Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Lute Player
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 st

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 09:30 AM (77rzZ)

3 Free Bird!!

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2025 09:31 AM (Yj6Os)

4 Damn, not first.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

5 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 23, 2025 09:31 AM (Wnv9h)

6 He has a knife in the folds of his robe, because Caravaggio

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2025 09:31 AM (MnLsh)

7 What Bulg said.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 23, 2025 09:31 AM (Wnv9h)

8 Is that a boy or a girl?

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

9 She's luting! Officer! She's luting!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 23, 2025 09:32 AM (Wnv9h)

10 Nicely done by the master

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 09:32 AM (fwDg9)

11 Is that a boy or a girl?
Posted by: Bulg

Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2025 09:32 AM (i6Awv)

12 Liar, liar!

Posted by: Pants on fire at January 23, 2025 09:32 AM (dg+HA)

13 She's not amused.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 23, 2025 09:32 AM (mT+6a)

14 So she doesn't like the violin?

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

15 I think it's a woman

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 09:33 AM (fwDg9)

16 As My Cousin Vinny would say, the Yute with a lute.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 23, 2025 09:33 AM (BHrzb)

17 She's luting! Officer! She's luting!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 23, 2025 09:32 AM (Wnv9h)
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SHOOT HER NOW! SHOOT HER NOW!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2025 09:33 AM (oClyJ)

18 Pat the lute player.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

19 Do "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" !

Posted by: Don Black. Message: yeah buddy! at January 23, 2025 09:33 AM (AOsQT)

20 I guess it's a male after all

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 09:34 AM (fwDg9)

21 Shouldn't this be named The Pie Faced Lute Player?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 23, 2025 09:34 AM (Wg6v7)

22 I think it's a woman

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2025 09:33 AM (fwDg9)
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Why don't you let her decide.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2025 09:34 AM (oClyJ)

23 Flowers and pears and lites! Oh, my!

Posted by: The Wiz at January 23, 2025 09:34 AM (dg+HA)

24 I gave my love a cherry... , suddenly Bluto smashes the lute.
Very nice, thx CBD. Would hang

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025 09:34 AM (6v8aM)

25 That shirt/blouse does not look machine-washable.

Posted by: Jesse White at January 23, 2025 09:35 AM (G5+As)

26 The sheet music is for 'Smoke on the Water'.

Posted by: dantesed at January 23, 2025 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

27 >>Is that a boy or a girl?

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 09:32 AM

Yes.

Posted by: huerfano at January 23, 2025 09:35 AM (DKIGo)

28 Eunuch I'd suppose

Posted by: Scarymary at January 23, 2025 09:35 AM (MZsCp)

29 Flowers and pears and lutes! Oh, my!

Posted by: The Wiz at January 23, 2025 09:35 AM (dg+HA)

30 flicks Bic

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2025 09:35 AM (Q4IgG)

31 Look at lower left

fruit
rhymes with lute

that's all I got

Posted by: Don Black. Message: yeah buddy! at January 23, 2025 09:35 AM (AOsQT)

32 The painting is quite detailed to where you can even read the sheet music. I wonder if anyone tried playing it?

Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2025 09:35 AM (EwaUh)

33 The Lute-Player is considered one of the gems of the Hermitage collection and is the only work by the celebrated Italian master in Russia. The presentation of the painting after its restoration is an exceptional event, not just for the Hermitage, but for the entire worldwide artistic community.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

34 >>>>Is that a boy or a girl?

Can you confirm the presence of a flute?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 09:36 AM (u1uWe)

35 Where's her lute bag??

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 23, 2025 09:36 AM (5LoD7)

36 Lutes always look like an enthusiastic musician walked straight into a wall while performing, with that tuning head all bent up at the end.

Posted by: red speck at January 23, 2025 09:36 AM (0Id0S)

37 this is kind of androgynous

Posted by: Don Black. Message: yeah buddy! at January 23, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)

38

Ugh! I got Vermeer on my shirt!

Posted by: Elderly Git at January 23, 2025 09:36 AM (HRQvT)

39 Lyre! Lyre!

Posted by: Alternatively at January 23, 2025 09:36 AM (dg+HA)

40 Hey.... wanna' see my skin lute?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2025 09:37 AM (Q4IgG)

41 Poor guy can't decide whether to play the violin or lute, or to be male or female.

Posted by: red speck at January 23, 2025 09:37 AM (0Id0S)

42 The Lute-Player is considered one of the gems of the Hermitage collection and is the only work by the celebrated Italian master in Russia. The presentation of the painting after its restoration is an exceptional event, not just for the Hermitage, but for the entire worldwide artistic community.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

There's 3 versions.

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2025 09:37 AM (Yj6Os)

43 While in the Hermitage the condition of the painting has always been maintained at an appropriate standard by the museum’s specialists. Nonetheless, layers of yellowed varnish and overpainting distorted the artist’s intention. The Lute-Player was moved to the State Hermitage’s Laboratory for the Scientific Restoration of Easel Paintings in May 2015. Restoration of the painting was accompanied by a detailed technical study of the work using modern high-precision equipment.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

44 "this is kind of androgynous"

Is its name Pat?

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it but not today. I'm a dangerous radical. at January 23, 2025 09:37 AM (89Sog)

45 She has an unfortunate face.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 23, 2025 09:38 AM (SfhV1)

46 Meh. No whammy bar.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 23, 2025 09:38 AM (8XYYe)

47 Poor guy can't decide whether to play the violin or lute, or to be male or female.

Posted by: red speck at January 23, 2025 09:37 AM (0Id0S)

or X

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2025 09:38 AM (Yj6Os)

48 Is this a painting of Timotheé Chalamet as Bob Dylan?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 23, 2025 09:38 AM (BHrzb)

49 No Stairway

Posted by: Taggart at January 23, 2025 09:38 AM (HcoTw)

50 The painting is quite detailed to where you can even read the sheet music. I wonder if anyone tried playing it?
Posted by: Kris

1-877 Kars for Kids. One of Monteverdi's earliest works.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

51 " Lyre! Lyre!"

Pants on Fyre!

( You knew it was coming)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2025 09:39 AM (a1415)

52 It's a Bard life but someone has to live it.

Posted by: Reforger at January 23, 2025 09:39 AM (xcIvR)

53 She's a girl. She has a ribbon in her hair.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at January 23, 2025 09:39 AM (AiZBA)

54 Needs a saxophone, to get an "R" rating for sax and violins.

Posted by: Bill clinton at January 23, 2025 09:39 AM (8zz6B)

55 Nice of the musician to provide the rotten fruit for the audience to throw at him when he sucks.

Posted by: red speck at January 23, 2025 09:39 AM (0Id0S)

56 Caravaggio does use the dark backgrounds to make the subject bolder but this type of baroque style is not my favorite though again the top level skill is undeniable.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:39 AM (D6PGr)

57
XX.
XY.
Whatever it takes.

Posted by: Mr. Mom at January 23, 2025 09:40 AM (dg+HA)

58 XX.
XY.
Whatever it takes

YYZ

Posted by: Taggart at January 23, 2025 09:41 AM (HcoTw)

59 Caravaggio. I prefer his sketches.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2025 09:41 AM (oT+t6)

60 24 I gave my love a cherry... , suddenly Bluto smashes the lute.
Very nice, thx CBD. Would hang
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025 09:34 AM (6v8aM)

Bonus question:
Who was the guitar player?

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:41 AM (gbOdA)

61 Caravaggio was a mean dude. I think we had previously discussed him murdering someone and then his own mysterious death where he may have been murdered.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:41 AM (D6PGr)

62 *but this type of baroque style is not my favorite*

If it's not baroque, don't fix it.

Posted by: Arcane Beauty and the Beast line at January 23, 2025 09:41 AM (dg+HA)

63 Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:41 AM (gbOdA)

Bishop

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:42 AM (D6PGr)

64 I'm trying to read the name on the book. Baffus? Baffns? Ballus? Cant make it out.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 09:42 AM (Y6IkP)

65 The painting is quite detailed to where you can even read the sheet music. I wonder if anyone tried playing it?

Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2025 09:35 AM (EwaUh)

Upside down and backwards....sounds like Jethro Tull.

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2025 09:42 AM (Yj6Os)

66 Nice marble countertops. Those cost extra, you know.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 23, 2025 09:42 AM (5LoD7)

67 61 Caravaggio was a mean dude. I think we had previously discussed him murdering someone and then his own mysterious death where he may have been murdered.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:41 AM (D6PGr)

The guy who Caravaggio murdered?

That's one obscure character.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2025 09:42 AM (VoAdT)

68 She's got long fingers.
She should take up playing the piano.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

69 61 Caravaggio was a mean dude. I think we had previously discussed him murdering someone and then his own mysterious death where he may have been murdered.

And now he just sellls used cars from a giant vending machine

Posted by: Taggart at January 23, 2025 09:43 AM (HcoTw)

70 This is a nice piece. Caravaggio was truly a master artist.

By the way... CBD have we ever had the Tintoretto Last Supper?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 23, 2025 09:43 AM (4XwPj)

71 64 I'm trying to read the name on the book. Baffus? Baffns? Ballus? Cant make it out.
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Pullus tights down!

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 23, 2025 09:43 AM (5LoD7)

72 Bonus question:
Who was the guitar player?

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:41 AM (gbOdA)

Steven Bishop

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2025 09:43 AM (Yj6Os)

73
Well-a, my gal is a highborn lady
(Little dark, but not too shady)
'Long the line, they can't outshine
That highborn gal of mine

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 23, 2025 09:43 AM (dxSpM)

74 "YYZ"

Thumbs up!

