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Saturday Night "Club ONT" February 22, 2025 [The 3 D's]
Saturday Night Joke
An Irishman walks into a bar. He orders two shots, drinks them both, and then leaves. The next day, the Irishman returns, orders another two shots, drinks them both, and then leaves. He continues to do this for some time, when one day the bartender questions him, “How come you always order exactly two shots?” The Irishman replies, “well, you see my brother and I used to go out drinking every night, but he lives across the country now, so every night, I order two drinks. One for myself, and one for my brother.” Things remain the same for a while until one day the Irishman comes in and orders only one shot. The bartender becomes concerned and asks him “how come you’re only ordering one shot? Did something happen to your brother? Is he ok?” The Irishman replies, “of course not, my brother’s fine. I just quit drinking”
Drink of the Night Duck Fart
Once you get over laughing about the name, you’re going to love the taste of this Duck Fart Shot! It’s fun to make and even more fun to drink! A Duck Fart is a layered shot with Kahlua, Bailey’s Irish Cream and whiskey. The Kahlua is the bottom layer, the Bailey’s floats on top of the Kahlua for the middle layer and then a good amount of whiskey gets poured on top of the Bailey’s. Said to have originated in a bar in Alaska on a slow night when the bartender and an older woman were testing recipes. The woman drank a few here of these and then came up with the name “Duck Fart”.
[Disco says: Ducks are funny. So are farts.] [Dino says: Funny, but now brace and prepare for duck puns and quack quack jokes in the comments. Glad the comments do not have smell-o-vision.]
The Disco is now reminded of something...
That song is featured in this 30 minute video. 14 Terrible #1 Songs from the 1970s [Disco says: C'mon man! Some of these songs are AWESOME!]
Club-worthy Comments
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - snarled again at February 22, 2025 10:00 PM (9pu/X)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 22, 2025 10:00 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Lurking CheshirecatQ at February 22, 2025 10:00 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Lurking CheshirecatQ at February 22, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Dr. T at February 22, 2025 10:02 PM (lHPJf)
That would be tankdemon.
(Does Snoopy victory dance)
Posted by: mindful webworker - or did I get it wrong again? at February 22, 2025 10:02 PM (9pu/X)
And really, teh Horde is the best at being humble. Great at it, as a matter of fact. Nobody is more humble, everybody says so.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 22, 2025 10:03 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Piper at February 22, 2025 10:03 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at February 22, 2025 10:04 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 22, 2025 10:04 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Lurking CheshirecatQ at February 22, 2025 10:04 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at February 22, 2025 10:04 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 22, 2025 10:05 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: mindful webworker - doo doo de doo at February 22, 2025 10:05 PM (9pu/X)
Posted by: Iris at February 22, 2025 10:05 PM (bOJ2I)
Good evening all.
Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 10:06 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 22, 2025 10:07 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at February 22, 2025 10:07 PM (SlObn)
Posted by: Prudence Dictates at February 22, 2025 10:07 PM (G5+As)
A candidate for the provincial legislature in Ontario has been forced to drop out.
The candidate, a professor of sociology and women's studies and a self-described DEI advocate (of course) was caught on tape saying that she wanted to be a black woman (she is white), because then she would have "lived experiences" of poverty, addiction, and alcoholism.
Naturally, she claimed her decision to drop out was to avoid being a distraction.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 22, 2025 10:07 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Lurking CheshirecatQ at February 22, 2025 10:04 PM (w3u3d)
I've got that on my scheduled for June 6.
Posted by: Ike. at February 22, 2025 10:07 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Iris at February 22, 2025 10:05 PM (bOJ2I)
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It's not as hard as you might think.
Who's going to verify they actually did the work they claimed to do?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2025 10:08 PM (BpYfr)
It's a good one!
I heard it before with 3 beers, and then 2 beers, and "Aw, Paddy, I'm sorry for your loss." "Loss? Nae, these two beers are for me brothers. I gave up beer for Lent."
Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 10:08 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Iris at February 22, 2025 10:05 PM
***
"What did you do this week, Iris?"
"Same thing I do every week. Try to take over the world."
Narf!
Posted by: TRex at February 22, 2025 10:09 PM (SlObn)
Posted by: Prudence Dictates at February 22, 2025 10:07 PM (G5+As)
A bunch of Vichy-washy quislings?
Posted by: Ike. at February 22, 2025 10:09 PM (VSht7)
Great Saturday Night joke!
Love the photo up top. Maybe when the weather warms up a bit...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 22, 2025 10:09 PM (rxCpr)
Posted by: Kindltot
Nice, but where I come from people pronounce it chim-o-lee. Sounds more hardcore country.
Posted by: Chicken-Fried Jake at February 22, 2025 10:10 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Prudence Dictates at February 22, 2025 10:07 PM (G5+As)
The French?
Posted by: Dr. T at February 22, 2025 10:10 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 22, 2025 10:10 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 22, 2025 10:11 PM (L65Dp)
Hey! I made the 'Club worthy comments' on the ONT. I think the last time, under the MisHum regime, was my comment about Tim Kaine have the IQ of pocket lint. Been a while! Thank you! It's quite the honor!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 22, 2025 10:11 PM (xA5g+)
Posted by: mindful webworker - you may already be a weiner at February 22, 2025 10:11 PM (9pu/X)
Uneasy about this whole thing. You know who else started out collaborating?
Posted by: Prudence Dictates
Oog and Ogg in the Caveman Rebellion.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 22, 2025 10:12 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 10:12 PM (g47mK)
Been feeling better, so I have been able to work on Christmas stockings again - yay!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 22, 2025 10:13 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 22, 2025 10:13 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 22, 2025 10:13 PM (rxCpr)
Posted by: mindful webworker - ONT by committee at February 22, 2025 10:13 PM (9pu/X)
Suggest that Trump make the nomination for the new one. The Cardinals then then vote to confirm.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 22, 2025 10:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Piper at February 22, 2025 10:14 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: what it is, G at February 22, 2025 10:14 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 22, 2025 10:14 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: She Hobbit at February 22, 2025 10:13 PM (ftFVW)
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Definitely not a MOME...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2025 10:14 PM (BpYfr)
Been feeling better, so I have been able to work on Christmas stockings again - yay!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 22, 2025 10:13 PM (SRRAx
Yay! This is great!
Posted by: Piper at February 22, 2025 10:15 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: She Hobbit
It would be more fun with some booze... And stenciling 'TNT' on those boxes.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 22, 2025 10:15 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Piper
Nope. Never again after that last incident with the buttplug and the attached peacock feathers.
You'd think after 50 years people would have forgotten but Noooooo!!
Posted by: Tonypete at February 22, 2025 10:15 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 10:15 PM (cMcMn)
Posted by: Piper
Nope. Never again after that last incident with the buttplug and the attached peacock feathers.
You'd think after 50 years people would have forgotten but Noooooo!!
Posted by: Tonypete at February 22, 2025 10:15 PM (cYBz/)
Was that the black eye incident?
Posted by: Piper at February 22, 2025 10:17 PM (pZEOD)
Sorry if it has already be reported, but it is GOLD !
https://x.com/JYoungbluth/status/1893007768379908462/video/1
Posted by: TxMarko at February 22, 2025 10:17 PM (7flhA)
Posted by: scampydog at February 22, 2025 10:17 PM (41CYW)
I'm a fan of 80s Brit Pop
Posted by: Don Black. Message: what it is, G at February 22, 2025 10:17 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 10:17 PM (FUagJ)
You'd think after 50 years people would have forgotten but Noooooo!!
Posted by: Tonypete
Awww, did it fall out? You just need more practice, darling.
Posted by: Sam Brinton at February 22, 2025 10:17 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Linz Minyuk. at February 22, 2025 10:17 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 22, 2025 10:18 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 22, 2025 10:18 PM (CHHv1)
Suggest that Trump make the nomination for the new one. The Cardinals then then vote to confirm.
I don't see why you'd give that duty an NFL team, but OK.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 22, 2025 10:19 PM (lUFok)
e.g.
https://youtu.be/urglg3WimHA
Now, folding those little fortune-telling thingies, that's a skill.
Posted by: mindful webworker - ONT by committee at February 22, 2025 10:19 PM (9pu/X)
Fully loaded? Damn, I need to up my game.
Club ONT is not responsible for keeping track of the bathroom key at Yosemite National Park.
Is anybody anymore?
Posted by: tankdemon at February 22, 2025 10:19 PM (VSht7)
For everyone still asking me who the MPs are who are calling for us to take in terrorist sympathizers from Gaza, here's the letter with the signatories.
[ doc ]
Posted by: 13times at February 22, 2025 10:20 PM (UrEBu)
Posted by: mindful webworker - ONT by committee
Not to mention the codpiece.
Posted by: Tommy Tautog at February 22, 2025 10:20 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 10:20 PM (cMcMn)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 22, 2025 10:21 PM (iELXO)
Sorry if it has already be reported, but it is GOLD !
Nice to see Donald back into music after Nuclear Power Trio broke up.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 22, 2025 10:21 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 22, 2025 10:14 PM (VSht7)
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I'd take a gander at one of those.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 10:21 PM (hY4dx)
Crisis! 🚨 Are the ONT masters running short of material?
Posted by: mindful webworker - Film at 11 at February 22, 2025 10:21 PM (9pu/X)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 22, 2025 10:22 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: I.P.Dailey at February 22, 2025 10:22 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 22, 2025 10:22 PM (w3u3d)
Is anybody anymore?
Posted by: tankdemon at February 22, 2025 10:19 PM (VSht7)
I find it wise to carry Biffy bags if one is in the wilderness. You never know if the urge will strike.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 10:22 PM (FUagJ)
Posted by: TRex at February 22, 2025 10:23 PM (SlObn)
Hip? Knee?
Problems post surgery? Tips ? Infections?
Any input would be great.
Hip surgery this week. Anxious. Uuugh.
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:24 PM (lHZiH)
Posted by: Solutus at February 22, 2025 10:24 PM (Jnnb9)
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 10:25 PM (FUagJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 10:25 PM (hY4dx)
NOTHING I hear these days seems to be from my HS days!
"Hits from the 80's, 90's, and beyond" is outside of my wheelhouse - those are songs from my college and early motherhood days....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 22, 2025 10:25 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: mnw at February 22, 2025 10:26 PM (NLIak)
In the first few minutes one scientist had bolts in her face, then there was scene with a bunch rainbow flags, and then some guy that could have be David Hogg. Given all the other gay stuff it was pretty easy to conclude he like to bite the pillow.
I didn't last beyond that but I wouldn't be surprised if some drag queen got on screen later to explain how dino birds were transgender and didn't evolve into birds but transitioned into birds.
SOS DOGE. SOS DOGE. Make it end. Please.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 22, 2025 10:26 PM (Q8Bj8)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 10:26 PM (cMcMn)
But, I don't understand the language the guy is speaking.
Closed captions only made it worse.
Posted by: mindful webworker - ave nothr beel esly at February 22, 2025 10:26 PM (9pu/X)
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I lost a bag of them in a flood once but my agent said they weren't covered.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 10:27 PM (hY4dx)
Yes, illegal activity is now OK if yer a Judge as long as it only lasts 2 weeks...
Oh, but that is 20 Billion is US Aid funding on average.... and now thousands of illegals not being deported every week... and thousands of useless Fed employees drawing a pay check, while actively fighting against the duly elected US President...
The Supremes... through their very cowardly inaction, is now aiding and giving comfort to Treasonous Judges.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 10:27 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: tankdemon
A "deconstructed" Mudslide, with less cream flavor and more whiskey flavor? Sounds like a winner to me.
