Mid-Morning Art Thread

Portrait of Constantijn Huygens and His (?) Clerk
Thomas de Keyser

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Dponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 09:30 AM (uUKhP)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

3 Thank you sir! May I have another?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 09:31 AM (uUKhP)

4
What fresh hell...?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 14, 2025 09:31 AM (qQdUz)

5 I saw Dponge open for Space Ghost at Trees in '94.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

6 A shipping clerk is a cluck!

Posted by: Head Cluck at February 14, 2025 09:32 AM (G5+As)

7 Fags

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2025 09:32 AM (xEfm/)

8 What' with the question mark after "His?" Dude is obviously a guy.

Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

9 This looks familiar.

Posted by: huerfano at February 14, 2025 09:33 AM (n2swS)

10 2 globes. He's a worldly man.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 14, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

11 That room looks like a nightmare to dust.

Posted by: A-a-a-a-choooo! at February 14, 2025 09:33 AM (G5+As)

12 Artist has mastered painting wrinkled clothing really well.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2025 09:34 AM (mB6WH)

13 I'm getting a real Dr. Smith vibe from this guy.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

14 This looks familiar.

Posted by: huerfano at February 14, 2025 09:33 AM (n2swS)

Executive Order signing.

Posted by: BignJames at February 14, 2025 09:34 AM (Yj6Os)

15 Seen this on the cigar box.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 14, 2025 09:34 AM (n4GiU)

16 Little feets

Posted by: Chance99 at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (mVh0h)

17 Is his clerk handing him an Ipod? IS HE A TIME TRAVELER?

Posted by: fd at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (vFG9F)

18 >8 What' with the question mark after "His?" Dude is obviously a guy.

Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

Probably a dude...probably a fag...at least fag-adjacent.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (GTqXr)

19 2 globes. He's a worldly man.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 14, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

One splits open to reveal booze and glasses.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

20 I saw Dponge open for Space Ghost at Trees in '94.
Posted by: Sponge

Damn Siri. Why I'm not concerned about AI taking over.

"AI-bot! Attack Russia!"
"Why are we being attacked? I thought I told you to attack Russia?"

AI-bot: "We could not find a country called Tussia"

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (uUKhP)

21 Looks like the clerk is handing him a thumb drive.

Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

22 Huygens (in Monty Python French accent): 'Ow do you like my outrageous boots?

Clerk: They are, 'ow you say, FABULOUS!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (xCA6C)

23
Probably a dude...probably a fag...at least fag-adjacent.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (GTqXr)

"Cock-curious"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

24 So Huygens owned two nifty rugs and he slapped one on the table and hung one on the wall? What a dope!

Posted by: Nassar Aftab's Carpet Emporium at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (G5+As)

25 I don't see the dog anywhere...

Nevertheless, those Dutch guys were awfully good at using light and contrast in painting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (LigOJ)

26 Seems like a weird portrait.

"So I want you to paint me accepting a minor document from one of my subordinates. He should be coming to me with hat in hand, as if *begging* me to do him a deep personal favor just by being in the same room with him. Got it?"

Wonder how GenAI would do with a prompt like that...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (7fElN)

27
Constantijn Huygens

How do you pronounce this name?

The Dutch are a funny and silly peoples. For instance, the surname Van Lutyens is pronounced van lut-chens.

Now you've all learned something, today.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (qQdUz)

28 2 globes. He's a worldly man.

When worlds collide.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (xCA6C)

29 Foreshortening of the arm/hand is a bit uncanny valley.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 14, 2025 09:36 AM (GTqXr)

30 I dig those boots. But I'm not a Fagz.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2025 09:36 AM (Wg6v7)

31 Rembrandt would have thrown in a dog

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2025 09:36 AM (LigOJ)

32 Mr gay boots. A little shadowy. Would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 14, 2025 09:36 AM (KXtU1)

33 If you look in the background you can see a pair of globes.

Posted by: Guy who likes pairs of globes at February 14, 2025 09:36 AM (vFG9F)

34 Damn Siri. Why I'm not concerned about AI taking over.

"AI-bot! Attack Russia!"
"Why are we being attacked? I thought I told you to attack Russia?"

AI-bot: "We could not find a country called Tussia"
Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (uUKhP)

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

35 I have those boots.

I miss Ren Faire bewbs.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 14, 2025 09:37 AM (jfo8Y)

36 If you look in the background you can see a pair of globes.
Posted by: Guy who likes pairs of globes at February 14, 2025 09:36 AM (vFG9F)
---
Sadly not attached to a buxom wench...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2025 09:37 AM (7fElN)

37 Never brown in town.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 14, 2025 09:37 AM (KAi1n)

38 We will be getting chocolate and Valentine cards tomorrow when they're half-price.

That's how you do Valentine's Day when you'be been 29 for a while

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at February 14, 2025 09:38 AM (WWMQC)

39 So in English the artist's name would be pronounced

Constantine Huggins?!?

Oooookay.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 14, 2025 09:38 AM (4XwPj)

40 Give me your resignation papers!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2025 09:38 AM (Q4IgG)

41 Flooring looks imagined?

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 14, 2025 09:38 AM (w4nzS)

42 Sadly not attached to a buxom wench...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2025 09:37 AM (7fElN)

globular cluster

Posted by: BignJames at February 14, 2025 09:38 AM (Yj6Os)

43 Why do Dutch names look like Vietnamese names?

Posted by: From about That Time at February 14, 2025 09:39 AM (n4GiU)

44 Nice detail on this. Wasn't Huyghens an early developer of clocks, or an astronomer, something like that?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 09:39 AM (J2vNu)

45 43 Why do Dutch names look like Vietnamese names?
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I don't Ngo.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2025 09:39 AM (Wg6v7)

46 If he were a real man, those two globes would be the ones attached to Tessa Fowler's chest.

Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

47 Them boots look like he's about to order a pumpkin spice latte at Starbucks.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 14, 2025 09:40 AM (H0WDL)

48 Caption:

"Oh, cleeerrrk!

This doesn't look quite gay enough. Shower me in glitter!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2025 09:40 AM (iJfKG)

49 I miss Ren Faire bewbs.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 14, 2025 09:37 AM (jfo8Y)

https://is.gd/2D3zJo

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

50 Constantijn Huygens

How do you pronounce this name?

The Dutch are a funny and silly peoples. For instance, the surname Van Lutyens is pronounced van lut-chens.

Now you've all learned something, today.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM

With or without the phlegm?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

51 The fashion history course I took informed us that tunic style evolved to conceal the masculine beer belly.

Sweatshirts were far in the future

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2025 09:41 AM (wZ53s)

52 Yikes, he's got a knee where a shin should be! Maybe it's just the lighting?

Posted by: Erik In Texas at February 14, 2025 09:41 AM (895ss)

53 I'm trying to come up with a connection between this painting and Valentine's Day and I'm striking out.

Posted by: Newt Kiley at February 14, 2025 09:41 AM (G5+As)

54 Men of the Horde :

What's stopping you from dressing like this?

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2025 09:41 AM (sm6Pk)

55 I miss Ren Faire bewbs.
====

Hard to miss those.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 14, 2025 09:41 AM (n4GiU)

56 Give me your resignation papers!

Posted by: Martini Farmer

I read that in Von Luger's voice (Hannes Messemer) from the great escape.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 14, 2025 09:41 AM (MsrgL)

57 This doesn't look quite gay enough. Shower me in glitter!!!"
-----------------
Snort.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2025 09:41 AM (Wg6v7)

58 https://is.gd/2D3zJo
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:40 AM

You, sir, are a great American.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 09:42 AM (kgE5c)

59 He made the clerk remove his hat because it is better than his own. Hat envy was a thing back then.

Posted by: She Hobbit at February 14, 2025 09:42 AM (ftFVW)

60 "What's stopping you from dressing like this?
Posted by: XTC "

I'm still not gay.

Posted by: Guy who likes pairs of globes at February 14, 2025 09:42 AM (vFG9F)

61 Oops, no, different Huygens (spelled differently). The one here was a poet and composer. Christiaan Huyghens "was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor" (Wiki). Seems to me I recall a starship or interplanetary spacecraft in someone's classic SF story called the C. Huyghens. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

62
You, sir, are a great American.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 09:42 AM (kgE5c)

I aim to please on most occasions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

63 Actually the outfit on seated man looks like one of the joints Blake Lively styled for herself after she sacked the wardrobe woman

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2025 09:43 AM (wZ53s)

64 Constantijn Huygens

How do you pronounce this name?

The Dutch are a funny and silly peoples. For instance, the surname Van Lutyens is pronounced van lut-chens.

Now you've all learned something, today.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM

Wait, what! I learned something!!!

Dammit, man. Dammit all to hell!!!

This is supposed to be a learning free zone.

I shall see you in court.

Good day, sir!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2025 09:43 AM (iJfKG)

65 60 I'm still not gay.
Posted by: Guy who likes pairs of globes at February 14, 2025 09:42 AM (vFG9F)

If you haven't beaten another man within an inch of death, how can I be sure?

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2025 09:43 AM (sm6Pk)

66 Men of the Horde :

What's stopping you from dressing like this?
Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2025 09:41 AM

I can never get my swash properly buckled.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 09:43 AM (kgE5c)

67 Hith booths are fabulouths.

Posted by: M. Tyson at February 14, 2025 09:43 AM (GTqXr)

68 I love the paintings from this period. The expressions and natural poses of the models catches the viewer's attention while the exquisite level of details compels the eye to examine the painting more thoroughly. Looking at this one I can understand why some of de Keyser's works were attributed to Rembrandt. Turns out that confusion is a compliment to both artists.

CBD, thanks. This is a wonderful painting to end the week's art thread with.

Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2025 09:43 AM (yTvNw)

69 I would like to have some boots like those. But maybe add a chunky two inch heel. Hmmmm gonna have to look around for something similar.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 14, 2025 09:43 AM (4XwPj)

70 Huygens could puncture a watermelon with the spike in that beard.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

71 The Dutch are a funny and silly peoples. For instance, the surname Van Lutyens is pronounced van lut-chens.

Now you've all learned something, today.

