Tuesday Overnight Open Thread. February 25, 2025. [scampydog]

Photo from Tub Spring Meadow, up the hill from Wallowa, OR
Eva Green sighting in Mystery Click

ONT! Good evening and happy Tuesday. It is national chili day. We'll set the over/under at 64 chili comments.

Why does Irish chili only have 239 beans? Because anymore and it'd be too farty.

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List five things accomplished at work this week? Sure let's have a go it - it's the ONT, we will do two. Mad Lib style.

Last week, I (verb), multiple times - in each (noun), "Who is taking this (noun) on? And when can we expect it to be (verb)?"

Reminded at least (number) of (noun), that "reply all" should be (adverb) (verb) - like a secret (noun).

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February 25th. Some interesting happenings on this date in history.

Samuel Colt. Samuel Colt patents first multi-shot revolving-cylinder revolver, enabling the firearm to be fired multiple times without reloading.

Colt's revolver had its roots in young Samuel's inability to stay focused at the boarding school his father had sent him to; he preferred reading scientific encyclopedias and tinkering with his own experiments than tending to his schoolwork, and was consequently expelled.

United States Paper Currency

1862 First Legal Tender Act 1862 is passed by the US Congress, authorizing the United States note (greenback) into circulation, the first fiat paper money that was legal tender in America.

United States Notes were also called Legal Tender Notes because of the text originally appearing on the back of the note that begins, "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private." This provision made the currency a valid and legal form of payment on par with gold and silver. This was a very controversial
action at the time as it made the United States Note a fiat currency, meaning its
value was established by law alone and was not based on some other unit of value
such as gold, silver, land, etc. Many people during and after the Civil War believed
the creation of a fiat currency to be unconstitutional as the Constitution considered only gold and silver legal tender. The matter was settled in 1871 in the Supreme Court case of Knox v. Lee wherein the court declared that making United States Notes legal tender was constitutional.

Those dirty bastards. 1919 Beaver state is 1st to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).

Oregon used the tax money to finance construction of the Pacific Coast Highway, among other projects. Seeing the state's success, others soon followed with taxes of their own. Colorado, New Mexico and North Dakota followed that same year. Ten more states joined in 1921, and twenty in 1923. By the end of the decade all 48 states, minus the future Alaska and Hawaii, had gasoline taxes.

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It is science time with an assist from our AoSHQ friend, [publius]! Some facts, some confusion, no lab coats, and pants optional.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. Feynman

😂 pic.twitter.com/rVy58uTo2Q
— Spill The Memes (@SpillTheMemes) January 18, 2025

SMOD

Don't worry they said.

The planetary parade.7 planets viewable.

[publius]

While this planetary alignment isn't particularly rare, it is relatively uncommon. Spotting two, three, or even four bright planets at once is not unusual, but the chance to see all five together doesn't come around often. Looking ahead, a similar alignment will occur in late October 2028, though that event will take place before sunrise, requiring early risers to catch the view.

Mercury will likely be too low to see before Saturn disappears into the sunset. When an object disappears into the setting sun, it's called the heliacal setting. Planetary motion makes this a bit more complex than with stars, which pretty much remain fixed against the celestial background. The inner planets, being between Earth and the Sun, have very different motions from Earth's perspective, and pop up only before sunset and sunrise-you never see an inner planet in the middle of the night sky. "Elongation," or how far the object is from the Sun (in degrees on the celestial sphere), determines this.
Then there's the Moon. After a new moon, moving much faster than the Sun across the ecliptic, it first appears on the sunset side and then disappears in the sunrise on the morning side over a lunar month. But for stars and the outer planets (with some complications due to retrograde motion and all that), it's usually that a star first appears just before sunrise, the heliacal rising. As the Sun moves eastward, the star becomes more visible at night before finally disappearing in the sunset. It's just about where the Sun is against the celestial backdrop, which shifts over the course of the year. When the Sun is opposite the star, you get the "acronycal rising." The star rises at sunset, sets at sunrise, and is directly overhead at midnight.
Mercury will be more visible in early March. If you're interested in this, the desktop version of Stellarium is great for seeing what the sky will look like. You can adjust the date and time and see how things change over a few weeks and so on.

Mars. Elon is on a roll. If Lynn Carter is on Mars, I'm in.

America now has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to open the space frontier by initiating a sustained program of human exploration of Mars. Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship launch system will soon be operational, offering payload delivery capability comparable to a Saturn V Moon rocket at about five percent of the cost. Musk has positioned himself close to President Donald Trump, who at his inauguration in January promised that his administration would be "launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars." As far as meeting the central political and technical conditions for making a bold reach to the Red Planet are concerned, it's game on.

[publius]

If we're serious about getting to Mars, NASA is basically going to have to be DOGE'd and reformed. Big time. The current model, which is basically a bunch of pork to keep various congresscritters happy and favored contractors greased and all that, has got to be thrown out, and the mindset behind it stomped into the ground and killed.
Elon and SpaceX can take the lead, but they're going to need a reformed NASA working with them, throwing out all the crap. If you want to get to Mars, well, roll up your sleeves and engineer an effective way, and don't do all the mess of contractors spread out in favored congressional districts and pork, not to mention the DEI crap.

Walter Lewin making science fun.

Trump selects Isaacman to be NASA administrator

Dave Cavossa, president of the Commercial Space Federation, also praised Isaacman's selection. "CSF is 'over the moon' happy to hear of the nomination of fellow commercial space advocate and friend Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator," he told SpaceNews. "At this critical time, as NASA and commercial space become inextricably linked toward the success of our nation's space program and our continued global leadership in space, I cannot imagine a better candidate for this role."

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Not limited to bourbon. What are some purchases that didn't live up to the packaging?

Cool box, good presentation. It looks like bourbon but tastes like it was aged in a gas can.

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Adult version of, "Don't eat the yellow snow."

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Burt Ward

Posted by: mindful webworker - Wearing out the refresh button at February 25, 2025 10:00 PM (bOMci)

2 nb

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at February 25, 2025 10:00 PM (Ze08y)

3 Shhh

Posted by: GrouchyBuckeye at February 25, 2025 10:00 PM (qqDd0)

4 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 25, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

5 Dang. Now for the content!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at February 25, 2025 10:01 PM (Ze08y)

6 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2025 10:01 PM (cYBz/)

7 Final four

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 25, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

8 Getting comments started off on the right foot.

Posted by: mindful webworker - right left right left riiiiight at February 25, 2025 10:01 PM (bOMci)

9 The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. Feynman

Feynman is yet another example that the past is another country. He was considered charismatic and a good speaker but...his views on science were considered normal for the whole American scientific community.

Now this is heresy. Who is this old white man to deny MY inner truth? And its no wonder that so much modern science fails a simple reproducibility test...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 10:03 PM (t0Rmr)

10 Read the content? Hell, it took me 10 minutes just to scan the bullet points. Thank you Scampy!

Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 10:03 PM (9JM+m)

11 RetroFuturistic AI Space Vixen Babes sure make good use of their spacesuits and 0 gravity. If they're on Mars, sign me up.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 25, 2025 10:04 PM (Aqu9a)

12 Good evening Horde. Thanks SD! Good stuff. Love the mad libs. Also glad to know that pants are still optional.

Posted by: TRex at February 25, 2025 10:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

13 Just heard the spending bill passed.

🚨BREAKING: House Republican spending bill has passed.

Huge win.

No tax on tips.
No tax on overtime.
No tax on Social Security.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2025 10:05 PM (8eY+W)

14 Lynn Carter.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 25, 2025 10:05 PM (ZmEVT)

15 RetroFuturistic AI Space Vixen Babes sure make good use of their spacesuits and 0 gravity. If they're on Mars, sign me up.
Posted by: Count de Monet

And don't even think about sticking me on one of those 4 crewmen, 1 crewwoman flights.

Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 10:06 PM (9JM+m)

16 Rat!

You bastard!

Thank you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 10:06 PM (mT+6a)

17 Lynn Collins

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 25, 2025 10:06 PM (ZmEVT)

18 Getting comments started off on the right foot.
Posted by: mindful webworker - right left right left riiiiight at February 25, 2025 10:01 PM (bOMci)

*glares hard*

Posted by: Christy Brown, My Left Foot at February 25, 2025 10:06 PM (Aqu9a)

19 Read the content? Hell, it took me 10 minutes just to scan the bullet points. Thank you Scampy!
Posted by: Some Rat

You're still faster than 200,000 former federal employees.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2025 10:07 PM (8eY+W)

20 Feynman was great. I loved his books. I read them in high school and they greatly influenced my views of science.

Yeah, even though he was a lefty he’d be considered some insane reactionary these days.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 25, 2025 10:07 PM (l3YAf)

21 Lynn Collins
Posted by: no one of any consequence
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Yep. My bad!

Posted by: scampydog at February 25, 2025 10:07 PM (2bFN5)

22 And don't even think about sticking me on one of those 4 crewmen, 1 crewwoman flights.
Posted by: Some Rat

Some of us get to be the star in the harem comedy, others are the co-stars in the reverse-harem.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2025 10:08 PM (DgGvY)

23 Congrats to all those who competed for the first thing. I'd like to bring forward a willowed post....

A teen genius with a 4.4 GPA and 1590 SAT Score—who was hired straight out of high school by Google for a Ph.D level Software Engineer position—was rejected by 16 out of 18 colleges including 5 UC Schools: Berkeley, Davis, UCLA, UCSD and UCSB.

Yeah. In the late 1980s me and all my whypipls buddies were rejected on the same day Feb 1 when all the rejection letters went out. And my classmates who were not taking AP classes or playing D1 sports still got accepted to UCLA Berkeley Davis even that fucking Santa Barbara party school.

Not that I didn't have a good time on my recruiting visit at UCSB LOL

Posted by: NC Ref at February 25, 2025 10:08 PM (ymv7F)

24 Hey, All!

Hey, Scampydog!

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2025 10:08 PM (77rzZ)

25 Thanks for the nifty science-y ONT, scampydog!

Fabulous photo up top of the moon. *howls*

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 25, 2025 10:08 PM (rxCpr)

26 Chili should have venison or elk to be real.

I used to like the old Carroll Shelby brown bag chili mix.

Posted by: scottst at February 25, 2025 10:09 PM (ukNOD)

27 Cool box, good presentation. It looks like bourbon but tastes like it was aged in a gas can.

Should'a sprung for the 10-year.

It tastes like it was aged in a catcher's mitt.

Posted by: mikeski at February 25, 2025 10:09 PM (DgGvY)

28 You bastard!

Thank you.
Posted by: nurse ratched

You're welcome! You are good company.

Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 10:09 PM (9JM+m)

29 Oh, and great joke!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 25, 2025 10:10 PM (rxCpr)

30 Evening Bulg, Some Rat, T-Rex and any others I've missed.

Posted by: scampydog at February 25, 2025 10:10 PM (2bFN5)

31 Parts of the elk are as good as beef.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 25, 2025 10:10 PM (ZmEVT)

32 Thanks for Episode 12B, The Larch. The Larch.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 25, 2025 10:11 PM (0eaVi)

33 I'm too old to go to Mars. Staying right here.

Posted by: Old Man Adams at February 25, 2025 10:12 PM (G5+As)

34 >>> Musk has positioned himself close to President Donald Trump, who at his inauguration in January promised that his administration would be "launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars."

Gov Drone pro-tip - Transfer to the Space Coast... But avoid NASA.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2025 10:12 PM (/lPRQ)

35 Feynman transcended politics. This is essential in Science.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 10:12 PM (QB+5g)

36 Not limited to bourbon. What are some purchases that didn't live up to the packaging?

My wife!

