they spent the next two years opposing the US from doing anything to help the UK.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 11, 2024 10:51 PM (BkEzK)

137 I like Mounds; Almond Joy has nuts.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:51 PM (ynpvh)

138 Democrats panic in swing states! Start running attack ads against green party candidate Jill Stein which will remind voters they don't have to vote for Kamala. Muslim voters in Az, Mi, Pa. and Wi. have Jill Stein as their most likely to vote for.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at October 11, 2024 10:52 PM (YCSG0)

139 Italian woman beats us purse stealing migrant. Also, bonus points for wearing a very short dress...
http://tiny.cc/cl0qzz
Posted by: Mister Ghost

(Best Austin Powers voice) "That's a man, baby!"

Seriously, it looks to me that Mr. Migrant tried to steal a transvestite's purse, and got a big surprise.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 11, 2024 10:52 PM (gm511)

140 135 The Italian woman? Is definitely mma trained.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 10:51 PM (D6PGr)

Indeed. Looked like she relished the opportunity to use her training on a real life perp.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 11, 2024 10:52 PM (q9BQ1)

141 JEWISH space lasers!
Posted by: All Hail Eris

None with the tips I would wager.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2024 10:53 PM (WXNFJ)

142 Muslim voters in Az, Mi, Pa. and Wi. have Jill Stein as their most likely to vote for.
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at October 11, 2024 10:52 PM (YCSG0)

Stein will come.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 11, 2024 10:53 PM (ufFY8)

143 139 Italian woman beats us purse stealing migrant. Also, bonus points for wearing a very short dress...
http://tiny.cc/cl0qzz
Posted by: Mister Ghost

(Best Austin Powers voice) "That's a man, baby!"

Seriously, it looks to me that Mr. Migrant tried to steal a transvestite's purse, and got a big surprise.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 11, 2024 10:52 PM (gm511)

If this had happened out in the country, the girl would've shot him, put him in the freezer, and make it to the hospital in time to give birth...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:53 PM (ynpvh)

144 Hi Ruthless! Still in Moab? and the best candy 'bar' is the Nut Goodie.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at October 11, 2024 10:53 PM (iNp3L)

145 Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 10:49 PM (QjbX7)

I would think Regulars are not forgotten. I think it’s like leaving a job where you had a lot of work friends. You may never see or hear from them again but never forgotten.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 10:54 PM (D6PGr)

146 142 Muslim voters in Az, Mi, Pa. and Wi. have Jill Stein as their most likely to vote for.
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at October 11, 2024 10:52 PM (YCSG0)

Stein will come.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 11, 2024 10:53 PM (ufFY

Hmmm. States are a secret Muzzie message?
AZ MI PA and WI...
sounds perverse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:54 PM (ynpvh)

147 Flaming seed will do a number on a polyester shirt. Glad there's no more seeds.

Posted by: Mr. Natural at October 11, 2024 10:54 PM (CV8a5)

148 I like bay rum, but I started using it because my girlfriend at the time didn't want me wearing Old Spice, since that was what her dad used to wear.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2024 10:54 PM (D7oie)

149 57 Nylons burns, but it won't (usually) sustain a flame. But it melts into sticky black goo that makes a fair imitation of napalm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:23 PM (6RYcT)

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That's why they were marketed as "the pants you might never take off."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:25 PM (JkO4W)

IIRC, standard Royal Navy duty uniforms at the time of the Falklands War were partly or all nylon or another polyester fabric. The RN rapidly changed to natural fiber duty uniforms after news of burns on sailors from melted uniforms on HMS Sheffield and other ships hit by the Argies.

Posted by: Harris and Walz at October 11, 2024 10:54 PM (aBgBM)

150 Hi free tibet, yes still here in Moab. Keeping busy as an Uber driver. Was planning to make the TxMoMe again this year, but ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 10:55 PM (QjbX7)

151 arrrgh - off harris and walz sock!

Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2024 10:55 PM (aBgBM)

152 in some corners of the world, attacking the thief would result in a larger fine and jail time than being a thief...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:50 PM (ynpvh)

I'm living in one of those corners, NYC. To whit, Daniel Penny.

Posted by: RickZ at October 11, 2024 10:55 PM (gKDq2)

153 99.9% don't know that the CPUSA backed the Soviet Union doing it. Or that they spent the next two years opposing the US from doing anything to help the UK.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The American Bund rooting on the Germans.

People wonder why the conspiracy about FDR letting Japan attack Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 11, 2024 10:56 PM (/lPRQ)

154 Transvestite who dare wear short skirt in public, show lot of balls.

-- The wit and Wisdom of Confucius, ca. 550 BC

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:56 PM (JkO4W)

155 149 57 Nylons burns, but it won't (usually) sustain a flame. But it melts into sticky black goo that makes a fair imitation of napalm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:23 PM (6RYcT)

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That's why they were marketed as "the pants you might never take off."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 10:25 PM (JkO4W)

IIRC, standard Royal Navy duty uniforms at the time of the Falklands War were partly or all nylon or another polyester fabric. The RN rapidly changed to natural fiber duty uniforms after news of burns on sailors from melted uniforms on HMS Sheffield and other ships hit by the Argies.

Posted by: Harris and Walz at October 11, 2024 10:54 PM (aBgBM)

Yeah, I've been warned that if I was to work on a Naval site It'd be best to wear all natural fiber clothing, as in a fire the synthetics melt into your skin...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:56 PM (ynpvh)

156 Well, today, I decided it was time to move my tractor, after having recharged its battery a couple of days ago. Then I thought, "Hey, it's a nice day. Might as well replace the dead generator with an alternator." So I did. Out came the dead Lucas generator, and its associated regulator. Cut a bit off the long bushing on the bracket, and it fit an old Prestolite alternator off a '63 Studebaker just perfectly, and the belt lined up. Replace the belt tension brace, too. Fit in the Prestolite single-unit regulator, and found a wire in the harness that came hot with the ignition on, wire it all up. Gave the Diesel engine a whiff of starting fluid (because glow plugs are bad), and zoom-zoom, it started right up. And the ammeter showed 15 amps, dropping off as the battery regained the charge used in cranking. Just.Like.Downtown.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 10:57 PM (6RYcT)

157 152 in some corners of the world, attacking the thief would result in a larger fine and jail time than being a thief...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:50 PM (ynpvh)

I'm living in one of those corners, NYC. To whit, Daniel Penny.

Posted by: RickZ at October 11, 2024 10:55 PM (gKDq2)

So do I.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:57 PM (ynpvh)

158 like bay rum, but I started using it because my girlfriend at the time didn't want me wearing Old Spice, since that was what her dad used to wear.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2024 10:54 PM (D7oie)

I keep a bottle of Old Spice just to smell it occasionally to remind me of my Dad.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 10:57 PM (D6PGr)

159 My ballot is printed with the Independent American Party candidate as a Democrap for the House race in N. Nevada
Amodei has no actual dem running against him. I don't think they have bothered to run one in about 4 cycles but this is going to be funny. I think Carson City is the only place it happened.
IAP is pretty hardcore right.

Posted by: Reforger at October 11, 2024 10:58 PM (xcIvR)

160 153

or the Finns.

