The Hounds of Christmas Open Thread

It’s time.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/UjbQy5UJHj
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 13, 2024

Dog having his own fun.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/zMISiMoZjd
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 25, 2024

Posted by: Ace at 04:30 PM

Comments

1 Ahhhroooooooooooo!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2024 04:32 PM (a3Q+t)

2 Ahhhroooooooooooo!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2024

***
Werewolves of London!

(Though I doubt they'd recognize the place these days)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:34 PM (omVj0)

3
No Hounds. No thread.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 04:34 PM (dxSpM)

4 Merry Christmas everyone!

I love the doggies.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 25, 2024 04:37 PM (1gLn1)

5 Leo the cat looks like he has a Maine Coon's tail. Somebody's Coon cat was sowing some wild oats, methinks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:38 PM (omVj0)

6 Willowed....

She was no Honey West.

The character who caused never-before-experienced stirrings in my nine year-old loinal region.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2024 04:26 PM (muwun)

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 04:38 PM (jvJvP)

7 Re: Dog Having His Own Fun.We could replace 30-40% of Congress with Border Collies and be much better off. They’re smarter, more loyal and task oriented.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 25, 2024 04:39 PM (Jpaxf)

8 Ah screw it.

I'm going to drink.

More.

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 04:39 PM (jvJvP)

9
Is there any performer more phony and plastic than Mariah Carey? She's more of an audioanimatronic machine than a human.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 04:40 PM (dxSpM)

10 Leo the cat looks like he has a Maine Coon's tail. Somebody's Coon cat was sowing some wild oats, methinks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:38 PM (omVj0)
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Wonder if he's got a few extra toes...apparently that's also common among Maine Coons...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2024 04:40 PM (BpYfr)

11 Re: Dog Having His Own Fun.We could replace 30-40% of Congress with Border Collies and be much better off. They’re smarter, more loyal and task oriented.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 25, 2024 04:39 PM (Jpaxf)

Let's start with their complete staffs. The collies can herd the congresscritters into the chamber for votes.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 04:41 PM (VNX3d)

12 Is there any performer more phony and plastic than Mariah Carey? She's more of an audioanimatronic machine than a human.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 04:40 PM (dxSpM)

Listen, tits are tits my friend.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 04:41 PM (DX6IT)

13 Besides being sexy, Anne Francis gave her characters a thoughtful quality. She plays a very effective villain in two early episodes of U.N.C.L.E., and of course she was in Forbidden Planet and a slew of other movies and TV shows.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:41 PM (omVj0)

14 Happy Houndsmas!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 25, 2024 04:42 PM (Wx316)

15 8 Ah screw it.
I'm going to drink.
More.
Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 04:39 PM (jvJvP)

I'm going to wait until 5:00. Pretending to have self-control.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2024 04:42 PM (OX9vb)

16
Dogs in snow.

https://youtu.be/bDjGJzBdAwY

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 04:42 PM (dxSpM)

17 No Hounds. No thread.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

It was Elvis that Put people off hounds. Cryin' all the time. Never caught a rabbit.

Posted by: Ain't No Friend Of Mine at December 25, 2024 04:43 PM (G5+As)

18 Finished wrapping another batch of lumpia

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 25, 2024 04:43 PM (Wx316)

19 I just noticed the license plate on the top video
Lol

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 25, 2024 04:45 PM (Wx316)

20 18 Finished wrapping another batch of lumpia
Posted by: vmom

I quit wrapping the lutefisk I hand out on Christmas. Even through the fancy paper, their nose told them what it was.

Posted by: Norseman at December 25, 2024 04:46 PM (G5+As)

21 That Mercedes in vid#1 sees VW's "farvergnugen" and raises it a Fab Doodle.

Posted by: Rex B at December 25, 2024 04:46 PM (PT7Bh)

22 Remember, little things can make a difference.

https://youtu.be/ibDD8Y3IJrg

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 04:47 PM (VNX3d)

23 Christmas Manhattan here. 5lb pork shoulder marinated overnight in garlic, oregano, mashed pineapple and other seasonings overnight currently in the oven.

Little is showing admirable restraint, refusing all solid food except for cookies until dinnertime in another three hours..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2024 04:48 PM (Cbio9)

24 The pig has been in the oven for ninety minutes. Approximately thirty to go.

Repeat, the pig is in the oven.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:48 PM (omVj0)

25 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is 178 minutes long, just under 3 hours. It may get abridged for TV.