A mudslide is Kahlua, Irish cream, vodka, and heavy cream. Not layered. Often sorority-girled up into an ice-cream-sundae drink.
Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 10:27 PM (DgGvY)
I had an Aunt Iris, passed just a couple years ago, lived just outside DC since ? the 40's or so. Was impressed how she kept in touch with family. I spoke with her a couple times as she called my (Lewi body dementia) mom. Just came across another letter from her to my mom from ? the 50's maybe.
Iris is such a nice name.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 10:28 PM (Cus5s)
Boy oh boy. I thought I had a heavy topic for an ont.
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:29 PM (lHZiH)
Timely throwback. Was just explaining the game to some young punk at work who got all offended by the name.
Nah little bro. It's very manly. You run like hell with the ball until you get tackled. If you toss the ball before getting jam-piled in the school's gravel parking lot your friends will call you a simpering faggot, which means a stick.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 22, 2025 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)
OK... brings in the nice asses... but...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 10:30 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 10:30 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mnw at February 22, 2025 10:30 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 22, 2025 10:30 PM (w3u3d)
So you're saying I gotta go where the bears go?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 10:30 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: TRex at February 22, 2025 10:23 PM (SlObn)
The short arms theme has been done to death. Maybe tie in the Chicxulub meteor by saying you were making a wish on a shooting star.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 22, 2025 10:31 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: 13times at February 22, 2025 10:32 PM (Sqn/N)
[linked by another account]
@elonmusk
3h
Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.
Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 22, 2025 10:32 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: I.P.Dailey at February 22, 2025 10:22 PM (G5+As)
Been there lately? It's way over crowded with Japanese and Chinese... and a few Euro Tourists.
Us Locals can't even get into the Park anymore without a Reservation.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 10:32 PM (QAkQ3)
The episode with James Coburn and Leonard Nimoy playing arsonists is lit.
https://youtu.be/ujUBXusvHIo
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 22, 2025 10:32 PM (Q8Bj8)
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:24 PM (lHZiH)
I haven't. But a friend's husband has. Two hip replacements in the past year. He's in his 70s. He is so not in optimal health, but did great. I can't remember if he was inpatient or not. But home health came and did PT with him. He is much improved.
Prayers that it goes well for you, also.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 10:32 PM (FUagJ)
Posted by: lin-duh at February 22, 2025 10:33 PM (VCgbV)
Which is a blaster fave.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at February 22, 2025 10:33 PM (QfvaV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 10:34 PM (cMcMn)
[linked by another account]
@elonmusk
3h
Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.
Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 22, 2025 10:32 PM (Vqx30)
Well Boss, my Crusader Kings 2 game is recreating Germany right now... with the King being a Mage Demon...
OH... and in Kingdom Come Deliverance I got whacko drunk this week...
So... GAINZ!
Signed, Asking for a Raise cause I'm a Fed Employee.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 10:34 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 22, 2025 10:30 PM (w3u3d)
Naw, that would be The Bee Gees.
No. Wait. Kiss. I Wuz Made for Luvvin' yew baby! That's when Kiss was dead to me, at the tender age of 13.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 22, 2025 10:34 PM (bDNzX)
My mom's had both hips and both knees done. My sister has had a shoulder and a hip. It's pretty routine these days.
Do your rehab.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 22, 2025 10:34 PM (LkLld)
Happy (proleptic) birfday to George Washington. The sine qua non of the United States.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 10:34 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: lin-duh at February 22, 2025 10:33 PM (VCgbV)
He's not doing well, at all. But still alive.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 10:34 PM (FUagJ)
I wonder if George Washington is on the active list at Social Security.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 10:35 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 10:34 PM (cMcMn)
Was stationed at Great Lakes at the time... whole city was nutz that week.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 10:35 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:24 PM (lHZiH)
* * * *
Understand the anxiety, but hip replacement is the easiest joint of all. Abide by the pre-surgery instructions. Drink Gatorade or similar in the two days prior to surgery. Ice is your friend. Ask the Horde for prayers. Follow the PT and realize that you get out of it what you put in to it. Now is not the time to phone it in. Regain mobility as quickly as you can since it will help in the long run. I had both knees replaced and very little pain. It's a miracle and I now look forward to gym day!
Prayers up for successful surgery and fast healing!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 22, 2025 10:35 PM (rxCpr)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 22, 2025 10:36 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 22, 2025 10:36 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:24 PM (lHZiH)
Replacement? If so, it is one of the most rewarding surgeries, as far as quality of life improvement.
They will have you up and around day of or the next day. You can go home after you produce a bowel movement and can climb some stairs. Good drugs. The new wound dressings are great -- you can shower with them.
You will want a bath bench, a raised toilet, a walker, and a sock donner. Do all of your physical therapy for maximum gain of strength, stability, and range of motion. Limitations on how far you can bend are temporary, but respect them until your therapist or doctor gives you the okay.
Anything else you want to know?
Posted by: Emmie at February 22, 2025 10:36 PM (Sf2cq)
Too late.
Posted by: Joe Redfield at February 22, 2025 10:36 PM (KOtXO)
https://youtu.be/-Iu1pA4sDbc
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 22, 2025 10:37 PM (Q8Bj8)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 22, 2025 10:30 PM (w3u3d)
Naw, that would be The Bee Gees.
No. Wait. Kiss. I Wuz Made for Luvvin' yew baby! That's when Kiss was dead to me, at the tender age of 13.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 22, 2025 10:34 PM (bDNzX)
John Revolting Travolta killed Disco, just like he later did country... made 'certain' things way popular... which killed all the things he didn't do in his movies.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 10:37 PM (QAkQ3)
ISWYDT
Posted by: tankdemon at February 22, 2025 10:36 PM (VSht7)
Careful Horde. We've been burned before.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 10:37 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: lin-duh at February 22, 2025 10:33 PM (VCgbV)
He's not doing well, at all. But still alive.
Posted by: Scarymary
+++
Is the Pope Catholic?
This one doesn't seem to be.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at February 22, 2025 10:37 PM (Lo97M)
Posted by: Iris
Umm, I was on leave for the week in honor of Presidents' Day and our new President ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 22, 2025 10:37 PM (/lPRQ)
It was kinda... blecch.
Posted by: GWB at February 22, 2025 10:38 PM (hzHvq)
Posted by: Derak
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Shoulder for me. Son with a hip labrum. Both went smoothly - be patient and be diligent with PT.
Posted by: scampydog at February 22, 2025 10:38 PM (41CYW)
M Squad is to Police Squad! as Zero Hour is to Airplane!
Side by side comparisons are on Youtube.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 10:38 PM (w6EFb)
So you're saying I gotta go where the bears go?
Posted by: Diogenes
They have the best bath tissue.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 22, 2025 10:38 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 10:39 PM (Cus5s)
Proposed DOGE sister agency: Federal Agency for Fiscal Oversight, or FAFO.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 10:39 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:24
Get up and walk as ssoon as they let you. You'll be good, my 78 year old mom had both done within a few months and did great!
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 22, 2025 10:39 PM (Vvh2V)
Just the other day I was remembering when our daughter was young and listened to the Oldies station, which back then was the music I grew up with. The station was doing a countdown of the top 1000 songs over a weekend, and it got pretty good toward the end. After much build-up and anticipation, they spun up the #1 oldie.
🎶I think it's gonna be all right
Yeah the worst is over now
The morning sun is shining
like a rreeeddd rubber ballll…
SSkkkkrrrittttch. DJ says, "Just kidding."
I don't remember what the real #1 was.
Nowadays, oldies are what our kids heard as late teens.
It's weird being in the grocery store and hearing "I'm not a virgin anymore," or "I want to f you like an animal," or … 😱 just kidding. Mostly.
Posted by: mindful webworker - isn't it ironic doncha think at February 22, 2025 10:39 PM (9pu/X)
Proposed DOGE sister agency: Federal Agency for Fiscal Oversight, or FAFO.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 10:39 PM (w6EFb)
/Golf Clap...
Well played...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 10:39 PM (QAkQ3)
God, I miss 'em. The short Camel unfiltereds and Kool Filter Kings.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 22, 2025 10:40 PM (KiBMU)
It's weird being in the grocery store and hearing "I'm not a virgin anymore," or "I want to f you like an animal," or … 😱 just kidding. Mostly.
Posted by: mindful webworker - isn't it ironic doncha think at February 22, 2025 10:39 PM (9pu/X)
Been stayin away from cities for the last few years... so no elevator rides... but...
Do they have Rap Elevator music yet?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 10:41 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: mindful webworker - faithful family member at February 22, 2025 10:41 PM (9pu/X)
All of the PTs at the hospital were fighting over who got to have her for therapy each day, because she was so cheery and eager to please 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 22, 2025 10:41 PM (SRRAx)
Also, you will be directed to stay ahead of the recovery pain. Take the pain relievers as directed and don't try to tough it out. It actually requires less medicine to stay comfortable than it does if you wait until you hurt and then try to get it under control. You will probably be able to taper off sooner than your doctor will tell you to expect to.
Posted by: Emmie at February 22, 2025 10:42 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 10:42 PM (cMcMn)
Oldest son had to fire ten employees last week.
I think it is great Trump is firing the dead weight employees. Unfortunately it is affecting the "on the ground people".
Today he got the text from Musk and answered immediately.
Posted by: four seasons at February 22, 2025 10:42 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 10:37 PM (QAkQ3)
Has Kelly Preston entered the chat?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 10:43 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 10:39 PM (w6EFb)
That is funny. I like the metal FAFO song that's been making the rounds. It feels good to feel good about our country.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 10:43 PM (FUagJ)
I was listening to Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Scorpions, etc.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 22, 2025 10:43 PM (bDNzX)
Yeah the worst is over now
The morning sun is shining
like a rreeeddd rubber ballll…
~~~~~
Red Rubber Ball by the Cyrkle. It was the favorite karaoke song of one of my friends.
Posted by: IrishEi at February 22, 2025 10:44 PM (3ImbR)
Because everyone knows that you can't enjoy entertainment unless you see your own damn gay self right in the middle of the story.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 10:44 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Case at February 22, 2025 10:45 PM (xcRXq)
[linked by another account]
@elonmusk
3h
Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.
Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Again, in American English?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 22, 2025 10:45 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 10:43 PM (W/lyH)
She passed away, but maybe with the use of a ouija board...
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 22, 2025 10:45 PM (bDNzX)
Posted by: IrishEi
The Cyrkle opened for the Beatles in 1966 in Seattle. If I recall correctly this was their opening song.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 22, 2025 10:46 PM (Q8Bj8)
Posted by: Huguenot Hal at February 22, 2025 10:47 PM (G5+As)
Wow...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 10:47 PM (QAkQ3)
I'm an aging athlete. Intense backcountry skiing. Mountain biking. Hiking. Swimming kayaking. Soccer. tennis. Cross country skiing.
This whole thing came out of no where. I crossed a threshold and bang. No more activities.
I'm looking forward to a fix so I can regain a portion of my prior athleticism.
Scared shitless about infection. I'm going in pretty healthy and toned, but dang. Getting fat and furious about it.
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:47 PM (lHZiH)
So, straight up theft?
How did they pay for all those sex changes and hormones for the tranny guys?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 22, 2025 10:47 PM (bss/y)
Not sorry. Learn to pick vegetables and fruit as all the mezzicans are being deported.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2025 10:47 PM (02Sat)
God, I miss 'em. The short Camel unfiltereds and Kool Filter Kings.
