Mid-Morning Art Thread

South Carolina Morning
Edward Hopper

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 cool

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

3 Thems some hogs, boy.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Gee, wonder what she was doing all night...

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

5 Lopsided, but bigguns.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

6 Kinda basic.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 09:31 AM (MLvzu)

7 Looks a bit mannish

Posted by: Don Black at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (AOsQT)

8 *sings*

Nothing could be finah
Than to be in Carolina
In the mooooorning!

Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (iJfKG)

9 $20. Same as in town, mister!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (BLpWt)

10 Is there some reason I'm not getting the "refresh" icon?

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

11 Huh.
Those aren't beach shoes. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (Cki93)

12 She should be wearing green. ☘️

Posted by: redridinghood at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

13 For some reason, this reminds me of a bumper sticker I once saw that said "Ski Lubbock."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

14 She's been waiting all night and most of the morning for you to get home.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

15 That's the walk of shame after a hot South Carolina night.

Posted by: Randy Newman at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (JCZqz)

16 She belongs to the ~~streets~~ dunes. . .?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (Cki93)

17 How do you say "good morning" in Gullah?

Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 09:33 AM (Yj6Os)

18 She's got Fred Flintstone feet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

19 The Whitney
Date
1955

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 30 3/8 × 40 1/4in. (77.2 × 102.2 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

20 OK, I have considered the Art, and here are my conclusions:

1 Meh
2 No hang
3 TO THE CROSSWORD PUZZLE!

Posted by: Don Black at March 17, 2025 09:33 AM (AOsQT)

21 So why is her left breast 2 sizes bigger than the right one?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 09:33 AM (t0Rmr)

22 The guy went overboard on the implants.

Posted by: huerfano at March 17, 2025 09:33 AM (n2swS)

23 Is there some reason I'm not getting the "refresh" icon?
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

You must first be fresh......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

24 Five o'clock shadow?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 09:34 AM (MLvzu)

25 12 She should be wearing green. ☘️
Posted by: redridinghood

Maybe she's Black Irish?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 17, 2025 09:34 AM (JCZqz)

26 >>For some reason, this reminds me of a bumper sticker I once saw that said "Ski Lubbock."

Common one in CO in the 80's: "If God wanted Texans to ski he would've made bullsh#t white."

Posted by: Lizzy at March 17, 2025 09:34 AM (Cki93)

27 Is she angry or just struggling to hold up those wagshambas?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 17, 2025 09:34 AM (gBv1i)

28 In my mind, I'm gone to Carolina
Can't you see the sunshine?
Now can't you just feel the moonshine?
And ain't it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind?
Yes, I'm gone to Carolina in my mind

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

29 She should be wearing green. ☘️
Posted by: redridinghood at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

You misspelled 'nothing.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

30 >>Is there some reason I'm not getting the "refresh" icon?

Takes more then pushing a button to make her springtime fresh?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 17, 2025 09:35 AM (Cki93)

31 I loves you Porgy

Posted by: Otto Pen at March 17, 2025 09:35 AM (sJHOI)

32 That looks more like North Carolina.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 17, 2025 09:35 AM (Y1sOo)

33
Common one in CO in the 80's: "If God wanted Texans to ski he would've made bullsh#t white."
Posted by: Lizzy at March 17, 2025 09:34 AM (Cki93)

Then Colorado legalized weed and all of their problems just went away........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

34 Was Hopper an Irish-American?

Don't get me wrong, I like Hopper. Just thought there might be a reason to post this on St. Patrick's Day.

I guess "Hopper is always in good taste" is reason enough.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at March 17, 2025 09:35 AM (BHrzb)

35 Didn't know Hopper painted boobies.
Big Hopper fan . Would hang. Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 09:35 AM (bVN1m)

36 F5 standing by.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 09:35 AM (MLvzu)

37
Transphobia Beach.

Posted by: Auspex at March 17, 2025 09:36 AM (j4U/Z)

38 It’s a nice dress, but I’m not sure what I did to get her so upset.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 09:36 AM (fwyhL)

39 This is not a chick.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 17, 2025 09:36 AM (Hpgos)

40 Returning from her "shift" at the all-night café.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 17, 2025 09:37 AM (/tzYP)

41 *sings*

Nothing could be finah
Than to be in Carolina
In the mooooorning!

Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (iJfKG)

or to be in your vagina.

Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 09:37 AM (Yj6Os)

42 >>Then Colorado legalized weed and all of their problems just went away........

Texas tourists are very much preferable to CA tech transplants and the homeless pot brought in.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 17, 2025 09:37 AM (Cki93)

43 This is not a chick.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 17, 2025 09:36 AM (Hpgos)

So, you're saying the alternate title should be "One Night in Bangkok."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

44 Miklos missing this one?

Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2025 09:37 AM (wHp2P)

45 Alternate title:

"In Which Hooper's Political Analogy Fails in the Trump Era Because He Paints the Left Bigger Than the Right"

Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

46 Her shoes don't match her outfit.

Posted by: AoSHQ Fashion Consultants at March 17, 2025 09:38 AM (a3Q+t)

47 Nothing could be finer than eating in your diner!

Posted by: jerry seinfeld at March 17, 2025 09:38 AM (/tzYP)

48 Corporal Max Klinger.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 09:38 AM (MLvzu)

49 all manner of perilous critters in that there marsh

Posted by: Otto Pen at March 17, 2025 09:38 AM (sJHOI)

50 I'd like to Hopper, iykwim. :;

Posted by: Sassy Fred at March 17, 2025 09:39 AM (RMjVS)

51 Denis Hopper > Edward Hopper > That Kangaroo that grabbed a guy's dog

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 09:39 AM (t0Rmr)

52 >>It’s a nice dress, but I’m not sure what I did to get her so upset.

"You know what you dd, I shouldn't have to tell you!"
-- The woman

Posted by: Lizzy at March 17, 2025 09:39 AM (Cki93)

53 Thank God there is no toll booth.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 17, 2025 09:39 AM (Hpgos)

54 South Carolina: Too small to be a state, too large to be an insane asylum.

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

55 $20. Same as in Charleston.

Posted by: As you very well know at March 17, 2025 09:39 AM (dg+HA)

56 "That darn dog! Where could he have got to?"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 17, 2025 09:39 AM (j1+Qt)

57 Hopper! Always Good choice!

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (g47mK)

58 all manner of perilous critters in that there marsh

Posted by: Otto Pen at March 17, 2025 09:38 AM (sJHOI)

could be gators

Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (Yj6Os)

59 Why is her left boob twice as big as her right?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (w6EFb)

60 No shamrock. Not art.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (R256O)

61 Hopper often painted his wife including I believe here. She was not a looker.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (t0Rmr)

62 Her mammiform protuberances appear calm.

Perhaps it's the calm before the storm.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (a3Q+t)

63 Painting is making me feel kinda flat but not like St. Pancake.

When is St. Pancake's Holy Day of Flattening?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (b1S6W)

64 I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open and people are having a wonderful time.

Posted by: Mayor Vaughn at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (2VMYz)

65 Morning, Art Consumers,

My mind said "Hopper" immediately before I scrolled down. That's a tribute in itself, to have such a recognizable style that even an art Neanderthal like myself can spot it.

The woman looks a tad tranny-ish. That neck says "I put in the hours in the gym, bro." The outdoors seems more like an October morning in Nebraska or Kansas (or so I imagine those to look like), or out on the CO plains.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

66 Why is her left boob twice as big as her right?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (w6EFb)

Breasticulitis.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

67 Well, I know you're not happy to see me, Michelle, so that must just be an unfortunate fold in your dress...

Posted by: Barry O. at March 17, 2025 09:41 AM (Hgnyx)

68 Painting is making me feel kinda flat but not like St. Pancake.

When is St. Pancake's Holy Day of Flattening?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (b1S6W)

I'm right here, you know......

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at March 17, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

69 59 Why is her left boob twice as big as her right?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (w6EFb)

The baby only had one feeding today.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 17, 2025 09:41 AM (R256O)

70 Swing and a miss for the artist, after that comes the lack of further interest.

But may I say good morning, good people, from the temperature challenged Adirondacks? Followed by the usual benison of may all effort from you on this and ALL other days result in the ultimate benefit to you. With, of course, commensurate grief for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 17, 2025 09:41 AM (hKoQL)

71 Nice painting. Would hang.

Need more coffee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 09:41 AM (MqtqS)

72 Why is her left boob twice as big as her right?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

It's been fondled more?

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

73 There is a lot going on in that painting. As is always with Hopper. Heels, red dress and very obvious overpainted rouge should invite you to ask questions about her profession.

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2025 09:41 AM (g47mK)

74 Many women have a 1/2 to full cup difference in size.

Posted by: Gregory House, M.D. at March 17, 2025 09:42 AM (a3Q+t)

75 This is not a chick.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Coach Mann? From Scary Movie?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 09:42 AM (BLpWt)

76 I'm right here, you know......
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at March 17, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were the welcome mat.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 17, 2025 09:42 AM (R256O)

77 Roxanne!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 17, 2025 09:42 AM (/tzYP)

78 unusual_whales @unusual_whales Mar 15
BREAKING: Canada could block U.S. access to Pornhub, a Canadian-owned site, if the trade war escalates, per NYP.
--
Today's art isn't an optimal replacement.

But the Sear's catalog wasn't all that great either.

Now I'm laughing to myself of the Theo Von story of his youth, paying a kid $5 to draw pron for them.
"$5?!"
"Oh yeah dude, you'd pay five dollars for those!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 09:42 AM (7oyRZ)

79 There is a lot going on in that painting. As is always with Hopper. Heels, red dress and very obvious overpainted rouge should invite you to ask questions about her profession.
Posted by: runner

The next Ex?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 09:42 AM (BLpWt)

80 Is there some reason I'm not getting the "refresh" icon?
*
Takes more then pushing a button to make her springtime fresh?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 17, 2025

***
She uses that soap that Irish people used to cut into on television?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 17, 2025 09:42 AM (J2vNu)

81 Need more coffee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Better find it before Diogenes does!

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

82 Roxanne!
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 17, 2025

***
Maybe she hasn't heard she no longer has to turn on the red light.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 17, 2025 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

83 It's no velvet Elvis or Dogs Playing Poker, but it does evoke warmer temperatures than I'm experiencing right now, so there's that.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 17, 2025 09:43 AM (2VMYz)

84 That dress was very flattering, Rachel.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 17, 2025 09:43 AM (/tzYP)

85 That's a very weird painting. Looks like she's stepping out of a NYC bar into a wheat field. And the way the figure is rendered, it looks like something done form memory rather than with an actual model. It's all just very awkward.

Posted by: red speck at March 17, 2025 09:43 AM (0Id0S)

86 I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open and people are having a wonderful time.

Posted by: Mayor Vaughn at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (2VMYz)

World record Tiger Shark was caught from a pier in SC.

Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 09:43 AM (Yj6Os)

87 Put on the red light.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 09:44 AM (MLvzu)

88 Many women have a 1/2 to full cup difference in size.
Posted by: Gregory House

Ah, I see you learned about the cup sizes from that Constanza fellow.

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

89 Ha, a couple of years ago, a Richmond VA museum of Art had a Hopper exhibit complete with a room of furniture where one could re-create one if his paintings in a photo. The Hotel Lobby.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at March 17, 2025 09:44 AM (pLaQB)

90 But it's daytime.

Roxanne sells her body to the night.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

91 So, she went out on a date with Dillinger to a SWAMP????

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

92 unusual_whales @unusual_whales Mar 15
BREAKING: Canada could block U.S. access to Pornhub, a Canadian-owned site, if the trade war escalates, per NYP.

One company owns all the internet pron. I guess it is Canadian

WE CAN NOT LET THE US FALL BEHIND IN OUR STRATEGIC PRON RESERVES

Posted by: Some Moron at March 17, 2025 09:45 AM (t0Rmr)

93 The Hotel Lobby.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway

Which I believe CBD has featured before.