Posted by: mnw at October 11, 2024 10:58 PM (NLIak)

161 158 like bay rum, but I started using it because my girlfriend at the time didn't want me wearing Old Spice, since that was what her dad used to wear.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2024 10:54 PM (D7oie)

I keep a bottle of Old Spice just to smell it occasionally to remind me of my Dad.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 10:57 PM (D6PGr)

I have a bottle of my wife's perfume. I keep it around...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:59 PM (ynpvh)

162 They make fire blankets. I assume they don’t make clothes or uniforms out of that material because it doesn’t ‘breath’.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 10:59 PM (D6PGr)

163 IIRC, standard Royal Navy duty uniforms at the time of the Falklands War were partly or all nylon or another polyester fabric. The RN rapidly changed to natural fiber duty uniforms after news of burns on sailors from melted uniforms on HMS Sheffield and other ships hit by the Argies.
Posted by: Harris and Walz

From the Navy Times - "The Navy’s quest for a flame-retardant uniform like the 2POC started in 2012, when a report from the Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility in Natick, Massachusetts, found that the Type I Navy Working Uniform, known as “blueberries,” would “burn robustly until completely consumed” when exposed to an open flame."

Whomever okayed the blueberries should have been keelhauled.

Twice.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2024 10:59 PM (WXNFJ)

164 Turtles losing to a bunch of Chicago burb nerds.

Northwestern 24 Maryland 10. 4th Quarter.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2024 10:59 PM (EweRc)

165 160 153

or the Finns.

Posted by: mnw at October 11, 2024 10:58 PM (NLIak)

They sure were the Russian's Huckleberry.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 11:00 PM (ynpvh)

166 Even though I live in a red state, I mailed in my ballot yesterday. I did not vote for Cameltoe-Wallz or whoever.

Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 11:00 PM (QjbX7)

167 Moab is gorgeous country. Still taking pictures, I hope.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at October 11, 2024 11:00 PM (iNp3L)

168 Not really doing much photography but am writing. Just published a book on the paranormal titled The Psi Connection (available on Amazon) and am launching am eZine on the subject. Have a new novel to get published, too.

Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 11:02 PM (QjbX7)

169 IIRC, standard Royal Navy duty uniforms at the time of the Falklands War were partly or all nylon or another polyester fabric. The RN rapidly changed to natural fiber duty uniforms after news of burns on sailors from melted uniforms on HMS Sheffield and other ships hit by the Argies.
Posted by: Harris and Walz at October 11, 2024 10:54 PM (aBgBM)

I think you might be mistaken. The British sailors wear covers on their faces to prevent flash burns. One would think an organization that had that figured out wouldn't have plastic uniforms.
The USN on the other hand, back in the 70s, had cotton uniforms for the enlisted, and poly uniforms for officers.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 11, 2024 11:02 PM (gm511)

170 Evening.

Happy Yom Kippur.

Today has been a really bizarre day insofar as election campaign news goes.

As for the content...

I wanna watch a video with a dog and a duck playing where the dog just suddenly grabs the duck's neck and just murderates the duck out of it. Cuz it was happy, ya see.

Posted by: Robert at October 11, 2024 11:02 PM (NdMaW)

171 Re: The Suits of 1972.

Who designed those, Georgia O'Keefe?

Posted by: Robert at October 11, 2024 11:03 PM (NdMaW)

172 87 Basically the world discovered plastics in the 70s and the race was on to make everything out of plastic they could.

Carpet. Clothes. Cars. Appliances. Everything.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2024 10:38 PM (q7hip)

Double-knit polyester was the king of clothing fabric for a while in the Seventies. One problem with it was you could get 'runs' in it just like with women's nylon stockings. I had several double-knit polo shirts and pants with runs that I had to keep wearing because I couldn't afford many new clothes back in my college days.

Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2024 11:03 PM (aBgBM)

173 From the Navy Times - "The Navy’s quest for a flame-retardant uniform like the 2POC started in 2012, when a report from the Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility in Natick, Massachusetts, found that the Type I Navy Working Uniform, known as “blueberries,” would “burn robustly until completely consumed” when exposed to an open flame."

Whomever okayed the blueberries should have been keelhauled.

Twice.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2024 10:59 PM (WXNFJ)

Fire-resistant clothing has been mandatory in the oil patch for years. Nomex, Pro-ban, and other acceptable brands are out there. No reason naval uniforms could not be made of it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 11:03 PM (6RYcT)

174 As for the baking thing...

It checks out.

Posted by: Robert at October 11, 2024 11:04 PM (NdMaW)

175 WW11 in Europe didn't start when the Nazis invaded Poland.
WW11 in Europe started when the Nazis from Germany and the Communist from The Soviet Union invaded Poland.

The Katyn Massacre: When The USSR Purged 22,000 Polish Men — Then Blamed The Nazis
When your Communists are worse the your Nazis.

Posted by: DAN at October 11, 2024 11:04 PM (BJziQ)

176 What no one tells you about the London fence dealio is what happned to the old fences. Well, they got all the iron fences, put them on a barge and remembered that they had plenty of iron capacity in the country as well as supplies from USA so turning that mixed shit iron into steel for the war was gonna be harder and a waste of time. So they dumped them in the Atlantic.

Go government! and their stupid fucking make work recycle and for the community bullshit projects.

(or so I heard)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at October 11, 2024 11:06 PM (85OIw)

177 I read that the Katyn Forest massacre was more like 50,000 men. An entire baseball stadium full of murder victims.

It made for an awkward situation for the Yanks and the Brits when their so-called ally was complicit in a massacre larger than Babi Yar.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 11:07 PM (JkO4W)

178 I read an article in the Moab Times, they are re-instituting local property tax. I bet that is super popular with the townsfolk. Rescinded about 1995 or something like that. Covid lockdowns put the whammy on city finances?

I am old enough to remember smoking cigarettes in the Moab diner. A fine establishment that is no longer extant, I reckon. Lin Ottinger's rock shop is still around, though I doubt Lin would be.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 11, 2024 11:09 PM (cMU4o)

179 On my most evil ranking I have Communists just edging out Nazis. Longevity and total murdered gives them the win.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 11:09 PM (D6PGr)

180 Turtles losing to a bunch of Chicago burb nerds.

Northwestern 24 Maryland 10. 4th Quarter.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2024 10:59 PM (EweRc)

I was watching that game at my in-laws (relatives were in town and hadn't seen Lil Pooky yet) and none of us could figure out why any university would choose a turtle for a mascot.

Posted by: pookysgirl's daighter goes turtle speed most mornings at October 11, 2024 11:10 PM (dtlDP)

181 Tim Walz could wear one of those shirt suits and no questions asked.

Posted by: Paco at October 11, 2024 11:11 PM (njExo)

182 I was watching that game at my in-laws (relatives were in town and hadn't seen Lil Pooky yet) and none of us could figure out why any university would choose a turtle for a mascot.
Posted by: pookysgirl's daighter goes turtle speed most mornings at October 11, 2024 11:10 PM (dtlDP)

Maybe they are hoping the alumni will shell out for a better one.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 11:11 PM (6RYcT)

183 Plan for tomorrow: read the coffee and prayer thread. And check out the H2 meme thread. Then go on a day trip with my bride. I love Saturday.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 11, 2024 11:11 PM (Ad8y9)

184 the Bund was a silly little group of no political consequence.

Now... America First was the other thing. A political King Kong that could and did hold its own against FDR, prior to Pearl Harbor.

Even historically literate Americans (a small subset indeed) have barely heard of America First. Think of Charles A. Lindbergh, addressing a big rally in Indianapolis, broadcast live, speaking to a vast audience about "Jewish bankers."

Now THAT was an interesting cultural phenomenon!

song: "America First, last, and always!..."

Posted by: mnw at October 11, 2024 11:11 PM (NLIak)

185 I was watching that game at my in-laws (relatives were in town and hadn't seen Lil Pooky yet) and none of us could figure out why any university would choose a turtle for a mascot.
Posted by: pookysgirl's daighter goes turtle speed most mornings at October 11, 2024 11:10 PM (dtlDP)

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Pfft.

