Mid-Morning Art Thread

October
Efim Volkov

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 nice

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 09:30 AM (8eY+W)

3 European birches.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 09:30 AM (6K6Eu)

4 Trees. So, art.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (8eY+W)

5 Birch, please.

Posted by: huerfano at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (n2swS)

6 1 nice
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

Mu sentiments exactly.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (P3/76)

7 Trees, ergo Art.

I love birch trees. Would hang.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (kgE5c)

8 Son of a birch!

Haven't we had this one before??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (/tzYP)

9 "F 'em"?

Really?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (cYBz/)

10 Oh, very nice. Thanks, CBD!

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

11 Painting: very nice.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (IaVIh)

12 Sniper's got to be in the treeline in the background.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (6K6Eu)

13 European birches.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Laden or unladen?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (8eY+W)

14 I thot it was February.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

15 Who birch dis is?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2025 09:32 AM (kgE5c)

16 Efim all

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

17 "We don't need no stinkin' Polynesians!"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:32 AM (ohSsM)

18 I love birch trees. Would hang.
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Their pollen is a real SOB though for hay fever sufferers.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 09:32 AM (/tzYP)

19 Nice. English birch trees. Some kind of weevil came through our region years ago and took them all out

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 24, 2025 09:32 AM (ViCCR)

20 Those are trees and a creek. Not "October."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

21

You think you're scared?
I have to walk back alone!

Posted by: Elderly Git at February 24, 2025 09:33 AM (U7OYj)

22 Shouldn't the walker have a casting rod with him?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 24, 2025 09:33 AM (zxAjZ)

23 Barking but no dogs.

Art or not art??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 09:33 AM (/tzYP)

24 Birches get stirches.

Posted by: Roy at February 24, 2025 09:33 AM (z+ik4)

25 October
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In February?!?!?!?!?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:33 AM (ohSsM)

26 October?
Time flies. Better get ready for Halloween.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

27 European birches.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Laden or unladen?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (8eY+W)
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Looking pretty unladen to me.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 09:33 AM (6K6Eu)

28 There was a place like that back home.

Thanks for this one. Makes me realize that I kind of miss it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 09:33 AM (idhMh)

29 That guy fishin'?

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 09:33 AM (Yj6Os)

30 The Birch.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 24, 2025 09:33 AM (Aqu9a)

31 He could have also named it March.

Posted by: Roy at February 24, 2025 09:34 AM (z+ik4)

32 I have a birch tree in my backyard.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

33

Marc Dorcel made a lot of movies about hot European birches...

Posted by: Just Sayin... at February 24, 2025 09:35 AM (U7OYj)

34 Seems like October in Russia would have snow on the ground.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

35 Pretty. Would hang. Artists name is Efim. Kind of rude
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 24, 2025 09:35 AM (cMcMn)

36 Sniper's got to be in the treeline in the background.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (6K6Eu)

Get your eyes checked. Sniper is lower center, next to the water. Obviously still a trainee.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 09:35 AM (ExV1e)

37 Is it just my screen or does it look like the painting could have been taken with a zoom lens with the foreground slightly out of focus?

Or is it my eyes?

/puts on reading glasses

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:35 AM (ohSsM)

38 October, time for TxMoMe!

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 09:35 AM (jgmnb)

39 Art form: Painting
Subject and objects: Landscape
Technique: Oil
Materials: Canvas
Date of creation: 1883
Size: 55×38 cm
Region: Moscow
Location: State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

40 26 October?
Time flies. Better get ready for Halloween.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

October already!? This summer sucked, and flew by. Time really does go faster the older you get. *sigh*

Posted by: Kris at February 24, 2025 09:36 AM (EwaUh)

41 Streaming in the 19th Cemtury

Posted by: tankdemon at February 24, 2025 09:36 AM (P3/76)

42 Sniper didn't take much trouble to conceal himself, did he.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2025 09:36 AM (LxER7)

43 I love birch trees. Would hang.
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Their pollen is a real SOB though for hay fever sufferers.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 09:32 AM

True. The bark is great for starting fires, though.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2025 09:36 AM (kgE5c)

44 Marc Dorcel made a lot of movies about hot European birches...

Posted by: Just Sayin... at February 24, 2025 09:35 AM (U7OYj)

Future canoes.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 09:36 AM (Yj6Os)

45 Them Russkies sure do love their birch trees.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 24, 2025 09:36 AM (BHrzb)

46 Art form: Painting
Subject and objects: Landscape
Technique: Oil
Materials: Canvas
Date of creation: 1883
Size: 55×38 cm
Region: Moscow
Location: State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow

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That reminds me of what the Terminator has on his HUD when he looks at something.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 09:36 AM (idhMh)

47 Contemplative

would hang in the scullery of my country manor

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care at February 24, 2025 09:37 AM (AOsQT)

48 Interesting that there was a Russian landscape movement that presented beautiful scenes, like this one, and didn't picture broken old bodies digging potatoes out of frosty ground with their finger nails.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 24, 2025 09:37 AM (zxAjZ)

49 Um, anyone want to mention to the Dildo it's February?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 09:37 AM (1Bcgn)

50 She's pining for the F150s.

Posted by: Ford Motor Company at February 24, 2025 09:37 AM (DobEs)

51 Their pollen is a real SOB though for hay fever sufferers.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 09:32 AM
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When I had the European birch in the front yard, my van would wind up green-colored in the spring.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 09:37 AM (6K6Eu)

52
Alternate title:

"A Bunch of Russian Sonsov Birches"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2025 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

53 Them Russkies sure do love their birch trees.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 24, 2025 09:36 AM (BHrzb)
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That's nothing. Americans created a whole society dedicated to them.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:38 AM (ohSsM)

54 Um, anyone want to mention to the Dildo it's February?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 09:37 AM (1Bcgn)
*****
I think he does this to get under our skin.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

55 Um, anyone want to mention to the Dildo it's February?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 09:37 AM (1Bcgn)
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Forget it, he's rolling. (Without nekkid lardasses on an ottoman.)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 09:38 AM (6K6Eu)

56 Them Russkies sure do love their birch trees.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 24, 2025 09:36 AM (BHrzb)
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That's nothing. Americans created a whole society dedicated to them.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:38 AM (ohSsM)

*Golf Clap !!

Posted by: runner at February 24, 2025 09:39 AM (g47mK)

57 Um, anyone want to mention to the Dildo it's February?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 09:37 AM

The Dildo, he taunts us.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2025 09:39 AM (kgE5c)

58 Them Russkies sure do love their birch trees.

Posted by: Pete in Texas

Also, October.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 24, 2025 09:39 AM (OUMaO)

59 I was visiting the folks last week in CA. Up on the roof in a t-shirt, clearing the leaves out of the 2nd story gutters in the middle of February. Flew back in the middle of the snowstorm. Quite the snapback. I felt as displaced in time as this image of Autumn birches in February.

Posted by: red speck at February 24, 2025 09:39 AM (0Id0S)

60 53 Them Russkies sure do love their birch trees.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 24, 2025 09:36 AM (BHrzb)
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That's nothing. Americans created a whole society dedicated to them.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:38 AM (ohSsM)
Ahem.
A. Babbitt

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 09:40 AM (jgmnb)

61 This reminds me for some reason of the landscape at Chalmette National Monument, where I played as a kid. That was before they put in the replica cannon and built the rampart, and when there was a stand of dark trees to the east of the site between it and the Chalmette National Cemetery. I'm not sure these kind of trees, the birches (?), were there, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

62 Them Russkies sure do love their birch trees.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 24, 2025
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That's nothing. Americans created a whole society dedicated to them.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:38 AM (ohSsM)

***
Don't forget the birch beer at Frostop.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 09:41 AM (J2vNu)

63 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

Do they even have birches in Louisiana?

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

64 Son of a birch!

Haven't we had this one before??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 09:31 AM (/tzYP)

Lot of similar paintings with birch trees. Very popular landscape subject .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 09:41 AM (VofaG)

65 I like this one a lot. Birch trees are lovely. Wish I had some on my hill. Sigh. Anywho..... This one is very good.Even though it's called October, it looks like it could even be early spring. I need some early spring.

Thanks CBD!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 09:41 AM (4XwPj)

66 My birch tree still has its leaves in October.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2025 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

67 Nice. English birch trees. Some kind of weevil came through our region years ago and took them all out
Posted by: olddog

It's blight is worse than it's bark.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 24, 2025 09:42 AM (sngfK)

68 We into nostalgia for months gone by here?
Nice picture.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 24, 2025 09:43 AM (n4GiU)

69 26 October?
Time flies. Better get ready for Halloween.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2025

***
Whenever I see it spelled with the aspotrophe, "Hawllowe'en," I want to pronounce it "Hallo-wee-ee-en."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

70 That's August.

Posted by: Grise Fiord resident at February 24, 2025 09:43 AM (Y1sOo)

71 53 Them Russkies sure do love their birch trees.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 24, 2025 09:36 AM (BHrzb)
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That's nothing. Americans created a whole society dedicated to them.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:38 AM (ohSsM)
Ahem.
A. Babbitt
Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 09:40 AM (jgmnb)

Babbitt!