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

94 That's a man, baby!

Posted by: Obligatory at March 17, 2025 09:46 AM (vFG9F)

95 Every trannie looks at this and says " a Hopper self portrait"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 09:46 AM (bVN1m)

96 That's a very weird painting. Looks like she's stepping out of a NYC bar into a wheat field.

Posted by: red speck

No it doesn't. She's stepping out of a brownstone in Manhattan. Wait! Did you do the brown acid again?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 09:46 AM (BLpWt)

97 Don't even think about leaving without putting some cash on the nightstand.

Posted by: Otto Pen at March 17, 2025 09:47 AM (sJHOI)

98 Sigh.... Another dude in a dress..... Oh well.

The colors are nice and the prairie looks inviting. But..... Where exactly can one step out of a train station straight onto the prairie?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 17, 2025 09:47 AM (4XwPj)

99 39 This is not a chick.
Posted by: Pudinhead

She's as much as woman as I am!

Posted by: Michelle Obama at March 17, 2025 09:47 AM (JCZqz)

100 I thought it was a beach, not a wheat field. But then again, I'm not good at this art stuff.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 17, 2025 09:47 AM (2VMYz)

101 Lady Bug.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 09:47 AM (MLvzu)

102 Not accurate...no shrimpin' boat.

Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 09:47 AM (Yj6Os)

103 BREAKING: Canada could block U.S. access to Pornhub, a Canadian-owned site, if the trade war escalates

Is that really Canada's biggest weapon in a trade war?!

Posted by: t-bird at March 17, 2025 09:48 AM (2fIGV)

104 Where exactly can one step out of a train station straight onto the prairie?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)

You never watched Gunsmoke?

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

105 All seriousness aside, this painting is dominated by that open stretch of flat horizon and clear blue sky. You can feel the breeze ruffling the grass.

The concrete apron around the base of the house also looms large in your view. Odd that there are no potted plants or outdoor furniture on it. The bright color of the woman's dress reminds one of radishes on a green salad.

And come to think of it, the shutters on the windows are much more of a hurricane-country look than you might see in NE, KS, or CO. Not sure; do they do shutters like that?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 17, 2025 09:48 AM (J2vNu)

106 My State already blocks it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 09:48 AM (MLvzu)

107 Canada blocking pr0n?

Nationwide Hooters reopens in the US.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 09:48 AM (b1S6W)

108 That's a man, baby.

Posted by: Austin Powers at March 17, 2025 09:49 AM (paSBy)

109 Is that really Canada's biggest weapon in a trade war?!

I thought Canada's biggest weapon was that grabby-arm thing on the space shuttle.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 17, 2025 09:49 AM (2VMYz)

110 She has put on her red dress and you know what that means.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 17, 2025 09:49 AM (j6NlC)

111 103 BREAKING: Canada could block U.S. access to Pornhub, a Canadian-owned site, if the trade war escalates

Is that really Canada's biggest weapon in a trade war?!
Posted by: t-bird

This could be a big break for us! Now, how to make the right commercial to advertise it....

Posted by: NordVPN at March 17, 2025 09:49 AM (JCZqz)

112 Why do I get the feeling that PronHub headquarters is located in a pingo in Nunavut?

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

113 She's as much as woman as I am!

Posted by: Michelle Obama at March 17, 2025 09:47 AM (JCZqz)

I've see the videos "where" she has something downstairs poking through her dress.

I wonder if Big Mike could be like the protagonist from Heinlein's All You Zombies?

Posted by: Some Moron at March 17, 2025 09:49 AM (t0Rmr)

114 She has put on her red dress and you know what that means.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 17, 2025 09:49 AM (j6NlC)

Period.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

115 seagrass, not wheat

Posted by: Otto Pen at March 17, 2025 09:49 AM (sJHOI)

116 Sundress! The best dress.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 17, 2025 09:49 AM (Dv3i1)

117 South Carolina beach in 1955 was quite different than today. No cable, no radio except AM radio at night, no iPhones, quite desolate. No wonder she looks bored and maybe, looking for some action. And I'm just the guy who can help with that!

Posted by: Ricardo Romantico at March 17, 2025 09:50 AM (G5+As)

118 Do they still club seals in Canada?

Or just pop 'em in the head with a .22 bang stick?

Man, that sure seemed to be a big deal for a while, with the annual graphic photos of blood-stained snow fields.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 09:50 AM (7oyRZ)

119 110 She has put on her red dress and you know what that means.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 17, 2025 09:49 AM (j6NlC)

She's voting for Trump too?

Posted by: Jill Biden at March 17, 2025 09:50 AM (gBv1i)

120 59 Why is her left boob twice as big as her right?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 17, 2025 09:40 AM (w6EFb)

Her plastic surgeon had a Buy One , Get One Half-Off Sale.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 09:50 AM (iJfKG)

121 Is that really Canada's biggest weapon in a trade war?!
----------
Ask Ace.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 17, 2025 09:50 AM (/tzYP)

122 Rory for the win. Happy St Patty's Day

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 09:50 AM (bVN1m)

123 Ha, a couple of years ago, a Richmond VA museum of Art had a Hopper exhibit complete with a room of furniture where one could re-create one if his paintings in a photo. The Hotel Lobby.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at March 17, 2025 09:44 AM

Alternate exhibit title: Get to the Hopper!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 09:50 AM (hOk1M)

124 If Canada blocks pronhub, where will anyone get their incest porn from?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

125 First impression - Mick Jagger in drag

Posted by: Huma at March 17, 2025 09:50 AM (k/U8Z)

126 109 Is that really Canada's biggest weapon in a trade war?!

I thought Canada's biggest weapon was that grabby-arm thing on the space shuttle.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix

If only the American healthcare system could attach them to people!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at March 17, 2025 09:51 AM (JCZqz)

127 Sponge, I can't believe you didn't get that reference.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 17, 2025 09:51 AM (j6NlC)

128 If Canada blocks pronhub, where will anyone get their incest porn from?

The Biden family photos?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 09:51 AM (t0Rmr)

129 88 Many women have a 1/2 to full cup difference in size.
Posted by: Gregory House
---
That's bullshit, man!

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at March 17, 2025 09:51 AM (paSBy)

130 Canada does have piles of potash.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 09:51 AM (MLvzu)

131 Do they still club seals in Canada?

Or just pop 'em in the head with a .22 bang stick?

Man, that sure seemed to be a big deal for a while, with the annual graphic photos of blood-stained snow fields.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I think they showed us a movie about that in elementary school. To show us kiddies how awful the Canucks were.

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

132 A sharply dressed man enters from stage left puffing on a cigarette

"Imagine if you will if the current Prime Minister of Canada starred in a Bollywood version of a pr0n movie."

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 09:52 AM (b1S6W)

133 >>seagrass, not wheat

coastal marsh grass, not seagrass

Posted by: one hour sober at March 17, 2025 09:52 AM (Y1sOo)

134 If only the American healthcare system could attach them to people!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at March 17, 2025 09:51 AM (JCZqz) /i]

Hey there hot stuff. Want to, uh, share an arm?

Posted by: The Winter Soldier at March 17, 2025 09:52 AM (t0Rmr)

135 BREAKING: Canada could block U.S. access to Pornhub, a Canadian-owned site, if the trade war escalates, per NYP.

One company owns all the internet pron. I guess it is Canadian

WE CAN NOT LET THE US FALL BEHIND IN OUR STRATEGIC PRON RESERVES
Posted by: Some Moron at March 17, 2025 09:45 AM (t0Rmr)

Now hear the story of Eskimo Nell,
Truth told, as a pornstar, she wasn't that swell.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 09:52 AM (MqtqS)

136 Sigh.... Another dude in a dress..... Oh well.

Our cup runneth over!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at March 17, 2025 09:53 AM (JCZqz)

137 I'm an Avalanche fan.

Can Canada ban the Winnipeg Jets?

Thanks.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 17, 2025 09:53 AM (PzXaK)

138
Is that a shotgun shack I see?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 09:53 AM (xG4kz)

139 She would look better with some Baby Hair.

Posted by: Big Mike Obama, Hung and Taped at March 17, 2025 09:53 AM (Ic155)

140 So, let me get this straight; an aide of Joey's was making the call on signatures? Jill is that you?

Prof. John Gill, aka Der Fuhrer, has entered Chat.

To quote Captain James T. Kirk, "if you are innocent, why do you need a pardon?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 09:53 AM (b1S6W)

141 IT'S A TRAP!!!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at March 17, 2025 09:53 AM (MLvzu)

142 Sigh.... Another dude in a dress..... Oh well.

Our cup runneth over!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at March 17, 2025 09:53 AM (JCZqz)

Out: A Fully Operational Deathstar

In: A Fully Operational Ladypenis

Posted by: The Winter Soldier at March 17, 2025 09:54 AM (t0Rmr)

143 Hmm. That certainly isn't the South Carolina I know and love.

Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2025 09:54 AM (Uq+qx)

144 I'm an Avalanche fan.

Me too!

Posted by: The Abominable Snowman at March 17, 2025 09:54 AM (t0Rmr)

145 Food!

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

146 rule of Thirds painting example.

Not my favorite Hopper though.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 09:55 AM (VofaG)

147 Erin go braless!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 09:55 AM (BLpWt)

148 And to think, she was going to be an Olympic runner until someone bonked her on the head with a baton...

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 17, 2025 09:55 AM (paSBy)

149 Goodbye Space Balls, hello Space Schwang

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 09:55 AM (b1S6W)

150 124 If Canada blocks pronhub, where will anyone get their incest porn from?
Posted by: Sponge

Hey, it's not INCEST-incest. It's all step-parents and step-children and step-siblings. Totally kosher. We're not creepy pervs! Don't make a beautiful thing weird.

Posted by: Porn Industry at March 17, 2025 09:56 AM (JCZqz)

151 Those sea oats are protected! So don't you go trying to boil them up for breakfast!

Posted by: SC EPA at March 17, 2025 09:56 AM (G5+As)

152 143 Hmm. That certainly isn't the South Carolina I know and love.
Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2025 09:54 AM (Uq+qx)
Doof, you talkin' bout my Mammy.

Posted by: Eromero at March 17, 2025 09:56 AM (LHPAg)

153 Canada does have piles of potash.
Posted by: Boss Moss

They smoke a lot of weed there?

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

154 Sigh.... Another dude in a dress..... Oh well.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 17, 2025 09:47 AM (4XwPj)

*waves hand, Jedi style*
This is not the dress pr0n you are looking for!

Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2025 09:57 AM (Uq+qx)

155 BREAKING: Canada could block U.S. access to Pornhub, a Canadian-owned site, if the trade war escalates

Is that really Canada's biggest weapon in a trade war?!
Posted by: t-bird at March 17, 2025 09:48 AM

Trump could retaliate by cutting them off Only Fans. The rest of the world would probably thank him.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 09:57 AM (hOk1M)

156 A sharply dressed man enters from stage left puffing on a cigarette

"Imagine if you will if the current Prime Minister of Canada starred in a Bollywood version of a pr0n movie."
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 09:52 AM (b1S6W)

Wouldn't surprise me at all if Mark Carney isn't the star of some of Jeffery Epstein's "home movies".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 09:57 AM (MqtqS)

157 Hey, it's not INCEST-incest. It's all step-parents and step-children and step-siblings. Totally kosher. We're not creepy pervs! Don't make a beautiful thing weird.

I have to say in my own personal life I've never run into a woman stuck in the dryer. Of course when I delivered pizzas no one ever tried to pay me with sexytime either.