Posted by: Mr Gaga
Kool also made short unfiltered cigs.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 22, 2025 10:47 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 10:44 PM (hY4dx)
Is there a Kennedy Center show featuring the world's smallest violin? I still wouldn't go to DC to see it.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 10:47 PM (FUagJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 22, 2025 10:47 PM (bss/y)
Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 22, 2025 10:32 PM
We called them WSARs...wissars. Weekly Significant Activities Reports. Pretty simple and it keeps you focused.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 10:48 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 10:48 PM (cMcMn)
Posted by: mnw at February 22, 2025 10:49 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 10:49 PM (BI5O2)
"On Strike" ... isn't that "treason"?
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 10:49 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:24 PM (lHZiH) Do your rehab.
...Do your rehab.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 22, 2025 10:34 PM (LkLld)
This is key to a "successful" outcome.
Posted by: Giles Overreach at February 22, 2025 10:49 PM (MDvLA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 10:50 PM (cMcMn)
Posted by: mnw at February 22, 2025 10:49 PM (NLIak)
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Seems like he passed up a good opportunity to quit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 10:51 PM (hY4dx)
"On Strike" ... isn't that "treason"?
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 10:49 PM (Cus5s)
Britian is so far down the shit hole, who knows.
I know the German Army gets paid overtime for working weekends... so...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 10:51 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 10:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:51 PM (lHZiH)
Ummm. That's not the way the military works, is it?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2025 10:51 PM (02Sat)
Heh, it wasn't called "classic" rock when I *first* started listening to it...
Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 10:52 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 10:52 PM (BI5O2)
It's funny. When Britain (finally) switched over to the Gregorian, they didn't use to the term at all. It was the "New Style" calendar. Many were opposed to the "papist calendar". They even adopted the Greogorian computus of Easter rules, but didn't mention anything about the source.
Washington's Julian birthdate was Feb 11, 1731. Proleptic Gregorian is Feb 22, 1732. The year difference is because the New Style switched the start of the year to the common Jan 1, rather than March 25.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 10:52 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 10:49 PM (BI5O2)
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Tell me you've never had a decent cocktail without telling me you've never had a decent cocktail.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 10:52 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 10:52 PM (g47mK)
So, Joe Jackson : youtu.be/PJwt2dxx9yg
Posted by: gKWVE at February 22, 2025 10:52 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2025 10:52 PM (02Sat)
Posted by: Emmie at February 22, 2025 10:53 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Derak
Stool softener. Use it, and be sure to drink plenty of water. Painkillers can cause constipation.
Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 10:53 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 10:52 PM (g47mK)
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Tossup between him and Cardinal Zen. I love it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 10:53 PM (ZOv7s)
That moment when my music was played on the oldies station was 40 years ago
2024 was the first time someone gave me their seat on the bus.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2025 10:54 PM (RIvkX)
Guess he didn't want to accept ANYTHING from Hamas, including involuntary freedom from addiction.
Makes sense to me.
Posted by: mnw at February 22, 2025 10:54 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 10:54 PM (g47mK)
Ummm. That's not the way the military works, is it?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2025 10:51 PM (02Sat)
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Britain no longer has a real military. It is known.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 10:54 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 10:52 PM (g47mK)
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CATHOLIC FUN FACT: Pope Joan had them all fooled until she dropped a kid.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 10:54 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 10:54 PM (FUagJ)
Posted by: Cultured Gent at February 22, 2025 10:54 PM (G5+As)
not to say they're unjustified; Blighty's chain-of-command hasn't had British interests at heart since they ousted Mrs T.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 22, 2025 10:55 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Derak
Stool softener. Use it, and be sure to drink plenty of water. Painkillers can cause constipation.
Posted by: JQ
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You will likely get 4 meds with varying instructions and when to take them. Put together a chart - and if available, have someone monitor when you're taking them - with you.
Posted by: scampydog at February 22, 2025 10:55 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 10:54 PM (g47mK)
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Rumor is the cardinals actually want a short-term pope to give them a breather. Someone who will return to orthodoxy, and not go crazy about synodality or some such nonsense.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 10:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Hip? Knee?… Hip surgery this week. Anxious. Uuugh.
Posted by: Derak
Not me, but MiladyJo had both hips upgraded last year. Usually successful nowadays. She says, it's pretty quick, pretty easy; up and around in a day; follow your therapy. Don't do yoga that puts your foot behind your head. Be glad it's hip not knee.
Posted by: mindful webworker - no soccer playing for a while at February 22, 2025 10:56 PM (9pu/X)
Kahlua, Bailey's, and Valu-Rite
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2025 10:56 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 10:56 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:51 PM (lHZiH)
It's an over-the-counter stool softener. Good for when you are on opioids or when traveling.
Posted by: Emmie at February 22, 2025 10:56 PM (Sf2cq)
Many of the Founders were affected by the calendar change. Ben Franklin was one, Julian birthday Jan. 6, 1705, "New Style" date Jan. 17, 1706.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 10:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 10:55 PM (ZOv7s)
that's how they got Francis
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 10:57 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 10:57 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 10:54 PM (hY4dx)
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Style correction: "Mythical Pope Joan" is the correct usage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 10:57 PM (ZOv7s)
...Do your rehab.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 22, 2025 10:34 PM (LkLld)
!!! Indeed. I regard physical therapists as among the gods. I'm going in pretty strong but neglect regarding this seems deadly.
Thx all. I know we're all 29, but yikes. 60 sneaks
Up fast. Especially if you've pounded too hard in your youth. I
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:57 PM (lHZiH)
Posted by: Marlon Brando's Friend at February 22, 2025 10:57 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Tell me you've never had a decent cocktail without telling me you've never had a decent cocktail.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Anyone making a Last Word with bathtub gin spends a night in the box.
Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 10:58 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: 18-1
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Have not seen. I do like the rhythm of the movies he directs.
Posted by: scampydog at February 22, 2025 10:58 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:24
Get up and walk as ssoon as they let you. You'll be good, my 78 year old mom had both done within a few months and did great!
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 22, 2025 10:39 PM (Vvh2V)
A friend of mine had both hips done when he was in his mid 50's. This dude was bad, real bad. If he waiting another month he would be the dude you see in the medieval movies kneeling in a cart and pushing himself around with his fists. He walked like he fell out of an airplane. It was amazing, you would never know he had his hips done, he walks like he never had a problem. They got that shit down.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 22, 2025 10:58 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 10:58 PM (lHZiH)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 10:57 PM (ZOv7s)
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Not unless all the other popes were Mithters.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 10:58 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 10:57 PM (g47mK)
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Francis was a reaction against ultra-orthodox Benedict. Benedict was heavy into justice, so Francis was to counterbalance that with mercy.
Seemed to work out at first, but then the sex stuff started to emerge. Cardinal "Book of Kissing" was a problem no one had anticipated.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 10:59 PM (ZOv7s)
GenX had some dark shit.
Posted by: i wish i could have met you but now it's a little late at February 22, 2025 10:59 PM (gKWVE)
And GloboHomo has to be purged, the RCC won't survive another generation with the real religion in the domination being an anti-Christian sex fetish
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 10:59 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 10:58 PM (hY4dx)
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When did this Pope Joan reign?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 10:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Emmie at February 22, 2025 10:59 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 10:59 PM (FUagJ)
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at February 22, 2025 10:59 PM (4DY5T)
Knee replacement 7 years ago.
First year, thought I'd made a big mistake. After that, it's been all good.
Posted by: mnw at February 22, 2025 11:00 PM (NLIak)
An African cardinal dies and goes to heaven
St Peter takes him to see God who blessed him and thx him for his service.
The African says "God will we ever gave a black Pope"
God says "yes my son . Italians, Poles, Hispanics and French have been Catholics much longer than black people. You must be patient"
African says happily " so there will be a black Pope"
God "yes my son but not while I'm God"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 11:00 PM (cMcMn)
Justice is something this world sorely needs right now.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:00 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 10:58 PM (DgGvY)
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Gin and tonic
French 75
Tom Collins
All are superb but ingredients matter.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:01 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 10:59 PM (FUagJ)
Thank you Mary, this is appreciated.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 22, 2025 11:02 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: publius
Vic, too.
Posted by: RIP at February 22, 2025 11:02 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 22, 2025 11:02 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Emmie at February 22, 2025 11:02 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:00 PM (t0Rmr)
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Agreed, and Sarah and Zen lean heavily into it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:03 PM (ZOv7s)
*This concludes tonight's ecumenical minute with runner
Posted by: runner with tonight's Ecumenical minute at February 22, 2025 11:03 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2025 10:51 PM (02Sat)
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Britain no longer has a real military. It is known.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 10:54 PM (ZOv7s)
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They're SAS. Who's gonna make them?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 11:03 PM (W/lyH)
GenX had some dark shit.
Posted by: i wish i could have met you but now it's a little late
Slow night at a club, umm, 29 years ago,I played that for a stripper.
Might have been the first time she heard it and was, WTF?!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 22, 2025 11:03 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 11:04 PM (g47mK)
I've heard hips are easy rehab but it's still major surgery and well.......Jesus drive me home. I'm in Your care now.
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 11:04 PM (lHZiH)
Honestly, after the previous administration nearly fired me for refusing the clot shot and having THIS administration possibly firing me should I not respond to an e-mail while I'm on FMLA leave, I just don't care any longer.
My parents need my help. Fuck everything else.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 22, 2025 11:04 PM (NuKV1)
Posted by: mnw at February 22, 2025 11:04 PM (NLIak)
Yes, Benedict XVI died Dec 31, 2022.
There is a false usurper supposedly about to expire.
Posted by: mindful webworker - pray for his unlikely deathbed salvation at February 22, 2025 11:04 PM (9pu/X)
Posted by: Only The Good, You Know at February 22, 2025 11:04 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 11:05 PM (cMcMn)
*This concludes tonight's ecumenical minute with runner
Posted by: runner with tonight's Ecumenical minute at February 22, 2025 11:03 PM (g47mK)
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God works in mysterious ways.
Just another reminder that Francis exposed corruption in a way no one else could have done. He wasn't the pope we wanted, but he was the pope we needed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 11:05 PM (cMcMn)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:06 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 11:06 PM (hY4dx)
Kraut Elections are tomorrow. Here's a primer by Eugyppius on the German parties:
https://tinyurl.com/25mcr6vl
Also, as he explains here, if the CDU/CSU maintains the "firewall" or "cordon sanitaire" against the AfD, this will produce the most insane govt yet. It will be a minority lefttard govt.
https://tinyurl.com/2dkz5yel
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 11:06 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 11:07 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:07 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 10:59 PM (FUagJ)
As a practicing Protestant...mostly...I agree. A good Pope is important.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 11:07 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I saw Crazy About Synodality open for Cosmic Cathedral at The Kennedy Center yesterday.
https://youtu.be/ehkwCgOTS0I
There's some guys you might have heard on an oldies station in that band.
Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 11:07 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 11:08 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 11:08 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: the barrel at February 22, 2025 11:08 PM (gKWVE)
He didn't get an infection. They gave him extra rounds of IV antibiotics, though.
Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mnw at February 22, 2025 11:04 PM (NLIak)
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I bought a box of umbrellas just for fun.
At a bar, I just order the stuff on the rocks. Make it a double. More efficient that way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:08 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 11:08 PM (6K6Eu)
Cocktails are for chicks, or men who are being forced to drink rotgut by some military officers, or the League of Women Voters.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 11:09 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 22, 2025 11:09 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 11:08 PM (6K6Eu)
It's time you asked for royalties !
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 11:09 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 11:10 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 11:09 PM (BI5O2)
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Tell me you've never had a French 75 without telling me you've never had a French 75.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:10 PM (ZOv7s)
First year, thought I'd made a big mistake. After that, it's been all good.
