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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Anker Creche.jpg

The Crèche I
Albrecht Anker

Posted by: CBD at 09:34 AM




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1 1

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2024 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

2 1st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2024 09:34 AM (Wnv9h)

3 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2024 09:35 AM (Wnv9h)

4 Nice hat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2024 09:35 AM (HsOwE)

5 A baker's dozen...of kids.

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2024 09:35 AM (Yj6Os)

6 Fertile.

Posted by: red speck at December 06, 2024 09:35 AM (0Id0S)

7 WTF?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2024 09:35 AM (Wnv9h)

8 Good morning good people.

Breakfast at the Tonypete house during the early 60's I see.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2024 09:35 AM (WXNFJ)

9 Her kerchief make her look like she's moving at quite a clip.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 06, 2024 09:35 AM (ExV1e)

10 Miss, is it windy outside?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2024 09:36 AM (HsOwE)

11 Spoons were expensive.

Posted by: Back in the day at December 06, 2024 09:36 AM (dg+HA)

12 The Crèche I
Albrecht Anker
Original Title: Die Kinderkrippe I.
Date: 1890
Style: Realism, Biedermeier
Genre: genre painting
Location: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2024 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

13 Must be a lot of starch in that hat.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2024 09:36 AM (Wnv9h)

14 When is the nun gonna break out in song?

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 09:36 AM (v6JzV)

15 So much to say about this piece!

Posted by: Randi Weingarten at December 06, 2024 09:36 AM (EFR0k)

16 Wait. WHUT?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:36 AM (hY4dx)

17 Those were some very busy birthing hips.

Posted by: From the looks of it at December 06, 2024 09:37 AM (dg+HA)

18 Her kerchief make her look like she's moving at quite a clip.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 06, 2024 09:35 AM (ExV1e)
*******
Too much starch.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 06, 2024 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

19 Who is the bad kid in the corner?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2024 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

20 Really have to zoom in to see the spoon in her hand. Gutsy move putting a kid's face right behind it.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 09:37 AM (LxER7)

21 And just exactly what did they do wrong?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2024 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

22 Whoever built that chair walked off the job in the middle of the project.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:37 AM (hY4dx)

23 School or nursery for a family?

Governess or nun? Or both?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2024 09:37 AM (HsOwE)

24 Anker's away!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 06, 2024 09:37 AM (hovnC)

25 The kid at the end of the table does not look happy.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 06, 2024 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

26 Miss, is it windy outside?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Looks like it's windy inside.

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 06, 2024 09:38 AM (ftFVW)

27 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Which one of us is it that is sitting in the corner?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2024 09:39 AM (W/lyH)

28 Ok. I'll behave. But, tell me, what did the chicken do?

Posted by: Just the punchline at December 06, 2024 09:39 AM (dg+HA)

29 Big heaping pot of White Privilege is sitting right there on the table.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:39 AM (hY4dx)

30 Thirteen kids -- getting jiggy with it!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 06, 2024 09:39 AM (hovnC)

31 That's a lot of well-mannered kids. Wonder what it looks like when it's nap time and they all start acting up in unison?
[shudder!]

Posted by: red speck at December 06, 2024 09:39 AM (0Id0S)

32 Who is the bad kid in the corner?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2024 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

Sentenced to the Naughty Chair for wilding.

Posted by: The Nanny at December 06, 2024 09:39 AM (Aqu9a)

33 1
: a representation of the Nativity (see nativity sense 1) scene
2
: day nursery
3
: a foundling hospital

So I pick #2.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2024 09:40 AM (gbOdA)

34 Charming.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 06, 2024 09:40 AM (SfhV1)

35 Back in the 18th century Midget Farms were considered a hot investment.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:40 AM (hY4dx)

36 I guess they ran out of heroin to give the one kid for toothache.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 06, 2024 09:40 AM (hovnC)

37 The knife in the background is ominous. I hope the nursemaid has a metric crap-ton amount of patience. Anyway, would hang.

Posted by: Gref at December 06, 2024 09:40 AM (aBgBM)

38 Epstein Island. The early years.

Posted by: Caption contest at December 06, 2024 09:40 AM (dg+HA)

39 Maybe not so much starch in the kerchief next time, dear.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:41 AM (hY4dx)

40 Whoever built that chair walked off the job in the middle of the project.
Posted by: Cicero

That caught my eye too but then I figured out it is the end of a bench seat.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2024 09:41 AM (WXNFJ)

41 I like the colors.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 06, 2024 09:41 AM (SfhV1)

42 School or nursery for a family?

Governess or nun? Or both?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
__________

Did a governess do work for multiple families? If not, mom had twelve kids at once. Is there even a word for that?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 06, 2024 09:41 AM (Dm8we)

43 Red headed kid in foreground is a member of the Clean Plate Club.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024 09:42 AM (Aqu9a)

44 The room is plain, not luxe, so these are not children of the nobility that are being minded.
I wonder if it’s an orphanage? Either that, or children of those who work for the aristos.

Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2024 09:42 AM (0Nosi)

45 I still have to know how the chair on the end remains standing with only two legs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:42 AM (hY4dx)

46 Wait. Her legs from hip to knee are ridiculously long. Like insanely long.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2024 09:42 AM (HsOwE)

47 mom had twelve kids at once. Is there even a word for that?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 06, 2024 09:41 AM (Dm8we)


Exhausted.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 06, 2024 09:42 AM (SfhV1)

48 She's a conehead! Alien confirmed!!! I bet she has a crystal skull.

Posted by: Dan Aykroyd at December 06, 2024 09:42 AM (JCZqz)

49 look at all that white privilege

Posted by: Art History Professor at December 06, 2024 09:42 AM (NGHTx)

50 Fine fine detail here: the textures of the table and bench, the childrens' aprons, the dull metal of the plates. Very well done.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 09:42 AM (J2vNu)

51 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: DAN at December 06, 2024 09:42 AM (wDLi3)

52 Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Posted by: Ebenezer at December 06, 2024 09:42 AM (dg+HA)

53 Internet says creche is daycare.

Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2024 09:43 AM (i0F8b)

54 Does that bonnet have aerodynamic qualities?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2024 09:43 AM (RIvkX)

55 Children knew how to behave back then. Even that young. They were not pampered and praised for being brats. Kids were sent to bed without dinner and a sore backside.

Now we have "gentle parenting."

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 06, 2024 09:43 AM (5i0gE)

56 Gruel.

Posted by: huerfano at December 06, 2024 09:43 AM (DKIGo)

57 A lap you could play baseball on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2024 09:43 AM (HsOwE)

58 My mother was from western Canada, out on the prairies, with a Swedish father and Czech-Ukraine mother (Ruthenia). She always referred to the Christmas Nativity scene as a "creche."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

59 23 School or nursery for a family?

Governess or nun? Or both?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2024 09:37 AM (HsOwE)

According to the Oxford Dictionary, a creche is a old-timey daycare. Interesting, I've heard it used for Nativity scenes. This is new to me.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2024 09:44 AM (EwaUh)

60 Wait. Her legs from hip to knee are ridiculously long. Like insanely long.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2024 09:42 AM (HsOwE)

Long thighs.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024 09:44 AM (Aqu9a)

61 Never, ever invite more than two hobbits to any one meal. They'll clean you right out.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 09:44 AM (LxER7)

62 Cool.

The armoire in the background is covered in Delft blue & white tiles. So, fire-resistant gun safe??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 06, 2024 09:44 AM (hovnC)

63 Gruel.
Posted by: huerfano at December 06, 2024

***
Not so very; the kids look pretty well fed. No reason to assume they were ill-treated!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 09:44 AM (J2vNu)

64 So, it's gruel for lunch again. There is a big pot of it on the table.

Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2024 09:44 AM (Oy/m2)

65 Never work with animals or children.

Posted by: W.C. Fields at December 06, 2024 09:44 AM (dg+HA)

66 When artificial insemination goes wrong...

How do you even say 18tuplets?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2024 09:44 AM (lH8E4)

67 The girl is getting ready to leave for her other job at the airport were she works as a windsock.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:45 AM (hY4dx)

68 "Listen up children. We have outgrown the space here at Mother Hubbard's Foundling Home and are going to have to relocate into a large shoe. It'll be great fun. So go pack your things. Spit spot!!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2024 09:45 AM (991eG)

69 Does that bonnet have aerodynamic qualities?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2024 09:43 AM

It's not the hat. With all those kids to corral, she just moves that fast now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2024 09:45 AM (kgE5c)

70 The absence of a sniper II can understand but no dog?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 06, 2024 09:45 AM (GQNjd)

71 Oatmeal.

Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2024 09:45 AM (i0F8b)

72 Someone upthread wondered if it was nun or governess. Governess of that era would wear that type of head covering. A Catholic nun of that time would be wearing a complete traditional habit, complete with crucifix, and their throat would be covered

Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2024 09:45 AM (0Nosi)

73 When artificial insemination goes wrong...

How do you even say 18tuplets?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2024 09:44 AM (lH8E4)

Sorry, 13tuplets.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2024 09:45 AM (lH8E4)

74 45 I still have to know how the chair on the end remains standing with only two legs.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:42 AM (hY4dx)

The kids are sitting on a bench.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2024 09:45 AM (EwaUh)

75 Definitely not a border crossing detention center.

Posted by: red speck at December 06, 2024 09:45 AM (0Id0S)

76 Never, ever invite more than two hobbits to any one meal. They'll clean you right out.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

Plan better.

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM (ftFVW)

77 When artificial insemination goes wrong...

How do you even say 18tuplets?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2024 09:44 AM (lH8E4)


Remember me?

Posted by: Octomom at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM (Aqu9a)

78 >>I still have to know how the chair on the end remains standing with only two legs.

Not a chair. It's a bench seat that runs the entire length of the table.

Posted by: Jared Goff at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM (Y1sOo)

79 70 The absence of a sniper II can understand but no dog?
-------
Look in the bowls.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM (hovnC)

80 Morning.

That wrap over her head makes her look like she's trying to hide the fact that she's part Xenomorph.

Nuns...the perfect killing machines...

Posted by: Robert at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM (1Yy3c)

81 World's first documented case of dodecatuplets.

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM (991eG)

82 STIFF breeze from the west.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM (G3lfj)

83 "Afraid of a disaster, Miss Clavell spooned fast and faster."

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM (LxER7)

84 *off

Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM (Y1sOo)

85 45 >>I still have to know how the chair on the end remains standing with only two legs.