Posted by: Soothsayer

But what if I learned something yesterday, and today it's my turn to be a retard? Now you've gone and learn raped me. The agony. My no no square shall never recover.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 14, 2025 09:44 AM (MsrgL)

72 The Dutch are a funny and silly peoples.

https://tinyurl.com/5be9hhth+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025 09:44 AM (ExV1e)

73 The guy with the Van Dyke was known to be a dick.

Posted by: Kernel Korn at February 14, 2025 09:44 AM (G5+As)

74 Is he giving him $20??

Posted by: dantesed at February 14, 2025 09:44 AM (Oy/m2)

75 I would like to have some boots like those. But maybe add a chunky two inch heel. Hmmmm gonna have to look around for something similar.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 14, 2025

***
Only Flagg Bros. has 'em with a Cuban heel, I hear.

Posted by: B. Joel, 1985 at February 14, 2025 09:44 AM (J2vNu)

76 Can you imagine what a hardwood floor like that would cost today?

Posted by: BignJames at February 14, 2025 09:45 AM (Yj6Os)

77 I wonder why pants don't have tassels nowadays.

Posted by: She Hobbit at February 14, 2025 09:45 AM (ftFVW)

78 He made the clerk remove his hat because it is better than his own. Hat envy was a thing back then.

There used to be 11 Commandments, but "Thou shalt not covet they neighbor's chapeau" was dropped in the final version.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2025 09:45 AM (xCA6C)

79 The Dutch are a funny and silly peoples.

https://tinyurl.com/5be9hhth+
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025 09:44 AM

No one said their women weren't hot.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 09:45 AM (kgE5c)

80 If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much.

Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

81 you look in the background you can see a pair of globes.

This was a man of means

When you double up on the globery it means you got the juice

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2025 09:46 AM (wZ53s)

82 I wonder why pants don't have tassels nowadays.
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 14, 2025 09:45 AM (ftFVW)

Escalators.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

83 Lutchens?

Wasn't he the Admiral aboard Bismarck?

He was a Dutch sleeper agent?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 14, 2025 09:46 AM (BMD3P)

84 One splits open to reveal booze and glasses.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)
******
Now it all makes sense.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 14, 2025 09:46 AM (NpAcC)

85 Men of the Horde :

What's stopping you from dressing like this?
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I'd like to retain my pride. But the hat might be cool. For like an hour.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2025 09:46 AM (Q4IgG)

86
No one said their women weren't hot.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 09:45 AM (kgE5c)

We fart in their general direction.

Posted by: The Swedish Bikini Team at February 14, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

87 The Dutch are a funny and silly peoples.

https://tinyurl.com/5be9hhth+
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Ah, Eva. Mmmmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

88 When you double up on the globery it means you got the juice
Posted by: kallisto

I just assumed the artist was alluding to bewbs since the sitting subjects were lacking in such.

Posted by: She Hobbit at February 14, 2025 09:47 AM (ftFVW)

89 Love the tapestry tablecloth. Probably took at least a year to complete that work.

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2025 09:47 AM (wZ53s)

90 I miss Ren Faire bewbs.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 14, 2025
*
https://is.gd/2D3zJo
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025

***
Ren Faires, when Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 brought me to them in the '80s, *never* had anybody like that!

Posted by: B. Joel, 1985 at February 14, 2025 09:47 AM (J2vNu)

91 Why the (?) ?

Posted by: redridinghood at February 14, 2025 09:47 AM (NpAcC)

92
There used to be 11 Commandments, but "Thou shalt not covet they neighbor's chapeau" was dropped in the final version.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2025 09:45 AM (xCA6C)

"I give you these FIFTEEN......"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

93 Yeah, we all know what "My uuuuuhhhm...clerk" means.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 14, 2025 09:48 AM (kpS4V)

94 Dueling Globes.

Perhaps competing cartography from different sources or eras?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 09:48 AM (vAHT7)

95 92 "I give you these FIFTEEN......"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

=======

Not everything is movies, bruh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 09:48 AM (GBKbO)

96 Caption:

"No, Fossbury. How many times do I have to explain this to you?The globe on the left is our world, the real Earth Number 1.

The globe on the right is Alternate Earth Number 27-C, where I am known as Mary Lou Retton!"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2025 09:50 AM (iJfKG)

97 Wolfus, looks like you had a sock failure at 90.

Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

98 A couple of things caught my eye. Both figures are wearing gloves one hand. The other hand is used for writing or more precise movements. Fashion? Cold weather? I'm not sure.

The other matter is personal: the ink well and quill sitting on the book. Given how expensive books were back then and the inevitable spills of ink makes me shudder. Having used ink wells and dip pens I know there will be plenty of drops and spills.

Posted by: JTB at February 14, 2025 09:50 AM (yTvNw)

99 So Huygens owned two nifty rugs and he slapped one on the table and hung one on the wall? What a dope!
Posted by: Nassar Aftab's Carpet Emporium at February 14, 2025

***
The one on the table represents a vain attempt to keep the cat from scratching the table legs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 09:50 AM (J2vNu)

100 The cost of electricity must have been prohibitive back in the early 17th century -- explaining why so many of these old Dutch Masters' works appear so dark.

/

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 09:50 AM (vAHT7)

101 https://tinyurl.com/5be9hhth+
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025 09:44
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Eva Vlaadingerbroek.
That last name sounds like a painful injury. Would hesitate to bang.
For a moment.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 14, 2025 09:50 AM (n4GiU)

102 I wonder why pants don't have tassels nowadays.
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 14, 2025 09:45 AM

https://youtu.be/9vkF-k56b2g?si=ylRVLLOrxp_hsV6X

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 09:51 AM (Wnv9h)

103 Dirk Diggler is Dutch.
He came on the Mayflower in more than one way.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 14, 2025 09:51 AM (47teX)

104 Caption:

"Hand me that nickel bag will you?"

Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2025 09:51 AM (QB+5g)

105 I feel that the genre of Norwegian Mental Illness paintings has not been fully explored here. Yes, CBD was kind enough to feature several, but it only made me long for more.

Posted by: Gimme, Gimme, Shock Treatment! at February 14, 2025 09:51 AM (G5+As)

106 Dutch? Well, he missed a chance to include Eva Vlaardingerbroek in the picture. No proudly Dutch painter should ever miss that opportunity.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2025 09:51 AM (n0vke)

107
Not everything is movies, bruh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 09:48 AM (GBKbO)

Says the guy who's life revolves around movies.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

108 107
Not everything is movies, bruh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 09:48 AM (GBKbO)

Says the guy who's life revolves around movies.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 09:52 AM (GBKbO)

109
I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 09:52 AM (GBKbO)

IT'S FUNNY NO ONE MENTIONS PROMETHEUS.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 14, 2025 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

110 Not everything is movies, bruh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman
Says the guy who's life revolves around movies.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
======
I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman
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IT'S FUNNY NO ONE MENTIONS PROMETHEUS.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER

I love this place.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 14, 2025 09:54 AM (MsrgL)

111 I saw about 10 minutes of Promethiums.

It looked pretty awful, so I turned it off.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2025 09:54 AM (H5Jj8)

112 It doesn't appear that they expect the Spanish Inquisition.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2025 09:55 AM (vYDwg)

113 I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 09:52 AM (GBKbO)

IT'S FUNNY NO ONE MENTIONS PROMETHEUS.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 14, 2025 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

OW!!! FUCK!! MY LIVER!!!

Posted by: PROMETHEUS at February 14, 2025 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

114 Not everything is movies, bruh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 09:48 AM (GBKbO)

------------

Starting in college, I started writing down great quotations on 3x5 index cards. I had a pretty decent memory before turning 29, and in conversations it seemed like half of my dialogue was either from that collection or from movies or television (especially after Seinfeld).

Anyway, there's a famous quote about unoriginal thinkers who rely on quoting others all the time, but I can't remember what it is ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 09:55 AM (vAHT7)

115 GOP RINO’s in the Texas Legislature including complete sellout Dustin Burrows, just handed Democrats a bunch of committee assignments and the speaker pro tempore spot

All the immigration plus the big money Chamber of Commerce companies are going to completely ruin the state and turn it into east California.

Pathetic.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 14, 2025 09:55 AM (zvo7E)

116 No one expects the Spanish inquisition!!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 14, 2025 09:55 AM (4XwPj)

117 Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 14, 2025 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

Damn it, Sponge! You beat me to the sock.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 09:56 AM (kgE5c)

118 Anyway, there's a famous quote about unoriginal thinkers who rely on quoting others all the time, but I can't remember what it is ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 09:55 AM (vAHT7)

*cough*BULLSHIT*cough*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

119 I saw about 10 minutes of Promethiums.

It looked pretty awful, so I turned it off.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2025

***
Hey, the first ten minutes has Charlize Theron doing pushups -- boys' pushups, yet, without the knee touching the ground. The movie ain't all bad.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 09:57 AM (J2vNu)

120 GOP RINO’s in the Texas Legislature including complete sellout Dustin Burrows, just handed Democrats a bunch of committee assignments and the speaker pro tempore spot

All the immigration plus the big money Chamber of Commerce companies are going to completely ruin the state and turn it into east California.

Pathetic.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 14, 2025 09:55 AM (zvo7E)

After 2024, the RINO grip is less. No doubt after 2026 it shall be lessened further. Not all battles are won with the first shot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025 09:57 AM (ExV1e)

121 118 Anyway, there's a famous quote about unoriginal thinkers who rely on quoting others all the time, but I can't remember what it is ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 09:55 AM (vAHT7)

*cough*BULLSHIT*cough*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

======

Sponge quoting King Lear again.

Gosh. Read another play.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

122 See, here is why the GOP is a useless pile of sh*t.

There big idea is to put a 1K tax on EV's to pay for road repair.

First of all, no new taxes dipsh*ts.

2nd just get rid of all EV subsidies and let the market sort it out.

3rd the paltry amount of taxes you would get from an EV tax would be dwarfed by the cost savings from simply auditing the Federal Highway Safety Administration.

Can you imagine how much fraud and waste is that f**king boondoggle?

I know why they are doing this, it's their typical passive aggressive way at getting at Trump and Elon.