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Mnw, my buddy had his done 18 mos ago, just hiked/skied Tetons at age 69 last week.
Proper respect to rehab is what he told me. I'm taking it to heart.
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 11:11 PM (lHZiH)
Posted by: the barrel
* checks the style guide *
I didn't Italican anyone else's comments.
* farts in the barrel's general direction *
Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 11:11 PM (DgGvY)
Alvin Lee- guitar, vocal; George Harrison- slide guitar; Steve Gould- bass; Tim Hinkley- Hammond organ; Alan Young- drums; Steve Grant- keys
Alvin says… one of my favorite tracks from my album ‘1994’. It has George Harrison on slide guitar and is one of the best solos he ever played. It’s a masterpiece, so sensitive. Hearing George made me play more sensitive too!
For me, Mr. Lee crushes it. Yeah, that covers it. One of the greats, he always brought a rare musicality to everything he played.
https://youtu.be/rB6OlJqV1rQ
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 22, 2025 11:11 PM (Q8Bj8)
STUNT POPE!'"
what were the football replacements called, when "real" NFL went on strike?
Scab Pope? heh
No, there is no "pope", Jesus was the foundation, the "head of the corner", from all OT prophesies. Peter was a pebble, but upon this Stone (JC) will the church be built.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:11 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Wimple Wiper at February 22, 2025 11:11 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 11:08 PM (hY4dx)
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Francis openly jokes that everything he's done will be overturned by John XXIV.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:11 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 10:42 PM (cMcMn)
The Ceausescus were murdered? News to me.
Posted by: RickZ at February 22, 2025 11:12 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 11:12 PM (BI5O2)
'Steve Bannon said that the takedown of the' Kennedy Center is one of the most important things Trump has done so far. It was the Dem/Whacko "Church".'
Fuck 'em. Trump should turn it into a shooting range.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 22, 2025 11:13 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 11:12 PM (BI5O2)
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Keep digging, lightweight.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 11:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Hatchet Pope at February 22, 2025 11:13 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2025 11:14 PM (cMcMn)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 11:15 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 11:15 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
Good to know. II think we're all a little more resilient than meets the eye, but dang, I think I'll keep the chickens dogs and cats off the bed for a while. Could spell trouble. Heh.
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 11:15 PM (lHZiH)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 11:15 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at February 22, 2025 11:16 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 11:15 PM (g47mK)
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Firing squad on VHS.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:16 PM (ZOv7s)
https://t.co/UhyP96u5xB
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at February 22, 2025 11:16 PM (zrlyb)
He's getting around better but due to other issues, won't be doing jumping jacks anytime soon.
Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 11:16 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 11:16 PM (g47mK)
The amazing thing that you see in a repeated pattern in Europe is that people can vote for the same parties/people that are giving them policies they hate or vote for people their media say are "bad" but promise the policies they want and...these people go vote for the former and are shocked when the results continue to be the same shitty results.
I know there is rampant fraud but...I think enough Euro-idiots just keep doing this and even the simplest of thinking would tell you "vote the other party it literally can't be worse than what we have now".
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:17 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik
I've noticed your unease. Sorry. I hope you're a good employee. Seriously. We need good ones.
Sorry about your folks.
Hips. Outpatient surgery anymore. I discovered oxycodone makes me hyper. Had to quit after 3 days cause I couldn't sleep.
Found out I didn't need them. Danmdest thing. Modern miracles of medicine.
Posted by: MkY at February 22, 2025 11:17 PM (cPGH3)
'Benedict was heavy into justice, so Francis was to counterbalance that with mercy.
Justice is something this world sorely needs right now.'
In my opinion, you have to have justice in order to have mercy.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 22, 2025 11:17 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at February 22, 2025 11:16 PM (AOsQT)
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Technically speaking, they all are. Peter was the first.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:17 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 10:53 PM (rdVOm)
I have the opposite. I was diagnosed with pneumonia last week, so the doctor prescribed a bunch of amoxicillin, which has destroyed my stomach. #2s haven't been normal for five days and I can hardly stomach food now. I got about five more days of this, and I've lost more than a lb/day so far. Sorry for the graphic details.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 22, 2025 11:17 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 11:18 PM (hY4dx)
A goal of rightwing politics should be to simply irritate the left because it distracts them from doing effective things back against us.
And yes we've learned this because the left does this to us.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:18 PM (t0Rmr)
Club ONT? Are there VIP and VVIP rooms? Is there a velvet rope and a bouncer telling us Kleenex-level Hordians we're not glam enough to go inside?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2025 11:18 PM (dxSpM)
Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
Good to know. II think we're all a little more resilient than meets the eye, but dang, I think I'll keep the chickens dogs and cats off the bed for a while. Could spell trouble. Heh.
Posted by: Derak at February 22, 2025 11:15 PM (lHZiH)
Ask them about blood thinners too. My friend's wife had her 1 hip done and she ended up with clots because they never gave her blood thinners. It took 6 months for things to right itself from that fuckup. I asked him if the surgeon had a bone in his nose.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 22, 2025 11:19 PM (VwHCD)
Roger Stone
@RogerJStoneJr
I hear Dan Bongino will return to serve his country in a key position 🇺🇸
Roger Stone
@RogerJStoneJr
Dan Bongino has the experience to help clean up our rigged law enforcement! I pray he puts his wildly successful podcast on hold: TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY!
CC:
@FBI
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Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 22, 2025 11:19 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 11:19 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 22, 2025 11:17 PM (3wi/L)
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The two balance one another. Justice can be harsh, because it is what you deserve. Mercy lightens the punishment.
Looking at the millions of children slaughtered in the US over the past 50 years, we deserve a brutal punishment. That is where mercy comes in.
The question is where to draw the line. Opinions differ.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:20 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 11:20 PM (g47mK)
'2024 was the first time someone gave me their seat on the bus.'
Another one rides the bus
https://youtu.be/1GiStfp6X48
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 22, 2025 11:20 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Announcer:
Do NOT accept the lap dance. I repeat. Do NOT accept the lap dance.
Posted by: MkY at February 22, 2025 11:20 PM (cPGH3)
> Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:17 PM (t0Rmr)
Remember: these are the people who invented Marxism, Nazism, AND Communism.
Plus they've spent the last 500 years hemorrhaging anybody with intelligence, drive, common sense, or even a measurable testosterone level.
Then they killed off the few remaining in two World Wars.
What remains in Europe is the dregs of the dregs of the dregs of the genetic dregs.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 22, 2025 11:20 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:10 PM (ZOv7s)
French 75s. The worst hangover.
Posted by: RickZ at February 22, 2025 11:21 PM (gKDq2)
And I saw a Space-X launch! Driving West on the 60 freeway, I saw what looked like a comet in the sky, with 4 contrails streaming off it. It gradually disappeared in the haze to the South. Cool beans!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 22, 2025 11:21 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 11:19 PM (BI5O2)
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It's gin, champagne, lemon juice and sugar.
If anyone around here is gay, it's you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:21 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Papal Nuncio, At Least at February 22, 2025 11:21 PM (G5+As)
No matter how much you think the media is lying, you aren't despising them enough.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:22 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2025 11:22 PM (dxSpM)
Yikes! Hope you're well soon!
Oral antibiotics can really do a number on the digestive system...
Perhaps try plain yogurt? Probiotics to help restore the digestive flora. Bonus: not horrible tasting if it comes back up. (sorry, gross)
Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 11:22 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 10:53 PM (rdVOm)
Yes, this. Watched my poor grandmother struggle as she didn't want another pill. I think I finally smooshed up stool softener pill in her oatmeal.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 11:22 PM (FUagJ)
Big Groups have power. Centralized power controls a lot. Protesters (protestants?) to that power are "we the people" against such Organized Powers. Catholics seem to claim only they (those in their religious org) have the claim to "Christianity", but the Bible gives us other requirements.
As in the OT, many that were of the "twelve tribes", not all were faithful. Often the faithful had to hide in tribes. These OT lessons still apply ... who are the Real Faithful? Tribal Culture is "tribal", but not pure.
God will judge.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:22 PM (Cus5s)
How soon we forget unpleasant things, eh?
Posted by: MkY at February 22, 2025 11:23 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: RickZ at February 22, 2025 11:21 PM (gKDq2)
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Most bars won't make them. Easy to get people at wedding receptions to make them because the champagne is already flowing.
They pack a punch, which is why they were named after artillery.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:23 PM (ZOv7s)
I meant to say Fascism, Nazism, AND Communism, of course.
And those aren't anywhere close to the only fucked-up political systems the Euros have come up with.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 22, 2025 11:23 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 22, 2025 11:24 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 11:24 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:23 PM (ZOv7s)
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There is also the French 90 and the French 120.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 11:24 PM (6K6Eu)
'When I first went to look up AfD I had heard the Euro-media declaring them white supremacist Christianist racists '
Nazi is just a magic scare word to them. An incantation to drive away people not in their cult.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 22, 2025 11:25 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 22, 2025 11:26 PM (2gkFX)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:22 PM (Cus5s)
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Protestants organized state churches and banned Catholic worship. That whole separation of church and state did not apply in the Nordic countries, the Netherlands or the UK.
And where did that get them? The Dutch are killing kids and the Brits are criminalizing prayer. By their fruits you shall know them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Alice Weidel. Elon did a "Spaces" interview with her a while back. Interesting to listen to.
I got a kick out of her the other day. She got up in the Bundestag and told the Greens, "What are you doing here? Get out. You've never worked a day in your lives. Go home and get a job."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 11:27 PM (w6EFb)
If anyone around here is gay, it's you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:21 PM (ZOv7s)
The ones I had were a brandy-champagne cocktail.
Posted by: RickZ at February 22, 2025 11:27 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Froggy Went A Courtin' at February 22, 2025 11:27 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 22, 2025 11:26 PM (2gkFX)
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We got lacrosse from the Indians, though...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 11:27 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2025 11:18 PM (dxSpM)
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If you gave to ask,...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2025 11:27 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2025 11:28 PM (RIvkX)
Both Charles Dickens (a very wise man) and Friedrich Engels were fans of Carlyle.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 22, 2025 11:28 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 10:52 PM (BI5O2)
Smoking is fun. It's bad for you, but it is enjoyable.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 22, 2025 11:28 PM (bss/y)
Hockey is like 90% of white people sports: The competitors chase each other with a stick.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
In Ireland, that's called 'Hurling'.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 22, 2025 11:28 PM (xA5g+)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 11:24 PM (BI5O2)
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Seriously, have you ever had one? They're great.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:28 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 11:08 PM (6K6Eu)
It's time you asked for royalties !
Posted by: runner
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Royalties *Allen Iverson voice*? Lint was mentioned upthread.
Posted by: scampydog at February 22, 2025 11:28 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: raimondo at February 22, 2025 11:29 PM (E3/qN)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2025 11:28 PM (RIvkX)
That's something that's changed over the course of my lifetime.
When I was a kid, people still darned socks.
Posted by: Froggy Went A Courtin' at February 22, 2025 11:29 PM (W5ArC)
Had to go to the Vigil Mass locally, which I don't like having to do. But we have a 9:30 ring time and Ruthie bids fair to go Best of Breed. And Hounds are the sixth group starting at 2:00.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2025 11:29 PM (dxSpM)
@jackunheard
BREAKING: Kash Patel will also serve as the Acting Director of ATF.
Holy sh*t
6:36 PM · Feb 22, 2025
[via Insty]
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 22, 2025 11:29 PM (Vqx30)
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I'm pretty sure justice is countered by social justice.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 22, 2025 11:29 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Sandra Flook at February 22, 2025 11:29 PM (mH6SG)
Yes, Benedict XVI died Dec 31, 2022.