I know! I can barely manage it most days.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 06, 2024 09:47 AM (0Id0S)

86 The little guy at the end of the table is in high pout about breakfast. He's cracking me up. Oh the many times my kids had that expression.
My son was whining that he just couldn't eat the rest and Mother in law asked how many bites he had left. Boy spawn says four more bites. Mom in law calmly says well if you can count them you can eat them. It was hilarious.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2024 09:47 AM (4XwPj)

87 I still have to know how the chair on the end remains standing with only two legs.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024

***
It's a bench; the back makes it look like a chair, but the railing extends all along the bench. See the blond kid draped over the railing, next to the redhaired one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 09:47 AM (J2vNu)

88 The woman is one of those creatures from Aliens with the long heads isn't she?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 09:47 AM (oZhjI)

89 Is that kid in the back isolated for some reason?

Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2024 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)

90 Never, ever invite more than two hobbits to any one meal. They'll clean you right out.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

Plan better.
Posted by: She Hobbit at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM

That just made my Friday.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2024 09:47 AM (kgE5c)

91 The Crèche I
Albrecht Anker

***********

Would not hang.

Ankers Away!!!!

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2024 09:47 AM (991eG)

92 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2024 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

93 For some reason, the little redhead at the corner of the table drinking from her bowl makes me smile. Same with the kid in the corner.

I like this. Each kid is different, and their faces and actions reveal their different personalities.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 09:47 AM (v6JzV)

94 Please, Miss. May I have moron?

Posted by: Oliver at December 06, 2024 09:47 AM (hovnC)

95 Isn't this a scene out of Python's "Meaning of Life?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2024 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

96 I still have to know how the chair on the end remains standing with only two legs.
Posted by: Cicero

***
It's a bench; the back makes it look like a chair, but the railing extends all along the bench. See the blond kid draped over the railing, next to the redhaired one.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


No one reads the previous comments, do they?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2024 09:48 AM (WXNFJ)

97 Is that kid in the back isolated for some reason?

Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2024 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)


Cholera.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 06, 2024 09:48 AM (SfhV1)

98 Is that kid in the back isolated for some reason?

Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2024 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)

Covid

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2024 09:48 AM (Yj6Os)

99 mom had twelve kids at once. Is there even a word for that?

A litter

Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2024 09:48 AM (0Nosi)

100

Step into the pantry and drop the panties, Miss...

Posted by: Wealthy Landowner with Syphilis at December 06, 2024 09:48 AM (guasw)

101 This would go just perfectly on the side of my FREE CANDY van.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:48 AM (hY4dx)

102 I'll be in the Presidential Bedroom......

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 06, 2024 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

103 Somebody's in time out.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2024 09:48 AM (VSht7)

104 World's first documented case of dodecatuplets.
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2024

***
Bad luck: The thirteenth kid is in the corner on the right. They weren't about to have thirteen at table.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 09:48 AM (J2vNu)

105 80>>>Morning.

That wrap over her head makes her look like she's trying to hide the fact that she's part Xenomorph.


Yeah... had me thinking this is what the Mother Alien sees life like with her little brood of alien eggs in the nursery.

Posted by: red speck at December 06, 2024 09:49 AM (0Id0S)

106 Are they called foundlings because they were found on a doorstep in a baby basket? Or is there another derivation of that name?

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2024 09:49 AM (991eG)

107 Where's the big wooden "discipline spoon"?

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2024 09:49 AM (Yj6Os)

108 No one reads the previous comments, do they?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2024 09:48 AM (WXNFJ)

True.
I wonder why that chair looks funny?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2024 09:49 AM (HsOwE)

109 World's first documented case of dodecatuplets.
Posted by: muldoon

Where are the other seven hiding?

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 06, 2024 09:49 AM (ftFVW)

110 You try it.

No, you try it.

I ain't eating this.

I know, let's get Mikey to try it. He'll eat it. He eats everything!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024 09:49 AM (Aqu9a)

111 Where's the big wooden "discipline spoon"?
Posted by: BignJames

Maybe out of sight but never out of reach.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2024 09:49 AM (WXNFJ)

112 Day care old school style!

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2024 09:49 AM (pRpzT)

113 "You rug rats are never going to pull a plow if you don't EAT."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:50 AM (hY4dx)

114 The absence of a sniper II can understand but no dog?
-------
Look in the bowls.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM

"If Butch goes to Indochina, I want a n***** hiding in a bowl of rice, ready to bust a cap in his ass."

- Marcellus Wallace

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2024 09:50 AM (kgE5c)

115 Boys have penises and girls have vaginas.
Time to STOP the INSANITY.

Posted by: just saying at December 06, 2024 09:50 AM (Uy/WF)

116 I love Albrecht Anker's work. The detail and the way he uses light is so effective. He often uses rich colors but this one is lighter and plainer, suitable for the setting. The faces are all individual: different expressions and personalities for each child. The nurse's face makes me smile a bit. She gives the feel that she is slightly overwhelmed but doing her best. That starched (?) hat is a bit distracting. It would be easy to imagine this scene done by Norman Rockwell for an early Saturday Evening Post cover.

Look up some of Anker's still life paintings. They are gorgeous.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2024 09:50 AM (yTvNw)

117 NO
CRECHE
I

Posted by: horta at December 06, 2024 09:50 AM (pvAJF)

118 Interesting that the artist was able to make some of the faces look like children, but some of them still have that uncanny middle ages adult face on a miniature body aesthetic.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2024 09:51 AM (VSht7)

119 I sure am glad I'm not her.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at December 06, 2024 09:51 AM (G3lfj)

120 "You rug rats are never going to pull a plow if you don't EAT."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:50 AM (hY4dx)


"How can you get any pussy if you don't beat your meat?"

Posted by: The Wall at December 06, 2024 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

121 For some reason, the little redhead at the corner of the table drinking from her bowl

Red headed kids are the cutest! Omg, just adorable

Of course all little tots are adorable but the little carrot tops are instant charmers

Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2024 09:51 AM (0Nosi)

122 And since we're over 100, have some Aussies throwing shade at Canada over Trump:

https://youtu.be/up6WfMGUVi8

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2024 09:52 AM (Wnv9h)

123 Are they called foundlings because they were found on a doorstep in a baby basket? Or is there another derivation of that name?
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2024 09:49 AM (991eG)

Found under a cabbage leaf in the garden. Just like I was, according to my Dad.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024 09:52 AM (Aqu9a)

124 Does that door with a towel hanging on it lead to a shower?

Posted by: THE PRESIDENT at December 06, 2024 09:52 AM (wDLi3)

125
Red headed kids are the cutest! Omg, just adorable

Of course all little tots are adorable but the little carrot tops are instant charmers
Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2024 09:51 AM (0Nosi)


I agree. Just girls, though.

Posted by: Charlie Brown at December 06, 2024 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

126 Of course all little tots are adorable but the little carrot tops are instant charmers
Posted by: kallisto

And then they grow up to be soul stealers.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2024 09:52 AM (WXNFJ)

127 Found under a cabbage leaf in the garden. Just like I was, according to my Dad.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024 09:52 AM (Aqu9a)

-----------

The Gypsies left me on the porch.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:52 AM (hY4dx)

128 Very nice portrait painter. I had not been aware of his works before.Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2024 09:53 AM (JyhgO)

129 That wrap over her head makes her look like she's trying to hide the fact that she's part Xenomorph.

Nuns...the perfect killing machines...
-----
The 600 series had yardsticks. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. And a 'strap' now. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till she moved on you before I could zero her.

Posted by: Kyle Reese at December 06, 2024 09:53 AM (hovnC)

130 Red headed kids are the cutest! Omg, just adorable

Of course all little tots are adorable but the little carrot tops are instant charmers
Posted by: kallisto

All the easier to steal your soul!

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 06, 2024 09:53 AM (ftFVW)

131 A wild thought... Based on the Last Supper?

Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2024 09:53 AM (i0F8b)

132 You're gonna need a bigger box of Nilla Wafers.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024 09:53 AM (Aqu9a)

133 Is that kid in the back isolated for some reason?

He knows what he did.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2024 09:53 AM (/y8xj)

134 Very nice painting. Absolutely I would hang.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 06, 2024 09:53 AM (g8Ew8)

135 Does that door with a towel hanging on it lead to a shower?
Posted by: THE PRESIDENT at December 06, 2024

***
Pantry, probably. Or the kitchen, and the pantry door is behind the time-out kid on the far right.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 09:53 AM (J2vNu)

136 Boys have penises and girls have vaginas.
Posted by: just saying at December 06, 2024 09:50 AM (Uy/WF)

IT'S NOT A TOOMAH!!!!

Posted by: Robert at December 06, 2024 09:54 AM (1Yy3c)

137 My, what a big wimple you have...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 06, 2024 09:54 AM (GTqXr)

138 I still have to know how the chair on the end remains standing with only two legs.
Posted by: Cicero

***
It's a bench; the back makes it look like a chair, but the railing extends all along the bench. See the blond kid draped over the railing, next to the redhaired one.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

No one reads the previous comments, do they?

Posted by: amy schumer at December 06, 2024 09:54 AM (hovnC)

139 Using the art standard touted here, "No dog, not art" Albert Anker was destined to be an artist because his old man was veterinarian. Certainly we can find our way to "Dog, Art" with that background. Other than that he started out studying theology, went crazy and became an artist, married once, had kids, and seemingly was a pretty decent follow.

After looking at a number of his paintings he strikes me a Norman Rockwell type, capturing the scenes and details of the world around him. Or in 2020 terms, he probably would have had YouTube channel about stuff.

As for The Crèche I (1890): What the heck is up the day care worker's head scarf? To much starch or to much wind? Other than that, what a charming subject that is well rendered. Double Plus Good. Would hang.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 06, 2024 09:54 AM (vO42M)

140 No one reads the previous comments, do they?
Posted by: amy schumer

SNORT!

Wow, this place.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2024 09:55 AM (WXNFJ)

141 131 A wild thought... Based on the Last Supper?
Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2024 09:53 AM (i0F8b)

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Maybe Art Appreciation isn't your thing.

*hands hall pass to woodshop*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:55 AM (hY4dx)

142 My, what a big wimple you have...
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 06, 2024 09:54 AM (GTqXr)

You other brothers can't deny . . .

Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at December 06, 2024 09:55 AM (Aqu9a)

143 Anyone who complains about the gruel spends a night in the box!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 09:55 AM (z0QHk)

144 Kid to the left of the tureen appears to be playing w/his smart phone.

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2024 09:56 AM (Yj6Os)

145 Found under a cabbage leaf in the garden. Just like I was, according to my Dad.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024

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The Gypsies left me on the porch.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024

***
According to my mother, I flew in through a window one day, looking like a cherub in a Renaissance painting. The wings dropped off after a while.