Posted by: Lou Costello at February 24, 2025 09:44 AM (Aqu9a)

72 Birch groves are great places to take your girlfriend for a little canoedoling.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

73 Don't forget the birch beer at Frostop.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 09:41 AM (J2vNu)
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All beers make me birch.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:44 AM (ohSsM)

74 Birch trees remind me of American Indians because birch canoes was an Indian thing when was a kid.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 09:44 AM (VofaG)

75 Today the Birch. Tomorrow the Larch.

Posted by: Woody Tobias, Jr at February 24, 2025 09:44 AM (G5+As)

76 Babbitt!

Posted by: Lou Costello at February 24, 2025 09:44 AM (Aqu9a)
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Saved me a post. Thanks.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:45 AM (ohSsM)

77 My people call them "boat trees" and use every part of the boat tree.

Posted by: sen elizabeth warren at February 24, 2025 09:45 AM (/tzYP)

78 Nice painting....

And as pointed out...lol Efim....

Posted by: Stateless...49% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 24, 2025 09:45 AM (jvJvP)

79 Feels...revolutionary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 09:46 AM (GBKbO)

80 Them Russkies sure do love their birch trees.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 24, 2025 09:36 AM (BHrzb)
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That's nothing. Americans created a whole society dedicated to them.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:38 AM (ohSsM)
Ahem.
A. Babbitt
Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 09:40 AM (jgmnb)

Babbitt!
Posted by: Lou Costello at February 24, 2025 09:44 AM (Aqu9a)

It's Babbitt Season!!!

Posted by: D. Duck at February 24, 2025 09:46 AM (iJfKG)

81 The Larch.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 09:46 AM (/+SQR)

82 I've hit many a golf ball into streams such as this

Posted by: Doof at February 24, 2025 09:46 AM (SoyNM)

83 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 09:40 AM (J2vNu)
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Do they even have birches in Louisiana?
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025

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While I know less about forestry than a cow knows about calculus, I'm pretty sure I've seen those pale trees with the dark patches and slashes on 'em around here.

The October in this painting looks like the usual February here, so this selection does not seem odd to me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 09:46 AM (J2vNu)

84 Nice painting....

And as pointed out...lol Efim....
Posted by: Stateless...49% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 24, 2025 09:45 AM (jvJvP)

Watch it now.

Posted by: Efrim Zimbalist, Jr. at February 24, 2025 09:46 AM (Aqu9a)

85 This painting represents our fondest hope that Musk, Big Balls, and their autistic buddies will chase the lazy, entitled, little snots out of every government agency with a birch switch.

Posted by: Corporal Ball at February 24, 2025 09:47 AM (G5+As)

86 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Richard Windsor at February 24, 2025 09:47 AM (OA79/)

87 It's Babbitt Season!!!

Posted by: D. Duck at February 24, 2025 09:46 AM (iJfKG)
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Hold off until CBD posts his art thread tomorrow featuring Elmer trees.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:47 AM (ohSsM)

88 And the trees are still bare.

Of all they wear.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at February 24, 2025 09:47 AM (QfvaV)

89 We're gonna have a cow, and some pigs, and we're gonna have, maybe, maybe, a chicken. Down in the flat, we'll have a little field of...

Posted by: Lennie at February 24, 2025 09:47 AM (NAF5O)

90 Why are we discussing October and Halloween, over 8 months away, when Pride Month is just a little over 3 months away?

#PrioritiesMatter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2025 09:47 AM (a3Q+t)

91 Babbitt!!

Posted by: amy schumer at February 24, 2025 09:47 AM (/tzYP)

92 It's Babbitt Season!!!

Posted by: D. Duck at February 24, 2025
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Hold off until CBD posts his art thread tomorrow featuring Elmer trees.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025

***
"That'sh desh-picable!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 09:48 AM (J2vNu)

93 Babbitt season was only one day, 1/6/21. I pray to Almighty God for justice.

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 09:48 AM (jgmnb)

94 This painting represents our fondest hope that Musk, Big Balls, and their autistic buddies will chase the lazy, entitled, little snots out of every government agency with a birch switch.

Posted by: Corporal Ball at February 24, 2025 09:47 AM (G5+As)
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Meh. There are so many government branches to choose from.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:49 AM (ohSsM)

95 Why are we discussing October and Halloween, over 8 months away, when Pride Month is just a little over 3 months away?

#PrioritiesMatter
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2025 09:47 AM (a3Q+t)

91 Babbitt!!
Posted by: amy schumer at February 24, 2025 09:47 AM (/tzYP)
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Wrath Month is gonna be LIT!!!

Posted by: That guy who thinks Wrath Month is gonna be LIT at February 24, 2025 09:49 AM (6K6Eu)

96 And kingdoms rise.

And kingdoms fall.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at February 24, 2025 09:49 AM (QfvaV)

97 Aspen trees in the Intermountain West often have interesting art works carved in them from generations of Basque sheepherders.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2025 09:49 AM (a3Q+t)

98
October

In the woods of the Far Outer Reaches
You'll find chiggers and deer ticks and leeches
But when summer turns to fall
The worst thing of them all
Is all of those no-good Sunny Beeches!

Posted by: muldoon at February 24, 2025 09:50 AM (/iMjX)

99 When I had the European birch in the front yard, my van would wind up green-colored in the spring.
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I never had hay fever until my dad had me [unnecessarily!] cut the front lawn in early spring and I came back into the house with yellow pollen over my face like pancake makeup from our N.A. birch.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 09:50 AM (/tzYP)

100 Why are we discussing October and Halloween, over 8 months away, when Pride Month is just a little over 3 months away?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2025 09:47 AM (a3Q+t)
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RETARD!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:50 AM (ohSsM)

101 Of course there is a depressed Russian lady contemplating drowning herself in the painting.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 09:50 AM (VofaG)

102 Too warm for birch trees around here, but we do have the River Birch. Messy bark and love to choke and bust sewer lines.

Posted by: Tree Fellers Unlimited at February 24, 2025 09:50 AM (G5+As)

103 Aspen trees in the Intermountain West often have interesting art works carved in them from generations of Basque sheepherders.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2025

***
Basque-ing in the warm sunlight

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 09:50 AM (J2vNu)

104 I miss shooting pheasant in October. More to the point I miss my ESS, dear friend and hunting companion.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 24, 2025 09:50 AM (wBaIH)

105 So, the worst of all weevils.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 09:51 AM (/tzYP)

106 In addition to the fact that they're just pretty, the bark that the tree sheds is outstanding as a fire-starter. Very flammable! I've started many a fire in the Boundary Waters with nothing more than some matches and a handful of birch bark. Fun memories.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 24, 2025 09:51 AM (bNf8H)

107 You know.

I could deal with pride month if it meant the other 11 months of the year, there were ABSOLUTELY ZERO mentions of alternative sex practices, no rainbow flags or crosswalks, no drag shows or brunches, no commercials, billboards or even the slightest hint of faggotry the rest of the year.

I'll make that deal.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 09:51 AM (/+SQR)

108 97 Aspen trees in the Intermountain West often have interesting art works carved in them from generations of Basque sheepherders.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I exceedingly fear and quake!

Posted by: Wholly Moses! at February 24, 2025 09:52 AM (G5+As)

109 105 So, the worst of all weevils.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 09:51 AM (/tzYP)

======

He who would make a pun would pick a pocket.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 09:52 AM (GBKbO)

110 So, the worst of all weevils.

Posted by: andycanuck

They wobble, but they don't fall down.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

111
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 09:53 AM (dxSpM)

112 I want a Straight White Pride Month.

Love watching Lefties in my circle try and spin against it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 09:54 AM (Ldgt5)

113 107 You know.

I could deal with pride month if it meant the other 11 months of the year, there were ABSOLUTELY ZERO mentions of alternative sex practices, no rainbow flags or crosswalks, no drag shows or brunches, no commercials, billboards or even the slightest hint of faggotry the rest of the year.

I'll make that deal.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 09:51 AM (/+SQR)

Bet 90 % of all the public pride propaganda is funded by US gov on top of it all.

Posted by: Richard Windsor at February 24, 2025 09:54 AM (OA79/)

114 Aspen trees in the Intermountain West often have interesting art works carved in them from generations of Basque sheepherders.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I exceedingly fear and quake!
Posted by: Wholly Moses! at February 24, 2025 09:52 AM (G5+As)
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On the drive on Hwy 44 from Susanville to Redding, I enjoyed seeing a big grove of aspen with their leaves flickering in the breeze.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 09:54 AM (6K6Eu)

115 Aspen trees in the Intermountain West often have interesting art works carved in them from generations of Basque sheepherders.
Posted by: Duncanthra

***********

"Hector y Maria 4Ever"
💘

Posted by: muldoon at February 24, 2025 09:54 AM (/iMjX)

116 How not to be seen.

Mr. Jones, would you come out from behind your birch tree, please?

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 09:54 AM (/tzYP)

117 No dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Whaddaya mean? There's lots of birtches in the painting.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

118 Aspen trees in the Intermountain West often have interesting art works carved in them from generations of Basque sheepherders.
Posted by: Duncanthra

***********

"Hector y Maria 4Ever"
💘
Posted by: muldoon

Hector y Maria
Boom Chicka Boom Boom

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 09:56 AM (8eY+W)

119 Couple dozers and excavators could straighten out the course of that meandering creek in no time.

Posted by: Dept. of Redundancy at February 24, 2025 09:56 AM (G5+As)

120 Bernies coast to coast fight the oligarchy tour that started in Nebraska cost $27 to attend.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2025 09:56 AM (gbOdA)

121 so big balls edward coristine, is a the grandson of a Russian agent betrayed by aldrich ames, valery martynov, new York magazine, also had to throw in some innuendo about a previous job he was dismissed from,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at February 24, 2025 09:56 AM (dJR17)

122 I kind of like Efim as a first name.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 24, 2025 09:56 AM (kTd/k)

123 The dark blob in the middle looks like a stump until I zoom in on it. I would not have guessed that it was a person.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 09:57 AM (4XwPj)

124 I want a Straight White Pride Month.
----
A leftie here made an argument that every month is white pride month so having BHM was just being fair.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 09:58 AM (/tzYP)

125 Must be looking north...moss is on the other side of the trees.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 09:58 AM (Yj6Os)

126 The dark blob in the middle looks like a stump until I zoom in on it. I would not have guessed that it was a person.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)

Could be both. Maybe it's Michelle Fields.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

127 A leftie here made an argument that every month is white pride month so having BHM was just being fair.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 09:58 AM (/tzYP)

I hear that too - but then I ask if during Black History Month it's acceptable to ignore it and just celebrate the accomplishments of white people then. It's a meaningless ritual.