I f**king hate all of these a**holes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2025 09:58 AM (XV/Pl)

123 Anyway, there's a famous quote about unoriginal thinkers who rely on quoting others all the time, but I can't remember what it is ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 09:55 AM (vAHT7)

Probably something Oscar Wilde said.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 14, 2025 09:58 AM (4XwPj)

124 Damn it, Sponge! You beat me to the sock.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 09:56 AM (kgE5c)

*breathes on fingernails*

*buffs them on shirt*

*shit-eating grins*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

125 Anyway, there's a famous quote about unoriginal thinkers who rely on quoting others all the time, but I can't remember what it is ...

It's from Good Will Hunting (No, that isn't the quote you described, but it's still apropos)

“Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter?” is a line from the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting. In the scene, Will (Matt Damon) confronts a Harvard graduate student who is about to plagiarize a passage from a book

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2025 09:58 AM (xCA6C)

126 He's no Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot that's for sure!

Posted by: Dutch Masters at February 14, 2025 09:59 AM (y7KuV)

127 Nice. Dutch masters. Always good choice.

Posted by: runner at February 14, 2025 09:59 AM (g47mK)

128 Dutch? Well, he missed a chance to include Eva Vlaardingerbroek in the picture. No proudly Dutch painter should ever miss that opportunity.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2025 09:51 AM (n0vke)

---------------

She's amazing; Dennis Prager used to interview her occasionally on his radio show before what apparently was a very bad fall a few months ago from which he's slowly physically recovering (reports are that he didn't suffer any mental incapacitation).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 10:00 AM (vAHT7)

129 *cough*BULLSHIT*cough*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

======
Sponge quoting King Lear again.

Gosh. Read another play.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025

***
I read Lear a great many years ago, though I've never seen it produced. All I can recall was his daughters named Regan and Goneril (good cat names, imo), and the king himself bellowing at a storm, "Blow, winds! Crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:00 AM (J2vNu)

130 A nice set of globes there.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 14, 2025 10:00 AM (Y6IkP)

131
Sponge quoting King Lear again.

Gosh. Read another play.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

Code 808 reads:

Thou hast mistaken me for someone who gives a shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

132 3rd the paltry amount of taxes you would get from an EV tax would be dwarfed by the cost savings from simply auditing the Federal Highway Safety Administration.

Can you imagine how much fraud and waste is that f**king boondoggle?

Exactly. If the Federal and state budgets were "clean" there'd be no need for extra taxes and tolls and whatnot to pay for roads.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 14, 2025 10:00 AM (2ocoG)

133 A nice set of globes there.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 14, 2025 10:00 AM (Y6IkP)

"Why THANK you, Doctor!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

134 Morons, it's that time again. I'm a giver.

https://youtu.be/Xaxi91-exis?si=my6V701rmjcBK9EG

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 10:00 AM (Wnv9h)

135 No one elected these white Nederlanders!

Posted by: MAXINE WATERS at February 14, 2025 10:00 AM (qoB0Q)

136 Nice. Dutch masters. Always good choice.
Posted by: runner at February 14, 2025

***
Good pipe tobacco, I've heard.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:00 AM (J2vNu)

137 All I can recall was his daughters named Regan and Goneril

I had a case of Goneril once, but penicillin cleaned it right up.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2025 10:01 AM (xCA6C)

138
Best Enhancement

The sad tale of Constantijn Huygens
Who married a girl named Bess Wiggins
Her cup size you can see
Grew from A to double-D
And she left him for Emerson Bigguns!

Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2025 10:01 AM (/iMjX)

139 131 Code 808 reads:

Thou hast mistaken me for someone who gives a shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

=====

Well, at least we get some Cymbeline from time to time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

140

From ChatGPT:

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master." – Plato

“An original idea is not one that is new, but one that has never been thought of in exactly that way before.” – J. K. Rowling

"Imitation is suicide." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” – Oscar Wilde

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know." – Lao Tzu

Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2025 10:02 AM (QB+5g)

141 GOP RINO’s in the Texas Legislature including complete sellout Dustin Burrows, just handed Democrats a bunch of committee assignments and the speaker pro tempore spot
========================
Purr.....fect

Posted by: Any old Bush at February 14, 2025 10:02 AM (Bm4df)

142 122 See, here is why the GOP is a useless pile of sh*t.

There big idea is to put a 1K tax on EV's to pay for road repair.

First of all, no new taxes dipsh*ts.

2nd just get rid of all EV subsidies and let the market sort it out.

3rd the paltry amount of taxes you would get from an EV tax would be dwarfed by the cost savings from simply auditing the Federal Highway Safety Administration.

Can you imagine how much fraud and waste is that f**king boondoggle?

I know why they are doing this, it's their typical passive aggressive way at getting at Trump and Elon.

I f**king hate all of these a**holes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2025 09:58 AM (XV/Pl)

EVs don't pay a gas tax. So, how exactly are they paying for roads now? A yearly registration fee seems like the perfect idea.

Granted, after everything is paid for. But, there's no reason to have a gas tax paying for roads if you aren't gonna charge the equivalent to non-gas cars. That encourages freeloading, and we have enough of that.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 14, 2025 10:02 AM (exHjb)

143 Anyway, there's a famous quote about unoriginal thinkers who rely on quoting others all the time, but I can't remember what it is ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025
*
Probably something Oscar Wilde said.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 14, 2025

***
Yes, we all assume that Oscar said it.

Posted by: Zombie Dorothy Parker at February 14, 2025 10:02 AM (J2vNu)

144 Vance's Munich "Threat from Within" speech is one for the history books!

Posted by: runner at February 14, 2025 10:02 AM (g47mK)

145 My goal in life is to have a classy globe that stores booze. I've got one picked out, I'm just waiting for the stars to align.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 14, 2025 10:02 AM (Y6IkP)

146 Those high collars were worn to keep food crumbs from going under the blouse. Not saying anything about that little packet he's being handed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2025 10:03 AM (A3uq/)

147 I prefer my women to have 2 globes.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 14, 2025 10:03 AM (dzoAK)

148 Make Aviation Great Again

Requirements to be a stewardess for Delta-C&S Airlines in 1954:

Single, not engaged
Between the ages of 22 and 28
Between 5’2” and 5’5”
Between 100 and 120 pounds
Good eyesight (no glasses)
Good teeth (even no gold showing when smiling)
Good figure
Slender legs
Natural color to hair
At least four years of college...
...or two years of college and two years of business experience
The ability to carry on a lively conversation
Even temper, must not become provoked by demands of passengers
Willing and anxious to please
Willing to transfer
Citizen of the United States
Excellent health
Clear skin
Nice hands

Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2025 10:03 AM (Y1sOo)

149 =====

Well, at least we get some Cymbeline from time to time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

Isn't that why penicillin was invented?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

150 Caption:

"You see, Aiden. By the 20th Century, Dutch Masters will only mean a brand of cheap-ass cigars, which smell like burning rat shit.

Quite a come down..."

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2025 10:03 AM (iJfKG)

151 Vance's Munich "Threat from Within" speech is one for the history books!

He seems to be on the "No f***s given" tour. Good for him. Bad for the Euroswine.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2025 10:04 AM (xCA6C)

152 Yes, we all assume that Oscar said it.
Posted by: Zombie Dorothy Parke

Wilde, Churchill, and Twain. Quotation magnets, all.

Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

153 149 Well, at least we get some Cymbeline from time to time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

Isn't that why penicillin was invented?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

======

It's all them Frenchified women.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

154 151 Vance's Munich "Threat from Within" speech is one for the history books!

He seems to be on the "No f***s given" tour. Good for him. Bad for the Euroswine.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2025 10:04 AM (xCA6C)

========

It is an interesting contrast to Obama's apology tour.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

155 GOP RINO’s in the Texas Legislature including complete sellout Dustin Burrows, just handed Democrats a bunch of committee assignments and the speaker pro tempore spot

All the immigration plus the big money Chamber of Commerce companies are going to completely ruin the state and turn it into east California.

Pathetic.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 14, 2025 09:55 AM (zvo7E)

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That's depressing. Texas was a possible option if we ever have to flea Arizona should it become southeast Califzuela.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 10:05 AM (vAHT7)

156 Portrait of Constantijn Huygens and...

He looks like the model for those Guy Fawkes-Anonymous masks.

Posted by: t-bird at February 14, 2025 10:05 AM (KBQMF)

157 Sponge quoting King Lear again.

Gosh. Read another play

***********

To Bother Or Not To Bother

It's the start of a worrisome trend
But I didn't watch the play to the end
So I'm embarrassed to say
That to this very day
I thought Hamlet was Pooh's little friend

Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2025 10:05 AM (/iMjX)

158 Oh my goodness, this painting is amazing.

I mean, it could use a hot girl in it but...wow. Real art.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 14, 2025 10:05 AM (xcxpd)

159 "He who is not a good servant will not be a good master." – Plato

“An original idea is not one that is new, but one that has never been thought of in exactly that way before.” – J. K. Rowling

"Imitation is suicide." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” – Oscar Wilde

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know." – Lao Tzu

Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2025 10:02 AM (QB+5g)

“Originality is the art of concealing your source.” -Anonymous

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 14, 2025 10:05 AM (Cw7Lx)

160 My goal in life is to have a classy globe that stores booze. I've got one picked out, I'm just waiting for the stars to align.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 14, 2025 10:02 AM (Y6IkP)

I'm actually disappointed in my life that I haven't risen to the level of having booze in my office to offer visitors at work.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

161 There big idea is to put a 1K tax on EV's to pay for road repair.

GOP EV Tax? They can have my answer now, if they like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the local sales tax, which I would appreciate the GOP ass wipes put up personally out of the monies they stole from USAID.

Posted by: Elon Musk, Space Daddy at February 14, 2025 10:06 AM (y7KuV)

162 Just a reminder to everyone. Just a few days left to buy cards, buy candy, and work up your amorous desires before National Engineer Week.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 14, 2025 10:06 AM (Y6IkP)

163 Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2025 10:03 AM (Y1sOo)

Where was the stupendous rack requirement?

Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

164 Requirements to be a stewardess for Delta-C&S Airlines in 1954:

Single, not engaged
Between the ages of 22 and 28
Between 5’2” and 5’5”
Between 100 and 120 pounds
Good eyesight (no glasses)
Good teeth (even no gold showing when smiling)
Good figure
Slender legs
Natural color to hair
At least four years of college...
...or two years of college and two years of business experience
The ability to carry on a lively conversation
Even temper, must not become provoked by demands of passengers
Willing and anxious to please
Willing to transfer
Citizen of the United States. . . .

Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2025

***
"Willing to risk early death in fiery crash"?

Aside from that, sounds reasonable to me.

Posted by: Zombie Dorothy Parker at February 14, 2025 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

165 One of my favorites quotes which is a personal motto I have, is from Kipling"

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn’t copy my mind; And I left them sweatin’ and stealin’, A year and a half behind.

-RK

Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2025 10:07 AM (QB+5g)

166 JD Vance is laying the wood to European elites for abandoning free speech.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 14, 2025 10:07 AM (paSBy)

167 161 There big idea is to put a 1K tax on EV's to pay for road repair.

GOP EV Tax? They can have my answer now, if they like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the local sales tax, which I would appreciate the GOP ass wipes put up personally out of the monies they stole from USAID.
Posted by: Elon Musk, Space Daddy at February 14, 2025 10:06 AM (y7KuV)

EVs owned 99% by liberals and the elite.
EVs owned are already big takers of our tax money.
Excluding them from the current tax base IS a subsidy for EVs vs gas cars.
Why on earth would we not charge them AND reduce the gas tax at the same time - this is such a win/win for Trump's base (and for the safety of our nation thanks to EV fires), it's not funny...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 14, 2025 10:08 AM (exHjb)

168 "The man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” – Oscar Wilde
*
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know." – Lao Tzu

Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2025
*
“Originality is the art of concealing your source.” -Anonymous
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 14, 2025

***
"If you're going to steal, steal from the best."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:08 AM (J2vNu)

169 They copied all they could copy, But they couldn’t copy my mind; And I left them sweatin’ and stealin’, A year and a half behind.

-RK
Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2025

***
Elon Musk's motto too, I'll warrant!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:09 AM (J2vNu)

170 @142

>>EVs don't pay a gas tax. So, how exactly are they paying for roads now? A yearly registration fee seems like the perfect idea.

Listen, I am no fan of EV's but this move is not meant to get revenue for a legitimate reason, there is enough fraud, waste and abuse in the Highway safety administration that would dwarf any EV tax.

Crawl through the 1.6B HSA budget and I'm sure you could find a good chunk of FW&A.

I am also generally hostile to any new taxes.

And this move could have been done four years ago when the Donks controlled the whole government, but here they come GOP to raise taxes.

F**k Those Clowns.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2025 10:09 AM (XV/Pl)

171 There big idea is to put a 1K tax on EV's to pay for road repair.

The more money they take, the more 'road repair' we get. Not repaired roads, but 'road repair'.

Posted by: t-bird at February 14, 2025 10:09 AM (4Nep/)

172 “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know." – Lao Tzu

STFU, Lao

Posted by: Common Tater at February 14, 2025 10:09 AM (1biuY)

173 166 JD Vance is laying the wood to European elites for abandoning free speech.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 14, 2025 10:07 AM (paSBy)

=====

I'd prefer this:

"You hate us so much? Fine. We're out. All of our military bases will be empty by the end of the month. All of our defense arrangements with your continent are done. We are requiring pharmaceutical companies to sell to American consumers at the same per unit price of every product as they sell to your governments. You can be a pathetic, decaying theme park for your fading past as long as you want. We're done. Fuck you."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

174 Your winnings, master.

Posted by: Shocked! Shocked! at February 14, 2025 10:10 AM (dg+HA)

175
You know who else argued for free speech in Munich?

Posted by: Fake News at February 14, 2025 10:10 AM (qQdUz)

176 166 JD Vance is laying the wood to European elites for abandoning free speech.
____

Will Europe censor Vance's speech?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2025 10:11 AM (Dv3i1)

177 Best Enhancement

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Good one, muldoon!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 10:11 AM (vAHT7)

178 I like the contrast of the white collars against the dark clothing and I like the expression on the clerk's face. Is he Dutch? They certainly had some fine artists

And maybe somebody asked this before but is the question mark on his clerk mean they is some question about the gender of the person? J/K.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025 10:11 AM (/m17t)

179 Well, at least we get some Cymbeline from time to time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025
*
Isn't that why penicillin was invented?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025

***
Wasn't there a mention of the "Cymbeline blood-burn" in an original Trek episode? Sounds painful and debilitating.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:11 AM (J2vNu)

180 Emerson Bigguns? I don't get it.

/Spomge, probably

Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2025 10:11 AM (/iMjX)

181 The more money they take, the more 'road repair' we get. Not repaired roads, but 'road repair'.
Posted by: t-bird at February 14, 2025 10:09 AM (4Nep

The orang and white highway safety cone is the Indiana state flower. Blooms from March to October.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 14, 2025 10:12 AM (4XwPj)

182 Texas was a possible option if we ever have to flea Arizona
———

You itching to leave Arizona for some reason?

Posted by: Common Tater at February 14, 2025 10:12 AM (1biuY)

183 "The man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” – Oscar Wilde
*
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know." – Lao Tzu

Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2025
*
“Originality is the art of concealing your source.” -Anonymous
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 14, 2025

***
"If you're going to steal, steal from the best."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:08 AM

You asked for it:

https://youtu.be/gXlfXirQF3A?si=TD-MPS6_sH9o3iX7

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 10:12 AM (Wnv9h)

184 Texas was a possible option if we ever have to flea Arizona
———

You itching to leave Arizona for some reason?
Posted by: Common Tater at February 14, 2025

***
Hop to it!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:13 AM (J2vNu)

185 Not everything is movies, bruh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

AoSHQ Horde Life can be explained by Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs and Fawlty Towers.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:13 AM (uUKhP)

186 Requirements to be a stewardess for Delta-C&S Airlines in 1954:...

Delta would be down to one flight a day if they had stuck to those standards.

Posted by: t-bird at February 14, 2025 10:13 AM (Fr3vV)

187 *AoSHQ Horde Life can be explained by Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs and Fawlty Towers.*

Ahem.

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld references at February 14, 2025 10:14 AM (dg+HA)

188 rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:13 AM (uUKhP)

He's from Barcelona.

Posted by: dantesed at February 14, 2025 10:14 AM (Oy/m2)

189 I am also generally hostile to any new taxes.

And this move could have been done four years ago when the Donks controlled the whole government, but here they come GOP to raise taxes.

F**k Those Clowns.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2025 10:09 AM (XV/Pl)

I’m generally hostile to new taxes, too, but I consider any taxes on EVs a clawback of their subsidies, which was stolen.

End EV subsidies, cut the gas/diesel tax, tax EVs and solar panel installs. Simple as.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 14, 2025 10:14 AM (Cw7Lx)

190 AoSHQ Horde Life can be explained by Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs and Fawlty Towers.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:13 AM

Inconceivable!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 10:14 AM (kgE5c)

191 I'd prefer this:

"You hate us so much? Fine. We're out. All of our military bases will be empty by the end of the month. All of our defense arrangements with your continent are done. We are requiring pharmaceutical companies to sell to American consumers at the same per unit price of every product as they sell to your governments. You can be a pathetic, decaying theme park for your fading past as long as you want. We're done. Fuck you."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It moved.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:15 AM (uUKhP)

192 "Original thought is like original sin. They both happened long ago to someone you never knew."

Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2025 10:15 AM (/iMjX)

193 "You hate us so much? Fine. We're out. All of our military bases will be empty by the end of the month. All of our defense arrangements with your continent are done. We are requiring pharmaceutical companies to sell to American consumers at the same per unit price of every product as they sell to your governments. You can be a pathetic, decaying theme park for your fading past as long as you want. We're done. Fuck you."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

You would need to add "and the day that you steal the formula in order to break the patent we obliterate your capital."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025 10:15 AM (ExV1e)

194
Portrait of Constantijn Huygens and His (?) Clerk

I need a soft effeminate clerk like that too!

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at February 14, 2025 10:15 AM (t0Rmr)

195 I remember when the Germans were laughing at Trump at the UN when he told them that they needed to stop buying natural gas from Russia.

Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2025 10:16 AM (QB+5g)

196 AoSHQ Horde Life can be explained by Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs and Fawlty Towers.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:13 AM (uUKhP)

#Truth

+ maybe John Wick.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 14, 2025 10:16 AM (xcxpd)

197 196 AoSHQ Horde Life can be explained by Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs and Fawlty Towers.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:13 AM (uUKhP)

#Truth

+ maybe John Wick.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 14, 2025 10:16 AM (xcxpd)

=======

Hard to quote John Wick.

"pew pew!" I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

198 Texas was a possible option if we ever have to flea Arizona
———

You itching to leave Arizona for some reason?
Posted by: Common Tate

**********

Now you're just nit-picking

Posted by: muldoon at February 14, 2025 10:17 AM (/iMjX)

199 "You hate us so much? Fine. We're out. All of our military bases will be empty by the end of the month. All of our defense arrangements with your continent are done. We are requiring pharmaceutical companies to sell to American consumers at the same per unit price of every product as they sell to your governments. You can be a pathetic, decaying theme park for your fading past as long as you want. We're done. Fuck you."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

👍👍👍
Good sir, do you perchance have a newsletter?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2025 10:17 AM (SRRAx)

200 173 I'd prefer this:

"You hate us so much? Fine. We're out. All of our military bases will be empty by the end of the month. All of our defense arrangements with your continent are done. We are requiring pharmaceutical companies to sell to American consumers at the same per unit price of every product as they sell to your governments. You can be a pathetic, decaying theme park for your fading past as long as you want. We're done. Fuck you."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

"You want to run to China and beg them to start a war with us? Have fun with that."

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2025 10:18 AM (sm6Pk)

201 John Wick quote, "YEAH"

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2025 10:18 AM (mB6WH)

202 196 AoSHQ Horde Life can be explained by Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs and Fawlty Towers.

+++
And a movie about airplanes...