Posted by: zombie Rodney Dangerfield at February 25, 2025 10:12 PM (DgGvY)

37 Since we seem to be doing the comments set to music thing, here's one about Snow Beige.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgPDxRkci_A

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 10:12 PM (xCA6C)

38 Lynda Carter on Mars would also be acceptable.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at February 25, 2025 10:12 PM (Ze08y)

39 Via Y Entertainment:

Content Creator Was Arrested for Urinating on Grocery Store Food and Filming It. Police Say They Found Similar Videos Dating Back to 2021

The Monadnock Food Co-Op in New Hampshire "sustained a financial loss in excess of $1,500," police said of the incident.

Kelli Tedford, 23, was arrested on Friday, Feb. 21, after an anonymous person reported that she had posted several “disturbing” videos online, according to a release from the Keene Police Department. In one of the clips seen by investigators, she appeared to be contaminating foods at a local business with her urine.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 25, 2025 10:13 PM (TGPs7)

40 Why does Irish chili only have 239 beans? Because anymore and it'd be too farty.

You'll understand that joke if you've ever played dairhts in an Irish bar.

Posted by: RickZ at February 25, 2025 10:13 PM (gKDq2)

41 Blackout was the last good Scorpions album.

Animal Magnetism and Lovedrive are my favorites. But I also like the Uli Roth albums. their old stuff was nicely dark.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 25, 2025 10:13 PM (bDNzX)

42 I thought that top pic seemed a bit familiar.

(searches archives . . . ah)

Daily Doodle #37
Pine Tree in Silouhette
freehand inkpen
1997 Mar 10
http://mindfulwebworks.com/doodles/
pine-tree-in-silouhette

Well… kinda similar…

Posted by: mindful webworker - tree, so, art, right? at February 25, 2025 10:14 PM (bOMci)

43 Cool box, good presentation. It looks like bourbon but tastes like it was aged in a gas can.

If they're selling anything other than the taste, why would you be surprised?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 10:14 PM (xCA6C)

44 Lynda Carter on Mars would also be acceptable.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry
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Editing error is kind of funny. I had Lynn Collins - John Carter. Out dummied myself (again) and deleted the wrong two words. But yes, Lynda Carter...sigh...

Posted by: scampydog at February 25, 2025 10:14 PM (2bFN5)

45 New Hampshire, the Piss Free or Die state...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 25, 2025 10:14 PM (TGPs7)

46 Ubislop manages to step on yet another culturally ignorant rake to promote Assassin's Creed: Shadows.

Special Boba Teas are being pushed for the game. And everyone is pointing out to Ubislop that Boba Tea comes from Thailand.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:15 PM (akmNW)

47 Good evening morons y gracias scampydog

publius has answered many celestial questions for me when I'm in Sonoma where is the only place we ever see stars.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2025 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

48 And don't even think about sticking me on one of those 4 crewmen, 1 crewwoman flights.
Posted by: Some Rat

It is a test.
You only need one each.

First man to figure it out wins.
But you have to be very discreet to keep the other three from figuring it out.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2025 10:16 PM (/lPRQ)

49 Dejah Thoris would like to show you the sands of her world Elon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:16 PM (akmNW)

50 United States Notes? "United States Notes, also known as Legal Tender Notes and Greenbacks, were the first widely circulated U.S. paper currency." BEP

First widely circulated. The Continental Congress authorized paper money.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 25, 2025 10:16 PM (0eaVi)

51 Scampy.
The best viewing night was LAST night!
Be better

Posted by: RI Red at February 25, 2025 10:17 PM (xpM9w)

52 What kind of content does Kelli create besides food borne illness?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:18 PM (akmNW)

53

Stock Feynman quote:

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts

"Feynman quite in complete context:

“We have many studies in teaching, for example, in which people make observations and they make lists and they do statistics, but they do not thereby become established science, established knowledge. They are merely an imitative form of science…The result of this pseudoscientific imitation is to produce experts, which many of you are – experts.

You teachers who are really teaching children at the bottom of the heap, maybe you can doubt the experts once in a while. Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way:

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 10:18 PM (QB+5g)

54 Ubislop manages to step on yet another culturally ignorant rake to promote Assassin's Creed: Shadows.

Special Boba Teas are being pushed for the game. And everyone is pointing out to Ubislop that Boba Tea comes from Thailand.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:15 PM (akmNW)

Ubislop is a dead company. It doesn't matter what they do.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 25, 2025 10:19 PM (MGB5H)

55 Cool box, good presentation. It looks like bourbon but tastes like it was aged in a gas can.

What do you expect from an umpire? They can't call anything right.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 25, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)

56 I had Lynn Collins - John Carter.

The really confusing bit is that there is apparently a Lynn Carter who has worked on Mars research projects such as Perseverance.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 25, 2025 10:19 PM (EXyHK)

57 Scampy.
The best viewing night was LAST night!
Be better
Posted by: RI Red
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Red! Up for an ONT. Thanks for stopping in. Now where did I put that attendance sheet...

Posted by: scampydog at February 25, 2025 10:19 PM (2bFN5)

58 Special Boba Teas are being pushed for the game. And everyone is pointing out to Ubislop that Boba Tea comes from Thailand.

At this point it has to be deliberate because they want to teach those Japanese chuds that black people are superior.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2025 10:20 PM (qB84H)

59 my daughter, college frosh, is crazy for the boba tea - even made some at home. I don't get it.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 25, 2025 10:21 PM (sJHOI)

60 At this point Ubislop should press the Self Destruct button and put them out of OUR misery.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:22 PM (akmNW)

61
Read up on Feynman and the "new math". He managed to get involved in some CA textbook review board. What he found there was amazing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 25, 2025 10:22 PM (w6EFb)

62 I'm packing up from the office. Have fun. Will check back later. Hopefully publius stops in.

Posted by: scampydog at February 25, 2025 10:22 PM (2bFN5)

63 Boba tea is the new Ramune.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:22 PM (akmNW)

64 I’ve had a long unbroken string of reading the ONT, Scampydog, but will often just not check in.
It’s not like I have Very Important Thoughts to contribute.
But I do enjoy the company.

Posted by: RI Red at February 25, 2025 10:23 PM (xpM9w)

65 Stock Feynman quote

Feynman served on whatever California board chooses textbooks. It was probably a token position, but he took it seriously, and really pissed people off, at least in his telling in Surely You’re Joking, by actually reading the books and critiquing them.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 25, 2025 10:24 PM (EXyHK)

66 Yay, Pistol Patent Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 25, 2025 10:24 PM (lUFok)

67
"If you thought science was certain -- well, that's just an error on your part" -- Mr. Feyman.

(Paraphrasing from memory): I'd rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers which cannot be questioned.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 25, 2025 10:24 PM (w6EFb)

68 I feel sorry for Kelli Tedford and her misadventure at the grocery store.
Food Lion has banned me from all their stores for taking a leek in the produce section.

Posted by: Happy Harry at February 25, 2025 10:25 PM (G5+As)

69 Boundary Oak distillery has some interesting bottles of Bourbon. Quality of the booze is pretty good too.

boundaryoak.co

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2025 10:25 PM (Q4IgG)

70 Had Tensor generate an image of Deja Thoris using an abridged book description as the prompt.

https://tinyurl.com/zdbm3azn

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:26 PM (akmNW)

71
Content Creator Was Arrested for Urinating on Grocery Store Food and Filming It. Police Say They Found Similar Videos Dating Back to 2021

Well happy I never grabbed a "homemade" lemonade at any of the grocery store's around Keene

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 10:26 PM (t0Rmr)

72 Had Tensor generate an image of Deja Thoris using an abridged book description as the prompt.

The book is pretty clear she's nakeder. More naked?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 10:27 PM (t0Rmr)

73 You decide

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:27 PM (akmNW)

74 "First widely circulated. The Continental Congress authorized paper money."

yeah, I was thinking the "continentals" were the first fiat currency in the USA. It was fiat, not backed by gold or silver afaik. (probably worthless f we lost, not sure if they were fully "funded" after the war, or not).

Posted by: illiniwek at February 25, 2025 10:27 PM (Cus5s)

75 gotta tie the leek to your belt and walk out like you own the damn place

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 25, 2025 10:27 PM (sJHOI)

76 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 25, 2025 10:27 PM (sAmhv)

77 “If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.”—Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 25, 2025 10:28 PM (EXyHK)

78 Trump dodged a MAJOR bullet today when the House passed the Budget Bill.

Mike Johnson deserves a lot of credit for that. (BOO! HISS! RINO traitor! Throw him out, & let's elect a new Speaker every month, as in the olden times!)

I had assumed, and happily I was wrong, that the usual suspects would get an early start on destroying Trump's second term-- because Massie, et al really SHOULD be POTUS, not DJT. There are 5 or so azaleas just like Massie-- "better Hitler than Blum," doncha know.

Posted by: mnw at February 25, 2025 10:28 PM (NLIak)

79 Content Creator Was Arrested for Urinating on Grocery Store Food and Filming It. Police Say They Found Similar Videos Dating Back to 2021

I bet the other shoppers were pissed when they heard about it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 25, 2025 10:28 PM (lUFok)

80 Healthy urine is sterile and won't hurt you. BTW, I peed in the punch.

Posted by: Newbomb Turk at February 25, 2025 10:29 PM (G5+As)

81 My personal quote:

"Science is not God but the study of God's work"

-Me

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 10:29 PM (QB+5g)

82 51 Scampy.
The best viewing night was LAST night!
Be better
Posted by: RI Red at February

*flashes Red*

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 10:29 PM (mT+6a)

83 As soon as I watched Musk catch a descending rocket with chop sticks, I knew we were going to Mars.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2025 10:30 PM (W/lyH)

84 1. Reaffirmed my commitment to coffee
2. Employed bleeding edge technologies to optimize quality and throughput
3. Watered my plant
4. LUNCH
5. Arranged binder clips according to size

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 25, 2025 10:30 PM (dDmld)

85 Healthy urine is sterile

This is untrue.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25766599/

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 10:31 PM (xCA6C)

86
Starship test 8 is scheduled for Friday, launch time 5:30PM local (CST), I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 25, 2025 10:32 PM (w6EFb)

87 Just wasted 2 hours on a Netflix film "Trial by Fire" with Laura Dern in the co-starring role. Guy is framed for the arson murder of his three kids and sentenced to death in 1990s east Texas.

The opening credits said it was based on a story that ran in The New Yorker, which should have signalled me.

The defense attorney was beyond worthless and the DA paid a witness, the accused's cellmate, to lie and say he was confessed to.

They kill him by needle and the last scene is of the MSNBC hosted primary debate in which Rick Perry says yes we Texans execute vicious killers. Fuck Netflix.

Posted by: M. Gaga at February 25, 2025 10:32 PM (KiBMU)

88 "As soon as I watched Musk catch a descending rocket with chop sticks, I knew we were going to Mars."

I felt the same way when SpaceX did the first powered landing.

This guy...

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 10:33 PM (QB+5g)

89 79 Content Creator Was Arrested for Urinating on Grocery Store Food and Filming It. Police Say They Found Similar Videos Dating Back to 2021

I bet the other shoppers were pissed when they heard about it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
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Whew, not around here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 25, 2025 10:33 PM (qsRqI)

90 Posted by: nurse ratched

Guessing you didn't lose power. We probably won't have it back till Thursday. I bailed and am at a motel....I feel unworthy.

Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 10:33 PM (9JM+m)

91 The only thing I viewed last night was my fence getting blown over.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2025 10:33 PM (W/lyH)

92 I have nothing else to say, so:

BOOBS!

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2025 10:34 PM (77rzZ)

93 89 79 Content Creator Was Arrested for Urinating on Grocery Store Food and Filming It. Police Say They Found Similar Videos Dating Back to 2021

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Was that wrong?