Posted by: The U. Of California Banana Slugs at October 11, 2024 11:11 PM (JkO4W)

186 BC. Herculoids you say?

https://tinyurl.com/35ry6h2b

https://tinyurl.com/zsuztup2

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2024 11:12 PM (0eaVi)

187 Spent half a day in a lift moving shipping containers around, loading/loading trucks. Fun change of pace a few times a year.

Posted by: scampydog at October 11, 2024 11:12 PM (41CYW)

188 Moab Diner is going strong, and so in the rock shop.

Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 11:13 PM (QjbX7)

189 Sadly, Old Spice cheaped out on their ingredients. I bet a lot of perfumes are like that too. Expensive. Just kind of a "derivative" odor. Sorta kinda smells like the original, though not enough to get a passing grade.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 11, 2024 11:13 PM (cMU4o)

190 none of us could figure out why any university would choose a turtle for a mascot.
Posted by: pookysgirl's daighter goes turtle speed most mornings

Ducks.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 11, 2024 11:13 PM (vJiyU)

191 I was watching that game at my in-laws (relatives were in town and hadn't seen Lil Pooky yet) and none of us could figure out why any university would choose a turtle for a mascot.

DO NOT talk shit about Mitch McConnell on AOS HQ!

Posted by: DAN at October 11, 2024 11:14 PM (BJziQ)

192 I'm about to hop in the shower.

First, a question for the Horde.

I'm a free market loving libertarian, so I don't begrudge the wealthy their riches. I have, however, started to reconsider their kids.

So which would be better? Mandatory sterilizations for the rich or mandatory sterilizations for their kids?

Posted by: Robert at October 11, 2024 11:14 PM (NdMaW)

193 Re: The Suits of 1972.

Who designed those, Georgia O'Keefe?
Posted by: Robert

Beat you to it at #8.

Great minds and all that. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2024 11:14 PM (WXNFJ)

194 The Katyn Massacre: When The USSR Purged 22,000 Polish Men — Then Blamed The Nazis
When your Communists are worse the your Nazis.

Posted by: DAN at October 11, 2024 11:04 PM (BJziQ)

Or the Red Army staying back while The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising happened. The Soviets figured the Nazis would kill a bunch of Jews/Poles for them, so let the Nazis go to town.

Posted by: RickZ at October 11, 2024 11:14 PM (gKDq2)

195 Robert, how about the power of "and"?

Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 11:15 PM (QjbX7)

196 How about everyone else whose had some firsts - how did you typically become FIRST? Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2024 10:10 PM (aBgBM)

Same as you Gref, generally by accident, and I've screwed myself on occasion by stopping to read the content.

By the way, excellent content tonight, WeirdDave.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 11, 2024 11:15 PM (r5tfK)

197 Pfft.

Posted by: The U. Of California Banana Slugs at October 11, 2024 11:11 PM (JkO4W)

That got mentioned too!

Posted by: pookysgirl at October 11, 2024 11:16 PM (dtlDP)

198 I have the benefit of hindsight on what we should have done with the Soviet Union but Patton didn’t and he was 100% correct. Such a convenient car accident .

At the minimum we shouldn’t have agreed to any of Stalin’s demands . We had the leverage of having at least 2 ready to go and 5 atomic bombs within 6-12 months.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 11:16 PM (D6PGr)

199 Howdy Hordelings! Very nice ONT, Weird Dave!

Posted by: Doof at October 11, 2024 11:16 PM (RFPHU)

200 I was watching the College Park Fighting Turtles vs Northwestern

I think MD's special teams coach is gonna get an ass-chewing

also who drives the ball 98 yards and settles for a FG

Posted by: Don Black at October 11, 2024 11:16 PM (/7KEl)

201 Looked up the site for the "how candies got their names" graphic, since I can't read it here.

https://www.etymologynerd.com/infographics.html

Aaargh! Thermonuclear Time Suck!

Posted by: MartynW at October 11, 2024 11:16 PM (+W6G0)

202 Robert

Guess you liked the new stuff at Tensor?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2024 11:17 PM (8qzun)

203 none of us could figure out why any university would choose a turtle for a mascot.
Posted by: pookysgirl's daighter goes turtle speed most mornings

Ducks.
Posted by: Some Rat

Beavers.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2024 11:17 PM (WXNFJ)

204 also who drives the ball 98 yards and settles for a FG
Posted by: Don Black

Seahawks?

Posted by: Some Rat at October 11, 2024 11:18 PM (vJiyU)

205 NU Wildcats! Yes! Willie the Wildcat gets it done!

Posted by: mnw at October 11, 2024 11:18 PM (NLIak)

206 I was watching that game at my in-laws (relatives were in town and hadn't seen Lil Pooky yet) and none of us could figure out why any university would choose a turtle for a mascot.
Posted by: pookysgirl's daighter goes turtle speed most mornings at October 11, 2024 11:10 PM (dtlDP)

That's because they aren't turtles. They're edjumicated. They're terrapins. Named after The Grateful Dead album.

Posted by: RickZ at October 11, 2024 11:18 PM (gKDq2)

207 Ruthless, been a while, I trust you are doing well?

Posted by: Braenyard at October 11, 2024 11:18 PM (wSFOB)

208 Posted by: mnw at October 11, 2024 11:11 PM (NLIak)

To be fair, Lindbergh came around when war was imminent.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 11:18 PM (D6PGr)

209 farmer's fences made of old steel GI bedframes with the bed springs still in them.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Read that someone uses a steel bedframe in his attic as a radio antenna. Owner said it worked well.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2024 11:19 PM (DSRy7)

210 Or the Red Army staying back while The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising happened. The Soviets figured the Nazis would kill a bunch of Jews/Poles for them, so let the Nazis go to town.
Posted by: RickZ at October 11, 2024 11:14 PM (gKDq2)

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I think the Russians were legitimately stretched thin and needed to regroup and refit after a long drive westward, but Stalin had no problem watching the Polish Home Army get fed into the wood chipper while his army rested.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 11:19 PM (JkO4W)

211 Braenyard, I am doing well for an old fart. I will be, um, 84 next month and still going strong. Had a heard valve replaced this summer so I am good for another decade or two.

Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 11:19 PM (QjbX7)

212 Baseball was fun to play when I was a kid.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at October 11, 2024 11:19 PM (aJmEH)

213 Dune University’s mascot is the Desert Mouse.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 11:20 PM (D6PGr)

214 Stupid fingers, heart valve.

Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 11:20 PM (QjbX7)

215 Guess you liked the new stuff at Tensor?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2024 11:17 PM (8qzun)

I showed that link from last night to Pooky since I thought he might like the style, and he's certain some of those have popped up as art for Nightcore videos.

Posted by: pookysgirl can't listen to certain songs at regular speed anymore at October 11, 2024 11:21 PM (dtlDP)

216 >>>So which would be better? Mandatory sterilizations for the rich or mandatory sterilizations for their kids?
Posted by: Robert
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What kind of libertarian did you say you are?

Posted by: Braenyard at October 11, 2024 11:21 PM (wSFOB)

217 Good night, Hordelings. It's been a long week, and I have a busy Saturday ahead of me. Prayers for any Morons who are dealing with the aftermath of the hurricanes.

Posted by: PabloD at October 11, 2024 11:22 PM (WLkJ+)

218 208 Cats/Rockets

I didn't say ANYTHING fair, unfair, or neutral, about Lindbergh. Nothing.

There's a truly great bio of Lindbergh by Scott Berg.

Posted by: mnw at October 11, 2024 11:23 PM (NLIak)

219 If it can draw its head and limbs back inside the shell and close the doors, it's a turtle

the rest are terrapins
Unless I'm Wrong™️

Posted by: Don Black at October 11, 2024 11:24 PM (/7KEl)

220 Posted by: mnw at October 11, 2024 11:23 PM (NLIak)

You certainly did.