Posted by: But that's not important right now at February 14, 2025 10:18 AM (dg+HA)

203 "If you're going to steal, steal from the best."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025
*
You asked for it:

https://youtu.be/gXlfXirQF3A?si=TD-MPS6_sH9o3iX7
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025

***
Lehrer was brilliant!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

204 > I am also generally hostile to any new taxes.
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I'm fairly hostile the ones we've got now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2025 10:18 AM (Q4IgG)

205 *AoSHQ Horde Life can be explained by Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs and Fawlty Towers.*

Ahem.
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld references at February 14, 2025 10:14 AM (dg+HA)

It's like I don't know you people. -- Mary Ann Summers, sitting on her trebuchet while cleaning her .45

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025 10:18 AM (ExV1e)

206 199 Good sir, do you perchance have a newsletter?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2025 10:17 AM (SRRAx)

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https://is.gd/nvPLQt

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

207 I realize I'm probably alone in this but I don't want J.D Vance to say, "Fuck you" to Europeans. I realize it expresses strong feelings and is a favorite but I'm sure he could come up with something along those lines that is classier and less redundant.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025 10:19 AM (vocDY)

208 AoSHQ Horde Life can be explained by Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs and Fawlty Towers.

+++
And a movie about airplanes...
Posted by: But that's not important right now at February 14, 2025

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I am firmly of the opinion that almost any social situation in life can be handled by a quote from Die Hard, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, or You've Got Mail.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:19 AM (J2vNu)

209 @189

>>I’m generally hostile to new taxes, too, but I consider any taxes on EVs a clawback of their subsidies, which was stolen.

Again, I dislike EV's, but any subsidy EV owners got is a drop in the bucket of the trillions of fraud waste and abuse of the government.

And this tax is simply punitive dickery by the GOP.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2025 10:19 AM (XV/Pl)

210 207 I realize I'm probably alone in this but I don't want J.D Vance to say, "Fuck you" to Europeans. I realize it expresses strong feelings and is a favorite but I'm sure he could come up with something along those lines that is classier and less redundant.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025 10:19 AM (vocDY)

You're right.. There are better ways to say F' you...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 14, 2025 10:20 AM (VE6XX)

211 Bless your heart! = Fuck you!

Posted by: pawn at February 14, 2025 10:20 AM (QB+5g)

212 207 I realize I'm probably alone in this but I don't want J.D Vance to say, "Fuck you" to Europeans. I realize it expresses strong feelings and is a favorite but I'm sure he could come up with something along those lines that is classier and less redundant.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025 10:19 AM (vocDY)

They don't deserve class.

They deserve to be raped like a Prison Bitch.

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2025 10:21 AM (sm6Pk)

213 The rest of the sentiment was quite articulate however,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025 10:21 AM (vocDY)

214 I read Lear a great many years ago, though I've never seen it produced. All I can recall was his daughters named Regan and Goneril (good cat names, imo), and the king himself bellowing at a storm, "Blow, winds! Crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:00 AM (J2vNu)

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Have a friend who's granddaughter was named "Imogen" after a Shakespeare character from the (play that TJM coincidentally referred to upstream) Cymbeline.

[Wifey's mom was an Imogene, one of those old female names like Cora that are disappearing.]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 10:21 AM (vAHT7)

215 ***
I am firmly of the opinion that almost any social situation in life can be handled by a quote from Die Hard, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, or You've Got Mail.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025

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I'll add Aliens to that list.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:22 AM (J2vNu)

216 I'm inclined to direct you to engage in the act of self-fornication.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2025 10:22 AM (Y1sOo)

217 185 AoSHQ Horde Life can be explained by Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs and Fawlty Towers.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:13 AM (uUKhP)

You forgot Prometheus.

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2025 10:22 AM (sm6Pk)

218 You may remember that Trump gave a really good speech in Poland in his 1st term that defended Western Civ.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2025 10:22 AM (Dv3i1)

219 ***
I am firmly of the opinion that almost any social situation in life can be handled by a quote from Die Hard, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, or You've Got Mail.
***
First runner up: Idiocracy.

Also receiving votes: Office Space.

Posted by: Welcome to Costco. I love you at February 14, 2025 10:22 AM (dg+HA)

220 Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2025 10:21 AM (sm6Pk

Probably J.D. Vance doesn't want to fuck the entirety of Europe, however. That sounds exhausting.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025 10:22 AM (vocDY)

221 Hello! magazine did a nice feature on our lovely, talented and gracious FLOTUS:

https://tinyurl.com/ymn7b5dk

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2025 10:22 AM (dCxaZ)

222 > You're right.. There are better ways to say F' you...
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You have failed to meet my expectations and not only disappointed me, but made a mockery of yourself.

Good day, sir.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2025 10:22 AM (Q4IgG)

223 Something about Elon Musk brings to mind the terminator: I want your boots, your clothes and your keys.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 14, 2025 10:22 AM (kTd/k)

224 Texas was a possible option if we ever have to flea Arizona
———

You itching to leave Arizona for some reason?
Posted by: Common Tate

**********

Now you're just nit-picking
Posted by: muldoon

These puns are lousy.

Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

225 I realize I'm probably alone in this but I don't want J.D Vance to say, "Fuck you" to Europeans. I realize it expresses strong feelings and is a favorite but I'm sure he could come up with something along those lines that is classier and less redundant.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Point. My preference: "We're tired of propping you up and cleaning up your messes, only to see you plant knives in our back. You have two choices. One, learn how to handle your own affairs competently. Two...well, there's room on the flag for more stars..."

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (OUMaO)

226 AoSHQ Horde Life can be explained by Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs and Fawlty Towers.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:13 AM (uUKhP)

#Truth

+ maybe John Wick.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 14, 2025 10:16 AM (xcxpd)

Airplane!, Ghostbusters and Caddyshack with a side of Animal House for good measure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

227 His clerk wasn't even supposed to be there today.

Posted by: Randal at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (dAYXg)

228 207 I realize I'm probably alone in this but I don't want J.D Vance to say, "Fuck you" to Europeans. I realize it expresses strong feelings and is a favorite but I'm sure he could come up with something along those lines that is classier and less redundant.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025

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Yes -- especially since all but the last two words of this imaginary Vance speech is pretty much saying exactly that. Adding the last two words would be redundant!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (J2vNu)

229 227 His clerk wasn't even supposed to be there today.
Posted by: Randal at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (dAYXg)

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I understood this reference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

230 My neighbor just texted me a George Floyd valentine, it said "You take my breath away", I am still chuckling.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (Sgq8y)

231 Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (OUMaO)

Well said.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (vocDY)

232 Probably J.D. Vance doesn't want to fuck the entirety of Europe, however. That sounds exhausting.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

...we have clearly been a bad influence on you...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 14, 2025 10:24 AM (OUMaO)

233 My wife inherited a small piece of thought-to-be-unsaleable property in her native state and was just offered some real American money for it. She's ecstatic and was busy counting her chickens this morning when I pointed out she will owe taxes.

"Taxes?" she said, "that's your job." Gotta love marriage.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2025 10:24 AM (ABOD/)

234 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (J2vNu

I thought it was fine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025 10:24 AM (vocDY)

235 Requirements to be a stewardess for Delta-C&S Airlines in 1954:...
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While the standards were undoubtedly tough, the list has a certain air of retro-fakery to it. Photo-shop makes authentication difficult these days.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 14, 2025 10:24 AM (1biuY)

236 I realize I'm probably alone in this but I don't want J.D Vance to say, "Fuck you" to Europeans. I realize it expresses strong feelings and is a favorite but I'm sure he could come up with something along those lines that is classier and less redundant.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025 10:19 AM (vocDY)

How about a paraphrased quote from "True Grit"?

“See that you mend your ways, boys, or I will come back some dark night and cut off your head and let the crows peck your eyeballs out.”

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025 10:24 AM (ExV1e)

237 I realize I'm probably alone in this but I don't want J.D Vance to say, "Fuck you" to Europeans. I realize it expresses strong feelings and is a favorite but I'm sure he could come up with something along those lines that is classier and less redundant.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025 10:19 AM

"Gentlemen, I hate and despise you all..."

Not original, but it works.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 10:25 AM (kgE5c)

238 You forgot Prometheus.
Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2025 10:22 AM (sm6Pk)

Hard to do around this place but we try.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025 10:25 AM (ExV1e)

239 I am firmly of the opinion that almost any social situation in life can be handled by a quote from Die Hard, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, or You've Got Mail.
***
First runner up: Idiocracy.

Also receiving votes: Office Space.
Posted by: Welcome to Costco. I love you at February 14, 2025

***
As Sponge suggested, too, Animal House should be in there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

240 The official White House photographer of First Ladies spoke highly of Melania. I guess she's uncancellable.

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2025 10:26 AM (dCxaZ)

241 I don't really care, Margaret.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 14, 2025 10:26 AM (4XwPj)

242 The light in these paintings is always weird to me, like I can't figure out exactly where it's coming from or what the source is supposed to be.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 14, 2025 10:26 AM (GD2xa)

243 I understood this reference.

Who the fuck's in our bathroom?

Posted by: Dante Hicks at February 14, 2025 10:26 AM (y7KuV)

244 "Imogen" was a popular name turn of 20th century.

Posted by: runner at February 14, 2025 10:26 AM (g47mK)

245 AoSHQ Horde Life can be explained by Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs and Fawlty Towers.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:13 AM

Inconceivable!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 10:14 AM
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Better nuke this post from orbit.... just be sure.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 14, 2025 10:27 AM (dzoAK)

246 No mention of Casablanca among quotable movies? For shame!

Posted by: Bulg at February 14, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

247 They deserve to be raped like a Prison Bitch.
____

That is happening, but usually to teen girls and not the EU leaders whose policies are allowing this to happen.

Have some compassion for the Europeans who didn't vote for this and are the 'prisoners' in these unfree states.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2025 10:27 AM (Dv3i1)

248 You forgot Prometheus.
Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2025 10:22 AM (sm6Pk)

Hard to do around this place but we try.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025

***
"How many deaths [of the people in cold sleep]?"

"None, mum."

"Then wake them up."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:27 AM (J2vNu)

249 I'm impressed at how quick the First Lady's hair is growing back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

250 Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 14, 2025 10:24 AM

Not really. I've heard those words before. I didn't just hit the wall yesterday 😉 and there are times when I say them in private when I've had a really lousy day or I banged my knee on the bottom desk drawer or my car died unexpectedly . I just think he's a Diplomat and a representative of the US and he can tell them off in no uncertain fashion without saying that, which he evidently did .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025 10:28 AM (mL2L5)

251 I'm actually disappointed in my life that I haven't risen to the level of having booze in my office to offer visitors at work.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

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Make "Mad Men" Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 10:29 AM (vAHT7)

252 229 227 His clerk wasn't even supposed to be there today.

