Mid-Morning Art Thread

Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)
Camille Corot

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Yay - art! It's CBD's schtick!

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 09:30 AM (ik452)

2 1

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2024 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

3 Is this a Wonder Woman prequel?

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2024 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

4 Well, hello there Diana!
So nice to see you.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - NEXT Year in Corsicana - again at November 01, 2024 09:31 AM (rOtXe)

5 The Paolo something something how you say, many surprises something something in the bath.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 01, 2024 09:31 AM (DobEs)

6 Not what I was expecting on All Saints Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 01, 2024 09:31 AM (NpAcC)

7 Trees, dog, sniper, boobs... that's quality art.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 01, 2024 09:32 AM (ExV1e)

8 Doggeh. Trees. Nekkidness.

The trifecta of art!!!

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 09:32 AM (ik452)

9 Beautiful landscape details.

Posted by: Tuna at November 01, 2024 09:32 AM (oaGWv)

10 Wow, CBD's been really generous with the boobs this week.

Guess it's his way of doing penance for last week.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

11 Thx CBD, would hang. When I walk through woods valley all I see are old tires and discarded beer cans, ni naked ladies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 01, 2024 09:32 AM (aRslG)

12 The MET

Title: Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)

Artist: Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris)

Date: 1836

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 61 5/8 x 44 3/8 in. (156.5 x 112.7 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2024 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

13 It's all there, trees, bushes, dog, boobs.

Posted by: BignJames at November 01, 2024 09:32 AM (Yj6Os)

14 This is art. It makes my spear hard.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (AdHga)

15 Title: Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)
Artist: Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris)
Date: 1836
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 61 5/8 x 44 3/8 in. (156.5 x 112.7 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number: 1975.1.162

Posted by: SMOD at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

16 So is the guy on the right Tonypete?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (v6JzV)

17 Surprised nekkid women... where's Tonypete hiding in this picture?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (yc1L0)

18 Looks like there's shenanigans going on in that bath.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (Wnv9h)

19 Chick in the middle, pointing and saying "That mutherf'r ain't real!"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

20 Oh, sure. Whatever. I see how it is.

Actaeon sneaks into a ladies' bathing frolic and it's a "surprise" that gets immortalized in oil on canvas and hung in a museum.

But when *I* accidentally wander into the women's locker room, I get a face full of mace followed by some hickory shampoo.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (HnUIn)

21 I reserve the right to question Diana about her respect for long term environmental issues!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - NEXT Year in Corsicana - again at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (rOtXe)

22 The woman playing with the large schtick is very suggestive.

Would hang, out and proud, but my bride might give it a thumbs down.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (vbJrD)

23 Surprised? I wouldn't rate it higher than OH, look.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (t8vHj)

24 Where's the parrot?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (v6JzV)

25 The guy is wearing antlers?

Shoot him!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 01, 2024 09:34 AM (pBprQ)

26 The story behind that is proof that Greek Gods were assholes.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 01, 2024 09:34 AM (jjoN6)

27 It turns ugly quick; Diana turns him into a deer and his own dogs rip him up (seriously, that's the rest of the myth).

Posted by: Wiese at November 01, 2024 09:34 AM (1pand)

28 But when *I* accidentally wander into the women's locker room, I get a face full of mace followed by some hickory shampoo.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (HnUIn)

SO...
you're saying the Old Ways were best?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - NEXT Year in Corsicana - again at November 01, 2024 09:34 AM (rOtXe)

29 I guess equality for the ettes has gone out the window.
Must have been a one-off the other day.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 01, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

30 The guy is wearing antlers?

Shoot him!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 01, 2024 09:34 AM (pBprQ)
++++
He put them on for a stag party.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:34 AM (HnUIn)

31 Almost didn't spot Actaeon. He's blends into the background so very well.

Posted by: Tuna at November 01, 2024 09:34 AM (oaGWv)

32 Surprised nekkid women... where's Tonypete hiding in this picture?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (yc1L0)

He hasn't shown up yet. The ladies have not covered their boobehs.

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 09:35 AM (ik452)

33 It turns ugly quick; Diana turns him into a deer and his own dogs rip him up (seriously, that's the rest of the myth).
Posted by: Wiese at November 01, 2024 09:34 AM (1pand)
++++
Yeah. Hard to blame the dogs, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:35 AM (HnUIn)

34 Frolicking!

Posted by: Weasel at November 01, 2024 09:35 AM (fghTy)

35 This is titled 'Me So Horney' rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 01, 2024 09:35 AM (AdHga)

36 Oops! Sorry ladies!

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:35 AM (pZEOD)

37 Oh hey, there is a dog! Didn't notice until now.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2024 09:35 AM (vbJrD)

38 I like the trees and the dog.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 01, 2024 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

39 Who's that in the upper left corner?

Posted by: dantesed at November 01, 2024 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

40 Why is one woman playing with a stick in the water?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2024 09:36 AM (oZhjI)

41 Yeah. Hard to blame the dogs, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:35 AM

Yup. Doggehs gonna doggeh.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:36 AM (Wnv9h)

42 Corot ! We don't see nearly enough Corot !

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2024 09:37 AM (V13WU)

43 The chick hanging from the branch is a lumberjack. She likes logs.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 01, 2024 09:37 AM (AdHga)

44 *He put them on for a stag party.*

He's a dear.

Posted by: Punz already? at November 01, 2024 09:37 AM (DobEs)

45 Actually, not upper left but the left side of the painting.

Posted by: dantesed at November 01, 2024 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

46 Don't treed on me!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 09:37 AM (hovnC)

47 This is the Greek equivalent of drilling a hole in the girls locker room wall, I guess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2024 09:37 AM (vbJrD)

48 Oops! Sorry ladies!
Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:35 AM

"You're perfect!"

- Thornton Mellon

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:37 AM (Wnv9h)

49 39 Who's that in the upper left corner?
-------------
Some Greek homo.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 01, 2024 09:37 AM (AdHga)

50 Cleanliness is next to Godliness, Ladies! Please carry on. I'm just going to sit down over there and pray with myself.

also, can you play *bow-chika-wowwow* music on a bouzouki?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 01, 2024 09:37 AM (pIfcn)

51 40 Why is one woman playing with a stick in the water?
Posted by: 18-1 at November

She is letting the current wash her backside.

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:38 AM (pZEOD)

52 There is a nice little place in NH called "Diana's Bath".

Looks nothing like the picture here.

Also for most of the year if you laid naked in the water you'd quickly turn blue

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2024 09:38 AM (oZhjI)

53 I'm going to break down and vote early today. I don't like the idea and feel like I'm giving in (yet again) to election season, but who knows what crap they'll pull on Election Day.

As a side note, autocorrect capitalized Election Day (again!). Why? The country obviously doesn't think that day is important anymore.

It's also my birthday on Election Day(again!). Hope I get what I want.

Posted by: InZona at November 01, 2024 09:38 AM (qz1Fg)

54 44 *He put them on for a stag party.*

He's a dear.
Posted by: Punz already?

What a way to horn in on an art thread!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - NEXT Year in Corsicana - again at November 01, 2024 09:38 AM (rOtXe)

55 Why is one woman playing with a stick in the water?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2024 09:36 AM (oZhjI)

Practicing for her "Please welcome, Destiny to the main stage!" moment.

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 09:38 AM (ik452)

56 Dear Penthouse Letters,

I never thought it would happen to me, but there I was out traipsing through the woods when suddenly I came upon 5 lonely and needy gals bathing in the stream.

Posted by: Actaeon at November 01, 2024 09:38 AM (Aqu9a)

57 Ya ever notice none of the women in these old time nudes have lady balls? Because I have and I'm upset about it.

Posted by: Daviid French channeling Andy Rooney at November 01, 2024 09:39 AM (oZhjI)

58 Why is the girl playing field hockey with the dog?

Posted by: dantesed at November 01, 2024 09:39 AM (Oy/m2)

59 also, can you play *bow-chika-wowwow* music on a bouzouki?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 01, 2024 09:37 AM

Why you want to play bouzouki like that, boss?

Posted by: Zorba at November 01, 2024 09:39 AM (Wnv9h)

60 Five naked girls... he probably thinks the odds are good. But doggie and spear lady are rushing over to educate him on statistics.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2024 09:39 AM (vbJrD)

61 Ah, this is the story of the guy who came upon the goddess Artemis/Diana, and got changed into a stag so that his own hounds tore him apart.

Seems kinda capricious, Artemis. Maybe that's why we don't worship you any more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

62 Diana was the only one of the six who was surprised that some dude was watching them? Not very bright, that one.

Posted by: red speck at November 01, 2024 09:40 AM (0Id0S)

63 The narrative, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, recounts the fate of a young hunter Actaeon as he encounters the naked figure of the goddess Diana and her nymphs enjoying a woodland bath. Diana, in a fit of embarrassed fury, splashes water on the unwitting hunter, transforming him into a deer.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2024 09:40 AM (gbOdA)

64 See! We're back to a woman, surprised while nekkid, attempting to cover her bewbies.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 01, 2024 09:41 AM (WXNFJ)

65 It's been a good week for boobs on the Art Thread...3 out of 5!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 01, 2024 09:41 AM (7fElN)

66 57 Dear Penthouse Letters,

I never thought it would happen to me, but there I was out traipsing through the woods when suddenly I came upon 5 lonely and needy gals bathing in the stream.
Posted by: Actaeon at November 01, 2024 09:38 AM (Aqu9a)

We will never get that smell off the fish.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2024 09:42 AM (gbOdA)

67 Thx CBD, would hang. When I walk through woods valley all I see are old tires and discarded beer cans, ni naked ladies
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 01, 2024 09:32 AM (aRslG)
---
You need to move to better woods...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 01, 2024 09:42 AM (7fElN)

68 Pretty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2024 09:42 AM (y31cs)

69 Dogs. Boobs. Corot arted the shit out of this painting.

Posted by: red speck at November 01, 2024 09:42 AM (0Id0S)

70 13 It's all there, trees, bushes, dog, boobs.
Posted by: BignJames

Being a renowned armchair Monday morning psychiatrist myself, The juxtaposition of last weeks unrelenting, piss-poor, low-class, modern drek "art" to this weeks boobapalooza of actual painting talent suggests that the poster of the Art Thread has serious manic depressive episodes. Thorazine, warm baths, and intense psychotherapy could, perhaps, even out these intense highs and lows. Some people don't want the help and enjoy inflicting pain on innocent art thread denizens.

Posted by: Dr. Sigmoid at November 01, 2024 09:42 AM (nS6qG)

71 *He put them on for a stag party.*

He's a dear.
Posted by: Punz already?

What a way to horn in on an art thread!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - NEXT Year in Corsicana - again at November 01, 2024 09:38 AM

In hind sight, maybe deer puns were a bad idea.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:42 AM (Wnv9h)

72 I saw The Capriciousness of Artemis open for "Panic! at the Disco" at PretensiousnessCon '17 in Santa Monica.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:43 AM (HnUIn)

73 Down by the old mill stream . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 01, 2024 09:43 AM (Aqu9a)

74 The narrative, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, recounts the fate of a young hunter Actaeon as he encounters the naked figure of the goddess Diana and her nymphs enjoying a woodland bath. Diana, in a fit of embarrassed fury, splashes water on the unwitting hunter, transforming him into a deer.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Wa a piti.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:43 AM (v6JzV)

75
Oh, I am afraid our life must seem very dull and quiet compared to yours. We are but five young blondes and brunettes, all between sixteen and nineteen-and-a-half, cut off in these woods with no one to protect us. Oooh. It is a lonely life: bathing, dressing, undressing, knitting exciting underwear. We are just not used to handsome knights. Nay. Nay. Come. Come. You may lie here.