I've also heard the complaint that Black History Month is the shortest calendar month so of course racism. Like there was a vote on it or something.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 10:00 AM (WQkJR)

128 Could be both. Maybe it's Michelle Fields.
Posted by: Bulg

Jerry Nadler looks more like a stump.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:00 AM (4XwPj)

129 >>Could be both. Maybe it's Michelle Fields.
__
If she goes swimming in the creek, she'll be "Bob."

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 24, 2025 10:00 AM (bNf8H)

130 I like this painting. It reminds me of something you'd see on the wall in a little local coffee shop in a rural area.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at February 24, 2025 10:01 AM (QdGJh)

131 124 A leftie here made an argument that every month is white pride month so having BHM was just being fair.

Their worldview is so adorable.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 24, 2025 10:01 AM (BpO1e)

132 >>Could be both. Maybe it's Michelle Fields.
__
If she goes swimming in the creek, she'll be "Bob."
Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 24, 2025 10:00 AM (bNf8H)
------------
If she lies in front of a door, she'd be "Matt."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:02 AM (6K6Eu)

133 128 Could be both. Maybe it's Michelle Fields.
Posted by: Bulg

Jerry Nadler looks more like a stump.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:00 AM (4XwPj)
----
He looks like the toad thing in Weird Science.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 24, 2025 10:03 AM (LPS7w)

134 In the sauna, the Russians like to beat their skin with birch branches.

Ask me how I know.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2025 10:03 AM (RIvkX)

135 On the drive on Hwy 44 from Susanville to Redding, I enjoyed seeing a big grove of aspen with their leaves flickering in the breeze.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Sounds very pretty and thanks for the report from behind enemy lines.

Posted by: Germany Calling at February 24, 2025 10:03 AM (G5+As)

136 On the drive on Hwy 44 from Susanville to Redding, I enjoyed seeing a big grove of aspen with their leaves flickering in the breeze.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 09:54 AM (6K6Eu)

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

Just north of Flagstaff, there's a chair lift you can take off-season (not winter) to the top of Snowbowl near Mt. Humphries (the highest of the San Francisco Peaks) -- and get to fly over a magnificent quaking aspen forest surrounded by ponderosa pine.

Oddly, they have a Frisbee golf course amidst it -- which kind of ruins the serenity with people playing it.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight AND Dharma at February 24, 2025 10:03 AM (bxDDB)

137 I thought Michelle Fields joined the Army Reserves.

Posted by: muldoon at February 24, 2025 10:04 AM (/iMjX)

138 I always enjoy Volkov's landscapes. They remind me of John Constable which is high praise. They aren't highly romantic, just realistic and pleasant. This one is especially appealing since I love birch trees with their interesting bark and so many practical uses.

This painting really captures the feel of autumn with the muted grass colors and sky and the clutter of fallen leaves. Thoroughly pleasant and evocative.

Posted by: JTB at February 24, 2025 10:04 AM (yTvNw)

139 The painting is pretty, but it looks like a pretty tough golf course.

Posted by: Duffer Don at February 24, 2025 10:05 AM (G5+As)

140 So apparently a huge U.S. flag is hung upside down in protest at Yosemite.

https://tinyurl.com/7n5uep8v

Time to shut the park down, form a perimeter, and make sure everyone in the park is safe from physical harm?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 24, 2025 10:05 AM (sG4Li)

141 ...it turned out to be something other than she had envisioned.

Posted by: muldoon at February 24, 2025 10:05 AM (/iMjX)

142 For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I’ve no desire to be disloyal,
Some person in authority, I don’t know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal,
Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February, twenty-eight days as
a rule are plenty,
One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty.
Through some singular coincidence – I shouldn’t be surprised if it were owing to the
agency of an ill-natured fairy –
You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year, on the
twenty-ninth of February;
And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you’ll easily discover,
That though you’ve lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays, you’re only five
and a little bit over!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:05 AM (6K6Eu)

143 Must be looking north...moss is on the other side of the trees.
Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025

***
In his Man From U.N.C.L.E. novel The Vampire Affair, Solo and Illya are in the Romanian woods. Solo advises to look for the moss on trees, as that will be north, and that he learned it in the Boy Scouts. They find very little moss, and when they do it's scattered at random.

Illya: "What else did you learn in the Boy Scouts?"
Solo: "I learned to start a fire by rubbing two matches together and to hotwire a car. I belonged to a very progressive troop."
Illya: "Forget I asked."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

144 131 124 A leftie here made an argument that every month is white pride month so having BHM was just being fair.

Their worldview is so adorable.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 24, 2025 10:01 AM (BpO1e)

I guess I missed all the mentions of it in every media outlet.

On a serious note, I ok with bhm as long as it doesn't get co-opted into Marxist black history month.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 24, 2025 10:05 AM (OA79/)

145 He looks like the toad thing in Weird Science.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 24, 2025 10:03 AM (LPS7w)

Played by Bill Paxton, one of the LV-426 Space Marine heroes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 24, 2025 10:05 AM (Aqu9a)

146
Saw "the ~~Minkeh~~ Monkey" this weekend.

It seems part of a new Hollywood trend along with "Heart Eyes" for what you might call "Grand Guignol" Comedies,

Where grotesque, gory, bloody death is played mostly as comedy.

"The Monkey" isn't so much a horror movie as it is Looney tunes splat-stick.

The movie itself involves a family that comes across and is stuck with a cursed toy monkey they cannot get rid of. No matter what they do.

Very good movie. Excellent directing, good mostly tight script. Some big (cringing) laughs. Some free low level philosophy.

If it sounds good to you, you will definitely enjoy it.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2025 10:05 AM (iJfKG)

147 And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you’ll easily discover,
That though you’ve lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays, you’re only five
and a little bit over!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025

***
Gilbert & Sullivan?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:06 AM (J2vNu)

148 So apparently a huge U.S. flag is hung upside down in protest at Yosemite.

https://tinyurl.com/7n5uep8v

I thought everyone in Yosemite was locked in a bathroom.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

149 137 I thought Michelle Fields joined the Army Reserves.
Posted by: muldoon at February 24, 2025 10:04 AM (/iMjX)

You meant the armless reserves, tight?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 24, 2025 10:06 AM (OA79/)

150 Could be both. Maybe it's Michelle Fields.
__
If she goes swimming in the creek, she'll be "Bob."
Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 24, 2025 10:00 AM (bNf8H)
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If she lies in front of a door, she'd be "Matt."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:02 AM

Not funny!

Posted by: Eileen at February 24, 2025 10:06 AM (a3Q+t)

151 137 I thought Michelle Fields joined the Army Reserves.
Posted by: muldoon

I thought she turned to a life of crime by a casino? I overheard someone say they got robbed by a one-armed bandit.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 24, 2025 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

152 The Larch.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 09:46 AM

The mighty Scots pine!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2025 10:07 AM (kgE5c)

153 Bitch, bitch, bitch. All they do is bitch.
Give them black history month, ...it's the shortest month hater!
Give them pride month..... We want juneteenth too and recognition days in other months, hater!
Give them Juneteenth..... No one pays attention to it, hater!

Bitch, bitch, bitch. I want, I want, I want.
Bunch of fucking spoiled toddlers.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:07 AM (4XwPj)

154 A leftie here made an argument that every month is white pride month so having BHM was just being fair.
*
Their worldview is so adorable.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 24, 2025

***
In the same way that roadkill is adorable. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

155 In the sauna, the Russians like to beat their skin with birch branches.

Ask me how I know.
====
Because you've read Flashman at the Charge??

They use stinging nettles too. [The women at least.]

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:08 AM (/tzYP)

156 You inseminated idiot.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 24, 2025 10:08 AM (LXlRM)

157 Gilbert & Sullivan?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:06 AM (J2vNu)
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Pirates.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:08 AM (6K6Eu)

158 So apparently a huge U.S. flag is hung upside down in protest at Yosemite.

https://tinyurl.com/7n5uep8v

Time to shut the park down, form a perimeter, and make sure everyone in the park is safe from physical harm?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 24, 2025 10:05 AM (sG4Li)

Distress signal...someone was locked in a bathroom.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 10:08 AM (Yj6Os)

159 37 Is it just my screen or does it look like the painting could have been taken with a zoom lens with the foreground slightly out of focus?

Or is it my eyes?