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of glowworms at December 25, 2024 04:49 PM (i0xsb)

26
Running out of sugary blender juices. And rum.

Posted by: Auspex at December 25, 2024 04:49 PM (q5rNo)

27 Repeat, the pig is in the oven.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:48 PM

How about the chair? Against the wall?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 25, 2024 04:50 PM (9JrK/)

28 I quit wrapping the lutefisk I hand out on Christmas. Even through the fancy paper, their nose told them what it was.
Posted by: Norseman at December 25, 2024

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When the Norwegian Seamen's Church was here, they had a gift and food section at the rear of the building. Seems I recall canned lutefisk being available. I was never tempted.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:50 PM (omVj0)

29 Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2024 04:42 PM (OX9vb)

Enjoy!

The cat and dog were cute. 'Our' cats have amazingly fluffy tails like that. They both come in, tails up in the air and they are like feather dusters.

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 04:50 PM (jvJvP)

30 The pig has been in the oven for ninety minutes. Approximately thirty to go.

Repeat, the pig is in the oven.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:48 PM (omVj0)

The Wolf is at the door. Le repet. The Wolf is at the door.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 04:52 PM (VNX3d)

31 My cat Lily has that same bottlebrush tail.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 25, 2024 04:52 PM (kpS4V)

32 I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 25, 2024 04:52 PM (FEVMW)

33 "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is 178 minutes long, just under 3 hours. It may get abridged for TV.
Posted by: Ciampino - "

On right now on GritTV. The schedule says 1:30-5:30.

Posted by: fd at December 25, 2024 04:53 PM (vFG9F)

34 Auspex back when Ace was a new thing there was often a holiday cocktail and recipe thread. And after a short while the cocktail recipes would become 'pour bourbon in glass, drink', etc.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2024 04:53 PM (UKUm3)

35 The Church of England has told clergy in Birmingham to watch out for "problematic words" in Christmas carols that imply Jesus is the "true Messiah" or other religions aren't valid. And they wonder why the pews are empty.

https://t.co/klsTU9Cy0H

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of clergy at December 25, 2024 04:54 PM (i0xsb)

36 Listen, tits are tits my friend.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 04:41 PM (DX6IT)

A tautology if ever I read one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2024 04:54 PM (bss/y)

37 When the Norwegian Seamen's Church was here, they had a gift and food section at the rear of the building. Seems I recall canned lutefisk being available. I was never tempted.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I lived right down the block from the Norwegian Seamen's Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. I never went to an English church service until I was 12.

Posted by: Norseman at December 25, 2024 04:54 PM (G5+As)

38 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is 178 minutes long, just under 3 hours. It may get abridged for TV.
Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of glowworms at December 25, 2024

***
Grit crams in commercials, so a three-hour movie goes to 3.5. Looking at it now, I see this movie was quite an epic. The sandy desert wastes that I remember from the opening and ending bookend all sorts of scenes, Civil War battles, Eastwood's Blondie and Eli Wallach's Tuco dynamiting a bridge, Lee Van Cleef's "Bad" smoking his pipe as an army sergeant and interrogating Tuco, etc. No wonder there always seems to be something in it I haven't seen before.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:55 PM (omVj0)

39 That'll teach that little pig to build a house out of straw.

Posted by: fd at December 25, 2024 04:55 PM (vFG9F)

40 I should have said when Ace was a new to me thing. I wasn't around in the earliest years, but its been over 16 now.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2024 04:55 PM (UKUm3)

41 36 Listen, tits are tits my friend.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 04:41 PM (DX6IT)

C'mon here Nancy Pelosi....

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 04:55 PM (jvJvP)

42 It's sad to see a family torn apart ... especially if it is by the Hounds of Christmas.

Posted by: Kwanzaa Timmy at December 25, 2024 04:56 PM (aD39U)

43 I lived right down the block from the Norwegian Seamen's Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. I never went to an English church service until I was 12.
Posted by: Norseman at December 25, 2024

***
I really liked going there. A few years back I attended their St. Lucia evening service led by a local singer named Theresa Andersson.

I loved the architecture of the building. I think it's still there, but I don't know what's taken it over, if anything.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:57 PM (omVj0)

44 More than 20. I remember reading posts here on election night 2004.

Fuck, that makes me feel old.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2024 04:57 PM (bss/y)

45 Husband and I are both card-carrying Texans so I can't believe we made it until Christmas Day without hearing "Merry Christmas from the Family."

https://tinyurl.com/3xcssnan

Most of my family didn't drink, but it still makes us think of them, most of whom are departed now.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 25, 2024 04:57 PM (FEVMW)

46 Well, the apple and cherry-stuffed pork roast was delicious. My sides were not optimal this year.
Mom liked 'em, but she's obligated to say everything I do is perfect.