Posted by: Alex and Geddy at January 23, 2025 09:44 AM (a1415)

75 So she doesn't like the violin?
---------
She bows to no man!

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 23, 2025 09:44 AM (5LoD7)

76 63 Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:41 AM (gbOdA)

Bishop
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:42 AM (D6PGr)

winner winner chicken dinner

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:44 AM (gbOdA)

77 "She's the....daughter of Rosie O'Gradeee...a regular old-fashioned goyl!"

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 09:45 AM (OuWZI)

78
Caravaggio was a mean dude. I think we had previously discussed him murdering someone and then his own mysterious death where he may have been murdered.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:41 AM (D6PGr)

________

His Mafia name was Mickey Carry.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 23, 2025 09:45 AM (dxSpM)

79 YYZ -- Toronto's international airport code.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 23, 2025 09:45 AM (5LoD7)

80 Did somebody eat the dog?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2025 09:45 AM (a1415)

81 "And she's buying a stairway to Heaven...."

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 09:46 AM (g47mK)

82 Love this painting, not just for technical skill, also because the lute is a favorite instrument.
When I lisren to classical music, I try to put myself in the head of a listener of the period.
Contemporary minds have been numbed by excessive exposure to recorded and manufactured music, IMO.

Posted by: kallisto at January 23, 2025 09:46 AM (xBjO5)

83 Is this about us?

Posted by: YKK Zippers at January 23, 2025 09:46 AM (dg+HA)

84 Sound track for this art.
Medieval Lute (XV century)
https://youtu.be/eGrUJvWYR90

Posted by: mindful webworker - fiddling around at January 23, 2025 09:46 AM (OYY6y)

85 His Mafia name was ~~Mickey Carry~~ bluebell.
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Fixed.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 23, 2025 09:46 AM (5LoD7)

86 That's one obscure character.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2025 09:42 AM (VoAdT)

Could make a move like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:47 AM (D6PGr)

87 When I listen to classical music, I try to put myself in the head of a listener of the period.
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Posted by: zombie anne boleyn at January 23, 2025 09:47 AM (5LoD7)

88 The painting is quite detailed to where you can even read the sheet music. I wonder if anyone tried playing it?

Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2025 09:35 AM (EwaUh)

Upside down and backwards....sounds like Jethro Tull.
Posted by: BignJames
+++
I bet cross eyed Mary could play it.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at January 23, 2025 09:48 AM (Lo97M)

89 *She bows to no man!*

Strung out.

Posted by: Oh, no. Punz at January 23, 2025 09:48 AM (dg+HA)

90 "Hooooold my breath inside...wish for deaaatthh! I LOVE YOU CLEVELAND! GOD PLEASE HELP MEEEEEEEE"

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 09:48 AM (OuWZI)

91 Bonus question:
Who was the guitar player?
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:41 AM

OK, you made me look it up.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 23, 2025 09:48 AM (kgE5c)

92 Morning, Art Folken,

Our lute player has a dimple in her chin. Always have liked that in a woman.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 09:48 AM (omVj0)

93 Contemporary minds have been numbed by excessive exposure to recorded and manufactured music, IMO.
Posted by: kallisto at January 23, 2025 09:46 AM (xBjO5)

I always wondered if the average peasant would amble within earshot of a salon where Beethoven was being played while Beethoven was still alive, and think "how do these people listen to this cacophony of crap?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2025 09:48 AM (VoAdT)

94 Move = movie

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:49 AM (D6PGr)

95 Caravaggio painted himself as Dionysus and Bacchus several times. This may explain the Lute Player.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 23, 2025 09:49 AM (Wg6v7)

96 Bob Ross called this one Happy Little Castrato

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 23, 2025 09:49 AM (OuWZI)

97 89 *She bows to no man!*

Strung out.
Posted by: Oh, no. Punz at January 23, 2025 09:48 AM (dg+HA)

She's just sick of yobbos trying to stick things in her "f" holes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2025 09:49 AM (VoAdT)

98 Layla, thou hast me upon mine knees, Layla,
I am beseeching, sweeting, prithee, Layla,
Dear heart, wilt thou not soothe my troubled mind?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 23, 2025 09:50 AM (Y6IkP)

99 Our lute player has a dimple in her chin. Always have liked that in a woman.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Cheek dimples > chin dimple

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

100 There's a quiet energy in this painting. It's not a straight portrait with the subject just standing there. The lutist is in the middle of a song. The mouth is moving and the fingers are in mid-pluck. The eyes are looking off the the viewer's right, not really looking at anything. More like feeling the music.

The flowers are a nice accessory. Their colors match the palette of the painting without taking away from the figure. The angle of the lute's fretboard, coming out towards the viewer, adds depth. This isn't a flat, static picture. It's well-thought out, complex, and full of feeling.

Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2025 09:50 AM (EwaUh)

101 Remember, if you play a Slim Whitman record backwards, you will hear Satanic verses.

What happens when you play a lute backwards?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 23, 2025 09:51 AM (9X60i)

102 I’m surprised they haven’t made a movie of Da Vinci and Michelangelo’s rivalry or at least dislike of each other. ( I think it was more Da Vince’s dislike)

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:52 AM (D6PGr)

103 81 "And she's buying a stairway to Heaven...."
Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 09:46 AM (g47mK)

Please see the No Stairway at 49.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:52 AM (gbOdA)

104 "Cheek dimples > chin dimple"

She's got freckles on her, but, she is nice.

Posted by: Dr. Demento at January 23, 2025 09:52 AM (dg+HA)

105
all hands
all hands
The Hundred Comment lamp is lit

Posted by: Don Black. Message: yeah buddy! at January 23, 2025 09:52 AM (AOsQT)

106 I gave my love a cherry... , suddenly Bluto smashes the lute.
Very nice, thx CBD. Would hang
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025

***
"Take off those silver spurs and help me pass the time,
And I will give to you
More summer wine. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 09:52 AM (omVj0)

107 I heard he sang a good song
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him, to listen for a while
And there he was, this young boy
A stranger to my eyes

Posted by: Roberta Flack at January 23, 2025 09:53 AM (Aqu9a)

108 OK, you made me look it up.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 23, 2025 09:48 AM (kgE5c)

it is posted above at least twice

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:53 AM (gbOdA)

109 The big movie story this morning is, of course, the Oscar nominations.

I see people have noted Ariana Grande's nom. Doesn't surprise me at all. The younger members of the Academy obviously love Wicked, and it has as good a shot as any of winning Best Picture, so of course the major performances are going to get nominated.

However, the bigger thing is what got the most nominations: Emilia Perez.

Never heard of it? Well, it's about a Mexican cartel leader who gets a sex change to become a woman. It's apparently really pissed off the Mexican government (it was filmed in France), and it got 13 nominations.

I'm reminded of how Moonlight, a little movie about a black, gay man, won Best Picture in early 2017, the narrative around its win being a rebuke of Trump, or something.

Well...who wants to bet that we'll see the same "rebuke" this year with the Academy killing any effort at broader audiences over the past couple of years by giving the win to a little, indie film about a tranny that no one will ever see?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 09:53 AM (GBKbO)

110 What happens when you play a lute backwards?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 23, 2025

***
Etul music!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 09:53 AM (omVj0)

111 82 Love this painting, not just for technical skill, also because the lute is a favorite instrument.
When I lisren to classical music, I try to put myself in the head of a listener of the period.
Contemporary minds have been numbed by excessive exposure to recorded and manufactured music, IMO.
Posted by: kallisto at January 23, 2025 09:46 AM (xBjO5)

Have you ever heard the baryton?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryton

Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2025 09:53 AM (EwaUh)

112 Night after night, who treats you right
Baby, it's the guitar man
Who's on the radio
You go listen to the guitar man

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:54 AM (gbOdA)

113 all hands
all hands
The Hundred Comment lamp is lit
Posted by: Don Black. Message: yeah buddy! at January 23, 2025

***
Comment 'em if you got 'em

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 09:54 AM (omVj0)

114 Grande needs to eat a lot more donuts instead of just licking them. Girl is wasting away.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:55 AM (D6PGr)

115 101 Remember, if you play a Slim Whitman record backwards, you will hear Satanic verses.

What happens when you play a lute backwards?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 23, 2025 09:51 AM (9X60i)

I thought that was Queen?

Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2025 09:55 AM (EwaUh)

116 Unlike some of Caravaggio's heavier, violent scenes, this painting seems to exude a purity for making music. The boy (I assume) is unblemished and his contemplative expression reflects how he is consumed by playing something beautiful. The lighting brings out the freshness of the cut flowers and the life sustaining food in the bowl. There is nothing jarring in the image that might detract from the mood of playing music. I especially like the way Caravaggio captures the rich wood tones of the instruments. I noticed that both instruments are capable of pure simple tones which goes with the quiet simplicity of the scene.

I may be reading too much into this but that is the impression it leaves with me.

Posted by: JTB at January 23, 2025 09:55 AM (yTvNw)

117 A lute player walks into a bar...

Posted by: Where's Muldoon? at January 23, 2025 09:55 AM (dg+HA)

118 Paul is the Walrus.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 23, 2025 09:55 AM (Wg6v7)

119 And if you read Salman Rushdie's stuff backwards, it sounds like Slim Whitman.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM (VoAdT)

120 I don’t pay attention to the Oscars ever since they snubbed Uncle Buck from any awards.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM (D6PGr)

121 26 The sheet music is for 'Smoke on the Water'.
Posted by: dantesed at January 23, 2025 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

Looks like you can scan the QR code in the corner.

Posted by: Reforger at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM (xcIvR)

122 Decent enough picture. Was this guy pretty good? Should I wiki him?

Posted by: From about That Time at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM (4780s)

123 So, if you post a point-by-point rebuttal to something a lute player has said, do you make lutefisk?

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

124 She's got long fingers.
She should take up playing the piano.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025

***
Surgeon hands!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM (omVj0)

125 I always wondered if the average peasant would amble within earshot of a salon where Beethoven was being played while Beethoven was still alive, and think "how do these people listen to this cacophony of crap?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2025 09:48 AM (VoAdT)

I prefer to call it the Wall of Sound. It made me very rich!