/puts on reading glasses

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 09:35 AM (ohSsM)

Almost has a 3D effect

Posted by: javems at February 24, 2025 10:08 AM (8I4hW)

160 RE: my 143, "In his Man From U.N.C.L.E. novel The Vampire Affair . . ." I meant to give credit to the author, David McDaniel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:09 AM (J2vNu)

161 Time to shut the park down, form a perimeter, and make sure everyone in the park is safe from physical harm?
-------
And the [now-unemployed IIRC] Park Ranger had enough spare time during work hours to have done it.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:09 AM (/tzYP)

162 Because you've read Flashman at the Charge??

They use stinging nettles too. [The women at least.]
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:08 AM (/tzYP)
----------
Ah, Aunt Sara...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:10 AM (6K6Eu)

163 158 So apparently a huge U.S. flag is hung upside down in protest at Yosemite.

https://tinyurl.com/7n5uep8v

Time to shut the park down, form a perimeter, and make sure everyone in the park is safe from physical harm?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 24, 2025 10:05 AM (sG4Li)

======

I saw that the park lost about 10 employees.

Out of about 450.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

164 I'll make that deal.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 09:51 AM (/+SQR)

The original deal was simply recognizing same sex marriage, and look how that turned out.

No deal....ever.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2025 10:10 AM (mWSu4)

165 No monkey movies, thank you very much.

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 10:11 AM (jgmnb)

166 Give them pride month..... We want juneteenth too and recognition days in other months, hater!
Give them Juneteenth..... No one pays attention to it, hater!

Bitch, bitch, bitch. I want, I want, I want.
Bunch of fucking spoiled toddlers.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:07 AM (4XwPj)right?

You are not allowed to march in a juneteenth parade!!! Reeee, why aren't you marching in a junteenth parade.????

Posted by: Npc at February 24, 2025 10:11 AM (OA79/)

167 Would hang

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 24, 2025 10:11 AM (kocNh)

168 *a young Count approaches his pater familias with a question*

Young Count: Why do we have Mother's Day and Father's Day, and even Grandparents Day, but there's no Children's Day?

Wise Pater Familias: Because everyday is Children's Day!! Now, run along there, Count. Be home when the streetlights come on.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 24, 2025 10:11 AM (Aqu9a)

169 Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2025 10:05 AM (iJfKG)

The girl spawn and her friends saw it this weekend. They liked it too.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:12 AM (4XwPj)

170 Ah, Aunt Sara...
--------
My favourite aunt!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:12 AM (/tzYP)

171 I saw that the park lost about 10 employees.

Out of about 450.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)
-

That's 2.222%.

*ducks and runs*

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 10:12 AM (ohSsM)

172 Hi CBD. A question/suggestion. Are there any paintings that pique your interest by Aussie, Japanese, Albanian, Turk, South American, Indian (dot) artists? Canadian? Mongolian?

Nice painting today. Calming, but would not hang. A bit too bleak.

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2025 10:12 AM (aBgBM)

173 161 Time to shut the park down, form a perimeter, and make sure everyone in the park is safe from physical harm?
-------
And the [now-unemployed IIRC] Park Ranger had enough spare time during work hours to have done it.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:09 AM (/tzYP)

So using his office to make political statements using assets of tgr park?

Why is xir still there?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 24, 2025 10:12 AM (OA79/)

174 Kebler Pass, a ~30-mile stretch of unpaved road between Crested Butte and Paonia in Colorado is home to a vast expanse of aspens, one of the largest single organisms in the world. Spectacularly beautiful drive in late September - early October.

Posted by: muldoon at February 24, 2025 10:13 AM (/iMjX)

175 They're just using this locked in the bathroom ploy to take the time to drill holes in the toilet partitions.

Posted by: Gay Men's Chorus at February 24, 2025 10:13 AM (G5+As)

176 Would fish (the stream).

Posted by: Next2Nothing at February 24, 2025 10:13 AM (tA1/w)

177 Ah, Aunt Sara...
--------
My favourite aunt!
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:12 AM (/tzYP)

Aunt Peg >> Aunt Sara.

If you know, you know.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 24, 2025 10:14 AM (Aqu9a)

178 Kebler Pass, a ~30-mile stretch of unpaved road between Crested Butte and Paonia in Colorado is home to a vast expanse of aspens, one of the largest single organisms in the world. Spectacularly beautiful drive in late September - early October.
Posted by: muldoon

Are those the trees that the cookie-making elves live in?

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

179 Wood fish?....never heard of 'em.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 10:15 AM (Yj6Os)

180 Well, I got my 5 things done for the week. Now I can take the rest of the week off.

Posted by: fd at February 24, 2025 10:15 AM (vFG9F)

181 Dildo!

Welcome back to the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 10:16 AM (H7vF3)

182 Ah, Aunt Sara...

*********

...whatever will be, will be

Posted by: muldoon at February 24, 2025 10:17 AM (/iMjX)

183 Ah, Aunt Sara...

*********

...whatever will be, will be
Posted by: muldoon at February 24, 2025 10:17 AM (/iMjX)

Did you mean her sister, Kay?

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 24, 2025 10:17 AM (Aqu9a)

184 180 Well, I got my 5 things done for the week. Now I can take the rest of the week off.
Posted by: fd

Not impressed. You listed "dropping a deuce on company time" twice.

Posted by: Big Balls at February 24, 2025 10:17 AM (G5+As)

185 Calming, but would not hang. A bit too bleak.

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2025 10:12 AM (aBgBM)

Bleak?

Just wait!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2025 10:18 AM (mWSu4)

186 Are those the trees that the cookie-making elves live in?
Posted by: Bulg

********

Missus M and I call it "Cookie Pass"

Posted by: muldoon at February 24, 2025 10:18 AM (/iMjX)

187 Kebler Pass, a ~30-mile stretch of unpaved road between Crested Butte and Paonia in Colorado is home to a vast expanse of aspens, one of the largest single organisms in the world. Spectacularly beautiful drive in late September - early October.
Posted by: muldoon
*
Are those the trees that the cookie-making elves live in?
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025

***
If you're fortunate, when the moon is full in the summer, you might see a barely-clad Stacey Keibler flitting about between the trees there!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

188 Mrs. E is in recovery.

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 10:19 AM (jgmnb)

189 Reeee, why aren't you marching in a junteenth parade.????
Posted by: Npc at February 24, 2025 10:11 AM (OA79/)

Because it's my birthday and I won't celebrate some silly made up holiday instead. I mean, I'm very happy that the federal government recognizes my birthday as a federal holiday but I'm gonna do whatever I want on that day.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:19 AM (4XwPj)

190 Bleak?

Just wait!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2025 10:18 AM (mWSu4)

Got any "Black Hole of Calcutta" art?

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 10:19 AM (Yj6Os)

191 Birch, get out the way.

Posted by: Archer at February 24, 2025 10:20 AM (WyvY4)

192 Ah, Aunt Sara...

*********

...whatever will be, will be
Posted by: muldoon at February 24, 2025

***
Especially since Joe's run off to Fire Lake.

Posted by: Bob Seger at February 24, 2025 10:20 AM (J2vNu)

193 Bleak?

Just wait!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
________

Otto Dix WWI stuff. Can't think of anything more bleak than that.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 24, 2025 10:20 AM (Dm8we)

194 Calming, but would not hang. A bit too bleak.

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2025 10:12 AM (aBgBM)
-

Bleak?

Just wait!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2025 10:18 AM (mWSu4)
-

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 10:20 AM (ohSsM)

195 If RFK Jr. succeeds in rolling back Big Pharma, where will all the chubby Jardiance singers and dancers find work?

Posted by: Tugboat Annie at February 24, 2025 10:20 AM (G5+As)

196 I saw that the park lost about 10 employees.

Out of about 450.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

Bears are done hibernating already? Early breakfast.

Posted by: Roy at February 24, 2025 10:21 AM (z+ik4)

197 Is this water color or oil?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:21 AM (pLaQB)

198 Aunt Peg

❤️

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 10:21 AM (8eY+W)

199 Is this water color or oil?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:21 AM (pLaQB)
-

Yes.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 10:22 AM (ohSsM)

200 How bleak was my puberty!

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

201 If RFK Jr. succeeds in rolling back Big Pharma, where will all the chubby Jardiance singers and dancers find work?
Posted by: Tugboat Annie at February 24, 2025

***
They can form support groups with the chubby actors in the Wegovy and Ozempic spots.

Posted by: Bob Seger at February 24, 2025 10:22 AM (J2vNu)

202 OMAR: These people are just idiots. I really, you know, I'm at the point where it's become really hard to have an intellectual debate with any of these people because the level of stupidity that they are displaying every single day is frankly embarrassing, not just in Congress, but as Americans, and the fact that these people are allowed to say the most ridiculous things tells you that the dumbing of the United States has arrived because how else do we get a Trump presidency again?

PS Every progressive thinks this way.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2025 10:22 AM (gbOdA)

203 I bet there's a lot of elk in those woods.

Tasty tasty elk.

Posted by: Archer at February 24, 2025 10:22 AM (WyvY4)

204 Where are the Zizians down by the river?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:22 AM (pLaQB)

205 Bleak? You mean there is hope you will post more Norwegian Mental Illness Art?

Posted by: Be Still My Heart at February 24, 2025 10:22 AM (G5+As)

206 195 If RFK Jr. succeeds in rolling back Big Pharma, where will all the chubby Jardiance singers and dancers find work?
Posted by: Tugboat Annie at February 24, 2025 10:20 AM (G5+As
HGTV Specials?

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 10:22 AM (jgmnb)

207 Eldest daughter and I were techs on a youth production of
"Fiddler".
Since we cannot leave anything alone, we decided the poles for the chuppa needed to be zhuzhed up and painted them to be birches.
Like the opening credits in "Dr. Zhivago", see?