Posted by: The Abominable Snowman at March 17, 2025 09:58 AM (t0Rmr)

158 Doof, you talkin' bout my Mammy.
Posted by: Eromero at March 17, 2025 09:56 AM (LHPAg)

You misspelled "Manly"

Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2025 09:58 AM (Uq+qx)

159 This is not the dress pr0n you are looking for!
Posted by: Doof

RIP Oregon Muse

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

160 Good morning

My only thought is no woman would be wearing black heels with that dress on a sunny morning near the beach. That painting would be so much better if she was barefoot. Just think how that would change the vibe.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 17, 2025 09:58 AM (t/2Uw)

161 102 Not accurate...no shrimpin' boat.
---------------
Does feature a Jumbo Shrimp, though.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 17, 2025 09:58 AM (Hpgos)

162 153 Potash. Potassium. One of the 3 fertilizers. Nitrogen and Phosphates being the other 2.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at March 17, 2025 09:58 AM (MLvzu)

163
Shotgun shack
Salt marsh

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 09:59 AM (xG4kz)

164 My only thought is no woman would be wearing black heels with that dress on a sunny morning near the beach. That painting would be so much better if she was barefoot. Just think how that would change the vibe./i]

Go on....

Posted by: Rex Ryan at March 17, 2025 09:59 AM (t0Rmr)

165 Out: A Fully Operational Deathstar

In: A Fully Operational Ladypenis
Posted by: The Winter Soldier

It's called "futa", and it's beautiful and culturally significant to the Japanes. I, uh, looked it up with my family for research purposes.

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at March 17, 2025 09:59 AM (JCZqz)

166 Have posted one St. Patrick's Day image

https://tensor.art/u/727481333235843246

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 09:59 AM (b1S6W)

167 Speaking of SC they just had a ridiculous jury verdict in the civil case brought in regard to the murder of a girl at spring break over a decade ago.

700 million against the hotel.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 09:59 AM (VofaG)

168 Hey, it's not INCEST-incest. It's all step-parents and step-children and step-siblings. Totally kosher. We're not creepy pervs! Don't make a beautiful thing weird.
Posted by: Porn Industry at March 17, 2025 09:56 AM (JCZqz)

Yeah. Don't...er...ah...um..make a thing out of....erm.. that thing.

Posted by: Woody Allen at March 17, 2025 09:59 AM (iJfKG)

169 Potash. Potassium. One of the 3 fertilizers. Nitrogen and Phosphates being the other 2.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

You didn't get my pun.

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

170 Shut up Kurt

there's a gender confused Thai octopus on the courtesy phone for you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:00 AM (b1S6W)

171 My State already blocks it.

Bypassed easily enough with Opera built in VPN....so I heard

Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at March 17, 2025 10:00 AM (GEj+M)

172 153 Potash. Potassium. One of the 3 fertilizers. Nitrogen and Phosphates being the other 2.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at March 17, 2025 09:58 AM (MLvzu)

Electrolytes. Plants crave them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 10:00 AM (MqtqS)

173 Pretty sure David French is the guy with 2 TB of futa on his hard drive

Posted by: Rex Ryan at March 17, 2025 10:00 AM (t0Rmr)

174 Trump could retaliate by cutting them off Only Fans. The rest of the world would probably thank him.
---------
That's forbidden by the Geneva Conventions!!!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 17, 2025 10:01 AM (/tzYP)

175 >>That painting would be so much better if she was barefoot. Just think how that would change the vibe.

Preach, girl

Posted by: Rex Ryan at March 17, 2025 10:01 AM (Y1sOo)

176 Only two TerrorBytes?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:01 AM (b1S6W)

177 Happy St Patrick's Day morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2025 10:01 AM (RIvkX)

178 Oops.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 10:01 AM (MLvzu)

179 Okay its marsh grass at the shore, yada yada, whatever. Where is there a train station that sits that close to whatever that field is? What part of South Carolina has a train station that isolated? Most are surrounded by streets and buildings and people. This looks like a train station in the middle of nowhere.

Tranny at the Remote Train Station of Nowhere would be a better title. It's A metaphor for the lonely isolation that tranny suffers because of being a weirdo.

Hey! I think I'm getting the hang of this art thing!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 17, 2025 10:02 AM (4XwPj)

180 Hopper is an interesting artist. His scenes aren't exciting but they catch the eye. What I noticed in this painting is the 'slabs' of color with hard, straight lines: the concrete pad, the building and window slats, the lines as the grass recedes into the distance before getting to the shore, even the shadow above the woman's head. Then the contrast with the woman. Brighter colors and no hard lines, just soft curves. There's no drama in the scene, in fact just the opposite, but it does get attention.

Posted by: JTB at March 17, 2025 10:02 AM (yTvNw)

181 My only thought is no woman would be wearing black heels with that dress on a sunny morning near the beach. That painting would be so much better if she was barefoot. Just think how that would change the vibe.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 17, 2025 09:58 AM

*perks up*

Posted by: Quentin Tarantino at March 17, 2025 10:02 AM (hOk1M)

182 Pretty sure David French is the guy with 2 TB of futa on his hard drive
Posted by: Rex Ryan at March 17, 2025 10:00 AM (t0Rmr)

I doubt it. I would bet my bottom dollar that David French is just a traditional, old-fashioned homosexual pedophile. He's like a caricature.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 17, 2025 10:02 AM (BI5O2)

183 This is not the dress pr0n you are looking for!
Posted by: Doof

RIP Oregon Muse
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

Yes indeed.

For those unaware, the last 2 Sunday night ONTs have featured a segment inspired by OM's "Dress Pr0n for the 'Ettes". Guest content from Piper called 'Ette Couture. Go check them out!

Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2025 10:02 AM (Uq+qx)

184 Pay not attention to @164
I'm the real Rex Ryan

Posted by: Rex Ryan at March 17, 2025 10:03 AM (Y1sOo)

185 Goodbye Space Balls, hello Space Schwang
Posted by: Anna Puma

HELMET What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the
movie?
SANDURZ Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
HELMET What happened to then?
SANDURZ We passed then?
HELMET When?
SANDURZ Just now. We're at now, now.
HELMET Go back to then.
SANDURZ When?
HELMET Now.
SANDURZ Now?
HELMET Now.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 10:03 AM (BLpWt)

186 So the left thinks they've found a sympathetic face to the evil of Trump's deportations:

Dr. Rasha Alawieh.
You won't be surprised to find that every article on her dodges why she was deported with the lie that there was no reason for her to be removed.*
Because every article quotes and sources to only her family.
And CAIR.

Completely refuses to explain why she went to Lebanon. Who are her family back there are. Or what activities she's engaged in while in the US (other than she's an assistant professor at Brown).

Anyway, they and the judge are super pissed 'cause the judge issued an order that she not be removed and Trump was like "nah, bro--she gone."

* and you know by now all the socials and the search sites are scrubbed of any negative reference to her or her family, so no use trying to find out what is the real reason.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:03 AM (7oyRZ)

187 @145 yes! Food is a fine idea, perhaps some buckwheat pancakes and more of that fresh sausage with white gravy instead of syrup.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 17, 2025 10:04 AM (hKoQL)

188 Well, I think this painting is great.

I had no idea Dennis Hopper was so multi-talented.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 17, 2025 10:04 AM (PzXaK)

189 I thinks that perhaps someone has memorized a scene

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:04 AM (b1S6W)

190 Completely refuses to explain why she went to Lebanon.

The majority of people that are currently in the US as "refugees" travel home on a regular basis

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 10:04 AM (t0Rmr)

191 Hopper its one of the artists that you immediately recognize his work. He has his own distinct style which I think is a necessity to become a successful artist.

That's why you see so much crap. Artists are trying to find a distinctive style .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:05 AM (VofaG)

192 Looking at older paintings/photos you notice most of the women are in dresses or skirts. Not a single pair of sweat pants that say "juicy" on the butt.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 10:06 AM (t0Rmr)

193 You used to have to avoid going home for 5 years to become a citizen.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 10:06 AM (MLvzu)

194 Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK 4h
Happy St Patrick’s Day! I made matcha latte with a shamrock! 🍵☘️

https://is.gd/wRWVWL

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 17, 2025 10:06 AM (/tzYP)

195 12 She should be wearing green. ☘️
Posted by: redridinghood at March 17, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

; )

Posted by: m at March 17, 2025 10:07 AM (CQE5S)

196 Waiting for my son to get his 4 wisdom teeth out. Should not affect him too much since he's not that wise yet. 🤣🤗
The spawn had hers out Friday.
My house is just a load of fun right now....😱😬

Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 10:07 AM (UwBs6)

197 A girl has to do what a girl has to do during a Depression.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:07 AM (VofaG)

198 Luigi was trying to make the world a better place through being a vigilante.

I believe his killing, and the reaction of the left to it, is part of the reason the likes of Bezos and Zuck have stepped back from funding the left so much.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 10:08 AM (t0Rmr)

199 Looking at older paintings/photos you notice most of the women are in dresses or skirts. Not a single pair of sweat pants that say "juicy" on the butt.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 10:06 AM

Men wearing suits, too. We used to be a proper country.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:08 AM (hOk1M)

200
I feel sorry for the Algoma Fishing Lodge trip, but am staying this side of the border this year.

Posted by: Auspex at March 17, 2025 10:08 AM (j4U/Z)

201 lin-duh. Watch out for dry sockets.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 17, 2025 10:08 AM (j6NlC)

202 Looking at older paintings/photos you notice most of the women are in dresses or skirts. Not a single pair of sweat pants that say "juicy" on the butt.

People of Wal-Mart have entered Chat

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:08 AM (b1S6W)

203 Geez lin-duh

Going to need a vacation real soon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:09 AM (b1S6W)

204 "Hilaria Baldwin has addressed the controversy surrounding her accent, claiming 'the whole world was mean to me'."

This bint...

Posted by: one hour sober at March 17, 2025 10:09 AM (Y1sOo)

205 Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 10:07 AM

Ouch. I got mine out in my mid 20's. I remember how much fun that was.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:09 AM (hOk1M)

206 lin-duh. Watch out for dry sockets.
Posted by: Ben Had
-----
👍🏻 no straws...

Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 10:09 AM (UwBs6)

207 People of Wal-Mart have entered Chat
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:08 AM (b1S6W)

Who wears it best?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2025 10:09 AM (gbOdA)

208 Men wearing suits, too. We used to be a proper country.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:08 AM (hOk1M)

Suits are a heat canister with unnecessary parts. First thing I got rid of when I retired. I did keep one for weddings and funerals.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:09 AM (VofaG)

209 I was born in the District of Algoma, Auspex.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 17, 2025 10:10 AM (/tzYP)

210 Who wears it best?

None of them

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:10 AM (b1S6W)

211 "Hilaria Baldwin has addressed the controversy surrounding her totally fake accent, claiming 'the whole world was mean to me'."

This bint...
Posted by: one hour sober at March 17, 2025 10:09 AM

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:10 AM (hOk1M)

212 194 Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK 4h
Happy St Patrick’s Day! I made matcha latte with a shamrock! 🍵☘️

https://is.gd/wRWVWL
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 17, 2025 10:06 AM (/tzYP)

Ha!

Posted by: m at March 17, 2025 10:10 AM (CQE5S)

213 I see Romania has banned another candidate from running for president because she disagrees with the current government.

Europe is doing a hell of a job saving Our Sacred Democracy aren't they?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 10:10 AM (t0Rmr)

214 The majority of people that are currently in the US as "refugees" travel home on a regular basis
---
Distant tangent:
Princess Lia was a traitor.

But, explain to me why the fall of the Republic to become an Empire was a bad thing when the Republic allowed monarchies as voting members?
Monarchies who ruled whole planets.
Seems to me, the Republic was more a UN than republican.
And the Empire just formalized reality.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:11 AM (7oyRZ)

215 St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland.

Straight to Washington DC.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 10:11 AM (BLpWt)

216 I got mine out in my mid 20's. I remember how much fun that was.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:09 AM (hOk1M)

I got two out about three and a half years ago.