Posted by: Phil Specter, Gold Star Studios at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM (Aqu9a)

126 120 I don’t pay attention to the Oscars ever since they snubbed Uncle Buck from any awards.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM (D6PGr)

======

That The Keep didn't sweep the Oscars in early 1984 is the greatest travesty in movie history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM (GBKbO)

127 It's hard to go wrong with Caravaggio. You can almost hear a viewer yelling "play Freebird".

Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 09:57 AM (xCA6C)

128 Morons are dissing this young musician’s appearance, but I have it on good authority she boasted quite the coterie of male groupies.

Posted by: kallisto at January 23, 2025 09:57 AM (xBjO5)

129 Well...who wants to bet that we'll see the same "rebuke" this year with the Academy killing any effort at broader audiences over the past couple of years by giving the win to a little, indie film about a tranny that no one will ever see?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 09:53 AM (GBKbO)

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Dynaflow at January 23, 2025 09:57 AM (8zz6B)

130 Chaos broke out at the Renaissance Faire.

Widespread luting.

Posted by: Groan at January 23, 2025 09:58 AM (dg+HA)

131 128 Morons are dissing this young musician’s appearance, but I have it on good authority she boasted quite the coterie of male groupies.
Posted by: kallisto at January 23, 2025 09:57 AM (xBjO5)

moopies?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2025 09:58 AM (VoAdT)

132 The fact that Caravaggio combined a human study with a masterful still life of the fruit and flowers tells you all you need to know about his skill.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 09:58 AM (xCA6C)

133 A lute player walks into a bar...
Posted by: Where's Muldoon? at January 23, 2025 09:55 AM (dg+HA)

And the bartender says ‘ where’s the renaissance festival this year?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:58 AM (D6PGr)

134 Paul is the Walrus.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 23, 2025 09:55 AM (Wg6v7)

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Don't fret over his death.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 09:58 AM (B6F9D)

135 *flicks lighter*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 23, 2025 09:59 AM (LniWf)

136 Popular vote. Electoral College winning majority.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at January 23, 2025 09:59 AM (QSrLX)

137 I always wondered if the average peasant would amble within earshot of a salon where Beethoven was being played while Beethoven was still alive, and think "how do these people listen to this cacophony of crap?"

As I've gotten older and more crotchety, I find that I default to Baroque. I still like Beethoven sometimes, but he can be a lot.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 09:59 AM (xCA6C)

138 Skin Flute Player > Lute Player

Posted by: Billy Jeff at January 23, 2025 09:59 AM (R/m4+)

139 OK, you made me look it up.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 23, 2025 09:48 AM (kgE5c)

it is posted above at least twice
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:53 AM

Wait...read the comments? The hell you say!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 23, 2025 10:00 AM (kgE5c)

140 SHOOT HER NOW! SHOOT HER NOW!!!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2025 09:33 AM

That's my line. Stay in your lane!

Posted by: Miss Lindsay at January 23, 2025 10:00 AM (a3Q+t)

141 Chaos broke out at the Renaissance Faire.

Widespread luting.
Posted by: Groan at January 23, 2025 09:58 AM (dg+HA)

Unbelievable . 129 comments and no mention of renaissance festival. And then back to back .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 10:00 AM (D6PGr)

142 I do believe the temps outside have risen above freezing. Time to bundle up, take out the trash, and see about getting the snow off my car and moving it into the sunlight.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 10:00 AM (omVj0)

143 It's hard to go wrong with Caravaggio. You can almost hear a viewer yelling "play Freebird".

ICYMI:

https://is.gd/Uw7niJ

Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 10:01 AM (xCA6C)

144 moopies?

The one who spliffed to excess had moobies

Posted by: kallisto at January 23, 2025 10:01 AM (xBjO5)

145 Skin Flute Player > Lute Player
Posted by: Billy Jeff at January 23, 2025 09:59 AM

Hey, big boy...

Posted by: Mayor Pete at January 23, 2025 10:01 AM (kgE5c)

146 >Decent enough picture. Was this guy pretty good? Should I wiki him?

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Yeah, Michael Angelo could draw pretty good

Posted by: Don Black. Message: yeah buddy! at January 23, 2025 10:01 AM (AOsQT)

147 Now, if I can just find four other lute players and a drummer, we can start rockin'.

Posted by: Hughie Thomasson at January 23, 2025 10:01 AM (Aqu9a)

148 People in the 17th century were so baroque...
there was constant luting in the streets.

Posted by: Make it stop! at January 23, 2025 10:01 AM (dg+HA)

149 Unbelievable . 129 comments and no mention of renaissance festival. And then back to back .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 10:00 AM (D6PGr)

That's not Faire.

Posted by: Reforger at January 23, 2025 10:02 AM (xcIvR)

150 She's got long fingers.
She should take up playing the piano.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2025

***
Surgeon hands!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM

Ahem.

Posted by: Urologists at January 23, 2025 10:02 AM (a3Q+t)

151 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around Dang
Dang. I suddenly have "Buffalo Girls" as an ear worm.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2025 10:02 AM (W/lyH)

152 Sunoco I hum, Sunoco I hum, don't know where it's cumming frum....

Posted by: From about That Time at January 23, 2025 10:02 AM (4780s)

153 As I've gotten older and more crotchety, I find that I default to Baroque. I still like Beethoven sometimes, but he can be a lot.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 09:59 AM (xCA6C)

There's a special place in my heart for Mozart, whose music introduced me to classical. However, a Baroque piece played on a massive pipe organ, one that you can feel through your feet, is a sublime experience.

Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2025 10:03 AM (EwaUh)

154 Learn To Code Bitches!!!

200 layoffs announced at CNN.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 23, 2025 10:03 AM (/St6i)

155 Dynoflo, not fucking Sunoco. A-C really knows how to spoil a koke.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 23, 2025 10:03 AM (4780s)

156 I don’t pay attention to the Oscars ever since they snubbed Uncle Buck from any awards.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM (D6PGr)
====
Great acting, moving story with a positive message, hysterical dialogue, perfect casting, superlative direction.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2025 10:04 AM (RIvkX)

157 134 Paul is the Walrus.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 23, 2025 09:55 AM (Wg6v7)

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Don't fret over his death.
-----------
He's not dead yet.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 23, 2025 10:04 AM (Wg6v7)

158 Wait...read the comments? The hell you say!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 23, 2025 10:00 AM

That's ... allowed? When was this change announced?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 23, 2025 10:04 AM (a3Q+t)

159 Surgeon hands!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM

Ahem.
+++

Man hands.

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at January 23, 2025 10:04 AM (dg+HA)

160 Great acting, moving story with a positive message, hysterical dialogue, perfect casting, superlative direction.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2025 10:04 AM

Prometheus has claimed another victim.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 23, 2025 10:05 AM (a3Q+t)

161 have we ever had the Tintoretto Last Supper?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 23, 2025 09:43 AM (4XwPj)

Nope!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 23, 2025 10:05 AM (d9fT1)

162 Have you ever heard the baryton?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryton
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2025 09:53 AM (EwaUh

No, that’s a new one on me

Posted by: kallisto at January 23, 2025 10:05 AM (xBjO5)

163 @HighPeaks77
Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo explains here why he was against releasing the JFK files.

He also says that he’s seen the UFO Files and that “We’ve got bigger problems…”

Posted by: Don Black. Message: yeah buddy! at January 23, 2025 10:06 AM (AOsQT)

164 111 ... Kris,
Thanks for mentioning the baryton instrument. It has a lovely tone with those sympathetic vibrating strings. I wonder if it was related to the hardanger fiddle which also use sympathetic strings giving a richer than average sound to one instrument.

Obligatory LOTR reference. The Rohan theme in the movies which is so rich and melancholy at the same time was played on a hardanger fiddle.

Posted by: JTB at January 23, 2025 10:06 AM (yTvNw)

165 "Surgeon hands!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM

Ahem.
Posted by: Urologists"

Piffle.

Posted by: Proctologist at January 23, 2025 10:06 AM (a1415)

166 >>Great acting, moving story with a positive message, hysterical dialogue, perfect casting, superlative direction.

Does it have at least one scene of two males fucking?

If not, it should.

Posted by: Every new series streaming on Netflix since 2012 at January 23, 2025 10:06 AM (Y1sOo)

167 Bald Eagle watch !!

"1-22-2025 It's Here! Jackie Has Laid Her First Egg Of The Season"

*The nest is located in Big Bear Valley in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California. It is about 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine tree. It is the current home for Jackie & Shadow, a local bald eagle pair.*

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 10:07 AM (g47mK)

168 Of course this storm happened in the middle of me selling my house and moving into my new house. Life throws you a lot of curve balls. You just have to wait for your pitch.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 10:07 AM (D6PGr)

169 Have you ever heard the baryton?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryton
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2025 09:53 AM

No, but I have heard the Barrytongue.

Posted by: Reggie L. at January 23, 2025 10:07 AM (a3Q+t)

170 I generally dislike Baroque. Too fussy. Give me a good Romantic symphony anytime. Grand, sweeping melodies.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

171 ...When I lisren to classical music, I try to put myself in the head of a listener of the period...

Oh, that's a nice ditty.
*hums*
Yes, I always liked "Turkey in the Straw".
Must be nice to be a royal...lounging around all day listening to Moffett...no, Mozzell!...no, something like that. Instead, of digging for roots to eat...Still, got wood to chop...nice music by Molehill! That tinkly thing is nice. Oh, a rat!!! Get'im! Get'im!
Got'im! A nice fat one too. Throw him in the pot with some roots and acorns and we'll have a nice supper.
Not as good as these royals with their fancy music and cake, but the wife'll be happy!
*walks away humming*

Posted by: In the Head of a Listener of the Period at January 23, 2025 10:07 AM (iJfKG)

172 Still holding at 30.8 degrees out

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2025 10:07 AM (a1415)

173 The lute cost a whole lot of loot...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at January 23, 2025 10:07 AM (TGPs7)

174 The artist did a good job with the subject's facial expression.
You can hardly tell the musician is in pain.

Minstrel cramps.