Posted by: Monty Python at November 01, 2024 09:43 AM (DobEs)

76 *He put them on for a stag party.*

He's a dear.
Posted by: Punz already?

What a way to horn in on an art thread!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - NEXT Year in Corsicana - again at November 01, 2024 09:38 AM

In hind sight, maybe deer puns were a bad idea.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:42 AM (Wnv9h)

Keep the puns going. Don't buck the trend.

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 09:43 AM (ik452)

77 I was hiking through the foothills of Mount Tibidabo...

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 01, 2024 09:44 AM (MGB5H)

78 [iSee! We're back to a woman, surprised while nekkid, attempting to cover her bewbies.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 01, 2024 09:41 AM

CBD understands us.

Which probably keeps him awake at night.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:44 AM (Wnv9h)

79 But when *I* accidentally wander into the women's locker room, I get a face full of mace followed by some hickory shampoo.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:33 AM (HnUIn)

You got off easy. Diana turned Actaeon into a stag. He was then killed by his own hunting dogs.

Posted by: Kris at November 01, 2024 09:44 AM (EwaUh)

80 Not what I was expecting on All Saints Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

I believe yesterday was Reformation Day and we got a naked chick and her parrot.

Posted by: Tuna at November 01, 2024 09:44 AM (oaGWv)

81 In hind sight, maybe deer puns were a bad idea.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:42 AM (Wnv9h)
++++
Many want puns until they find out the price is so very dear.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:44 AM (HnUIn)

82 #46 Darn. Got confused with Daphne's myth.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 09:44 AM (hovnC)

83 You got off easy. Diana turned Actaeon into a stag. He was then killed by his own hunting dogs.
Posted by: Kris at November 01, 2024 09:44 AM (EwaUh)
++++
My joke only works if you assume this scene is the end of the story.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM (HnUIn)

84 The narrative, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, recounts the fate of a young hunter Actaeon as he encounters the naked figure of the goddess Diana and her nymphs enjoying a woodland bath. Diana, in a fit of embarrassed fury, splashes water on the unwitting hunter, transforming him into a deer.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2024 09:40 AM (gbOdA)

A deer with a huge schwanzstucker.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM (g8Ew8)

85 Virgin goddesses don't like it when you see them nekkid. Not at all.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM (ADDNM)

86 Many want puns until they find out the price is so very dear.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:44 AM

D'oe!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM (Wnv9h)

87 75>>>It is a lonely life: bathing, dressing, undressing, knitting exciting underwear. We are just not used to handsome knights. Nay. Nay. Come. Come. You may lie here.

Diana: "I think I saw a man! Get rid of him!"
Diana's companion: "I bet you're gay."

Posted by: red speck at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM (0Id0S)

88 Darn. Got confused with Daphne's myth.
Posted by: andycanuck

I never saw Daphne's myth. . .

Posted by: Mike Tyson at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM (WXNFJ)

89 Just so y’all know, I am rolling my eyes while you fawn all over yourselves for being creative with the puns.

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM (pZEOD)

90 Actaeon had no idea he'd end up with a rack of his own that day.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM (yc1L0)

91 Would not entirely rule out painting on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM (t6ibK)

92 Darn. Got confused with Daphne's myth.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC)

The myth about Daphne is that she puts out.
-- Fred

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:46 AM (v6JzV)

93 Doh! A deer!

Posted by: Actaeon at November 01, 2024 09:46 AM (hovnC)

94 A deer with a huge schwanzstucker.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM

He was very popular.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:46 AM (Wnv9h)

95 Being a renowned armchair Monday morning psychiatrist myself, The juxtaposition of last weeks unrelenting, piss-poor, low-class, modern drek "art" to this weeks boobapalooza of actual painting talent suggests that the poster of the Art Thread has serious manic depressive episodes. Thorazine, warm baths, and intense psychotherapy could, perhaps, even out these intense highs and lows. Some people don't want the help and enjoy inflicting pain on innocent art thread denizens.

Posted by: Dr. Sigmoid at November 01, 2024 09:42 AM (nS6qG)

lobotomy

Posted by: BignJames at November 01, 2024 09:46 AM (Yj6Os)

96 A deer with a huge schwanzstucker.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacon

Is that the same thing as a schtick?

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:46 AM (pZEOD)

97 39 Who's that in the upper left corner?
Posted by: dantesed at November 01, 2024 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

That's Actaeon. If you embiggen it, you can see the antlers as Diana turns him into a deer.

Posted by: Kris at November 01, 2024 09:46 AM (EwaUh)

98 Location of this painting is Franconia, NH. One can tell because you can see where the "Old Man of the Mountain" collapsed there up top. Of course, the skeeters and black flies make it rough to bathe there.

Posted by: Live Free Or Die at November 01, 2024 09:46 AM (nS6qG)

99 We're told that Actaeon was trained by the centaur Chiron. Funny how Chiron seems to be the only civilized centaur in all mythology; the others were drunken louts and/or barbarians. Maybe it was because Chiron was the son of the Titan Cronus, and that he had human forelegs instead of horse legs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 09:47 AM (J2vNu)

100 The myth about Daphne is that she puts out.
-- Fred
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:46 AM

She does...just not for you.

Posted by: Velma at November 01, 2024 09:47 AM (Wnv9h)

101 Just so y’all know, I am rolling my eyes while you fawn all over yourselves for being creative with the puns.
Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM (pZEOD)
++++
Sneaky. Very nicely done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:47 AM (HnUIn)

102 *Keep the puns going. Don't buck the trend.*

Doe!

Posted by: Homer Simpson at November 01, 2024 09:47 AM (DobEs)

103 That's Actaeon. If you embiggen it, you can see the antlers as Diana turns him into a deer.
Posted by: Kris

Then who's the guy on the right with the dog?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:47 AM (v6JzV)

104 Looks like the kind of place where I could get a lot of work done.

Posted by: Jame Gumb at November 01, 2024 09:47 AM (tShuD)

105 We're told that Actaeon was trained by the centaur Chiron. Funny how Chiron seems to be the only civilized centaur in all mythology; the others were drunken louts and/or barbarians. Maybe it was because Chiron was the son of the Titan Cronus, and that he had human forelegs instead of horse legs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 09:47 AM (J2vNu)
++++
Drunken, loutish barbarians get a bad rap.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:47 AM (HnUIn)

106 Just so y’all know, I am rolling my eyes while you fawn all over yourselves for being creative with the puns.
Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:48 AM (Wnv9h)

107 Willowed:

The bullshit is so deep in that write up it’d cover the Empire State Building…. Yeah, she’s trailing nationwide but leading by 6 with independents in swing states…. Complete and total BS
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 01, 2024 09:20 AM (6RwsA)
==
Nothing in early voting supports a Kamala surge. There is no enthusiasm in her voters. It all comes down to how well can the RNC, who appears a bit more competent this time, fight off the steal attempts. Even the typical silliness in Detroit in Michigan is being off set by the fact it isn't happening much of anywhere else in the state. The other thing - Harris has pulled almost all ads out of NC, and shifted them to Virginia. RCP has closed in NH and put Minnesota into a tossup. Does that sound like a Harris surge? I respect Atlas's work, but even they have blue wins inside the margin of error. Be positive, get your friends to vote. Say some prayers. Enjoy the weekend!

Posted by: Black JEM at November 01, 2024 09:48 AM (GZYu7)

108 Dear Teen Vogue, I was cavorting in my woodsy bath one day with my nymphs when a terrible man walked out of the woods without permission, so I transformed him into a dear and set the dog pack on him.

Posted by: Diana at November 01, 2024 09:48 AM (Je6Mg)

109 I can't believe Hadrian is missing this ! Not only is there a dog, it looks like a ..well, not a borzoi, but another hunting dog!

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2024 09:48 AM (V13WU)

110 Oh, I guess the person on the right is a chick.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:48 AM (v6JzV)

111 Is that the same thing as a schtick?

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:46 AM (pZEOD)

I guess you don't hear a lot of Yiddish in Alabama!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2024 09:48 AM (d9fT1)

112 That's Actaeon. If you embiggen it, you can see the antlers as Diana turns him into a deer.
Posted by: Kris

Thanks. Didn't notice that detail.

Posted by: Tuna at November 01, 2024 09:48 AM (oaGWv)

113 Go visit some art!!

Posted by: Black JEM at November 01, 2024 09:49 AM (GZYu7)

114 Then who's the guy on the right with the dog?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:47 AM (v6JzV)
*****
That's a woman with boobs and red hair.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 01, 2024 09:49 AM (NpAcC)

115 I am your Republican Congressman and I forbid this painting.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 01, 2024 09:49 AM (1bNHn)

116 101

Thank you 😊

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:49 AM (pZEOD)

117 Why is one woman playing with a stick in the water?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2024 09:36 AM (oZhjI)

Practicing for her "Please welcome, Destiny to the main stage!" moment.
Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 09:38 AM (ik452)

In light of the puns, I'd like to revise my comment to say "Please welcome BAMBI to the main stage!"

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 09:49 AM (ik452)

118
+++
A deer with a huge schwanzstucker.
+++

What knockers!!

Posted by: I miss Teri Garr at November 01, 2024 09:50 AM (DobEs)

119 PISTOL: Then go like Sir Actaeon, he,
With Ringwood at thy heels!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 01, 2024 09:50 AM (U1w17)

120 Be positive, get your friends to vote.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 01, 2024 09:48 AM (GZYu7)

This. Exactly, 100%, this!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2024 09:50 AM (d9fT1)

121 Just so y’all know, I am rolling my eyes while you fawn all over yourselves for being creative with the puns.
Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM

*golf clap*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:48 AM (Wnv9h)

*joins in the golf clap*

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 09:50 AM (ik452)

122 Then who's the guy on the right with the dog?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:47 AM (v6JzV)

Embiggen it. That's a chick. You can tell by the 'do. Another one of Diana's nymphs?

Posted by: Kris at November 01, 2024 09:50 AM (EwaUh)

123 Go visit some art!!
Posted by: Black JEM at November 01, 2024 09:49 AM (GZYu7)

Yes, expose yourself to art!

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 01, 2024 09:50 AM (Aqu9a)

124 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2024 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

125 And I'm lookin'

At yo tittays!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2024 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

126 Embiggen it. That's a chick. You can tell by the 'do. Another one of Diana's nymphs?
Posted by: Kris

Yeah, I had to really embiggen it a lot to see that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:51 AM (v6JzV)

127 Trees, dog, sniper, boobs... that's quality art.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Pfff, there's no sni....

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 01, 2024 09:51 AM (IG4Id)

128 lobotomy

Posted by: BignJames at November 01, 2024 09:46 AM (Yj6Os)

Ah...so you've met CBD?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2024 09:51 AM (d9fT1)

129 Also for most of the year if you laid naked in the water you'd quickly turn blue
Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2024 09:38 AM (oZhjI)

That's hot.

Posted by: Papa Smurf at November 01, 2024 09:52 AM (PiwSw)

130
124 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2024 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

125 And I'm lookin'

At yo tittays!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2024 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

Back to back Sponge schtick!