Posted by: G. Costanza at February 25, 2025 10:34 PM (dDmld)

94
Test 8 will attempt another booster chopstick catch. Starship itself will do another splashdown thing in the Indian Ocean.

Test 9, however, they're planning to attempt a catch of the Starship itself coming back down. That will be spectacular.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 25, 2025 10:34 PM (w6EFb)

95 Ahoy, morons.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 25, 2025 10:36 PM (KtFvQ)

96 What I learned taking the boat course: urine is sterile but poop ain't.

And peeing over the gunwale is dangerous.

Posted by: M. Gaga at February 25, 2025 10:36 PM (KiBMU)

97 Saw an interview with Feynman eons ago. The discussion had veered off into C.P. Snow 'two cultures' territory, and Feynman had been talking about how the science people and the humanities people were coming from such opposite stances that communication between the two was next to impossible. Then he did something that just floored me. He stopped mid-sentence and said "I take it all back." He talked about the time he met the French writer Andre Maurois, and concluded that first class minds can be found in any group and that they have a lot to offer each other. To be able to stop in mid-sentence, on camera, and say "I take it all back" -- if we had enough people with that attitude, we'd have a lot fewer problems than we do.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 25, 2025 10:36 PM (q3u5l)

98 Evening all, thx scampydog. John Carter was a dopey but fun movie . Disney took a bath on it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2025 10:36 PM (r45RC)

99 Set aside collector value for the moment

Are “Greenbacks” from 1862 still obligations of the Treasury? Or Federal Reserve? Are they still technically spendable is the question. I know the small size Federal Reserve notes from 1914 are perfectly valid. Over one hundred years for a paper currency is pretty good. I think that’s probably a record for sure.

Most countries have had numerous currency repudiations, defaults, revaluations, and basically reneging on earlier notes. That’s one reason US dollars were considered “good as gold” at one time. Storing wealth in dollars or swiss francs was almost a requirement. We deployed to Cambodia in the 1990s, and were issued a large amount of cash, since they didn’t have credit facilities. The street vendors would complain if the notes had even tiny wrinkles or a bent corner.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2025 10:37 PM (ExGho)

100 Machine translations, got to love them.

"Working" it says. In 1/48 scale.

https://www.suruga-ya.com/en/product/603138871

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:38 PM (akmNW)

101 90 Posted by: nurse ratched

Guessing you didn't lose power. We probably won't have it back till Thursday. I bailed and am at a motel....I feel unworthy.
Posted by: Some Rat at

Dude. I have a guest room. I work all day so you'd be free to hang out with the Fink and be on the beach and read.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 10:38 PM (mT+6a)

102 The only thing I viewed last night was my fence getting blown over.
Posted by: Diogenes

I was awakened at 2:30 am to the sound of large branches slamming into my roof....thankfully, one of the seven Doug-firs they were from did not join in the festivities.

Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 10:38 PM (9JM+m)

103
Dogs put up for the evening and fed, heartworm medicine administered, bones given out. They're happy, I'm happy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:39 PM (dxSpM)

104 You'd think someone on the side of Western Civilization would catch a space ship with a fork, not those bloody chopsticks.

Posted by: Captain Fork at February 25, 2025 10:40 PM (G5+As)

105 John Carter of Mars was a great fun movie. Disney screwed up the marketing and not going with the book title A Princess of Mars.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:40 PM (akmNW)

106
Mr. and Mrs. Feynman dancing at the Nobel Ball, when he won the Nobel Prize (along with Schwinger) for QED, quantum electrodynamic theory:

https://tinyurl.com/272m2kfo

Another one of him there, with some lady who looks like some sort of big deal:

https://tinyurl.com/28z385zx

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 25, 2025 10:41 PM (w6EFb)

107 You'd think someone on the side of Western Civilization would catch a space ship with a fork, not those bloody chopsticks.
Posted by: Captain Fork

Or a giant catchers mitt.

Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 10:41 PM (9JM+m)

108 And Musk has assembled a modern day Manhattan Project to realize his vision.

His recent foray into politics makes me somewhat uneasy. Politics is ultimately a blood sport. I don't think anyone wanted to assonate Henry Ford or Thomas Edison.

But he has the most sophisticated tools on the planet in this digital age and some seriously motivated people working for him who know how to use them.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 10:42 PM (QB+5g)

109 Hey Publius, is the Stellarium App free? I couldn’t find a $$ figure at the app store. No big deal, but I see they have no obvious listing, although maybe a “premium” or subscription service. Meh.

Also, does it need an internet connection? Oddly enough some of the good stargazing areas are still sketchy sometimes.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2025 10:42 PM (ExGho)

110
Feynman had a very thick Brooklyn accent. He sounded like one of Archie Bunker's buddies at Kelsey's Bar or something.

Fermi remarked, "He talks like a bum!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 25, 2025 10:43 PM (w6EFb)

111 >> Hey Publius, is the Stellarium App free?

If you're talking about the phone version, there is a free one, and a Pro version (which includes more extensive object catalogs and stuff like this).

The desktop version is FOSS, of course, completely free, and is much more capable, although not mobile, and no pointing and shooting at the sky location and direction awareness.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 25, 2025 10:46 PM (w6EFb)

112 Feynman had a heavy Bronx accent and "sounded like a bum" according to many other scientists of the day.

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 10:46 PM (QB+5g)

113 Bum is a compliment in Brooklyn.

Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee at February 25, 2025 10:46 PM (G5+As)

114 His recent foray into politics makes me somewhat uneasy. Politics is ultimately a blood sport. I don't think anyone wanted to assonate Henry Ford or Thomas Edison.

But he has the most sophisticated tools on the planet in this digital age and some seriously motivated people working for him who know how to use them.
Posted by: pawn

I must admit to a certain level of distrust when it comes to Mr. Musk. Wether what is doing now is core beliefs or the love of fixing a problem, I don't know. But he is winning me over.

Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 10:46 PM (9JM+m)

115 Seán Ono Lennon
@seanonolennon

I was driving in LA in the late 90s and I stopped at a red light and looked to my left and suddenly Chevy Chase pulled up alone in a convertible. He wasn’t doing anything, he was just sitting there waiting for the light like me. But somehow it was the funniest thing I’d ever seen. He was just sitting there, it was a hot day and he looked a little uncomfortable. I literally choked I was laughing so hard as we both drove away. The guy’s got funny bones.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 25, 2025 10:46 PM (TGPs7)

116 Oh gosh publius, I remember it wrong but wee both remember the significance.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 10:47 PM (QB+5g)

117
No tax on tips.
No tax on overtime.
No tax on Social Security.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2025 10:05 PM (8eY+W)

_________

This is the very essence of fascism.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:49 PM (dxSpM)

118 He was just sitting there, it was a hot day and he looked a little uncomfortable. I literally choked I was laughing so hard as we both drove away. The guy’s got funny bones.

---------

Hmm. First time Chevy Chase was ever funny.

Who knew?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 25, 2025 10:50 PM (dDmld)

119 Hi Horde!! So far still employeed...

Posted by: Iris at February 25, 2025 10:51 PM (bOJ2I)

120 I was awakened at 2:30 am to the sound of large branches slamming into my roof....thankfully, one of the seven Doug-firs they were from did not join in the festivities.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 10:38 PM (9JM+m)

Same thing with my BNL. He spent the day cleaning up.
I called a fence company and drank a beer.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2025 10:51 PM (W/lyH)

121 No tax on tips.
No tax on overtime.
No tax on Social Security.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2025 10:05 PM (8eY+W)

_________

This is the very essence of fascism.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:49 PM (dxSpM)

Dear Diary,

The Day I Discovered I Was A Fascist.

Posted by: RickZ at February 25, 2025 10:51 PM (gKDq2)

122 Feynman had a very thick Brooklyn accent. He sounded like one of Archie Bunker's buddies at Kelsey's Bar or something.

Fermi remarked, "He talks like a bum!"
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 25, 2025 10:43 PM (w6EFb)
====
Please to correct. Archie Bunker was from Queens.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2025 10:51 PM (RIvkX)

123 1. Listened to my dad enter another coughing spasm this morning
2. Visited my mom at the nursing/rehab center for several hours and listened to her weep and tell me that all she wants to do is cry
3. Returned to parents' house and listened to my dad enter yet another coughing spasm
4. Made a Moscow Mule
5. Posted on AoS

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 25, 2025 10:52 PM (NuKV1)

124 "I must admit to a certain level of distrust when it comes to Mr. Musk. Wether what is doing now is core beliefs or the love of fixing a problem, I don't know. But he is winning me over."

Distrust is understandable because all humans will fail you at some point but what are ya going to do?

Gotta serve somebody.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 10:52 PM (QB+5g)

125
My knowledge of NYC geography is sorely lacking, I must confess.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 25, 2025 10:54 PM (w6EFb)

126 Greenbacks issued during the Civil War were redeemed privately at a discount in the West. In California and Oregon the rates got as low as twenty cents on the dollar in gold. The value increased until the 1880s when the redemption was on par with gold and gold backed bank currencies. Oregon Territory and California had private mints at the time, though they were ended with statehood and the obligation to allow the Treasury to mint currency.
If you want to learn more about fiat money and the transition from the Gold standard to fiat as a world-wide thing you can read the brief and quite quick read economic text What Has Government Done to Our Money by Murray Rothbard.

On the other hand if you want to read about how US Currency went from hard backed currency in the wake of the inflationary Continental bills, through private banks and to the end of redemption in Gold starting from WWI and the beginning of Fiat in the US, you can read the quite long and complete book A History of Money and Banking in the United states also by Murray Rothbard, which weighs in at 490 pages excluding the index.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2025 10:55 PM (D7oie)

127 Evenong, Scampydog, and ONT Horde.!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2025 10:55 PM (8zz6B)

128 Thanks, Pub!
——

Feynman famously placed O-rings in ice water during congressional hearings after the Challenger explosion. But if you read the report, they also cited a change in the type of putty used to fill the voids in the solid rocket booster flanges. Asbestos was deleted, because EPA or whatever. Bad Idea. I would never want to rely on a rubber O-ring to seal against rocket exhaust gasses, that’s nuts.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2025 10:55 PM (pCu7j)

129
I had no idea "magician" Criss Angel was so...based, as the kids say.

Posted by: Soothsayer Holmes at February 25, 2025 10:56 PM (TOG7f)

130
1. Fed dogs
2. Put Diana on the doggie treadmill
3. Cleaned out and reloaded RV
4. Washed floor mats
5. Processed pile of dog laundry

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:57 PM (dxSpM)

131 1. Surveyed fence damage
2. Called fence company
3. Drank bier
4. Drank another bier
5. Took nap

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2025 10:58 PM (W/lyH)

132 Alfa Romoney is a lot classier than Fiat money.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2025 10:59 PM (8zz6B)

133 So apparently dataRepublican got doxxed

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1894540234089795908

They have been doing the lords work on exposing where money is going, so hopefully this isn't to rough for them.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at February 25, 2025 10:59 PM (CcF4i)

134 Thanks for Episode 12B, The Larch. The Larch.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 25, 2025 10:11 PM (0eaVi)

Unfortunately, THAT picture is of a Douglas Fir.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2025 10:59 PM (D7oie)

135 Hello again, Horde. Back home, caught up on comments. Big thanks to publius for the contributions to the ONT this evening.

Posted by: scampydog at February 25, 2025 10:59 PM (41CYW)

136
Another funny Feynman story. Niels Bohr, one of the big shots, wanted Feynman because Feynman was not afraid to tell Bohr he was full of shit, when Feynman thought he was full of shit on something. The others would've been afraid.