Posted by: Rimshot at January 23, 2025 10:08 AM (dg+HA)

175 As the Los Angeles Fires Rage, the California National Guard’s Top Wildfire Response Expert Says the Newsom Administration Fired Him Because He’s Jewish

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Everybody knows the real problem is not enough lesbians.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 23, 2025 10:08 AM (L/fGl)

176 Why is 2014 the key year for all of Joe Biden's pardons for his family?

Because that's the year Ukraine sought a massive loan.
The IMF loan included a condition that Ukraine lift the ban on private ownership of property.
Russia also offered a loan.
It did not require lifting that ban.
Ukraine went with Russia.
The CIA then ran their color revolution, installed their puppet and ... Ukraine took the IMF loan.
And now?
Huge tracts of mineral rights in Ukraine are owned by western corporations.
That's the "work" the Bidens (and lots of other in the "intelligence community") were getting paid for; cuts from those deals.

If Trump unwinds those deals, the Biden problem will be taken care of as trillions of dollars will be lost....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 23, 2025 10:09 AM (2k0oQ)

177 The other, almost as great but still better than 99.5 of artists all time, Michelangelo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 23, 2025 10:09 AM (usyvb)

178
I don’t pay attention to the Oscars ever since they snubbed Uncle Buck from any awards.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM

they rudely ignored Streets of Fire as well

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2025 10:09 AM (w9Ycv)

179 No, that’s a new one on me
Posted by: kallisto at January 23, 2025 10:05 AM (xBjO5)

I can't look for an example right now, but I'm sure YouTube has some.

Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2025 10:10 AM (EwaUh)

180 156 I don’t pay attention to the Oscars ever since they snubbed Uncle Buck from any awards.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 09:56 AM (D6PGr)
====
Great acting, moving story with a positive message, hysterical dialogue, perfect casting, superlative direction.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2025 10:04 AM (RIvkX)

Nailed it

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2025 10:10 AM (D6PGr)

181 As the Los Angeles Fires Rage, the California National Guard’s Top Wildfire Response Expert Says the Newsom Administration Fired Him Because He’s Jewish

—

Expert.
🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 23, 2025 10:10 AM (/St6i)

182 Nancy Mace has aspirations..

https://tinyurl.com/bdd7xu98

No...
Just no.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2025 10:11 AM (a1415)

183 That's a man, baby!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2025 10:11 AM (aD39U)

184 No...
Just no.

Why?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 10:14 AM (xCA6C)

185 YYZ -- Toronto's international airport code.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7)

Like all threads, this one too eventually turns into a Rush thread.

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 23, 2025 10:14 AM (NMT5x)

186 181 As the Los Angeles Fires Rage, the California National Guard’s Top Wildfire Response Expert Says the Newsom Administration Fired Him Because He’s Jewish
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Reason enough. Say no moar.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 23, 2025 10:14 AM (Wg6v7)

187 Mayhem at Columbia: Pro-Hamas Students Storm Classroom, Target Jewish Students With Anti-Semitic Flyers on First Day of Spring Semester

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There's no Reich like the Fourth Reich like no Reich I know!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 23, 2025 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

188 Like all threads, this one too eventually turns into a Rush thread.
Posted by: haffhowershower at January 23, 2025 10:14 AM

He will be missed.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2025 10:15 AM (aD39U)

189
Like all threads, this one too eventually turns into a Rush thread.
Posted by: haffhowershower at January 23, 2025 10:14 AM (NMT5x)

The Lute Guy sings like a cat being put through a meat grinder tail first?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 23, 2025 10:16 AM (iJfKG)

190 @185

>>Like all threads, this one too eventually turns into a Rush thread.

That's because Rush is the greatest band of all time and space.

https://tinyurl.com/vkscyzw

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2025 10:16 AM (XV/Pl)

191 An anagram for "nancy mace" is 'my can acne.'

Posted by: Butt Pimples at January 23, 2025 10:16 AM (Y1sOo)

192 Not a fan. Eyes are weird.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 23, 2025 10:16 AM (tT6L1)

193 Looks like Duck Dynasty is greenly for a comeback.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2025 10:16 AM (a1415)

194 greenly=greenlit

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2025 10:17 AM (a1415)

195 The Lute Guy sings like a cat being put through a meat grinder tail first?
Posted by: naturalfake at January 23, 2025 10:16 AM (iJfKG)

This.

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 23, 2025 10:17 AM (usyvb)

196 Greetings, conversationalists, all across the fruited plain...

Posted by: I miss Rush at January 23, 2025 10:17 AM (dg+HA)

197 "Why?"

She has done good lately, but I don't trust her to do what is good for the State.

More about what is good for her career.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2025 10:18 AM (a1415)

198 An anagram for "nancy mace" is 'my can acne.'
Posted by: Butt Pimples at January 23, 2025 10:16 AM (Y1sOo)

Ok, I need a ruling:

'Cans'- boobs, legs or ass?

I have always thought boobs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 23, 2025 10:18 AM (usyvb)

199 Imagine the virtue-signaling bleating from all the awards shows this year. We might see levels of smug that even God has never seen.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 23, 2025 10:18 AM (CwhoI)

200 We have some famously great guitarists here, so I'd have expected someone to notice that the player's hand position speaks to how lightly strung and untensioned this instrument must have been. If you played any modern fretted instrument with your wrist like that, you'd have ganglion cysts in no time.
"Muffing a string" must not have even been a thing in the catgut era.

There are still mandolinists in central Europe who play the bowl-back flat in their lap, pressing straight down. Every time I've seen it, they play with a whole choir of instruments, nobody hitting a chord position or multiple notes.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 23, 2025 10:18 AM (zdLoL)

201 The Lute Player
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Masterpiece. I could do that.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 10:19 AM (Q8Bj8)

202 Greetings, conversationalists, all across the fruited plain...
Posted by: I miss Rush

When they sang "America the Beautiful" at the inauguration, and that line came up, I immediately thought of Rush saying it.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

203 While in the Hermitage the condition of the painting has always been maintained at an appropriate standard by the museum’s specialists. Nonetheless, layers of yellowed varnish and overpainting distorted the artist’s intention. The Lute-Player was moved to the State Hermitage’s Laboratory for the Scientific Restoration of Easel Paintings in May 2015. Restoration of the painting was accompanied by a detailed technical study of the work using modern high-precision equipment.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2025 09:37 AM (gbOdA)
==============
Should have just hired Mario Delvecchio, the art restorer

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2025 10:19 AM (CG+mQ)

204 32.9 degrees out!

Let the meltage begin!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2025 10:19 AM (a1415)

205 'Cans'- boobs, legs or ass?

I have always thought boobs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Plural -- boobs
Singular -- ass

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

206 Cans are boobehs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 23, 2025 10:20 AM (LniWf)

207 Should have just hired Mario Delvecchio, the art restorer
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2025 10:19 AM (CG+mQ)

Gotten Hunter to touch it up.

I just threw up in my mouth a bit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 23, 2025 10:20 AM (usyvb)

208 199 Imagine the virtue-signaling bleating from all the awards shows this year. We might see levels of smug that even God has never seen.
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Well, its southern California and all.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 23, 2025 10:21 AM (Wg6v7)

209 Should have just hired Mario Delvecchio, the art restorer
Posted by: Huck Follywood

The Jimenez chick.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

210 120 I don’t pay attention to the Oscars ever since they snubbed Uncle Buck from any awards.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

My disdain for the Academy goes back even longer. "The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob" got nary a nom in 1973. A travesty.

Posted by: Rabbi Seligman at January 23, 2025 10:22 AM (G5+As)

211 I'm gonna marry her!
Why's that?
I heard she has a Lotta lute.

Posted by: Donny Brook at January 23, 2025 10:22 AM (KJjQr)

212 Fox News could really benefit by employing Mexican weather chichas.

https://youtu.be/4ER2uclRwDo

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 10:24 AM (Q8Bj8)

213 NY Times Defends Cartels, Claims Trump’s Foreign Terrorist Designation Will Hurt Economy.

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Designations?! WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING DESIGNATIONS!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 23, 2025 10:24 AM (L/fGl)

214 Plural -- boobs
Singular -- ass
Posted by: Bulg
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An aficionado of the subtleties to the English language he is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 23, 2025 10:25 AM (TtkQJ)

215 Sooooo ... THAT's what a 'looter' looks like ... ? Who knew?

Posted by: Dr_No at January 23, 2025 10:25 AM (ayRl+)

216 I have always thought boobs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
***
Overruled. It's on the list:

https://tinyurl.com/487zkfna

Posted by: Butt Pimples at January 23, 2025 10:26 AM (Y1sOo)

217 Imagine the virtue-signaling bleating from all the awards shows this year.
_____

This country is filled with racist misogynistic fascists. All of whom we are so grateful that have watched our films and listened to our music, please spend more money on us!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 23, 2025 10:26 AM (fs1hN)

218 I'm gonna marry her!
Why's that?
I heard she has a Lotta lute.
Posted by: Donny Brook at January 23, 2025 10:22 AM (KJjQr)
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No one told you that there are strings attached?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2025 10:26 AM (oClyJ)

219 213 NY Times Defends Cartels, Claims Trump’s Foreign Terrorist Designation Will Hurt Economy.
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I guess Carlos Slim still holds a lotta NYT stock.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 23, 2025 10:26 AM (Wg6v7)

220
Less ghey than Stephen Bishop in "Animal House"!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2025 10:26 AM (xG4kz)

221 'Cans'- boobs, legs or ass?