That was f*cking miserable.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 10:11 AM (L5An7)

217 Generally I like Hopper, but this painting isn't as captivating as most of his work.

IMHO

Posted by: kallisto at March 17, 2025 10:11 AM (dCxaZ)

218 "Hilaria Baldwin has addressed the controversy surrounding her accent, claiming 'the whole world was mean to me'."

She's actually Bostonian right?

I mean, I can understand wanting ANY other accent.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 10:11 AM (t0Rmr)

219 Why did Sen. Bale Organa have a Princess as a daughter?

George Lucas never did make much sense.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:12 AM (b1S6W)

220 Monarchies who ruled whole planets.
Seems to me, the Republic was more a UN than republican.
And the Empire just formalized reality.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:11 AM (7oyRZ)

But I was "Elected" Queen!

Posted by: Senator Queen Padme Amidala at March 17, 2025 10:12 AM (PiwSw)

221 214 But, explain to me why the fall of the Republic to become an Empire was a bad thing when the Republic allowed monarchies as voting members?
Monarchies who ruled whole planets.
Seems to me, the Republic was more a UN than republican.
And the Empire just formalized reality.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:11 AM (7oyRZ)

======

The prequels (specifically Episode II) establish that the queen position is an elected position with a limited term.

I'm not defending Lucas. It's dumb. But that's the explanation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

222 yeah the Left sees no contradiction of refugees / asylum seekers traveling back to the country they allegedly fled.

Just like all their other mentally ill thought processes.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:13 AM (VofaG)

223 216 I got mine out in my mid 20's. I remember how much fun that was.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState

=====

Same. But there was nitrous. So not a completely bad experience.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 17, 2025 10:13 AM (k/U8Z)

224 South Carolina Morning - 1955
Edward Hopper

The tension between the vanishing point, established by the building and the concrete intersecting on the horizon, and the woman in orange is, oh my - where should one focus; it is impossible. Then there is the tension between the vertical and horizontal slabs - the foreground is sterile and gray while the background is lovely natural colors; it is all a jumble and claustrophobic. And then there is the tension of woman in red staring right at you while her folded arms are warning that you would be a fool to come closer.

This a Hopper masterpiece with all the Hooper goodness stuffed into it. It is so good it doesn't even need a dog.

Verdict: I would steal this if I could get away with it.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2025 10:13 AM (hjWnr)

225 My only thought is no woman would be wearing black heels with that dress on a sunny morning near the beach. That painting would be so much better if she was barefoot. Just think how that would change the vibe.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 17, 2025 09:58 AM

City girl. City artist. 1955? A southern girl would be wearing a sun dress and sandals. Cigarette in one hand and a glass of something in the other. Leaning against the door frame and looking for trouble.

Posted by: mrp at March 17, 2025 10:13 AM (rj6Yv)

226 217 Generally I like Hopper, but this painting isn't as captivating as most of his work.

IMHO
----------------
Hopper struggles with painting humans. Houses and boats he is superb.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 17, 2025 10:13 AM (Hpgos)

227 But, explain to me why the fall of the Republic to become an Empire was a bad thing when the Republic allowed monarchies as voting members?

Lucas retro-conned Princess Amidala as an elected monarch.

Because if course voting for a teenaged girl as your political leader makes perfect sense.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 10:13 AM (t0Rmr)

228 The majority of people that are currently in the US as "refugees" travel home on a regular basis
Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 10:04 AM

Ah, yes. Nothing says refugee like summering in the country you "fled" from. Looking at you, Tsarnaevs....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:13 AM (hOk1M)

229 >>Fixed for accuracy.

No, no, it's called "code-switching" and it happens subconsciously.

Like when I got elected and suddenly found my ghetto ho voice.

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at March 17, 2025 10:13 AM (Y1sOo)

230 And I fully supported the decision to make Jar Jar Binks my proxy.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Senator Queen Padme Amidala at March 17, 2025 10:13 AM (PiwSw)

231 this painting isn't as captivating as most of his work.

Posted by: kallisto at March 17, 2025 10:11 AM (dCxaZ)

Agreed. I used it because I had never seen it before.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 10:14 AM (L5An7)

232 Tim Walz's Iowa town hall was well received. More Democrats in Congress and Governors need to pick up the baton and run with this. Bernie Sanders started it. We need to carry on.

I believe we might be looking at our next president. Harris's campaign handlers should NEVER see another job within any Dem campaign. Walz was essentially chosen for his strengths and then asked not to use them.

He gave a master class in public service and democracy at work. A thing of beauty! Makes my heart sing. Tim tells things in terms people can understand. He never talks down to people. Even when issues are tough, he used words that were harsh and honest.

Tim is a good person but not sure he is what we need. Saw something a few days ago that Rahm Emanuel was considering it. He has potential. I wish Obama had let him off the leash when he was his Chief of Staff. He was the kind of street fighter needed to allow Obama to get more good things done.

The fact he passed on running for the Senate could indicate presidential ambitions. Would Harris getting in the race discourage him from running? It’s going to be an interesting cycle.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 17, 2025 10:14 AM (JCZqz)

233 Timmy AWOLz needs to go back to the bathhouse.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:14 AM (b1S6W)

234 A princes's father should be a King.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 10:15 AM (MLvzu)

235 If Timpon wins in '28 he still wouldn't be our first MAP president right Ashley?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 10:15 AM (t0Rmr)

236 Same. But there was nitrous. So not a completely bad experience.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 17, 2025 10:13 AM

To be fair, my dentist for that was teh hawt. Married, though, so...

Apparently my wisdom teeth were kind of small. The matronly nurse went on about how "adorable" they were. Smh.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:16 AM (hOk1M)

237 232 Tim Walz's Iowa town hall was well received. More Democrats in Congress and Governors need to pick up the baton and run with this. Bernie Sanders started it. We need to carry on.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS

=======

Coincidentally...The Democrat Party is at its lowest approval ratings since 1992.

You know, they year dissatisfaction with the entire establishment was so low that Ross Perot was able to scoop up a large portion of the presidential vote.

But was also the year that Clinton won the presidency.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

238 Please please please give us a second round of Timmy onstage with JD Vance

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 17, 2025 10:16 AM (k/U8Z)

239 235 If Timpon wins in '28 he still wouldn't be our first MAP president right Ashley?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 10:15 AM (t0Rmr)

=====

Nope. That'd be Grover Cleveland still.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

240 I see Romania has banned another candidate from running for president because she disagrees with the current government.

Europe is doing a hell of a job saving Our Sacred Democracy aren't they?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2025 10:10 AM (t0Rmr)

Sounds like some Romanian tyrants need to be Ceasescued.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 10:16 AM (MqtqS)

241 All of my wisdom teeth came in without my ever being aware of them. No problem whatsoever.

Now I've had some dental hygienists recommend that I get them pulled, because it's too hard to clean back there.

So you can't win with wisdom teeth.

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

242 My girl spawn got her wisdom teeth yanked a couple of years ago. They knocked her out for it. She was stoned for hours and it was hilarious! Trying to talk with all the gauze in her mouth and saying goofy shit. She was swearing a blue streak.
Greatest hits!
"Goddam vampires having an orgy in my mouth"

"Mom, I will pay you back for how expensive this was. I will pay for you and dad to have a trip to Italy. That's going to be expensive so it'll take awhile for me to get enough money. You may be eighty years old but you are fucking going to Italy! Don't worry. I'll make sure you get a nice hotel in a safe area. I really don't want you staying in some dive where you could get shanked in the asshole by some criminal!"

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 17, 2025 10:17 AM (4XwPj)

243 Will they roll out Hillary again?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 10:17 AM (MLvzu)

244 Lucas retro-conned Princess Amidala as an elected monarch.

Because if course voting for a teenaged girl as your political leader makes perfect sense.
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The most "free and fair" election in history, to be sure ....

(And they were still able to count the vote of the entire planet quicker than California)

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:17 AM (7oyRZ)

245 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 17, 2025 10:14 AM (JCZqz)

Good golly - Timmy did a town hall in Des Moines. HARDLY a republican area (yeah, Zach nunn is technically their rep, but there’s a lot of suburb in that district).

Everyone needs to calm their chest feeding organs.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 10:17 AM (fwyhL)

246 Sounds like some Romanian tyrants need to be Ceasescued.

Again.

Bet the current oligarchs were installed by the EU.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:17 AM (b1S6W)

247 osted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

The Dems most 'popular' President never reached 50% of the vote in either election.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:18 AM (VofaG)

248 It's funny.

Whenever movies are referenced, TJM appears like Bloody Mary.

Movies movies movies.

*ding*

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 17, 2025 10:18 AM (PzXaK)

249 I looked up a the back story for this painting. Hopper and his wife vacationed in SC in the early 1930s. While there this particular woman would come out to sun herself and then immediately retreat inside if one approached her. 25 years later this moment was still in his mind when he painted it.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2025 10:18 AM (hjWnr)

250 Apparently my wisdom teeth were kind of small. The matronly nurse went on about how "adorable" they were. Smh.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:16 AM (hOk1M)

The anesthetist said mine were the biggest she'd ever seen.

Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 10:18 AM (Yj6Os)

251 Yes, democrats....please push Tampon Tim out to the forefront of your party for the next 3.5 years. Please.

lmfao

Posted by: ballistic at March 17, 2025 10:18 AM (aZOqv)

252 South Carolina beach in 1955 was quite different than today. No cable, no radio except AM radio at night, no iPhones, quite desolate. No wonder she looks bored and maybe, looking for some action. And I'm just the guy who can help with that!
Posted by: Ricardo Romantico at March 17, 2025

***
Probably no A/C either. Even window units were expensive for the time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 17, 2025 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

253 247
The Dems most 'popular' President never reached 50% of the vote in either election.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:18 AM (VofaG)

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Newsweek declared his mandate, though. Plus, we got two presidents for the price of one!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

254 "Fucking autopen. I wish I'd thought of that."

-Hillary Clinton

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 17, 2025 10:19 AM (PzXaK)

255 > Hopper struggles with painting humans. Houses and boats he is superb.
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I can relate. I can draw or paint nature and landscapes. Do some technical type drawings. Manmade things like structures, cityscapes, vehicles, etc. Amateur level.

But cannot for the life of me draw or paint people.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 10:19 AM (Q4IgG)

256 Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 17, 2025 10:17 AM

Kids on anesthetics are hilarious.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:20 AM (hOk1M)

257 Waiting for my son to get his 4 wisdom teeth out. Should not affect him too much since he's not that wise yet. 🤣🤗
The spawn had hers out Friday.
My house is just a load of fun right now....😱😬
Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 10:07 AM (UwBs6)

Woof......

Godspeed....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

258 256 Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 17, 2025 10:17 AM

Kids on anesthetics are hilarious.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:20 AM (hOk1M)

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I got my wisdom teeth out a few years ago, and Dolley just says that I giggled through the afternoon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

259 "Fucking autopen. I wish I'd thought of that."

-Hillary Clinton

Autopen fellation and nine months later there was Chelsea.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:20 AM (b1S6W)

260 Supposedly the younger you are when they come out, the easier the recovery. The spawn is pretty swollen in her face but not too much pain. She's just hungry. The smoothies, shakes, soup, and Mac & cheese aren't cutting it. Turns out If you don't chew food isn't very satisfying.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 10:21 AM (llS7k)

261 Thomas Jefferson used the forerunner of the autopen.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 10:21 AM (MLvzu)

262 Hopper struggles with painting humans. Houses and boats he is superb.
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I can relate. I can draw or paint nature and landscapes. Do some technical type drawings. Manmade things like structures, cityscapes, vehicles, etc. Amateur level.

But cannot for the life of me draw or paint people.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Man, do I understand. The only thing I can paint is houses.