Posted by: Randal at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (dAYXg)

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I understood this reference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

Me too!

Also why I laugh whenever my boss says "snowballing" when she means spitballing.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 14, 2025 10:30 AM (KbCG3)

253 I'm impressed at how quick the First Lady's hair is growing back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:28 AM

Good to hear.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 10:30 AM (kgE5c)

254 "Imogen" was a popular name turn of 20th century.
Posted by: runner at February 14, 2025 10:26 AM (g47mK)

John Lennon had a housemaid by that name.

"Imogen, there's no toilet paper,
Fix it if you can."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2025 10:30 AM (8zz6B)

255 These clowns are in the way. Afraid that they kickbacks will be jeopardized ? Schwein.

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy talks with US senators Lindsey Graham, Sheldon White, Jeanne Shaheen and John Cornyn at a session titled 'Strategic Investment: Future of US-Ukraine Security cooperation' in Munich."

Posted by: runner at February 14, 2025 10:31 AM (g47mK)

256 I'm impressed at how quick the First Lady's hair is growing back.
Posted by: Sponge

Chemo is a hell of a drug. 😢
My sister had a friend who had breast cancer, did the chemotherapy route, had straight hair originally and when it grew back, it's a permanent perm.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:31 AM (uUKhP)

257 Good to hear.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2025 10:30 AM (kgE5c)

I'll need to run the clippers over it with a guard to even it out, but it's starting to come in nicely.

She's pretty pleased. We'll see it's condition after 'chemo burn' in the next month or so.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

258 Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 14, 2025 10:24 AM

On another note, did you find another place to live?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 14, 2025 10:31 AM (mL2L5)

259 Of course Miss Lindsey is playing Grabdick with Zelenskyy.

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2025 10:32 AM (sm6Pk)

260 This JD Vance in Europe thing is interesting. I wonder if it means Vance will take a much more active role in foreign affairs than is usually the case for VP's.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 14, 2025 10:32 AM (paSBy)

261 > Make "Mad Men" Great Again!
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Some time ago my wife and I wanted to watch that series again. Couldn't find it anywhere. Not even on the pay-for-play services. Haven't looked in a while. I think it was offensive to the woke. Like almost everything else.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2025 10:32 AM (Q4IgG)

262 Chemo is a hell of a drug. 😢
My sister had a friend who had breast cancer, did the chemotherapy route, had straight hair originally and when it grew back, it's a permanent perm.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:31 AM (uUKhP)

There are very few on this planet, all things considered, that I would wish it on, for sure. It's brutal in several ways.

Her aunt's hair came back almost afro, but so far, First Lady's is straight and brownish, as it was before.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

263
oh these fucking cocksuckers

Democrat party troll-bots on Youtube LOVE saying JD Vance wears "eyeliner" or "mascara." Because they're commie hoaxers.

But, supposebly, JD has a "double set" of eyelashes. What?? Is this a thing?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 14, 2025 10:33 AM (qQdUz)

264 260 This JD Vance in Europe thing is interesting. I wonder if it means Vance will take a much more active role in foreign affairs than is usually the case for VP's.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 14, 2025 10:32 AM (paSBy)

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Trump is probably giving Vance every opportunity to make his own case for president in 2028. Since the presidency is primarily a foreign facing job (well, on paper), making Vance a major face of the Trump Doctrine can only do Vance favors...assuming the Trump Doctrine works, of course.

Biden made Kamala the face of a few policies, and that didn't help her much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

265 At first I thought Jill Biden got cancer.
She can't get cancer, she is cancer.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 14, 2025 10:34 AM (pgIsr)

266 At first I thought Jill Biden got cancer.
She can't get cancer, she is cancer.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 14, 2025 10:34 AM (pgIsr)

You can take the trailer park whore out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the trailer park whore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

267 Jan schankowsky, putting the cunt in construction for 80 years

Posted by: N at February 14, 2025 10:35 AM (+ttmI)

268 Yesterday's executive order:
ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT’S MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN COMMISSION

(It is a start)

https://tinyurl.com/4t47nxd6

Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2025 10:35 AM (D7oie)

269 Musk is so busy he's not shit posting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2025 10:36 AM (A3uq/)

270 261 Some time ago my wife and I wanted to watch that series again. Couldn't find it anywhere. Not even on the pay-for-play services. Haven't looked in a while. I think it was offensive to the woke. Like almost everything else.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2025 10:32 AM (Q4IgG)

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AMC is an independent network without ownership ties to other networks or studios with streaming services. AMC doesn't have its own, so it's up to AMC to license where they want. (I'd suspect they demand a lot for the license because it was something of a cultural landmark. If I remember correctly, it was on Netflix for a while.)

You can directly rent or buy the show from the normal places like Amazon or Apple.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

271 The light in these paintings is always weird to me, like I can't figure out exactly where it's coming from or what the source is supposed to be.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis
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Chiaroscuro:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2025 10:36 AM (XeU6L)

272 Just a reminder to everyone. Just a few days left to buy cards, buy candy, and work up your amorous desires before National Engineer Week.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 14, 2025 10:06 AM (Y6IkP)

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How much does a good slide-rule go for on Amazon these days?

* searchezzzz*

* Amazon's search for "Slide Rule for Engineers suckzzzz*

* Wifey checks eBay *

Vintage Slide Rule: $23.75 + $23.85 (s&h)

Of course, the shipping & handling cost exceeds that of the item ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 10:37 AM (vAHT7)

273 239 I am firmly of the opinion that almost any social situation in life can be handled by a quote from Die Hard, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, or You've Got Mail.
***
First runner up: Idiocracy.

Also receiving votes: Office Space.
Posted by: Welcome to Costco. I love you at February 14, 2025

***
As Sponge suggested, too, Animal House should be in there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

Galaxy quest has entered the chat.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2025 10:37 AM (SRRAx)

274 ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT’S MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN COMMISSION

(It is a start)

https://tinyurl.com/4t47nxd6
Posted by: Kindltot
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Will this be under Kennedy?
They should involve Shanahan.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2025 10:38 AM (A3uq/)

275 Mad Men is available on AMC's on-demand streaming service AMC+

Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2025 10:39 AM (Y1sOo)

276 >>This JD Vance in Europe thing is interesting. I wonder if it means Vance will take a much more active role in foreign affairs than is usually the case for VP's.

I expect him to continue this in other areas not just foreign affairs. VPs have often been the designated pit bull to deliver blunt messages. We forget this because Harris was incapable of saying anything other than unintelligible word salads.

Vance is very smart and articulate and like Trump he truly believes the messages he's delivering and not just reading words someone else wrote for him.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2025 10:39 AM (LkLld)

277 275 Mad Men is available on AMC's on-demand streaming service AMC+
Posted by: one hour sober at February 14, 2025 10:39 AM (Y1sOo)

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This is what I get for not looking closely enough at the little icons on JustWatch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

278 @263 I believe Elizabeth Taylor had double eyelashes.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 14, 2025 10:40 AM (SRRAx)

279 The art of diplomacy is not only lying with plausible deniability, but also say FU with a smile to get back a smile of approval.

Vance can read the room. And so can the Europeans with Trump in the White House.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 14, 2025 10:40 AM (JkCto)

280 But, supposebly, JD has a "double set" of eyelashes. What?? Is this a thing?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 14, 2025 10:33 AM (qQdUz)

Yes! Liz Taylor had double set of eyelashes to go with those incredible blue eyes.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 14, 2025 10:40 AM (4XwPj)

281 Don't forget Scarface, fucking cockroaches.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 14, 2025 10:40 AM (pgIsr)

282 Her aunt's hair came back almost afro, but so far, First Lady's is straight and brownish, as it was before.
Posted by: Sponge

That's great news!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:40 AM (uUKhP)

283 I read somewhere that Spiro Agnew was good stuff. He was “taken care of” right away, or at least oh so conveniently out of the way, when the deep state then focused their attention on Tricky Dick.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 14, 2025 10:42 AM (1biuY)

284 Nicolas Cage explaining/asking, 'do you know how to file?'.

Don't remember the movie.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2025 10:42 AM (A3uq/)

285 There is a provision for individuals invited by the commission, so Shanahan could be involved.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2025 10:43 AM (D7oie)

286
That's great news!
Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2025 10:40 AM (uUKhP)

Thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

287
Trump is being Don Rickles at the Oval Office pressers, straight up.

Posted by: Auspex at February 14, 2025 10:44 AM (j4U/Z)

288 Musk is so busy he's not shit posting.
——-

Ha! I’ll bet that has the usual suspects very worried.

I mean …. Like way more than they already are. LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at February 14, 2025 10:44 AM (1biuY)

289 Brits pronounce clerk as clark. That's egregious. I hope the Dutch don't do that too.

Posted by: Clerk Kent at February 14, 2025 10:44 AM (G5+As)

290 I am firmly of the opinion that almost any social situation in life can be handled by a quote from Die Hard, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, or You've Got Mail.
***
First runner up: Idiocracy.

Also receiving votes: Office Space.
Posted by: Welcome to Costco. I love you at February 14, 2025

***
As Sponge suggested, too, Animal House should be in there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:26 AM (J2vNu)
_______

Bukkake Bungle Bash

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2025 10:44 AM (iFTx/)

291 Anyone got a link to Vance speech?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 14, 2025 10:45 AM (4XwPj)

292 Trump is being Don Rickles at the Oval Office pressers, straight up.
Posted by: Auspex at February 14, 2025 10:44 AM (j4U/Z)

"Visit the crash site? What, you want me to swim there or something?"

I'll never forget where i was when that happened.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2025 10:45 AM (jKo6M)

293 Huygens hat is a looker. Is it a beaver hat?

Posted by: Beaver Fan at February 14, 2025 10:45 AM (G5+As)

294
Jim Guy Tucker is mort.
Remember this corrupt clinton asshole?

Jim Guy, Jim & Susan McDougal took the fall for the clinton's Whitewater Scandal

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 14, 2025 10:46 AM (qQdUz)

295 264

Trump is probably giving Vance every opportunity to make his own case for president in 2028. Since the presidency is primarily a foreign facing job (well, on paper), making Vance a major face of the Trump Doctrine can only do Vance favors...assuming the Trump Doctrine works, of course.