I have always thought boobs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Plural -- boobs
Singular -- ass
Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

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"Gams" -- legs

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 10:26 AM (B6F9D)

222 "Should have just hired Mario Delvecchio, the art restorer
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2025 10:19 AM (CG+mQ)"

Probably better than calling on Cecilia Giménez

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at January 23, 2025 10:27 AM (EcHpA)

223 "Your lute sounds terrible. Is there something wrong with it?"

"Yeah, I think it's baroque."

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 23, 2025 10:27 AM (99t1i)

224 New record for ONT video links no workee?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 23, 2025 10:27 AM (8YyKJ)

225 @60 Steven Bishop

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025 10:27 AM (6v8aM)

226 Part of the appeal for me is the period it represents in music. Renaissance and a bit later music through Baroque has become increasingly enjoyable. The timbre of the instruments with gut strings, the small ensembles that allow each instrument to be heard and appreciated (as opposed to the larger orchestras of the 1800s and later), and the interweaving of the melodies in complex but not discordant ways versus the volume of larger groups, has greater appeal.

Posted by: JTB at January 23, 2025 10:27 AM (yTvNw)

227
NY Times Defends Cartels, Claims Trump’s Foreign Terrorist Designation Will Hurt Economy

It never fails -- NYT will come down on the side of criminals every damn time. Which off ramp on the Pedo Pipeline are they?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2025 10:28 AM (xG4kz)

228 Is the act of play a Lute known as "luting" ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 10:29 AM (RHGPo)

229 227
NY Times Defends Cartels, Claims Trump’s Foreign Terrorist Designation Will Hurt Economy

It never fails -- NYT will come down on the side of criminals every damn time. Which off ramp on the Pedo Pipeline are they?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2025 10:28 AM (xG4kz)

======

I suspect that the assertion, though, is correct.

Attacking the cartels will affect GDP of the USA.

Because they've become invested in our government and corporate reality, a lot of things that materially contribute to GDP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

230 NY Times Defends Cartels, Claims Trump’s Foreign Terrorist Designation Will Hurt Economy.

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If by "Economy" they mean the largest human-, child-sex-, terrorist-, and drug-trafficking operation in human history -- aided and abetted by The Deep State Junta -- they're not wrong.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 10:30 AM (B6F9D)

231 Ancestor of Jimmy Page. Testing out "drop D" tuning.

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2025 10:31 AM (gEQYA)

232 @227

>>It never fails -- NYT will come down on the side of criminals every damn time. Which off ramp on the Pedo Pipeline are they?

It's them being against anything a Republican Administration, If The Meat Puppet Administration had done something similar, they would have hailed it as bold initiative to deal with the drug trade.

They're apparatchiks, nothing less, nothing more.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2025 10:31 AM (XV/Pl)

233 Caravaggio killed a guy in a brawl and was sentenced to death . He has killed somebody in a fight previously. Not exactly the most stable guy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2025 10:31 AM (6v8aM)

234 On a more mercenary note; An observer of the market publishes what is called a Heat Map, all of the stocks in their individual sectors blocked together and colored according to that day's success or failure. That's too many words. It's obvious when you look at it.

Taking the mood of the day this is a Heat Map of President Donald J. Trump,
January 22, 2025, enjoy

https://shorturl.at/4xXVe

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 23, 2025 10:32 AM (TtkQJ)

235 If by "Economy" they mean the largest human-, child-sex-, terrorist-, and drug-trafficking operation in human history -- aided and abetted by The Deep State Junta -- they're not wrong.
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 10:30 AM (B6F9D)

That is in fact what they mean by economy.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 10:32 AM (mg05v)

236 YYZ -- Toronto's international airport code.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7)

Like all threads, this one too eventually turns into a Rush thread.
Posted by: haffhowershower at January 23, 2025 10:14 AM (NMT5x)

I've heard of that band. I might check them out.

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2025 10:33 AM (gEQYA)

237 Caravaggio killed a guy in a brawl and was sentenced to death. He has killed somebody in a fight previously.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Piker
-- Zombie Benvenuto Cellini

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

238 It never fails -- NYT will come down on the side of criminals every damn time. Which off ramp on the Pedo Pipeline are they?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2025 10:28 AM (xG4kz)

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How many off-ramps are there along the 64-mile I-495 "Capital Beltway" outer loop?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 10:33 AM (B6F9D)

239 Caravaggio killed a guy in a brawl and was sentenced to death. He had killed somebody in a fight previously. Not exactly the most stable guy
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Did he ever publish a manifesto?

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 10:33 AM (Q8Bj8)

240 236 Like all threads, this one too eventually turns into a Rush thread.
Posted by: haffhowershower at January 23, 2025 10:14 AM (NMT5x)

I've heard of that band. I might check them out.
Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2025 10:33 AM (gEQYA)

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Why?

It's not like they're responsible for the closest we've come to hearing God's voice in "You Spin Me Round".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

241 Food!

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

242 Fox News could really benefit by employing Mexican weather chichas.

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Jim Acosta say CNN doesn't lie like Fox.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Acosta to Burchett: "This is not Fox, congressman. You can't just spin a tale and pull the wool over people's eyes."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 23, 2025 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

243 In the video clip below Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre responds to questions about this controversial statement of policy in an interview with the CP24 news channel about the US government only recognizing two genders. It’s a shame he didn’t do this interview munching an apple. He certainly could have.

Quotable quote: “Do you have any other genders that you’d like to name?”

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 10:34 AM (RHGPo)

244 230 NY Times Defends Cartels, Claims Trump’s Foreign Terrorist Designation Will Hurt Economy.
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What would you expect from a company vested in the destruction of a Democratic Republic in favor of a communist state?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 23, 2025 10:34 AM (TtkQJ)

245 Renaissance and a bit later music through Baroque has become increasingly enjoyable
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I've always thought, if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 10:35 AM (mg05v)

246 It should be remembered that Carlos Slim, a Mexican billionaire, owns about 20% of Class-A shares for the NYT.

How many Mexican billionaires made their money without any interaction with the drug cartels, I wonder...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

247 A Dem state senator has proposed ridiculous legislation to highlight the unfairness of "reproductive laws" only focusing on women. It's dumb political theater, but kinda funny:

Mississippi politician files 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act'...the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

There are also fines involved, the third strike resulting in the loss of $10,000 from the perpetrator.

In a statement to WLBT News, Sen. Blackmon wrote, “All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are fifty percent of the equation.

This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation. People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me.”

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 23, 2025 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

248
Has Larry Ellison pimping a mRNA anti-cancer "vaccine" appeared anywhere here today?

mRNA-based anything ought to be a non-starter for medical purposes.

And tech bros straying to serve as shills for anything outside their field of experience are equally suspect. Thank Bill Gates, fellers!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2025 10:36 AM (xG4kz)

249 Acosta also noted that his kettle was a particularly dark hue.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 10:36 AM (mg05v)

250 Caravaggio killed a guy in a brawl and was sentenced to death. He has killed somebody in a fight previously.

Was this in Reno perchance?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 10:37 AM (xCA6C)

251 Fox News could really benefit by employing Mexican weather chichas.

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I wish I was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 23, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

252 "how do these people listen to this cacophony of crap?"

Beethoven was the first composer who made a living by putting on his own concerts and selling tickets. His programs lasted the better part of a day, and people would bring charcoal braziers and cook meals in the hall while they listened to him.

You're trying too hard. Stupidity is supposed to come naturally.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 23, 2025 10:37 AM (zdLoL)

253 That is in fact what they mean by economy.

"Our Economy", please. Now excuse us while we go after Kash Patel for believing in infiltration by Satanic pedophile cannibals...

Posted by: The Deep State at January 23, 2025 10:38 AM (KBQMF)

254 The missus who for some reason reads the news says recently it is loaded with "theories" and voxplanations for the cancers that are suddenly running riot through the world. With none noting the obvious.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 10:38 AM (mg05v)

255 Has Larry Ellison pimping a mRNA anti-cancer "vaccine" appeared anywhere here today?

mRNA-based anything ought to be a non-starter for medical purposes.

And tech bros straying to serve as shills for anything outside their field of experience are equally suspect. Thank Bill Gates, fellers!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2025 10:36 AM (xG4kz)
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mRNA and Sam Altman...two things I don't trust.

Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2025 10:38 AM (G0vdT)

256 Does the deer have a little doe .. certainly .. two bucks

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2025 10:38 AM (RHGPo)

257 I can't look for an example right now, but I'm sure YouTube has some.
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2025 10:10 AM (EwaUh)

It does. I looked it up because of your mention. Hayden wrote a bunch for his patron. Makes me wonder if Prince Esterhazy was an ancestor of Baroness Esterhazy of Scarlet Pimpernel fame.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 23, 2025 10:39 AM (lFFaq)

258 Have you ever heard the baryton?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryton

Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2025 09:53 AM (EwaUh)

Sounds like a banjo/fiddle combo.

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2025 10:39 AM (Yj6Os)

259 "the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

Go ahead. Pass it. I dare you. Then let's see how you enforce it.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2025 10:39 AM (svLOV)

260 Success! Got the windshield clear and drove the Buick to a spot where it will get sunlight all day. Which is where I should have parked it Monday, but oh, well, you learn as you go. By this afternoon I'm hoping most of the snow and ice will be gone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 10:39 AM (omVj0)

261 YYZ -- Toronto's international airport code.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7)

Like all threads, this one too eventually turns into a Rush thread.
Posted by: haffhowershower at January 23, 2025 10:14 AM (NMT5x)

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I can't find the lyrics to Wye-Wye-Zed ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 10:39 AM (B6F9D)

262 247
Mississippi politician files 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act'...the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

So much for career advancement.
--Kamala

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 23, 2025 10:39 AM (N39Ws)

263 Has Larry Ellison pimping a mRNA anti-cancer "vaccine" appeared anywhere here today?

mRNA-based anything ought to be a non-starter for medical purposes.