Even historically literate Americans (a small subset indeed) have barely heard of America First. Think of Charles A. Lindbergh, addressing a big rally in Indianapolis, broadcast live, speaking to a vast audience about "Jewish bankers."

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 11:25 PM (D6PGr)

221 Pookys Girl

Nightcore? I was getting more of a Michael Whelan feel off the wolf girl in yoga pose.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2024 11:25 PM (8qzun)

222 Braenyard, I am doing well for an old fart. I will be, um, 84 next month and still going strong. Had a heard valve replaced this summer so I am good for another decade or two.

Good to hear. Keep on truckin'!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2024 11:25 PM (mH6SG)

223 157 152 in some corners of the world, attacking the thief would result in a larger fine and jail time than being a thief...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 11, 2024 10:50 PM (ynpvh)

I'm living in one of those corners, NYC. To whit, Daniel Penny.
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Unless the owner belongs to the Albanian mob.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 11, 2024 11:25 PM (wSFOB)

224 >>> 180 Turtles losing to a bunch of Chicago burb nerds.

Northwestern 24 Maryland 10. 4th Quarter.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2024 10:59 PM (EweRc)

I was watching that game at my in-laws (relatives were in town and hadn't seen Lil Pooky yet) and none of us could figure out why any university would choose a turtle for a mascot.
Posted by: pookysgirl's daighter goes turtle speed most mornings at October 11, 2024 11:10 PM (dtlDP)

Yeah, turtles suck!

Posted by: banana slugs at October 11, 2024 11:26 PM (FnneF)

225 Ducks.
Posted by: Some Rat

Beavers.

Speedy the geoduck has entered the chat.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 11, 2024 11:26 PM (qCXbg)

226 On my most evil ranking I have Communists just edging out Nazis. Longevity and total murdered gives them the win.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Commies are an order of magnitude worse.
Not just in the democide department.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 11, 2024 11:26 PM (/lPRQ)

227 >>>222 Braenyard, I am doing well for an old fart. I will be, um, 84 next month and still going strong. Had a heard valve replaced this summer so I am good for another decade or two.
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God Bless.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 11, 2024 11:26 PM (wSFOB)

228 203 none of us could figure out why any university would choose a turtle for a mascot.
Posted by: pookysgirl's daighter goes turtle speed most mornings

Ducks.

Posted by: Some Rat

Beavers.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 11, 2024 11:17 PM (WXNFJ)

A TREE. Stanford.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'I can fill a book with what I don't know' at October 11, 2024 11:27 PM (QlX+9)

229 >>>Charles A. Lindbergh, addressing a big rally in Indianapolis, broadcast live, speaking to a vast audience about "Jewish bankers."
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Someone must have had a hard time getting a loan for one of his projects.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 11, 2024 11:30 PM (wSFOB)

230 If the turtles and the ducks merged, would they be the terduckens?

Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 11:30 PM (QjbX7)

231 169 IIRC, standard Royal Navy duty uniforms at the time of the Falklands War were partly or all nylon or another polyester fabric. The RN rapidly changed to natural fiber duty uniforms after news of burns on sailors from melted uniforms on HMS Sheffield and other ships hit by the Argies.
Posted by: Harris and Walz at October 11, 2024 10:54 PM (aBgBM)

I think you might be mistaken. The British sailors wear covers on their faces to prevent flash burns. One would think an organization that had that figured out wouldn't have plastic uniforms.
The USN on the other hand, back in the 70s, had cotton uniforms for the enlisted, and poly uniforms for officers.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 11, 2024 11:02 PM (gm511)

https://tinyurl.com/bdfxbbyd

Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2024 11:31 PM (aBgBM)

232 Hello again.

Talk about a time-suck, that's YouTube's nickname. We watched Rick Beato with guest Mike Dawes. Amazing guitar. Then, there's Mark Dice, PJ Watson, Zeducation, Sargon, and more. I've got Trump in Aurora, Colorado playing right now. Hours zip by.

Finally, I get back here and realize I never even read the content tonight.

I wonder what good stuff I missed in the comments, too Bedtime? What bedtime? Sleep is overrated.

Posted by: mindful webworker - eyeballs at work at October 11, 2024 11:33 PM (txGor)

233 If the turtles and the ducks merged, would they be the terduckens?
Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 11:30 PM (QjbX7)

If the Turtles moved to a Communist country, they would become Red Snappers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 11, 2024 11:33 PM (6RYcT)

234 Conflicting information; on one side it's said that Russia coming into Berlin was formidable on the other side it's said they would have run out of food clothes and arms if we had not supplied them.
I think there were commies in the woodshed who helped decide that Patton couldn't press on.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 11, 2024 11:34 PM (wSFOB)

235 Even historically literate Americans (a small subset indeed) have barely heard of America First. Think of Charles A. Lindbergh, addressing a big rally in Indianapolis, broadcast live, speaking to a vast audience about "Jewish bankers."

Ah, the original ZH commentariat.

Posted by: SFGoth at October 11, 2024 11:35 PM (KAi1n)

236 >>>I wonder what good stuff I missed in the comments, too Bedtime? What bedtime? Sleep is overrated.
Posted by: mindful webworker
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Youtoob will rot your brain if you let it.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 11, 2024 11:36 PM (wSFOB)

237 Always a treat to reconnect with folks here that we haven't heard from in a while.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2024 11:36 PM (mH6SG)

238 Fantastic ONT, Weird Dave. My back still hurts from the High Dive.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at October 11, 2024 11:37 PM (6dji4)

239 Or the Red Army staying back while The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising happened. The Soviets figured the Nazis would kill a bunch of Jews/Poles for them, so let the Nazis go to town.
Posted by: RickZ

I think you have the wrong uprising. The one the Sovs ignored was the gentiles' in 1944. The Jewish one was 1943. I don't think the Sovs were anywhere near Warsaw. They were still salienting around Kursk.

Posted by: SFGoth at October 11, 2024 11:37 PM (KAi1n)

240 https://tinyurl.com/bdfxbbyd
Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2024 11:31 PM (aBgBM)

I stand corrected. Thanks!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 11, 2024 11:38 PM (gm511)

241 186 BC. Herculoids you say?

https://tinyurl.com/35ry6h2b

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 11, 2024 11:12 PM (0eaVi)

Would watch the heck out of this one.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at October 11, 2024 11:39 PM (Cu0iA)

242 Commies are an order of magnitude worse.
Not just in the democide department.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Gonna disagree on that one, particularly given that I lost a lot of family members on my mother's side in the Holocaust. Father's side goes back here to the 1870's.

Posted by: SFGoth at October 11, 2024 11:40 PM (KAi1n)

243 On my most evil ranking I have Communists just edging out Nazis. Longevity and total murdered gives them the win.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Commies are an order of magnitude worse.
Not just in the democide department.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 11, 2024 11:26 PM (/lPRQ)

What I'm learning for the first time, thanks to YouTube videos, is just how extensive the Nazi camp system was. We've heard the names of the big/notorious camps like, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor or Sachsenhausen. But there were hundreds, if not thousands, of camps, large and small, throughout Germany and the occupied territories. While I knew of the hundreds of camp islands within the Gulag Archipelago, I never truly realized how extensive the Nazi camp system was. And that the 'industrialized killing' death camps were mostly open from '42 (post Wannsee Conference) through '44, when the Red Army started to advance westward discovering many camps. The death camp set-up/program was called Operation Reinhard, named after the Nazi the two Czech agents assassinated.

Both the Soviets and the Nazis were gangster governments.