Feynman was also a safe cracker at the Manhattan Project. He mentioned how all these great physicists would think up some combination that they thought was so clever, some combination of numbers based on some obscure thing they thought only they could know.

Feynman realized all he had to do was think like so-and-so, and guess what so-and-so would think would be really clever.

He left notes in the safe, "Feynman was here".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 25, 2025 11:00 PM (w6EFb)

137 1. Did nothing.
2. See 1
3. See 2
4. See 3
5. See 4

Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 11:00 PM (9JM+m)

138 My knowledge of NYC geography is sorely lacking, I must confess.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 25, 2025 10:54 PM (w6EFb)
===
Queens = gavones
Brooklyn = cuchines
Bronx = goombahs
Manhattan = fagz
Staten Island = Gentlemen of Honor (say "hi" to your mom for me)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2025 11:01 PM (RIvkX)

139 Rubber O rings are routinely used in solid rocket motors to join segments together. Ease of manufacturing and transportation.

Putty (made of whatever) was a stupid fix and did nothing to solve the problem of "blow by" at cold temperatures.

The ultimate problem was the design of the joint which was used. It was modified and heaters were installed for the following missions.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 11:02 PM (QB+5g)

140 I must admit to a certain level of distrust when it comes to Mr. Musk. Wether what is doing now is core beliefs or the love of fixing a problem, I don't know. But he is winning me over.
Posted by: Some Rat

I like Musk.
Reminds me of some sort of Heinlein character riding a fat government grift to the stars. It's OK because he does have the best shit.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2025 11:02 PM (/lPRQ)

141 “But zee bank vill not surf you a Bier!”

Guenther, Seoul Pub proprieter in Itaewon, when a customer complained his exchange rate was not as favorable as exchanging Korean Won at the bank across the street.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2025 11:02 PM (pCu7j)

142 Evening all, thx scampydog. John Carter was a dopey but fun movie . Disney took a bath on it
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2025 10:36 PM (r45RC)

Supposedly, the suits at Disney didn't want to use a title with "Mars" in it because they had just had a stinker with a movie called "Mars Needs Moms."
Obviously, the public hated the word "Mars" so that is why the first movie failed, and not that it was a turkey they had approved.
Bob Iger had a great tradition of idiocy to live up to. He succeeded.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 25, 2025 11:03 PM (TdF1u)

143
1. Surveyed fence damage
2. Called fence company

___________

How much did you lose? With Beryl, we lost 100 feet of Kentucky board fence on the front and 150 feet of wood privacy fence on the side. About $7500 to get it all replaced and the old fence hauled off. That was above and beyond the emergency repairs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 11:04 PM (dxSpM)

144 Lynn Collins > Eva Green

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 11:04 PM (t0Rmr)

145 1. Did nothing.
2. See 1
3. See 2
4. See 3
5. See 4
Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 11:00 PM (9JM+m)

Waitaminnit. You had coffee, right?

Posted by: RickZ at February 25, 2025 11:05 PM (gKDq2)

146 Evening all, thx scampydog. John Carter was a dopey but fun movie . Disney took a bath on it

They modified the book too much.

But I supposed the John Carter books like everything else have become too politically incorrect which is hilarious because for the time you can see the leftwing bias...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 11:05 PM (t0Rmr)

147 No, hou misunderstand.

They always used putty. They didn’t start burning out badly until the asbestos putty was reformulated into something “safe”, and then eventually it blew up. They were lucky it didn’t blow up on the pad. If they would have continued use of the asbestos putty it would have been OK.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2025 11:06 PM (pCu7j)

148 So apparently dataRepublican got doxxed /i]

This is something that we have to get fixed.

When left leaning people get doxxed they get better jobs - sometimes at mega corps sometimes at NGOs.

When right leaning people get doxxed they lose their ability to work.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 11:08 PM (t0Rmr)

149 First widely circulated. The Continental Congress authorized paper money.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 25, 2025 10:16 PM (0eaVi)

Actualllyyy . . .

The Song and Yuan (Mongol) dynasties issued paper currencies, the Song initially was based on warehouse receipts and was a private currency, which the Song government adopted and then inflated in the fights against the Mongols and the other Chinese states. The Mongols used them as well, and went through multiple versions, inflating them to the breaking point, and issuing revalued scrip. Eventually it was the currency of a great part of Asia, and when it hyperinflated and collapsed, it brought a good many countries down as well when all their wealth turned into trash paper.

The first unbacked paper currency in the Americas was promissory notes issued by the Massachusetts colony which went on to have a good secondary market, encouraging the colony to issue paper currency as well.

Most unbacked paper currencies are issued to fund wars by the way. It is the only way modern wars can be financed.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2025 11:08 PM (D7oie)

150 Waitaminnit. You had coffee, right?
Posted by: RickZ

Sorry, thought the list was accomplishments, not attitude care.

Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 11:10 PM (9JM+m)

151 Most unbacked paper currencies are issued to fund wars by the way. It is the only way modern wars can be financed.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2025 11:08 PM (D7oie)

Issue toilet paper currency. It will be flushed with success.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2025 11:11 PM (8zz6B)

152 my daughter, college frosh, is crazy for the boba tea - even made some at home. I don't get it.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 25, 2025 10:21 PM (sJHOI)

It is great, you use the straws to shoot those sticky tapioca balls at each other. I spent a drive once shooting them at traffic signs too. My wife started slowing the car down so I could get a better hit ration.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2025 11:11 PM (D7oie)

153
Most unbacked paper currencies are issued to fund wars by the way. It is the only way modern wars can be financed.

One of the interesting things about the modern western countries is that they are printing inflationary notes not to fight wars or build major infrastructure projects but primarily to give welfare to immigrants, legal or otherwise.

Wars can be worth significant inflation depending on what is at stake, our current inflationary spending is obviously not.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 11:11 PM (t0Rmr)

154 Good Tuesday evening, dearest Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at February 25, 2025 11:13 PM (D6+4s)

155 One of the interesting things about the modern western countries is that they are printing inflationary notes not to fight wars or build major infrastructure projects but primarily to give welfare to immigrants, legal or otherwise.

Wars can be worth significant inflation depending on what is at stake, our current inflationary spending is obviously not.
Posted by: 18-1
-----------
Agree.

Posted by: scampydog at February 25, 2025 11:13 PM (41CYW)

156 If you want to get into the weeds, read up on the "twang" at Shuttle launch.

In reality the Space Shuttle constantly rode on the edge of disaster.

I was always amaze how those astronauts would get on that thing if they really knew what was going on.

I figured that was because they stayed at Johnson all the time and never interacted much with the actual launch and landing folks.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 11:13 PM (QB+5g)

157 If you were a fan of Boston Sports Radio, you listened to Ted Nation late at night after the games on WEEI...

GHLiveReports
@Grhavit

Theodore A. "Ted" Sarandis, a prominent American sports radio personality renowned for his influential presence in Boston's sports media landscape, has passed away.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 25, 2025 11:14 PM (TGPs7)

158 I had assumed, and happily I was wrong, that the usual suspects would get an early start on destroying Trump's second term-- because Massie, et al really SHOULD be POTUS, not DJT. There are 5 or so azaleas just like Massie-- "better Hitler than Blum," doncha know.
Posted by: mnw at February 25, 2025 10:28 PM (NLIak)

Massie is to be Secretary of Agriculture. Which Massie are you talking about?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2025 11:14 PM (D7oie)

159 Tapioca is disgusting shit. Like Trigglypuff roe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2025 11:14 PM (8zz6B)

160 How much did you lose? With Beryl, we lost 100 feet of Kentucky board fence on the front and 150 feet of wood privacy fence on the side. About $7500 to get it all replaced and the old fence hauled off. That was above and beyond the emergency repairs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 11:04 PM (dxSpM)

Lost 11 sections this time. Good news: these were on the fence that hasn't been replaced yet.
Bad news: This old fence is being replaced and its 310 feet. Total cost is $11k. But I have a little insurance money and one neighbor kicking in a bit.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2025 11:15 PM (W/lyH)

161 I don't think anyone wanted to assonate Henry Ford or Thomas Edison.

Edison treated business as war. I don't think it got to the business of assassination but he did kill small animals to show people AC was too dangerous to use...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 11:15 PM (t0Rmr)

162 Sorry, thought the list was accomplishments, not attitude care.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 11:10 PM (9JM+m)

Being nice to the people? Accomplishment. And for the low low price of a cup of coffee.

Posted by: RickZ at February 25, 2025 11:16 PM (gKDq2)

163 159 Tapioca is disgusting shit. Like Trigglypuff roe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2025 11:14 PM (8zz6B)

I can't stop laughing.

Posted by: Ladyl at February 25, 2025 11:17 PM (D6+4s)

164 I am in great need of a nap. Be back later, maybe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2025 11:17 PM (8zz6B)

165 Edison treated business as war. I don't think it got to the business of assassination but he did kill small animals to show people AC was too dangerous to use...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 11:15 PM (t0Rmr)

Small animals? Dude electrocuted an elephant.

Posted by: RickZ at February 25, 2025 11:17 PM (gKDq2)

166 1. Fed kitty
2. Fed goats
3. Fed and watered chickens
4. Let chickens run amok
5. Rounded up chickens and returned them to coop

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2025 11:19 PM (Vqx30)

167 Fabulous photo up top of the moon. *howls*
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
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Thanks. Finally made time to go through my dad's pictures. He was quite the nature photographer (some published in various outdoor magazines). While I'm doing ONT's, there are many, many of his to choose from for future.

Posted by: scampydog at February 25, 2025 11:19 PM (41CYW)

168 Von braun said solid rocket boosters have no place in human rated flight vehicles, fwiw.

The Shuttle was a flying brick

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2025 11:19 PM (pCu7j)

169 The putty was used to keep the edges of the solids from igniting and subjecting the clevis joints to high temperatures. It kind of worked. But people (Managers) downplayed the dangers of "blow by" because the putty was supposed to work but in reality it wasn't designed to withstand the pressures it encountered when the Orings didn't seal at low temperatures.

I assure you I understand very well.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 11:20 PM (QB+5g)

170 Tapioca is disgusting shit. Like Trigglypuff roe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2025 11:14 PM (8zz6B)

I can't stop laughing.
Posted by: Ladyl at February 25, 2025 11:17 PM (D6+4s)
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Your pudding cup rations have been reduced.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2025 11:20 PM (RIvkX)

171 I can't say for sure Musk's political conversion is real but he's given up a hell of a lot to do so...and if Trump had lost Musk would likely be facing criminal charges across Europe with an Harris administration perfectly willing to extradite him.

TBH I don't think he's any sort of ideological conservative but he sees how crazy and demented the left is and decided to take a stand to try and fix things. If Biden and Obama had governed like "triangulated Bill Clinton" I suspect we'd never have seen Musk get into politics

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 11:21 PM (t0Rmr)

172 Tapioca is disgusting shit. Like Trigglypuff roe.

You didn't go into the pudding marked "Trump Victory 2024" by any chance did you?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 11:22 PM (t0Rmr)

173 Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky).

SO sick of his rule-or-ruin, anti-Israel zh*t.

Someone needs to stick a fork up his adz. He's the GOP's gift to Jeffries-- MORE useful to the DEMs than an actual DEM vote would be.

Trump's second term is gonna be destroyed by Lisa Murkowski and Thomas Massie.

Posted by: mnw at February 25, 2025 11:22 PM (NLIak)

174 1. Converted to the new TPS cover sheets.
2. Cleaned a fish at my workstation.
3. Returned a red Swingline stapler to its owner.
4. Helped my new girlfriend organize her flair.
5. Assisted with the rapid unplanned disassembly of a printer.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 25, 2025 11:22 PM (TdF1u)

175 My knowledge of NYC geography is sorely lacking, I must confess.
Posted by: publius

It looks like a flaccid penis.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 25, 2025 11:22 PM (KAi1n)

176 {{{Ladyl!!}}} (checks seating around table) Have a chair! How are you?

Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 11:23 PM (9JM+m)

177 One of the reasons many of the founders were in arrears financially was because lenders often demanded repayment in gold specie, which was scarce in the colonies.

Inheritance law was different, they didn’t have primogenitures, but unlike today, any heirs did inherit the debts of the Estate. They had debtor’s prisons too. Notoriously bad.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2025 11:23 PM (pCu7j)

178 1. Passed surprise state inspection
2. Got biohazard cleaned up
3. Hired new nurse
4. Fish tacos
5. Got yelled at by an angry old man

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2025 11:24 PM (RIvkX)

179 3. Returned a red Swingline stapler to its owner.
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Old school, rounded front, Swingline staplers are THE BEST. A good 10-key is a must too.

Posted by: scampydog at February 25, 2025 11:25 PM (41CYW)

180 The Shuttle was a flying brick
Posted by: Common Tater

I thought that was a Phantom F-4.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2025 11:25 PM (cYBz/)

181 176 {{{Ladyl!!}}} (checks seating around table) Have a chair! How are you?
Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 11:23 PM (9JM+m)

Dahlin! I'm fair-to-middlin.' How are you? In a hotel??? Was there a storm?

Posted by: Ladyl at February 25, 2025 11:26 PM (D6+4s)

182 158 Kindltot

I'm talking about the Thomas Massie (R-KY), the asshoe who was the only GOP Congressman today to vote NO on Trump's first budget.

Who are YOU talking about??

I honestly have no idea.

Posted by: mnw at February 25, 2025 11:27 PM (NLIak)

183 Edison treated business as war. I don't think it got to the business of assassination but he did kill small animals to show people AC was too dangerous to use...

Didn't he actually electrocute a trainer-killing elephant to fuck with Westinghouse ?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 25, 2025 11:27 PM (GYt5+)

184 thought that was a Phantom F-4.
Posted by: Tonypete at February

They look similar

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 25, 2025 11:28 PM (WF/xn)

185 Oh, i get it. Ok:

1. Took the recycling out
2. Major headway on a writ petition
3. Mollified the cat
4. Mailed a document to the court
5. 25 minute power nap with REM cycle

Posted by: SFGoth at February 25, 2025 11:28 PM (KAi1n)

186 105 John Carter of Mars was a great fun movie. Disney screwed up the marketing and not going with the book title A Princess of Mars.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:40 PM (akmNW)

I liked it too.

A lot of die-hard fans of the books gripe. I've read the first several; I don't get the gripes.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 25, 2025 11:30 PM (mFz+I)

187 OK, it didn’t sound like it. So you believe removal of Asbestos from the putty wasn’t a factor?

The final report indicates it was. I believe them. Asbestos is good stuff, and there is no effective substitute for it, basically.

The whole booster design was stupid, and they watched the blow-by and decided it was an acceptable risk, so long as it didn’t get too cold. NASA used to query everyone on why they should launch. By the time of the Shuttle, they did it bass ackwards. And then over-ruled engineers at Morton-Thiokol

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2025 11:30 PM (pCu7j)

188
1. Fed kitty
2. Fed goats
3. Fed and watered chickens
4. Let chickens run amok
5. Rounded up chickens and returned them to coop
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Got to call foul on number 5.
Chickens wil return to coop on their own.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2025 11:30 PM (/lPRQ)

189 Dahlin! I'm fair-to-middlin.' How are you? In a hotel??? Was there a storm?
Posted by: Ladyl

Very good, bit of a blow (bout 45 mph at my place) might be out of power for a bit, normally I would just ride it out...but screw it, I'll battle tomorrow!

Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 11:31 PM (9JM+m)

190 Mollified the cat
====

Don't be so sure.

Posted by: The Cat at February 25, 2025 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

191 Chickens wil return to coop on their own.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Yes, but it's good to feed train them to the coop if unsavory types are flying or lurking around.

Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 11:34 PM (9JM+m)

192 The Dejah Thoris in John Carter was quite good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2025 11:34 PM (bss/y)

193 The western coast of South America can be quite cold at certain times. Thus it may transpire that you are chillin' in Chile eating chili while it's chilly.

Orlok is just saying, is all.

Posted by: Count Orlok at February 25, 2025 11:36 PM (p9lBt)

194 Who are YOU talking about??
I honestly have no idea.
Posted by: mnw at February 25, 2025 11:27 PM (NLIak)

You are off your meds

Massie is going to be the next Secretary of Ag

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2025 11:39 PM (D7oie)

195 Orlok! Has DOGE cut off your Social Security? Or was that some other 360 year-old on the books?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 25, 2025 11:39 PM (TdF1u)

196 CT-

Not to brag but I was there. I saw Challenger standing on a roof on a cold morning at KSC. It changed my life.

None of us knew about the Oring issues before hand but I ended up getting involved in the fixes. Two plus years of 60+ hour weeks.

When we saw the data coming in in bits and pieces our group was shocked. Even well before the Rogers Commission we all knew. Feynman just put it in the public eye in a way only he could pull off. That is why he is one of my heroes.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 11:40 PM (QB+5g)

197 I think John Carter’s ending is great .

The NASA discussion reminded me of Space Cowboys. I really enjoyed that movie.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 11:40 PM (cwGMH)

198 Have you seen the price of eggs?

Posted by: Chickens run amok at February 25, 2025 11:40 PM (mH6SG)

199 Wars can be worth significant inflation depending on what is at stake, our current inflationary spending is obviously not.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 11:11 PM (t0Rmr)

WE have the warfare state, with bases all over and funding to every brushfire ware going and Ukraine. Apparently for the kickbacks and the apparent threat to push the tax levels, but that is where it starts and what sustains it.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2025 11:42 PM (D7oie)

200 107 You'd think someone on the side of Western Civilization would catch a space ship with a fork, not those bloody chopsticks.
Posted by: Captain Fork

Or a giant catchers mitt.

I'd vote instead of one chopstick on each side, four on one side, one on the other and the arms have to wrap around the space ship.

Not that it would be better or easier but because the visual would be hilarious.

Posted by: JB1000 at February 25, 2025 11:42 PM (U0iyS)

201 In case it wasn't mentioned already...

@joshdcaplan 1h
NYT: Tulsi Gabbard fires more than 100 intelligence officers who participated in sexually explicit chat on secret government network

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2025 11:43 PM (mlg/3)

202 201 In case it wasn't mentioned already...

@joshdcaplan 1h
NYT: Tulsi Gabbard fires more than 100 intelligence officers who participated in sexually explicit chat on secret government network
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2025 11:43 PM (mlg/3)

Was that wrong?

Posted by: George Costanza at February 25, 2025 11:47 PM (mFz+I)

203 Inflation was a big part of the rise of the Nazis. Not because people looked to them to bring inflation down but because it allowed them to easily pay for the publishing house that they took a loan out to buy prior to the hyperinflation. It’s there they were able to publish all the propaganda they distributed. They probably would have defaulted on the loan if it hadn’t been for the inflation.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 11:49 PM (cwGMH)

204 *takes long drag on cigarette*

Originally, before that teacher got involved, it was supposed to be Big Bird on the Challenger. He’d been making trouble for Henson studios. Was pushing the other Muppets to join a union. Said it would bring better wages. Wanted land reform on Sesame Street. Even had this idea of replacing Mr. Hooper’s with a syndicalized co-op.

Jim called us up and asked if we could take care of it. I was new to the company. We set it up beautifully.

How was I supposed to know NASA would swap in a schoolteacher?

Posted by: Confessions of a CIA Assassin, Muppet Division at February 25, 2025 11:51 PM (l3YAf)

205 >>> 191 Chickens wil return to coop on their own.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Yes, but it's good to feed train them to the coop if unsavory types are flying or lurking around.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 25, 2025 11:34 PM (9JM+m)

I have plenty of unwanted visitors

so I usually don't let them roam for more than an hour or so, and I stay outside with them.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2025 11:52 PM (Vqx30)

206 In case it wasn't mentioned already...

@joshdcaplan 1h
NYT: Tulsi Gabbard fires more than 100 intelligence officers who participated in sexually explicit chat on secret government network
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2025 11:43 PM (mlg/3)

Honestly, that's an easy fire. And it's a good start.

But it always helps when they self-identify their need to be terminated. "Yoo hoo! Over Here!" {Waves hande in the air while on TrannyChat}

Posted by: RickZ at February 25, 2025 11:54 PM (gKDq2)

207 Waves ye olde hande even.

Posted by: RickZ at February 25, 2025 11:56 PM (gKDq2)

208 You have to understand how things work in the launch world. I was told most of this from people first hand that were involved with the segment mating process.

There were rumors about of hot gasses "mysteriously" getting by the putty. They never should have per design as Feynman pointed out but messing with the putty constituted an easy fix.

Putty application is in the realm of Ground Operations and can me "messed with" with relative ease as opposed to redesigning a huge piece of flight hardware and requalifying it.

NASA management became convinced that the putty and new application processes that were tried out would be the fix.

Changing the cleavis joints was a huge thing and would ground the shuttle for years at absolutely the wrong time in the program.

Reference: " ...and you are the easiest person to fool"- RF

So NASA bet on the easy fix and it cost some gifted and brave people their lives.

Similar NASA BS took place a few years later with the tile misadventures with the same result. This is why you can NEVER rely on a government agency to "fix itself".

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 11:57 PM (QB+5g)

209 Have you seen the price of eggs?
Posted by: Chickens run amok
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Shell-shocked.

Posted by: scampydog at February 25, 2025 11:58 PM (41CYW)

210 >>> 206 In case it wasn't mentioned already...

@joshdcaplan 1h
NYT: Tulsi Gabbard fires more than 100 intelligence officers who participated in sexually explicit chat on secret government network
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2025 11:43 PM (mlg/3)

Honestly, that's an easy fire. And it's a good start.

But it always helps when they self-identify their need to be terminated. "Yoo hoo! Over Here!" {Waves hande in the air while on TrannyChat}
Posted by: RickZ at February 25, 2025 11:54 PM (gKDq2)

From what I understand most employers won't tell other companies why Joe Schmoe was released, just whether or not they would re-hire him, because state laws vary and some make it easier for them to get sued.

They don't have to name anyone, but by announcing they just tossed a bunch of pervs from the NSA on this date, all their future employment prospects will know what happened.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 26, 2025 12:02 AM (Vqx30)

211 Feynman, Schwinger, _and_ Tomonaga split the Nobel prize for QED. A reasonable argument could be made for Dyson père to be included, but he wasn’t.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 26, 2025 12:04 AM (DsDRo)

212 Khomeini put a fatwa on Bert and Ernie back in the early 80s. Said something about “stimulating unnatural desires”. I don’t know anything about that.

Bert was a good man. Used to fly for Air America. Later on he was flying into Mena, Arkansas for us. Got us some money to fight the Sandies. A real patriotic Muppet. I don’t care who a man loves, or what he does in the privacy of his Greenwich Village loft, so long as he bleeds red, white and blue.

Now Ernie.. Ernie was one sick motherfucker.

Most Americans probably go through life thinking the vast majority of Muppets die of natural causes, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Posted by: Confessions of a CIA Assassin, Muppet Division at February 26, 2025 12:05 AM (l3YAf)

213 Orlok! Has DOGE cut off your Social Security? Or was that some other 360 year-old on the books?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

So far I have been safe from Elon, but the power of the DOGE is immense. I am the 360-year-old listed, but I thought that might be a trifle more believable than my actual age, which is 600 years and change. Currently, I'm laying low in Wallachia, but a Starlink satellite could show up at any time over Castle Orlok, in which case I may have to designate myself as a Sunlight-Challenged person of an ashen pallor.