(Not really, but it would have been fun for her to tell me that and see how long I believed it)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

146 Spoiled, nothing! You put that milk on your mush and eat it, Bah!

Posted by: Crone From Bleak Hill Boarding School at December 06, 2024 09:56 AM (D0hl3)

147 Anyone who complains about the gruel spends a night in the box!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 09:55 AM (z0QHk)


May I have more?

Posted by: Oliver Twist at December 06, 2024 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

148 After breakfast will be today's lesson in Critical Race Theory.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2024 09:56 AM (hY4dx)

149 56 Gruel.

and unusual

Posted by: anachronda at December 06, 2024 09:57 AM (pvAJF)

150 >>> He knows what he did.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2024 09:53 AM (/y8xj)

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So, a little Moron-in-training?

Posted by: Turn 2 at December 06, 2024 09:57 AM (JfxgE)

151 127
The Gypsies left me on the porch.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December

I once told my mom I wish I had been adopted. She told me I was, but they brought me back.

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2024 09:57 AM (pRpzT)

152 107 >>Where's the big wooden "discipline spoon"?

One year, my sisters and I asked our mom what she wanted for Christmas. She thought about it for a while and said, "I could use a new set of wooden spoons." Despite the fact that she was a prolific cook, we all immediately rejected the gift suggestion, knowing that we'd all be on the business end of the spoons at some later date.

Posted by: red speck at December 06, 2024 09:57 AM (0Id0S)

153 Anyone who complains about the gruel spends a night in the box!
Posted by: Captain Obvious


May I have more?
Posted by: Oliver Twist

*Pounds forehead on table. . . *

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2024 09:57 AM (WXNFJ)

154 Potty break is going to be a nightmare.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 09:57 AM (LxER7)

155 No one reads the previous comments, do they?
Posted by: amy schumer

If you try, you'll never get caught up. On this thread, I just page down looking for anything that makes up a block of 5 lines.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2024 09:58 AM (/y8xj)

156 Potty break is going to be a nightmare.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 09:57 AM (LxER7)


Might be too late.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 06, 2024 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

157 111 Where's the big wooden "discipline spoon"?
Posted by: BignJames

Maybe out of sight but never out of reach.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2024 09:58 AM (Y1sOo)

158 No one reads the previous comments, do they?
Posted by: amy schumer at December 06, 2024

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Hey, Amy, whatever happened to your BFF relationship with Jennifer Lawrence a few years ago? Wsa she too nuts even for you, or was it the other way around?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 09:58 AM (J2vNu)

159 Jeez, big James counts quick.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2024 09:58 AM (4780s)

160 >Where's the big wooden "discipline spoon"?

Holding up the white scarf.

Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2024 09:59 AM (i0F8b)

161 Where's the big wooden "discipline spoon"?
Posted by: BignJames

Maybe out of sight but never out of reach.
Posted by: one hour sober

Oh fer Christ's sake. I can't even. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2024 09:59 AM (WXNFJ)

162 Hey, Amy, whatever happened to your BFF relationship with Jennifer Lawrence a few years ago? Wsa she too nuts even for you, or was it the other way around?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 09:58 AM (J2vNu)


Jennifer got tired of Amy's incessant bitching about how Harvey Weinstein never invited her to his office.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 06, 2024 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)

163 Spit spot!!

***********

Hey! Where'd my other shoe go?!

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2024 09:59 AM (991eG)

164 Jeez, big James counts quick.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2024 09:58 AM (4780s)

I missed one...there's 14.

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2024 09:59 AM (Yj6Os)

165 Jennifer got tired of Amy's incessant bitching about how Harvey Weinstein never invited her to his office.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 06, 2024 09:59 AM

Cruel. But accurate.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2024 10:00 AM (kgE5c)

166 He knows what he did.
Posted by: Oddbob
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So, a little Moron-in-training?
Posted by: Turn 2
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Please, Miss. May I see your bewbs?

Posted by: Oliver at December 06, 2024 10:00 AM (hovnC)

167 163

That was supposed to be a Shaquille Oneal sock.

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2024 10:00 AM (991eG)

168 Cruel. But accurate.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2024 10:00 AM (kgE5c)
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But not unusual.

Posted by: Tom Jones at December 06, 2024 10:00 AM (z0QHk)

169 The Gypsies left me on the porch.
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I was a cruel trick played on me auntie.

Posted by: Oliver at December 06, 2024 10:01 AM (hovnC)

170 >>Oh fer Christ's sake. I can't even. . .

I was just messing with you.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2024 10:01 AM (Y1sOo)

171 But not unusual.
Posted by: Tom Jones at December 06, 2024 10:00 AM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2024 10:01 AM (kgE5c)

172 I once told my mom I wish I had been adopted. She told me I was, but they brought me back.
Posted by: Piper

*snort*

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:02 AM (v6JzV)

173 79 70 The absence of a sniper II can understand but no dog?
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Look in the bowls.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM (hovnC)

heh

Posted by: m at December 06, 2024 10:02 AM (VnUSN)

174 The kid at the head of the table leaning on his arm looks completely fed up with everybody.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:02 AM (z0QHk)

175 The kid at the head of the table leaning on his arm looks completely fed up with everybody.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Looks like a young Derek Jacobi.

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

176 I hadn't even noticed that big terra-cotta colored pot on the table with the giant spoon or ladle. You would have to make a big amount to serve thirteen kids at each meal.

The kids are all individuals and all well realized; you can imagine their personalities, or what they're thinking about, from their expressions or body language.

Sister just looks like she's trying to get through the morning without sneaking some wine from the church stash.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

177 Have the possible effects of all the recent upheavals on the market for one of the premier artists of the early 21st Century, Robert Hunter Biden, ever been discussed in this near-daily pinnacle of Art connoisseurship?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 06, 2024 10:03 AM (a3Q+t)

178 Nicely done, even caught the boy in back on right playing with his phone

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2024 10:04 AM (2u7Se)

179 Woman's thought bubble:

"Thank heavens for gruel. Otherwise I'd still be breastfeeding!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2024 10:04 AM (991eG)

180 This’ll probably be the topic for a big post later today - Syria appears to be collapsing rapidly, rebel armies advancing on all fronts. Syrian army forces are either defecting to the rebels are fleeing to Damascus as rebels approach them. Russia advising all of its citizens to flee the country immediately. Israel moving troops to the Golan to be ready for anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2024 10:04 AM (W6hoT)

181 Willowed flapjack day:

calling that relationship 'dating' suggests a dignity
--Posted by: Tonypete

You got me there, I admit. --Posted by: Count de Monet

You're not supposed to put syrup on it!

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 06, 2024 10:04 AM (zdLoL)

182 France. We come from France.

Posted by: The Coneheads at December 06, 2024 10:04 AM (dg+HA)

183 Moron for sale!

Only 18 guilders! Or an advance on that...

Moron for sale!

Posted by: Mr Fuzzymerkin at December 06, 2024 10:04 AM (hovnC)

184 The kid at the head of the table leaning on his arm looks completely fed up with everybody.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
*
Looks like a young Derek Jacobi.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024

***
He's thinking about his lines as Mercutio in the orphanage production of Romeo and Juliet next week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

185 Have the possible effects of all the recent upheavals on the market for one of the premier artists of the early 21st Century, Robert Hunter Biden, ever been discussed in this near-daily pinnacle of Art connoisseurship?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 06, 2024 10:03 AM (a3Q+t)
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*passes out clothespins*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:05 AM (z0QHk)

186 "The kid at the head of the table leaning on his arm looks completely fed up with everybody.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, "

I was just going to say that you could read his thoughts just from that look he is giving them.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at December 06, 2024 10:05 AM (JtrQZ)

187 A lot of detail in this painting. It’s a charming, old world scene, but not something I would like to have in my house.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 06, 2024 10:05 AM (2McGb)

188 This is new to me.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2024 09:44 AM (EwaUh)

New to me as well. That's one reason I used the work. The other of course is that it is lovely!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2024 10:05 AM (d9fT1)

189 By the way, that nun is hiding a smokin' body underneath her uniform. She is a leg model on the weekends.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2024 10:06 AM (d9fT1)

190 He's thinking about his lines as Mercutio in the orphanage production of Romeo and Juliet next week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:05 AM (J2vNu)
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It's a great role. He gets some of the best lines, and you can be in the boozer by the end of the second act.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:06 AM (z0QHk)

191 It has to be medical experiments for the lot of you.

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 06, 2024 10:06 AM (ftFVW)

192 On a sombre but poignant note thirteen children dead in Mexico hospitals due to suspected contaminated I.V. bags.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 06, 2024 10:07 AM (hovnC)

193 Don LeMon, a gay man and a gay journalist, would like you to know he doesn't miss being on X.com 8 to 10 hours a day one bit and is using that time to admire how well his skin cream treatments are keeping him looking relevant.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 06, 2024 10:07 AM (vO42M)

194 Looks like a young Derek Jacobi.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024

***
He's thinking about his lines as Mercutio in the orphanage production of Romeo and Juliet next week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Jacobi played Cassio in the Olivier film version of Othello.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:07 AM (v6JzV)

195 There's serious starch in that scarf.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2024 10:07 AM (jFCkp)

196 Oh fer Christ's sake. I can't even. . .

I was just messing with you.
Posted by: one hour sober

I know - I'm laughing my ass off here. Thanks!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2024 10:07 AM (WXNFJ)

197 Anyone who complains about the gruel spends a night in the box!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 09:55 AM

In fairness, spending a night in the box for complaining about the gruel beats spending a night in the maze with the Grue for complaining about the box.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 06, 2024 10:07 AM (a3Q+t)

198 Potty break is going to be a nightmare.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 09:57 AM (LxER7)


Might be too late.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 06, 2024 09:58 AM

Word. J Biden.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2024 10:07 AM (ewjUl)

199 Y'know, except for the gruel and the nun, this reminds me a lot of my first-grade classroom. Though some of these kids might be younger than six.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:08 AM (J2vNu)

200 The Horde kills it from time to time on Art Threads. This is one of those times. The comments have me grinning and relaxed.

This place. +2

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024 10:08 AM (Aqu9a)

201 There's serious starch in that scarf.
Posted by: Pudinhead


I almost read "starch" as "snatch."

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:09 AM (v6JzV)

202 ***
He's thinking about his lines as Mercutio in the orphanage production of Romeo and Juliet next week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Jacobi played Cassio in the Olivier film version of Othello.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:07 AM (v6JzV)

Best screen Hamlet I've ever seen is the one he did for the Beeb in the late 70's. Patrick Stewart played Claudius.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 10:09 AM (LxER7)

203 The modern version would have half the kids "transitioning".

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2024 10:10 AM (ewjUl)

204 On a sombre but poignant note thirteen children dead in Mexico hospitals due to suspected contaminated I.V. bags.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 06, 2024 10:07 AM (hovnC)

I saw that. How depressing and sad.