Posted by: Frank Sheeran at March 17, 2025 10:22 AM (hjWnr)

263 The prequels (specifically Episode II) establish that the queen position is an elected position with a limited term.

I'm not defending Lucas. It's dumb. But that's the explanation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

Queen Amidala was elected, but not every monarch was. Alderaan had a hereditary monarchy, which is why Leia was a princess. (I hate that I know this.)

The Republic sucked for other reasons, too. Widespread slavery, for one.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 17, 2025 10:22 AM (l3YAf)

264 If Timpon wins in '28 he still wouldn't be our first MAP president right Ashley?
Posted by: 18-1

MAP? Male Adjacent President?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 10:22 AM (BLpWt)

265 Thomas Jefferson used the forerunner of the autopen.
Posted by: Boss Moss

"Check me out. I can sign ten bills at once and have the entire afternoon off."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 17, 2025 10:23 AM (PzXaK)

266 I got my wisdom teeth out a few years ago, and Dolley just says that I giggled through the afternoon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:20 AM

As I recall, all I had was Novocain, or whatever burning injectable liquid they were using then.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:23 AM (hOk1M)

267 Supposedly the younger you are when they come out, the easier the recovery. The spawn is pretty swollen in her face but not too much pain. She's just hungry. The smoothies, shakes, soup, and Mac & cheese aren't cutting it. Turns out If you don't chew food isn't very satisfying.
Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 10:21 AM (llS7k)

Whataburger #1 with cheese.

Blender.

Some assembly required.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

268 "What we need is a nice guy, like Walz, but also a Street Fighter, like Rahm. So maybe a nice guy street fighter? A street fighter with a Heart of Gold? Yeah, that's it, and he's not afraid of tampons and tutus. Hey that's a great name for something, "Tampons and Tutus". OK, where were we? Kamala? Nah, she's an idiot. She was holding Tim back."

*phone rings* "Oh, OK."

"We're going with Newsom."

Posted by: A future conversation at the DNC at March 17, 2025 10:23 AM (PiwSw)

269 Thomas Jefferson used the forerunner of the autopen.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 10:21 AM (MLvzu)

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That's right, The Copying Press?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 17, 2025 10:23 AM (t6VO+)

270 Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 10:21 AM (llS7k)

Yup. My dentist (and also my oral surgeon) told me that the bone is not as dense when one is young, so less yanking and sawing and pounding with hammers and chisels.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 10:24 AM (L5An7)

271 Whataburger #1 with cheese.

Blender.

Some assembly required.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Yuck!!🤮

Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 10:24 AM (llS7k)

272 But cannot for the life of me draw or paint people.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 10:19 AM (Q4IgG)

There is actually a formula that you can use that would have you draw a really good face with ease. lot of vids that show you how. You would actually question whether you drew it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:24 AM (VofaG)

273
As I recall, all I had was Novocain, or whatever burning injectable liquid they were using then.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:23 AM (hOk1M)

I had one pulled after they all came in.

4 shots of Novocain, a drill and some plyers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

274 Among the companies to submit designs was SIG Sauer, which received a 10-year contract from the US Army in 2022 to provide a replacement for the M4 (XM7 rifle) and the M249 (XM250 light machine gun). The former is based on the gas-operated, magazine-fed SIG MCX-Spear, and it notably chambers the newer 6.8 x 51 mm Common Cartridge, which provides both a greater range and lethality; it has an effective range of 600 meters , which is twice that of the 5.56 mm NATO.

that sounds like 1 bad ass ammo and gun.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2025 10:24 AM (gbOdA)

275 Queen Amidala was elected, but not every monarch was. Alderaan had a hereditary monarchy, which is why Leia was a princess. (I hate that I know this.)

Was that the expanded book universe canon that Disney nuked until they needed Admiral Thrawn to act as a McGuffin?

Rumors have it that Disney is now resurrecting Mara Jade, even selling alimited edition replica Mara Jade lightsabre.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:24 AM (b1S6W)

276 Kids on anesthetics are hilarious.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I really missed out on the first round. Biggest little hobbit had his wisdom teeth out last summer, he just acted tired and chill.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 17, 2025 10:25 AM (bKG5D)

277 Kids on anesthetics are hilarious.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Teenage girl on Facebook coming out of anesthesia asks mom if she has to wait to suck dick.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 10:25 AM (BLpWt)

278 275 Was that the expanded book universe canon that Disney nuked until they needed Admiral Thrawn to act as a McGuffin?

Rumors have it that Disney is now resurrecting Mara Jade, even selling alimited edition replica Mara Jade lightsabre.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:24 AM (b1S6W)

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I'm reading the Thrawn trilogy now.

It's...not good.

I think the EU has been overhyped as great storytelling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:25 AM (GBKbO)

279 On Dentistry

I have to have a bone graft on top of the upper (sinus area) as I do not have enough bone depth for an implant.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2025 10:25 AM (gbOdA)

280 Autopen Wikipedia

https://is.gd/CLJWRK

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 17, 2025 10:26 AM (MLvzu)

281 I got all four of my wisdom teeth extracted in 2 hours while in the middle of OCS. The only good thing was this meant I was gonna graduate and get a Butter Bar.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 17, 2025 10:26 AM (Hpgos)

282 Tim Walz's Iowa town hall was well received. More Democrats in Congress and Governors need to pick up the baton and run with this. Bernie Sanders started it. We need to carry on.
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Remember when the DU geniuses were cheering how Midwest Dad Tim was gonna win all the swing states?
Specifically citing how he--several states away in MN--would appeal to Western PA more than right-next-door Vance?

Remember how they went through a whole box of Kleenex in orgasms over the poll that showed Kamala would win Iowa?

It's good that these are the leading voices of the Democrat Party.
Their wisdom, insight and vision are invaluable.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:26 AM (7oyRZ)

283 So now it's a dental thread?

Cool!

Posted by: Herme the Elf at March 17, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

284 I think the EU has been overhyped as great storytelling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:25 AM (GBKbO)

This could apply to the European Union as well.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 17, 2025 10:27 AM (4XwPj)

285 I remember looking at the. X-ray of my wisdom teeth coming in. They were at a 90 degree angle. Had all 4 removed in one session.

What the hell did people do in this situation before modern dentistry? Horrible pain, then death?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 17, 2025 10:27 AM (tJ+Xw)

286 I still have my wisdom teeth. hope they stay dormant.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:27 AM (VofaG)

287 off sock.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2025 10:27 AM (hjWnr)

288 TJM

The prequel movies nuked one of the key plot points of Timothy Zahn's books. ie the clones gave Jedi's a headache of mental static.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:27 AM (b1S6W)

289 Hopper struggles with painting humans. Houses and boats he is superb.

I think he hates trees. The scenes or landscapes are always so austere.

Posted by: t-bird at March 17, 2025 10:28 AM (9O5em)

290 I got all four of my wisdom teeth extracted in 2 hours while in the middle of OCS. The only good thing was this meant I was gonna graduate and get a Butter Bar.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Is it true that all Navy/Marine Corps officers (I believe you were the latter?) are required to get all their wisdom teeth removed?

Posted by: Herme the Elf at March 17, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

291 I think my dad chose the type of glasses he's worn since his twenties based on Harold Ramis' glasses in Stripes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

292 What we need is a nice guy, like Walz, but also a Street Fighter, like Rahm. So maybe a nice guy street fighter? A street fighter with a Heart of Gold? Yeah, that's it, and he's not afraid of tampons and tutus. Hey that's a great name for something, "Tampons and Tutus". OK, where were we? Kamala? Nah, she's an idiot. She was holding Tim back."

*phone rings* "Oh, OK."

"We're going with Newsom."

Posted by: A future conversation at the DNC at March 17, 2025 10:23 AM (PiwSw)

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Newscum 2028 -- Talking Tampons, Tutus, and Torches!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 17, 2025 10:28 AM (J/mRh)

293 Apparently they knock the kids out these days.. maybe propofol. Spawn said it was a white liquid then she was waking up.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 10:28 AM (llS7k)

294 I looked up a the back story for this painting. Hopper and his wife vacationed in SC in the early 1930s. While there this particular woman would come out to sun herself and then immediately retreat inside if one approached her. 25 years later this moment was still in his mind when he painted it.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2025 10:18 AM (hjWnr)

Ugh.. that creepy married guy is staring at my left boob again. Wtf? Guess I’m gonna spend another day reading inside..”

Posted by: Woman in the painting at March 17, 2025 10:28 AM (l3YAf)

295 288 TJM

The prequel movies nuked one of the key plot points of Timothy Zahn's books. ie the clones gave Jedi's a headache of mental static.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:27 AM (b1S6W)

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I haven't finished the trilogy (halfway through 2), but was the clones in general or just the clone of the dark jedi with the funny name I'm not going to try and remember?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

296 Oops, off elf-who-doesn't-like-to-make-toys sock.

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

297 I looked up a the back story for this painting. Hopper and his wife vacationed in SC in the early 1930s. While there this particular woman would come out to sun herself and then immediately retreat inside if one approached her. 25 years later this moment was still in his mind when he painted it.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2025 10:18 AM (hjWnr)

Ugh.. that creepy married guy is staring at my left boob again. Wtf? Guess I’m gonna spend another day reading inside..”
Posted by: Woman in the painting

For the Win!

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2025 10:29 AM (hjWnr)

298 Happy Birthday, TJM!

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

299 This Hopper painting is OK. (Like the colors more than anything.) Prefer his Automat or Nighthawks for a little more 'life."

Would likely pass hanging this piece. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nick, another fine day at March 17, 2025 10:30 AM (NFX2v)

300 I saw My Left Boob open for Wet Leg at The Curtain Club in '09.

It was quite the shitshow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

301 his figures in Nighthawks were pretty good .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:31 AM (VofaG)

302 Kids on anesthetics are hilarious.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

***
Decades ago, when Rusty, my boyhood red tabby, had his batteries disconnected, not only did he have to stay overnight at the vet's, but he came home doped to the gills. He moved slowly all around the ground floor of our apartment, as if checking to be sure he was really home. Then he crept over to the recliner he liked to sit in, and looked up at me. I lifted him up. He curled into a ball and slept for two hours. Woke up ravenous and otherwise normal.

Nowadays they come home the same day and hardly seem doped at all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 17, 2025 10:31 AM (J2vNu)

303 Walz bailed on his NG unit in MN. That used to be an extinction level event for a politician.

He wasn’t some E4, he was a sergeant major - on tap to be a command sergeant major. This is a “lateral” promotion in that he would have been the highest ranking enlisted soldier for the unit. A key position. This tells me he’s a wanker, and probably not much of an NCO at any point in his career. Good NCOs are special, and rare.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 17, 2025 10:31 AM (tJ+Xw)

304 On the subject of Dem candidates for prez -- whatever happened to Howard Dean?

Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2025 10:31 AM (Uq+qx)

305 I'm reading the Thrawn trilogy now.

It's...not good.

I think the EU has been overhyped as great storytelling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman

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Take the timing into account. When Zahn wrote these there wasn't anything else other than Lucas sitting on the IP and collecting royalties. Brian Daley did some too with his Han Solo series (which I enjoyed immensely when I was starved for something other than ROTJ and its stupid muppets).

Star Trek was the same way. TOS did crazy awesome in syndication and the novelizations/conventions/etc were all we fans had for new content. Sidebar, in 1977 when Star Wars came out, Charles Bluhdorn was so pissed off that he greenlit ST:TMP.

Heir etc aren't high literature, but it does work well for an original SW novel series. I'd even argue that it set up the entire SW novelization environment.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 17, 2025 10:31 AM (PzXaK)

306 298 Happy Birthday, TJM!
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

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3 months early! Thanks!