And tech bros straying to serve as shills for anything outside their field of experience are equally suspect. Thank Bill Gates, fellers!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2025 10:36 AM (xG4kz)
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That whole AI project is much worse than that. Willowed from Pixy's:

Just look all over X for what Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman are up to.

Start reading up on their henchman, Chris Lehane, too.

Another wave of corpogarchy evil is brewing, against Trump and against the US.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2025 10:39 AM (oClyJ)

264 Mississippi politician files 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act'...the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

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Has Jeffrey Toobin heard about this?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 23, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

265 If I get just one more Greensleeves request, I'm gonna stab 'em.

Posted by: Lute Boy at January 23, 2025 10:41 AM (Aqu9a)

266 My problem with lutes are simple:

1. Not invented in America.
2. No amplifiers.

Lutes are for losers.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 10:41 AM (Q8Bj8)

267 I wish I was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 23, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)
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While drinking a pina colada?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2025 10:41 AM (oClyJ)

268 Fox News could really benefit by employing Mexican weather chichas.
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I wish I was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex
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So, you have a figure for radio?

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 23, 2025 10:41 AM (4DY5T)

269 Mississippi politician files 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act'...the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

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🤡🤡🤡

I give it 3 clowns!

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 10:41 AM (g47mK)

270 Mississippi politician files 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act'...the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

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So spitting, snorting, pissing, and shitting would be criminalized (as they all contain genetic material)?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 10:41 AM (B6F9D)

271 How many Mexican billionaires made their money without any interaction with the drug cartels, I wonder...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman
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If they did they are either dead or living in another country.

Mexico is ruled by the Cartels, its apparent government is a kabuki that the world can relate to. The difference between Mexico and Afghanistan is that the Mexicans have discipline, are trained and can read and write. Much more dangerous.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 23, 2025 10:41 AM (TtkQJ)

272 I wish I was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 23, 2025

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In his novel Serenade, James M. Cain gives a detailed description of how to cook an iguana. It involves catching him, of course, and then holding the lid of the pot down until he stops trying to get out. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 10:42 AM (omVj0)

273 Received a late Christmas gift. Trump drink glasses by BenShot. Love them.
https://tinyurl.com/bd24ecex

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 23, 2025 10:42 AM (2NHgQ)

274 >>>"Mississippi politician files 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act'...the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

There goes my hawk tuah, right out the window.

Posted by: Roy at January 23, 2025 10:42 AM (z+ik4)

275 I told you, my pronouns are they/them! That's it, I'm playing Stairway...

Posted by: Lute Player at January 23, 2025 10:43 AM (JCZqz)

276 >>Mississippi politician files 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act'...the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

Someone watch "Legally Blond" over the weekend. . .?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 10:43 AM (u1uWe)

277 Mississippi politician files 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act'...

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 23, 2025 10:39 AM (N39Ws)
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Stiff penal tease?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2025 10:43 AM (oClyJ)

278 My problem with lutes are simple:

1. Not invented in America.
2. No amplifiers.

Lutes are for losers.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 10:41 AM (Q8Bj

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3. All male lute players are gay.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 10:43 AM (B6F9D)

279 While drinking a pina colada?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2025 10:41 AM (oClyJ)

Tequila Collins

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2025 10:43 AM (Yj6Os)

280 It never fails -- NYT will come down on the side of criminals every damn time. Which off ramp on the Pedo Pipeline are they?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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Attacking the cartels will affect GDP of the USA.

Because they've become invested in our government and corporate reality, a lot of things that materially contribute to GDP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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If by "Economy" they mean the largest human-, child-sex-, terrorist-, and drug-trafficking operation in human history -- aided and abetted by The Deep State Junta -- they're not wrong.
Posted by: ShainS
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Estimates have the drug cartels being one of the ten largest Mexican businesses and about 1 out of every 10-12 Mexicans affiliated with them in some way.

BTW, the largest investor in the NYT is the mysterious Carlos Slim who is a Mexican tycoon making his fortune from the telecom conversion to wireless there. Where did that money come from?

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 10:43 AM (ctrM5)

281 ===

🤡🤡🤡

I give it 3 clowns!
Posted by: runner
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I'll see your three clowns and raise it one.
🤡🤡🤡 🤡

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 23, 2025 10:43 AM (TtkQJ)

282 I saw The Lute Player open for The Firm at the Omni in Atlanta in '86.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at January 23, 2025 10:44 AM (ZQ6Mo)

283 Received a late Christmas gift. Trump drink glasses by BenShot. Love them.
https://tinyurl.com/bd24ecex
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

That's great. My son gave me a Trump coffee mug for Christmas.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

284 Mississippi politician files 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act'...the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

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So spitting, snorting, pissing, and shitting would be criminalized (as they all contain genetic material)?
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 10:41 AM (B6F9D)

I just blew my nose. Arrest me.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2025 10:44 AM (Aqu9a)

285 A Dem state senator has proposed ridiculous legislation to highlight the unfairness of "reproductive laws" only focusing on women.
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How many more years are we going to have to suffer this juvenile bullshit poorly cribbed from "Legally Blond?"
It wasn't a sound argument then, and it isn't made better after some two decades later.

"My body, my choice" until it comes to enslaving the man to pay for the baby she wanted but he didn't.
It's especially galling when the main (and, really, only) justification for legalization of abortion is the economic strain the baby may place upon the mother.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 23, 2025 10:44 AM (2k0oQ)

286 266 My problem with lutes are simple:

1. Not invented in America.
2. No amplifiers.

Lutes are for losers.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

But you're cool with lutefisk, right?

Posted by: Minnesota at January 23, 2025 10:45 AM (JCZqz)

287 A fine painting.

Posted by: Dig gp Must at January 23, 2025 10:45 AM (8VyQQ)

288 Mississippi politician files 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act'...the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”
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It must be a hoot to be a godless.

Guess they haven't thought through what that means for gays.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 10:45 AM (mg05v)

289 >>That whole AI project is much worse than that. Willowed from Pixy's:

Just look all over X for what Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman are up to.

Start reading up on their henchman, Chris Lehane, too.
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Yes, I do not trust Altman and Reid Hoffman.
And Lehane sounds familiar. . . . Clinton crony?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 10:45 AM (u1uWe)

290 259 "the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

Go ahead. Pass it. I dare you. Then let's see how you enforce it.
Posted by: NR Pax
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The bill is probably from a pro choice troll in the legislature with a D by their name.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 10:45 AM (ctrM5)

291 People who make guitars are call luthiers. I'm confident everyone knows that but there you have it.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at January 23, 2025 10:45 AM (kTd/k)

292 Based on the expression, player is thinking about playing the skin lute.

Posted by: Musicians phhht at January 23, 2025 10:46 AM (KoNQY)

293 In his novel Serenade, James M. Cain gives a detailed description of how to cook an iguana. It involves catching him, of course, and then holding the lid of the pot down until he stops trying to get out. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 10:42 AM (omVj0)

Reminds me of the first time my dad tried to cook crabs.

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2025 10:46 AM (Yj6Os)

294 272 I wish I was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana.
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This could work as a country song:

Stuck inside of Mobile with Nashville blues again.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 23, 2025 10:46 AM (Wg6v7)

295 ====
Estimates have the drug cartels being one of the ten largest Mexican businesses and about 1 out of every 10-12 Mexicans affiliated with them in some way.

BTW, the largest investor in the NYT is the mysterious Carlos Slim who is a Mexican tycoon making his fortune from the telecom conversion to wireless there. Where did that money come from?
Posted by: whig
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He received the non-voting stock as part of a loan deal to Stinky Pritzger.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 23, 2025 10:46 AM (TtkQJ)

296 Of course:

Christopher Stephen Lehane (born June 2, 1967) is an American political consultant and cryptocurrency executive who has served as a lawyer, spokesperson and expert in opposition research for the Clinton White House, Democratic candidates for public office and various business, Labor, entertainment and professional sports organizations.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 10:46 AM (u1uWe)

297 CBD is distracted this week.

A lovely painting. Probably wouldn't hang, but thank you.

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 23, 2025 10:47 AM (NFX2v)

298 I saw The Lute Player open for The Firm at the Omni in Atlanta in '86.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at January 23, 2025 10:44 AM (ZQ6Mo)

With Special Musical Guest the Atlanta Rhythm Section?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2025 10:47 AM (Aqu9a)

299 #BREAKING: President Trump revokes security detail for Mike Pompeo - NYT

Posted by: Don Black. Message: yeah buddy! at January 23, 2025 10:47 AM (AOsQT)

300 295 He received the non-voting stock as part of a loan deal to Stinky Pritzger.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 23, 2025 10:46 AM (TtkQJ)

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He can vote for Class-A Board members, which is about a third of the board.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

301
Reid Hoffman has that "profusely sweating kiddie diddler" look about him.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2025 10:47 AM (xG4kz)

302 291 People who make guitars are call luthiers. I'm confident everyone knows that but there you have it.

That's because in order to tune a guitar, the strings must either be tighter or luthier.

Posted by: red speck at January 23, 2025 10:48 AM (0Id0S)

303 Fast radio burst unexpectedly traced to dead and old elliptical galaxy

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And so, it begins . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 23, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

304 BTW, the largest investor in the NYT is the mysterious Carlos Slim who is a Mexican tycoon making his fortune from the telecom conversion to wireless there. Where did that money come from?

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 10:43 AM (ctrM5)

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I thought he made his money in billboards.