Posted by: sal at February 24, 2025 10:22 AM (f+FmA)

208 201 If RFK Jr. succeeds in rolling back Big Pharma, where will all the chubby Jardiance singers and dancers find work?
Posted by: Tugboat Annie at February 24, 2025

***
They can form support groups with the chubby actors in the Wegovy and Ozempic spots.
-------------
Walmart Greeters?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:23 AM (pLaQB)

209 179 Wood fish?....never heard of 'em.
--------
Basswood.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:23 AM (/tzYP)

210 Prolly would hang if it was a gift.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 24, 2025 10:23 AM (4p0Xq)

211 Aunt Peg

❤️
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025

***
If we're talking about the infamous Mrs. Bundy, nee Wanker, then I agree!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:23 AM (J2vNu)

212 How bleak was my puberty!

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)
-

Why? Was it blocked?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 10:23 AM (ohSsM)

213 If RFK Jr. succeeds in rolling back Big Pharma, where will all the chubby Jardiance singers and dancers find work?
Posted by: Tugboat Annie at February 24, 2025 10:20 AM (G5+As)
__
Stacy Abrams' Nigerian funeral procession.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 24, 2025 10:23 AM (bNf8H)

214 Dang it!

Took a call and missed getting in on both the Flashman AND the Pirates jokes!

*kicks cat*

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2025 10:23 AM (LxER7)

215 There is unrest in the forest
Trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 24, 2025 10:24 AM (ILWbY)

216 Tasty tasty elk.
Posted by: Archer

And squirrel!

Posted by: Boris and Natasha at February 24, 2025 10:24 AM (G5+As)

217 Cuz the birch cuz the birch is back...

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 24, 2025 10:24 AM (4p0Xq)

218 lovely painting, almost photographic

much better than anything AI can deliver

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2025 10:24 AM (dCxaZ)

219 207 Eldest daughter and I were techs on a youth production of
"Fiddler".
Since we cannot leave anything alone, we decided the poles for the chuppa needed to be zhuzhed up and painted them to be birches.
Like the opening credits in "Dr. Zhivago", see?
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Did anyone ever finish reading Dr. Zhivago? I checked out around page 100.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:24 AM (pLaQB)

220 Stacy Abrams' Nigerian funeral procession.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 24, 2025 10:23 AM (bNf8H)
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I don't think those guys could manage to get her casket on their shoulders...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:24 AM (6K6Eu)

221 Deceptively clear fire lane to the obvious approach.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 10:24 AM (jc0TO)

222 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I could put a cabin in that scene. Rustic living.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2025 10:24 AM (W/lyH)

223 wow this guy is amazing and making the viewer feel like they are in that moment

the stillness and mirror-like surface of the water, omg

we've all seen a creek like that, (I hope anyway)

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2025 10:25 AM (dCxaZ)

224 I always like Birch tress in paintings. They look far more interesting. Makes a wonderful frame here.

Posted by: pawn at February 24, 2025 10:25 AM (QB+5g)

225 "3030 was a double, working for Redland. . . . Yes, dammit, I said 'was'. The birch is dead now."
( -- James Bond) (sorta)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:25 AM (J2vNu)

226 Deceptively clear fire lane to the obvious approach.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 10:24 AM (jc0TO)
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It's where the Viet Cong are hidden.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:25 AM (6K6Eu)

227 Ah, Aunt Sara...
*********
...whatever will be, will be
Posted by: muldoon

Did you mean her sister, Kay?
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Anna Maria Alberghetti I'll be getting in a taxi, honey!

[BTW, the lady is still alive, aged 88.]

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:25 AM (/tzYP)

228 Dildo!

Welcome back to the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 10:16 AM

Imagine a first timer reading that. Wondering WTF was goin on round here.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 24, 2025 10:26 AM (4p0Xq)

229 Dang. I could put a cabin in that scene. Rustic living.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes

My one problem with Bob Ross is his tendency to put a cabin or a barn in a perfectly nice landscape. They are never a great addition to the work.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:27 AM (4XwPj)

230 the depth of field, the perspective, everything is perfect

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2025 10:27 AM (dCxaZ)

231 Did anyone ever finish reading Dr. Zhivago? I checked out around page 100.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:24 AM (pLaQB)

The bookmark is on p. 435, so not me.

Posted by: sal at February 24, 2025 10:27 AM (f+FmA)

232 There's a Panzer Brigade in the woods to the right.

Posted by: Archer at February 24, 2025 10:27 AM (WyvY4)

233 185 Calming, but would not hang. A bit too bleak.

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2025 10:12 AM (aBgBM)

Bleak?

Just wait!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2025 10:18 AM (mWSu4)

Well, yeah. No International Orange, no Cobalt Blue, no Lemon Yellow, no plaid...

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2025 10:28 AM (aBgBM)

234 231 Did anyone ever finish reading Dr. Zhivago? I checked out around page 100.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:24 AM (pLaQB)

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My dad likes to talk about how, in high school, he was the only person in his class to read the book for an assignment. Everyone else went to the movies instead.

He says that he was the only one to pass the test.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

235 Headwaters of creek at Chernobyl Plant. Eat no more than ten lbs of sturgeon per month, comrade.

Posted by: Glowing Review at February 24, 2025 10:29 AM (G5+As)

236 Anna Maria Alberghetti ~~I'll be getting~~ in a taxi, honey!
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Great. I effed up the 'joke'.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:29 AM (/tzYP)

237 Stonewall, the UK trans pushers, are laying off 50% due to the USAID shutdown. LOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2025 10:29 AM (3cXfB)

238 I'm starting to get pissed at the Democrats whining about Musk.

Millions of non-federal employees lost their jobs and their businesses due to the Democrats making up Covid rules.

None of them gave a shit about those people.

Hundreds of thousands more lost their jobs due to Biden's anti-energy policies.

All of them cheered those men losing their jobs.

But now a few hundred lay-abouts might get fired and we're all supposed to feel sympathy?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 10:29 AM (IIsq3)

239 Looks like a photo. I like it.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 24, 2025 10:29 AM (l3YAf)

240 Harris poll out. OrangeMan at 52% approval, only 43% disapprove. Ras is 51%. YouGov is 50%.

WaPo and CNN show him underwater on the other hand. And it’s what the msm is going with. Err body hates Trump!! They will never learn.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 24, 2025 10:29 AM (Hqezi)

241 Great. I effed up the 'joke'.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:29 AM (/tzYP)
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You're not supposed to make it these days, anyway. The song is "The Darktown Strutters Ball."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:30 AM (6K6Eu)

242 I love that painting.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at February 24, 2025 10:30 AM (sX1BW)

243 235 Headwaters of creek at Chernobyl Plant. Eat no more than ten lbs of sturgeon per month, comrade.
Posted by: Glowing Review at February 24, 2025 10:29 AM (G5+As
And don’t touch the beavers, nyet.

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 10:30 AM (jgmnb)

244 238 I'm starting to get pissed at the Democrats whining about Musk.

Millions of non-federal employees lost their jobs and their businesses due to the Democrats making up Covid rules.

None of them gave a shit about those people.

Hundreds of thousands more lost their jobs due to Biden's anti-energy policies.

All of them cheered those men losing their jobs.

But now a few hundred lay-abouts might get fired and we're all supposed to feel sympathy?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 10:29 AM (IIsq3)

========

Firing fighting men who refused the jab? Not a danger to the nation.

Firing bureaucrats who don't even check their email? End of the nation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

245 My dad likes to talk about how, in high school, he was the only person in his class to read the book for an assignment. Everyone else went to the movies instead.

He says that he was the only one to pass the test.
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Which begs the obvious question, why do HS English teachers always choose shitty books to read? Is there any reason, short of child abuse, for making kids read Ethan Frome?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:30 AM (pLaQB)

246 238 I'm starting to get pissed at the Democrats whining about Musk.

—

Starting to?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 24, 2025 10:30 AM (Hqezi)

247 If we're talking about the infamous Mrs. Bundy, nee Wanker, then I agree!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Aunt Peg, aka, Judith Carr, aka, Juliete Anderson.
Golden age of Porn.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 10:30 AM (8eY+W)

248 Where are the Zizians down by the river?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:22 AM

In the van.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2025 10:30 AM (kgE5c)

249 My dad likes to talk about how, in high school, he was the only person in his class to read the book for an assignment. Everyone else went to the movies instead.

He says that he was the only one to pass the test.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)
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All those other kids were stupid. I would have read the Monarch Notes.

That is until our HS English teacher intentionally prepared questions about book details which the Monarch Notes didn't mention.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 10:31 AM (ohSsM)

250
My dad likes to talk about how, in high school, he was the only person in his class to read the book for an assignment. Everyone else went to the movies instead.

He says that he was the only one to pass the test.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Well, speaking for the males in the class, it had peak Julie Christie.

Posted by: Archer at February 24, 2025 10:31 AM (WyvY4)

251 I do like this. Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 10:31 AM (jc0TO)

252 245 Which begs the obvious question, why do HS English teachers always choose shitty books to read? Is there any reason, short of child abuse, for making kids read Ethan Frome?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:30 AM (pLaQB)

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If I had to guess in this particular instance:

The movie was out, and the teacher thought the increased profile would get the students to read the book. I mean...boys boarding school in Franklin, TN, so bad bet all around.

It's the only time I've ever heard of Zhivago being assigned to read in any academic environment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

253 240 Harris poll out. OrangeMan at 52% approval, only 43% disapprove. Ras is 51%. YouGov is 50%.