I am so glad that we have outsourced much of our biomedical supply chain to the third world. Remember...we save 5.4%!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2024 10:10 AM (d9fT1)

205 This scene is from the first edition of Art Linkletter's House Party. He is just behind the door, ready to enter and prove that Kids Say the Darndest Things.

Posted by: People Are Phony at December 06, 2024 10:10 AM (D0hl3)

206 Conan, what is best in life?

>>@DC_Draino

>>CONGRATULATIONS TEXAS

>>RINO Dade Phelan has withdrawn from the Texas House Speaker race

>>He tried to take down American First AG Ken Paxton and failed

>>Now he is the one getting taken down

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2024 10:10 AM (LkLld)

207 He's thinking about his lines as Mercutio in the orphanage production of Romeo and Juliet next week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024
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It's a great role. He gets some of the best lines, and you can be in the boozer by the end of the second act.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 1

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I was going to write "Horatio" and Hamlet -- but Mercutio and R & J is more fun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:10 AM (J2vNu)

208 The naughty kid in the corner has to be one of my ancestors.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2024 10:10 AM (ewjUl)

209 The naughty kid in the corner has to be one of my ancestors.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Once you grew up and joined the workforce you had your own chair down at HR, didn't you?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2024 10:11 AM (WXNFJ)

210 Best screen Hamlet I've ever seen is the one he did for the Beeb in the late 70's. Patrick Stewart played Claudius.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 10:09 AM (LxER7)
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That series was a real mixed bag for quality (I really disliked their version of R&J), but that Hamlet was superb. Surprisingly, Anthony Hopkins sucked as Othello (they wanted James Earl Jones, but British Equity raised a stink), but Bob Hoskins was brilliant as Iago.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:11 AM (z0QHk)

211 The naughty kid in the corner has to be one of my ancestors.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2024 10:10 AM (ewjUl)

He's bad to the bone.

Posted by: George Thorogood at December 06, 2024 10:12 AM (Aqu9a)

212 Syria appears to be collapsing rapidly, rebel armies advancing on all fronts.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2024 10:04 AM (W6hoT)

I believe that is called, "Out of the frying pan and into the fire."

Assad is a butcher, but the ISIS lunatics are orders of magnitude worse. We can thank Bush, Obama and Biden for this turn of events.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2024 10:12 AM (d9fT1)

213 I was going to write "Horatio" and Hamlet -- but Mercutio and R & J is more fun.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:10 AM (J2vNu)
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I used the "Queen Mab" speech as an audition piece when I was a young 'un.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:13 AM (z0QHk)

214 And after breakfast, von Trapp expects them to get singing lessons.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 06, 2024 10:13 AM (zdLoL)

215 -----------
That series was a real mixed bag for quality (I really disliked their version of R&J), but that Hamlet was superb. Surprisingly, Anthony Hopkins sucked as Othello (they wanted James Earl Jones, but British Equity raised a stink), but Bob Hoskins was brilliant as Iago.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:11 AM (z0QHk)

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Agreed on all points. As to Hopkins, I saw him do Lear on stage in '87. It was an awful production, which surprised me.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 10:14 AM (LxER7)

216 You know, I think I need to go back to reading Shakespeare. So much good stuff there.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:14 AM (v6JzV)

217 Okay, phrasing. I know.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 10:15 AM (LxER7)

218 151 127 I once told my mom I wish I had been adopted. She told me I was, but they brought me back.
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2024 09:57 AM (pRpzT)

hahahahahahaha

Posted by: m at December 06, 2024 10:15 AM (VnUSN)

219 You know, I think I need to go back to reading Shakespeare. So much good stuff there.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:14 AM (v6JzV)
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I prefer watching Shakespeare to reading it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2024 10:16 AM (7fElN)

220 The Bulwark: I Watched the Democratic Collapse in Florida. I Fear It's Happening Nationally...Of Barack Obama’s 332 electoral votes in 2012, 53 of them came from states that aren’t really in play anymore: Florida, Ohio, and Iowa...Even worse, my party has largely avoided reckoning with how big that boulder is.

the CIA/FBI need to up their game. They're letting the GOP, Russia and other countries freely propagandize our citizens and apparently they can or will not do anything about it. Doesn't matter what the Dem message is if people are being propagandized by bad people on a gigantic scale.

The problem is that the current distribution of blue and red favors Republicans in the electoral college and the senate. Republicans cheat (voter suppression, gerrymandering, etc.) and RW media slanders and lies. Without those, they wouldn't even be in the running.

...The other thing that needs to be done is to STOP SAYING TRUMP'S FUCKING NAME constantly. Ignore him or use the generic term "the administration" if you discuss it at all. Starve the beast of the attention it seeks, craves and demands.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 06, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

221 Also in that Beeb series, the Much Ado was very good. And John Cleese was terrific in Taming of the Shrew.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 10:16 AM (LxER7)

222 You know, I think I need to go back to reading Shakespeare. So much good stuff there.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:14 AM (v6JzV)
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One time at college, I was reading "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and chuckling to myself, and my friend Jon said to me, "You're the only person I know who laughs out loud while reading Shakespeare."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:17 AM (z0QHk)

223 219 You know, I think I need to go back to reading Shakespeare. So much good stuff there.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:14 AM (v6JzV)
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I prefer watching Shakespeare to reading it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2024 10:16 AM (7fElN)

========

"Here is the script of Airplane!. In a week, we will have a test on all the jokes."
-How Shakespeare is taught to high school students

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

224 You know, much as I love Jacobi's work, when I see his name I picture him as, or playing, an old man. His Roman Claudius started as a youth, true, but my memory focuses on the older Claudius; and his appearances in Dead Again, Gladiator, and Last Tango in Halifax all had him as middle-aged or older. (And Vicious w/ Ian McKellen!)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

225 Also in that Beeb series, the Much Ado was very good. And John Cleese was terrific in Taming of the Shrew.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 10:16 AM (LxER7)
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It was a...strange interpretation of Petruchio.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:18 AM (z0QHk)

226 220 the CIA/FBI need to up their game. They're letting the GOP, Russia and other countries freely propagandize our citizens and apparently they can or will not do anything about it. Doesn't matter what the Dem message is if people are being propagandized by bad people on a gigantic scale.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 06, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

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Holy shit.

The left is outright calling for the CIA to regulate speech of an American political party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

227 ---------
It was a...strange interpretation of Petruchio.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:18 AM (z0QHk)

I thought his imposing physical presence was just the thing to give Kate the Cursed the what-fore.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 10:19 AM (LxER7)

228 >>Holy shit.

>>The left is outright calling for the CIA to regulate speech of an American political party.

I don't know how to break this to you ....

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2024 10:19 AM (LkLld)

229 220 The problem is that the current distribution of blue and red favors Republicans in the electoral college and the senate. Republicans cheat (voter suppression, gerrymandering, etc.) and RW media slanders and lies. Without those, they wouldn't even be in the running.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 06, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

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This is gold. Gold, Jerry, gold.

Gerrymandering in presidential elections? Fuck, have they looked at Massachusetts for an example of gerrymandering? A state that's 65-35 Democrat but has 100% Democrat reps?

Also, they don't note that the Census Bureau admitted, outright admitted, that they tanked the 2020 Census and gave Democrat states more House seats than they actually deserve.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

230 Michael Keaton was hilarious as the crazy town constable in Much Ado About Nothing.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2024 10:20 AM (Y1sOo)

231 I prefer watching Shakespeare to reading it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I like both, but it's easier to figure out the archaic language from the footnotes in a printed version.

I just watched A Midsummer Night's Dream on TCM last night, the 1930's version, with a very funny Jimmy Cagney as Bottom and a very annoying Micky Rooney as Puck.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:20 AM (v6JzV)

232 Holy shit.

The left is outright calling for the CIA to regulate speech of an American political party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

But not theirs, so it's totes cool.

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 06, 2024 10:20 AM (ftFVW)

233 Pretty windy in there. Look at that bonnet.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2024 10:21 AM (6XAqY)

234 One time at college, I was reading "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and chuckling to myself, and my friend Jon said to me, "You're the only person I know who laughs out loud while reading Shakespeare."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024

***
With the comedies, a lot of the humor depends on the wordplay and puns, and the words he used have changed meaning over time, become archaic, or gone obsolete. Watching a good cast perform them would be more effective. The tragedies are easier to read and enjoy that way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:21 AM (J2vNu)

235
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2024 10:21 AM (KVOmv)

236 228 >>Holy shit.

>>The left is outright calling for the CIA to regulate speech of an American political party.

I don't know how to break this to you ....
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2024 10:19 AM (LkLld)

=======

Of course they're doing it.

That's not news to me.

What's interesting is the no-nothing True Believers who have spent most of their lives calling the CIA a terrorist organization for overthrowing regimes in other countries is now demanding that they do it...in America...which they're expressly forbidden from doing (not that it's stopped them, of course).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

237 Assad is a butcher, but the ISIS lunatics are orders of magnitude worse. We can thank Bush, Obama and Biden for this turn of events.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2024 10:12 AM (d9fT1)

The situation is like Predator vs. Alien; fun to watch, but you don’t want to be on either side.

As to who’s ultimately responsible: I’d point to Sinwar, as he set off the chain of events that led here. Sinwar addressing his mummified monkey’s paw on October 6th: “Grant me the power to bring down mighty empires!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2024 10:21 AM (W6hoT)

238 Absolutely spectacular sunrise this morning out on Elliot Bay. I wish I could send y'all a picture. It's glorious.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 06, 2024 10:21 AM (uMdxF)

239 I prefer watching Shakespeare to reading it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I like both, but it's easier to figure out the archaic language from the footnotes in a printed version.

I just watched A Midsummer Night's Dream on TCM last night, the 1930's version, with a very funny Jimmy Cagney as Bottom and a very annoying Micky Rooney as Puck.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:20 AM (v6JzV)

Shakespeare performed with the original pronunciations is fun.

Posted by: Robert at December 06, 2024 10:22 AM (1Yy3c)

240 230 Michael Keaton was hilarious as the crazy town constable in Much Ado About Nothing.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2024 10:20 AM (Y1sOo)

Brian dennahey as the castle in brannaghs king Lear totally chwed through the scenary.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 06, 2024 10:22 AM (OA79/)

241 Michael Keaton was hilarious as the crazy town constable in Much Ado About Nothing.
Posted by: one hour sober

Ha, that was a great role for him. Seemed like he was having fun.