/Must be confusing him with another Mexican tycoon ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 10:48 AM (B6F9D)

305 What's even more retarded about his law as it also criminalizes women's periods.

Barefoot, pregnant and chained to the kitchen stove--the motto of the New Democrat Party.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 23, 2025 10:48 AM (2k0oQ)

306 He received the non-voting stock as part of a loan deal to Stinky Pritzger.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Yes, but his money to do those things came from his telecom operations which there is almost no interest in digging up where his funding to do that came from.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 10:48 AM (ctrM5)

307 >>#BREAKING: President Trump revokes security detail for Mike Pompeo - NYT

Now do Jake Sullivan.

>>Reid Hoffman has that "profusely sweating kiddie diddler" look about him.

Well, he was a pal of Epstein's, so make of that what you will.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 10:49 AM (u1uWe)

308 289 >>That whole AI project is much worse than that. Willowed from Pixy's:

Just look all over X for what Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman are up to.

Start reading up on their henchman, Chris Lehane, too.
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Yes, I do not trust Altman and Reid Hoffman.
And Lehane sounds familiar. . . . Clinton crony?
Posted by: Lizzy
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Go to Musk's X site and scroll back to yesterday morning.
There's a whole lot of shakin' going on.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 23, 2025 10:49 AM (TtkQJ)

309 My son gave me a Trump coffee mug for Christmas.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)
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You mean cofveve mug.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2025 10:49 AM (oClyJ)

310 307 >>#BREAKING: President Trump revokes security detail for Mike Pompeo - NYT
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Huge arena applause

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 23, 2025 10:50 AM (TtkQJ)

311 > The bill is probably from a pro choice troll in the legislature with a D by their name.
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Drawing attention to "women's health" and the fact that as it pertains to childbirth.... women are only 1/2 of the equation.

Totally non-serious piece of fluff.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2025 10:50 AM (Q4IgG)

312 Mississippi politician files 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act'...the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

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Isn't that pretty much the Catholic Church's position?

And only the Catholic Church's position?

Are night emissions unlawful now?

Also, females aren't lawfully punished for the act, so why is it "equal" that men are. Men are already legally liable for any baby she brings into the world, but women are only "punished" by a baby.

Now, I understand from atheists that there is nothing stopping us from regarding a human being as having endless worth. However that doesn't work when being "punished by a baby", an actual human being. It's not what things can be (in another context), it's how they are functionally treated.

Posted by: Axeman at January 23, 2025 10:50 AM (krQz2)

313 Why?

It's not like they're responsible for the closest we've come to hearing God's voice in "You Spin Me Round".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

I would say I don't get it but I don't want to be obtuse.

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2025 10:50 AM (gEQYA)

314 Leuteronomy is a book in the Old Testament, innit?

Posted by: Pax Vobiscuits at January 23, 2025 10:50 AM (Ybyk2)

315 311 Drawing attention to "women's health" and the fact that as it pertains to childbirth.... women are only 1/2 of the equation.

Totally non-serious piece of fluff.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2025 10:50 AM (Q4IgG)

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Well, it originates from a state legislator in the perpetual minority party of Mississippi.

Of course it's non-serious fluff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

316 I thought he made his money in billboards.

/Must be confusing him with another Mexican tycoon ...
Posted by: ShainS
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US operations of his cellular empire began with Tracfone and its affiliated carrier names (bought by Verizon just recently). But Carlos began building his empire in Mexico when wireless started becoming important in the 90's.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 10:50 AM (ctrM5)

317
Has the (ex-?)FBI numpty who spouted the "8/8 is a dog whistle to white supremicists" nonsense had his security clearance yanked out from between his sweaty palms yet?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2025 10:50 AM (xG4kz)

318 >>Go to Musk's X site and scroll back to yesterday morning.
There's a whole lot of shakin' going on.

Ah, will do

Posted by: Lizzy at January 23, 2025 10:51 AM (u1uWe)

319 Caravaggio's works were nicely featured in the terrific film "Ripley," which was done as a limited series shown on Netflix.

The artist was a murderer, and the film is about a murderer who gets away with it in 1960s Italy, just as Caravaggio did in his day.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 23, 2025 10:52 AM (KiBMU)

320 Now, I understand from atheists that there is nothing stopping us from regarding a human being as having endless worth. However that doesn't work when being "punished by a baby", an actual human being. It's not what things can be (in another context), it's how they are functionally treated.
Posted by: Axeman
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Axeman, you are really a Prometheus bringing logic to the logic-less. TJM might disagree though being a specialist in such matters.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 10:52 AM (ctrM5)

321 #BREAKING: President Trump revokes security detail for Mike Pompeo - NYT

Posted by: Don Black. Message: yeah buddy! at January 23, 2025 10:47 AM (AOsQT)

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Crap -- I thought it was gonna be "Mike Pence."

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 10:52 AM (B6F9D)

322 People who make guitars are call luthiers. I'm confident everyone knows that but there you have it.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at January 23, 2025 10:45 AM (kTd/k)

I'm actually a member of the luthiers guild. Wouldn't buy me a bowl of soup, but I'm a member.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2025 10:52 AM (VwHCD)

323 President Trump revokes security detail for Mike Pompeo

Now do Mike Pence.

Posted by: GMan at January 23, 2025 10:53 AM (GfWuY)

324 316 I thought he made his money in billboards.

/Must be confusing him with another Mexican tycoon ...
Posted by: ShainS
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US operations of his cellular empire began with Tracfone and its affiliated carrier names (bought by Verizon just recently). But Carlos began building his empire in Mexico when wireless started becoming important in the 90's.
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Carlos is Lebanese not Mexican. Think Danny Thomas. Basically Phoenician.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 23, 2025 10:53 AM (Wg6v7)

325 Looking like SCOTUS will once again not take any 2A cases. Both Snopes and Ocean State Tactical have one more chance for cert at tomorrow’s conference. If they don’t get picked up that’s it for this term. So no movement on standard magazines or rifle bans. Disappointing.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 23, 2025 10:53 AM (mp9e7)

326 I think making homosexuality illegal is a grand idea. That's what the bill is. Dummies.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 10:53 AM (mg05v)

327 Leuteronomy is a book in the Old Testament, innit?
Posted by: Pax Vobiscuits

It's what David played when he composed the psalms.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

328 Crap -- I thought it was gonna be "Mike Pence."

Ha. Great minds and all that.

Posted by: GMan at January 23, 2025 10:53 AM (GfWuY)

329 Can you imagine how history would have been worse if Leo Fender went by Leo the Luthier. I shudder.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 10:53 AM (Q8Bj8)

330 323 President Trump revokes security detail for Mike Pompeo

Now do Mike Pence.
Posted by: GMan

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Trump must know then Pompeo was a snake as well in his first administration. Never heard DJT say much about him compared with other useless wankers like Pence.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 10:54 AM (ctrM5)

331 291 People who make guitars are call luthiers. I'm confident everyone knows that but there you have it.
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at January 23, 2025 10:45 AM (kTd/k)

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FUN FACT: The classical age Greeks had a lyre with a reasonating box attached to it. They called it a kitara. It's where the English word guitar comes from.

In the Greek tale of Arion snd the Dolphin, Arion's unparalleled skill on the kitara got him into big trouble, from whic he was rescued by a dolphin.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 23, 2025 10:54 AM (hY4dx)

332 My problem with lutes are simple:

1. Not invented in America.
2. No amplifiers.

Lutes are for losers.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

2a. Does not apply to resonator guitars.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 23, 2025 10:54 AM (FoIOl)

333 I can't find the lyrics to Wye-Wye-Zed ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 10:39 AM (B6F9D)

Begins with tee ti-tee ti-teeee, ti-ti-ti-ti-teeeee.

Eventually gets to da-na-na-naaa-na-na-naaaa.

That'll get you started.

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2025 10:54 AM (gEQYA)

334 Damn Trump is renaming stuff again!

Douglass Mackey@DougMackeyCase
BREAKING: New Trump directive bans use of term "migrants", mandates use of term "illegal aliens"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 23, 2025 10:54 AM (L/fGl)

335 My problem with lutes are simple:

1. Not invented in America.
2. No amplifiers.

Lutes are for losers.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

2a. Does not apply to resonator guitars.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 23, 2025 10:54 AM (FoIOl)

3. No whammy bar

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2025 10:55 AM (gEQYA)

336 Can you imagine how history would have been worse if Leo Fender went by Leo the Luthier. I shudder.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 10:53 AM (Q8Bj

leo the lag bolt was probably more fitting.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2025 10:55 AM (VwHCD)

337 > Has the (ex-?)FBI numpty who spouted the "8/8 is a dog whistle to white supremicists" nonsense had his security clearance yanked out from between his sweaty palms yet?
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Every former *biden administration official being shown the door also needs to have their clearance revoked, not just pulled, but revoked. As in they can never get one again. Ever.

Same goes for every current federal drone that either isn't or can't be fired today, tomorrow... whenever. Make them go through the vetting process again with a Trump aligned security outfit doing the vetting. Bet most will fail.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2025 10:55 AM (Q4IgG)

338
"Isn't that pretty much the Catholic Church's position?"

Basically, yes. You can look up the Church's position at any reliable Catholic site.

"And only the Catholic Church's position?"

Yes.

"Are night emissions unlawful now?"

No. Unless you willfully did so, which is unlikely.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 23, 2025 10:56 AM (dxSpM)

339 Douglass Mackey@DougMackeyCase
BREAKING: New Trump directive bans use of term "migrants", mandates use of term "illegal aliens"

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Also, henceforth male gays will be known by their traditional name, homos. "Gay" will only mean happy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 23, 2025 10:56 AM (hY4dx)

340 This is an excellent way to frame what Trump is doing.

NEW PIECE from Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on Pirate Wires: Trump will get America out of “manager mode”

• While SpaceX put more than 300 rockets into orbit for less than $10 billion, California has built 1,600 feet of elevated rail for $11 billion, and now projects its high speed rail project will cost a total of $128 billion.