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 09:52 AM (ik452)

131 I am at peace with these activities.

Posted by: Sifty at November 01, 2024 09:52 AM (Wvp2j)

132 And the ladies are very well armed. See left.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 09:52 AM (hovnC)

133 We're told that Actaeon was trained by the centaur Chiron. Funny how Chiron seems to be the only civilized centaur in all mythology; the others were drunken louts and/or barbarians. Maybe it was because Chiron was the son of the Titan Cronus, and that he had human forelegs instead of horse legs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 09:47 AM (J2vNu)
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Nessus came to a bad end. Then Herc came to a worser end.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 01, 2024 09:52 AM (U1w17)

134 111 I guess you don't hear a lot of Yiddish in Alabama!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November

Nope. The bagels are fluffy and no one knows what matzo ball soup is, either. But our fried okra, fried chicken, fried everything you can think of is delicious.

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:52 AM (pZEOD)

135 Drunken, loutish, and barbarian is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at November 01, 2024 09:52 AM (DobEs)

136 Antler guy looks pretty surprised himself.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 01, 2024 09:53 AM (QyT5w)

137 The best way to get rid of barbarians is to dilute them with Barbasol!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 09:53 AM (HnUIn)

138 I guess you don't hear a lot of Yiddish in Alabama!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November

Nope. The bagels are fluffy and no one knows what matzo ball soup is, either. But our fried okra, fried chicken, fried everything you can think of is delicious.
Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:52 AM (pZEOD)

Even fried kale smoothies??

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 09:53 AM (ik452)

139 But our fried okra, fried chicken, fried everything you can think of is delicious.
Posted by: Piper

Even the fried kale?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:53 AM (v6JzV)

140 I am your Republican Congressman and I forbid this painting.
Posted by: Eeyore

Hahahaha, that was such a hilarious self-own of a stupid ad.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 01, 2024 09:53 AM (yc1L0)

141 In hind sight, maybe deer puns were a bad idea.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:42 AM (Wnv9h)

It would stop if not for all the sweet government doe.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2024 09:53 AM (gbOdA)

142 Drunken, loutish, and barbarian is no way to go through life, son.
Posted by: Dean Wormer at November 01, 2024 09:52 AM

The Hell it's not! Hunter Biden.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 09:54 AM (ewjUl)

143 But our fried okra, fried chicken, fried everything you can think of is delicious.

Posted by: Piper

Mmm...make it rattle in the pan.

Posted by: BignJames at November 01, 2024 09:54 AM (Yj6Os)

144 Even the fried kale?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

In lots of butter. Yummy!

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:55 AM (pZEOD)

145 Commas...how do they work?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 01, 2024 09:55 AM (XMwZJ)

146 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 957

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2024 09:56 AM (gbOdA)

147 Reminds me. I haven't listened to the Barenaked Ladies in a while. I like their stuff.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 09:56 AM (ewjUl)

148 95 Being a renowned armchair Monday morning psychiatrist myself, The juxtaposition of last weeks unrelenting, piss-poor, low-class, modern drek "art" to this weeks boobapalooza of actual painting talent suggests that the poster of the Art Thread has serious manic depressive episodes. Thorazine, warm baths, and intense psychotherapy could, perhaps, even out these intense highs and lows. Some people don't want the help and enjoy inflicting pain on innocent art thread denizens.

Posted by: Dr. Sigmoid at November 01, 2024 09:42 AM (nS6qG)

lobotomy
Posted by: BignJames

Ooooooo.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 01, 2024 09:56 AM (Aw8VT)

149 I guess you don't hear a lot of Yiddish in Alabama!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November

Nope. The bagels are fluffy and no one knows what matzo ball soup is, either. But our fried okra, fried chicken, fried everything you can think of is delicious.
Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:52 AM (pZEOD)
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Mississippi also suffers from a tragic lack of Jewish people. When touring Vicksburg, the hotel made us up box lunches. The sandwiches were Wonder Bread, baloney and mayonnaise.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 01, 2024 09:56 AM (U1w17)

150 Corot's landscape paintings are lovely. I like how he renders light in his works. Here, it sparkles and makes everything look lush. The mythological scene is secondary to the setting.

Posted by: Kris at November 01, 2024 09:56 AM (EwaUh)

151 Commas...how do they work?
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

Beats me. I'm still trying to figure out apostrophes.
-- Joe Biden

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:56 AM (v6JzV)

152 138
Even fried kale smoothies??
Posted by: Doof at November

This morning was spinach, avocado, mango and pineapple. Not fried. Blended with almond milk.

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 09:56 AM (pZEOD)

153 Plus throwed rolls.

Posted by: Lambert's Cafe at November 01, 2024 09:57 AM (DobEs)

154 I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 09:57 AM (hovnC)

155 Just a reminder- Diana was the goddess of the hunt.
Which explains the figure on the right with the dog, and the spears belonging to the bathers.

No professional courtesy to another hunter, I guess.

Posted by: sal at November 01, 2024 09:57 AM (f+FmA)

156 Happy to report that GOP early voting is kicking Democrat ass here in Wisconsin.

Article at daily caller

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2024 09:57 AM (qdej0)

157 It's no Pollock.

Posted by: Artsy Fartsy at November 01, 2024 09:57 AM (+kpAh)

158 Reminds me. I haven't listened to the Barenaked Ladies in a while. I like their stuff.
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 09:56 AM (ewjUl)

eh - It's all been done before

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 09:57 AM (ik452)

159 147 Reminds me. I haven't listened to the Barenaked Ladies in a while. I like their stuff.
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 09:56 AM (ewjUl)

I could be happy for the rest of my life if I never heard 'One Week' ever again.

And guess what just started up in my head...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2024 09:57 AM (y31cs)

160 Most of the Greek gods, and I guess the Roman too, were pretty capricious, without many more civilized qualities than a spoiled child. Zeus and Apoloo raped human women; Artemis turned a hapless guy (who accidentally blundered across her when she was naked) into a stag so that he fell prey to his own hounds. And Hera? Hell, Madame Pantsuit (aka Hillary) isn't even in it when it comes to spite and revenge on Zeus's luckless paramours.

Admittedly, some of the humans deserved being zapped. Who was it who served human flesh to the gods at a feast, arrogantly sure they would never realize? His curse traveled on down to his descendants too?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 09:57 AM (J2vNu)

161 Reminds me. I haven't listened to the Barenaked Ladies in a while. I like their stuff.
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 09:56 AM (ewjUl)
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The whole Universe was in a hot, dense state...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 01, 2024 09:57 AM (U1w17)

162 In hind sight, maybe deer puns were a bad idea.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 09:42 AM (Wnv9h)

It would stop if not for all the sweet government doe.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2024 09:53 AM

Horny.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 09:58 AM (ewjUl)

163 The mythological scene is secondary to the setting.

Posted by: Kris at November 01, 2024 09:56 AM (EwaUh)

Why?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2024 09:58 AM (d9fT1)

164 Lots of trick or treated in our neighborhood and a great time, Except one small incident. A friends kids joined us and when we started going up to a house with some prominent TRUMP yard signs they decided they didn't want to go to that one because orange man bad. I asked why and they blathered something about Kamala was going to bring prices down and help everyone. I told her those were all lies and an not believe everything you hear about politics.

These are kids are in 2nd and 3rd grade and already being propagandized into being good little lemmings.

Posted by: Ripley at November 01, 2024 09:58 AM (GUOwU)

165 This morning was spinach, avocado, mango and pineapple. Not fried. Blended with almond milk.
Posted by: Piper

Spinach and pineapple together? That's a weird combo.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 09:58 AM (v6JzV)

166 Looking closer at antler guy, he seems to be trying the T Rex defense of holding still, thinking Diana's vision is based on movement

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 01, 2024 09:58 AM (QyT5w)

167 Skinny dippers. Well done.

Posted by: javems at November 01, 2024 09:58 AM (8I4hW)

168 I could be happy for the rest of my life if I never heard 'One Week' ever again.

And guess what just started up in my head...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2024 09:57 AM

Chicken the China the Chinese chicken, have a drumstick and your brain starts ticken...

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 09:59 AM (ewjUl)

169 Reminds me. I haven't listened to the Barenaked Ladies in a while. I like their stuff.
Posted by: Minnfidel

So like, more than One Week?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 01, 2024 09:59 AM (yc1L0)

170 Mmm...make it rattle in the pan.
Posted by: BignJames at November 01, 2024 09:54 AM (Yj6Os)

Yeah, just cornmeal- none of that breaded nonsense.

Posted by: sal at November 01, 2024 09:59 AM (f+FmA)

171 Just a reminder- Diana was the goddess of the hunt.
Which explains the figure on the right with the dog, and the spears belonging to the bathers.

No professional courtesy to another hunter, I guess.
Posted by: sal at November 01, 2024

***
A variant on the Artemis/Actaeon story has it that Actaeon boasted he was a better hunter than the goddess. ("Dude! You got a death wish???")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 09:59 AM (J2vNu)

172 Spinach and pineapple together? That's a weird combo.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at

You can’t taste the spinach.

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 10:00 AM (pZEOD)

173 Skinny dippers. Well done.
Posted by: javems at November 01, 2024 09:58 AM (8I4hW)
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I dunno...they don't look that skinny to me...

full-figured, luscious dippers?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 01, 2024 10:00 AM (7fElN)

174 lobotomy
Posted by: BignJames at November 01, 2024 09:46 AM (Yj6Os)

You asked for it!
https://youtu.be/4gjYqcwaklo

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 10:00 AM (ik452)

175 Dear Playboy. So there I was on my deer stand, when all the sudden....

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 10:00 AM (ewjUl)

176 Southern Appalachia isn't exactly Crown Heights, but it has more Jews than I expected to see. There's even a congregation near mine that dates back to the Civil War.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 01, 2024 10:01 AM (dC+EJ)

177 I want some fried green tomatoes and I want them now.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2024 10:01 AM (t8vHj)

178 It's no Pollock.
Posted by: Artsy Fartsy

Hey!! I'm right here you know!

Posted by: Chuck Shadowski at November 01, 2024 10:01 AM (WXNFJ)

179 Skinny dippers. Well done.
Posted by: javems at November 01, 2024 09:58 AM (8I4hW)
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I dunno...they don't look that skinny to me...

full-figured, luscious dippers?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 01, 2024 10:00 AM (7fElN)

Chunky Dunkers FTW!

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 01, 2024 10:01 AM (Aqu9a)

180 well, let's be honest, who would want to approach a house with kamala/walz sign ?

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2024 10:01 AM (V13WU)

181 It's no Pollock.
Posted by: Artsy Fartsy

Fish puns incoming. This is gonna get crappie fast.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 10:01 AM (ewjUl)

182 Have we reined in the deer puns yet?

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

183 A variant on the Artemis/Actaeon story has it that Actaeon boasted he was a better hunter than the goddess. ("Dude! You got a death wish???")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 09:59 AM (J2vNu

Arachne has joined the chat.