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 06, 2024 10:22 AM (ftFVW)

242 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 06, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

Lawsy, they're crazy.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2024 10:22 AM (VnUSN)

243 You know, much as I love Jacobi's work, when I see his name I picture him as, or playing, an old man. His Roman Claudius started as a youth, true, but my memory focuses on the older Claudius; and his appearances in Dead Again, Gladiator, and Last Tango in Halifax all had him as middle-aged or older. (And Vicious w/ Ian McKellen!)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


He also did the Prologue in Branaugh's Henry V.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:22 AM (v6JzV)

244 You know, I think I need to go back to reading Shakespeare. So much good stuff there.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:14 AM (v6JzV)

He really is fun.

I took an English Lit class in which the instructor used Shakespeare for a section. It was an absolute blast!

And...I looked up the instructor years later and he is a stone-cold communist. But not a hint of that came through in the class. Amazing!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2024 10:22 AM (d9fT1)

245 I just watched A Midsummer Night's Dream on TCM last night, the 1930's version, with a very funny Jimmy Cagney as Bottom and a very annoying Micky Rooney as Puck.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:20 AM (v6JzV)

I played Lysander in a college production. Great fun.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 10:22 AM (LxER7)

246 I've mentioned this before, but Ian McKellen in the title role of the film Richard III in about '95, with his England a 1930s-dress falling-into-Fascism society and Richard setting himself up as a dictator, is very effective.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:23 AM (J2vNu)

247 >>Of course they're doing it.

>>That's not news to me.

It's not news to them either. How do you think they've been getting away with it for so long?

Some of them are square heads but not all of them.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2024 10:23 AM (LkLld)

248 Kid in the corner caught a random beating from scarf lady, then another beating when he asked why he was being beaten. Then sent to the corner because he couldn't stop crying.

Posted by: *WHAM WHAM WHAM* STOP CRYING!!! at December 06, 2024 10:23 AM (dMtzC)

249 The TV show Moonlighting did an episode ala Taming of the Shrew. It flat out worked.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024 10:24 AM (Aqu9a)

250 With the comedies, a lot of the humor depends on the wordplay and puns, and the words he used have changed meaning over time, become archaic, or gone obsolete. Watching a good cast perform them would be more effective. The tragedies are easier to read and enjoy that way.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:21 AM (J2vNu)
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I think the most accessible of the comedies is A Midsummer Night's Dream. The themes are timeless and the action is comprehensible to the general public. Also, I got to play Nick Bottom in a quite good production and had a lot of fun.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:24 AM (z0QHk)

251 ... and RW media slanders and lies.
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Like the New York Times!!! They actually had a story criticizing the Hunter pardon on page B14 saying it was bad optics for President Biden to have done that!!!!!

Nazi capitalist shits!!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 06, 2024 10:24 AM (hovnC)

252 Michael Keaton was hilarious as the crazy town constable in Much Ado About Nothing.
Posted by: one hour sober


Yeah, he rocked that role.

And Kate Beckinsale was a smokeshow. Even Emma Thompson was kinda hawt.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:24 AM (v6JzV)

253 This probably won't be a popular opinion but....
Those DU psychos sound a lot like us. Except for wanting CIA/FBI to silence everyone who disagrees with them.

Look at that third comment and replace Republican and RW with demoncrats and MSM. That could have been posted here after 2020.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2024 10:24 AM (4XwPj)

254 As to who’s ultimately responsible: I’d point to Sinwar, as he set off the chain of events that led here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2024 10:21 AM (W6hoT)

I understand your point, and while I agree, I think that something was going to set it off, no matter what. Sinwar was just the unlucky butcher who got the short straw.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2024 10:25 AM (d9fT1)

255 The left is funny and retarded.

On the one hand Russia is this mega super power that can steal elections worldwide and influence how people think.

But then also according to the left it’s a 3rd world backwater with a bumbling fool as its leader.



Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2024 10:25 AM (AcsX0)

256 235 No dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2024 10:21 AM (KVOmv)

79 70 The absence of a sniper II can understand but no dog?
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Look in the bowls.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 06, 2024 09:46 AM (hovnC)

Posted by: m at December 06, 2024 10:25 AM (VnUSN)

257 ...The other thing that needs to be done is to STOP SAYING TRUMP'S FUCKING NAME constantly. Ignore him or use the generic term "the administration" if you discuss it at all. Starve the beast of the attention it seeks, craves and demands.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 06, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

Next thing you know they will tell you to stick your fingers in you ears and go lalalala.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 06, 2024 10:25 AM (OA79/)

258 I played Lysander in a college production. Great fun.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

When we did it in high school, I played both Theseus and Oberon.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:25 AM (v6JzV)

259 I just watched A Midsummer Night's Dream on TCM last night, the 1930's version, with a very funny Jimmy Cagney as Bottom and a very annoying Micky Rooney as Puck.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024

***
If you only known Cagney from his gangster and tough-guy roles, it would be hard to imagine him in a Shakespeare comedy. But he began his career as a dancer, after all.

Someone once said, "Nobody in the real world ever spoke the way Cagney did on film . . . but every line he ever delivered was true to life."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:25 AM (J2vNu)

260 115 Boys have penises and girls have vaginas.
Time to STOP the INSANITY.
Posted by: just saying at December 06, 2024 09:50 AM (Uy/WF)

Tell that to Jumanji Jemimah Jerumiundah, Pride of the Supreme Court.

Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2024 10:26 AM (UnA8+)

261 ...The other thing that needs to be done is to STOP SAYING TRUMP'S FUCKING NAME constantly. Ignore him or use the generic term "the administration" if you discuss it at all. Starve the beast of the attention it seeks, craves and demands.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

This one is really funny, because it’s the left that can’t stop talking about him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2024 10:27 AM (W6hoT)

262 Iron Maiden - Live At Aftershock (full concert)

https://youtu.be/B_04dNuy890

Posted by: Robert at December 06, 2024 10:27 AM (1Yy3c)

263 Hope this isn't all her kids.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2024 10:27 AM (WDb8x)

264 The TV show Moonlighting did an episode ala Taming of the Shrew. It flat out worked.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024

***
I seem to recall Bruce Willis's character saying he'd always wished he could play the piano, and Cybill Shepherd comes back with, "Oh, pianist envy!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:27 AM (J2vNu)

265 Did everyone see Presnit Barky gave a speech where he was concerned about election fraud and weaponizing the federal justice system?

A little late there buddy...a little late.

Here's hoping Trump puts you through the same wringer you and Slow Joe bought him through

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:27 AM (oZhjI)

266 Ya picked a bad time to leave me Lucille.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2024 10:28 AM (KDlhh)

267 Fools... money... something, something.

https://is.gd/WWrogU

Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2024 10:28 AM (/y8xj)

268 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
·
12h
Former Obama Adviser says it's "smart" for Biden to pardon Liz Cheney and Dr. Fauci because the founders "didn't intend a twice-impeached, 34 felony convicted guy" to win back the White House.
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They're basically admitting the broke laws.

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2024 10:28 AM (G0vdT)

269 263 Hope this isn't all her kids.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2024 10:27 AM (WDb8x)

There's another dozen in the next room.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2024 10:28 AM (VnUSN)

270 The TV show Moonlighting did an episode ala Taming of the Shrew. It flat out worked.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024
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It's the only episode of Moonlighting I ever saw. It was funny because Bruce Willis with a goatee looked like my sister's BiL.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:28 AM (z0QHk)

271 It’s been a month since the election. Seems like a year.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2024 10:29 AM (AcsX0)

272 The other thing that needs to be done is to STOP SAYING TRUMP'S FUCKING NAME constantly. Ignore him or use the generic term "the administration" if you discuss it at all.

Wasn't the left running around with its hair on fire claiming Trump shouldn't be treated like any other "normal" president?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:29 AM (oZhjI)

273 If you only known Cagney from his gangster and tough-guy roles, it would be hard to imagine him in a Shakespeare comedy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Probably at that point he wanted to broaden his repertoire to avoid being typecast as a hood. He rocked the role of Bottom. Hilarious.

Dick Powell and Joe E. Brown were very funny, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:29 AM (v6JzV)

274 SCTV Shakespeare's Greatest Jokes

https://tinyurl.com/28tnsjkk
1:30 minutes; you'll laugh the nose right off the middle of your face.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 06, 2024 10:30 AM (hovnC)

275 263 Hope this isn't all her kids.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2024 10:27 AM (WDb8x)

There's another dozen in the next room.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2024 10:28 AM (VnUSN)

They're Cheaper By The Dozen!

Posted by: Frank Gilbreth (Clifton Webb) at December 06, 2024 10:30 AM (Aqu9a)

276 By the pricking of my thumbs ...

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2024 10:30 AM (LkLld)

277 When we did it in high school, I played both Theseus and Oberon.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:25 AM (v6JzV)

I can't recall if Oberon appears in that last scene after the revelers go off stage? That'd be a fast costume change!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 10:30 AM (LxER7)

278
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
@TRobinsonNewEra
ADMIN POST.

Christmas time in "Modern London" and convoys of Muslims drive around celebrating the new ISIS assault on Syria.

Christians have come under attack, Kurdish women and girls taken as sex slaves yet again.

Khan is getting a knighthood for turning London into this?

Posted by: Mister Ghost at December 06, 2024 10:31 AM (TGPs7)

279 On the one hand Russia is this mega super power that can steal elections worldwide and influence how people think.

But then also according to the left it’s a 3rd world backwater with a bumbling fool as its leader.


For a long long time the left was arguing:

A) If we just give Ukraine a few billion more they will be having a victory parade in red square and hanging Vlad from the nearest lamppost

B) If we don't give Ukraine a few billion more dollars Vlad will be in Paris by the spring...PARIS TEXAS

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:31 AM (oZhjI)

280 The dumbest move of the campaign for
Kummy was embracing Liz Cheney. They thought there’s this huge untapped pool of voters who could be motivated by her. Turns out these voters don’t exist. Have never existed. And will never exist.And instead it turned off the hard core left who thinks her dad is worse than Hitler.

For being the smart party, they’re fucking idiots.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2024 10:31 AM (AcsX0)

281 I can't recall if Oberon appears in that last scene after the revelers go off stage? That'd be a fast costume change!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

He did in the movie, but I don't think we did that in our HS production.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:31 AM (v6JzV)

282
Khan is getting a knighthood for turning London into this?

This is what the British government and elites WANT, yes

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:31 AM (oZhjI)

283 It's so much that Musk could use the Left's projection to power all of his planned trips to Mars

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 06, 2024 10:32 AM (tK3Zm)

284 If you only known Cagney from his gangster and tough-guy roles, it would be hard to imagine him in a Shakespeare comedy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Probably at that point he wanted to broaden his repertoire to avoid being typecast as a hood. He rocked the role of Bottom. Hilarious.