There is a false usurper supposedly about to expire.
Posted by: mindful webworker - pray for his unlikely deathbed salvation at February 22, 2025 11:04 PM (9pu/X)
Good one
Posted by: LASue at February 22, 2025 11:29 PM (lCppi)
I got a kick out of her the other day. She got up in the Bundestag and told the Greens, "What are you doing here? Get out. You've never worked a day in your lives. Go home and get a job."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 11:27 PM (w6EFb)
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Girl F. informs me just this evening that even though she is married to a woman, she opposes gay rights!! and is bad.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2025 11:30 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: RickZ at February 22, 2025 11:27 PM (gKDq2)
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I'll have to try that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:30 PM (ZOv7s)
yes, I think I could have given my uncle another couple years if I'd given him Citrucel. Instead they (nursing home) gave him some other drug. He died on the toilet. (but was 92).
We learn the lessons of life too late, in many cases. But The Horde has answers. heh So many times the "protocols" are not the right answer, imo.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:30 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 22, 2025 11:30 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 22, 2025 11:30 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 22, 2025 11:28 PM (bss/y)
I quit years ago, but yes. I liked it very much. It was very zen.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 11:30 PM (FUagJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
About the bouncer?
Moose out front should've told you.
Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 11:30 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 11:31 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 22, 2025 11:28 PM
That's usually what happens after one too many French 75s.
So I'm told.
BTW, the Horde Cookbook has some great drink recipes in it, including one of mine.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 11:31 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 22, 2025 11:30 PM (XeU6L)
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I think that's Jaegermeister.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 11:31 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2025 11:18 PM (dxSpM)
You're not getting in with THOSE shoes!
Posted by: Standards And Practices at February 22, 2025 11:31 PM (G5+As)
Yeah, the AfD is about like some "center" party in the '80s or '90s. That's how extreme they are.
Nope, just like Colin Wright's little sketch that Elon made famous, the left went so far into cray-cray land, they've made everyone else look "far right" by comparison.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 11:32 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 11:27 PM (6K6Eu)
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Good enough to capture Fort Michilimackinac.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:32 PM (ZOv7s)
The Peanut Farm, as I heard the story.
It was a fun bar back in the day. I haven't been there in decades, though. I hardly go to bars at all any more.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 22, 2025 11:33 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Containing a VVVIP room, containing a VVVVIP room, containing a little room that's just just big enough for Pixy to watch anime.
Posted by: mikeski at February 22, 2025 11:33 PM (DgGvY)
illiniwek
I'm having end of life discussions with my sons now (wife has terminal cancer) and when asked, I told them I wanted to be shot by a jealous husband at 95.
Posted by: MkY at February 22, 2025 11:33 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
What about vaping nicotine? I never smoked, but after hearing about the "joys" (highs) of smoking, I considered the option of vaping nicotine. Have not tried it (yet).
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:34 PM (Cus5s)
Here's an oldie, for tomorrow
https://youtu.be/-ft8WLX9G1I
G'nite, y'all. God bless us every one.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Rascally Rabbit, Kicks are for Trids at February 22, 2025 11:34 PM (9pu/X)
Wow, he must've been bad for sure! And an absolute bad-ass, too. 😁
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 22, 2025 11:34 PM (Ezs10)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2025 11:31 PM (BI5O2)
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You're a bloodless pedant. Go swill your bathtub gin and leave people with actual taste alone.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:34 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 22, 2025 11:34 PM (Ezs10)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 22, 2025 11:04 PM (NuKV1)
Not making light of your situation, but that seems like a good email. Ok, maybe paraphrased.
So, something like this:
Monday: I'm on FMLA helping my elderly parents.
Tuesday: I'm on FMLA helping my elderly parents.
etc...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 22, 2025 11:35 PM (Vqx30)
Oh one other weird thing about Hatfill - he went on a lawsuit odyssey going after all the people that had intentionally slandered him. One of those was a researcher at Harvard Medical School but when Hatfill sued him they found out it wasn't the HMS guy, it was someone impersonating him from...South Africa who settled for a bunch of money. This screams an earlier incarnation of the Junta was behind the Hatfill slander.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:35 PM (t0Rmr)
1/2 Stoly 100proof
1/2 Jagermeister
(Yuck)
Posted by: JQ at February 22, 2025 11:35 PM (rdVOm)
Barack Obama's 2012 campaign stands are "far right wing hate speech" by 2025 standards...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:36 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: RickZ at February 22, 2025 11:27 PM (gKDq2)
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I'll have to try that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:30 PM (ZOv7s)
That's the version served at the Raibow Grill in Rockefeller Center, and they had a fine menu of classic cocktails. But boy do those Ferench 75s hurt the next day. Had 'em once, never again. Seriously. A brandy hangover is bad, but combining it with the bubbly hangover of chamgpaigne? Never again.
I'll stick to sidecars.
Posted by: RickZ at February 22, 2025 11:36 PM (gKDq2)
Just point and laugh.
"The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn." -- Martin Luther
"The devil…that proud spirit…cannot endure to be mocked." -- St. Thomas More
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 22, 2025 11:36 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:34 PM (Cus5s)
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I got nothing out of it. Made me a little edgy and while I enjoyed the sensation of clenching a stogie and puffing away like mad while I wrote, it kept me up later than I wanted.
Cannot recommend.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:36 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
What about vaping nicotine? I never smoked, but after hearing about the "joys" (highs) of smoking, I considered the option of vaping nicotine. Have not tried it (yet).
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:34 PM (Cus5s)
istr Ace using vaping to help him quit smoking.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 22, 2025 11:37 PM (Vqx30)
My parents smoked and I hated the smell. Never took up the habit. But cigars are a different story. Natural, non-juiced leaf tobacco. A whole range of tastes and kinds.
Very relaxing.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 11:37 PM (W/lyH)
Interestingly, my namesake is not among them.
At one time there were two anti-Popes and one Pope. Physicists say that if they had ever met, we'd have only anti-Popes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 11:37 PM (hY4dx)
Confusing the European left-right spectrum with American notions of it will not grok. They are not the same as all.
Take the CDU, the "Christian democracts". They are considered center-right, or were. They are nothing like we'd think of center-right. They're big on the welfare state, not too found of individualism, but are big on property rights and traditionalism.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2025 11:37 PM (w6EFb)
"On Strike" ... isn't that "treason"?
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 10:49 PM (Cus5s)
Hell. They should storm Parliament, and shoot Queer Sturmer and every last Labour MP. Every last one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 22, 2025 11:38 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: RickZ
The real problem with every very good cocktail is that they are very good.
Posted by: MkY at February 22, 2025 11:38 PM (cPGH3)
I'll stick to sidecars.
Posted by: RickZ at February 22, 2025 11:36 PM (gKDq2)
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Brandy hangovers are THE WORST. Bar none.
I've found actual gin-based French 75s to be remarkably hangover-free. Especially with quality champagne.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:39 PM (ZOv7s)
Do they take an oath to protect their country? Because the only threat to the British people even remotely like that of the Labour party is...the Tories.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:40 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 22, 2025 11:30 PM (XeU6L)
I only know a Depth Charge drink.
A shot glass of whiskey dropped, glass and all, into a mug of beer.
It's for those times when you can be bothered with a shot and a beer in seperate glasses.
Posted by: RickZ at February 22, 2025 11:40 PM (gKDq2)
And there is that 30 year war thang ... "Protestants" became their own "Big Group". But that is another case of BigGroup power. But those that "protest" for Truth against Big Group can still be the ones that are correct. Even if they have to hide in caves.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:40 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: illiniwek
"Ones". Individually wrapped prunes so you carry them in your pocket without getting them covered in lint.
Eat two an hour. Chase with akvavit until you get used to the taste. Do this until you learn your limit.
Limit of safe intake or prunes and/or akvavit that is.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 22, 2025 11:41 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 11:41 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:34 PM (Cus5s)
I vaped as a pathway to quit cigarettes. I'm not sure I'd recommend it as a hobby. You do you, though. Not an anti-smoking Nazi, but quitting smoking was hard. I wouldn't take up vaping as a non smoker.
Maybe you could enjoy an occasional cigar?
Posted by: Scarymary at February 22, 2025 11:42 PM (FUagJ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 22, 2025 11:30 PM (XeU6L)
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I think that's Jaegermeister.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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Ah.
[recalls a night in a bar at Elkhart Lake]
Of all people, Jackie Oliver was at the table, with me and a Brit, and buying the drinks.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 22, 2025 11:42 PM (XeU6L)
Hell. They should storm Parliament, and shoot Queer Sturmer and every last Labour MP. Every last one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 22, 2025 11:38 PM (8zz6B)
________
Aren't you a subject of His Britannic Majesty? Justine's agents will have you locked up in Resolute for fomenting insurrection before you can say Tim Horton's.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2025 11:43 PM (dxSpM)
Very relaxing.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 11:37 PM (W/lyH)
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I smoked cigars intermittently during the 90s, but after a really nasty bout of pneumonia I gave them up and haven't missed them. I smoked one for a promotion party in Germany around 2012, and I felt embalmed the next day.
Vaping offered a similar vibe, and I did enjoy the billowing clouds of vapor one could make, and also the flavor (I never inhaled smoke into the lungs, just tasted it) but ultimately it seemed a waste of money, and it did make me edgy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2025 11:37 PM (hY4dx)
I remember reading about that. If I'm remembering right, there had been rival popes at Rome and Avignon for quite a long time. Eventually a compromise candidate was picked in an effort to reconcile the Church.
The problem was that neither of other two would give up power. So, yeah, three popes.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 22, 2025 11:44 PM (W5ArC)
But, "Musk wasn't elected by anyone!", "This is harassment!", and other shrieks of pain are squealing out from these people. Such tyranny!
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at February 22, 2025 11:46 PM (0cUCc)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at February 22, 2025 11:46 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at February 22, 2025 11:46 PM (AOsQT)
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There would be quite the energy release.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 11:47 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: RickZ at February 22, 2025 11:40 PM (gKDq2)
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One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:48 PM (ZOv7s)
At one time there were two anti-Popes and one Pope. Physicists say that if they had ever met, we'd have only anti-Popes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Like two gay quarks and a charm quark!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 22, 2025 11:48 PM (xG4kz)
I learned to make this while sitting at the bar at the American Embassy Club in Seoul.
Equal parts gin, bourbon and triple sec, although I favor a little extra triple sec. Mix in a shaker with ice. Serve in a chilled martini glass with a twist, or a raspberry.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 11:49 PM (W/lyH)
Yeah I meet with my manager weekly and while it isn't this explicit he is well aware of what I and my team have been working on when we are done talking.
I'm also reminded that supposedly Steve Jobs would ask random employees at Apple what they were working on and if he didn't get a good answer fire them on the spot.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:50 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 22, 2025 11:50 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:50 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 11:49 PM (W/lyH)
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Noted for future reference.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:50 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: RickZ at February 22, 2025 11:36 PM (gKDq2)
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Brandy hangovers are THE WORST. Bar none.
I've found actual gin-based French 75s to be remarkably hangover-free. Especially with quality champagne.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:39 PM (ZOv7s)
You don't make sidecars with brandy ! Cognac.
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 11:51 PM (g47mK)
No aspirin or potentially blood-thinning substances allowed for three days before surgery, by the way. The surgeon doesn't want you to be a bleeder.