Posted by: sal at November 01, 2024 10:02 AM (f+FmA)

184 Have we reined in the deer puns yet?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:01 AM (v6JzV)
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I haven't the hart to.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 01, 2024 10:02 AM (U1w17)

185 Have we reined in the deer puns yet?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:01 AM

I think most, high tailed it out of here.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 10:02 AM (ewjUl)

186 Have we reined in the deer puns yet?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:01 AM (v6JzV)
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I haven't the hart to.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar

Ooooo, that's like a pun deep cut right there.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 01, 2024 10:03 AM (yc1L0)

187 84 The narrative, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, recounts the fate of a young hunter Actaeon as he encounters the naked figure of the goddess Diana and her nymphs enjoying a woodland bath. Diana, in a fit of embarrassed fury, splashes water on the unwitting hunter, transforming him into a deer.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2024 09:40 AM (gbOdA)

Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along, you get thirsty, you spot a little brook, you put your little deer lips down to the cool clear water... bam! A fuckin' bullet rips off part of your head! Your brains are laying on the ground in little bloody pieces! Now I ask ya. Would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?”

Posted by: Mona Lisa Vito at November 01, 2024 10:03 AM (SRRAx)

188 Klaus Arminius @Klaus_Arminius Oct 30
Germany: A tiny German village of 600 residents will receive 500 immigrants despite voting against it

The local residents are outraged, alienated, and feel helpless: “We were totally betrayed”

Over night this village will see their population nearly doubled despite democratically voting against it.
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~~Aurora~~ Petersdorf, Germany.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:03 AM (hovnC)

189 A variant on the Artemis/Actaeon story has it that Actaeon boasted he was a better hunter than the goddess. ("Dude! You got a death wish???")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 09:59 AM (J2vNu
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Word to the wise...

Never, ever claim to be better than a god/goddess at ANYTHING. They will make you eat those words.

Literally, if they are in a bad mood.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 01, 2024 10:03 AM (7fElN)

190 "well, let's be honest, who would want to approach a house with kamala/walz sign ?
Posted by: runner "

Risky. If you have too much candy you have to give 1/2 it to the owner who will distribute to less fortunate kids.

Posted by: Ripley at November 01, 2024 10:04 AM (GUOwU)

191 They're helping Arnie look for the ball he hooked into that general vicinity.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 01, 2024 10:04 AM (Sa3se)

192 I really hope we had some lefty trolls who came by to be ridiculous only to find this particular thread.

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 10:04 AM (pZEOD)

193 Admittedly, some of the humans deserved being zapped. Who was it who served human flesh to the gods at a feast, arrogantly sure they would never realize? His curse traveled on down to his descendants too?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024

***
Okay, so that was Tantalus, father to Pelops, who fathered Atreus, who fathered Agamemnon and Menelaus of the Trojan War story. Neat how that all works out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

194 "Bummer of a birthmark, Hal"

Posted by: Doof - looking through an old Far Side book at November 01, 2024 10:05 AM (ik452)

195 Would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?”
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Deer David Brooks would.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:06 AM (hovnC)

196 190 Riplwy.

Those kudzu are the ones on the subway selling g candy they got from Snap and stolen Ebt bennies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2024 10:06 AM (qdej0)

197 I've always liked Milton's idea that the Greek and Roman gods were just the rebellious angels who fell with Satan.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:06 AM (v6JzV)

198 You can't milk almonds. They have no mammary glands at all. Stop the disinformation.

Posted by: Dairy Council at November 01, 2024 10:06 AM (nS6qG)

199 Have we reined in the deer puns yet?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:01 AM

I think most, high tailed it out of here.
Posted by: Minnfidel
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We're just ruminating on it. There will be more.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:06 AM (hovnC)

200 True story:

Me, my wife and 3 kids were walking a trail along a creek to a place that has a large flat rock in the middle of the creek called Meditation Rock. It’s a beautiful place. There is an old wooden staircase that goes down the 20 feet or so to the rock. My youngest son about 10 at the time went ahead of us. I show up a few minutes later and he is just standing there at the top of the stairs looking at the rock. I look down and there is this beautiful young woman buck naked on the rock. Unfortunately by the time I got there she was already putting on her clothes. Damn luck.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 01, 2024 10:07 AM (Vh9CX)

201 Surprised? I see no otters.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline - Person of Refuse at November 01, 2024 10:07 AM (JRP2U)

202 187 Now I ask ya. Would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?”
Posted by: Mona Lisa Vito at November

Any deer hunter worth their salt would not be shooting the deer in the head.

Should I have started that sentence with “actually”?

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 10:07 AM (pZEOD)

203 I've always liked Milton's idea that the Greek and Roman gods were just the rebellious angels who fell with Satan.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 1

***
Neat concept. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

204 "Bummer of a birthmark, Hal"
Posted by: Doof - looking through an old Far Side book

A true classic.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:07 AM (v6JzV)

205 "Bummer of a birthmark, Hal"
Posted by: Doof
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I understood that reference.

Posted by: Captain America at November 01, 2024 10:07 AM (hovnC)

206 Well that's just plain nuts

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 01, 2024 10:07 AM (QyT5w)

207 Admittedly, some of the humans deserved being zapped. Who was it who served human flesh to the gods at a feast, arrogantly sure they would never realize? His curse traveled on down to his descendants too?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 09:57 AM (J2vNu)

The Dahmer family was never the same after that.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 01, 2024 10:08 AM (g8Ew8)

208 This is right before the transitioning to Impressionism and plein aire painting. Paint in tubes and new types of paint brushes as a result of advances to bind the bristles to the handles. Also photography. Very interesting period in the art world.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 01, 2024 10:08 AM (ndoNK)

209 Have we reined in the deer puns yet?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:01 AM

I think most, high tailed it out of here.
Posted by: Minnfidel
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We're just ruminating on it. There will be more.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:06 AM

Seems we're in a rut.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 10:08 AM (ewjUl)

210 I've always liked Milton's idea that the Greek and Roman gods were just the rebellious angels who fell with Satan.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:06 AM (v6JzV)
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From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the sunset, dropt from the zenith like a falling star.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 01, 2024 10:08 AM (U1w17)

211 Forgot to paste, I denounce myself

You can't milk almonds. They have no mammary glands at all. Stop the disinformation.

That's just plain nuts

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 01, 2024 10:09 AM (QyT5w)

212 I hope you spanked his ass off, MAGA_Ken, for not waving you over right away.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:09 AM (hovnC)

213 Should I have started that sentence with “actually”?
Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 10:07 AM (pZEOD)

Only if you wrinkle your upper lip and push your glasses back up. And spell it "ackshully"

Posted by: Doof - looking through an old Far Side book at November 01, 2024 10:09 AM (ik452)

214 You can't milk almonds. They have no mammary glands at all. Stop the disinformation.

I looked for moth balls at the store. You know how hard they are to find?

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 10:09 AM (ewjUl)

215 Didn't this end badly for Actaeon?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 01, 2024 10:10 AM (1bNHn)

216 Speaking of dunking dames, Randi Oakes holds the title of most dunked dame on Battle of the Network Stars. She went under 16 times.

Posted by: Guinness Book at November 01, 2024 10:11 AM (nS6qG)

217 I looked for moth balls at the store. You know how hard they are to find?
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 10:09 AM (ewjUl)

Did you look under the schtick?

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 10:11 AM (ik452)

218 Speaking of dunking dames, Randi Oakes holds the title of most dunked dame on Battle of the Network Stars. She went under 16 times.
Posted by: Guinness Book at November 01, 2024 10:11 AM (nS6qG)
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I'll trade you 16 Randi Oakes for one Jan Smithers.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 01, 2024 10:11 AM (U1w17)

219 Monroe County District Attorney Mike Mancuso posted on social media that the fraudulent voter registration forms were traced to a company calling itself Field + Media Corps, a subsidiary of FieldCorps. The company is based in Arizona but working out of Lancaster County.

The company's website listed a number of Democratic campaigns as clients including Biden-Harris, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Arizona Democrats. Calls to the number listed went unreturned and the website was taken down.

Posted by: SMOD at November 01, 2024 10:12 AM (RHGPo)

220 They're helping Arnie look for the ball he hooked into that general vicinity.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

But what they really want is Arnie's...you know...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:12 AM (v6JzV)

221 Satyr? I hardly knew 'er!

Posted by: fd at November 01, 2024 10:13 AM (vFG9F)

222 Some of you are having trouble hunting for deer puns. Must not be your bag.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline - Person of Refuse at November 01, 2024 10:13 AM (JRP2U)

223 212 I hope you spanked his ass off, MAGA_Ken, for not waving you over right away.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:09 AM (hovnC)

———-

He was just looking down staring as I was getting closer (you can’t see the rock until you get to the stairs) I was wondering why he was just standing there. The only thing I got to see was her bare back as she was pulling her shirt over head.

We went down and she sat there and didn’t leave for at least 20 minutes. I didn’t say anything to my wife until way afterwards.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 01, 2024 10:14 AM (Vh9CX)

224 It's no Pollock.
Posted by: Artsy Fartsy at November 01, 2024 09:57 AM (+kpAh)

Miracles do happen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2024 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

225 Who has dropped more boxers?

Muhammad Ali or Kamala Harris?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 01, 2024 10:15 AM (rKWoo)

226 163 The mythological scene is secondary to the setting.

Posted by: Kris at November 01, 2024 09:56 AM (EwaUh)

Why?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2024 09:58 AM (d9fT1)

For me, I think it is because Corot was mainly a landscapist. When people do appear in his works, the setting still seems to dominate. While this scene has drama, and the ladies are beautiful and central, they are small and in the lower third of the painting. Two-thirds of the canvas is filled with nature and light. To me, that tree that is cutting through the center -- there's something about it that is visually attractive to me. I also really dig that large rockface in the center. It pushes everything to the front. It's a force in itself. To me, Diana may be a goddess, but this cliff dwarfs her.

Posted by: Kris at November 01, 2024 10:15 AM (EwaUh)

227 "I looked for moth balls at the store. You know how hard they are to find?
Posted by: Minnfidel"

You have to hold 'em by the wings.

Posted by: fd at November 01, 2024 10:15 AM (vFG9F)

228 228 "I looked for moth balls at the store. You know how hard they are to find?
Posted by: Minnfidel"

You have to hold 'em by the wings.
Posted by: fd at November 01, 2024 10:15 AM (vFG9F)

But once you find them, you'll have their full and undivided attention.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 01, 2024 10:16 AM (N39Ws)

229 Some of you are having trouble hunting for deer puns. Must not be your bag.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline

Best value for the money?

Deer nuts. Still under a buck.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 01, 2024 10:17 AM (rKWoo)

230 Gonna need someone to sort these deer puns. Maybe a diagram in the style of Venn is on the horizon?

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 10:18 AM (ik452)

231 226 Who has dropped more boxers?

Muhammad Ali or Kamala Harris?
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 01, 2024 10:15 AM (rKWoo)

Sandra Fluke and Monica Lewinsky would like to join the chat.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 01, 2024 10:18 AM (N39Ws)

232 US emploers add just 12,000 jobs across the entire country.

Build Back Better!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 01, 2024 10:18 AM (rKWoo)

233 Best value for the money?

Deer nuts. Still under a buck.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 01, 2024 10:17 AM

If I harvest a doe next week I'll just tell the DNR officer it identified as a buck.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 10:18 AM (ewjUl)

234 Collin Rugg @CollinRugg 8h
NEW: Jennifer Lopez, who was at the same party where her boyfriend Diddy is accused of r*ping a 13-year-old, nearly starts crying while talking about how offended she was by a joke from a comedian.

The comments were made at a Harris campaign event in Las Vegas.