WaPo and CNN show him underwater on the other hand. And it’s what the msm is going with. Err body hates Trump!! They will never learn.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 24, 2025 10:29 AM (Hqezi)

As we noted in the morning thread, Dems spent all of last summer wallowing in fake polls. Now they’ve gone right back to them, when it means even less.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 10:32 AM (73vBl)

254 Plaid? Cobalt blue? Yes please! Make it cobalt blue, royal purple, and grass green plaid on a white background!
I'll take one vest, and a pair of socks!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:32 AM (4XwPj)

255 Err body hates Trump!! They will never learn.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 24, 2025 10:29 AM (Hqezi)

Alas, I put my regrets about voting for him in a "safe place I know I will remember", so they are gone forever.

Posted by: sal at February 24, 2025 10:32 AM (f+FmA)

256 Which begs the obvious question, why do HS English teachers always choose shitty books to read? Is there any reason, short of child abuse, for making kids read Ethan Frome?
Posted by: Pudinhead

We read Treasure Island in the 5th grade. That was pretty cool.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

257 All those other kids were stupid. I would have read the Monarch Notes.

That is until our HS English teacher intentionally prepared questions about book details which the Monarch Notes didn't mention.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 24, 2025 10:31 AM

One of my favorite English teachers used to give bonus questions like "What is the author's name?" It was amazing how many people couldn't answer those.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2025 10:32 AM (kgE5c)

258 If RFK Jr. succeeds in rolling back Big Pharma, where will all the chubby Jardiance singers and dancers find work?
Posted by: Tugboat Annie at February 24, 2025 10:20 AM (G5+As)

There's a lot of people in the new administration promising to poke very big bears with sticks.
Any one of them could end up capped for it.
It'll only be ironic if RFK eats it first.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 24, 2025 10:33 AM (FCbAQ)

259 I do like this. Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Bill Kristol, is that you?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2025 10:33 AM (3cXfB)

260 Dr. Zhivago feels like the coldest movie ever made. Colder than Ice Station Zebra.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 10:33 AM (jc0TO)

261 You're not supposed to make it these days, anyway. The song is "The Darktown Strutters Ball."
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But she's Italian!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:33 AM (/tzYP)

262 Trump told the voters EXACTLY what he was going to do.

And he won. Big.

So, the minority of voters can stfu and learn to pick fruit and vegetables.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 10:33 AM (PTUsc)

263 boys boarding school in Franklin, TN
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Battleground Academy?

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

264 I see GSA is taking their EVs and chargers out of service...about 8000 of 'em....wonder how much $$ that is?

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 10:34 AM (Yj6Os)

265 We read Treasure Island in the 5th grade. That was pretty cool.
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)
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In grade school, I remember my teacher reading us "The Gold Bug." I think she read some other Poe stories, too.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:34 AM (6K6Eu)

266 *kicks cat*

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2025 10:23 AM (LxER7)

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"Kitty Karma's gonna get you ...
If I don't get you first."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight AND Dharma at February 24, 2025 10:35 AM (T4kcV)

267 This is beautiful!
Would hang.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2025 10:35 AM (Cki93)

268 Misinformation Warning.
I keep reading Francis has double pneumonia. Francis had half a long removed when young. He has one and a half pneumonia.
We return to our regularly scheduled programming.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 24, 2025 10:35 AM (n4GiU)

269 He was the wizard of a thousand kings, and I chanced to meet him one night wandering. He told me tales and he drank my wine..

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 10:35 AM (jc0TO)

270 But she's Italian!
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:33 AM (/tzYP)
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You've got "comically missing the point" down to a tee.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:35 AM (6K6Eu)

271 263 boys boarding school in Franklin, TN
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Battleground Academy?
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

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I dunno. He drove us by it once many moons ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

272
Old: Ghost soldiers

New: Ghost bureaucrats

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 10:36 AM (dxSpM)

273 I keep reading Francis has double pneumonia. Francis had half a long removed when young. He has one and a half pneumonia.

Kidney failure now too, I heard on Fox.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2025 10:36 AM (3cXfB)

274 Growing up outside the capitol city we used to go to the Wheaton Regional Park and Pine Lake rec area a lot. Back in the day it was considered "wilderness."

Up at the Triadelphia Dam there also was a lot of wilderness... mostly pine trees. But thick. Got lost up there once as a kid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2025 10:36 AM (Q4IgG)

275 That is until our HS English teacher intentionally prepared questions about book details which the Monarch Notes didn't mention.
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Ours were Coles Notes from the Coles bookstore chain. [Like Cliffs in the USA.]

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:36 AM (/tzYP)

276 265 We read Treasure Island in the 5th grade. That was pretty cool.
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)
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In grade school, I remember my teacher reading us "The Gold Bug." I think she read some other Poe stories, too.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:34 AM (6K6Eu)

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Mine read Tom Sawyer. She looked just like Aunt Polly to me, too.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2025 10:37 AM (LxER7)

277 You've got "comically missing the point" down to a tee.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:35 AM

Not everyone can be a post captain in Fleet Obvious.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 10:37 AM (jc0TO)

278 >>Kebler Pass, a ~30-mile stretch of unpaved road between Crested Butte and Paonia in Colorado is home to a vast expanse of aspens, one of the largest single organisms in the world. Spectacularly beautiful drive in late September - early October.

How's your aspen?
Well, my butte's a bit cresty. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2025 10:37 AM (Cki93)

279 I keep reading Francis has double pneumonia. Francis had half a long removed when young. He has one and a half pneumonia.

Kidney failure now too, I heard on Fox.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2025 10:36 AM (3cXfB)
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His policies were atrocious, but the old dude is going out the hard way.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:37 AM (6K6Eu)

280
Which begs the obvious question, why do HS English teachers always choose shitty books to read? Is there any reason, short of child abuse, for making kids read Ethan Frome?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:30 AM (pLaQB)

Number of books assigned by English teachers that I enjoyed: zero

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 10:38 AM (dxSpM)

281 His policies were atrocious, but the old dude is going out the hard way.

I can help.

Posted by: The Milk of the Poppy at February 24, 2025 10:38 AM (jc0TO)

282 You've got "comically missing the point" down to a tee.
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Comically???

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:38 AM (/tzYP)

283 I dunno. He drove us by it once many moons ago.
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My uncle drove my cousins and me around the Reformatory just to get our attention.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:38 AM (pLaQB)

284 Beech?
Birch?
Don't know but the woodpecker said it was some great ash.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2025 10:39 AM (W/lyH)

285 254 Plaid? Cobalt blue? Yes please! Make it cobalt blue, royal purple, and grass green plaid on a white background!
I'll take one vest, and a pair of socks!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:32 AM (4XwPj)
Ah, Clan McMayhem.

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 10:39 AM (jgmnb)

286 280 Number of books assigned by English teachers that I enjoyed: zero
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 10:38 AM (dxSpM)

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One of my high school teachers let me read The Fountainhead instead of Hemingway one year.

Some libertarian org gives out prizes for essays in reaction to Ayn Rand books, and the teacher let us take part if we wanted.

I did not win the prize, but I did win the prize of being introduced to Objectivism in early high school rather than in college.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

287 Early remarks by Merz is that he’s going to go for a black-red coalition in Germany; CDU and SPD only, no greens, no AFD. Very thin majority.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 10:39 AM (73vBl)

288 0 But she's Italian!
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:33 AM (/tzYP)
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You've got "comically missing the point" down to a tee.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Anything south of Rome is basically North Africa.

Posted by: National Geography Bee at February 24, 2025 10:40 AM (G5+As)

289 RIP Roberta Flack. 😢🙏

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2025 10:40 AM (4tmpE)

290 238 I'm starting to get pissed at the Democrats whining about Musk.

Millions of non-federal employees lost their jobs and their businesses due to the Democrats making up Covid rules.

None of them gave a shit about those people.

Hundreds of thousands more lost their jobs due to Biden's anti-energy policies.

All of them cheered those men losing their jobs.

But now a few hundred lay-abouts might get fired and we're all supposed to feel sympathy?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 10:29 AM (IIsq3)

Look at it through this lens. The Democrat-Media Schtick is Oppressed Victim(s) vs Oppressor(s). Good vs Evil. The Complex is always selling a story to the masses. Every good politics/action/war/cops-and-robbers novel and film/TV show has a good guy and a bad guy. Individual stories are used by the Complex to create a narrative. In another word, propaganda. I get enraged by the ant-Trump stuff while trying to ignore it. Ignoring it can be pretty difficult.

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2025 10:40 AM (aBgBM)

291 Which begs the obvious question, why do HS English teachers always choose shitty books to read? Is there any reason, short of child abuse, for making kids read Ethan Frome?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025

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It's because the English teachers were put through that same torture test, and feel comfortable "teaching" about those books. They know them.

If I ever got the chance to teach a reading class, I'd pick things that people would actually like. Sweet Thursday by Steinbeck, Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford, and a solid SF novel by Heinlein like The Door Into Summer or one of his juveniles like Tunnel in the Sky.

I was fortunate in HS and did not have to read Catcher in the Rye. We had The Haunting of Hill House instead.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:41 AM (J2vNu)

292 Love birch trees and a quiet place to fish, too.

Three birches that had been in the yard had to be brought down after being attacked by mites & treatments failed to sustain them. (A few years later, two huge pin oaks were also dying from something that swept the area & had to come down.)

Reportedly, many trees in southeast Pennsylvania are dying due to a variety of diseases and insects, including emerald ash borer, beech leaf disease, and spongy moth. Other threats include: Hemlock woolly adelgid, Oak wilt, Thousand cankers disease, Armillaria root rot, Sudden oak death, White pine decline, Bacterial leaf scorch.