Posted by: RickZ at October 11, 2024 11:40 PM (gKDq2)

244 Posted by: SFGoth at October 11, 2024 11:37 PM (KAi1n)

That is correct. The Nazis were withdrawing from Warsaw and the Polish resistance went on the offense. Stalin had his army stay put outside the city and allowed the Germans to fight freely against the resistance and obliterate the city on their way out.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 11:41 PM (D6PGr)

245 Speaking of gangster governments, I think we have one a bit closer to home right now.

Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 11:42 PM (QjbX7)

246 Stalin also had a large number of polish prisoners held by Germany executed once they entered the city.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 11, 2024 11:42 PM (D6PGr)

247 Speaking of gangster governments, I think we have one a bit closer to home right now.
Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 11:42 PM (QjbX7)

Yeah, I was thinking that when I made the comment.

Posted by: RickZ at October 11, 2024 11:45 PM (gKDq2)

248 Howdy Hordelings! Very nice ONT, Weird Dave!
Posted by: Doof

Good to see you Doof!

And just for you:
https://is.gd/goLA5r

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2024 11:45 PM (DSRy7)

249 LOL! Watching the ASU/Utah game and a ad for Harris came on. It was a bunch of neo-cons and IC hacks whining about #BADORANGEMAN. Pence, Miley, Bolton, etc. are not the 'experts' you think they are. Election season have the most retarded commercials.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 11, 2024 11:45 PM (EweRc)

250 Moron Movie Recommendation!

Just got back from the premier of my BIL's new movie Average Joe.

Excellent Moron movie about the Marine that became a football coach in Washington state and got fired for praying on the football field with his team. Case went all of the way up to the Supreme Court, where he won. I think it is an important case that overturned the awful Lemon precedent.

https://tinyurl.com/4akak62s

Theme is kind of Rudy, meets legal drama, meets Christian movie.

Go see it, if it is being shown in your area. This is the anti "woke Disney" type of movie Morons need to support!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 11, 2024 11:46 PM (Q4Dc6)

251 The death camp set-up/program was called Operation Reinhard, named after the Nazi the two Czech agents assassinated.

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The main body of concentration camps were in the KL system. The death camps were completely separate (except for Auschwitz II, which was a hybrid camp). Besides Auschwitz II, the true death camps were Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno and Belzec.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2024 11:48 PM (JkO4W)

252 Go see it, if it is being shown in your area. This is the anti "woke Disney" type of movie Morons need to support!

Excellent.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2024 11:48 PM (mH6SG)

253 >>>https://tinyurl.com/4akak62s

Theme is kind of Rudy, meets legal drama, meets Christian movie.

Go see it, if it is being shown in your area. This is the anti "woke Disney" type of movie Morons need to support!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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Patronize it. Help them make a profit to encourage more good movies.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 11, 2024 11:50 PM (wSFOB)

254 Commies are an order of magnitude worse.
Not just in the democide department.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Gonna disagree on that one, particularly given that I lost a lot of family members on my mother's side in the Holocaust. Father's side goes back here to the 1870's.
Posted by: SFGoth at October 11, 2024 11:40 PM (KAi1n)

For me, the only reason commies get the nod over Nazis is, as mentioned above, longevity. And commies didn't just do their thing in Russia.

But comparing the two ideologies to see which is worse is splitting hairs over historical tragedies of epic proportions. They both suck. Both ideologies are killers.

Posted by: RickZ at October 11, 2024 11:51 PM (gKDq2)

255 Youtoob will rot your brain if you let it.
Posted by: Braenyard

Those vids I subscribe to are okay. It's the sidebar suggestions that tease me into real time-wasting. Much like many of the links Morons post! 😛

Posted by: mindful webworker - must-see click bait at October 11, 2024 11:51 PM (txGor)

256 Nightcore? I was getting more of a Michael Whelan feel off the wolf girl in yoga pose.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 11, 2024 11:25 PM (8qzun)

Nightcore is sped-up pop music, often with electronic remix elements. The YouTube art for it is usually anime or Hatsune Miku fanart.

Posted by: pookysgirl can't listen to certain songs at regular speed anymore at October 11, 2024 11:52 PM (dtlDP)

257 Commierats and Nasties are all socialist scum.

Posted by: Ruthless at October 11, 2024 11:52 PM (QjbX7)

258 WD, loved the Feel Good Story. Got a little dusty in here....

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at October 11, 2024 11:54 PM (Cu0iA)

259
"Lenin, Stalin and Hitler:
The Age of Social Catastrophe"

One of the most depressing books I've ever read.

Posted by: SFGoth at October 11, 2024 11:55 PM (KAi1n)

260 I remember the Herculoids. Does anyone remember Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp? Chimpanzee 'actors' doing satire James Bond. I can't imagine what they were smoking to come up with that idea. And then they managed to sell it for broadcast.

Posted by: JB1000 at October 11, 2024 11:55 PM (mOfbw)

261 WD, loved the Feel Good Story. Got a little dusty in here....
Posted by: barkingmad59

I had to go check: I thought the Nevada accident was the Feel Good Story...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 11, 2024 11:56 PM (DSRy7)

262 258 WD, loved the Feel Good Story. Got a little dusty in here....

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at October 11, 2024 11:54 PM

Coincidentally, it also got dusty at my house on that story.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 12, 2024 12:00 AM (Q4Dc6)

263 "Lenin, Stalin and Hitler:
The Age of Social Catastrophe"

One of the most depressing books I've ever read.
Posted by: SFGoth at October 11, 2024 11:55 PM (KAi1n)

Ralph Raico has a number of lectures on Youtube about Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and FDR. They are well worth the hour each to watch.
Once when asked directly why he didn't write more books, at least for the benefit of humanity, Raico responded "I despise humanity"

Posted by: Kindltot at October 12, 2024 12:00 AM (D7oie)

264 I'm watching Commando for the dozenth time. No matter how many times I watch it, it still kicks ass. Like Cobra. Some movies are just evergreen.

Posted by: Ol' "Killer Lips" Franklin at October 12, 2024 12:01 AM (awTae)

265 Raico responded "I despise humanity"
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Introduce him to Gretna Thumbug.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2024 12:02 AM (wSFOB)

266 Thumbug, ha ha.

Posted by: Ruthless at October 12, 2024 12:04 AM (QjbX7)

267 Elon Musk@elonmusk 7h

Looks like Starship might fly on Sunday!

This the largest & most powerful flying object ever made at more than double the thrust of the Saturn V Moon rocket.

We will try to catch it upon return to launch site using the Mechazilla arms like giant chopsticks (like Karate Kid)!

Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2024 12:05 AM (wSFOB)

268 Frankly, much of humanity deserves to be despised. Not us, of course.

Posted by: Ruthless at October 12, 2024 12:05 AM (QjbX7)

269 Nomex flight suits used to be pretty spendy. It isn’t the most wear resistant garment around either.

Really convenient to wear, compared to regular duty uniform. I remember once the word came down once, if you’re not actually flying to quit coming in to work in a flight suit. The pickle suit is not an attractive garment for overly rotund persons of mass as I recall.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 12, 2024 12:07 AM (sih2d)

270 Starship, come to daddy.

https://tinyurl.com/2b4j3pvn

Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2024 12:08 AM (wSFOB)

271 Introduce him to Gretna Thumbug.
Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2024 12:02 AM (wSFOB)

Raico really liked people, and apparently was a fantastic history prof, he just hated humanity "in the concept" instead of as individuals. Which is understandable from his research on the 20th century and its dictators.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 12, 2024 12:09 AM (D7oie)

272 Does anyone remember Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp? Chimpanzee 'actors' doing satire James Bond. I can't imagine what they were smoking to come up with that idea. And then they managed to sell it for broadcast.
Posted by: JB1000 at October 11, 2024 11:55 PM (mOfbw)

Mata Hari and her 'Oh, Lance!' tag line. I was 14 when that show came out. It was hysterical. In the same vein as 'Green Acres' in a way, just for kids. But just using the name 'Mata Hari' was a history lesson of sorts.

Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 12:10 AM (gKDq2)

273 Gonna disagree on that one, particularly given that I lost a lot of family members on my mother's side in the Holocaust. Father's side goes back here to the 1870's.
Posted by: SFGoth at October 11, 2024 11:40 PM (KAi1n)

The US version of Commies on the campus or dressed in Black SA Antifa (paradoxical by design) is and will be as toxic to you and your relatives as anything the Nazis thought of.
It's just early.

Posted by: DAN at October 12, 2024 12:11 AM (BJziQ)

274 When the closed Camp Adair after the war, they sold off the base housing which was either disassembled for wood and nails (there were shortages, natch) or were put on trucks or barges and shipped up and down the valley for housing (which there was a shortage for)
They are still around, I lived in one that was cut into a duplex for too long, and there are others around and about.
Dad had a friend who grew up her, as a kid he used to straighten out nails for resale as his dad tore apart the base housing for the lumber and plumbing.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2024 10:32 PM (D7oie)

My dad was discharged from the Army after WW II. He had to find his own way back to Montana because they didn't provide transportation. He and I drove around the site in the early 90s when he visited.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 12, 2024 12:12 AM (WuJwx)

275 High dive fail brings back memories of college....

Water Survival course is required for graduation. The 3rd year folks in it are at the end of the pool with the 10m platform. 1st year folks doing basic swimming class are down in the other end doing laps and strokes and such.

Part of Water Survival is going off the 10m. You have to go in feet first, using a scissor to slow you down as you enter, then kick off your shoes, surface while clearing the water, and swim out.

1/2

Posted by: GWB at October 12, 2024 12:14 AM (E8qwH)

276 It’s always the same, in every country, the past is prologue whether Russia or Germany, Rwanda, Cambodia, Cuba, China, Yugoslavia etc.

They start out “otherizing” or demonizing a certain demographic or ethnicity, or political minority or whatever. Like somebody said, there needs to be no God in a political movement, but they do need a devil.

Later the discrimination becomes stark and more overt, official, and codified into law. The press and academia start talking about the enemy in more eliminationist rhetoric and demagoguery. There is a playbook for this stuff.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 12, 2024 12:17 AM (sih2d)

277 Bill Ackman has 33 reasons to vote for the good guy.

https://is.gd/aW4VOP

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 12, 2024 12:18 AM (DSRy7)

278 Eh... The Jewish side of my family left Russia for America long before any of the Nazi shit happened.

The Great Russian side didn't bolt in time for the Bolsheviks. All murdered, but for my grandfather, who got "lucky."

So it goes.

Posted by: Ol' "Killer Lips" Franklin at October 12, 2024 12:18 AM (awTae)

279 One of the students wen toff such that he hit flat on the water. It knocked him out - the instructors had to go in and get him. We heard it in the other end. We KNEW it hurt.

So, he has to go off the high platform to graduate the class. Every class he would get up there and walk out to the edge and then walk away. (It was not fun to climb down, btw.) We would stop what we were doing when it was his turn and cheer him on (wasn't our classmate, but it didn't matter).

Unfortunately he never did go off the 10m again. He failed the class. I do not know if he retook the class later and was able to graduate. I do know it informed how I went off the platform 2 years later, making sure to not push off nor to twist at all.

2/2

Posted by: GWB at October 12, 2024 12:18 AM (E8qwH)

280 Now see what you've made me do? I was going to just make a little cameo one-entry comment, then I started refreshing like a crack monkey and now I have to stop before I end up on the Wall of Shame and who knows where it will end? It's been fun. Goodnight Horde.

Posted by: Ruthless at October 12, 2024 12:19 AM (QjbX7)

281 The Moronosphere is an amazing deep pool of knowledge. I've learned so much here over the years.

There's even occasionally a trickle of wisdom! 😀

Gotta stop sometime, and that's now. Driver, stop the bus; this is where I get off.

https://youtu.be/sYzRcSo2LtI

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - fades into the night at October 12, 2024 12:19 AM (txGor)

282 I was watching that game at my in-laws (relatives were in town and hadn't seen Lil Pooky yet) and none of us could figure out why any university would choose a turtle for a mascot.

The turtle's name is Testudo. They are native to Chesapeake Bay, and were a staple of the very first settler's diet. Probably kept the colony from starving several times.

Posted by: Weirddave at October 12, 2024 12:21 AM (lXRbX)

283 Trump said he would make interest payments on automobiles tax deductible.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2024 12:24 AM (wSFOB)

284 Nomex flight suits used to be pretty spendy. It isn’t the most wear resistant garment around either.

Really convenient to wear, compared to regular duty uniform. I remember once the word came down once, if you’re not actually flying to quit coming in to work in a flight suit. The pickle suit is not an attractive garment for overly rotund persons of mass as I recall.
Posted by: Common Tater at October 12, 2024 12:07 AM (sih2d)

Part of the wear issue was the Nomex treatment wore off, and you weren't supposed to wear them anymore. And, yes, even more than Cammie Jammies, they were convenient and easy to wear. And they rotated in and out of the "You can only wear flight suits if you're actually on flying duty that day."

But the "pickle suit" was the old solid color green fatigues. The ones you actually tucked in. At least in the AF.

Posted by: GWB at October 12, 2024 12:25 AM (E8qwH)

285 The turtle's name is Testudo. They are native to Chesapeake Bay, and were a staple of the very first settler's diet. Probably kept the colony from starving several times.
Posted by: Weirddave at October 12, 2024 12:21 AM (lXRbX)

I recommend exterminating these turtles. I don't want Chesapeake Bay people having any food sources once they've been blockaded and left to languish.

Posted by: Ol' "Killer Lips" Franklin at October 12, 2024 12:26 AM (awTae)

286 Trump said he would make interest payments on automobiles tax deductible.
Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2024 12:24 AM (wSFOB)

I remember the good old days when credit card interest was an itemized deduction.

Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 12:26 AM (gKDq2)

287 Part of Water Survival is going off the 10m. You have to go in feet first, using a scissor to slow you down as you enter, then kick off your shoes, surface while clearing the water, and swim out.

1/2
Posted by: GWB at October 12, 2024 12:14 AM

Don't forget the brick strapped to your ass.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 12, 2024 12:27 AM (Wnv9h)

288 Starched OD utility fatigues looked pretty strack. Then, the Army went to the woodland camo, with the Elvis collars. LOL

Why they do such things, nobody knows. I think current uniforms are digital patterns, and fuzzy leather boots, and everybody looks like they jumped on a wrinkle grenade. Saved the whole platoon!

Posted by: Common Tater at October 12, 2024 12:30 AM (sih2d)

289 Trump said he would make interest payments on automobiles tax deductible.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Proven technology (ICE) and domestic only, please.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 12, 2024 12:34 AM (/lPRQ)

290 There was an economics professor, maybe, at some university who was known as the “Rocket Man”, tax law in those days allowed for some mind of a deduction, he purchased some surplus air force sounding rocket, and the deductions had something to do with the original cost price to the government, which was considerable.

The 1980s congress tax reforms did away with all that stuff.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 12, 2024 12:34 AM (sih2d)

291 Well, I have an early morning planned for tomorrow, so I am going to hit the sack now. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 12, 2024 12:39 AM (qqgHw)

292 Proven technology (ICE) and domestic only, please.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 12, 2024 12:34 AM (/lPRQ)

Given Trump's new alliance with Musk, I doubt any legislation hostile to electric cars would make it past his desk.

Posted by: Ol' "Killer Lips" Franklin at October 12, 2024 12:40 AM (awTae)

293 Commies versus Nazis. Insert the "it's the same thing" meme. Nazis are national socialist. Commies are international socialists. There's no difference between them. The reason they hate each other is because they're competing for the same people.