"At Madison Square Garden. He reminded us who he really is and how he really feels. It wasn't just Puerto Ricans that were offended that day, okay?"

"It was every Latino in this country. It was humanity and anyone of decent character."

"I'm a lover. You guys know that about me. I'm a lover. I am not a fighter."

Ironically, at the 2000 VMAs afterparty, where Diddy is accused of r*ping a 13-year-old, Lopez was seen fighting with her then-boyfriend.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:18 AM (hovnC)

235 I've mounted a few nice racks in my day.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 10:19 AM (ewjUl)

236 Build Back Better!
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 01, 2024 10:18 AM (rKWoo)

We Won't Go Back!!!

Posted by: ... at November 01, 2024 10:19 AM (nBRaJ)

237 The Avenger stars assembled for a Kamala commercial. I’m running out of movies I will watch. I think I’m down to Mel Gibson , Clint Eastwood and Shazam.

I recently watched American Underdog with Zachary Levi. How come no one told about that one.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 01, 2024 10:19 AM (D6PGr)

238 195 Would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?”
----------
Deer David Brooks would.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:06 AM (hovnC)

I wonder how Brooks would respond if that cousin who was frightened by Italian sandwiches took him hunting.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 01, 2024 10:19 AM (kTd/k)

239 If I harvest a doe next week I'll just tell the DNR officer it identified as a buck.
Posted by: Minnfidel

👍🏻

Put a small sign out next to a corn pile:

"This corn is for squirrels ONLY. Any animal other than squirrels found eating said corn will be shot!"

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 01, 2024 10:20 AM (rKWoo)

240 Southern Appalachia isn't exactly Crown Heights, but it has more Jews than I expected to see. There's even a congregation near mine that dates back to the Civil War.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

At a church service I attended last year, the sermon was all about the advice that Moses got from his father-in-law Jethro.

All I could think of every time his name was mentioned was Jethro Bodine.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:20 AM (v6JzV)

241 197 I've always liked Milton's idea that the Greek and Roman gods were just the rebellious angels who fell with Satan.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:06 AM (v6JzV)

Star Trek told me they were aliens.

Posted by: Kris at November 01, 2024 10:20 AM (EwaUh)

242 233 US emploers add just 12,000 jobs across the entire country.

Build Back Better!
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 01, 2024 10:18 AM (rKWoo)

On ZeroHedge:
-August revised DOWN by 81,000 from +159,000 to +78,000
-September Revised DOWN by 31,000 from 254,000 to 223,000
-While the total payroll is just barely positive, back out the 40,000 government jobs and you'll see that private payrolls was actually negative. Down -28,000 from a +223k pre-revision. First negative since Dec. 2020

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 01, 2024 10:21 AM (N39Ws)

243 Very nice painting

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2024 10:22 AM (EDWIL)

244 " US employers add just 12,000 jobs across the entire country."

To be revised downward months later.

Posted by: fd at November 01, 2024 10:22 AM (vFG9F)

245 Some of you are having trouble hunting for deer puns. Must not be your bag.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline

My field of f**ks is fallow.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:22 AM (v6JzV)

246 183 A variant on the Artemis/Actaeon story has it that Actaeon boasted he was a better hunter than the goddess. ("Dude! You got a death wish???")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 09:59 AM (J2vNu

Arachne has joined the chat.
Posted by: sal at November 01, 2024 10:02 AM (f+FmA)

Can I get in of this conversation?

Posted by: Niobe at November 01, 2024 10:22 AM (EwaUh)

247 @CollinRugg
NEW: Jennifer Lopez, who was at the same party where her boyfriend Diddy is accused of r*ping a 13-year-old, nearly starts crying while talking about how offended she was by a joke from a comedian. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:18 AM (hovnC)
++++
She's just worried about being Jenny from the (Cell) Block

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 10:23 AM (HnUIn)

248 Nobody will do the jobs Americans don't have.

Posted by: fd at November 01, 2024 10:23 AM (vFG9F)

249 Star Trek told me they were aliens.
Posted by: Kris

That was the first Star Trek episode I ever saw as a kid. As an avid reader of Greek mythology, I really enjoyed it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:23 AM (v6JzV)

250 J'approve!

Posted by: Lena D. at November 01, 2024 10:24 AM (a3Q+t)

251 197 I've always liked Milton's idea that the Greek and Roman gods were just the rebellious angels who fell with Satan.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:06 AM (v6JzV)
Agreed. Bunch of greedy, naughty, cruel beings who would be gods.

Posted by: Eromero at November 01, 2024 10:24 AM (LHPAg)

252 My field of f**ks is fallow.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:22 AM (v6JzV)

Did you mean field of bucks?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 01, 2024 10:24 AM (D6PGr)

253 The Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo has reassembled The Avengers to endorse Kamala Harris for United States President ahead of election day on November 5, 2024. The video also features Chris Evans (Captain America), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Paul Bettany (Vision), Danai Gurira (Okoye), and Don Cheadle (War Machine).

.. pretend super heroes endorse a pretend candidate

Posted by: SMOD at November 01, 2024 10:25 AM (RHGPo)

254 My field of beef is tallow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2024 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

255 [troll scat deleted] [CBD]

First off.. Morning all.... I have to say you are a debbie Downer.... Lighten up Francis

Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2024 10:25 AM (IyPmt)

256 How could anybody not like this painting? Don’t understand why that one woman is covering up. I would definitely put this up in my house. It’s happy and beautiful. Perfect way to end the week.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at November 01, 2024 10:25 AM (gq01G)

257 He's kinda got that Actaeon in the headlights look.

Posted by: Bambi at November 01, 2024 10:25 AM (DobEs)

258 So they grab Diddy and then contact all his friends and "ask" for an endorsement...?

Posted by: ... at November 01, 2024 10:26 AM (nBRaJ)

259 My field of puddles are shallow.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 01, 2024 10:26 AM (xOnCy)

260 I remember one of aces running jokes was blaming his f ups on a couple of Puerto Rican kids.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 01, 2024 10:26 AM (D6PGr)

261 Acteon was just an innocent transgender trying to use the ladies bathroom. Diana is a bigot and a h8r.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at November 01, 2024 10:26 AM (EAFEJ)

262
Jesse Cohen @JesseCohenInv 1h
🚨 Just In: October Nonfarm Payrolls rise 12,000, badly missing expectations for 106,000.

U.S. Unemployment Rate holds at 4.1%, matching estimates.

What will Jerome Powell do now?
====
More info making it even worse even accepting the 4.1% there's actually full-employment lie.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:26 AM (hovnC)

263 You know, looking at the lady hanging from the branch....if we just rotated the branch to be vertical....maybe had another lady join her....could get a lot more interest in this piece!!!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 01, 2024 10:26 AM (JCZqz)

264 The Avenger stars assembled for a Kamala commercial. I’m running out of movies I will watch. I think I’m down to Mel Gibson , Clint Eastwood and Shazam.
===

ScarJo is a Dennys 6 at 2:00am at best in that terrible bit of propaganda.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 01, 2024 10:27 AM (17s+e)

265 Is it wrong that I love the fact that Joe Biden called a majority of Trump's supporters White Trash?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2024 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

266 Serious comment: I do not like the color palette. Also, the boobs of the girl humping the tree are rendered awkwardly. Would not hang.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at November 01, 2024 10:27 AM (EAFEJ)

267 My field of cups are mallow.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline - Person of Refuse at November 01, 2024 10:28 AM (JRP2U)

268 Some of you are having trouble hunting for deer puns. Must not be your bag.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline

My field of f**ks is fallow.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
-----
Now a pointless endeavour.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:28 AM (hovnC)

269 Morning.

Nudies!

Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2024 10:28 AM (1Yy3c)

270 I bet there were a lot of minor splinter injuries before the invention of the loofa.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 01, 2024 10:28 AM (Y6IkP)

271 My field of mire is wallow

Posted by: Doof at November 01, 2024 10:29 AM (ik452)

272
ScarJo is a Dennys 6 at 2:00am at best in that terrible bit of propaganda.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 01, 2024 10:27 AM (17s+e)

That video was an unmitigated bunch or infected mule shit.

Also, anything starring Mark Ruffalo should be nuked from space.

I hope the Avengers franchise dies a miserable, painful death because of that.

Screw ALL of those rich, spoiled, elitist, ungrateful assholes. Every last one of them.

Maybe Robert Downey Jr. will get back on black tar so I can laugh at him in the gutter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2024 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

273 I never thought I'd see a series of puns that could top horse puns here. Guess we have to mount a new winner!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:29 AM (J2vNu)

274 264 The Avenger stars assembled for a Kamala commercial. I’m running out of movies I will watch. I think I’m down to Mel Gibson , Clint Eastwood and Shazam.
===

ScarJo is a Dennys 6 at 2:00am at best in that terrible bit of propaganda.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 01, 2024 10:27 AM (17s+e)

After pounding beers with Cuervo chasers for the prior 5 hours.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 01, 2024 10:29 AM (N39Ws)

275 Put a small sign out next to a corn pile:

"This corn is for squirrels ONLY. Any animal other than squirrels found eating said corn will be shot!"
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 01, 2024 10:20 AM

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 10:29 AM (ewjUl)

276 Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2024 10:25 AM (IyPmt)

It's a troll.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2024 10:29 AM (d9fT1)

277
U.S. Unemployment Rate holds at 4.1%, matching estimates.

Now include those that have complete dropped from the workforce because there IS NO WORK.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2024 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

278
"That's the last time I'll do that for two bucks."

Posted by: Said the doe coming out of the woods at November 01, 2024 10:30 AM (DobEs)

279 >>> I never saw Daphne's myth. . .
Posted by: Mike Tyson at November 01, 2024 09:45 AM (WXNFJ)

She keeps it covered with a myrthkin.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 01, 2024 10:30 AM (Y6IkP)

280 [troll scat deleted] [CBD]

I've noticed your posts these last couple of days. They all seem to be of the same general theme. I don't recognize your nic - you may have been here longer and I just haven't noticed. Anyway, I'm tired of you. Sorry. Just am.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 01, 2024 10:30 AM (SfhV1)

281 276 Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2024 10:25 AM (IyPmt)

It's a troll.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2024 10:29 AM (d9fT1

I wasn't sure.. Sometimes it sounded rational but most of the time it brings up bad polls...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2024 10:31 AM (IyPmt)

282 So they grab Diddy and then contact all his friends and "ask" for an endorsement...?
Posted by: ... at November 01, 2024 10:26 AM (nBRaJ)

Basically, yes. They have the tapes. They've used the tapes for Kumswala's advantage.

They're shitting bricks because Trump will release the tapes and they're all screwed, literally.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2024 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

283 Serious comment: I do not like the color palette. Also, the boobs of the girl humping the tree are rendered awkwardly. Would not hang.
Posted by: WaitingForMartel at November 01, 2024 10:27 AM (EAFEJ

The color palette is saved because of its size . If it were 16x20 I would agree with you . It would look like a solid green smudge from 10 feet.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 01, 2024 10:31 AM (D6PGr)

284 Yawn. I guess I gotta pay attention to the election now, it's in what, like two weeks? Oh, next week! Man, that's crazy. Hey, who's running anyway, it's Hillary and that Biden guy, right? Who? Who's Harris? Oh, her! Oh yeah, and Trump. Wait, I thought he got killed or was in prison or something! Gee, I don't know. Am I even registered? Anyways, I guess I'll watch the news tonight and see what's going on...