In place of our once beautiful trees we're getting Dr. Seuss-like 'town' homes and condos. Also flooded basements, highways, etc.

We should have gotten: USDA Press Release, 'Biden-Harris Administration Announces Historic Funding to Expand Access to Trees and Green Spaces in Disadvantaged Urban Communities' More than $1 billion from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda will increase urban tree cover, boost equitable access to nature, and tackle the climate crisis.

Nope, no trees for us.

Would hang this painting in rotation. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 24, 2025 10:41 AM (NFX2v)

293 Ah, Clan McMayhem.
Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 10:39 AM (jgmnb)
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I thought Clan McMayhem was AKA the MacGregors.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:41 AM (6K6Eu)

294 So the new Chancellor of Germany is named Merz? As in Fred?

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

295 How's your aspen?
Well, my butte's a bit cresty. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2025 10:37 AM (Cki93)

Heh.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 24, 2025 10:41 AM (FCbAQ)

296 291 I was fortunate in HS and did not have to read Catcher in the Rye. We had The Haunting of Hill House instead.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:41 AM (J2vNu)

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I had Their Eyes Were Watching God assigned to me five separate times in high school/college.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

297 We read Treasure Island in the 5th grade. That was pretty cool.
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

Couldn't do that today. Some kid would say they're a pirate and the next thing you know the school nurse would poke an eye out and hack off a leg. Of course, they'd get a parrot out of the deal so not all bad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

298 If I ever got the chance to teach a reading class, I'd pick things that people would actually like. Sweet Thursday by Steinbeck, Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford, and a solid SF novel by Heinlein like The Door Into Summer or one of his juveniles like Tunnel in the Sky.
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For Steinbeck, I'd pick "Cannery Row," but that's an excellent list.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:42 AM (6K6Eu)

299 Mine read Tom Sawyer. She looked just like Aunt Polly to me, too.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2025 10:37 AM (LxER7)

Third grade teacher read Stuart Little. I kept falling asleep. Damn, that was boring.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:43 AM (4XwPj)

300 Dank & Smelly lost her lawsuit against Lyft.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 10:43 AM (8eY+W)

301 Shitty books tend to be so poorly written that there's lots of space for the faux-literati to "analyze" them.

And education on the classics are minimized. Does a kid even know what Gulliver's Travels even is, let alone what Swift was satirizing?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 10:43 AM (jUN6x)

302 299 Third grade teacher read Stuart Little. I kept falling asleep. Damn, that was boring.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:43 AM (4XwPj)

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M. Night Shyamalan wrote the screenplay for the movie adaptation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

303 I did not win the prize, but I did win the prize of being introduced to Objectivism in early high school rather than in college.
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My college, we had a winter semester. I took Objectivism that semester and read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. We also played tournament Monopoly to teach business to students. I enjoyed it. My wife, the Dead Head, found Rand riveting, which surprised me greatly.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:43 AM (pLaQB)

304 Many high school boys chose to read my book instead.

Heh...

Posted by: Erica Jong at February 24, 2025 10:44 AM (Y1sOo)

305 The book I remember the most is Steinbeck's The Pearl.
A good read.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2025 10:44 AM (W/lyH)

306 And education on the classics are minimized. Does a kid even know what Gulliver's Travels even is, let alone what Swift was satirizing?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 10:43 AM (jUN6x)
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Isaac Asimov did an excellent annotated version of GT. Unfortunately for schoolbook purchasing, it's large format.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:45 AM (6K6Eu)

307 Third grade teacher read Stuart Little. I kept falling asleep. Damn, that was boring.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:43 AM (4XwPj)

The Mouse and the Motorcycle >>>> Stuart Little

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 10:45 AM (VofaG)

308 His policies were atrocious, but the old dude is going out the hard way.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:37 AM (6K6Eu)
And pneumonia used to be called ‘the old man’s friend’.

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 10:45 AM (jgmnb)

309 Steinbeck would be Travels With Charlie.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 24, 2025 10:45 AM (Kufnr)

310 How's your aspen?
Well, my butte's a bit cresty. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2025 10:37 AM (Cki93)

Hey!
Check out those tetons!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2025 10:45 AM (W/lyH)

311 I discovered all the Horatio Hornblower books in jr high.

It stirred a love of the sea and the lash in me.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 10:45 AM (jc0TO)

312 I'm genuinely surprised that the teachers unions never figured out that they should've been requiring the money laundering books written by Obama, Hillary, Chelsea, etc.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 24, 2025 10:46 AM (sG4Li)

313 If I ever got the chance to teach a reading class, I'd pick things that people would actually like. Sweet Thursday by Steinbeck, Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford, and a solid SF novel by Heinlein like The Door Into Summer or one of his juveniles like Tunnel in the Sky.
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For Steinbeck, I'd pick "Cannery Row," but that's an excellent list.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025

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If we had a whole semester or school year, I'd put the two Steinbecks together; they are both short and make a good combo. My pick of Sweet Thursday is because it's a comedy. CR has comic moments, but it's more serious overall.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:46 AM (J2vNu)

314 And pneumonia used to be called ‘the old man’s friend’.
Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2025 10:45 AM (jgmnb)
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Well, it looks like they're taking "heroic measures" to keep him going, which is doing him no favor at all.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:46 AM (6K6Eu)

315 I keep reading Francis has double pneumonia. Francis had half a long removed when young. He has one and a half pneumonia.

Kidney failure now too, I heard on Fox.
Posted by: Ian

He'll be ok until he gets double secret pneumonia.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 10:46 AM (8eY+W)

316 My favorite book as a kid was Captains Courageous. Actually its my favorite as an adult too.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 10:46 AM (VofaG)

317 I love that story about Leland Dulak. He was working in the Social Security department and found some fraud. He reported it, so they told him to shut up and moved him to an isolated office. He was just promoted to acting Director of Social Security.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 24, 2025 10:47 AM (o5+a9)

318 Reportedly, many trees in southeast Pennsylvania are dying due to a variety of diseases and insects, including emerald ash borer,

I am devastated by the loss of a column of elm trees that lined the street I walk. Ten trees lost, and also a couple evergreens.
It's astonishing how much harsh light the leaves block,, even if you're not directly beneath them. Now when I walk that path, I feel like I'm in Arizona.

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2025 10:47 AM (dCxaZ)

319 You wonder when they are saying “oh Francis’ issues aren’t life threatening “ and then they say “but his kidneys are failing.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 10:48 AM (73vBl)

320 I'm of the opinion that students would be better off reading most of Tolkien instead of what passes for their curriculum today.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 10:48 AM (jUN6x)

321 I discovered all the Horatio Hornblower books in jr high.

It stirred a love of the sea and the lash in me.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025

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"Reef the main tops'l, Mister Bush!"

"Aye-aye, sir!"

There is a parody of the Hornblower series, a short story by (I think) Harry Harrison, that appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction long ago. All I can recall is the description of Bush: "His low intelligence combined with his low birth meant that he could never rise above the rank of rear admiral."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:49 AM (J2vNu)

322 I'm of the opinion that students would be better off reading most of Tolkien instead of what passes for their curriculum today.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 10:48 AM (jUN6x)
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Hear, hear!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:49 AM (6K6Eu)

323 >>> 163 158 So apparently a huge U.S. flag is hung upside down in protest at Yosemite.

https://tinyurl.com/7n5uep8v

Time to shut the park down, form a perimeter, and make sure everyone in the park is safe from physical harm?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 24, 2025 10:05 AM (sG4Li)

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I saw that the park lost about 10 employees.

Out of about 450.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

Sounds like they should lose the remaining ~440.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 24, 2025 10:49 AM (Vqx30)

324 Trying to hang on to life so hard as the Pope seems wrong to me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 10:49 AM (VofaG)

325 >>But now a few hundred lay-abouts might get fired and we're all supposed to feel sympathy?

Thousands! Many, many thousands, I think.
Trump just fired 2,000 USAID workers.
Aren't there millions of federal employees?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2025 10:50 AM (Cki93)

326 320 I'm of the opinion that students would be better off reading most of Tolkien instead of what passes for their curriculum today.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 10:48 AM (jUN6x)

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A humanities education should be about grounded the students in the culture in which they live.

However, that's not what humanities educations do now, choosing to emphasize "unheard" voices and foreign stories. Almost like the humanities are run by conquerors, or something.

That being said, Tolkien would be far better than the current state. It's actually pretty and affirming and has a grounding in the Western tradition.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

327 Sounds like they should lose the remaining ~440.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 24, 2025 10:49 AM (Vqx30)
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But what will happen to all the people locked in the bathrooms?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:50 AM (6K6Eu)

328
Hmm, birches, mature.

They succumbed to disease and rotted away within five years of this picture being painted.

That's their weakness, y'know.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 10:50 AM (xG4kz)

329 Trying to hang on to life so hard as the Pope seems wrong to me.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 10:49 AM (VofaG)

Almost like he knows something we don't.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2025 10:51 AM (W/lyH)

330 BTW, everyone knows that Dan Bongino has been appointed Deputy Director of the FBI right?

FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash 2h
Tremendous news for law enforcement and the future of American justice! I am proud to welcome Dan Bongino as the next Deputy Director of the FBI—a warrior and lifelong public servant. Dan has dedicated his career to protecting this country, beginning with his time in the NYPD, where he served in one of the toughest precincts, the 75th, before spending more than a decade as a Special Agent in the United States Secret Service. His leadership, integrity, and deep commitment to justice make him the ideal choice to help lead the FBI at this critical time. He’s a cops cop.