Posted by: Emmie at February 22, 2025 11:51 PM (Sf2cq)
No matter how much you think the media is lying, you aren't despising them enough.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:22 PM (t0Rmr)
Do they ride a Harley? 'Cause I'd vote for dykes on bikes, but not plain old dykes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 22, 2025 11:52 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 11:51 PM (g47mK)
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Cognac hangovers are also terrible.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:53 PM (ZOv7s)
The last four years of my tax forms are in it going to ashes - they may as well be. Every HD, every thumb, micro chip and flash drive and they are g.o.n.e.s I switched computers some moths ago and somehow that folder got lost in the shuffle.
Hey, but it's ONT and I'm glad I finally made it here. Hellooooo.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 22, 2025 11:53 PM (mzM2O)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 11:49 PM (W/lyH)
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Noted for future reference.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:50 PM (ZOv7s)
***
It's an odd combination but the taste is surprising. I like them.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2025 11:53 PM (W/lyH)
Groups Become Corrupt.
This is our dilemma.
The most straight forward answer to this is to give those groups competitors. In Heritage America Democrat and Republican politicians were in competition, so if one side got two corrupt it would be easy for the other to go public and gain due to this corruption.
This is part of the reason things really started to go to shit after the left got controlled-pedo Hastert as the most powerful Republican in DC, and earlier the collapse of the Soviets removed another competitor for western elites. By 2000 there was one political party for all intents and purposes, and it believed itself to be an unaccountable hyperpower that could literally do anything.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:54 PM (t0Rmr)
Musk's request for federal employees to send in a five point summary of what they did the past week is such a hoot when reading what the Trump haters have to say about this. They're having kittens right now, complaining that this is harassment while others, who actually work for a living (including those in government jobs), are reminding them that this is done nearly everywhere.
All this drama on the part of the poor put upon federales. Welcome to the 90s and the following afterward timeline in the private sector, you sniveling pukes.
And, by the way, failure to comply with an order from the guy in charge -- or to drag out or delay compliance -- is insubordination, an open and shut justification to have your sorry ass fired.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 22, 2025 11:54 PM (xG4kz)
Groups Become Corrupt.
This is our dilemma.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:50 PM (Cus5s)
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Not mine. I'm a (late) convert to the Church, in large part because she has endured while others continue to fade.
There is a cycle over the centuries of decline and renewal, but the Church endures. She is greater than any pope, and Francis has unwittingly exposed sin and corruption, which can now inaugurate a new cycle of renewal and redemption.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:57 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: 18-1
Ask my supervisor, John Doe, it's his joib toi manage his staff's workloads. If you don't like the answer keep working your way up the food chain until you find the guy whose fault it is.
Mens' room down the hall to the left if you want to cut out the middle men have look in the mirror.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 22, 2025 11:57 PM (/lPRQ)
Received a message from an individual on an army base— they’re being told NOT to respond to the email asking them to list 5 things they did last week. They were also instructed to report receipt of the email to their supervisors.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at February 22, 2025 11:58 PM (AOsQT)
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And in some professions, an hourly accounting !
Posted by: runner at February 22, 2025 11:58 PM (g47mK)
Never got into the cigar thang. Only interest in nicotine is if it is a nice and safe "high". Same with THC stuff offered now. (too potent)
Will probably stick with a little alcohol ... unless some super intelligence drug comes along (as in the Sci-fi movies) ... or maybe that eternal life baby blood concoction. heh
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:59 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2025 11:54 PM (t0Rmr)
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Classical political theory held that parties would shift from losing positions to winning ones. That is, having seen the public shift away from a position, a party would then move to a more popular one. A party with a narrow majority would try to expanding by looking at what the public wanted and giving it to them.
But now we are in a place where the Dems hate the majority, and happily embrace the 20 side of an 80-20 division. What can be done with such people?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 22, 2025 11:59 PM (ZOv7s)
WHO is telling them to disobey an executive order?
Posted by: illiniwek at February 23, 2025 12:01 AM (Cus5s)
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hmmm . could be interpreted 2 ways , security (can't quite say "I was receiving instruction on Iran surveillance" or something), or who knows.
Posted by: runner at February 23, 2025 12:01 AM (g47mK)
And...of course...we are told that the party embracing that 20 side is getting 51% of the vote...after a bunch of last minute ballots show up from the local big blue shithole.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2025 12:01 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 23, 2025 12:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 23, 2025 12:02 AM (mzM2O)
Posted by: runner at February 23, 2025 12:02 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Missed Opportunity at February 23, 2025 12:02 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:59 PM (Cus5s)
That sounds like a wise plan. Nicotine was (for me) hard to give up. I like a drink now and then, but don't need it. Smoking was hard.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 12:03 AM (FUagJ)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at February 23, 2025 12:04 AM (vd6bO)
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I had to fill out a production record throughout my workdays, including hourly total of output and detailed descriptions to account for all downtime. (and more, but those were the biggies)
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2025 12:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Missed Opportunity at February 23, 2025 12:02 AM (G5+As)
They built a Big Six, too.
Posted by: The Paolo at February 23, 2025 12:06 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 22, 2025 11:34 PM (Cus5s)
Honestly, I would not recommend taking the habit up if you did not smoke first. Yes, smoking is awesome, but it does have a lot of drawbacks aside from just cancer.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:08 AM (bss/y)
That is kinda the recent "Jacksonian" versus Jeffersonian/Madisonian thang.
In general, it is "Us" versus "them" Them is the powers that be, Us is "we the people. But We the People have to "organize", under the (Jacksonian version of) the constitution.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 23, 2025 12:09 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at February 23, 2025 12:09 AM (AOsQT)
Sayaka's Digital Attic: https://youtu.be/QIOuyuL_Qig
Kari: https://youtu.be/sMyrF5zsuRM
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2025 12:09 AM (lUFok)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 22, 2025 11:54 PM (xG4kz)
I wonder how many feds don't exist except on the payroll and headcount lists.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2025 12:09 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:08 AM (bss/y)
The worst drawback being that it causes you to become the sole means of support for three or more layers of government.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 12:10 AM (8zz6B)
Subject: “What did you do last week?”
...
DELETE.
Obviously spam.
Crap I get for drones and blue pills seems more legit.
This one looks like a sales pitch for timeshares.
Sorry, don't subscribe to Twit X either on the clock or off to receive direction from anybody magic words to look for in subject lines.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 23, 2025 12:11 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at February 23, 2025 12:09 AM (AOsQT)
And get fired for so doing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 12:11 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 22, 2025 11:54 PM (xG4kz)
I wonder how many feds don't exist except on the payroll and headcount lists.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2025 12:09 AM (D7oie)
Hmm.... and with current social security numbers, no matter the birthdate?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 23, 2025 12:12 AM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:08 AM (bss/y)
Smoking was the primary reason they ran me over a table saw last February to take my heart out and play with it. lesson learned.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 12:14 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 23, 2025 12:15 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 12:10 AM (8zz6B)
He ain't just whistling Dixie.
Tobacco settlement- supposedly went to schools.
Lottery- supposedly went to schools
Gambling- supposedly went to schools
Odd how much money was supposed to be going to schools...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:15 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 23, 2025 12:15 AM (Vqx30)
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 12:16 AM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 22, 2025 11:52 PM (8zz6B)
I worked on bikes *of* dykes in the past. Some were the lipstick variety, some were...not.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 12:17 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Emmie at February 23, 2025 12:17 AM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 12:17 AM (VwHCD)
Local Fire Chiefs?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:17 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
It's the all-ages version of Rule 34. Call it Rule 34-PG. "If it exists, there's youtube videos of cute girls doing it."
Posted by: mikeski at February 23, 2025 12:18 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Damn! I never would have thought of that.
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 12:18 AM (cPGH3)
My first job out of college was in sales for what was at the time one of the largest computer companies in the world. We had to fill out what we called Green Sheets because they were printed on green paper. Basically, a daily accounting of what we did that day.
Been in business sales all my career. Basically, everyday is like that scene in Goodfellas. Car broke down? Fuck you, pay me. House got hit by lightning? Fuck you, pay me. The numbers don't lie. Either produce or you're gone.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2025 12:19 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Emmie at February 23, 2025 12:17 AM (Sf2cq)
I can understand the insult of having to defend your job if you are competent. The thing is, your system is jacked up with no accountability.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:19 AM (bss/y)
Well, evil has also endured. Islam has endured. The old testament record shows Israel endured, while often only a few remained faithful.
imo we owe a lot to some faithful scribes that gave us some scripts, while those in power became evil. Luther (and others) protested correctly. They did not go far enough. As we see now in the political realm, constant protest against The Powers That Be is the correct course of action.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 23, 2025 12:20 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: mikeski at February 23, 2025 12:18 AM (DgGvY)
The busty redhead blacksmith is interesting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:20 AM (bss/y)
Best part....you guys are gonna lurve this.
An O-6 sits at the head table where I am, (i'm being punished by the ADAA association, i 'splained why last night or the night b4), keeps pulling out his gummint iPhone and typing 'i got it'. His wife said stop that. He appologized to the entire table and explaind that...here's where i got a hard on.
OPM sent everybody an e-mail on Monday. You have to submit a weekly report with at least 4 bullets of what you did this week to you supervisor, and the supervisor has to send that to their supervisor. I've got 2000 Departmemt of the Army civilians checking to see if i got their weekly report.
Good dinner. Got to see a metic shit ton of olde Army buddies from the good times. I'm tired, my damned knees hurt from standing all night, and I taking my grumpy ass to bed.
Y'all behave for the COBs.
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 23, 2025 12:22 AM (MsrgL)
Thank you.
And to think I thought you were just another conspiracy theorist... ha!
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 12:23 AM (cPGH3)
Hub's boss asked him what he might say if the audit team questioned him about his job...
Hubby said: "Me drive truck."
Boss was *not* pleased, but was unable to stifle a chuckle.
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2025 12:25 AM (rdVOm)
OPM sent everybody an e-mail on Monday. You have to submit a weekly report with at least 4 bullets of what you did this week to you supervisor, and the supervisor has to send that to their supervisor. I've got 2000 Departmemt of the Army civilians checking to see if i got their weekly report.
No matter who you put in charge, the answer to too much red tape is
MOAR red tape!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 23, 2025 12:27 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 23, 2025 12:27 AM (Wx316)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:28 AM (bss/y)
_-_-_-_-_-_-_
Not the greatest habit health-wise. On the other hand, going out and talking with the smokers can yield some pretty good intel, and it's good to get outside for little bit during the work day.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at February 23, 2025 12:28 AM (vd6bO)
wth
yuk
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 23, 2025 12:27 AM (Wx316)
Not a huge fan either. Either gin or vodka.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:28 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Emmie at February 23, 2025 12:29 AM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:29 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:31 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Don in SoCo
Five things you did last week?
Not that I smoke, but I take five smoke breaks a day, every day.
Gotta stay on top of the latest Intel.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 23, 2025 12:31 AM (/lPRQ)
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This is why read receipts were invented
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 23, 2025 12:32 AM (Wx316)
Posted by: illiniwek
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Nicotine is good for your arteries. It turns them into glass.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 23, 2025 12:33 AM (mzM2O)
Do you know who was the acting head of USAID before it was folded into the State Department?
Marco Rubio.
Now that Kash is the acting head of ATF he can let the DOGE boys have access to their system.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2025 12:34 AM (LkLld)
Rarely drink though, maybe once a year
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 23, 2025 12:34 AM (J5RCE)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at February 22, 2025 11:58 PM (AOsQT)
Yeah. Think of the OPSEC violations that an AI program could dig out of all those responses. "Prepped the supply pallets for next week's attack on the Russians." and similar.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 23, 2025 12:35 AM (L65Dp)
Thank you.
And to think I thought you were just another conspiracy theorist... ha!" Posted by: MkY
Great ... I tried a Biblical studies course for just over a decade, and still pursue "Truth". But while I still have close ties with those that pursued the great quest in old days, I am on my own in personal belief.