Posted by: 5 Days Out, LIVs Time to Shine at November 01, 2024 10:31 AM (qUkBO)

285 "That's the last time I'll do that for two bucks."
Posted by: Said the doe coming out of the woods at November 01, 2024 10:30 AM

So different than in town?

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 10:31 AM (ewjUl)

286 The Avenger stars assembled for a Kamala commercial. I’m running out of movies I will watch. I think I’m down to Mel Gibson , Clint Eastwood and Shazam.
===

***
Try 1940s movies. They had propaganda too, but they did it with style. (Who today can top Claude Rains, Cary Grant, or Ingrid Bergman?)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:31 AM (J2vNu)

287 First off.. Morning all.... I have to say you are a debbie Downer.... Lighten up Francis
Posted by: It's me donna at

My guess is

It's Joe Xiden. Back again. He can't quit us.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 01, 2024 10:31 AM (6MCJI)

288 For those jonesing for their Democratic Underground reality check, the site is currently open to Star members only, and has been since sometime yesterday afternoon.

You may have to go to Daily Kos.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 01, 2024 10:31 AM (a3Q+t)

289 Settled keeps getting banned but can't quit us.

He doesn't like us very much but hangs around anyway. There's a few like that. We're a special bunch.

Posted by: ... at November 01, 2024 10:32 AM (nBRaJ)

290 265 Is it wrong that I love the fact that Joe Biden called a majority of Trump's supporters White Trash?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2024 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)
White (and other shades) of trash built America and keep it running. And they vote.

Posted by: Eromero at November 01, 2024 10:32 AM (LHPAg)

291 White (and other shades) of trash built America and keep it running. And they vote.
Posted by: Eromero at November 01, 2024 10:32 AM (LHPAg)

And here's hoping that THIS time, they actually vote.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2024 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

292 U.S. Unemployment Rate holds at 4.1%, matching estimates.

Now include those that have complete dropped from the workforce because there IS NO WORK.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
===

I expect the U-4, U-5, and U-6 numbers, MIA since Jan. 2021, to be out and proud when Trump is president.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 01, 2024 10:33 AM (17s+e)

293 Try 1940s movies. They had propaganda too, but they did it with style. (Who today can top Claude Rains, Cary Grant, or Ingrid Bergman?)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Oh man, Notorious. What a great movie!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:33 AM (v6JzV)

294 288 For those jonesing for their Democratic Underground reality check, the site is currently open to Star members only, and has been since sometime yesterday afternoon.

You may have to go to Daily Kos.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Don’t they do this when things start to go pear shaped for them?

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 10:33 AM (QzINz)

295 Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 01, 2024 10:31 AM (6MCJI)

No need to guess.

Posted by: ... at November 01, 2024 10:33 AM (nBRaJ)

296 End Tribalism in Politics @EndTribalism 14h
Jake Tapper throws a tantrum on CNN about Trump saying he will let RFK Jr. go wild on health:

“Just a reminder RFK Jr. has no medical license, and has made wildly inaccurate claims about all sorts of medicines including childhood vaccines.”

“There aren’t even words to describe the hackery that is.”

“Actual medical professionals are sounding the alarm about RFK Jr. playing any sort of roll in healthcare with this country.”

Here’s a tip for journalists, just saying something is inaccurate doesn’t make something inaccurate. If you are going to attack somebody back it up with actual facts and also don’t hand pick a single video that is taken widely out of context as you know it is like he does here.

Also, of course medical professionals are scared of RFK being put into a position of power, they’ve created the sickest country in the history of the world, and RFK is going to hold them accountable for it.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:34 AM (hovnC)

297 For those jonesing for their Democratic Underground reality check, the site is currently open to Star members only, and has been since sometime yesterday afternoon.

You may have to go to Daily Kos.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 01, 2024 10:31 AM

Or I could go stick my junk in a meat grinder, put my tongue in a moving fan, watch a Marvel movie, The View or a thousand other pieces of shit. Pass.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 01, 2024 10:34 AM (ewjUl)

298 Doffs sock

Posted by: Kris at November 01, 2024 10:34 AM (EwaUh)

299 So the market is up almost 500... The jobs numbers ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2024 10:34 AM (IyPmt)

300 For those complaining about the painting's colour palette, it does utilize fawn, one of the Official 'ette Approved Colours, so stop yer bellyachin'.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 01, 2024 10:34 AM (a3Q+t)

301 Slept late today

Suds - a limerick

Actaeon was out hunting one day
Spied Diana and her girlfriends at play
The scene was rather tense
'Til he offered, "Need a rinse?"
"Of course," Diana uttered, "Let us spray!"

Posted by: muldoon at November 01, 2024 10:34 AM (uCfKO)

302 The stock market is jumping on the expectation of more rate cuts, given how bad the job market is.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 01, 2024 10:34 AM (lTGtQ)

303 299 So the market is up almost 500... The jobs numbers ?
-----------
Trump victory rally.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 01, 2024 10:35 AM (AdHga)

304 Star Trek told me they were aliens.
Posted by: Kris
*
That was the first Star Trek episode I ever saw as a kid. As an avid reader of Greek mythology, I really enjoyed it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024

***
As Trek so often did, they got it right -- used all the Greek gods' names. When Time Tunnel the year before had their heroes visit the Trojan War, the Greek characters kept referring to the gods by their *Roman* names. I stopped watching after that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:35 AM (J2vNu)

305 Doffs sock
Posted by: Kris

"Doff" is a great word that doesn't get used nearly enough. Same with "traipse," which somebody used upthread.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:35 AM (v6JzV)

306 Don’t they do this when things start to go pear shaped for them?
Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 10:33 AM

That has been my observation.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 01, 2024 10:35 AM (a3Q+t)

307 267 My field of cups are mallow.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline - Person of Refuse at November 01, 2024 10:28 AM (JRP2U
Now there’s a blast from the past. Flashback to dancing on a sandy floor.

Posted by: Eromero at November 01, 2024 10:35 AM (LHPAg)

308 Trump victory rally.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 01, 2024 10:35 AM (AdHga)

I like your thinking

Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2024 10:35 AM (IyPmt)

309 forWAR'd: Have you been cheated, kidnapped, or creeped out by the IceKing?
Well weep NO MORE! The IceKing Apology Tour is coming to a Kingdom near YOU!

21st Century DEI Picture Title Update.
https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-ApologyTour

Your Cooperation is Appreciated AND *EXPECTED*...

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at November 01, 2024 10:36 AM (YzwEg)

310 But that was their strength!

Robby Starbuck@robbystarbuck
Big news: Weeks ago I notified @Boeing’s new CEO and the Chairman of Boeing’s board that I was planning to expose their woke policies. Today they’re making a BIG preemptive change.
Bloomberg reports that Boeing is DISMANTLING their DEI department and the Boeing VP in charge of that department had her last day today.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at November 01, 2024 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

311 Recently, the site returns this message on their home page: Democratic Underground is currently open to Star members only

Posted by: SMOD at November 01, 2024 10:36 AM (RHGPo)

312 For those complaining about the painting's colour palette, it does utilize fawn, one of the Official 'ette Approved Colours, so stop yer bellyachin'.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Fawn Hall was the model for one of the Nymphs?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:37 AM (v6JzV)

313 You may have to go to Daily Kos.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 01, 2024 10:31 AM (a3Q+t)

I would not take to Daily Kos unless I had no other choice. I warn you that they have dug too deep and awakened a terrible Shadow and Flame in the dark depths.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 01, 2024 10:37 AM (Y6IkP)

314 Too bad we don't have any star members.

Posted by: ... at November 01, 2024 10:37 AM (nBRaJ)

315 Try 1940s movies. They had propaganda too, but they did it with style. (Who today can top Claude Rains, Cary Grant, or Ingrid Bergman?)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Oh man, Notorious. What a great movie!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024

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I hadn't even thought of that one. I was thinking of the three of them in totally separate movies!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:38 AM (J2vNu)

316 Tappers Medical professionals approved the COVID vax by skipping the FDA committee that specifically evaluates vaccines and the medical professionals killed and made people suffer by basically banning the use of Ivermectin and HCQ.

That said I also don’t want RFK Jr near anything. He’s a nut .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 01, 2024 10:38 AM (D6PGr)

317 >>> So the market is up almost 500... The jobs numbers ?
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Trump victory rally.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 01, 2024 10:35 AM (AdHga)

They're anticipating it causing more rate decreases.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 01, 2024 10:38 AM (Y6IkP)

318 312 For those complaining about the painting's colour palette, it does utilize fawn, one of the Official 'ette Approved Colours, so stop yer bellyachin'.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Fawn Hall was the model for one of the Nymphs?
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There is a slight use of mauve in right lower corner. Ergo - Art.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 01, 2024 10:38 AM (AdHga)

319 ut that was their strength!

Robby Starbuck@robbystarbuck
Big news: Weeks ago I notified @Boeing’s new CEO and the Chairman of Boeing’s board that I was planning to expose their woke policies. Today they’re making a BIG preemptive change.
Bloomberg reports that Boeing is DISMANTLING their DEI department and the Boeing VP in charge of that department had her last day today.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever!
===

CORRECTION: Boing is SAYING they are dismantling their DEI department.

The DEI department is not being dismantled but will have a new name.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 01, 2024 10:39 AM (17s+e)

320 Athan Koutsiouroumbas @Athan_K 12h
Lancaster, York, Monroe, and Cambria Counties in Pennsylvania are investigating an alleged voter fraud scheme.

Additional Pennsylvania counties may announce fraud investigations tomorrow.

Harmeet K. Dhillon @pnjaban 12h
The people allegedly behind these illegal PA registrations— Fieldcorps — have been paid more than $2.9M by Arizona Democrats alone so far this year, and hundreds of thousands by Mi Familia Vota, Democrats’ favorite vehicle for court challenges to tear down AZ voter protections!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:39 AM (hovnC)

321 Harris /Biden lied too much for the MSM?!!!

The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: The White House altered the transcript of President Joe Biden's "garbage" remarks despite stenographer concerns, AP sources say.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at November 01, 2024 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

322 The DEI department is not being dismantled but will have a new name.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable

The Department of Falling Doors.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:40 AM (v6JzV)

323 321 Harris /Biden lied too much for the MSM?!!!

The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: The White House altered the transcript of President Joe Biden's "garbage" remarks despite stenographer concerns, AP sources say.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at November 01, 2024 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

Care to see my shocked face?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 01, 2024 10:40 AM (N39Ws)

324 > Bloomberg reports that Boeing is DISMANTLING their DEI department and the Boeing VP in charge of that department had her last day today.
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Boeing's shareholders and customers had enough of their shit and let the company know that under no terms was their history of DEI induced failures going to continue.

It's really down to corporate survival at this point. And DEI has zero to do with that.

Whether Boeing 'survives and thrives' again is debatable, but DEI won't be a part of it. For now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 01, 2024 10:40 AM (Q4IgG)

325 321 Harris /Biden lied too much for the MSM?!!!

The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: The White House altered the transcript of President Joe Biden's "garbage" remarks despite stenographer concerns, AP sources say.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at November 01, 2024 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

Dear White House,

The internet is forever.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 01, 2024 10:41 AM (KbCG3)

326 The only way to revitalize Boeing is to Fire Bomb Japan for months. Its the only way.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 01, 2024 10:41 AM (AdHga)

327 The DEI department is not being dismantled but will have a new name.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 01, 2024 10:39 AM (17s+e)

Out: DEI departments.