Time for a Blake's Black Philip hard cider.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 25, 2024 04:58 PM (kpS4V)

47 Multiple injured after car plows into pedestrians in New York's Herald Square

https://mol.im/a/14226357

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of lethal weapons at December 25, 2024 04:58 PM (i0xsb)

48 40 I should have said when Ace was a new to me thing. I wasn't around in the earliest years, but its been over 16 now.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2024

***
I've been reading since 2010 and commenting since 2011, so yeah, a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:58 PM (omVj0)

49 C'mon here Nancy Pelosi....
Posted by: Stateless

The Speaker Emerita is not sufficiently mobile at present. You'll have to go to her.

Posted by: You Asked For It at December 25, 2024 04:59 PM (G5+As)

50 Hey kids, what time is it?
It's post time.
Make mine rye.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2024 04:59 PM (w/3ky)

51 About 2003.

Chuck from lgf went insane and I found here.

Thanks ace.

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 05:00 PM (jvJvP)

52 ERIS!!!!!

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 05:00 PM (1Le5v)

53 49 C'mon here Nancy Pelosi....
Posted by: Stateless

The Speaker Emerita is not sufficiently mobile at present. You'll have to go to her.

Posted by: You Asked For It at December 25, 2024 04:59 PM (G5+As)

Tits are tits...

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 05:01 PM (jvJvP)

54 Tits are tits...

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 05:01 PM (jvJvP)

There you go

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 05:02 PM (1Le5v)

55 Been here since around 2009, under a couple of different nics.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 25, 2024 05:03 PM (mH6SG)

56 ..."The photographer, astronaut Bill Anders reflected:
"The Earth we saw rising over the battered grey lunar surface was small and delicate, a magnificent spot of color in the vast blackness of space.
Once-distant places appeared inseparably close. Borders that once rendered division vanished. All of humanity appeared joined together on this glorious-but-fragile sphere. We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth.""

https://tinyurl.com/3z8nzjvn

Merry Christmas, everyone

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2024 05:03 PM (w/3ky)

57 So, I'll bitch here since it was impolite to do it yesterday.

I go home and 'surprise' Mom and Dad during midnight mass every year. Well, this year, instead of doing it at St Augustine's they did it at Sacred Heart (the parish I grew up in.) Little did I know, but quickly realized once I left home, we were a very liberal parish. About 20 years ago, they built a new church for the parish because the old one had been intended to be temporary (they used it for 20 years) and was a converted basketball arena. It was nice- if rectangular.

Well, the new church... yeah. I played a game with myself last night and tried to count the number of crosses. 3. 3 in the whole church. Not a single crucifix. In a Catholic Church. One standing on the altar. One on the Ciborium. One fashioned to look like it was leaning on a pillar. The 'stations' are floor impressionist versions sunk into the stone. The walls? Completely bare.

Iconoclasts, man. Fucking iconoclasts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2024 05:03 PM (bss/y)

58 Most of my family didn't drink, but it still makes us think of them, most of whom are departed now.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 25, 2024 04:57 PM (FEVMW)

But they smoked Salem lights, right?

Right?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2024 05:03 PM (Cbio9)

59 13 dogs and 1 cat enjoy a Christmas dinner...

https://youtu.be/vhg7Xm4FXAY

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 05:04 PM (Q8Bj8)

60 More on royal warrant from charles

Also missing out this time is consumer goods multinational Unilever, whose products include the likes of Marmite, Magnum ice cream bars and Pot Noodle.

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of royal decrees at December 25, 2024 05:06 PM (i0xsb)

61 Linda and I went to 9:30 Mass at her church. I like better to go on Christmas Eve, just from the feeling of the darkness outside the windows and the look of the lights inside. It's a beautiful and ornate church. The new pastor has a Spanish (?) accent and looks like he ought to be wearing a suit and waiting outside a Cadillac to drive Don Corleone home.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 05:06 PM (omVj0)

62 My family. How many will there be for Christmas dinner? 125

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 05:07 PM (XTmTf)

63 The last one looks like a Lab, not a Golden.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 25, 2024 05:07 PM (1bNHn)

64 When I walk into a Catholic Church I want to see two things.

The Tabernacle straight ahead on a high altar and a big crucifix immediately above it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 25, 2024 05:08 PM (ZmEVT)

65 Also missing out this time is consumer goods multinational Unilever, whose products include the likes of Marmite, Magnum ice cream bars and Pot Noodle.
Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of royal decrees at December 25, 2024

***
Is Unilever the parent company, or the descendant, of Lever Brothers?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 05:08 PM (omVj0)

66 King Charles: First official portrait since coronation is unveiled, painted by Jonathan Yeo

https://tinyurl.com/pya9fjv6

Apparently Charles aspires to be Vigo the Carpathian.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 25, 2024 05:08 PM (aD39U)

67 Chistmas on the ISS

https://mol.im/a/14226065

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of angels at December 25, 2024 05:09 PM (i0xsb)

68 Merry Christmas, everyone!

Thank you, Ace, making the best blog on the intertubes!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 25, 2024 05:09 PM (cY18j)

69 64 When I walk into a Catholic Church I want to see two things.