Posted by: Count Orlok at February 26, 2025 12:05 AM (p9lBt)

214 > 112 Feynman had a heavy Bronx accent and "sounded like a bum" according to many other scientists of the day.

Ha ha ha ha ha!
Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 10:46 PM (QB+5g)

Edwin Hubble was from the Ozarks, so he developed a fake Oxford English accent so people would take him seriously.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 12:06 AM (W5ArC)

215 Following IEDs Discovered, Texas AG Commissioner Warns Farmers to Limit Travel to Daytime and Avoid Cartel Controlled Regions...

Sounds like cartels are/have been planting IEDs on US side and a rancher done got blown up.... While Mehico is positioning to protect cartels.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2025 12:08 AM (/lPRQ)

216 >> _and_ Tomonaga split the Nobel prize for QED.

I forgot about him being included. Thanks.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 12:08 AM (w6EFb)

217
Anyone remember back during Trump 1.0 one of the Shit agencies was slow-walking security clearances for several of White House staff, including Jared Kushner? And this agency was very happy to tell Fake News all about it. Remember that?

Was that the NSA?

Posted by: Soothsayer Holmes at February 26, 2025 12:08 AM (dFUnO)

218 195 Orlok! Has DOGE cut off your Social Security? Or was that some other 360 year-old on the books?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 25, 2025 11:39 PM (TdF1u)

Note, no one from DOGE ever said that 150 year olds were getting PAID Social Security... they were saying they were in the data base, which means the data really needs to be looked at.

But of course, that's too technical of a point, for the idiots in the MSM, who went into Journalism because they were too stupid to code.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 26, 2025 12:08 AM (QAkQ3)

219 Edwin Hubble was from the Ozarks, so he developed a fake Oxford English accent so people would take him seriously.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 12:06 AM (W5ArC)

Homer Hickam, from Coalwood, West By God.

Posted by: RickZ at February 26, 2025 12:10 AM (gKDq2)

220 215 Following IEDs Discovered, Texas AG Commissioner Warns Farmers to Limit Travel to Daytime and Avoid Cartel Controlled Regions...

Sounds like cartels are/have been planting IEDs on US side and a rancher done got blown up.... While Mehico is positioning to protect cartels.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2025 12:08 AM (/lPRQ)

Sounds like an armed incursion onto American Soil... too bad most of our damn military is busy defending OTHER fucking countries.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 26, 2025 12:10 AM (QAkQ3)

221
Brooke Rollins is Trump's recently confirmed Sec of Ag. She was confirmed Feb. 13th.

You know who the first Sec of Ag was? Isaac Newton.

No kidding, that was his name.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 12:11 AM (w6EFb)

222
That's how it would work -- federal employees would fuck over the Trump admin, call their pals in the Fake News and give them the "scoop" that Jared Kushner still doesn't have security clearance to work in the White House (because THEY weren't processing the clearance), and Fake News would blab that White House staffers were in the White House without security clearance.

Posted by: Soothsayer Holmes at February 26, 2025 12:11 AM (dFUnO)

223 Note, no one from DOGE ever said that 150 year olds were getting PAID Social Security... they were saying they were in the data base, which means the data really needs to be looked at.

But of course, that's too technical of a point, for the idiots in the MSM, who went into Journalism because they were too stupid to ~~code~~ underwater basket-weave.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 26, 2025 12:08 AM (QAkQ3)

Fixed that right up for ya.

Posted by: RickZ at February 26, 2025 12:12 AM (gKDq2)

224
Isaac Newton there advocated for daily weather reports for the nation's farmers. That led to the creation of the National Weather service.

At the time, he had a reputation as sort of dummy, easily fooled by conmen or something.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 12:14 AM (w6EFb)

225 Huh, Tears for Fears released their album, Songs from the Big Chair on this date...40 years ago. Damn. https://tinyurl.com/5a68fczy

Posted by: scampydog at February 26, 2025 12:17 AM (41CYW)

226 I recall that Newton also became obsessed with rooting out counterfeiters.

Posted by: pawn at February 26, 2025 12:17 AM (QB+5g)

227 Sounds like an armed incursion onto American Soil... too bad most of our damn military is busy defending OTHER fucking countries.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 26, 2025 12:10 AM (QAkQ

I'm tanned, rested, and ready to lead a punitive mission into Mexico.

Posted by: Zombie Black Jack Pershing at February 26, 2025 12:17 AM (TdF1u)

228 You know who the first Sec of Ag was? Isaac Newton.

No kidding, that was his name.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 12:11 AM (w6EFb)

Inventor of the Fig Newton.

Posted by: Not really at February 26, 2025 12:18 AM (l3YAf)

229 I always liked that episode of Big Bang Theory where Leonard's current girlfriend, an ER doctor, was telling him all of the things that she had done that day - resetting a broken leg, delivering a baby, saving someone's life, etc. - then she asks what he did that day.

He said, "I thought about things."

She looked at him, and he said, "I wrote some of them down!"

That got a HUGE laugh from us and all of our engineering friends.... 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 26, 2025 12:20 AM (SRRAx)

230
Oops, I meant the "original" famous Isaac newton. He also never got laid.

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Posted by: pawn at February 26, 2025 12:21 AM (QB+5g)

231 Oh, and Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 26, 2025 12:21 AM (SRRAx)

232 Note, no one from DOGE ever said that 150 year olds were getting PAID Social Security... they were saying they were in the data base, which means the data really needs to be looked at.
Posted by: Romeo13

That is true, but the SSA has been very kind to Orlok. If you want to look into some real rackets and sus activity, check out the Confederate Widow disbursements. No need to look into any payments being made to a humble Nosferatu who has minions and castle maintenance charges deep within the Carpathian Mountains, even if his SSN is 000-00-004.

Posted by: Count Orlok at February 26, 2025 12:21 AM (p9lBt)

233 >> Inventor of the Fig Newton.

He was inspired sitting under a fig tree when a fig fell on his head.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 12:22 AM (w6EFb)

234 I'm tanned, rested, and ready to lead a punitive mission into Mexico.
Posted by: Zombie Black Jack Pershing at February 26, 2025 12:17 AM (TdF1u)

Leave this one to the experts, kiddo.

Posted by: Zombie Zachary Taylor at February 26, 2025 12:22 AM (l3YAf)

235 225 Huh, Tears for Fears released their album, Songs from the Big Chair on this date...40 years ago. Damn. https://tinyurl.com/5a68fczy
Posted by: scampydog
........................................
'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' is a great song. I even like the music video.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 26, 2025 12:22 AM (sAmhv)

236 234 I'm tanned, rested, and ready to lead a punitive mission into Mexico.
Posted by: Zombie Black Jack Pershing at February 26, 2025 12:17 AM (TdF1u)

Leave this one to the experts, kiddo.
Posted by: Zombie Zachary Taylor at February 26, 2025 12:22 AM (l3YAf)

Reporting for orders... again...

Posted by: George Patton, who rode with Pershing at February 26, 2025 12:24 AM (QAkQ3)

237 Following IEDs Discovered, Texas AG Commissioner Warns Farmers to Limit Travel to Daytime and Avoid Cartel Controlled Regions...

Sounds like cartels are/have been planting IEDs on US side and a rancher done got blown up.... While Mehico is positioning to protect cartels.

CORRECTION...

It seems he was far south of the border.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2025 12:24 AM (/lPRQ)

238 Sorry, Orlok had a senior moment there - the last digits of my SSN are 0004. Not bad for someone born during the Fifteenth Century, when Joe Biden was in his mid-50s.

Posted by: Count Orlok at February 26, 2025 12:24 AM (p9lBt)

239 What a day it's been!
• Walked the dog
• Drank coffee
• Read a bunch of AoS
• Thought about taking a nap
• Found a closing music bit for the night

Picture of the artist nowadays:
https://bit.ly/4bh2KCh

Younger days:
https://youtu.be/W1bXdXWEKaE

G'nite, you loveable ragtag buncha rebels.

Posted by: mindful webworker - God bless us every one. at February 26, 2025 12:25 AM (bOMci)

240 I recall that Newton also became obsessed with rooting out counterfeiters.
Posted by: pawn

He was a double agent known as Fake Newton.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 26, 2025 12:25 AM (KAi1n)

241 I'm tanned, rested, and ready to lead a punitive mission into Mexico.
Posted by: Zombie Black Jack Pershing at February 26, 2025 12:17 AM (TdF1u)

Leave this one to the experts, kiddo.
Posted by: Zombie Zachary Taylor at February 26, 2025 12:22 AM (l3YAf)

Reporting for orders... again...
Posted by: George Patton, who rode with Pershing at February 26, 2025 12:24 AM (QAkQ3)

Pikers.

Posted by: Zombie Hern�n Cort�s at February 26, 2025 12:27 AM (l3YAf)

242 Sorry, Orlok had a senior moment there - the last digits of my SSN are 0004. Not bad for someone born during the Fifteenth Century, when Joe Biden was in his mid-50s.
Posted by: Count Orlok
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Vic nods knowingly.

Posted by: scampydog - RIP Vic at February 26, 2025 12:29 AM (41CYW)

243 Hey Horde, I'm trying to find a clip from an ONT in the past week. The clip had a young man dropping a lighter into a glass of water then reigniting it. Anyone remember what day that was?

Posted by: pookysgirl at the Boys Night In at February 26, 2025 12:29 AM (Wt5PA)

244 I wonder what the world would be like if Newton fell out of a tree and landed on an apple.

Posted by: pawn at February 26, 2025 12:29 AM (QB+5g)

245 Huh, Tears for Fears released their album, Songs from the Big Chair on this date...40 years ago. Damn. https://tinyurl.com/5a68fczy
Posted by: scampydog

Not one of the big songs from the Big Chair:

https://youtu.be/85Bsi_HjKis

And they're making music again. They just put out an album called "Songs for a Nervous Planet."

https://youtu.be/cQ2P9r-jOwI

Posted by: mikeski at February 26, 2025 12:31 AM (DgGvY)

246 >>> 243 Hey Horde, I'm trying to find a clip from an ONT in the past week. The clip had a young man dropping a lighter into a glass of water then reigniting it. Anyone remember what day that was?
Posted by: pookysgirl at the Boys Night In at February 26, 2025 12:29 AM (Wt5PA)

I think that was a WD link, so Thursday or Friday.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 26, 2025 12:39 AM (Vqx30)

247 Hey Horde, I'm trying to find a clip from an ONT in the past week. The clip had a young man dropping a lighter into a glass of water then reigniting it. Anyone remember what day that was?
Posted by: pookysgirl at the Boys Night In at February 26, 2025 12:29 AM (Wt5PA)

It was Sunday:
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=413786

Posted by: Zombie Zachary Taylor at February 26, 2025 12:39 AM (l3YAf)

248 Tears For Fears are still around?!? Next you will be telling Orlok that Wang Chung is still touring. (I did like the score they did for Friedkin's "To Live and Die in LA," which is among the Eightiest things of the Eighties.)

Posted by: Count Orlok at February 26, 2025 12:48 AM (p9lBt)

249 Guy dropping a lighter into a glass. I was really expecting the liquid to be vodka or the like, and then something interesting would happen.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 26, 2025 12:48 AM (TdF1u)

250 > He also never got laid.

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Posted by: pawn at February 26, 2025 12:21 AM (QB+5g)

Or, alternatively, was queer as a three pound note.

I'm going with queer myself. Dude was a good candidate for the smartest person who's ever lived, but he was one weird mofo in many different ways.