Dick Powell and Joe E. Brown were very funny, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024

***
Right, he stopped playing such gangster roles around 1940 or so, and only appeared as a criminal again in '49's White Heat (to me, the greatest cops-and-robbers movie ever made).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

285 273 Probably at that point he wanted to broaden his repertoire to avoid being typecast as a hood. He rocked the role of Bottom. Hilarious.

Dick Powell and Joe E. Brown were very funny, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:29 AM (v6JzV)

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Actually Cagney loved being typecast. He obviously did more than just gangsters (Yankee Doodle Dandee), but he was on easy street, he knew it, and he loved it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

286 I understand your point, and while I agree, I think that something was going to set it off, no matter what. Sinwar was just the unlucky butcher who got the short straw.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2024 10:25 AM (d9fT1)

Sinwar may end up being the Gavrilo Princip for a complete realignment of the Middle East. The entire region has been primed and waiting for a mass war for years; it just needed the right spark to set it off. The great irony (or divine intervention if you like) is that it’s playing out in a way that is maximally beneficial to Israel, which no high level analyst would have thought possible. (I don’t mean short term, I mean long term benefit)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2024 10:32 AM (W6hoT)

287 Kummy was embracing Liz Cheney. They thought there’s this huge untapped pool of voters who could be motivated by her. Turns out these voters don’t exist. Have never existed. And will never exist.And instead it turned off the hard core left who thinks her dad is worse than Hitler.

Lefties follow orders pretty well, but yeah demanding they embrace supposed literal Hitler like warmonger Cheney is a pretty high ledge to climb to...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:33 AM (oZhjI)

288 Posted by: Mister Ghost at December 06, 2024 10:31 AM (TGPs7)

Hope Ellen likes her new home.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 06, 2024 10:33 AM (tK3Zm)

289 A wild thought... Based on the Last Supper?
Posted by: davidt
_______

Who's the thirteenth disciple sitting in the corner?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 06, 2024 10:33 AM (Dm8we)

290 >>>There's another dozen in the next room.
Posted by: m


Good grief!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2024 10:34 AM (WDb8x)

291 > Did everyone see Presnit Barky gave a speech where he was concerned about election fraud and weaponizing the federal justice system?
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That fucker needs weekly 3AM raids and subsequent legal harassment for all the shit he's pulled. Arraign him in every single state and county until someone gets something to stick. Just keep doing it, day in and day out.

Like they do to us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2024 10:34 AM (Q4IgG)

292 257 ...The other thing that needs to be done is to STOP SAYING TRUMP'S FUCKING NAME constantly.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 06, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

Next thing you know they will tell you to stick your fingers in you ears and go lalalala.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

Kids raised on Harry Potter are old enough to vote, and think not saying the name of your nemesis is empowering or something. Of course, the true believers all hate Harry Potter now because Rowling is a TERF. Everyone fails to be pure enough eventually on the Left.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 06, 2024 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

293 Who's the thirteenth disciple sitting in the corner?
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Holy Ghost.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2024 10:35 AM (jFCkp)

294 Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:33 AM (oZhjI)

The enemy of my enemy was their motivation but she's no longer useful so off with her head.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 06, 2024 10:35 AM (tK3Zm)

295 Cautioned by my nephew that there's a considerable amount of butt hurt still being felt by his family over the outcome of the election and to avoid political discussions. I don't discuss politics with family and especially when a family member looks like she's transitioning. Occasionally I wonder which is the male in that marriage. It's two days and I can hold my opinions to myself.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2024 10:35 AM (2NHgQ)

296 Stymie played both Topsy and Uncle Tom. He had great range.

Posted by: Our Gang Follies at December 06, 2024 10:35 AM (D0hl3)

297 Willowed:
Regarding Daniel Penny-
If this trial had been held in Texas we would have already had a verdict on day one and it would be NOT GUILTY!

What is taking this NY jury so long?

Just guessing but the members of the jury are doing everything they can to find him guilty because they know 1/10th of a second after he walks, their names get released for corrective measures to be applied to them.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2024 10:36 AM (lXoJ5)

298 Like they do to us.

This should be one of the core aspects of MAGA/conservative governance going forward.

The best way to get the left to reject lawfare and everything else is to make them experience a big heaping pile of it

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:36 AM (oZhjI)

299
They're Cheaper By The Dozen!
Posted by: Frank Gilbreth (Clifton Webb) at December 06, 2024 1

***
There's a very funny scene in the memoir, possibly also in the movie, in which the local Family Planning lady, new in town, stops by to ask Mrs. Gilbreth for a donation. One of the twelve kids comes in, then two more, then three more, etc., until Family Planning Lady is white as a bedsheet . . . and then Mrs. Gilbreath tells her, "Oh, we have an even dozen" -- sending the woman gasping out of the house.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:36 AM (J2vNu)

300 Obama is definitely the dumbest and most anti American President in history.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 06, 2024 10:36 AM (tK3Zm)

301 I prefer watching Shakespeare to reading it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Yes, no, and there is a third way, "Readers' Theatre." We used to do that a lot. It livens up a class, I can say for sure, quickly shows up who's just in there for the quick elective credit, and illustrates the wordplay. I think it is a must for ancient Greek plays. All right, Chorus can drag a little.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 06, 2024 10:36 AM (zdLoL)

302 Kummy was embracing Liz Cheney. They thought there’s this huge untapped pool of voters who could be motivated by her. Turns out these voters don’t exist. Have never existed. And will never exist.And instead it turned off the hard core left who thinks her dad is worse than Hitler.

You dummies listened to us and believed!

Posted by: The Bulwark, Lincoln Project, National Review, etc at December 06, 2024 10:36 AM (JCZqz)

303 296 Stymie played both Topsy and Uncle Tom. He had great range.
---------------
Stymie could rock a bowler.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2024 10:36 AM (jFCkp)

304 Another good non-gangster Cagney movie is The Strawberry blonde, also with Olivia de Haviland, Jack Carson, George Tobias, and Rita Hayworth in the title role.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (v6JzV)

305 295 Cautioned by my nephew that there's a considerable amount of butt hurt still being felt by his family over the outcome of the election and to avoid political discussions.

If it were my extended family, I'd be downing the whiskey and preparing for the fireworks.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (lXoJ5)

306 Hope Ellen likes her new home.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 06, 2024 10:33 AM (tK3Zm)
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She's out in Gloucestershire somewhere. That place that's won "Village of the Year" I don't know how man times.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (z0QHk)

307 >>>Obama is definitely the dumbest and most anti American President in history.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Biden is a close second.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (WDb8x)

308 Just guessing but the members of the jury are doing everything they can to find him guilty because they know 1/10th of a second after he walks, their names get released for corrective measures to be applied to them./i]

Yep. I suspect not a single juror would convict him in old, protected jury America but no one wants a "mostly peaceful" BLM "protest" outside their home waiting to kill them.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (oZhjI)

309 Penny jury, weren't three of the members assaulted on the subway on their way back to the courthouse? Thought that delayed things a bit.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (2NHgQ)

310 306 Hope Ellen likes her new home.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 06, 2024 10:33 AM (tK3Zm)
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She's out in Gloucestershire somewhere. That place that's won "Village of the Year" I don't know how man times.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (z0QHk)

=======

It's what happens when you get rid of all the crusty jugglers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

311 >>and think not saying the name of your nemesis is empowering or something

This is about us saying "that team up north," isn't it?

-- Ohio State football coaches, players and fans

Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (Y1sOo)

312 Regarding Daniel Penny-
If this trial had been held in Texas we would have already had a verdict on day one and it would be NOT GUILTY!

He would have never been indicted unless he was in Austin.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 06, 2024 10:38 AM (tK3Zm)

313 >>Stymie played both Topsy and Uncle Tom. He had great range.

He was no Buckwheat.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2024 10:38 AM (LkLld)

314 Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 06, 2024 10:36 AM (zdLoL)

My mother used to have young people in her classes on Shakespeare do that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2024 10:38 AM (BpAln)

315 MILO
@Nero
I can’t tell you why, but I get thousands of DMs from heterosexual men—compliments about my wit, bravery, charm, dress sense or some such—that end this way. Ladies, when your man is on the way home from the bar, it’s not a girl he’s DMing. It’s me.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at December 06, 2024 10:38 AM (TGPs7)

316 Moonlighting was a great show.

The scene where Bruce totally trashes a BMW in a parking garage is epic.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 06, 2024 10:38 AM (QB+5g)

317 293 Who's the thirteenth disciple sitting in the corner?
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Holy Ghost.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Ahmad ibn Fadlan

Posted by: Wrong 13th reference at December 06, 2024 10:38 AM (JCZqz)

318 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (z0QHk)

With plans to move to London when their place is ready.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 06, 2024 10:39 AM (tK3Zm)

319 Can we stop quoting Milo? His 15 minutes expired a long time ago

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:39 AM (oZhjI)

320 Stymie could rock a bowler.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Oliver Hardy gave him that hat iirc.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2024 10:39 AM (4XwPj)

321 Syria appears to be collapsing rapidly, rebel armies advancing on all fronts.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2024 10:04 AM (W6hoT)
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Wake me when they get to Mount Mezzeh.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2024 10:39 AM (RIvkX)

322 Obama is definitely the dumbest and most anti American President in history.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Biden is a close second.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2024

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Biden never looked very bright even before the dementia. BHO can at least *appear* superficially intelligent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:39 AM (J2vNu)

323 And Kate Beckinsale was a smokeshow. Even Emma Thompson was kinda hawt.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:24 AM (v6JzV)

Emma Thompson has a nice hot-girl-next-door look. It's too bad she's batshit crazy.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 06, 2024 10:40 AM (g8Ew8)

324 @286: Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2024 10:32 AM (W6hoT)
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I wonder what’s going on in Jordanian palace? They must be very uneasy about events in Syria. If they don’t understand they are next on the menu, they’re deluding themselves. I guess they are counting on the Israelis to save their bacon, so to speak.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 06, 2024 10:40 AM (2McGb)

325 295 ...specially when a family member looks like she's transitioning.

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Sorry to hear that. Very painful for all, usually.

and speking of neverenoughcaffeine, I think I just commented on a thread two posts?/threads back. There is so much good content on here, I sometimes lose track of which thread I am on! I humbly apologize to the administrators of this here blog.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2024 10:40 AM (vd6bO)

326 322 Obama is definitely the dumbest and most anti American President in history.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Biden is a close second.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2024

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Woodrow Wilson was probably more anti-American. He was just much smarter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

327 Moonlighting was about the high point of Cybill Sheperd's career and pretty much the start of Willis's....

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:40 AM (oZhjI)

328 Is Penney charged with murder? If so, what degree?

Posted by: tubal at December 06, 2024 10:40 AM (PCK5/)

329
Woodrow Wilson was probably more anti-American. He was just much smarter.

Until his brain exploded

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:40 AM (oZhjI)

330 There's a very funny scene in the memoir, possibly also in the movie, in which the local Family Planning lady, new in town, stops by to ask Mrs. Gilbreth for a donation. One of the twelve kids comes in, then two more, then three more, etc., until Family Planning Lady is white as a bedsheet . . . and then Mrs. Gilbreath tells her, "Oh, we have an even dozen" -- sending the woman gasping out of the house.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:36 AM (J2vNu)

This is in the movie, done really well.