The Tabernacle straight ahead on a high altar and a big crucifix immediately above it.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 25, 2024 05:08 PM (ZmEVT)

THIS.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2024 05:09 PM (bss/y)

70 My sister Violet, the one with the Mercedes and room for a pony, purchases only fine goods which have the Royal Warrant. I also very much try to. My sisters Daisy and our Rose, could care less.

Posted by: Hyacinth Bucket at December 25, 2024 05:10 PM (G5+As)

71 That's Speaker Excreta to you

Posted by: Lord Percy at December 25, 2024 05:11 PM (/cBnn)

72 Dogs...For Molly Dog's first Christmas we wrapped up gifts for her and placed them under the tree. She didn't pay any attention to them until Christmas morning when we encouraged her to open gifts. This resulted in much late puppy mayhem and joy. This also resulted in lots of complications every Christmas after that...seems she liked getting wrapped presents to tear apart and being something of a sociopath she quickly and permanently concluded all wrapped presents under the tree were hers.

I so miss her.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 05:11 PM (Q8Bj8)

73 47 Multiple injured after car plows into pedestrians in New York's Herald Square

https://mol.im/a/14226357
Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of lethal weapons at December 25, 2024 04:58 PM (i0xsb)

"...It's unclear whether the crash was intentional or an accident..." Indeed. And I assume we will never, ever, know the driver's motive.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2024 05:12 PM (OX9vb)

74 Good eye, Grump!

disturbing is an understatement

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 25, 2024 05:12 PM (cY18j)

75 New Mexican Catholic churches seem to specialize in excessive tortured Jesus iconography.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 05:13 PM (Q8Bj8)

76 54 Tits are tits...

Posted by: Stateless
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All tits are perfectly different.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2024 05:14 PM (w/3ky)

77 Vigo the Carpathian, also known as Prince Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf, Scourge of Carpathia, Sorrow of Moldavia, Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy, is an ancient 16th-century medieval tyrant and sorcerer. You may now continue.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at December 25, 2024 05:14 PM (aD39U)

78 Yeah well Hope and Chaney crap aint putting my mind to rest.
Fuckin Dems news cycles that I have opted out of since Carters Douch bag Express administration

HEH HEH Charter WAS Biden with a conscience.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 25, 2024 05:15 PM (wDJaI)

79 Our parish sold the old church and move to a larger property with a new building. The statuary from the old was installed in the new church, with the ginormous all-wood crucifix suspend by heavy-duty cables over the altar. A Blessed Sacrament chapel, alas, but quite tasteful.

Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2024 05:15 PM (rj6Yv)

80 75 New Mexican Catholic churches seem to specialize in excessive tortured Jesus iconography.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Mexico also operates horse slaughterhouses.

Posted by: Par For Course at December 25, 2024 05:15 PM (G5+As)

81 Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2024 05:03 PM (bss/y)

I'm sorry. It's very hard when things change

We're a Protestant church from the 1850's and while we don't have crucifixes we do have two crosses and one on top of the Christian flag. We also have beautiful banners on the walls with sayings of about Jesus " Resurrectoon and the life"
" "son of God" , Prince of Peace" Holy Spirit
The denomination may be liberal . I'm conservative
And before somebody possibly charmingly tells me I'm congratulating myself , I am not. The banners were there before I ever arrived but I do like them .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 05:16 PM (BsSjd)

82 Santa ACE.... Ho Ho Ho

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 25, 2024 05:16 PM (wDJaI)

83 Apparently Charles aspires to be Vigo the Carpathian.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 25, 2024 05:08 PM (aD39U)

As stupid a painting as the Kenyan homosexual disappearing into the bushes. These elite, ain't.

Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 25, 2024 05:16 PM (0eaVi)

84 Took a pass on bil invite to come for prime rib. They think beef should be dry and black, like fajitas and wrapped in wonder bread. Haute cuisine y'know.

Posted by: Lord Percy at December 25, 2024 05:16 PM (/cBnn)

85 77 Vigo the Carpathian, also known as Prince Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf, Scourge of Carpathia, Sorrow of Moldavia, Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy, is an ancient 16th-century medieval tyrant and sorcerer. You may now continue.
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at December 25, 2024 05:14 PM (aD39U)

Don't forget 'Vigo the Butch.'