But my one general conclusion is that Big Groups become corrupt, and individuals must seek their own way ... or their own relationship with "their higher power". Yes that power is "God", but the true God is not the god of general "church" dogma.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 23, 2025 12:35 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:35 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 23, 2025 12:38 AM (J5RCE)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
FIRED!
OPSEC - do not discuss duty with others.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 23, 2025 12:39 AM (/lPRQ)
I wasn't in sales but am thankful I didn't have to deal with that kind of bullshit.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 23, 2025 12:39 AM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 23, 2025 12:40 AM (mzM2O)
https://youtu.be/KF0KSQyE1cQ
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 12:41 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 23, 2025 12:42 AM (xA5g+)
"I'm a government employee who does nothing. please write 5 things I did last week for an email.
Chatgpt: Here are five vague but professional-sounding tasks for your email:
Subject: Weekly Update
Hi [Recipient],
Here’s a quick summary of what I worked on last week:
Reviewed and monitored ongoing projects to ensure compliance with department objectives.
Participated in meetings to discuss key initiatives and provide input where necessary.
Handled correspondence and inquiries, ensuring timely communication with stakeholders.
Conducted research on policy updates relevant to our operations.
Assisted in administrative tasks to support team efficiency."
How hard is this? If you're a fed employee, find out which statutes you are working under and fill in the tasks you did following something like the above Chatgpt response.
Citing the statutes and the work you did for them should guarantee your future employment, provided that you made some kind of effort to do the work.
Not exactly rocket science but it is enjoyable to watch the Trump-haters freak out over this one.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at February 23, 2025 12:42 AM (0cUCc)
OPM sent everybody an e-mail on Monday. You have to submit a weekly report with at least 4 bullets of what you did this week to you supervisor, and the supervisor has to send that to their supervisor.
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I was talking to a uniformed Pentagon official today.
Some of the indiscriminate firing isn't working out. Baby / bathwater.
Also says that with the state of things, everyone is bracing with their fingers crossed saying "Please, China, not today!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 23, 2025 12:43 AM (d51Pj)
https://youtu.be/KF0KSQyE1cQ
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 12:41 AM (8zz6B)
Ah, the cars.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:44 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 23, 2025 12:44 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at February 22, 2025 11:58 PM (AOsQT)
Yeah. Think of the OPSEC violations that an AI program could dig out of all those responses. "Prepped the supply pallets for next week's attack on the Russians." and similar.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 23, 2025 12:35 AM (L65Dp)
Simle answer? "I was on base, and working,following the orders given by my chain of command. I will be happy to discuss details, once I am given clearance to do so by my superior officers."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 12:45 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 23, 2025 12:45 AM (xA5g+)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
So, the smart response is to type, "My immediate supervisor, "X" advised me to not respond due to OPSEC. Please verify with..."
and then name the name, and appropriate email addy.
Shit. I'd like that, if I was a supervisor involved in intelligence.
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 12:45 AM (cPGH3)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 23, 2025 12:38 AM (J5RCE)
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I asked Grok if I could define Grok as a default search engine to my Windows web browser. It gave me back a clear and detailed answer why currently this is not possible both from Grok's and the browser's ends.
Grok also told me that if I'm technically savvy, this might be currently done through scripting but I'm not going there.
That was the easy stuff. I have been asking Grok for complex technical coding examples in assembler language. It just spits them out in a second, with detailed but very readable explanations of the instructions used and the coding logic.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 12:46 AM (V+K+8)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 12:14 AM (VwHCD)
Hope you are okay now .
I know it's not good for health . And it got too expensive. I quit years ago. But, damn. I liked smoking.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 12:49 AM (FUagJ)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt
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Those darned Big Buttes.
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 12:49 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 12:46 AM (V+K+
I have not been introduced to Grok. Could you do me a solid, and ask Grok where I left my 3/8" socket?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 12:50 AM (8zz6B)
I know it's not good for health . And it got too expensive. I quit years ago. But, damn. I liked smoking.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 12:49 AM (FUagJ)
I started smoking in '96. $1.36 for Camel Wides.
Quit in 2011: $4.30 for Camel Wides.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:51 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
I've been quizzing Grok on things I know. So far, it's batting about 99.9%. (I'm not sure about everything I think I know. Heh)
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 12:51 AM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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No need for Grok. It's next to the 7/16" from six months ago.
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 12:52 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 12:50 AM (8zz6B)
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I don’t have any way of knowing where you left your 3/8" socket since I can’t see your surroundings or track your stuff. Maybe check your toolbox, workbench, or that spot where tools always seem to mysteriously wander off to—like under the car or in the laundry basket? If you’ve got a wild guess or a specific place you’ve been working, I can try to brainstorm with you from there!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 12:52 AM (V+K+8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 12:54 AM (8zz6B)
https://tinyurl.com/3jnj3nd7
He's not wrong but he just still doesn't take it far enough. His theory is the left just wrote off the right calling anyone that disagrees with the left a NAZI and so now people on the right won't listen to them. Is that true? Yes but...not far enough.
The left embraced everything we traditionally know as evil. Then called anyone that didn't join them evil and tried to cancel, if not imprison, them.
The correct response to this, which Trump seems to get is...cancel and imprison them first. This isn't about discussions anymore. It is war.
When Fauci is in jail, the architects of the Uke war are in jail, the "medical establishment" behind mutilating kids is in jail AND the left says yeah those guys are bad and we encouraged them and that was wrong...then we can start having discussions again. But first you have to get those people in jail and their movement thoroughly defeated.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2025 12:54 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2025 12:55 AM (fwDg9)
and then name the name, and appropriate email addy.
Shit. I'd like that, if I was a supervisor involved in intelligence.
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 12:45 AM (cPGH3)
Problem with OPSEC is it doesn't just apply to Intelligence. "I made 500 box lunches for in-flight use" sounds mundane, but it tells somebody that 500 people are flying somewhere.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 23, 2025 12:57 AM (L65Dp)
>>Some of the indiscriminate firing isn't working out. Baby / bathwater.
>>Also says that with the state of things, everyone is bracing with their fingers crossed saying "Please, China, not today!"
We are going to hear this kind of thing over and over. It happens literally every single day in the private sector, downsizing when output doesn't meet resources and sometimes good people get taken out, but only in government do the rules not apply and we have to keep funding a government we can't afford.
We're $36 trillion and soon $37 billion in debt and on the edge of insolvency. So is China but that's a different issue. We need dramatic action or all babies will be tossed out with all bathwater.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2025 12:57 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2025 12:57 AM (LkLld)
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I wonder how many of those babies are actually brats.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 01:00 AM (V+K+8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 12:54 AM (8zz6B)
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Lengthy response:
https://tinyurl.com/35hjx6xr
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 01:02 AM (V+K+8)
This is yet another odd part of our current moment. With $36T in debt and rampant inflation the government has failed abjectly. Those running our economy policy should be begging for our forgiveness and resigning to turn things over to those that might be more competent.
Instead they act shocked that many, and still not yet all, are being fired.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2025 01:03 AM (t0Rmr)
It's theatrics
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2025 01:03 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 01:03 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2025 01:03 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2025 01:04 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 01:04 AM (V+K+8)
Posted by: runner at February 23, 2025 01:05 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2025 01:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner at February 23, 2025 01:06 AM (g47mK)
https://tinyurl.com/35hjx6xr
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta
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Ran AOP question through chatgpt to see the diff.
The Studebaker Champion engine refers to a series of 6-cylinder engines that Studebaker produced over several years, starting in the late 1930s and continuing through the 1950s. For your question about "Palnuts," if you're referring to the specific nuts used in the engine, it's likely you're asking about the type of lock nuts or retaining nuts used for various components, like valve rocker arms or cylinder heads.
Palnuts (a type of locking nut) were used in automotive applications to prevent loosening due to vibrations. However, the exact size and number of these nuts would depend on the specific model and year of the Studebaker Champion engine.
Would you happen to have a specific year or engine model in mind (e.g., 1939, 1950, etc.)? That would help narrow down the details!
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 01:07 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2025 01:06 AM (77rzZ)
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FIFY
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 01:07 AM (V+K+8)
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 01:08 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2025 01:08 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2025 01:08 AM (77rzZ)
https://tinyurl.com/35hjx6xr
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 01:02 AM (V+K+
Heh. They got that 100% wrong. There are exactly 12 Palnuts, and they are used on the connecting rod bolts to secure the main nuts from backing off. They are an odd size, I think 11/32 NF. There are none in the places Grok quoted. A large palnut is used to secure the oil pressure gauge in its housing, and tiny ones are used on the mounting studs for some of the instruments.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 01:10 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2025 01:10 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2025 01:08 AM (77rzZ)
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It's a good thing I held onto that decoder ring all these years!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 01:10 AM (V+K+8)
Quit in 2011: $4.30 for Camel Wides.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:51 AM (bss/y)
I started in '87, it was 1.25 for Marlboro's.
Quit in 2012. Can't even remember the price. I'd started buying off brands😳 Now I want a cigarette!
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 01:10 AM (FUagJ)
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 01:07 AM (41CYW)
Looks like Chat GPT is stealing from Grok, or Grok is stealing from Chapt GPT.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 01:12 AM (8zz6B)
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Over here we've had it up to here with Palnuts!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 01:13 AM (V+K+8)
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2025 01:13 AM (rdVOm)
I know it's not good for health . And it got too expensive. I quit years ago. But, damn. I liked smoking.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 12:49 AM (FUagJ)
I'm fine, feel like I'm 20 again. With me I'm not sure if thats a good or a bad thing lol. Yeah, I liked smoking. I smoked anything that burns. Now I just do these clint eastwood looking cigars. Takes me 2-3 days to smoke one. It takes the edge off, because damn if I couldn't go right back to smoking.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 01:14 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 01:14 AM (V+K+8)
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2025 01:16 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JQ
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Random. Watched the movie, Hooper too many times. A scene with a gas station showed .69 per gallon.
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 01:18 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 01:13 AM (V+K+
Funny thing is, a duckduckgo search for "Studebaker palnuts' turns up a whole page of entries, from obscure sites like ebay.
The AI's aren't doing their homework.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 01:18 AM (8zz6B)
Quit in 2012. Can't even remember the price. I'd started buying off brands😳 Now I want a cigarette!
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 01:10 AM (FUagJ)
For the past 12 years I had a great cigarette machine. I would buy the tubes and good tobacco and I load a pack of smokes faster than I could go to the store down the street and buy them. It cost around $1 to make a pack of smokes. $7 a week. Price was not an incentive to quit, thats for sure.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 01:19 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 01:20 AM (FUagJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
You do know you just outsmarted an infant, right?
And I'm jealous, cause so far I haven't.
Ha!
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 01:20 AM (cPGH3)
Was still under 30cents when I started driving.
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Tracking pizza delivery orders to the five-sided nuthouse has been a thing since the 1990s. Maybe earlier.
Posted by: mikeski at February 23, 2025 01:21 AM (DgGvY)
Was still under 30cents when I started driving.
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
30 cents?? Was electricity invented yet? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 01:22 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 01:23 AM (FUagJ)
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 01:23 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 23, 2025 01:23 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)
I thought prices went under $.20 then. I don't think I was driving then.
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 01:25 AM (cPGH3)
And I'm jealous, cause so far I haven't.
Ha!
Posted by: MkY
All those infants are trained by reading things on the Internet. I don't think anyone's hooked up an OCR device to have an AI read the entire offline Library of Congress yet.
So asking them questions about obscure pre-Internet things is the way to stump them. Like Studebaker engines, apparently. '57 Chevys, AI probably knows about.