Posted by: Weirddave at October 12, 2024 12:41 AM (lXRbX)

294 284

But the "pickle suit" was the old solid color green fatigues. The ones you actually tucked in. At least in the AF.

Posted by: GWB at October 12, 2024 12:25 AM (E8qwH)

Yep, in the '70s AF, that was pretty much all I ever wore.

Posted by: BillyD at October 12, 2024 12:44 AM (Yt3ED)

295 none of us could figure out why any university would choose a turtle for a mascot.
Posted by: pookysgirl's daighter goes turtle speed most mornings

Ducks.
Posted by: Some Rat

Beavers.
Posted by: Tonypete

"Nature's Engineer." Makes sense for a tech-focused school.

Posted by: mikeski at October 12, 2024 12:54 AM (DgGvY)

296 Electric cars are here to stay.
Gas powered vehicles are here to stay.
The idea that electric will replace gas is a
green pipe dream.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2024 12:54 AM (wSFOB)

297 Just ran across the story of Cheree Peoples - a mother arrested by Kamala Harris.

As AG in CA Harris found out the state was losing federal funds due to truancy and passed a law sentencing parents to jail if their kids missed too much school. Cheree's daughter had missed 60 days - so scofflaw right?

Cheree's daughter missed school *because she was in the hospital*. The school was aware. The cops were aware but Kamala wanted those federal dollars and used lawfare on this woman to shut her up and send her to jail...

CHEREE PEOPLES: Look, I am not a political person, but I want people to know what Kamala Harris did to me. if she did it to me, she will abuse anyone if you give her the power.

My message to all Americans, especially black Americans: do not trust Kamala Harris.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 12, 2024 12:58 AM (oZhjI)

298 My message to all Americans, especially black Americans: do not trust Kamala Harris.
Posted by: 18-1
-------------------

Saw that one. Hospitalized little girl and put mom in jail.
That's what we have to look forward to if Kamiliana wins.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2024 01:01 AM (wSFOB)

299 Beavers.
Posted by: Tonypete
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"Nature's Engineer." Makes sense for a tech-focused school.
Posted by: mikeski at October 12, 2024 12:54 AM (DgGvY)

I'm surprised Commiela didn't go to college at the home of the Gobblers. Talk about "nature's engineering."

Seriously, how does 'Gobblers' work for a military/engineering school? The graduating butterbar second louies are all turkeys?

Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 01:02 AM (gKDq2)

300 Ryobi fan boy here saw a video from his favorite lawnmower guy on a Ryobi air pump 18v up to 160psi. He topped of a truck tire to 55lbs.

Anyway, YouGuessedIt has it for $60 and HomelyDepot has it for $40 dollars. Nice thing about Homely is that you can pay/order in the store and either pick it up or free delivery.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2024 01:12 AM (wSFOB)

301
Speaking of Mars, I miss Art Bell and Dick Hoagland and all that Mars woo. Hoagland must be 90 now, haven't heard much out of him of late.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 12, 2024 01:13 AM (w6EFb)

302 Speaking of Mars, I miss Art Bell

Despite the schtick, he was a good late-nite listen when sleep wouldn't come.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 12, 2024 01:19 AM (mH6SG)

303 drip drip drip...

Rasmussen today:

Vance 50/42 fav/unfav

Walz 42/44 fav/unfav

The week after the DEM convention, it was the other way around!

I first suspected this might not end well for her when she declined to put Gov. Shapiro on her ticket.

Wut? She's not taking Shapiro? REALLY? Are you sure?

Posted by: mnw at October 12, 2024 01:31 AM (NLIak)

304 303 Postscript:

When I learned she wasn't taking Shapiro, it was like that scene in Dr. Strangelove: "Missile closing. Continue evasive maneuvers... missile still closing, continue evasive maneuvers... missile deflecting!"

Posted by: mnw at October 12, 2024 01:44 AM (NLIak)

305 Just want to say, there is nothing like the Uruguayan bread con chicharrones. Little bits of fried, crispy chicharron rolled into the dough. A crumbly but not typical American breakfast bread. Goes great with coffee. For the vegetarians {GASP}, one can always have a cuerno, same bread no chicharrones.

https://tinyurl.com/5xk6227j

Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 01:47 AM (gKDq2)

306 Postscript:

When I learned she wasn't taking Shapiro, it was like that scene in Dr. Strangelove: "Missile closing. Continue evasive maneuvers... missile still closing, continue evasive maneuvers... missile deflecting!"
Posted by: mnw at October 12, 2024 01:44 AM (NLIak)

IMAO, Commiela's choice of Walz over Shapiro was her trying to be Boss Girl in Charge, of going against the heads of the Party to show her independence. Think of it: Walz was her first executive decision.

Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 01:50 AM (gKDq2)

307 What brought that to mind at this hour?

Do u have the munchies?

Posted by: mnw at October 12, 2024 01:51 AM (NLIak)

308 What brought that to mind at this hour?

Do u have the munchies?
Posted by: mnw at October 12, 2024 01:51 AM (NLIak)

I have the coffee and I have the bread. Bought it this morning. Wrapped it in plastic and into the fridge, then warmed it later on low in the toaster oven.

Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 01:54 AM (gKDq2)

309 I was watching that game at my in-laws (relatives were in town and hadn't seen Lil Pooky yet) and none of us could figure out why any university would choose a turtle for a mascot.
Posted by: pookysgirl's daighter goes turtle speed most mornings

A nut. Buckeyes

Posted by: Tuna at October 12, 2024 01:55 AM (oaGWv)

310 306 Postscript:

When I learned she wasn't taking Shapiro, it was like that scene in Dr. Strangelove: "Missile closing. Continue evasive maneuvers... missile still closing, continue evasive maneuvers... missile deflecting!"
Posted by: mnw at October 12, 2024 01:44 AM (NLIak)

IMAO, Commiela's choice of Walz over Shapiro was her trying to be Boss Girl in Charge, of going against the heads of the Party to show her independence. Think of it: Walz was her first executive decision.
Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 01:50 AM (gKDq2)

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Kamala's handlers don't trust her to tie her own shoes. There is no way in God's green Earth she had any input into the VP selection.

Posted by: me at October 12, 2024 01:55 AM (ieN7O)

311 I thought her taking Walz was a manifestation of her... timidity. Do the "safe, low risk" thing, see? The first consideration must always be, don't offend anybody.

That kind of risk aversion is seldom seen in big league politics. But then, she never HAD to take any risks before. So... why start now?

Little Miss Muffet meets Diamond Jim Brady.

Posted by: mnw at October 12, 2024 02:00 AM (NLIak)

312 23 That wasn't ace with the drill, was it.

Posted by: davidt at October 11, 2024 10:10 PM (i0F8b)
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It could be, he didn't use reverse.

Posted by: Ciampino - Anyone have a spare iron smelter handy? at October 12, 2024 02:03 AM (qfLjt)

313 Kamala's handlers don't trust her to tie her own shoes. There is no way in God's green Earth she had any input into the VP selection.
Posted by: me at October 12, 2024 01:55 AM (ieN7O)

I get where you're coming from (she's a absolute disaster of a ditz) but I think Walz was her decision. TPTB in the Dem party wanted Shapiro to solidify PA. But she caved to the progressives in her party, probably to show her far left bona fides and support for Palestine/Gaza at the same time, so ignored the Jew for the old pasty white guy.

The identity politics of the Democrat Party is now destroying that party, and it a beautiful sight to behold.

Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 02:03 AM (gKDq2)

314 Carlson and Musk were discussing the decision making politburo.
They agreed that there are about 100 in the politburo.
Carlson said, I bet you know 80 of them.
Musk said, I know most of them.
That's some heavy cookie dough.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2024 02:04 AM (wSFOB)

315 I thought her taking Walz was a manifestation of her... timidity. Do the "safe, low risk" thing, see? The first consideration must always be, don't offend anybody.