Posted by: Peter Venkman at December 25, 2024 05:16 PM (bss/y)

86 by: Hyacinth Bucket at December 25, 2024 05:10 PM (G5+As)

lol
Great show and great actress.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 05:18 PM (BsSjd)

87 COCHRAAAAAAAN!

Say hi to the Cheerleader and the demonettes.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 25, 2024 05:18 PM (kpS4V)

88 Hyacinth Bucket at December 25, 2024 05:10 PM (G5+As)

lol
Great show and great actress.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 05:18 PM (BsSjd)

I think of her every time some Michael Buble song comes on. I'd bet two generations ago they pronounced the name "Bubble."

Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 25, 2024 05:20 PM (0eaVi)

89 Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 25, 2024 05:20 PM (0eaVi

I believe she was a classically trained singer and shen she sings and it's so bad I laugh. That cast worked remarkable well off each other.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 05:23 PM (BsSjd)

90 Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 05:02 PM

We are honored by the presence one who's contribution to to Horde lore will last and be memorialized until the Sun expands and engulfs the Earth!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2024 05:24 PM (a3Q+t)

91 Iconoclasts, man. Fucking iconoclasts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Going back to Jax for my parents funeral this coming Spring. I have been warned that St. Matthew’s is very much changed.

Posted by: The Methodists at December 25, 2024 05:24 PM (qz+gL)

92 I believe she was a classically trained singer and shen she sings and it's so bad I laugh. That cast worked remarkable well off each other.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 05:23 PM (BsSjd)

Sort of like Foster Brooks being "drunk." You can't sing that badly unless you can sing well.

Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 25, 2024 05:27 PM (0eaVi)

93 Patricia Routledge played the part of "Ruth" in Joseph Papp's 1980 production of "Pirates of Penzance". A far superior performance compared to Angela Lansbury's character in the movie version.

Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2024 05:29 PM (rj6Yv)

94 Say hi to the Cheerleader and the demonettes.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 25, 2024 05:18 PM (kpS4V)

Eldest Drunken Midget graduates in May and is headed to LSU.

Time freaking flies.

Duncan that is far far too kind. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 05:30 PM (qVV8U)

95 Lassie - The Christmas Tree
https://youtu.be/9JW98dWFEfY

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 05:33 PM (Q8Bj8)

96 New Mexican Catholic churches seem to specialize in excessive tortured Jesus iconography.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

***
NM had that sect called the Penitentes, who would whip themselves with branches and, I believe, would select one of their number every year to be whipped and then tied to a cross. An honor, I guess. Like being chosen to play Jesus in the Christmas pageant but, you know, with pain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 05:35 PM (omVj0)

97 A BCochran sighting?!!?!

We are not worthy!
Seriously though. Nice to see you. Hope all is well with the spawn. Jeepers, time flies.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2024 05:35 PM (O9B8K)

98 Tens of thousands of Germans are on the streets [last night] to protest against open borders after the Magdeburg attack.

https://tinyurl.com/28cy4em9

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2024 05:37 PM (w/3ky)

99 Sort of like Foster Brooks being "drunk." You can't sing that badly unless you can sing well.
Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 25, 2024

***
Brooks was so good he fooled one of my fellow drama students into thinking he, Brooks, really had showed up drunk for the Dean Martin Roast program or whatever it was.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 05:37 PM (omVj0)

100 97 A BCochran sighting?!!?!

We are not worthy!
Seriously though. Nice to see you. Hope all is well with the spawn. Jeepers, time flies.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2024 05:35 PM (O9B8K)

Everybody comes home for Christmas. It's nice.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2024 05:39 PM (OX9vb)

101 missing out this time is consumer goods multinational Unilever

Even before the Queen died, Unilever had closed the plants of several uniquely British products and moved their production to other countries. A royal warrant ought to mean something. Because "multinational" sure does.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 25, 2024 05:39 PM (zdLoL)

102 98 Tens of thousands of Germans are on the streets [last night] to protest against open borders after the Magdeburg attack.

https://tinyurl.com/28cy4em9

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2024 05:37 PM (w/3ky)

Peaceful protests are soooo cute.

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 05:39 PM (jvJvP)

103 NM had that sect called the Penitentes, who would whip themselves with branches and, I believe, would select one of their number every year to be whipped and then tied to a cross. An honor, I guess. Like being chosen to play Jesus in the Christmas pageant but, you know, with pain.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Probably a challenge to drive home with the blood in your eyes from the Crown of Thorns.