(Sponge and my intersection of dates is in December. His birthday and my wedding anniversary.)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

307 It has been forever since I have read any Star Wars book.

But I always bring up the Spathi chambers and that mental static because the Guyana Grape swilling fans would always gush over how Lucas Films would double check everything to make sure each book was in cannon. Meanwhile as Timothy Zahn said at a panel I attended it seemed every author was upping their Force Powers game.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:32 AM (b1S6W)

308 DU is hilarious - as if Rahm, an outspoken Jew could ever get the Dem nomination today. And their fixation on Walz is just pathetic. It's like watching trained seals who have to bark and clap whenever their trainer throws them a sardine.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 17, 2025 10:32 AM (uWKK8)

309
Last Thread Hangover:

What bottle of absinthe are you on now?
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

Gin, wine, and champagne.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 09:04 AM (L5An7)

Here you go, CBD.
Over the last couple of weeks, I've perfected the Gibson Cocktail. It's a transcendent concoction now, assuming you follow the recipe exactly.
And it uses a French Gin. Not sure if you can find the other ingredients in Frogville though.

The Last Gibson

2oz Citadelle "Vive le Cornichon" Gin
1 oz Martini & Rossi Riserva Speciale Ambrato Vermouth
2 drops of Japanese Bitters - Umami
Shake shake shake with ice
Strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with 2 S&R Tipsy Onions (the Luxardo Cherries of the Cocktail Onion World) on a toothpick.
Drink! And eat the 2 onions at your leisure throughout.
Hands down. One of the best cocktail experiences you will have.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

310
3 months early! Thanks!

(Sponge and my intersection of dates is in December. His birthday and my wedding anniversary.)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

He's just naturally assuming that because today is my wedding anniversary, it MUST be your birthday.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

311 On the subject of Dem candidates for prez -- whatever happened to Howard Dean?
Posted by: Doof

He went to Norway and posed for a Munch painting.

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

312 The Dems need a moderate Dem that doesn't have a history of lying to win without cheating. Last one they had was Tulsi.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:33 AM (VofaG)

313 305 Heir etc aren't high literature, but it does work well for an original SW novel series. I'd even argue that it set up the entire SW novelization environment.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 17, 2025 10:31 AM (PzXaK)

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I'm just finding myself deeply frustrated by lots of choices. The amount of coincidence to get people in the same place. The spinning of wheels, especially in the second book which I'm struggling through.

Maybe the third will bring it all together satisfactorily. We'll see.

There's good stuff. Thrawn himself, of course, but I'm mostly frustrated instead of entertained.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

314 310 He's just naturally assuming that because today is my wedding anniversary, it MUST be your birthday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

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It makes sense!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

315 I think the EU has been overhyped as great storytelling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman

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I've been done with SW for a while now. Answer as to why Amidala was a princess - because in Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress, the plot that Lucas was copying for the first film, the object of the hero's search was a princess.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 17, 2025 10:34 AM (uWKK8)

316 On the subject of Dem candidates for prez -- whatever happened to Howard Dean?
Posted by: Doof

He went to Norway and posed for a Munch painting.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

I think it's Tank vs. Newsom for all the (our) marbles

Posted by: Otto Pen at March 17, 2025 10:35 AM (sJHOI)

317 "The Force, it does, move in mysterious ways." some hack writer using the Yoda defense.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:35 AM (b1S6W)

318 3 months early! Thanks!

(Sponge and my intersection of dates is in December. His birthday and my wedding anniversary.)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

He's just naturally assuming that because today is my wedding anniversary, it MUST be your birthday.
Posted by: Sponge

Actually, I was joking around. I know when the real intersection of dates is.

I was pretending to be obtuse. Like that guy who always addressed TJM as "James Monroe." (Was that JT?)

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

319 312 The Dems need a moderate Dem that doesn't have a history of lying to win without cheating. Last one they had was Tulsi.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:33 AM (VofaG)

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They can have a radical in some ways.

I'm convinced that a candidate who says, "Close the borders. Deport all of the illegals. Single Payer healthcare." would walk away with the nomination...assuming they could get their message out, which the establishment media would actively work to prevent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

320 They need to do books on the Farscape universe.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:36 AM (VofaG)

321 I'm just finding myself deeply frustrated by lots of choices. The amount of coincidence to get people in the same place. The spinning of wheels, especially in the second book which I'm struggling through.

Maybe the third will bring it all together satisfactorily. We'll see.

There's good stuff. Thrawn himself, of course, but I'm mostly frustrated instead of entertained.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman

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That's the SW Novelization problem in general. It was talked about in the book thread a couple of weeks ago, and really is a weakness of the movies too IMO. A giant ass galaxy/universe/whatever and the same people keep running into each other.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 17, 2025 10:36 AM (PzXaK)

322 CBD, have you ever featured "The Scream" here?

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

323 What the hell did people do in this situation before modern dentistry? Horrible pain, then death?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 17, 2025 10:27 AM (tJ+Xw)

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"Leeches."
/obligatory Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber

[I believe that gum infections and advanced disease can be fatal. It's almost miraculous how many lives modern medicine saves (and sometimes prematurely takes). Looking at death certificates in genealogy research from just two or three generations ago is astonishing ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 17, 2025 10:36 AM (bH6MK)

324 Zombie alert!

New York Post@nypost
Mystery around Gene Hackman’s death deepens as wife Betsy Arakawa’s doctor claims she called him after police say she died

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

325 Edited to add - and in SW the same damned people keep finding themselves on Tatooine. You know, the planet that's the farthest away from the bright center of the universe.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 17, 2025 10:37 AM (PzXaK)

326
I had one pulled after they all came in.

4 shots of Novocain, a drill and some plyers.

Posted by: Sponge

*fist bump*

This is how we know you're 29.
*opens beer cooler, hands Sponge a beer*

Have seat and we'll both hollar at the kids on our lawns.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 17, 2025 10:37 AM (MsrgL)

327 321 That's the SW Novelization problem in general. It was talked about in the book thread a couple of weeks ago, and really is a weakness of the movies too IMO. A giant ass galaxy/universe/whatever and the same people keep running into each other.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 17, 2025 10:36 AM (PzXaK)

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One of my favorite, probably unintentional, details in all of Star Trek (so, tangential thought) is in The Wrath of Kahn when no one realized that Seti Alpha 5 had exploded.

A huge explosion that offset an entire planetary system, but the galaxy is so big that Starfleet never even noticed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

328
This is how we know you're 29.
*opens beer cooler, hands Sponge a beer*

Have seat and we'll both hollar at the kids on our lawns.
Posted by: BifBewalski at March 17, 2025 10:37 AM (MsrgL)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

329 Hands down. One of the best cocktail experiences you will have.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

Sounds interesting with the Japanese Bitters, which I do not know!

Ever try a Pink Gin for a change of pace?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 10:38 AM (L5An7)

330 I have commented here and elsewhere that Butch and Suni were in no danger and in no sense stranded, and the Crew 10 launch was in no sense a “rescue mission”, even if there is some truth to Elon’s claim that Biden avoided a more immediate return effort.

BUT there is an anomaly… this persistent meme that Elon / Spacex is rescuing the Boeing-lofted duo is the FIRST time I have noticed a media spin that is PRO-Elon, PRO-Spacex, and and by extension implicitly PRO-Trump!!

WTH is going on? Did the media memo machine break down? Is Joe Biden finally being hung out to dry? Is there a hidden fount of anti-Boeing hatred beyond what had become normal since the 737 Max debacle?

This one is noticeable by its singularity.. it would be easy to accuse Elon of exaggerating his role for political purposes, and not entirely unfair to do so. But they are keeping the bat on their shoulder, and letting this hanging curveball float by!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 17, 2025 10:38 AM (G55qS)

331 >> Was that the expanded book universe canon that Disney nuked until they needed Admiral Thrawn to act as a McGuffin?

I honestly don’t know. I never read the extended universe stuff. When I saw the prequels, I thought it was odd that Padme was elected “Queen.” I figured Lucas didn’t want to be so un-progressive as to have a hereditary monarch as a main character.

Later I read on the internet that Queen Organa was an actual hereditary monarch, which deals with the plot hole of how Leia could be princess. Apparently Bail Organa married the Queen, so he was something like King Consort.

I gave up on SW after the prequels. Never saw any of the Disney movies or shows.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 17, 2025 10:38 AM (l3YAf)

332 I was pretending to be obtuse. Like that guy who always addressed TJM as "James Monroe." (Was that JT?)
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

Hey now -- there's only one guy around here who'd allowed to be obtuse. Unfortunately, I can't remember who that is.

Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2025 10:38 AM (Uq+qx)

333 [I believe that gum infections and advanced disease can be fatal. It's almost miraculous how many lives modern medicine saves (and sometimes prematurely takes). Looking at death certificates in genealogy research from just two or three generations ago is astonishing ...]

There was a story in the WaPo many moons ago about some black kid in DC who died from a tooth cavity. Somehow the bacteria from the cavity made it down to his heart and killed him.

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

334 Unfortunately, I can't remember who that is.
Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2025 10:38 AM (Uq+qx)

Düph.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

335 What the hell did people do in this situation before modern dentistry? Horrible pain, then death?
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Consider that this is evolution.

Where it was so common to lose 2 teeth on the top and on the bottom that wisdom teeth were necessary to push all your teeth forward to fill the gap.

Four or more teeth busted out or rotted out by adulthood ....
The old days were fun.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:39 AM (7oyRZ)

336 There was a story in the WaPo many moons ago about some black kid in DC who died from a tooth cavity. Somehow the bacteria from the cavity made it down to his heart and killed him.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

The uppers are really close to the brain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

337 Düph.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

That guy is nütz

Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2025 10:40 AM (Uq+qx)

338 CBD, have you ever featured "The Scream" here?

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

Yes. Almost 10 years ago!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 10:40 AM (L5An7)

339 Gum disease or gingivitis kills all kinds of people. Infection, sepsis, spreads.

Brush & floss people

Posted by: Common Tater at March 17, 2025 10:41 AM (tJ+Xw)

340 What time is it over there now, CBD?

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

341 Men wearing suits, too. We used to be a proper country.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:08 AM (hOk1M)

We also used to wear knee britches and powdered wigs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 10:41 AM (ExV1e)

342 hat the hell did people do in this situation before modern dentistry? Horrible pain, then death?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 17, 2025 10:27 AM (tJ+Xw)

I think pulling teeth was the only fix. I always imagine George Washington was miserable for much of his life.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:41 AM (VofaG)

343 342 hat the hell did people do in this situation before modern dentistry? Horrible pain, then death?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 17, 2025 10:27 AM (tJ+Xw)

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You go to the barber.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

344 1800's dentistry - why men were men.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:42 AM (b1S6W)

345 Tim Walz's olfagtory senses are really in full effect.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

346 I think pulling teeth was the only fix. I always imagine George Washington was miserable for much of his life.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

"It's Christmas, and I'm miserable because of my bad teeth. Guess I'll go across that river and kill me some Hessians."
-- George Washington

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

347 CBD, have you ever featured "The Scream" here?

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

Yes. Almost 10 years ago!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 10:40 AM (L5An7)

Munch is my vote for the worst famous artist of all time.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:43 AM (VofaG)

348 They need to do books on the Farscape universe.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025

***
The original I]Man From U.N.C.L.E. novels from Ace sometimes varied widely from the broadcast TV show. Some of the early writers worked mostly from publicity handouts from the studio (and used some of the exact language from them). Some of the books were fun; some were rather pedestrian.

MfU didn't go into syndication after it was canceled in 1968, at least not in many markets. So we fans had even less to go on than Trek people; we had no print adaptations of episodes, for instance. It would have been neat to have "The Project Strigas Affair," the Mission: Impossible-like story that on TV featured both Shatner and Nimoy.