Biden made Kamala the face of a few policies, and that didn't help her much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)
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That's my take as well. Trump's killing several birds with one stone. He's showing the Euros they aren't important enough for him to go himself. He's giving Vance a chance to stretch his legs and build his visibility. And, he's putting Vance in situations where his actions might show whether or not he could turn into another Pence.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at February 14, 2025 10:47 AM (QdGJh)

296 Checking out clips of the Vance speech.

In an alternative universe, VP Walz is also giving a speech to the EU. That one contains the phrase, "I'll get to you all, gentlemen, but please, one dick at a time!"

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 14, 2025 10:47 AM (KbCG3)

297 On another note, did you find another place to live?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Workin' on it. Living out of hotel rooms gets expensive and old in a hurry. Rent and such is as insane here as most places, sadly. Checking a few new options, though.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 14, 2025 10:47 AM (OUMaO)

298 282 Her aunt's hair came back almost afro, but so far, First Lady's is straight and brownish, as it was before.
Posted by: Sponge

Mine came back WHITE and curly

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2025 10:47 AM (dZGU+)

299 Jim Guy Tucker is mort.
Remember this corrupt clinton asshole?
____

Natural causes? (have to ask, what whith being associated with Clintons and all..)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2025 10:47 AM (Dv3i1)

300
Anyone got a link to Vance speech?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem

https://is.gd/cY9X1S

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 14, 2025 10:47 AM (qQdUz)

301 >>>Vance is very smart and articulate and like Trump he truly believes the messages he's delivering and not just reading words someone else wrote for him.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Trump is a good general and has picked excellent subordinates.
Unlike the first term where he he had to fight everyone alone this time he's got a squad. A hungry squad on the hunt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2025 10:48 AM (A3uq/)

302 291 Anyone got a link to Vance speech?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 14, 2025 10:45 AM (4XwPj)

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https://tinyurl.com/2nacz5vf

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at February 14, 2025 10:48 AM (QdGJh)

303 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. What have I missed?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2025 10:48 AM (W/lyH)

304
Mine came back WHITE and curly

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2025 10:47 AM (dZGU+)

She'd be ok with that if it was as long and full as yours.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

305 I do like that Vance is available and capable of stepping up. You would think telling off an entire continent at once in their own living room would be something for the President himself to do. What could be bigger than that?

Dismantling an entire century-old illegitimate junta in a desperate attempt to head off a full bore revolution, that's what.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2025 10:49 AM (jKo6M)

306 173 "You hate us so much? Fine. We're out. All of our military bases will be empty by the end of the month. All of our defense arrangements with your continent are done. We are requiring pharmaceutical companies to sell to American consumers at the same per unit price of every product as they sell to your governments. You can be a pathetic, decaying theme park for your fading past as long as you want. We're done. Fuck you."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Why so nice to them?

Posted by: Auspex at February 14, 2025 10:49 AM (j4U/Z)

307 JD Vance Rocks Munich!

Posted by: runner at February 14, 2025 10:50 AM (g47mK)

308 306 Why so nice to them?
Posted by: Auspex at February 14, 2025 10:49 AM (j4U/Z)

======

I ate my eggs.

I'm not hangry anymore.

I let them off the hook.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

309
Reminder: At this time in 2017, we had Rex Tillerson & Mad Pooch Mattis both working against President Trump.

Oh, and jeff cuck sessions had just ceded ALL control of the the entire DOJ to rod cocksucker rosenstein, a Democrat operative.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 14, 2025 10:50 AM (qQdUz)

310 "Europe is increasingly acting like the ‘bad guys’ in the Cold War as it turns towards censorship and fails to uphold democracy, U.S. Vice President JD Vance told a stunned hall at Germany’s major annual Munich that despite obsession among the European elite about subversion by Russia and China, actually the greatest threat to the continent is “the threat from within”"

Posted by: runner at February 14, 2025 10:51 AM (g47mK)

311 290 I am firmly of the opinion that almost any social situation in life can be handled by a quote from Die Hard, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, or You've Got Mail.
***
First runner up: Idiocracy.

Also receiving votes: Office Space.
Posted by: Welcome to Costco. I love you at February 14, 2025

***
As Sponge suggested, too, Animal House should be in there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

Inconcievable!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2025 10:51 AM (wyMQY)

312 Noticed Jim Guy Tucker had a post on X yesterday claiming he knew something that could put Hillary in prison.

Posted by: Coincidence? at February 14, 2025 10:51 AM (G5+As)

313 I'll admit I didn't trust Vance, and thought he would become a Judas Pence immediately after inauguration, basically an Eyepatch McCain with depth perception.

But the dude is really swinging haymakers. It's a joy to behold.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2025 10:51 AM (jKo6M)

314 Workin' on it. Living out of hotel rooms gets expensive and old in a hurry. Rent and such is as insane here as most places, sadly. Checking a few new options, though.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 14, 2025 10:47 AM (OUMaO)

Buy an old but still-functional motorhome, and live in that. Drive to the desert southwest, and park it on BLM land.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2025 10:51 AM (8zz6B)

315 Huygens hat is a looker. Is it a beaver hat?

Posted by: Beaver Fan at February 14, 2025 10:45 AM (G5+As)

10X

Posted by: BignJames at February 14, 2025 10:51 AM (Yj6Os)

316 "The speech, at the Munich Security Conference, made scant reference to the Ukraine War at all, one of the main topics of conversation hoped for by the European defence and security leaders attending the event this weekend. Doubtless this came as a shock to some given the preponderance of the conflict in the minds of attendees, but evidently saving Europe from itself is a high priority for the Trump White House."

Posted by: runner at February 14, 2025 10:51 AM (g47mK)

317 >>>That's my take as well. Trump's killing several birds with one stone. He's showing the Euros they aren't important enough for him to go himself. He's giving Vance a chance to stretch his legs and build his visibility. And, he's putting Vance in situations where his actions might show whether or not he could turn into another Pence.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky
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Not to say he needs council but if he does have a question there's Grenell for starters and other experienced members for hints and tips.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2025 10:52 AM (A3uq/)

318 Huygens hat is a looker. Is it a beaver hat?

Posted by: Beaver Fan at February 14, 2025 10:45 AM (G5+As)

Beaver Hunt > Beaver Hat

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

319 313 I'll admit I didn't trust Vance, and thought he would become a Judas Pence immediately after inauguration, basically an Eyepatch McCain with depth perception.

But the dude is really swinging haymakers. It's a joy to behold.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2025 10:51 AM (jKo6M)

=======

He's following, not leading.

How he'll act as a leader is unclear.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

320 You would think telling off an entire continent at once in their own living room would be something for the President himself to do. What could be bigger than that?

If we look at it without nostalgia, Europe hasn't been worth the effort for a considerable while.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

321 309
Reminder: At this time in 2017, we had Rex Tillerson & Mad Pooch Mattis both working against President Trump.

Oh, and jeff cuck sessions had just ceded ALL control of the the entire DOJ to rod cocksucker rosenstein, a Democrat operative.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 14, 2025 10:50 AM (qQdUz)

I'd forgotten; that first batch of Trump appointments was probably the most disloyal and traiterous cabinet that any President ever has appointed. What a disaster!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2025 10:52 AM (wyMQY)

322 LOL, Vance brought a cattle prod, and used it.

Posted by: runner at February 14, 2025 10:52 AM (g47mK)

323 > Trump is a good general and has picked excellent subordinates.
Unlike the first term where he he had to fight everyone alone this time he's got a squad. A hungry squad on the hunt.
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Most persecuted by the previous administration too.

They've got more than an ax to grind.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2025 10:53 AM (Q4IgG)

324 He's following, not leading.

How he'll act as a leader is unclear.
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Well, he's learning from the best. Let's hope it takes.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2025 10:53 AM (Wg6v7)

325 In an alternative universe, VP Walz is also giving a speech to the EU. That one contains the phrase, "I'll get to you all, gentlemen, but please, one dick at a time!"
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 14, 2025 10:47 AM (KbCG3)

Ursula von der Leyen is the only Eurocrat with a dick..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 14, 2025 10:53 AM (Cw7Lx)

326 He's following, not leading.

How he'll act as a leader is unclear.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

I think he's a better speechwriter/maker than Trump is. Trump has the emotion down, but Vance is better on substance, and he doesn't ramble.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2025 10:53 AM (wyMQY)

327 .. 3rd the paltry amount of taxes you would get from an EV tax would be dwarfed by the cost savings from simply auditing the Federal Highway Safety Administration.

Can you imagine how much fraud and waste is that f**king boondoggle?

I know why they are doing this, it's their typical passive aggressive way at getting at Trump and Elon.

I f**king hate all of these a**holes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Gas tax is simply a tax on users of public roads. EV users are using the toads for free, a subsidy, tax on others.

And $1000 is not nearly enough to cover a single EV use of public roads.

Stop all EV subsidies.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2025 10:54 AM (8l+eW)

328 I heard a russian drone struck chernobyl

and by russian, I mean a ukraine drone made to look like russian

and by ukraine, I mean german who made the drone who struck chernobyl who then instructed Ukraine to say Russia did it

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 14, 2025 10:54 AM (HYKHz)

329 I'll admit I didn't trust Vance, and thought he would become a Judas Pence immediately after inauguration, basically an Eyepatch McCain with depth perception.

I suspect that as time goes on "not a lifelong politician" will be deemed a resume enhancer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025 10:54 AM (ExV1e)

330 They've got more than an ax to grind.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2025 10:53 AM (Q4IgG)

Maybe an ox to gore, too?

Posted by: BignJames at February 14, 2025 10:54 AM (Yj6Os)

331 Posted by: Beaver Fan at February 14, 2025 10:45 AM (G5+As)

Beaver Hunt > Beaver Hat
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cance
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Glad the wife is doing better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2025 10:54 AM (A3uq/)

332 *seated guy making jackoff motion*

"So you're telling me I can't do this in Ohio?"

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 14, 2025 10:55 AM (GtEGa)

333 329 I suspect that as time goes on "not a lifelong politician" will be deemed a resume enhancer.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025 10:54 AM (ExV1e)

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It usually is.