In: IED departments.

Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2024 10:42 AM (1Yy3c)

328 I was thinking of Claude Rains in Casablanca, Cary Grant in Penny Serenade, and Ingrid in For Whom the Bell Tolls. But they were all together in Notorious, as Bulgaroctonus mentioned.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:42 AM (J2vNu)

329 The treasurer for the Confederacy was Jewish

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 01, 2024 10:42 AM (gfViB)

330 Bloomberg reports that Boeing is DISMANTLING their DEI department and the Boeing VP in charge of that department had her last day today.
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WIthout looking, I'll guess that the Boing VP in charge of their DEI department is a black woman weighing in at 245.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 01, 2024 10:42 AM (17s+e)

331 Harris /Biden lied too much for the MSM?!!!

The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: The White House altered the transcript of President Joe Biden's "garbage" remarks despite stenographer concerns, AP sources say.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at November 01, 2024 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

Care to see my shocked face?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 01, 2024 10:40 AM (N39Ws)

Only if your name happens to be Sarah Hoyt.

Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2024 10:42 AM (1Yy3c)

332 Yes. The internet is forever. Can't be changed.

I mean if stealth edits were rampant on the internet like the conspiracy theorists claim, then hackers would be going after archive.org.

Posted by: ... at November 01, 2024 10:43 AM (nBRaJ)

333
DU is not representing the free nature of OUR DEMOCRACY.

Posted by: Auspex at November 01, 2024 10:43 AM (j4U/Z)

334 329 The treasurer for the Confederacy was Jewish
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That was our first mistake.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 01, 2024 10:43 AM (AdHga)

335 Yes, I think Christopher is being too optimistic here:

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo 16h
WINNING: Boeing has abolished its DEI department. Earlier this year, we published a story showing how DEI was undermining competence at the company. Insiders tell us it helped put pressure on the new CEO, who made the decision to shutter the department

https://is.gd/LYajSa
news report screencap; Diversity Team reassigned not e.g. fired.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:43 AM (hovnC)

336 It's really down to corporate survival at this point. And DEI has zero to do with that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 01, 2024 10:40 AM (Q4IgG)

Yet there are examples of struggling companies that have doubled down on their DEI/Woke agendas. Disney is the best example.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2024 10:43 AM (d9fT1)

337 Fawn Hall was the model for one of the Nymphs?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:37 AM (v6JzV)
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Fawn Leibowitz. Before the kiln accident.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 01, 2024 10:43 AM (U1w17)

338 The treasurer for the Confederacy was Jewish
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 01, 2024

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Judah P. Benjamin, if I recall aright.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:43 AM (J2vNu)

339 The DEI departments are anything but DEI . It almost always resembles the WNBA .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 01, 2024 10:44 AM (D6PGr)

340 Dear White House,

The internet is forever.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 01, 2024 10:41 AM (KbCG3)

Maybe not?

https://tinyurl.com/cp9mxe5r

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 01, 2024 10:44 AM (GD2xa)

341 The treasurer for the Confederacy was Jewish
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Judah P. Benjamin. Probably the most interesting person involved in that war (and there were a lot of them), North or South. Also Secretary of War and Secretary of State.

After the War, he went to England and became a barrister.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:44 AM (v6JzV)

342 Whether Boeing 'survives and thrives' again is debatable, but DEI won't be a part of it. For now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Boings DEI department has trimmed 450 people. In other news Boing's HR department recently got 450 people bigger. Boing's DEI is dead..... right.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 01, 2024 10:44 AM (17s+e)

343 View a nekkid goddess .

Get turned into a deer and torn to bits by your dogs.

Not viewing nekkid goddesses isn't just a good idea.

It's the Law!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2024 10:44 AM (eDfFs)

344 The DEI department is not being dismantled but will have a new name.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 01, 2024 10:39 AM (17s+e)

Hope the new department is named the IED Department

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - NEXT Year in Corsicana - again at November 01, 2024 10:45 AM (rOtXe)

345 The only way to revitalize Boeing is to Fire Bomb Japan for months. Its the only way.
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They deserve it.

Who makes all of their houses out of paper and wood??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:45 AM (hovnC)

346 In: IED departments.
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It is Allah's will.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:46 AM (hovnC)

347 Nothing in early voting supports a Kamala surge. There is no enthusiasm in her voters. It all comes down to how well can the RNC, who appears a bit more competent this time, fight off the steal attempts. Even the typical silliness in Detroit in Michigan is being off set by the fact it isn't happening much of anywhere else in the state. The other thing - Harris has pulled almost all ads out of NC, and shifted them to Virginia. RCP has closed in NH and put Minnesota into a tossup. Does that sound like a Harris surge? I respect Atlas's work, but even they have blue wins inside the margin of error. Be positive, get your friends to vote. Say some prayers. Enjoy the weekend!
Posted by: Black JEM at November 01, 2024 09:48 AM (GZYu7)

I think what's going on is that the three Blue Wall states (MI, WI, and PA) are locked in thanks to the steal, so the Dems are just doing due diligence to make sure they don't lose any overlooked "surprise" state that would give Trump a win in combination with the "Sun Belt" states (NC, GA, AZ, and NV). My guess is that he'll be allowed to win the Sun Belt to defuse cheating allegations, but the Blue Wall will stay uncracked, and NH, VA, and NH remain blue.

Posted by: Wiese at November 01, 2024 10:46 AM (1pand)

348 After the War, he went to England and became a barrister.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024

***
Dorothy Parker (about a limping female acquaintance): "She just got back from England. She was injured sliding down a barrister."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:46 AM (J2vNu)

349 @robbystarbuck
Big news: Weeks ago I notified @Boeing’s new CEO and the Chairman of Boeing’s board that I was planning to expose their woke policies. Today they’re making a BIG preemptive change.
Bloomberg reports that Boeing is DISMANTLING their DEI department and the Boeing VP in charge of that department had her last day today.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at November 01, 2024 10:36 AM (L/fGl)
++++
Let's assume all of this is true - that Boeing is woke AF, broken, dangerous, reckless and stupid and that they are bowing to pressure from outside to clean house and are doing so and mean it. Best-case outlook.

This requires exposure anyway. Even if Boeing blinked and turfed DEI in the company and is on the way to meritocratic reform (color me highly skeptical), the "whats" and "hows" of the development into a train wreck are still needed. What those policies were. What exceptions were made. What he MO was. How that combined into disaster. That's necessary.

Expose away, Robby.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2024 10:47 AM (HnUIn)

350 347 I think what's going on is that the three Blue Wall states (MI, WI, and PA) are locked in thanks to the steal, so the Dems are just doing due diligence to make sure they don't lose any overlooked "surprise" state that would give Trump a win in combination with the "Sun Belt" states (NC, GA, AZ, and NV). My guess is that he'll be allowed to win the Sun Belt to defuse cheating allegations, but the Blue Wall will stay uncracked, and NH, VA, and NH remain blue.
Posted by: Wiese at November 01, 2024 10:46 AM (1pand)

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The lawyers who cleaned up VA are in WI.

I think WI is going to be Trump's easiest to win out of the three (PA, MI, and WI).

NC + GA + AZ + WI is a win.

Then the fortification just stops dead in its tracks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 01, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

351 Judah P. Benjamin. Probably the most interesting person involved in that war (and there were a lot of them), North or South. Also Secretary of War and Secretary of State.

After the War, he went to England and became a barrister.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024 10:44 AM (v6JzV)

The story of how he escaped capture is hilarious. At one point, he crawled under a big old plantation house and hid in the crawl space while a Federal Platoon, which had info that he was there, spent hours searching the property without finding him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2024 10:47 AM (wyMQY)

352 Only very very thin silver lining to a Harris win is that Hillary Clinton’s head will explode.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 01, 2024 10:48 AM (D6PGr)

353 For those jonesing for their Democratic Underground reality check, the site is currently open to Star members only,

Well, if that don't just scream confidence, I don't know what does.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 01, 2024 10:49 AM (/y8xj)

354 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 01, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

What if they stole the governorship (they did) in AZ specifically to prepare for this cycle? Then what? What is the math then? I think about it and it burns. Trump needs VA or NM to help defuse this year's bs.

Posted by: ... at November 01, 2024 10:49 AM (nBRaJ)

355 The lawyers who cleaned up VA are in WI.

I think WI is going to be Trump's easiest to win out of the three (PA, MI, and WI).

NC + GA + AZ + WI is a win.

Then the fortification just stops dead in its trBlue.

They're already saying it will take a long time to count the vote in Milwaukee, and the polls are being juiced to give Harris a late WI surge; Trump's not taking WI or any of the other Blue Wall states.

Posted by: Wiese at November 01, 2024 10:49 AM (1pand)

356 1 Judah P. Benjamin. Probably the most interesting person involved in that war (and there were a lot of them), North or South. Also Secretary of War and Secretary of State.

After the War, he went to England and became a barrister.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 01, 2024
*
The story of how he escaped capture is hilarious. At one point, he crawled under a big old plantation house and hid in the crawl space while a Federal Platoon, which had info that he was there, spent hours searching the property without finding him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2024

***
This is the kind of Real History we never were taught in school. It would have made history class a lot more entertaining.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:49 AM (J2vNu)

357 The story of how he escaped capture is hilarious. At one point, he crawled under a big old plantation house and hid in the crawl space while a Federal Platoon, which had info that he was there, spent hours searching the property without finding him.
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One of my ancestors just lived in the woods for a year until the Yankees got tired of looking for him.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 01, 2024 10:49 AM (AdHga)

358 Having archive.org down for the election and no google cache means election counts won't be frozen in time as they go. Eh, it's probably nothing.

Posted by: ... at November 01, 2024 10:50 AM (nBRaJ)

359 The treasurer for the Confederacy was Jewish
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 01, 2024

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Judah P. Benjamin, if I recall aright.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:43 AM (J2vNu)

He was the second Confederate Secretary of War.

CSA had three Treasury Secretaries, couldn't find anything about them any of them being Jewish, but did find out the last one (from Texas, no less) would go on to serve a term in the US Senate.

Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2024 10:50 AM (1Yy3c)

360 I wish the confederates that fled to Brazil would have done a better job down there.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 01, 2024 10:50 AM (D6PGr)

361 You've got to hand it to him.

Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: Dodgers fan blows off part of his hand with a firework while celebrating the Dodgers' World Series win over the Yankees.
The 25-year-old male was in downtown LA when the incident occurred.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the fan was conscious but "suffered bilateral hand wounds" which were "debilitating."
The incident was just one of many crimes reported in Los Angeles after the win where hundreds of people reportedly ransacked a Nike store and lit a bus on fire.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at November 01, 2024 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

362 Mark Cuban @mcuban 18h
Let’s clarify something. This is what I said during a conversation about why Nikki Haley was not active in his campaign
“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them and, you know, Nikki Haley will call him on his nonsense with reproductive rights and how he sees and treats and talks about women. I mean, he just can’t have her around. It wouldn’t work.”