We were glad to have what we did. Until Trek, no TV show had more tie-in original novels, and they helped keep the flame alive.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 17, 2025 10:43 AM (J2vNu)

349 Your FBI!

They can't pass the physical standards but don't worry! They're illiterate too!

https://shorturl.at/2JVo4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

350 Lefty is being lifted and separated.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 17, 2025 10:44 AM (/x6eu)

351 He saved the children. But not the British children.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

352 Munch is my vote for the worst famous artist of all time.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

*kicks dirt*
-- Rothko

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

353 Add five hours to the time stamp. And six hours starting in a couple of weeks.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 10:44 AM (L5An7)

354 I believe that gum infections and advanced disease can be fatal.

There's at least correlation between gum disease and some forms of dementia, as well. NIH/CDC suppressed any research that wasn't about their stupid theory that has been repeatedly disproven though.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 17, 2025 10:45 AM (2ocoG)

355 I was pretending to be obtuse. Like that guy who always addressed TJM as "James Monroe." (Was that JT?)
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025
*
Hey now -- there's only one guy around here who'd allowed to be obtuse. Unfortunately, I can't remember who that is.
Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2025

***
Acute reply

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 17, 2025 10:45 AM (J2vNu)

356 Rothko or Andy Warhol

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:45 AM (b1S6W)

357 This one is noticeable by its singularity.. it would be easy to accuse Elon of exaggerating his role for political purposes, and not entirely unfair to do so. But they are keeping the bat on their shoulder, and letting this hanging curveball float by!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 17, 2025 10:38 AM (G55qS)
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I think it's because Elon told Biden they could go up last fall and get them and Biden said no because he didn't want to give Elon a "win" before the election.

Posted by: WisRich at March 17, 2025 10:45 AM (G0vdT)

358 Munch is my vote for the worst famous artist of all time.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:43 AM (VofaG)

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Hunter Biden's shit hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 17, 2025 10:45 AM (bH6MK)

359 ----------------

Hunter Biden's shit hardest hit ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 17, 2025 10:45 AM (bH6MK)

It does take longer to dry.......

Posted by: Hunter Biden at March 17, 2025 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

360 A giant ass galaxy/universe/whatever and the same people keep running into each other.
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Even at the speed of light, traveling around a single solar system can take days and weeks.

There's so much stupid packed into SW just saying, "it's all magic" makes more sense.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:47 AM (7oyRZ)

361 osted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

I could stand hanging a large Rothko in my house. I'd keep a Munch buried in my closet.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:47 AM (VofaG)

362 Autopen fellation and nine months later there was Chelsea.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I was told it was a Turkey baster in Webb Hubble's office bathroom.

Posted by: Auspex at March 17, 2025 10:47 AM (j4U/Z)

363 If Hunter shat out something in the shape of a marijuana leaf, would that be art?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:47 AM (b1S6W)

364 She has put on her red dress and you know what that means.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 17, 2025 09:49 AM

Ruby's taking her love to town?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 17, 2025 10:48 AM (a3Q+t)

365 360 Even at the speed of light, traveling around a single solar system can take days and weeks.

There's so much stupid packed into SW just saying, "it's all magic" makes more sense.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:47 AM (7oyRZ)

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Realistic depictions of space travel take forever and include relativity.

Less purely fun. I'm fine with people going across the galaxy in a day or so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

366 FreeBeacon: ‘Disqualifying’: Member of Top DOE Physics Panel Said ‘White Empiricism’ Undermines Theory of Relativity, Accused Israel of Genocide

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, appointed to the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel under Joe Biden, has a long history of radical positions.

Check in Attendant: Mr. Rhod, you are going to have to assume your individual position.
DJ Ruby Rhod: I don't want one position, I want all positions!

Posted by: SMOD at March 17, 2025 10:48 AM (RHGPo)

367 Does DU ever veer off into odd shit like here?

Or is it all politics all the time over there?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:49 AM (7oyRZ)

368 366 FreeBeacon: ‘Disqualifying’: Member of Top DOE Physics Panel Said ‘White Empiricism’ Undermines Theory of Relativity, Accused Israel of Genocide

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, appointed to the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel under Joe Biden, has a long history of radical positions.

Check in Attendant: Mr. Rhod, you are going to have to assume your individual position.
DJ Ruby Rhod: I don't want one position, I want all positions!
Posted by: SMOD at March 17, 2025 10:48 AM (RHGPo)

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I'm sure his deeply performed research on this topic will survive peer review, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

369 Hands down. One of the best cocktail experiences you will have.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

Sounds interesting with the Japanese Bitters, which I do not know!

Ever try a Pink Gin for a change of pace?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 10:38 AM (L5An7)

Yes.

I like them quite a bit as an aperitif on ice.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 10:49 AM (iJfKG)

370 Duncanthrax bzzzzzt. Wrong but thanks for playing.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 17, 2025 10:49 AM (j6NlC)

371
He gave a master class in public service and democracy at work.

What is with this current fixation with designating a spate of bloviation as "giving a master class"? What makes it "master"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 10:49 AM (xG4kz)

372 Korben Dallas: Are there any tickets left for this opera? I'm a really big fan...
Fhloston Hostess: You have a seat reserved, front row, next to RU-BY RHOD! He's so talented, don't you think? I just love him... he's so sexy...

Posted by: SMOD at March 17, 2025 10:49 AM (RHGPo)

373 367 Does DU ever veer off into odd shit like here?

Or is it all politics all the time over there?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:49 AM (7oyRZ)

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Liaison has shared a comment in the past celebrating themselves for all their cultural posts.

Liaison just isn't interested in actually sharing those with us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

374 Even at the speed of light, traveling around a single solar system can take days and weeks.

There's so much stupid packed into SW just saying, "it's all magic" makes more sense.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:47 AM (7oyRZ)

I don't disagree with the sentiment but it only takes about 5 hours to get to Pluto from earth at the speed of light.

I'm obsessed with space and numbers.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:49 AM (VofaG)

375 He's just naturally assuming that because today is my wedding anniversary, it MUST be your birthday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

======

It makes sense!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JJ!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 10:49 AM (BLpWt)

376 I was told it was a Turkey baster in Webb Hubble's office bathroom.

The alternative of Webb Hubble and Hillary doing it the old fashioned way would cause a shortage of brain bleach, so that's an acceptable version.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 17, 2025 10:49 AM (2ocoG)

377 Apparently they knock the kids out these days.. maybe propofol. Spawn said it was a white liquid then she was waking up.
Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 10:28 AM

Ah, propofol...Milk of Amnesia.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:50 AM (hOk1M)

378 *pauses*

News Release Truth Social

The Real President Donald Trump - I am nominating RuPaul to be the US ambassador to Canada.

What a troll that would be.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:50 AM (b1S6W)

379 I actually like "The Scream." To be honest, I think that's the only piece by Munch that I know.

I tend to get Munch, Grieg, and Ibsen mixed up. Three artsy-fartsy Norwegians who were big about the same time.

And once they were gone, Norway went back to being an artistic wasteland.

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

380 Realistic depictions of space travel take forever and include relativity.

Less purely fun. I'm fine with people going across the galaxy in a day or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

The Mass Effect games did well with it - the mass relays allowing near instantaneous travel between relays and coming up with faster than light drives due to the discovery of element 0.

Obviously BS, but pretty decent sci-fi tech and explanations.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 10:50 AM (fwyhL)

381 I used to work with this guy who would go to physics symposiums and get himself thrown out for his outlandish theories

Posted by: SMOD at March 17, 2025 10:51 AM (RHGPo)

382 What is with this current fixation with designating a spate of bloviation as "giving a master class"? What makes it "master"?

Because MasterClass(tm) is a paid streaming service that's like TED talks, but actually useful. Basically YouTube how-to videos that are by credentialed experts. You can see the attraction for credentialed liberals.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 17, 2025 10:51 AM (2ocoG)

383 That's why I like Farscape. They come the closest with space travel though still far off.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:51 AM (VofaG)

384 Ah, propofol...Milk of Amnesia.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

*golf clap*

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

385 You people paying big money to extract perfectly good teeth are hilarious! Swayed by Big Dental to inflict pain on yourselves. No wonder we have seized the initiative and march on! Dupes!

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at March 17, 2025 10:52 AM (G5+As)

386 At least we have gotten away from TED talks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 17, 2025 10:52 AM (/x6eu)

387 *pauses*

News Release Truth Social

The Real President Donald Trump - I am nominating RuPaul to be the US ambassador to Canada.

What a troll that would be.
Posted by: Anna Puma

*snort
Golf clap

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 10:52 AM (BLpWt)

388 380 The Mass Effect games did well with it - the mass relays allowing near instantaneous travel between relays and coming up with faster than light drives due to the discovery of element 0.

Obviously BS, but pretty decent sci-fi tech and explanations.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 10:50 AM (fwyhL)

=======

"Like...drugs, man."
-Frank Herbert

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

389 I used to work with this guy who would go to physics symposiums and get himself thrown out for his outlandish theories

Emmanuelle Velikovsky?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:52 AM (b1S6W)

390 FreeBeacon: ‘Disqualifying’: Member of Top DOE Physics Panel Said ‘White Empiricism’ Undermines Theory of Relativity, Accused Israel of Genocide

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, appointed to the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel under Joe Biden, has a long history of radical positions.

So, I guess I do understand the Theory of Relativity after all.

"Everything's relative!" Right?

Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)

391 Professor Pacoli: [shouts] Aziz! Light!

Posted by: SMOD at March 17, 2025 10:53 AM (RHGPo)

392 Campaign slogan for Walz:

The old white guy for you!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 17, 2025 10:53 AM (KbCG3)

393 Realistic depictions of space travel take forever and include relativity.
---
Interesting posit I saw the other day:
We actually don't know what happens when one approaches the speed of light.
It's entirely possible that the laws of physics don't apply.

Also, paper the other day came out about "white holes."
Which not only spew out matter but also time.

And another recent paper I saw referenced again suggests we are inside a black hole.

But, then there is a whole lot of "we just pulled it out of our ass" in theoretical physics as they don't do much applied physics these days.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:53 AM (7oyRZ)

394 I have heard that when you land in France the customs peeps make you hand over your deodorant and that you are given a pack of unfiltered cigarettes. I suspect this is partly true.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at March 17, 2025 10:53 AM (kWgp8)

395 393
But, then there is a whole lot of "we just pulled it out of our ass" in theoretical physics as they don't do much applied physics these days.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:53 AM (7oyRZ)

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It's, like, a simulation, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

396 And once they were gone, Norway went back to being an artistic wasteland.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 10:50 AM

Do you not remember the video Ace posted of a lass walking her dog in the Café? Some of the finest scenic artistry in the Universe was on display there.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 17, 2025 10:53 AM (a3Q+t)

397 POLITICO@politico
Trump gets a cold shoulder from elite DC media

-
The hell you say!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

398 Ever try a Pink Gin for a change of pace?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 10:38 AM

I do like to add Angostura bitters to my martinis. Suggested by a British friend of mine.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:53 AM (hOk1M)

399 I wish there was more of a breeze to dry out the damp spots on my red dress. Boob and backside crack sweat is terrible in this morning humidity.

Posted by: Lady in Red at March 17, 2025 10:54 AM (Aqu9a)

400
Does DU ever veer off into odd shit like here?

I've only been there once or twice and that was years ago and could equally likely to have been Daily Kos.

Having a signature sign off that quoted, oftennat too great a length, some leftist bloviator seemed to be their preferred means of recreation.

Lots of bobble headed nodding and referential commentary along the lines of "True, true, very true!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 10:54 AM (xG4kz)

401 Ah, propofol...Milk of Amnesia.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:50 AM (hOk1M)

Lol. Forget me now juice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 17, 2025 10:54 AM (/x6eu)

402 POLITICO@politico
Trump gets a cold shoulder from elite DC media

Oh NO!!!!!!

....anyway.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)

403 380 The Mass Effect games did well with it - the mass relays allowing near instantaneous travel between relays and coming up with faster than light drives due to the discovery of element 0.