That kind of risk aversion is seldom seen in big league politics. But then, she never HAD to take any risks before. So... why start now?

Little Miss Muffet meets Diamond Jim Brady.
Posted by: mnw at October 12, 2024 02:00 AM (NLIak)

It was risk aversion: Avoid the Jew, too much risk in losing the muzzie/proggie 'hate Israel' vote with a Shapiro on the ticket.

Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 02:08 AM (gKDq2)

316 313

Agreed. HER choice. She overrode ALL the DEM senior councillors.

But I still think it was less a considered strategy ("support for Palis") than a reversion to norm-- risk avoidance.

Posted by: mnw at October 12, 2024 02:09 AM (NLIak)

317 293 Commies versus Nazis. Insert the "it's the same thing" meme. Nazis are national socialist. Commies are international socialists. There's no difference between them. The reason they hate each other is because they're competing for the same people.

Posted by: Weirddave at October 12, 2024 12:41 AM (lXRbX)
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^^^^^
THIS
I would add fascists as a flavor of socialists.

Posted by: Ciampino - No disagreement at October 12, 2024 02:12 AM (qfLjt)

318 I never thought the "socialist" part was central to Hitlerism. What did he nationalize?

Big business supported him with every fiber of their being, and they were RICHLY rewarded by being allowed to take their pick of every successful business in occupied Europe.

Posted by: mnw at October 12, 2024 02:16 AM (NLIak)

319 I can't go on any longer.

Nytol

Posted by: mnw at October 12, 2024 02:19 AM (NLIak)

320 I never thought the "socialist" part was central to Hitlerism. What did he nationalize?

Big business supported him with every fiber of their being, and they were RICHLY rewarded by being allowed to take their pick of every successful business in occupied Europe.
Posted by: mnw at October 12, 2024 02:16 AM (NLIak)

What did Hitler nationalize? Jew-hatred.

Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 02:23 AM (gKDq2)

321 Tim Walz frantically backtracks on Electoral College claim

https://mol.im/a/13950149

Posted by: Ciampino - Democrats - always going backwards at October 12, 2024 02:25 AM (qfLjt)

322 Melania Trump fans tear into Kamala Harris Vogue cover

https://mol.im/a/13950897

Posted by: Ciampino - KH could pass for a guy at October 12, 2024 02:26 AM (qfLjt)

323 The Weather Channel sparks outrage with NYC subway ad

https://mol.im/a/13951125

Posted by: Ciampino - we don't need no stinking palis at October 12, 2024 02:31 AM (qfLjt)

324 When Kamala saw the fishbone diagram of my cock, she couldn't get over the girth of my filet.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 12, 2024 02:42 AM (gE9PJ)

325 >>I get where you're coming from (she's a absolute disaster of a ditz) but I think Walz was her decision

Do you think it was Joe's decision to drop out?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 12, 2024 02:59 AM (LkLld)

326 >>>Do you think it was Joe's decision to drop out?

Posted by: JackStraw

>I believe Joe is only allowed to make decisions about ice cream cones.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 12, 2024 03:04 AM (gE9PJ)

327 >I believe Joe is only allowed to make decisions about ice cream cones.

Remember the groundswell for him to run in 2020 when Obama enthusiastically backed him?

Nobody else does either.

Trump isn't running against Harris.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 12, 2024 03:12 AM (LkLld)

328 I get where you're coming from (she's a absolute disaster of a ditz) but I think Walz was her decision

Do you think it was Joe's decision to drop out?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 12, 2024 02:59 AM (LkLld)

Absolutely not. Someone used non-official White House 'stationary' and put out ol' Joe's retirement letter. Joe went along because he was told that he would shut up or be 25th Amendmented. But Biden had that one last political 'fuck you' left (or maybe it was Dr. Dr. Jill) when he beat the Dem powers that be to the punch and endorsed Kamala. He basically said, 'You don't want me? Then you're stuck with my DEI VP hire!' Joe's a vindictive bastard, always has been. And Commiela's the first presidential candidate to never run in a primary.

Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 03:15 AM (gKDq2)

329 >>>He basically said, 'You don't want me? Then you're stuck with my DEI VP hire!' Joe's a vindictive bastard, always has been. And Commiela's the first presidential candidate to never run in a primary.

Posted by: RickZ

>I'm still of the opinion that Kamala should ditch Walz and draft Hillary Clinton to be VP. These two bitches will save our sacred democracy and the whole world!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 12, 2024 03:26 AM (gE9PJ)

330 >>Someone used non-official White House 'stationary' and put out ol' Joe's retirement letter.

That someone or someone's put him in office in 2020.

Go back and look at the 2020 primary when not even Obama supported him at first. There has never been any enthusiasm for either Joe or Harris.

It's us against the machine and their candidate doesn't matter to them. Unfortunately for them Harris can't hide in the basement this cycle.

We still have to get out and vote but we are running against the machine not the idiot they are running.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 12, 2024 03:31 AM (LkLld)

331 I'm still of the opinion that Kamala should ditch Walz and draft Hillary Clinton to be VP. These two bitches will save our sacred democracy and the whole world!
Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 12, 2024 03:26 AM (gE9PJ)

Hillary! can never be second banana. Should it be a Harris/Clinton ticket, Harris' life expectancy would be very, very short.

Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 03:44 AM (gKDq2)

332 Go back and look at the 2020 primary when not even Obama supported him at first. There has never been any enthusiasm for either Joe or Harris.

It's us against the machine and their candidate doesn't matter to them. Unfortunately for them Harris can't hide in the basement this cycle.

We still have to get out and vote but we are running against the machine not the idiot they are running.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 12, 2024 03:31 AM (LkLld)

"But Joe Biden got more votes than any candidate in history, including the sainted Obama." ~ Your Lefty Talking Point

Gotta give the Dems credit. Their vote fraud machine was in tip-top condition in 2020, humming along on all cylinders.

Posted by: RickZ at October 12, 2024 03:51 AM (gKDq2)

333 >>Gotta give the Dems credit. Their vote fraud machine was in tip-top condition in 2020, humming along on all cylinders.

Helps when the media isn'r just in the tank for their candidate but edits interviews to boost them. That's broke too.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 12, 2024 04:01 AM (LkLld)

334
Good evening, Morons. I'm way late to the discussion, but didn't I hear that Kamala "chose" Walz simply because they were running out of time and they needed to grab someone, anyone who says Yes?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 12, 2024 04:33 AM (diqAb)

335 >>>Good evening, Morons. I'm way late to the discussion, but didn't I hear that Kamala "chose" Walz simply because they were running out of time and they needed to grab someone, anyone who says Yes?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia

>Walz frequently says "yes" when his wife is pegging him across the common room of the governor's mansion.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 12, 2024 04:55 AM (gE9PJ)

336 PSA to the women who may not be aware: placentas are strictly a single-use, non-reusable, non-refundable item. With an expiration date. If someone is offering you their placenta, I don't care how cheap it is, or if they say it's still got "plenty of miles left on it," do NOT under any circumstances take it.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 12, 2024 08:56 AM (Ij2uN)

337 WeirdDave!

Posted by: Candidus at October 12, 2024 10:01 AM (d5aIs)

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

Posted by: Miona at October 12, 2024 01:32 PM (S09Jr)

339 I saw the local Walmart guys locking men's underwear behind glass yesterday. One of them told me people just come in and steal them, even with a TV camera on them.

A few months ago, Walmar locked the shaving cream behind glass.

It's becoming like California here.

Posted by: Guy from PA at October 12, 2024 04:15 PM (AFudc)

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