Posted by: Not Putting My Hat In That Ring at December 25, 2024 05:40 PM (G5+As)

104 I've been here since it was on blogspot

Posted by: blaster at December 25, 2024 05:41 PM (QfvaV)

105 Sort of like Foster Brooks being "drunk." You can't sing that badly unless you can sing well.
Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 25, 2024

***
Brooks was so good he fooled one of my fellow drama students into thinking he, Brooks, really had showed up drunk for the Dean Martin Roast program or whatever it was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 05:37 PM (omVj0)

I've watched him in a lot of them. You can almost see him change in the first few steps once he stands up.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 05:43 PM (VNX3d)

106 Vigo the Carpathian, also known as Prince Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf, Scourge of Carpathia, Sorrow of Moldavia, Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy, is an ancient 16th-century medieval tyrant and sorcerer. You may now continue.
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at December 25, 2024 05:14 PM (aD39U)p/i]

You forgot "Vigo the tampon" and "Vigo suspiciously silent on certain international crimes"

Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2024 05:43 PM (D7oie)

107 Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2024 05:37 PM (w/3ky)

Peaceful protests are soooo cute.
Posted by: Stateless
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Their ptb should take heed. Get those types riled up and there will be trouble.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2024 05:44 PM (w/3ky)

108 Foster Brooks could always crack up the dais, and was on many celebrity roasts. Dean Martin and Don Rickles particularly could not help but crack up. Brooks was a guest on Adam-12 as an impaired driver 3 times, I believe, though once he was-Surprise!-smoking pot and had a flaming joint down his shirt.

Posted by: Cooter Brown at December 25, 2024 05:46 PM (G5+As)

109 Sort of like Foster Brooks being "drunk." You can't sing that badly unless you can sing well.
Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 25, 2024 05:27 PM (0eaVi)

Madeline Kahn does that in Blazing Saddles, when she does her hilarious parody of a Marlena Dietrich song. (Laziest girl in town).

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2024 05:47 PM (7MHHr)

110 Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2024 05:29 PM (rj6Yv

I didn't see Angels Lansbury but I saw a video of the production with Patricia Routlege andLinda Ronstadt and the whole cast was terrific,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 05:47 PM (fYujv)

111 Anyone else read the book series that launched or sprung from sixties TV shows?
Honey West brought it up, I read several Honey West novels. Also Mash and Man from Uncle for certain.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2024 05:47 PM (4780s)

112 Their ptb should take heed. Get those types riled up and there will be trouble.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2024 05:44 PM (w/3ky)

No chants, no waterballoons full of piss, no banners, no costumes, no shouting and screaming, just really pissed off Germans marching.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2024 05:48 PM (D7oie)

113 103 NM had that sect called the Penitentes, who would whip themselves with branches and, I believe, would select one of their number every year to be whipped and then tied to a cross. An honor, I guess. Like being chosen to play Jesus in the Christmas pageant but, you know, with pain.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Probably a challenge to drive home with the blood in your eyes from the Crown of Thorns.
Posted by: Not Putting My Hat In That Ring at December 25, 2024 05:40 PM (G5+As)

You laugh but the passion plays can get really out of hand some places. IIRC, there were ones in the Philippines that got kind of crazy (bloody.) Flagellants were a thing. It's a human thing that seems to pop up. Always verges or crosses the line into making a show of piety. Especially the public displays.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2024 05:48 PM (bss/y)

114 Braenyard, the yellow vest protests were huge but accomplished little.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 05:48 PM (XTmTf)

115
Where's our Yule Log?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2024 05:49 PM (YQOEL)

116 Braenyard, the yellow vest protests were huge but accomplished little.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 05:48 PM (XTmTf)

covid happened

Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2024 05:50 PM (D7oie)

117 Make America Fun Again.

https://tinyurl.com/2zssw3vu

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 05:50 PM (LkLld)

118 Anyone else read the book series that launched or sprung from sixties TV shows?
Honey West brought it up, I read several Honey West novels. Also Mash and Man from Uncle for certain.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2024 05:47 PM (4780s)

IIRC, MASH was a novel first, then a movie, and finally a TV series. There are quite a few MASH novels.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2024 05:50 PM (8zz6B)

119 BCoch!
You get to London, you keep your head on a swivel. Wouldn't want "diversity" to ruin your trip...

Posted by: ChrisP at December 25, 2024 05:51 PM (WbGL/)

120 Where's our Yule Log?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2024 05:49 PM (YQOEL)

Well, you know [wink, wink] I gotta little . . . . Um, sorry, that's actually a roll of quarters.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2024 05:51 PM (D7oie)

121 kindltot, the first yellow vest protest were in 2018, I believe.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 05:52 PM (XTmTf)

122 Duncan that is far far too kind. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 05:30 PM

And the same to you and yours!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2024 05:53 PM (a3Q+t)

123 Madeline Kahn - I'm Tired
https://youtu.be/Uai7M4RpoLU

Foster Brooks - Dean Martin Roast
https://youtu.be/8na9wwjFy2I

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 05:53 PM (Q8Bj8)

124 I bought a copy of Jesus Huerta de Soto's Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles because a 2 inch thick economics book is the true definition of Christmas.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2024 05:54 PM (D7oie)

125 Anyone else read the book series that launched or sprung from sixties TV shows?
Honey West brought it up, I read several Honey West novels. Also Mash and Man from Uncle for certain.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2024 05:47 PM (4780s)

IIRC, MASH was a novel first, then a movie, and finally a TV series. There are quite a few MASH novels.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2024 05:50 PM

AOP, you are correct.