Posted by: mikeski at February 23, 2025 01:26 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 01:26 AM (FUagJ)
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2025 01:27 AM (rdVOm)
Oh, did you mean driving *with* a license? Heh, it was closer to 60cents by then...
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)
I think gas was around 70 cents for me, but I'm not sure. I got my license the year the whole gas crunch and odd and even license plates came around, so I remember it being over a dollar, but that was the jimmah cartah price. I think it settled into the 70 +/- cent range when the shit ended.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 01:28 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2025 01:30 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 01:30 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 01:26 AM (FUagJ)
That must have been a lovely sight. I remember those days..vividly.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 01:30 AM (VwHCD)
And I'm jealous, cause so far I haven't.
Ha!
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 01:20 AM (cPGH3)
Funny thing is, this is eminently look-uppable. There is a wealth of information on the Internet about them. people buy and sell them. People ask questions on the SDC Forum: "Do I need to put palnuts on my connecting rod nuts?" (to which, the consensus is, "no, Loctite works better.") It really sounds like the AI's are just pulling the answer from their ass.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 01:30 AM (8zz6B)
Playing Ziggy Stardust as the cover demanded... at maximum volume.
I was cool, baby!
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 01:31 AM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 01:30 AM (VwHCD)
Those were seriously fun times.
Now I tool around in a Buick to Walmart and realize how good life is, truly.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 01:33 AM (FUagJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2025 01:34 AM (8zz6B)
Playing Ziggy Stardust as the cover demanded... at maximum volume.
I was cool, baby!
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 01:31 AM (cPGH3)
Damn right you were, that was a bad ass car, and if you had the max wedge you were king shit. You rarely see any of those around anymore.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 01:34 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2025 01:35 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt
Quick search says that was the avg price in '66.
I remember gas being around 89 cents per gallon. This was in the late 80s. I was tooling around in an RX-7, smoking Marlboros and had big hair. Good times.
Posted by: Scarymary
I'm about that age. Gas was right around a buck when I started driving. So I did get to deal with some "old-fashioned" gas stations that didn't have the new signage or pumps with a "dollars" place. Gas for "1.9 cents," heh.
Posted by: mikeski at February 23, 2025 01:35 AM (DgGvY)
Bah. Hawaii is waaayyy overrated. Never wanna go back.
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2025 01:35 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2025 01:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 01:36 AM (FUagJ)
Posted by: Kindltot
___________________________
Expect a call from the union. If you danced while you did it, you better have a SAG card.
Posted by: Dick Van Dyke at February 23, 2025 01:37 AM (dIske)
Now I tool around in a Buick to Walmart and realize how good life is, truly.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 01:33 AM (FUagJ)
I'm a die hard. I still have a classic muscle car and a few harleys. I found the best way to never ever have a mid life crisis is to not grow up to begin with.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 01:39 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Which drive size?
Impact or manual drive socket?
Posted by: Grok at February 23, 2025 01:41 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: mikeski at February 23, 2025 01:35 AM (DgGvY)
I started driving in 1986, could get a learner's permit at 15. I'm so old I remember gas stations having portable signs with the price. Not the digital ones.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 01:42 AM (FUagJ)
Peach Schnapps, Baileys and grenadine.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2025 01:44 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 23, 2025 01:45 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Any/everything with grenadine = headache for me. Hurricanes being the worst.
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 01:46 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2025 01:46 AM (VofaG)
You only need a few drops of grenadine to get the hemorrhage effect.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2025 01:47 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 23, 2025 01:45 AM (XeU6L)
Fuck electricity, was the steam engine invented yet? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 01:48 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 01:39 AM (VwHCD)
That sounds like a good way to be. I try to be responsible to take care of Mr. Scary. We met in high school, so have lots of reference jokes. He's a good man.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 23, 2025 01:49 AM (FUagJ)
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2025 01:49 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Holy flashback. *nodding knowingly*
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 01:50 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2025 01:52 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 01:53 AM (41CYW)
I was making $5.00/hour and Levis cost $25. How screwed up has our economy become?
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 01:54 AM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2025 01:46 AM (VofaG)
Yeah and the cars back then had brutal gas millage. My first car was a '68GTO with the 400 engine. You could hear the tank getting sucked dry. Then came the big block roadrunners. Step on the gas too hard with those and you hear the gas tank imploding. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 01:54 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Pete Bog at February 23, 2025 01:54 AM (Bjq84)
Fuck electricity, was the steam engine invented yet? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
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I have no trouble remembering when I could not get $2 of gas into my CB750.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 23, 2025 01:55 AM (XeU6L)
I was making $5.00/hour and Levis cost $25. How screwed up has our economy become?
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 01:54 AM (cPGH3)
I have a friend who would give his left nut for a 63 polara.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 01:58 AM (VwHCD)
I was making $5.00/hour and Levis cost $25. How screwed up has our economy become?
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 01:54 AM (cPGH3)
$5 an hour? That was 3x the minimum wage. You were doing good.
I haven’t bought Levi’s in 30 years. How much are they now?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2025 01:58 AM (VofaG)
Hi, all!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 23, 2025 01:59 AM (d51Pj)
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2025 02:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 02:00 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 23, 2025 01:55 AM (XeU6L)
$15-17 easy now if you use premium.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 02:01 AM (VwHCD)
Or was that about a pack of cigarettes?
Or was it attack ships on fire off the shoulders of Orion. Gone like tears in the rain.
Posted by: Pete Bog at February 23, 2025 02:01 AM (Bjq84)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2025 02:02 AM (VofaG)
It was the fastest car in Lee's Summit Mo as long as I could get the competitor to go from a rolling start.
Floor it from a stop, and it would kind of growl.. suck about 5 gallons of gas and then start to go.
Start at 20 miles/hour or so, and you could stomp that thing... unfrigginbelievable!
I'd end up in the back seat, and you could see the gas gauge start to drop.l
The folks figgered the reason it didn't last was because the engine idled so much on patrol.
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 02:03 AM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 23, 2025 02:04 AM (XeU6L)
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$2.15.../carton
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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20 cent candy bars. Mom used to talk about them being a nickel.
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 02:05 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 02:05 AM (41CYW)
Ok, forget steam engines, were the pyramids built yet? lol
I can't even fathom these prices.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 02:07 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
I can't even fathom these prices.
Posted by: Berserker
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The worst part is, if we had known, we would have been stockpiling silver coins like crazy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 23, 2025 02:10 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
But... jeans were over $20.00, shoes still cost at least $10.00. Men were making $5/hour, and their wives could stay at home.
What the hell?
I still can't tell what really happened except that manufacturing is no longer the mainstay of American life. Some things are far too cheap, and some things are far too expensive.
Posted by: MkY at February 23, 2025 02:12 AM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Holy flashback. *nodding knowingly*
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 01:50 AM (41CYW)
I drove an inherited stick VW Squareback in high school in the early '70s. $.50 spare change gas money went a looooong way.
Posted by: RickZ at February 23, 2025 02:14 AM (gKDq2)
Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2025 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2025 02:15 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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I think the price of silver went ballistic in '79 or '80?
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 02:19 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 02:21 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 02:19 AM (41CYW)
The Hunt brothers tried to corner the market.
Posted by: RickZ at February 23, 2025 02:23 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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I think the price of silver went ballistic in '79 or '80?
Posted by: scampydog at February 23, 2025 02:19 AM (41CYW)
I think they were paying something silly like 18X the face value. A dude I know raided his parents silver coins at that time. He said they approved, but he was a bit shady, so who knows. It got him something like $2000 and he spent it on drugs and following the WHO around on some of their tour stops. 2K in 1980 money was serious shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2025 02:25 AM (VwHCD)
In case it hasn't been covered, Duck Farts were invented at the Peanut Farm on Old Seward Highway, where they are still served when ordered just as they were back then. Other bars may have laid claim to them, but I imbibed back when the drinking age was 19, so I'm pretty sure that's where they started. The part of the bar they built as a strip club is now a sports bar--titties quit being a selling point sometime in the 90's. Now if you want that, you have to go to the Bush Company, an establishment I have never visited even though it has been around since the pipeline days.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 23, 2025 02:28 AM (K2hug)
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 23, 2025 02:29 AM (K2hug)
And get the hell off my lawn.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 23, 2025 02:31 AM (K2hug)
The Hunt brothers saga is interesting. Paul Volcker at the Fed destroyed them using the power of the Fed. They were messin' where they shouldn't be messin'.
It almost backfired. Volcker's actions cause the price of silver to drop 50% in a day, wiping out the Hunt brothers. If it was their own money, too bad so sad. But they have leveraged heavily, and so their lenders were in trouble.
Volcker had to then bail them out, or their creditors, otherwise a financial crisis would've ensued. The price to the Hunts was, stop messing with silver.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 23, 2025 02:34 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 23, 2025 02:35 AM (K2hug)
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 23, 2025 02:35 AM (K2hug)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 23, 2025 02:47 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 23, 2025 02:47 AM (Sgq8y)
Song of the '29ers: Saturday night's alright for fightin' . . . to keep one's eylids open.
Posted by: RickZ at February 23, 2025 02:56 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 23, 2025 03:14 AM (V+K+8)
Posted by: Just Sayin... at February 23, 2025 03:15 AM (d8ZlE)
Posted by: SFGoth at February 23, 2025 03:19 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: SFGoth at February 23, 2025 03:19 AM (KAi1n)
What's a little ptomaine?
Yeah, I know, same as in town.
Posted by: RickZ at February 23, 2025 03:30 AM (gKDq2)
Place got burglarized when we were on vacation.
He was very upset about that for a long time.
Posted by: pawn at February 23, 2025 05:29 AM (QB+5g)
When it immanentized on the hardwood floor and the hard luck lives of all involved saw it feathered in life, a minor worry of mine came true.
Sure, disco was really bad. How much worse to add a ducking duck.
You have no idea of the bills that were laid and paid and proposed, but of course she said no, I mean really?
There's always another bill.
So let this be a lesson, without ten percent what do you really have?
Posted by: somejoe at February 23, 2025 05:45 AM (RCAte)
Melatonin I would not notice if it if it had heroin helpers to try and sandbag me, but peyote and animal spirits is another thing.
The long story short; my spirit animal is a semi trailer with advertising on it that is probably not but still could be a buffalo.
Posted by: somejoe at February 23, 2025 05:57 AM (RCAte)
Thanks for the great live performance.
Posted by: Strick at February 23, 2025 06:27 AM (p659H)
Posted by: somejoe at February 23, 2025 06:59 AM (RCAte)
Posted by: SMOD at February 23, 2025 07:49 AM (GITLP)
The Supremes... through their very cowardly inaction, is now aiding and giving comfort to Treasonous Judges.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 22, 2025 10:27 PM (QAkQ3)
Ignore the black robed hacks and be done with it. Let them stomp their little feet. Maybe, THEN, the worthless Supremes will get involved. The American people are pissed, and the these little hacks in black need to be made aware of that fact.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 23, 2025 08:30 AM (dgRL6)
Quit in 2011: $4.30 for Camel Wides.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2025 12:51 AM (bss/y)
I quite in 1972 when Marlboros were 42 cents a pack. Cold turkey, never went back.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 23, 2025 08:47 AM (dgRL6)
Reid’s show, “The ReidOut,” which airs at 7 p.m. Eastern time on weekdays, would be replaced by a panel show featuring MSNBC hosts Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez, The New York Times reported. MSNBC host Alex Wagner’s show, slated to return in April, is also reportedly on the chopping block, with former White House press secretary Jen Psaki planned as her replacement.
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