Posted by: Frank Gilbreth (Clifton Webb) at December 06, 2024 10:41 AM (Aqu9a)

331 SanFranpsycho, check your mail.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2024 10:41 AM (gGMRM)

332 >>>Biden never looked very bright even before the dementia. BHO can at least *appear* superficially intelligent.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere


Good point.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2024 10:42 AM (WDb8x)

333 332 >>>Biden never looked very bright even before the dementia. BHO can at least *appear* superficially intelligent.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere


Good point.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2024 10:42 AM (WDb8x)

Joe has those weird inbred looking eyes..

Posted by: tubal at December 06, 2024 10:43 AM (PCK5/)

334 Don in SoCo. I believe she's doing that take this daddy deal and will remain female. She used to be so attractive and now looks like a feminine slob guy. Still has a loving personality, just don't talk politics with her.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2024 10:43 AM (2NHgQ)

335 >>and think not saying the name of your nemesis is empowering or something

This is about us saying "that team up north," isn't it?

-- Ohio State football coaches, players and fans
Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (Y1sOo)

"The Scottish Play"

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024 10:43 AM (Aqu9a)

336 Joe has those weird inbred looking eyes..
Posted by: tubal at December 06, 2024 10:43 AM (PCK5/)
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Like a doll's eyes...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:43 AM (z0QHk)

337 I guess they are counting on the Israelis to save their bacon, so to speak.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 06, 2024 10:40 AM (2McGb)
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That will not happen. They may have saved the father but they are not going to save the son with the nasty wife.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2024 10:43 AM (RIvkX)

338 Emma Thompson's teeth, though...

Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2024 10:43 AM (Y1sOo)

339 I saw an old clip from Fantasy Island. O'Rourke is in some sort of contest with the literal devil and ends up winning because the devil didn't realize that one of the guests whose soul he wanted to take was pregnant and the devil isn't allowed to touch the soul of the unborn.

Quite a change from modern FNM takes on abortion and the unborn isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:43 AM (oZhjI)

340 332 What was it GW called it, the 'soft bigotry of low expectatios'? Most of the time that seems to be in play when you hear media-types droning on about how smart BHO is. As you say, "*appear*"

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2024 10:44 AM (vd6bO)

341 SanFranpsycho, check your mail.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2024 10:41 AM (gGMRM)
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Thanks I will

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2024 10:44 AM (RIvkX)

342 Obama is definitely the dumbest and most anti American President in history.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Barky is anti-American but he isn't dumb. He was successful in all his endeavors to destroy this country.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 06, 2024 10:44 AM (g8Ew8)

343 Woodrow Wilson was probably more anti-American. He was just much smarter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

Sorry but as bad as he was he was not close to Obama.

Obama who publicly rejected American exceptionalism. Obama who was forced to wear the American flag pin. Obama whose wife said his election was first time she was ever proud of America. Obama whose mentor and mother hated America.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 06, 2024 10:44 AM (tK3Zm)

344 It's what happens when you get rid of all the crusty jugglers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

I understand that reference. +1

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024 10:44 AM (Aqu9a)

345 344 It's what happens when you get rid of all the crusty jugglers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

I understand that reference. +1
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024 10:44 AM (Aqu9a)

SHUT IT!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 10:46 AM (LxER7)

346 Emma Thompson's teeth, though...
Posted by: one hour sober

Diana Rigg has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:46 AM (v6JzV)

347 Stan Laurel gave Stymie his hat.

Posted by: Our Gang Follies of 1938 at December 06, 2024 10:46 AM (D0hl3)

348 Diana Rigg has entered the chat.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:46 AM (v6JzV)
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The catsuit makes you forget all about that.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:46 AM (z0QHk)

349 >>>Joe has those weird inbred looking eyes..
Posted by: tubal at December 06

They may be actual marbles. Dead eyes...

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2024 10:47 AM (WDb8x)

350 Of course they're doing it.

That's not news to me.

What's interesting is the no-nothing True Believers who have spent most of their lives calling the CIA a terrorist organization for overthrowing regimes in other countries is now demanding that they do it...in America...which they're expressly forbidden from doing (not that it's stopped them, of course).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:21 AM (GBKbO)


They're stone-cold Marxists with a dark, ruthless need for total power over their fellow citizens. Constitutions are simply the means of gaining that control over the morons who appeal to a constitutional authority. As long as the LE/Intelligence agencies are in Marxist hands, they are good and necessary for the work ahead. When the government enforcement departments are in the hands of the "counter-revolutionaries", they must be opposed.

Posted by: mrp at December 06, 2024 10:47 AM (rj6Yv)

351 Barky is anti-American but he isn't dumb. He was successful in all his endeavors to destroy this country.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 06, 2024 10:44 AM (g8Ew

No one can give me an example political or non political of his brilliance. He was just a puppet that had a machine behind him working the strings.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 06, 2024 10:48 AM (tK3Zm)

352 339 I saw an old clip from Fantasy Island. O'Rourke is in some sort of contest with the literal devil and ends up winning because the devil didn't realize that one of the guests whose soul he wanted to take was pregnant and the devil isn't allowed to touch the soul of the unborn.

The look of triumph on his face when he told the devil about that was wonderful.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2024 10:49 AM (lXoJ5)

353 Woodrow Wilson was probably more anti-American. He was just much smarter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I've read speculation that the reason Wilson hated America so was that he was really pissed that the North won the Civil War. His old man was a big supporter of slavery, and we all know what a huge racist Woodrow Wilson. Also bragged that he had met R. E. as a child. So he took the South's defeat very hard, and wanted to dilute American sovereignty (via the League of Nations) as a result.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:49 AM (v6JzV)

354 The look of triumph on his face when he told the devil about that was wonderful.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2024 10:49 AM (lXoJ5)
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The man could act.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:49 AM (z0QHk)

355 That will not happen. They may have saved the father but they are not going to save the son with the nasty wife.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2024 10:43 AM (RIvkX)

No they won’t - Israel has moved troops to the Golan as a precaution but they won’t advance. Assad was no friend to Israel; remember that he provided protection for all the massive arms shipments from Iran to Hezbollah, and it is the collapse of Hezbollah more than anything else which is causing the collapse of its patron, Syria.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2024 10:50 AM (fIpti)

356 Stan Laurel gave Stymie his hat.
Posted by: Our Gang Follies of


Yes. I said Hardy but I knew who I was talking about. In my defense, I have never watched anything involving Laurel and/or Hardy. Therefore I really don't know which one is which. I do know one of them had the nickname of Babe.

Meh.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2024 10:50 AM (4XwPj)

357
What's interesting is the no-nothing True Believers who have spent most of their lives calling the CIA a terrorist organization for overthrowing regimes in other countries is now demanding that they do it...in America.

They cheered on the color revolutions in the Ukraine and Brazil though too...

But as always with the left all they care about is power. If the CIA is working against their interests the CIA is evil and should be destroyed and if it is advancing their goals it is good and everything it does is blessed...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:50 AM (oZhjI)

358 >> Legal expert skeptical Supreme Court will 'buy' Biden admin's argument challenging Tennessee transgender law

The Biden administration's Justice Department and the ACLU, who first challenged the law, argued it discriminates based on sex and thus violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson seemed receptive to that claim. At one point during the two-and-a-half hours of oral arguments, Jackson said she saw a "parallel" and "potential comparison" between the laws banning transgender care for minors and laws banning interracial marriages.

Democrats must be so proud. Brown Jackson has to be the most ignorant, dumb person ever to sit on the court. Her “reasoning” is largely sophistry done as a guise to try and hide her political motive. She’s a legal dunce without any grounding in case law or constitution. But Democrats don’t care, do they, provided they have this buffoon as a means to their ends.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2024 10:51 AM (BfShq)

359 Obama is cunning. He was the right guy at the right time be he's no super genius.

But the era of Obama is over.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2024 10:51 AM (LkLld)

360 Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2024 10:50 AM (4XwPj)

Hardy (the fat one) was called "Babe."

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:51 AM (v6JzV)

361 The man could act.

The fact he could play Khan and O'Rourke both so well shows quite a bit of range. Arguably he was the best actor in any of the TOS movies...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:52 AM (oZhjI)

362 For Texas morons who haven't heard...Dade Phelan has withdrawn from the Texas House Speakers race. Paxton for the win!

Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2024 10:52 AM (8uzBS)

363 358 Democrats must be so proud. Brown Jackson has to be the most ignorant, dumb person ever to sit on the court. Her “reasoning” is largely sophistry done as a guise to try and hide her political motive. She’s a legal dunce without any grounding in case law or constitution. But Democrats don’t care, do they, provided they have this buffoon as a means to their ends.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2024 10:51 AM (BfShq)

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Never forget that Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitt Romney thought she'd be great, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

364 Moonlighting was about the high point of Cybill Sheperd's career and pretty much the start of Willis's....
Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024

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It was his big break, until Die Hard proved even bigger. I remember stumbling across Moonlighting in '85 or so and wondering, "Who *is* this guy?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:54 AM (J2vNu)

365 Fucking YouBoob...when I'm home and watching it I get soooo many Spanish language ads.

Guys, I ain't gonna buy what you're selling if I have no fucking idea what you're saying,

Posted by: Robert at December 06, 2024 10:54 AM (1Yy3c)

366 The fact he could play Khan and O'Rourke both so well shows quite a bit of range. Arguably he was the best actor in any of the TOS movies...
Posted by: 18-1

He also sang the screen debut of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Esther Williams. I forget the movie's name.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:54 AM (v6JzV)

367 Never forget that Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitt Romney thought she'd be great, too.

If the GOPe were actually a right of center party a great topic to force them to answer is why they approve most leftwing appointees, even the most leftwing insane ones, but have constant issues with any right of center appointees from their own party.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:54 AM (oZhjI)

368 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2024 10:54 AM (8uzBS)

369 Maybe somebody here who has read the Dune books can explain something to me I’m confused about.

Watching Dune: Prophecy right now, as it was mentioned in JJs thread, and I’m not really impressed so far as it seems like a combination of Game of a Thrones and The Acolyte and not a very good imitation of either of them. I’m only halfway through the first episode so it may get better, but I’m not counting on it.