With Pam Bondi as our new Attorney General, we are assembling a team focused on restoring public trust, upholding the rule of law, and ensuring justice is served. Dan is stepping away from an incredibly successful career because he believes in this mission—together, we are ready to put the mission first.

Welcome aboard, Dan. The country needs strong leadership, and I know you will serve with honor and dedication.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 10:51 AM (/tzYP)

331 This painting makes me feel better.

Posted by: Candidus at February 24, 2025 10:51 AM (XLyNn)

332 I love that story about Leland Dulak. He was working in the Social Security department and found some fraud. He reported it, so they told him to shut up and moved him to an isolated office. He was just promoted to acting Director of Social Security.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 24, 2025 10:47 AM (o5+a9)

Can't find any "news" stories about him.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 10:51 AM (Yj6Os)

333 I love that story about Leland Dulak. He was working in the Social Security department and found some fraud. He reported it, so they told him to shut up and moved him to an isolated office. He was just promoted to acting Director of Social Security.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 24, 2025 10:47 AM

Operation Just Deserts.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 10:52 AM (jc0TO)

334 A humanities education should be about grounded the students in the culture in which they live.

However, that's not what humanities educations do now, choosing to emphasize "unheard" voices and foreign stories. Almost like the humanities are run by conquerors, or something.

That being said, Tolkien would be far better than the current state. It's actually pretty and affirming and has a grounding in the Western tradition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025

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True . . . though Tolkien would be kind of daunting to someone who's hardly read for pleasure before. Except for The Hobbit, those books are long.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 10:52 AM (J2vNu)

335 324 Trying to hang on to life so hard as the Pope seems wrong to me.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 10:49 AM (VofaG)

We had to have a non-TLM Sunday yesterday because of him. I sincerely hope that the next Pope knocks off this idiotic persecution of the old forms.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2025 10:52 AM (LxER7)

336 I did not win the prize, but I did win the prize of being introduced to Objectivism in early high school rather than in college.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

We read "Anthem" in 6th grade, in public school, in Fairfax County, VA.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2025 10:53 AM (KAi1n)

337
But now a few hundred lay-abouts might get fired and we're all supposed to feel sympathy?

Nope.

Welcome to the 90s, losers. Expect more of the same for the next thirty years. Lived experience, and all that.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 10:53 AM (xG4kz)

338 Dank & Smelly lost her lawsuit against Lyft.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 10:43 AM

Well, there goes my faith in the American legal system!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2025 10:53 AM (Wnv9h)

339 Sounds like they should lose the remaining ~440.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 24, 2025 10:49 AM (Vqx30)

Fire the guy who put up the flag. He has too much free time.

Then prosecute. I’m sure there’s a law against hanging a flag in a national park that would get used against us “little people”.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 24, 2025 10:53 AM (l3YAf)

340 I saw that the park lost about 10 employees.

Out of about 450.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

Fire the jerks who hung the flag. Re-hire some of the other ten.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2025 10:53 AM (8zz6B)

341 Then prosecute. I’m sure there’s a law against hanging a flag in a national park that would get used against us “little people”.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 24, 2025 10:53 AM (l3YAf)
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I think there are statutes about faking a distress signal.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:54 AM (6K6Eu)

342 I'm of the opinion that students would be better off reading most of Tolkien instead of what passes for their curriculum today.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 10:48 AM (jUN6x)

I would fail that class. I don't care for Tolkien. His books are boring to me. I've tried to read the Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings books. Couldn't get past the first 50 pages before I just said fuck it this is boring and too much like work to keep reading this garbage.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:54 AM (4XwPj)

343 The new smear tactic of the left is to call the DOGE workers "college drop-outs."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 10:55 AM (IIsq3)

344 I'm sure CA needs some more fire watchers to man the towers.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 10:55 AM (VofaG)

345 Great name

Posted by: banana Dream at February 24, 2025 10:55 AM (cduTK)

346 Honestly, the best author to teach an English class would be John D. MacDonald. You could burn through the entire Travis McGee books in one semester and no one would get bored.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:55 AM (pLaQB)

347 he new smear tactic of the left is to call the DOGE workers "college drop-outs."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 10:55 AM (IIsq3)

How dare they

Posted by: Bill Gates at February 24, 2025 10:56 AM (VofaG)

348 I would fail that class. I don't care for Tolkien. His books are boring to me. I've tried to read the Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings books. Couldn't get past the first 50 pages before I just said fuck it this is boring and too much like work to keep reading this garbage.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:54 AM (4XwPj)

I love this woman. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2025 10:56 AM (VwHCD)

349 The new smear tactic of the left is to call the DOGE workers "college drop-outs."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Is that you Bill Gates?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 10:57 AM (8eY+W)

350 I would fail that class. I don't care for Tolkien. His books are boring to me. I've tried to read the Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings books. Couldn't get past the first 50 pages before I just said fuck it this is boring and too much like work to keep reading this garbage.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 10:54 AM (4XwPj)

What gets me is the people who read 'em over and over...I made it thru Hobbit...that was enough.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 10:57 AM (Yj6Os)

351 >>FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash 2h
Tremendous news for law enforcement and the future of American justice! . . .

I am really enjoying how well each of Trump's cabinet appointees are communicating directly with the public.
Not just holding press conferences, but getting on X and posting updates, clips of their interviews, responding publicly to critics.

This is something new, and it's going to be hard not to expect this level of accessibility and transparency from future administrations.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2025 10:57 AM (Cki93)

352
True . . . though Tolkien would be kind of daunting to someone who's hardly read for pleasure before. Except for The Hobbit, those books are long.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Pergaos long in terns of number of pages, but Tolkien's works were simultaneously terse and rich. He moved his tales along briskly. By contrast, Peter Jackson's LotR trilogy suffered from bloat to the extent that he could not include the whole of Tolkien's full storyline in it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 10:58 AM (xG4kz)

353 Admittedly I never attempted to read any Tolkien books. Fantasy genre not my thing.

Posted by: Bill Gates at February 24, 2025 10:58 AM (VofaG)

354 What gets me is the people who read 'em over and over...I made it thru Hobbit...that was enough.
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I got through Dune (two thumbs up) and Dune Messiah (meh) and was done with Dune.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 10:58 AM (pLaQB)

355
Jeebus ... "Perhaps"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 10:58 AM (xG4kz)

356 Off college drop out sock

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 10:58 AM (VofaG)

357 >>The new smear tactic of the left is to call the DOGE workers "college drop-outs."

IT'S FUNNY HOW MUCH THEY ENJOY YOUNG TECHIES DISRUPTING OTHER BUSINESS SECTORS AND INSTITUTIONS, BUT NOT THEIRS.

Posted by: BEN ROETH;ISBERGER at February 24, 2025 10:59 AM (Cki93)

358 "Pergaos" is a perfectly cromulent word.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 24, 2025 10:59 AM (6K6Eu)

359 There is a parody of the Hornblower series, a short story by (I think) Harry Harrison, that appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction long ago.

There has to be a gay porn parody based on the name alone.

Horatio Hornblower, The Cabin Boy.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 10:59 AM (8eY+W)

360 Nood

Posted by: tankdemon at February 24, 2025 11:01 AM (P3/76)

361 What gets me is the people who read 'em over and over...I made it thru Hobbit...that was enough.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 10:57 AM (Yj6Os)

One time through was enough for me. Great story, but the book could of been a bit shorter. Frodo pulls out an elf cracker from his pocket and it takes 3 pages explaining it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2025 11:01 AM (VwHCD)

362 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

363
The new smear tactic of the left is to call the DOGE workers "college drop-outs."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Who are gainfully employed.

Your favorites, the jettisoned DEI "coordinators", will return to their natural levels as baristas and dishwashers, while still buried under mounds of college debt.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:02 AM (xG4kz)

364 What gets me is the people who read 'em over and over...I made it thru Hobbit...that was enough.
Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 10:57 AM (Yj6Os)

Admittedly I never attempted to read any Tolkien books. Fantasy genre not my thing.
Posted by: Bill Gates at February 24, 2025 10:58 AM (VofaG)

This is why I never go to the book thread on Sunday. I don't like fantasy and hate science fiction. It seems those are the most discussed. Mehh.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 24, 2025 11:02 AM (4XwPj)

365 I keep reading Francis has double pneumonia. Francis had half a long removed when young. He has one and a half pneumonia.
We return to our regularly scheduled programming.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 24, 2025 10:35 AM (n4GiU)

He's here for a good time, not for a lung time?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2025 11:03 AM (8zz6B)

366 Nood Stacy Abrams

Posted by: Josephistan at February 24, 2025 11:03 AM (sngfK)

367 Really, there is a whole fresh, well, barely spilled, comments section waiting for you now. Come check it out.

Oh, yeah, Buck Throckmorten has also given us some content, but we all know the fresh, almost pristine comment section is your jam.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 24, 2025 11:03 AM (P3/76)

368 I am impressed with all of you guys remembering books that you read in elementary and high school. I guess I'm so old that I know longer remember.

Posted by: Archer at February 24, 2025 11:05 AM (WyvY4)

369 taking a sock off

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 11:14 AM (/tzYP)

370 This is so realistic it looks like a photograph.

It's lovely.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 24, 2025 11:35 AM (58I7G)

371 If only we could jump into this painting....(like in Mary Poppins)

Posted by: Wife of Pillage Idiot at February 24, 2025 04:23 PM (JDtmO)

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