I'm not normally impressed by claims that such-and-such historical figure was gay, but in Newton's case I have no problem believing it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 12:49 AM (W5ArC)

251 A recent story in Las Cruces was about the Border Patrol breaking up a major human smuggling ring that intercepted illegals once over the border and then stashed them in various places around Las Cruces before moving them into the interior. While not stated it is easy to think this ring was part of the Mexican cartel's distribution network here in the USA.

Did our local paper cover this? Nah, they were to busy plastering on the front page that some HS students in a charter bus on their way to a sporting event were brutalized and racially profiled when they got stopped at a BP checkpoint and were briefly detained while the agents verified the bus wasn't full of illegals.

It should be noted that every vehicle that hits these BP checkpoint goes through the same process. If you are in passenger car it is a stop and go affair and buses always have an agent board the bus for an eyes on look-see. It is routine.

The paper even managed to give our local Communist congress person a place to pitch a fit how no human is illegal and that we live in a Fascist state run by Nazis.

It is difficult to figure out if you should bust out laughing or beat your head on a wall.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 12:49 AM (Q8Bj8)

252
Oh, BTW, full lunar eclipse visible all over the US, all of North America, and most of South America (always fools me about much farther east SA is relative to us) during the full moon on Mar. 13-14th.

Last moon of astronomical winter is the Worm Moon (or March full moon if you use the simpler calendar month moon names), so this is Blood Worm Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 12:52 AM (w6EFb)

253 No human is illegal. It's just that some are tastier than others.

Posted by: Jeffrey Dahlmer at February 26, 2025 12:53 AM (TdF1u)

254 Tears For Fears are still around?!? Next you will be telling Orlok that Wang Chung is still touring. (I did like the score they did for Friedkin's "To Live and Die in LA," which is among the Eightiest things of the Eighties.)
Posted by: Count Orlok

Wang Chung is touring in 2025. What did I win?

So is Tears for Fears with a date in Austin, TX. Now you owe me.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 12:53 AM (Q8Bj8)

255 Up since midnight again. Thought for sure night was all but over before I looked at clock

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2025 12:56 AM (fwDg9)

256 That scorpions blackout album reminded me of something I did some years back. I guess I need to go into rant mode. My inlaws used to set up these family cruises every other year. I like cruises, did a shitload of them in my time. What I hate about them is wasting time in the dining room. I also hate the fact that I'm on vacation in the frigging caribbean and they expect me to get dressed in a suit to sweat my ass off and waste 3 frigging hours in a dining room. I'm thinking ok, I'm in the frigging caribbean. I should have my hair tied back viking style, wearing cut off camo pants with a fucking coconut shell codpiece, not wearing a frigging suit and tie. Anyway, at the time it was the first cruise I ever did. The food in the dining room was gourmet, meaning they put shit on your plate that looks like they cleaned the sink strainer out, packed it in clear gelatin while the chef thinks they'll raise a statue in his honor. Or you get ethiopian famine portions of shit you don't recognize. Continued......

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2025 12:56 AM (VwHCD)

257 I'm tanned, rested, and ready to lead a punitive mission into Mexico.
Posted by: Zombie Black Jack Pershing at February 26, 2025 12:17 AM (TdF1u)

Leave this one to the experts, kiddo.
Posted by: Zombie Zachary Taylor at February 26, 2025 12:22 AM (l3YAf)

Reporting for orders... again...
Posted by: George Patton, who rode with Pershing at February 26, 2025 12:24 AM (QAkQ3)

Pikers.
Posted by: Zombie Hernando Cortez

Let us gather in Columbus, NM to honor the original invasion. Our first stop should be to sack the Poncho Villa statue just over the border in Puerto Palomas. Afterwards we can go shopping for nicely priced Mexican wampum at the Pink Store. Later for those who need them you get some get some new teeth and glasses before we head south. Visa cards may or may not be accepted; please call ahead to confirm.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 12:59 AM (Q8Bj8)

258 Wang Chung is touring in 2025. What did I win?

So is Tears for Fears with a date in Austin, TX. Now you owe me.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions

Orlok must search around the Keep to see what might be a fitting reward. So far I have come up with an autographed Milli-Vanilli album and a Rammstein music video that is bizarrely not homoerotic. There's some early Kraftwerk albums and the stylings of German rapper Peter Fox. Obviously, I shall have to keep looking.

Posted by: Count Orlok at February 26, 2025 12:59 AM (p9lBt)

259 Orlok must search around the Keep to see what might be a fitting reward. So far I have come up with an autographed Milli-Vanilli album and a Rammstein music video that is bizarrely not homoerotic. There's some early Kraftwerk albums and the stylings of German rapper Peter Fox. Obviously, I shall have to keep looking.
Posted by: Count Orlok

No cash prizes? I must admit I wavered settling for the Rammstein video; sadly is was not homoerotic - they are just not the same without that thematic element so I have heard.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 01:03 AM (Q8Bj8)

260 C'mon Bers, I am enjoying the heck out of the rant!!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2025 01:05 AM (Sgq8y)

261 Next you will be telling Orlok that Wang Chung is still touring. (I did like the score they did for Friedkin's "To Live and Die in LA," which is among the Eightiest things of the Eighties.)
Posted by: Count Orlok
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Was waffling over the weekend - movie to watch: To Live and Die in LA or Manhunter (both William Peterson starring). Went with Manhunter. Music much better in To Live and Die in LA.

Posted by: scampydog at February 26, 2025 01:05 AM (41CYW)

262 Anyway, I'm sitting there, and I'm brewing, and I'm starving looking at this crap on my plate I won't eat, and I'm watching these pretentious douchebags at the table carry on like they're at some state fucking dinner. No assholes, you're on a boat. Out side this frigging room there are chicks walking around with free range titties, bars stocked to the ceiling with booze, and pizza. This was half way through the week and I couldn't take it anymore. Then to top it off somebody suggested we take pictures of momentous occasion. I grabbed 2 forks from the table, bent them the right way, grabbed a linen napkin for a headwrap, and reproduced that scorpions album cover, and I sat there and said, Ok, now I'm ready for your frigging pictures. The recently minted inlaws were moderately horrified. Mrs B in her ever tactful way leans to her parents and says "you probably should expect more of this". lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2025 01:06 AM (VwHCD)

263 The recently minted inlaws were moderately horrified. Mrs B in her ever tactful way leans to her parents and says "you probably should expect more of this". lol
Posted by: Berserker

May I suggest war paint next time with eagle talons imbedded into your chest. Pants are optional though I lean towards no pants. The whole point here is to not be invited to anything for the next 200 years.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 01:12 AM (Q8Bj8)

264 The money part is problematic, unless you're willing to accept Austrian florins or Grosh. Fear not, kind overnight friend - Orlok shall keep searching. Enticing photo of one Mata Hari, graced with her elegant signature, recordings of some of the prank calls Orlok made to Kaiser Wilhelm II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Audrey Hepburn, and Kamala Harris. I will eventually turn up something.

Posted by: Count Orlok at February 26, 2025 01:14 AM (p9lBt)

265
Estimating the IQs of historical figures is "problematic", the concept didn't exist before modern times, but they try.

Newton was likely 6 sigma, 190 - 205, by the modern normal distribution scale fit. Einstein may have been "only" 4 sigma, 160 - 175.

The lists of the greats of all time, including mathematicians, physicists/chemists types are all probably at the 5 - 6 sigma range. Leonardo da Vinci was in the this range as well. Thomas Jefferson likely was too.

Funny thing is, I doubt most of these people would've thought too much about the notion of IQ. Feynman himself joked he only scored about 125 on the only IQ test he ever took, in high school.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 01:14 AM (w6EFb)

266 Had a way past 29 physics prof at Pitt.
He didn't stand flush with the wall.
He also leaned forward and nearly got clobbered.

Posted by: DaveA at February 26, 2025 01:14 AM (FhXTo)

267 Mrs B in her ever tactful way leans to her parents and says "you probably should expect more of this". lol
Posted by: Berserker

I agree.

LOL.

Posted by: mikeski at February 26, 2025 01:15 AM (DgGvY)

268 Was waffling over the weekend - movie to watch: To Live and Die in LA or Manhunter (both William Peterson starring). Went with Manhunter. Music much better in To Live and Die in LA.
Posted by: scampydog

Manhunter is awesome, and Hannibal Lector is more frightening in that one than in the later remake.

Posted by: Count Orlok at February 26, 2025 01:17 AM (p9lBt)

269 May I suggest war paint next time with eagle talons imbedded into your chest. Pants are optional though I lean towards no pants. The whole point here is to not be invited to anything for the next 200 years.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 01:12 AM

I did one better, I stopped doing those type of cruises and started doing the metal cruise. 60 metal bands, on 4 stages, on a huge ass Royal Caribbean ship, no dress code, 24 hour food and debauchery, and a skeleton crew. Headbanger mecca .

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2025 01:17 AM (VwHCD)

270 Never been tested, I assume I am not a idiot

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2025 01:18 AM (fwDg9)

271 I did one better, I stopped doing those type of cruises and started doing the metal cruise. 60 metal bands, on 4 stages, on a huge ass Royal Caribbean ship, no dress code, 24 hour food and debauchery, and a skeleton crew. Headbanger mecca .
Posted by: Berserker

Dear Berserker...don't just stand there, invite me to go with you.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 01:20 AM (Q8Bj8)

272
Feynman's "estimated IQ" is 5 sigma, 175 - 190.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 01:22 AM (w6EFb)

273 Ah, the in-laws were aboard, this explains why you lasted 'til mid-week and you donned the suit and entered the Dining Room in the first place! I hope you know that Mrs. B is the best!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2025 01:22 AM (Sgq8y)

274 Dear Berserker...don't just stand there, invite me to go with you.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 01:20 AM

Look up 70,000 tons of metal. I went 7 years in a row. Missed the last 2 years, probably will go this year.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2025 01:23 AM (VwHCD)

275 Recently re-watched To Live and Die for the first time in 20 years. Wowzer. It crushes the 80s culture, LA, and that car chase is a classic.

Some how I missed rewatching Manhunter. It is on right now.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 01:23 AM (Q8Bj8)

276 Everybody gets the Newton and the apple story wrong, probably because of the plethora of cartoons illustrating the purported events. As Newton wrote it down in a letter, the idea that the Moon should be susceptible to terrestrial gravity came to him as he was looking out the window to the family apple orchard and saw an apple fall with the Moon in the background. Harder to make a cartoon of that, so we get the other story because it’s easier to illustrate.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 26, 2025 01:26 AM (h86Sx)

277 Look up 70,000 tons of metal. I went 7 years in a row. Missed the last 2 years, probably will go this year.
Posted by: Berserker

OK. that looks dope.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 01:26 AM (Q8Bj8)

278 Leonardo da Vinci was in the this range as well. Thomas Jefferson likely was too.
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Two of my favorites. Visited an interactive da Vinci museum about a year ago. Humbling, but very cool.

Posted by: scampydog at February 26, 2025 01:26 AM (41CYW)

279 Ah, the in-laws were aboard, this explains why you lasted 'til mid-week and you donned the suit and entered the Dining Room in the first place! I hope you know that Mrs. B is the best!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2025 01:22 AM (Sgq8y)

Yeah, Mrs B, that poor woman, lol. You know, I did tell her when we decided to get married that marrying a metal guitar player is not going to be a quiet existence, but I promised it would never be boring. You have to understand my inlaws. When they go out to eat you better have your mail forwarded. I like eating out, but I want to be done in 90 minutes, unless its a bar, not spend 3-4 hours with frigging make believe cork sniffers who want to stare at wall paper like they're in a frigging art gallery and sample food like they're the king's food taster. 3-4 hours I'm ready to bite out the ceiling. On that cruise you had wearing a suit and garbage food on top of it. Yeah I lost it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2025 01:30 AM (VwHCD)

280 I would guess old Ben Franklin was a very intelligent man

I am mostly just a insomniac so going to lay here quietly until my alarm goes off.