Obviously BS, but pretty decent sci-fi tech and explanations.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 10:50 AM (fwyhL)
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Element 0 makes no sense...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2025 10:54 AM (7fElN)

404 Because MasterClass(tm) is a paid streaming service that's like TED talks, but actually useful. Basically YouTube how-to videos that are by credentialed experts. You can see the attraction for credentialed liberals.
Posted by: Ian S.

Making moonshine class should never be given by a chemistry professor but by a 40 yr old guy named "Bubba" that hasn't left the holler in 3 years.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 10:55 AM (BLpWt)

405 They’re talking about medieval dentistry and science fiction, again.

And boobs. Always with the boobs.

Posted by: Intercepted AoSHQ Transmissions brought by the Intrepid DU Liason at March 17, 2025 10:55 AM (l3YAf)

406 224 South Carolina Morning - 1955
Edward Hopper

The tension between the vanishing point, established by the building and the concrete intersecting on the horizon, and the woman in orange is, oh my - where should one focus; it is impossible. Then there is the tension between the vertical and horizontal slabs - the foreground is sterile and gray while the background is lovely natural colors; it is all a jumble and claustrophobic. And then there is the tension of woman in red staring right at you while her folded arms are warning that you would be a fool to come closer.

This a Hopper masterpiece with all the Hooper goodness stuffed into it. It is so good it doesn't even need a dog.

Verdict: I would steal this if I could get away with it.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2025 10:13 AM (hjWnr)

Very useful critique! Thank you.

Posted by: m at March 17, 2025 10:55 AM (CQE5S)

407 EXPOSED 🚨 Department of Education is laundering money back to the Democrat Party

“This is why Democrats are losing their minds over Elon Musk. It's all about money”

Rep Harriet Hageman “The Federal Department of Education spends it as a budget of about $280 billion a year. Less than 25% goes to educating our students. So where does the other $220 billion go? It goes to a bureaucracy, it goes to a consultant, and that consultant then donates money BACK TO DEMOCRATS, and then it goes to a different consultant, and then it goes to an NGO. I mean, IT IS MONEY LAUNDERING and money churning at its absolute best.”

“Is the DOGE Program targeted at these bureaucrats?”

“Yes”

Posted by: SMOD at March 17, 2025 10:55 AM (RHGPo)

408 I used to work with this guy who would go to physics symposiums and get himself thrown out for his outlandish theories

Posted by: SMOD at March 17, 2025 10:51 AM (RHGPo)

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I just ran into a middle-aged veteran (at a VA Clinic) who works at an AutoZone in a small town here in Northern AZ. He was telling me how he has three advanced scientific degrees from attending Embry-Riddle University in Prescott.

When I asked what was he doing working there -- he said he studied and got those degrees just because of his curiosity, and not for a career.

I'm always attracted to eccentric people ... one of the reasons I love this place.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 17, 2025 10:55 AM (bH6MK)

409 >>>That's why I like Farscape. They come the closest with space travel though still far off.

Binge-watched Foundation a few weeks ago. That was a slog, but the wife was into it, so...

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at March 17, 2025 10:56 AM (Y1sOo)

410 Ruby Rhod is the answer to the question "How much Chris Tucker is too much Chris Tucker?"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 17, 2025 10:56 AM (PiwSw)

411 405 They’re talking about medieval dentistry and science fiction, again.

And boobs. Always with the boobs.
Posted by: Intercepted AoSHQ Transmissions brought by the Intrepid DU Liason at March 17, 2025 10:55 AM (l3YAf)

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"Refusing to quote Foucault regularly shows that they have no idea what's going on."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

412 Well they still can't reconcile quantum physics with the theory of Relativity. There is something out there that might change everything.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 10:56 AM (VofaG)

413 Off ho sock

Posted by: one hour sober at March 17, 2025 10:56 AM (Y1sOo)

414 Buttigieg and Walz are actual options for the Dems?

Hoo Boy.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 10:56 AM (PMtkd)

415 This painting tells me both the painter and the subject wanted to quickly move onto phase two of the day. A time consuming complicated painting wasn't in the cards that day. It was all about phase two.

Posted by: Fisht at March 17, 2025 10:56 AM (BHEHK)

416 We actually don't know what happens when one approaches the speed of light.

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At the rate I'm aging, I'll be at the speed of light some time next week. And gravity seems to have increased.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

417 But, then there is a whole lot of "we just pulled it out of our ass" in theoretical physics as they don't do much applied physics these days.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 10:53 AM (7oyRZ)

They stopped doing real physics a long time ago when they just invented their own modern-day aether, dark matter, because they couldn't possibly be wrong, it's just that there must be hidden data that makes them right. Science is a lot less scientific than advertised.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 17, 2025 10:56 AM (gBv1i)

418 Buttigieg and Walz are actual options for the Dems?

Hoo Boy.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 10:56 AM (PMtkd)

Talk about olfagtory senses........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

419 What's that secessionist woman up to now?

Posted by: Archer at March 17, 2025 10:57 AM (IDphi)

420 Chris Tucker in that movie almost chewed up as much scenery as Brian Blessed did in Flash Gordon

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:57 AM (b1S6W)

421 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 17, 2025 10:14 AM (JCZqz)

LOLOLOLOLOL

Posted by: m at March 17, 2025 10:57 AM (CQE5S)

422 If we cannot talk about boobs and supralight travel, what can we talk about?!?

Asari.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 17, 2025 10:57 AM (/x6eu)

423 They’re talking about medieval dentistry and science fiction, again.

And boobs. Always with the boobs.
Posted by: Intercepted AoSHQ Transmissions brought by the Intrepid DU Liason at March 17, 2025 10:55 AM

This place...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:57 AM (hOk1M)

424 Chris Tucker in that movie almost chewed up as much scenery as Brian Blessed did in Flash Gordon
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:57 AM (b1S6W)

Objection!

Brian Blessed is awesome in everything. Ruby Rhod should have been strangled, stabbed, drawn and quartered.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 17, 2025 10:59 AM (/x6eu)

425 Element 0?

Can't get any Earth-shattering ka-booms unless you use a genuine Martian made Illudium Q-38 Space Modulator.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 10:59 AM (b1S6W)

426 Element 0 makes no sense...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirre

It's not realistic like Unobtainium.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)

427 Gum disease or gingivitis kills all kinds of people. Infection, sepsis, spreads.

Brush & floss people
Posted by: Common Tater at March 17, 2025 10:41 AM (tJ+Xw)

Dental infections that spread are still a major cause of death in places like India and other 3rd World joints.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 10:59 AM (iJfKG)

428 Tranny vibes from the painting. Would not recommend.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 17, 2025 10:59 AM (iFTx/)

429 Brian Blessed is awesome in everything. Ruby Rhod should have been strangled, stabbed, drawn and quartered.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 17, 2025 10:59 AM

"Chiswick! Fresh horses!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 10:59 AM (hOk1M)

430 They stopped doing real physics a long time ago when they just invented their own modern-day aether, dark matter, because they couldn't possibly be wrong, it's just that there must be hidden data that makes them right. Science is a lot less scientific than advertised.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 17, 2025 10:56 AM (gBv1i)

Big bang phlogiston and quantum humors!

Posted by: Modern Physics PhD at March 17, 2025 11:00 AM (l3YAf)

431
The tension between the vanishing point, established by the building and the concrete intersecting on the horizon, and the woman in orange is, oh my - where should one focus; it is impossible. Then there is the tension between the vertical and horizontal slabs - the foreground is sterile and gray while the background is lovely natural colors; it is all a jumble and claustrophobic. And then there is the tension of woman in red staring right at you while her folded arms are warning that you would be a fool to come closer.

Lotsa tension packed in there -- do you beed some "alone time"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:00 AM (xG4kz)

432 Before any extensive dental work I always authorized the request for pre-procedure antibiotics.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 17, 2025 11:00 AM (VofaG)

433 Her left breast is much larger than her right.

At-home breast enhancement surgery?

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 11:00 AM (PMtkd)

434 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

435 Kids on anesthetics are hilarious.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Teenage girl on Facebook coming out of anesthesia asks mom if she has to wait to suck dick.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 10:25 AM (BLpWt)

Millicent gets her wisdom teeth pulled. Afterwards, Big Brothers convince her there has been a zombie outbreak. Hilarity ensues . . .

https://youtu.be/AXFhTXSLjco

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 17, 2025 11:02 AM (Aqu9a)

436 IMO, string theory is a dead end and has destroyed progress in physics for decades.

If you are a race of alien lizzid people bent on keeping humans from exploring the universe, you couldn't have come up with a better plan to sabotage us than pushing string theory.

Posted by: Archer at March 17, 2025 11:02 AM (IDphi)

437 Element 0 makes no sense...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2025 10:54 AM (7fElN)

Of course it doesn’t make sense. It’s science fiction. :-)

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 11:02 AM (fwyhL)

438 I know that Hopper has a very famous cafe picture and it is "critically acclaimed" but I'm not sure I care why.

Am I wrong? Did it change American art in a significant way?

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 11:03 AM (PMtkd)

439 >CNN, A hearing is set for this morning after a Brown University doctor was deported to Lebanon despite a US judge’s order, March 17, 2025
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I'm calling likely bullsh*t as for the darling doctor's compliance with federal laws.

>See: USCIS dot gov, Policy Manual
Certain J-1 exchange visitors are subject to a 2-year foreign residence requirement. After leaving the United States, J-1 exchange visitors subject to the requirement must reside and be physically present in their country of nationality or last legal residence abroad for an aggregate of at least 2 years before they are eligible to apply for an immigrant visa, adjustment of status, or a nonimmigrant H, L, or K visa.

These exchange visitors are further prohibited from changing status from J nonimmigrant status to another nonimmigrant status, other than A, G, T, or U, or H-1B for physicians receiving waivers on the basis of a 3-year waiver position.
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It's just a little too coincidental. Her short visit to the home land, being caught coming back into the USA.

More Obama Biden f*ckery.

Posted by: L - No nick, another fine day at March 17, 2025 11:03 AM (NFX2v)

440 BREAKING:

The Houthis announce that U.S. ships are banned from passing through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea from now on

🇺🇸🇾🇪

Posted by: SMOD at March 17, 2025 11:04 AM (RHGPo)

441
NOOD

Cancel your WSJ subscription

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:05 AM (xG4kz)

442 Poal Andersen has a neat story about discovering a rogue planet that approaches a star just long enough to warm it.

Why it was so valuable was, it was the perfect location to set up heavy element manufacturing.
You know, stuff that'd be like 150 on the periodic table; stuff essential to the FTL travel, etc.
Via massive heat generating nuclear fusion plants.
Which would also keep the planet surface warm after it left the star.
So a planet that received no heat and could vent that radiation and heat without contamination of the neighborhood was prized.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 11:08 AM (7oyRZ)

443 If you are a race of alien lizzid people bent on keeping humans from exploring the universe, you couldn't have come up with a better plan to sabotage us than pushing string theory.

Given the number of fields where failed theories have sucked all the oxygen (and funding for actual research) out of the room, one starts to wonder if it's an intentional plan.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 17, 2025 11:10 AM (2ocoG)

444 Where it was so common to lose 2 teeth on the top and on the bottom that wisdom teeth were necessary to push all your teeth forward to fill the gap.

Which is how hockey players used to end up with molars for front teeth.

Posted by: t-bird at March 17, 2025 11:12 AM (4XbCD)

445 Other than that New York City concrete sidewalk, it does give a South Carolina vibe.

Posted by: ZilWerks at March 17, 2025 02:02 PM (0MpOC)

446 Well here comes the Bus and she is going home to her folks

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 17, 2025 04:57 PM (wGqjj)

447 man.

Posted by: cmeat at March 17, 2025 06:01 PM (6+aIJ)

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