Modesty Blaise books were vastly superior to any movie or TV versions.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2024 05:55 PM (a3Q+t)

126 Duncanthrax, you know you used up your one indulgence for a missed MoMe right?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 05:56 PM (XTmTf)

127 116 Braenyard, the yellow vest protests were huge but accomplished little.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 05:48 PM (XTmTf)

covid happened

Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2024 05:50 PM (D7oie)

I was on Instagram at the time and there were massive protests that were hidden by the media against the jabs.

Unless the protests happen at politicians houses leaving no survivors, they're cute and pointless.

At some point, I hope the rest of the Western world loses it's collective crap and purges our elte scum and their bloodlines.

Fa la la la la la la la la

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 05:57 PM (jvJvP)

128 Ben Had, they got ended by the French 2020 lockdowns.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2024 05:58 PM (D7oie)

129 Where's our Yule Log?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2024 05:49 PM (YQOEL)

Well, you know [wink, wink] I gotta little . . . . Um, sorry, that's actually a roll of quarters.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2024 05:51 PM (D7oie)

Sob. All I have a fun size Mounds bar.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 05:58 PM (VNX3d)

130 119 BCoch!
You get to London, you keep your head on a swivel. Wouldn't want "diversity" to ruin your trip...

Posted by: ChrisP at December 25, 2024 05:51 PM (WbGL/)

Oh I had that convo with all three of my girls. “You will go absolutely fucking nowhere without me. Not a trip down to the corner store. You leave the hotel, I’m with you. Period.”

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 06:00 PM (DX6IT)

131 Brooks was so good he fooled one of my fellow drama students into thinking he, Brooks, really had showed up drunk for the Dean Martin Roast program or whatever it was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 05:37 PM (omVj0)

Yeah, he was a drunk playing sober, hoping no one would notice.

Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 25, 2024 06:01 PM (0eaVi)

132 300,000 yellow vest protestors in France in one March in 2018. This was pre- covid. It was about energy prices.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 06:03 PM (XTmTf)

133 A history lesson.

https://is.gd/zxL1Ae

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 25, 2024 06:04 PM (L/fGl)

134 The first Christmas arrest in Las Cruces. Apparently he was doing some very last minute Christmas shopping.

https://is.gd/YLfg5V

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 06:06 PM (Q8Bj8)

135 We are the manager, Karen.

https://tinyurl.com/yycwbcrk

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 06:07 PM (LkLld)

136 No blah blah blah

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 25, 2024 06:07 PM (Le00v)

137 {{{Ben Had}}}

🐴 🎼 🎶 Good Evening! ♩ ♫ ♬ 🎶

🍹
🍸
🥃

Merry Christmas to you and your extended friends and family.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 25, 2024 06:09 PM (u82oZ)

138 NaCly, you are proof that there are Angels.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 06:10 PM (XTmTf)

139 While I think little of Charles, I think that's A pretty good portrait, and fits in well with other royal portraits. Agreed pretty much with the artist.
Obama's was a shitty piece of drek.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2024 06:10 PM (4780s)

140 The sheriff's department just showed up on Christmas Day and took my dog to jail.

Unpaid barking tickets.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 25, 2024 06:11 PM (E7mWg)

141 BCochran1981

Good to see you posting. I'm sure you raised your daughters right. They know you love them because they saw you dance on stage for them.

Be safe, and have a lot of fun.

Too bad you can not carry a cordless hole puncher, and try for tight groups.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 25, 2024 06:11 PM (u82oZ)

142 We are the manager, Karen.

https://tinyurl.com/yycwbcrk
Posted by: JackStraw
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I had that hapen once. A customer in a fit of self-induced pique insisted on 'speaking to the manager', replies I, 'I am the manager.

Customer: "oh...uh, well..."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 06:12 PM (XeU6L)

143 Ben Had
**Uh ... tugs on collar*

Could you tell my wife?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 25, 2024 06:12 PM (u82oZ)

144 NaCly, that's a conversation for a different time

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 06:14 PM (XTmTf)

145
[ponders 'must see' places in London]

Westminster

The Tower

For me (curiously), Bedlam

Interestingly, walking over to Bedlam, I passed William Bligh's house.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 06:15 PM (XeU6L)

146 {{{Ben Had}}}

Got it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 25, 2024 06:16 PM (u82oZ)

147 LOL, new scare story from Faux News... supposedly if the Speaker is not re-elected in the House, it may delay Trump's election being ratified by the House on Jan 6.