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2025 01:33 AM (fwDg9)

281 OK. that looks dope.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 01:26 AM (Q8Bj

You'll come home forever changed, lol. Seriously, its a blast, and the bands have nothing to do when they're not playing so they just hang with everybody. Some big bands are on that ship.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2025 01:33 AM (VwHCD)

282 When I was in post career scuffle job phase I was an usher at a 3000 seat theater that hosted everything possible.

Worst EVER: Katt Williams. I nearly got assaulted while taking a couple to their seats. After that I refused to do any black comedian shows.

Weirdest EVER: The raves. Heading cats. Dealing with 3000 people that are high as fuck who want to hung you is, well, weirdest EVER.

BESTEST EVER: Metal shows. Things got a bit out of hand at times but damn, I had an army around me that would kill anybody on the spot if I got messed with. Plus the Yes, Maam, thank you Maam, was pretty cute. Loved those shows and I bitched when I didn't get them.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 01:35 AM (Q8Bj8)

283 In case anyone hasn't seen the AI Gaza video, it's weird and funny:

@Breaking911 3m
President Trump just posted this video on his TRUTH account.
https://tinyurl.com/mrxbcxam

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2025 01:36 AM (mlg/3)

284 >> I would guess old Ben Franklin was a very intelligent man

He was certainly. Whether he was 4, 5, 6 sigma, who knows, but we can certainly say he was on the tails of the distribution, as all the greats are. Putting a number on it is interesting, but sort of silly really. Their accomplishments speak for themselves.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 01:41 AM (w6EFb)

285
4 sigma, which on the IQ scale is 160, is the top 99.99% of the population. So, above that, we're talking are you in the top .01% or the top .001% - .0000000001%.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 01:43 AM (w6EFb)

286 In case anyone hasn't seen the AI Gaza video, it's weird and funny:

@Breaking911 3m
President Trump just posted this video on his TRUTH account.
https://tinyurl.com/mrxbcxam
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2025 01:36 AM (mlg/3)

And to make it come true, "something" has to happen to the current denizens of Gaza.

Well, I'm tanned, rested, and ready, but I'll need a little help.

Posted by: Jeffrey Dahlmer at February 26, 2025 01:49 AM (TdF1u)

287 Putting a number on it is interesting, but sort of silly really. Their accomplishments speak for themselves.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Agree. Small amount of people in the room of that have made impacts that stretch through history. Pretty short list. A few more off the top of my head: Tesla, Voltaire, Shakespeare. Read a bit on Terman's Termites about 10 years ago. Interesting outcomes.

Posted by: scampydog at February 26, 2025 01:50 AM (41CYW)

288 283 In case anyone hasn't seen the AI Gaza video, it's weird and funny:

@Breaking911 3m
President Trump just posted this video on his TRUTH account.
https://tinyurl.com/mrxbcxam
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2025 01:36 AM (mlg/3)

What is amusing is that those pics could have been Beirut Lebanon before the Shah got kicked from Iran, and the Militant Moslems invaded and screwed the country all up

It was a serious banking and tourist center before about 1979... and within 4 years was a war torn blown up shit hole.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 26, 2025 01:50 AM (QAkQ3)

289 BESTEST EVER: Metal shows. Things got a bit out of hand at times but damn, I had an army around me that would kill anybody on the spot if I got messed with. Plus the Yes, Maam, thank you Maam, was pretty cute. Loved those shows and I bitched when I didn't get them.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 01:35 AM (Q8Bj

Damn right. I talked to the captain of the ship one night. This a a royal caribbean captain. I said to him, man this gotta be rough for you. He says "This is my favorite cruise". I said really? He says there are no fights, nobody complains, nobody in our jail, we break all booze records, and everybody has a good time. Let me tell you, the first year they did that cruise we got delayed leaving the port because they drank the frigging ship dry before we left the port. Board at 11am, and by 5pm they were almost out of beer. They had to have an emergency resupply. the captain said they sell more booze in 4 days than they do in 6-7 weeks of normal cruises. The crew is all volunteer. The choose to do that cruise, because they don't have to put on a a show for aunt haggy, so they aren't driven like slaves. Its very relaxed.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2025 01:51 AM (VwHCD)

290 My favorite local Italian place has great food and you are in and out in a little over an hour unless you want to savor a second glass of wine. Staff makes bank there because of high table turnover and they are always busy.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2025 01:57 AM (Sgq8y)

291 G'night, good people. Thanks for all the incidental learning sessions. Berserker, I'm not a cruiser but you're making a helluva good case. See you all Saturday with the Disco and Dino.

Posted by: scampydog at February 26, 2025 02:00 AM (41CYW)

292
Some others, mathematicians (although other things as well), Euler, Gauss, Riemann. They are at that 6 sigma level as well, most likely.

Euler's name is on so much, you can't keep track. Euler's this, that, and the other. 'e' as in ln is for Euler, Euler's number.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 02:01 AM (w6EFb)

293 My favorite local Italian place has great food and you are in and out in a little over an hour unless you want to savor a second glass of wine. Staff makes bank there because of high table turnover and they are always busy.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2025 01:57 AM (Sgq8y)

Yeah thats nice, we have places around here like that. Thats what I'm used to. Go in, eat, get the hell out. My inlaws....holy shit. They like to go to this one place all the way up in north jersey, its on the water like right across from NYC. Its like death race 2000 to get there just so I can sit and stare at NYC for 3 hours. I want to go on a 4 state killing spree after that. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2025 02:02 AM (VwHCD)

294 >> Shakespeare

Heh, just looked it up. He's there in the 6-sigma club as well, maybe *7*, estimated IQ of 210.

As someone joked, "That Shakespeare, all he ever did was write in cliches!" His idioms and turns of a phrase endure, more than any other by far. Just think of all those, "Hoist by his own petard", "All's well that ends well", " Neither hide nor hair", etc, etc, etc. "Wild goose chase", "Bated breath". The list goes on and on.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 02:07 AM (w6EFb)

295 It was Sunday:
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=413786

Posted by: Zombie Zachary Taylor at February 26, 2025 12:39 AM (l3YAf)

Thank you, random zombie American President!

Posted by: pookysgirl, grateful for infant Tylenol at February 26, 2025 02:09 AM (Wt5PA)

296
"Be all and end all", "The world's your oyster". "Green-eyed monster".

My God, the man did indeed write in nothing but cliches.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 02:09 AM (w6EFb)

297 In case anyone hasn't seen the AI Gaza video, it's weird and funny

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 26, 2025 01:50 AM (QAkQ3)
-

lulz at the very end.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 02:11 AM (vr7yq)

298 Now that NBC got rid of Joy Reid and a few others, there's room to take on new talent:

https://tinyurl.com/5fdw72pk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 02:14 AM (vr7yq)

299
Good lord, if it weren't for Shakespeare, we'd have no fun phrases at all.

"Good riddance", "Sound and fury", "neither rhyme nor reason", "in a pickle", "something wicked this way comes", "Stinks to high heaven".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 02:14 AM (w6EFb)

300 Since Las Cruces mostly has New Mexican food it gets to you quick which naturally leads to quick turnovers. Still if one wants to linger you have all the time in the world.

I don't care about any of that and pick my restaurants based on if they have one killer dish I love and if they have on killer place to or as a sub, the greatest ambiance possible. Three examples.

The bar at La Posta, an all adobe building, has a seat that is part of the wall, Godly, plus excellent green chile chicken enchiladas.

The Double Eagle has shit food but the bar was once in Al Capone's personal speak easy plus the tasteful paintings that mostly likely came out of whorehouse, so perfect.

Then there is one of greatest roadhouses in North America: Chope's. It has been there since 1909 and their red chile colorado is the best on the planet. Plus I ride Piglet, my Honda Trailer 125 there and park smack in the middle of all the Harley's. Piglet is well loved there. Me on the other hand is simply Piglet's human.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 02:18 AM (Q8Bj8)

301 Good lord, if it weren't for Shakespeare, we'd have no fun phrases at all.

"Good riddance", "Sound and fury", "neither rhyme nor reason", "in a pickle", "something wicked this way comes", "Stinks to high heaven".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 02:14 AM (w6EFb)

"Sound and fury, signifying nothing." You know, Democrats. Prescient guy, that Shakespeare.

Posted by: RickZ at February 26, 2025 02:18 AM (gKDq2)

302 That's from Faulkner!!!

Posted by: Andrea Mitchell at February 26, 2025 02:21 AM (Sgq8y)

303 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 02:14 AM (w6EFb)

When Lil Pooky has a really gassy day that is unproductive in the diapers, we say he's a Shakespeare fan: Sound and fury, signifying nothing! Poor kid's going to be reciting the entire "To be or not to be" speech before he's in preschool.

Posted by: pookysgirl can't stop being an English major at February 26, 2025 02:21 AM (Wt5PA)

304 Right now, I prefer CNN's Scott Jennings to Shakespeare:

https://tinyurl.com/42wkn7dd

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 02:21 AM (vr7yq)

305 That's from Faulkner!!!

Posted by: Andrea Mitchell at February 26, 2025 02:21 AM (Sgq8y)

My grandparents knew Faulkner. He'd probably beat Andrea with his cane if he were still alive.

Posted by: pookysgirl can't stop being an English major at February 26, 2025 02:24 AM (Wt5PA)

306 Listen carefully to what Tulsi Gabbard said and confirmed about CNN:

https://tinyurl.com/426esuft

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 02:25 AM (vr7yq)

307
"Something wicked this way comes" is from the witches brew chants in Macbeth, "Double, double, toil and trouble".

"Eye of newt" is there too.

The line is, "With the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 26, 2025 02:28 AM (w6EFb)

308 Listen carefully to what Tulsi Gabbard said and confirmed about CNN:

https://tinyurl.com/426esuft
Posted by: Biden's Dog

I am aroused. Again. Trump's 2.0 team is acts as one body which is unlike the last time where everybody was trying to gut him.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 02:29 AM (Q8Bj8)

309 The feds get every frikking holiday under the sun off. But if you work in the private sector you may get a few holidays off but not every holiday. To even this out we should not be taxed when we have to work on holidays. Even if we get "holiday pay" it should not be taxed. Level the playing field.

Posted by: Case at February 26, 2025 02:29 AM (27pJk)

310 But Billy Shakespeare missed this one: A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop, A-lop-bam-boom! Probably because he didn't have amps and Telecasters to mess with.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 26, 2025 02:33 AM (Q8Bj8)

311 Lol, pookysgirl, glad that Lil Pooky is doing well, I bet that Pookette just loves him so much.

Goodnight, Horde, Skip, I hope that you fell asleep.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2025 02:34 AM (Sgq8y)

312 Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2025 02:34 AM (Sgq8y)

Every night Pookette shambles up to him as a Blanket Monster, he grins and grabs her "fur" while trying to eat her.

So. Much. Giggling.

Posted by: pookysgirl enjoys some routines at February 26, 2025 02:49 AM (Wt5PA)

313 Morning, insomaniacals. Woden's Day, eh? (At the risk of sounding Canadian. Which I am, half anyway)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 03:56 AM (omVj0)

314 .
NOOD

Pixy's here with the tech thread.

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 26, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)

315 Ubisoft:

{{ They are Naoe – a female ninja – and Yasuke – who's based on a real-life figure often referred to as "the African samurai". }}

I wonder if the official release date is slated to be April first?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 26, 2025 04:06 AM (O7YUW)

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