• Congress earmarked $7.5 billion in 2021 for a half-million electric-vehicle charging stations. By May 2024, only eight had been built. Not 8,000. Not 800. Eight.

• The federal government allocated $42.5 billion on rural broadband and has connected zero homes after three years.

Something has to change. Our politicians can no longer remain fixated on steady, predictable preservation of the status quo. Instead, we need a leader who will fight for the country, is willing to risk change, and who realizes America’s exceptional potential.

https://is.gd/9XwLyw

Posted by: Archimedes at January 23, 2025 10:56 AM (xCA6C)

341 Carlos is Lebanese not Mexican. Think Danny Thomas. Basically Phoenician.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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He was born in Mexico to Lebanese parents. Had to check that as my memory ain't what it used to be.

That being said, his companies represent about 40 percent of Mexico's stock listings and his personal wealth is between 4-6 percent of Mexico's GDP.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 10:57 AM (ctrM5)

342 Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Fraudulent behavior is cause for termination

@amuse
DEI: Federal agencies ‘rebranding’ DEI are committing fraud against the United States. They should be identified, fired, and prosecuted.

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The guy in charge of DOGE, who has an office in the WH with 20 staff members, is responding to the story of a Chief Diversity Officer renaming her position to protect herself from the anti-DEI EO and saying that whomever was involved was committing fraud and deserves to be fired.

I knew that there would be major bureaucrats begging to be fired through fraudulent protection of illegal practices.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 23, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

343 3. No whammy bar

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2025 10:55 AM (gEQYA)

B Bender?

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2025 10:57 AM (Yj6Os)

344 Also, henceforth male gays will be known by their traditional name, homos. "Gay" will only mean happy.
Posted by: Cicero
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No offense Cicero but that whole discussion is so gay.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 10:58 AM (ctrM5)

345 299 #BREAKING: President Trump revokes security detail for Mike Pompeo - NYT
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Seems a bit rash.

Posted by: William Colby at January 23, 2025 10:58 AM (paSBy)

346 I watched the video of Leonard Cohen in Dublin. The band was amazing including a guy who played all manner of plucked instruments that I never heard of. (You might say he was a mother plucker.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 23, 2025 10:58 AM (L/fGl)

347 I tuned a guitar once .

Posted by: Reforger at January 23, 2025 10:59 AM (xcIvR)

348 This is kind of hilarious.

The gloppy, oozy body-horror movie, "The Substance" is up for the Best Picture Oscar among others.

Not that "The Substance" is a bad movie at all.

It achieves near greatness for a horror movie as a Horror Movie for You Gals only to trip over itself in the during the climax to make sure that you get The Message.

Still, the lovely and surprising Mrs naturalfake actually liked it a lot, which surprised me as she generally is not a fan of horror movies.

The story concerns a fading movie star(read Jane Fonda), played by Demi Moore, who wants to regain her youth, and finds a way to do it. Only to discover the method is suboptimal and has lots of rules to follow, which of course are broken. Hijinks ensue.

If that sounds like a movie you might like, you will.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 23, 2025 10:59 AM (iJfKG)

349 Lizzy

https://tinyurl.com/37v5xsru
https://tinyurl.com/2mb9fujt

https://tinyurl.com/37v5xsru

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 23, 2025 10:59 AM (TtkQJ)

350 Elon Musk retweeted
Gavin Baker@GavinSBaker 11h

Stargate is a great name but the $500b is a ridiculous number and no one should take it seriously unless SoftBank is going to sell all of their BABA and ARM.

SoftBank has $38b in cash, $142b in debt and generates $3ish billion in FCF per BBG. They own $143b in ARM and $18b in BABA. If they start selling ARM, their stake will be worth much less very quickly.

Oracle has $11b in cash, $88b in debt and generates $10b in FCF.

OpenAI is burning cash.

MGX did not commit to a number and is a $100b fund. Maybe 10% of the fund goes into this best case.

Nvidia will limit how much they invest in any one model company (they don’t need a monopsony). Maybe $5b.

Barring the aforementioned SoftBank ARM sale, might be able to put together $50b in equity funding over several years. Can obviously finance the GPUs and put debt on the JV.

Nowhere close to $500b. Everyone should just start issuing press releases for $1 trillion AI projects.

BTW love it that the ticker MGX which is a biotech company is up 33% on this.

cont.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 23, 2025 11:00 AM (TtkQJ)

351 Too many security details out there as it is. If a former bureaucrat wants a security detail, there are a number of private firms he can hire and pay for personally.

It''s time these details stop being used as power-signifiers.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 23, 2025 11:00 AM (ky8PV)

352 I tuned a guitar once .

Posted by: Reforger at January 23, 2025 10:59 AM (xcIvR)

double drop d?

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2025 11:00 AM (Yj6Os)

353 .
NOOD

The Morning Rant is here (I'll be in the angry dome...)

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 23, 2025 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

354 cont.

If you a professional investor or analyst and you took $500b at face value - or even worse wrote a *note* about this - you should resign in disgrace.
Jan 22, 2025 · 3:03 PM UTC
[it's a scroll down https://xcancel.com/elonmusk]

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 23, 2025 11:01 AM (TtkQJ)

355 347 I tuned a guitar once .
Posted by: Reforger at January 23, 2025 10:59 AM (xcIvR)

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But you can't tuna fish,

Posted by: REO Speedwagon at January 23, 2025 11:01 AM (hY4dx)

356
nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2025 11:01 AM (w9Ycv)

357

"Saudi crown prince promises Trump $600bn trade, investment boost"

I have a feeling first trip abroad will be to the ME!

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2025 11:01 AM (g47mK)

358 I never built a lute. I have plans and materials, I know how to do it, but haven't gotten around to it. Probably because I just can't see myself playing one. classical guitar was one thing, but lutes are weird.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2025 11:01 AM (VwHCD)

359 Re: The Substance: You mean the Academy actually lowered itself to notice a *horror* movie?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 11:01 AM (omVj0)

360 Noodus simianus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2025 11:01 AM (omVj0)

361 >>It's what David played when he composed the psalms.

Did it have the secret chord that pleased the Lord?

Posted by: one hour sober at January 23, 2025 11:02 AM (Y1sOo)

362 Body horror being pretty much the only horror around for years and years makes me think of how comedy has been limited to mostly body stuff too. The Left are very strange and not at all imaginative.

There is too much truth contained in other types of horror and comedy.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2025 11:02 AM (mg05v)

363 Now do Mike Pence.

Posted by: GMan at January 23, 2025 10:53 AM (GfWuY)

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Horde mind.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 11:03 AM (B6F9D)

364 Can you imagine how history would have been worse if Leo Fender went by Leo the Luthier. I shudder.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 23, 2025 10:53 AM (Q8Bj

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Sounds like a gay superman villain.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 11:05 AM (B6F9D)

365 Leons Getting Larger > Leo The Luthier

-- The Wifey

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 11:05 AM (B6F9D)

366 I'm kinda hazy on who Pompeo is /was /did

I dont own a TV

Posted by: Don Black. Message: TURN THAT G-D LUTE MUSIC DOWN at January 23, 2025 11:06 AM (AOsQT)

367 I like the model's hair as well as the flowers and fruit on the table. Caravaggio was a great artist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2025 11:06 AM (WOOfL)

368 @amuse
DEI: Federal agencies ‘rebranding’ DEI are committing fraud against the United States. They should be identified, fired, and prosecuted.
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My understanding is that "fraud against the United States" is such a severe crime that it justifies indicting even the former President of the United States and leading candidate for President.
Such a severe crime that it justifies breaching attorney-client confidentiality.
Such a severe crime that it justifies circumventing existing laws and illegally appointing a special prosecutor.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 23, 2025 11:07 AM (2k0oQ)

369 Begins with tee ti-tee ti-teeee, ti-ti-ti-ti-teeeee.

Eventually gets to da-na-na-naaa-na-na-naaaa.

That'll get you started.

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2025 10:54 AM (gEQYA)

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lol

[Not a Rush fan, but the wifey is and hummed it for me ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 11:07 AM (B6F9D)

370 The story concerns a fading movie star(read Jane Fonda), played by Demi Moore,

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The Demi Moore character in Landman is oddly irrelevant -- at least through the first season.

I guess just more eye-candy ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 11:13 AM (B6F9D)

371 Nowhere close to $500b. Everyone should just start issuing press releases for $1 trillion AI projects.

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The energy supply required for the demand of those "AI Datacenters" is gonna require a lot of nuclear power plants ... and we know how expensive and long those take to build.

[Along with the "AI" hype, I'm also not buying the hype yet of SMRs (Small Modular Reactors).]

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 23, 2025 11:17 AM (B6F9D)

372 "the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

[ Onan has entered the chat ]

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2025 11:26 AM (aD39U)

373 341 Carlos is Lebanese not Mexican. Think Danny Thomas. Basically Phoenician.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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He was born in Mexico to Lebanese parents. Had to check that as my memory ain't what it used to be.

That being said, his companies represent about 40 percent of Mexico's stock listings and his personal wealth is between 4-6 percent of Mexico's GDP.
Posted by: whig at January 23, 2025 10:57 AM (ctrM5)
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Salma Hayek's dad is Lebanese, if I recall correctly.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 23, 2025 12:06 PM (LPS7w)

374 See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy, that's his own real hair
The little faggot got his own jet airplane
The little faggot, he's a millionaire

Posted by: look whats not at January 23, 2025 01:31 PM (nakGR)

375 A round of Mrs. Brown you got a a Lovely Daughter followed by Please Mrs. Robinson

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 23, 2025 05:06 PM (wGqjj)

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