Yeah.... right...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2024 06:16 PM (QAkQ3)

148 It doth be my pleasure to start to get dinner ready. Lots of prep work tonight.

Have a great night, everyone. May you be warm and happy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 25, 2024 06:16 PM (u82oZ)

149 Mike Hammer, do go through Bedlam to get to chaos?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 06:17 PM (XTmTf)

150 >>I had that hapen once. A customer in a fit of self-induced pique insisted on 'speaking to the manager', replies I, 'I am the manager.

>>Customer: "oh...uh, well..."

Had that happen more than once in my career. Karen is almost always wrong.

I kind of enjoy those conversations.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 06:18 PM (LkLld)

151 It doth be my pleasure to start to get dinner ready. Lots of prep work tonight.
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[opens oven door, shoves in frozen pizza]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 06:18 PM (XeU6L)

152 I thought cooking would involve a microwave by now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 25, 2024 06:19 PM (wZ2Bf)

153 My favorite Christian moment in song: Philadelphia Opera Company "Hallelujah Chorus" flash mob in the Philadelphia Macy's (formerly Wannamaker's) with the amazing organ.

https://tinyurl.com/4258jfup

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 25, 2024 06:20 PM (FEVMW)

154 [opens oven door, shoves in frozen pizza]
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

Don't forget to add the kale, okra, and pineapple first.

Posted by: Resident Noodge at December 25, 2024 06:21 PM (G5+As)

155 Back home
Dad had trouble getting upright after sitting awhile at my aunt and uncle's place
My aunt tried unsuccessfully to amputate her finger making dinner

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 06:21 PM (fwDg9)

156 I thought cooking would involve a microwave by now.
Posted by: Boss Moss

And I thought we'd have flying cars by now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 25, 2024 06:22 PM (L/fGl)

157 Do rabbits eat pizza now?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 25, 2024 06:22 PM (wZ2Bf)

158 I happen to know Piper's Christmas menu and kale is no where to be found.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 06:22 PM (XTmTf)

159 Vegetables are what food eats.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 25, 2024 06:23 PM (wZ2Bf)

160 My aunt tried unsuccessfully to amputate her finger making dinner

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 06:21 PM (fwDg9)

Same with my mom. “I’ll be right back. Just cut my finger.”

*me looking around* “How??? I’m the one carving the meat…”

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 06:24 PM (oOhJv)

161 Mike Hammer, do go through Bedlam to get to chaos?
Posted by: Ben Had
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Ah. I add The Imperial War Museum. Pic of the front
t.ly/Ur9dq

Lots of very neat stuff/exhibits there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 06:24 PM (XeU6L)

162 Duncanthrax, you know you used up your one indulgence for a missed MoMe right?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 05:56 PM

One? Where in the rules does it specify one?

I may have to try for Friday this year; third Saturdays may be problematic.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2024 06:25 PM (a3Q+t)

163 I know a vegetable joke but it's kinda corny

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 06:25 PM (XTmTf)

164 Philadelphia Macy's (formerly Wannamaker's)
---------

It's a miracle!

Posted by: 34th Street at December 25, 2024 06:25 PM (XeU6L)

165 I happen to know Piper's Christmas menu and kale is no where to be found.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 06:22 PM

Note is taken of nothing being said about okra and Brussel Sprouts.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2024 06:26 PM (a3Q+t)

166 157 Do rabbits eat pizza now?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Yes, and squirrels are eating voles, and Haitians in Springfield are eating our cats and geese. I think Obama has stopped eating dog, though.

Posted by: Care-A-Lot Pet Center at December 25, 2024 06:26 PM (G5+As)

167 Nood.

Lion's Den.

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 06:26 PM (jvJvP)

168 I know a vegetable joke but it's kinda corny
Posted by: Ben Had

I am still waiting...

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 06:26 PM (Q8Bj8)

169 Duncanthrax, this does not make me happy.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 06:27 PM (XTmTf)

170 158 I happen to know Piper's Christmas menu and kale is no where to be found.
Posted by: Ben Had

Why on earth would you think resident noodge was referring to Piper? She's a bright star on this desolate blog.

Posted by: Brush With Greatness at December 25, 2024 06:29 PM (G5+As)

171 Your Cat Climbing the Christmas Tree

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 26, 2024 11:27 AM (FLiOE)

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