So a question occurred to me that a Dune fan might be able to answer.

If Spice can only be found on Arrakis, and Spice is required to fold space to travel long distances, then how did they travel to Arrakis to find the Spice that enabled them to travel long distances?

Did they use generational ships to travel long distances before Spice?

I’m confused.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2024 10:55 AM (6ydKt)

370 He also sang the screen debut of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Esther Williams. I forget the movie's name.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:54 AM (v6JzV)
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I'm guessing the movie involved water, somehow.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:55 AM (z0QHk)

371 For Texas morons who haven't heard...Dade Phelan has withdrawn from the Texas House Speakers race. Paxton for the win!
Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2024 10:52 AM (8uzBS)

Very cool.

Unfortunately you know the new boss is going to be the same as the old boss.

Posted by: Robert at December 06, 2024 10:55 AM (1Yy3c)

372 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson seemed receptive to that claim. At one point during the two-and-a-half hours of oral arguments, Jackson said she saw a "parallel" and "potential comparison" between the laws banning transgender care for minors and laws banning interracial marriages.

Next up, parallels and potential comparisons for laws banning bestiality and laws setting ages of consent.

Idiot! *spits*

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2024 10:55 AM (Aqu9a)

373 Yes. I said Hardy but I knew who I was talking about. In my defense, I have never watched anything involving Laurel and/or Hardy. Therefore I really don't know which one is which. I do know one of them had the nickname of Babe.

Meh.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2024

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Stan Laurel was the thin one; he looked like Dick Van Dyke. Hardy was the fat one; think Jackie Gleason with a mustache.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:55 AM (J2vNu)

374 282
Khan is getting a knighthood for turning London into this?

This is what the British government and elites WANT, yes
Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:31 AM (oZhjI)

Elites drool at the thought of getting to apply Shari'ah to the masses.

Death Penalty if you even look at them wrong?

It's their dream come true.

Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2024 10:56 AM (UnA8+)

375 >> Never forget that Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitt Romney thought she'd be great, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

We really need to clean out the senate. It is the last bastion of the Deep State cuckholds who enjoy watching the country get ravished by forces detrimental to our liberties. I was happy so see that idiot in Louisiana, Cassidy, is getting a primary candidate. We need to take these people out of the senate one at a time.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2024 10:56 AM (BfShq)

376 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson seemed receptive to that claim. At one point during the two-and-a-half hours of oral arguments, Jackson said she saw a "parallel" and "potential comparison" between the laws banning transgender care for minors and laws banning interracial marriages.

Could someone make her answer why there is apparently a constitutional right to "gender affirming therapy" but the government can ban IVM because they decide they don't want people to use it?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:57 AM (oZhjI)

377 365 Brave browser - makes youboob viewable again.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2024 10:57 AM (vd6bO)

378 The Left have never ever been able to make logical comparisons. Or recognize cause and effect correctly .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 06, 2024 10:57 AM (tK3Zm)

379 Obama's mother's name was Stanley Ann.

Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2024 10:57 AM (8uzBS)

380 Stan Laurel was the thin one; he looked like Dick Van Dyke. Hardy was the fat one; think Jackie Gleason with a mustache.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

A Hitler moustache, at that.

Fun fact: Oliver Hardy was in a John Wayne movie. Apparently, Laurel was sick or something, and Wayne was buds with Hardy and offered him the role.

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:57 AM (v6JzV)

381 The best Fantasy Island had Malcolm McDowell as Mr. Rourke. Short lived but awesome!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 06, 2024 10:57 AM (4XwPj)

382 If Spice can only be found on Arrakis, and Spice is required to fold space to travel long distances, then how did they travel to Arrakis to find the Spice that enabled them to travel long distances?

Did they use generational ships to travel long distances before Spice?

I’m confused.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2024 10:55 AM (6ydKt)
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Spice isn't involved with the actual folding of space. It's used by Guild Navigators to put them in a mental state that they can safely navigate hyperspace.

The original colonization may have been done by generation ships. I'm not sure about that.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:58 AM (z0QHk)

383 Elites drool at the thought of getting to apply Shari'ah to the masses.

There was a book series from the 00s that postulated that the western left converted to Islam in mass.

And the left made fun of the idea at the time but looking at Europe right now its not so funny is it?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:58 AM (oZhjI)

384 >> Next up, parallels and potential comparisons for laws banning bestiality and laws setting ages of consent.

Idiot! *spits*

I actually had to read it twice because I thought I read it incorrectly. It has to be the most ignorant legal analogy I’ve ever read.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2024 10:58 AM (BfShq)

385 Stan Laurel was the thin one; he looked like Dick Van Dyke.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

You know, that never occurred to me. But you're right!

Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:58 AM (v6JzV)

386 Fun fact: Oliver Hardy was in a John Wayne movie. Apparently, Laurel was sick or something, and Wayne was buds with Hardy and offered him the role.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:57 AM (v6JzV)

The Fighting Kentuckian. Finally saw it recently. Not one of the Duke's best but fun to see Hardy there.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 06, 2024 10:59 AM (LxER7)

387 Ricardo Montalban was a staple of my TV watching days. He guested on an early U.N.C.L.E. episode as the chief of intelligence in a mythical Euro country -- sometimes an antagonist to Solo, sometimes an ally.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

388 382 Spice isn't involved with the actual folding of space. It's used by Guild Navigators to put them in a mental state that they can safely navigate hyperspace.

The original colonization may have been done by generation ships. I'm not sure about that.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 10:58 AM (z0QHk)

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There's an explanation out there somewhere written by Herbert himself. It was probably only publicly made available first with the Encyclopedia which he didn't write himself.

I'd guess generational ships.

But there is an answer out there.

In the later sequels, spice isn't important because of the creation of no-ships which can fold space without navigators.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 06, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)

389 They tried to make a Fantasy Island horror movie. Didn't do very well.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 06, 2024 11:00 AM (tK3Zm)

390 Stan Laurel was the thin one; he looked like Dick Van Dyke.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
You know, that never occurred to me. But you're right!
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024

***
Van Dyke's Rob Petrie would often do Laurel impressions on the show.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

391 383 Elites drool at the thought of getting to apply Shari'ah to the masses.

There was a book series from the 00s that postulated that the western left converted to Islam in mass.

And the left made fun of the idea at the time but looking at Europe right now its not so funny is it?
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Demographics is Destiny.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2024 11:00 AM (vd6bO)

392 Very cool.

Unfortunately you know the new boss is going to be the same as the old boss.

The guy in the lead to replace him (David Cook) also voted to impeach Paxton. Reps did pick up two seats in the house this year.

Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2024 11:01 AM (8uzBS)

393 Van Dyke's Rob Petrie would often do Laurel impressions on the show.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)
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Van Dyke befriended Stanley in his last years. I believe he spoke at Stan's funeral.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 11:01 AM (z0QHk)

394 Obama's mother's name was Stanley Ann.
Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2024

***
She was screwed up right from the start.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)

395 No-monkey nood.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 06, 2024 11:02 AM (z0QHk)

396 Yes, noodus throckmortonii

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2024 11:03 AM (J2vNu)

397 Elites drool at the thought of getting to apply Shari'ah to the masses.
Death Penalty if you even look at them wrong?
It's their dream come true.
Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2024 10:56 AM (UnA8+)
***

English Civil War?
Why not?

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon St Crispin's day.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2024 11:03 AM (W/lyH)

398 It's difficult to emote inside a rubber suit.

Posted by: The Gorn Commander at December 06, 2024 11:03 AM (Aqu9a)

399 nope

Posted by: nope at December 06, 2024 11:06 AM (ezxSY)

400 There was a book series from the 00s that postulated that the western left converted to Islam in mass.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2024 10:58 AM (oZhjI)



Ferrigno's Assassin series. Pretty good pulp adventure novels at the time.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2024 11:10 AM (+uHnC)

401 Thanks Capt. Obvious and TJM.

I was just wondering if Herbert ever explained how that humanity got out into deep space in the first place.

I’ve read a basic timeline about the series but not much is there before “The Butlerian Jihad” or whatever the war against thinking machines was named.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2024 11:10 AM (6ydKt)

402 "war against thinking machines."

And that was before Skynet was ever written about. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2024 11:12 AM (lXoJ5)

403 401 I was just wondering if Herbert ever explained how that humanity got out into deep space in the first place.

Check out the Dune Fandom page. It's pretty decent at providing some background.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2024 11:14 AM (lXoJ5)

404 Another good non-gangster Cagney movie is The Strawberry blonde, also with Olivia de Haviland, Jack Carson, George Tobias, and Rita Hayworth in the title role.
Posted by: Bulg at December 06, 2024 10:37 AM (v6JzV)

I love that movie. After watching it so many times through the years, I finally bought the DVD. A beautiful restoration of the print. The original "sing along" at the end of the movie is included as well. Another movie I would love to see on the big screen.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 06, 2024 11:18 AM (iODuv)

405 Spice isn't involved with the actual folding of space. It's used by Guild Navigators to put them in a mental state that they can safely navigate hyperspace.

The original colonization may have been done by generation ships. I'm not sure about that.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar

The original colonization was handled by ships with computers that handled the navigation. Those went away after the Butlerian Jihad did away with "thinking machines" (it's a whole thing in the backstory that turns up in the really dubious later volumes), which is why the Guild Navigators are even a thing.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 06, 2024 11:22 AM (OUMaO)

406 The Swiss were not as prosperous as the Dutch but, apparently, kinder.

The artist was quite talented and the featured piece is a very nice, finely detailed painting but I'm ambivalent about the possibility of hanging it. OTOH, I will search for more works from the artist because of the realism and detail. Thank you.

BTW, child on the chair by the door reminds me of the many times I spent on a chair, in a corner, or with a bar of soap in my mouth while in daycare (the very 1st in the state many decades ago!). I also had 2 cousins there and one of them was occasionally tied onto the swing set while outside to keep him in tow. Heh.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow at December 06, 2024 11:34 AM (NFX2v)

407 In my KinderGarten Daze, I was usually the one 'on the stool'. When Sister said 'play with blox', I wanted to read. When Sister said 'draw a picture', I wanted to look out the window. One day she sent me OUTSIDE when it was pouring rain. My 5-yr-old mind told me to walk to my Aunt's. I did. She called my Mom. Mom called my Dad, who brought me home. Next morning, Mom & Dad had a 'chat' with Sis. Elvina (what a name, yes?). When they left, my time at Cat'lick Skewel had come to an end. Yay me. I win ...

Posted by: Dr_No at December 06, 2024 12:53 PM (ayRl+)

408 Kid in corner has shaved head - cooties.

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