But politics is about control of machines, and machines hate outsiders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 14, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

334 Noticed Jim Guy Tucker had a post on X yesterday claiming he knew something that could put Hillary in prison.
Posted by: Coincidence? at February 14, 2025 10:51 AM (G5+As)

After the election in 2020, there were a bunch of con artists claiming they had evidence of this and that. They would post it on social media.

Yes, I'm calling them con artists, and a lot of them got attacked by the Biden "Justice" Department. I had/have a hard time feeling sorry for them.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 14, 2025 10:55 AM (dGCAG)

335 Gas tax is simply a tax on users of public roads. EV users are using the toads for free, a subsidy, tax on others.
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Save The Toads!

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2025 10:55 AM (Wg6v7)

336 Can you imagine how much fraud and waste is that f**king boondoggle?

**********************

Considering it takes them 30 years to build a stretch of road 10 feet long, Im gonna guess

more than a little

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 14, 2025 10:55 AM (HYKHz)

337 Speaking of eating beaver, a method of killing the HPV would be a popular discovery.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2025 10:55 AM (A3uq/)

338 Gas tax is simply a tax on users of public roads. EV users are using the toads for free, a subsidy, tax on others.
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Save The Toads!
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2025

***
"I have frog fear. . . ."
(-- Willow Rosenberg)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2025 10:56 AM (J2vNu)

339
I'd forgotten; that first batch of Trump appointments was probably the most disloyal and traiterous cabinet that any President ever has appointed. What a disaster!
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2025 10:52 AM (wyMQY)

He listened to his advisors and didn't really grasp how deep the deep state was.

He's experienced this go around and is kicking ass of the names he took last time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

340 Update on DOGE's legality -

DOGE: "Legally untouchable because it was already fully funded and operational. Congress can't defund it because it's not a new program, just a repurposed one. Since the (prior program) was originally an IT oversight program, DOGE now has full access to all Federal data systems. Yes, that's right. All of them."

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2025 10:57 AM (Dv3i1)

341 Most persecuted by the previous administration too.

**************

This seems to be the biggest takeaway, we forget it wasnt just Trump the deep state went after and tormented for 4 years

unleash hell, Trumpvengers

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 14, 2025 10:57 AM (HYKHz)

342 If we look at it without nostalgia, Europe hasn't been worth the effort for a considerable while.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

Europe is like a child. We’ve shielded them from the consequences of their actions for decades and they’ve become spoiled, indolent, decadent, and resentful towards us.

Time to push them out of the nest.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 14, 2025 10:57 AM (Cw7Lx)

343 That speech pretty much told them that the Uke war is done, and that they need to fix themselves to be in partnership with the United States. And not just with moneys, their political core and slant needs to change.

Posted by: runner at February 14, 2025 10:57 AM (g47mK)

344 I heard a russian drone struck chernobyl

and by russian, I mean a ukraine drone made to look like russian

and by ukraine, I mean german who made the drone who struck chernobyl who then instructed Ukraine to say Russia did it
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 14, 2025 10:54 AM (HYKHz)

I'll be so happy when we don't have to hear about Ukraine anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 14, 2025 10:57 AM (dGCAG)

345 Gas tax is simply a tax on users of public roads. EV users are using the toads for free, a subsidy, tax on others.

And $1000 is not nearly enough to cover a single EV use of public roads.

Stop all EV subsidies.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2025 10:54 AM (8l+eW)

Don't shake that tree too hard.

The rotten fuckers would sooner put a road tax on all household electricity.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2025 10:57 AM (jKo6M)

346 I accidentally clicked on the ADVERTISE HERE link in the left sidebar.

It fails, bigly.

Just a COB fyi......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

347 A notary?
like https://nitter.net/3yearletterman

Posted by: m at February 14, 2025 10:57 AM (v0TzN)

348 Yes, I'm calling them con artists, and a lot of them got attacked by the Biden "Justice" Department. I had/have a hard time feeling sorry for them.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 14, 2025 10:55 AM (dGCAG)

At least they kept Hillary busy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2025 10:58 AM (wyMQY)

349
Glad the wife is doing better.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2025 10:54 AM (A3uq/)

Interesting comment to quote for this, but thank you. She's feeling really good after the confirmation she's done with chemo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

350 Very nicely done by the master

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2025 10:59 AM (fwDg9)

351 347 A notary?
like https://nitter.net/3yearletterman
Posted by: m at February 14, 2025 10:57 AM (v0TzN)

3 year letterman is one of the funniest accounts on X. His trolls are constant comedy gold!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2025 10:59 AM (wyMQY)

352 338 Gas tax is simply a tax on users of public roads. EV users are using the toads for free, a subsidy, tax on others.
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If only it were restricted to that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2025 10:59 AM (A3uq/)

353 The rotten fuckers would sooner put a road tax on all household electricity.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2025 10:57 AM (jKo6M)

As long as they don't put a toad tax on tires.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2025 10:59 AM (8zz6B)

354 Vance also made clear the excuses for starting wars ostensibly "to defend democracy", like in Ukraine, from those who promote old soviet style censorship on their own soil ring very hollow. Uff DA!

Posted by: runner at February 14, 2025 11:01 AM (g47mK)

355 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

356 291 Anyone got a link to Vance speech?
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It's over now. He spoke for about 18 minutes. Here's one link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIjmUxT9FWI

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 14, 2025 11:01 AM (paSBy)

357
Interesting comment to quote for this, but thank you. She's feeling really good after the confirmation she's done with chemo.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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No offense intended.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 14, 2025 11:01 AM (A3uq/)

358 EVs are eating the Toads, EVs are eating the Frogs. EVs are eating the amphibians of the People that live there.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2025 11:01 AM (Wg6v7)

359 I'd forgotten; that first batch of Trump appointments was probably the most disloyal and traiterous cabinet that any President ever has appointed. What a disaster!
Posted by: Tom Servo

I think he learned that most of these old fats, unlike himself, are daft... Nevermind the corrupt part.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2025 11:01 AM (8l+eW)

360 I'd forgotten; that first batch of Trump appointments was probably the most disloyal and traiterous cabinet that any President ever has appointed. What a disaster!
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2025 10:52 AM (wyMQY)

He listened to his advisors and didn't really grasp how deep the deep state was.

He's experienced this go around and is kicking ass of the names he took last time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 14, 2025 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

Lincoln's cabinet, while not disloyal, were very dismissive of the President, and thought he was a rube, an outsider, and a lot of them believed they could run the country without him needing to be involved.

By then end of his first term, he had changed a lot of minds, and I have no doubt the second Lincoln term would have ushered in a tremendously better future for the country.

It was not to be.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 14, 2025 11:02 AM (dGCAG)

361 The orang and white highway safety cone is the Indiana state flower. Blooms from March to October.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 14, 2025 10:12 AM (4XwPj)

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Funny. Out here in Northern AZ, it's almost as bad as painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Once they finish repaving an entire interstate, they start over again.

TBF, they've finally started putting down a concrete base first upon which the asphalt sits.

On other highways, especially on The Rez -- it's perpetual crack-sealing ... making your already bumpy ride that much MOAR bumpy!

Perpetual Crack-Sealing sounds like a Hunter Biden painting ... and I saw Perpetual Crack-Sealing open for the Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Birthplace of Route 66 Festival last year.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 14, 2025 11:06 AM (vAHT7)

362 351 347 A notary?
like https://nitter.net/3yearletterman
Posted by: m at February 14, 2025 10:57 AM (v0TzN)

3 year letterman is one of the funniest accounts on X. His trolls are constant comedy gold!
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2025 10:59 AM (wyMQY)

We are blessed.

Posted by: m at February 14, 2025 11:09 AM (v0TzN)

363 Democrat party troll-bots on Youtube LOVE saying JD Vance wears "eyeliner" or "mascara." Because they're commie hoaxers.

By DNC standards that means he's trans and therefore the holiest class of person in existence.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 14, 2025 11:09 AM (2ocoG)

364 3 year letterman is one of the funniest accounts on X. His trolls are constant comedy gold!

Ron DeSantis and JD Vance being conversant with the 3YL lore means 2028 will be a campaign waged from fully paid off waterbeds.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 14, 2025 11:10 AM (2ocoG)

365 364 3 year letterman is one of the funniest accounts on X. His trolls are constant comedy gold!

Ron DeSantis and JD Vance being conversant with the 3YL lore means 2028 will be a campaign waged from fully paid off waterbeds.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 14, 2025 11:10 AM (2ocoG)

It's a New Day in America!

Posted by: m at February 14, 2025 11:18 AM (v0TzN)

366 Distichiasis

Posted by: Grandalf at February 14, 2025 11:30 AM (HSqpq)

367 "98 A couple of things caught my eye. Both figures are wearing gloves one hand. The other hand is used for writing or more precise movements. Fashion? Cold weather? I'm not sure."

It appears to one pair of gloves that they have shared between themselves.

That is - how does The Paolo say it? - gayish.

Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at February 14, 2025 12:28 PM (uR4Tu)

368 Ol' dude is pissed 'cos he expected a higher level of 'buff' on those swaggish nails o' his ...

Posted by: Dr_No at February 14, 2025 01:04 PM (ayRl+)

369 @ 361
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… Perpetual Crack-Sealing sounds like a Hunter Biden painting ... and I saw Perpetual Crack-Sealing open for the Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Birthplace of Route 66 Festival last year.
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If they'd only apply an underlayment of Boudreaux's Crack Creme first, there wouldn't be a need for ass-fault or conch-rete.

Posted by: Dr_No at February 14, 2025 01:07 PM (ayRl+)

370 Gloves do make the man a a man

Posted by: Tama the Drongo Bird at February 14, 2025 05:29 PM (wGqjj)

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Posted by: GOB LED Display at February 16, 2025 12:17 AM (X/4Gj)

372 Il principale vantaggio di una strategia di localizzazione
ben pianificata è che vi aiuterà a far crescere tatticamente
la vostra attività in nuovi mercati in tutto il mondo.

Posted by: https://www.webwiki.de/aqueduct-translations.it/traduzioni-tecniche/ at February 16, 2025 02:40 PM (Mbt24)

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