I’m happy to clarify that
1. I know many strong, intelligent women voting for Trump. Including in my extended family. I’m certainly not saying female voters are not smart , strong and intelligent.
2. I know he has worked with strong intelligent women, like Elaine Chao, Kelly Anne, Ivanka and many others

I stand by my opinion that he does not like being challenged publicly.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 18h
Including the garbage people and Nazis, or is that a separate bucket?
The Fine People want to know.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:51 AM (hovnC)

363

Rolls-Royce has created a one-of-a-kind car in honor of the 60th anniversary of the James Bond movie “Goldfinger,” with bespoke gadgets that would be the envy of Q.

Although Rolls-Royce cars have featured in a dozen James Bond films, the new Phantom Goldfinger is inspired by the 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Sedanca de Ville, which played a pivotal role in the 1964 Sean Connery film and remains “an enduring muse” to the brand, according to the luxury British car company.

For this new vehicle’s owner - and, spoiler alert, there is an owner already - it is gold-standard all the way. The project took three years to complete, said Rolls-Royce.

Posted by: SMOD at November 01, 2024 10:51 AM (RHGPo)

364 Boeing is dismantling their DEI. Please welcome the new EDI department !

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2024 10:51 AM (V13WU)

365 335

https://is.gd/LYajSa
news report screencap; Diversity Team reassigned not e.g. fired.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November

Please don’t lose site of the fact there are legal obligations to transfer ee to open roles for which they are qualified prior to layoff. This is not true for execs, and that person was let go.

Posted by: Piper at November 01, 2024 10:51 AM (QzINz)

366 The Federalist:

Georgia Receives 15 Percent Fewer Ballot Requests From Overseas Voters Than In 2020

Posted by: SMOD at November 01, 2024 10:53 AM (RHGPo)

367 New York Post reports in polite language a fight is brewing in the White House between KJP and the official record keepers of Presidential records. She wants to make her lies on Biden's "garbage" comment to be the permanent record.
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I think that's behind the entire situation there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 01, 2024 10:53 AM (Q4IgG)

368 It turns ugly quick; Diana turns him into a deer and his own dogs rip him up (seriously, that's the rest of the myth).
Posted by: Wiese

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

Why Not? Attila Was a Hon! - a limerick

Actaeon looked on with a leer
So Diana said, "Put down your spear!
Do you see my blue cloak
Hanging there on that oak?
Please hand it to me. Now, be a deer!"

Posted by: muldoon at November 01, 2024 10:53 AM (uCfKO)

369 Tony Lindsay @TonyLTalks Oct 30
I'm not voting for @realDonaldTrump on Nov. 5th. I'm voting for the team he's assembling. I'm voting for a return to a thriving economy and no more wars. I'm voting for the protection of our children and parents' rights to raise them without government indoctrination. I'm voting for freedom.
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A black gentleman BTW although I'm not familiar with his work.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 10:54 AM (hovnC)

370 The story of how he escaped capture is hilarious. At one point, he crawled under a big old plantation house and hid in the crawl space while a Federal Platoon, which had info that he was there, spent hours searching the property without finding him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2024

***
This is the kind of Real History we never were taught in school. It would have made history class a lot more entertaining.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:49 AM (J2vNu)

My American history class in HS had a teacher that inserted stories like this. And yes, it did make it very interesting.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 01, 2024 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)

371 354 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 01, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

What if they stole the governorship (they did) in AZ specifically to prepare for this cycle? Then what? What is the math then? I think about it and it burns. Trump needs VA or NM to help defuse this year's bs.
Posted by: ... at November 01, 2024 10:49 AM (nBRaJ)

=======

Harmeet Dillion is there doing her thing, combined with the massive registration advances made by Republicans, the only real question is probably (I remember the confidence of 22, as well) can Trump help drag Lake over the line.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 01, 2024 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

372 Then the fortification just stops dead in its tracks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 01, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

whose fortification ?

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2024 10:54 AM (V13WU)

373 New York Post reports in polite language a fight is brewing in the White House between KJP and the official record keepers of Presidential records. She wants to make her lies on Biden's "garbage" comment to be the permanent record.

Sorry sugartits. We have his voice on tape.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 01, 2024 10:55 AM (rKWoo)

374
I'd just finished physical therapy and we were driving by the polling place when Mirable dictu!

There was no line!

So I got to hobble into the polling place and cast my vote.

As I was voting the place started filling up, so I was lucky all around.

Yay me !

On the downside, even though you can't read people's mind, several of the incoming voters appeared to be AWFLs.

So, Kamala may have sealed the deal with her reticent voters. If you haven't voted, please do so now.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2024 10:55 AM (eDfFs)

375 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Nice art.
Sigh.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 01, 2024 10:55 AM (W/lyH)

376 360 I wish the confederates that fled to Brazil would have done a better job down there.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 01, 2024 10:50 AM (D6PGr)

Probably distracted by all the smoking hot Brazilian women.

Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2024 10:55 AM (1Yy3c)

377 Go, Dodgers! Go!!!

Posted by: michelle fields at November 01, 2024 10:55 AM (hovnC)

378 New York Post reports in polite language a fight is brewing in the White House between KJP and the official record keepers of Presidential records. She wants to make her lies on Biden's "garbage" comment to be the permanent record.

Sorry sugartits. We have his voice on tape.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 01, 2024 10:55 AM (rKWoo)
++++
Who you gonna believe? The official historian, or some "tape?" Think carefully before you answer, comrade.

Posted by: Your Neighborhood People's Commissar at November 01, 2024 10:56 AM (HnUIn)

379 366 The Federalist:

Georgia Receives 15 Percent Fewer Ballot Requests From Overseas Voters Than In 2020
Posted by: SMOD at November 01, 2024 10:53 AM (RHGPo)

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I've read that this year it's a grand 15,000. So, 2020 would have been about 17,600.

Assuming all were fraudulent, that's the gap in GA, but all weren't fraudulent.

It seems like this whole thing is a possible avenue for cheating, but one that actually hasn't been taken advantage of at great numbers...yet. That it was caught before it could be used, highlighted and put a spotlight on it, is a positive, nevertheless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 01, 2024 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

380 Is calling us garbage even the 100th worst thing Democrats have said about us?

Posted by: ... at November 01, 2024 10:58 AM (nBRaJ)

381 It really goes without saying that someone named Judah P. Benjamin is Jewish.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2024 10:58 AM (wyMQY)

382 This is the kind of Real History we never were taught in school. It would have made history class a lot more entertaining.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024
*
My American history class in HS had a teacher that inserted stories like this. And yes, it did make it very interesting.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 01, 2024

***
In my junior year, I did too. He wanted us to know about *why* certain things happened in U.S. history, not merely dates and names. When, years after high school, I became interested in reading about certain periods of history, I gravitated to books that took that tack.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

383 381 It really goes without saying that someone named Judah P. Benjamin is Jewish.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2024 10:58 AM (wyMQY)

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*nods sagaciously*
-Judah P Benjamin, Black Israelite

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 01, 2024 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

384 Nice one, Muldoon

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2024 10:59 AM (eDfFs)

385 A Dodgers WS win will cost an arm and a leg.

Posted by: muldoon at November 01, 2024 10:59 AM (uCfKO)

386 I like to read about the untold not so positive history of what went on in America during WW2.

Crime, strikes , opposition , etc did not just disappear. It helps cope with the present .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 01, 2024 10:59 AM (D6PGr)

387 380 Is calling us garbage even the 100th worst thing Democrats have said about us?
Posted by: ... at November 01, 2024 10:58 AM (nBRaJ)

We've gotten inured to being called notzees.

Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2024 11:00 AM (1Yy3c)

388 Nood. Ford.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 01, 2024 11:00 AM (Wnv9h)

389 387 We've gotten inured to being called notzees.
Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2024 11:00 AM (1Yy3c)

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Was it you, Robert, looking for the Criterion Godzilla set?

Because the B&N sale has started, and Amazon is price matching.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 01, 2024 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

390 We've gotten inured to being called notzees.
Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2024 11:00 AM (1Yy3c)
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Ve veren't "nah-zees," ve vere Nazis!!!

Posted by: Franz Liebkind at November 01, 2024 11:01 AM (U1w17)

391 nood buck

different nood buck

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 11:02 AM (hovnC)

392 Noodus throckmortonii

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 01, 2024 11:02 AM (J2vNu)

393 381 It really goes without saying that someone named Judah P. Benjamin is Jewish.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2024 10:58 AM (wyMQY)

If I had a son I'd name him Judah Disraeli.

Then I'd raise him as a Catholic.

Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2024 11:02 AM (1Yy3c)

394 I'd think that the new jobs report, 12,000, that is TWELVE THOUSAND, against an estimate of 100,000 new jobs in the month, would be damning news for Harris.

Let's see if Trump and Vance and every R rep and senator running can trumpet this out loud enough to get through the suffocating pillow the media will use to spike it.

That figure is less than four new jobs PER COUNTY all across the U.S.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 01, 2024 11:02 AM (ZtgZZ)

395 381 It really goes without saying that someone named Judah P. Benjamin is Jewish.
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And a helluva charioteer!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 01, 2024 11:03 AM (hovnC)

396 Was it you, Robert, looking for the Criterion Godzilla set?

Because the B&N sale has started, and Amazon is price matching.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 01, 2024 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

Farkin' sweet! Thank you for the reminder.

Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2024 11:04 AM (1Yy3c)

397 The treasurer for the Confederacy was Jewish

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 01, 2024 10:42 AM (gfViB)
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Senator Judah P. Benjamin was successively attorney-general, secretary of war, and secretary of state.

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at November 01, 2024 11:04 AM (OPxYk)

398 So you're in the Boing DEI department. What exactly would you say you are qualified to do in any other department? Like engineering, mechanical work, computer simulations, or any other department other than HR?

Posted by: The Two Bobs at November 01, 2024 11:05 AM (17s+e)

399 396 Was it you, Robert, looking for the Criterion Godzilla set?

Because the B&N sale has started, and Amazon is price matching.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 01, 2024 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

Farkin' sweet! Thank you for the reminder.
Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2024 11:04 AM (1Yy3c)

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I could ask that you use my affiliate link so I can get some pennies...

https://amzn.to/3C9fZaQ

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 01, 2024 11:05 AM (GBKbO)

400 336 Yet there are examples of struggling companies that have doubled down on their DEI/Woke agendas. Disney is the best example.

well, a corollary to "things that can't go on won't" is "things that can still go on a ways might".

Posted by: anachronda at November 01, 2024 11:06 AM (sGtp+)

401 398 So you're in the Boing DEI department. What exactly would you say you are qualified to do in any other department? Like engineering, mechanical work, computer simulations, or any other department other than HR?

scrum master.

not that i'm bitter or anything.

Posted by: anachronda at November 01, 2024 11:07 AM (sGtp+)

402 !!! Hot girls are waiting for you on --- www.Nu21.eu

Posted by: Ammika at November 01, 2024 01:42 PM (5e5uW)

403 Lots of naked women in the Mid-Morning Art Thread...

... I like it! Keep it up.

Posted by: Ralph at November 01, 2024 03:09 PM (TysyT)

404 Ovid, "The Metamorphoses," Book 3. You can read it here, lines 138-252. https://tinyurl.com/ywtz4wtu

Actaeon is part of a cursed line, and everything they do ends in tragedy. In this case, he's something of a voyeur, who gets punished for looking at the virgin huntress. But the bigger story is that interactions with gods end badly.

Posted by: Smallish Bees at November 01, 2024 03:53 PM (/soNs)

405 Here comes Faulks the Phoenix with Message he is carrying

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 01, 2024 05:21 PM (wGqjj)

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